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♪ ♪ miller. ♪ >> stephanie: down. down. it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 24 minutes after the hour. >> there goes the bikini whale. >> is there such a thing as the bikini whale? >> i don't think so. >> i don't either. >> stephanie: it is magical they have built their entire convention on a lie. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> stephanie: i read the president's actual quote. somebody built those roads and highways. if you have a small business you didn't build that. if he had said you didn't build those roads, but they knew exactly -- he was obviously

referring to the sentence just previous, meaning the roads and things. >> uh-huh. >> stephanie: and as i said you didn't build those, paul ryan's family built those with government money by their construction business. ♪ we built this slogan, we built this slogan with lies and bull ♪ >> stephanie: yay, rocky mountain mike! [ applause ] >> stephanie: speaking of which, fine american debbie write steph and the mooks mitt romney said he and i built something together as evidence by the nifty twitter hashtag we built it. my question is what did mittens and i built. mitt was president when i built my small business.

i wish mittens was there, because i could really have used him to help with my kids. imagine he guilt i could have been spared when i new that mitt was there to help me build my small business. i fought and fought to work my way out of the hole i was in. thanks, bush. we didn't build anything together, so how do i break it to him. sincerely mittenless in illinois. [ applause ] >> stephanie: the speakers that we -- we build these speakers the small business people pretty much all of them got government loans and contracts.

>> uh-huh >> stephanie: speaker at the rnc said the government did not give his small business enough money. that message built off of a misquote of one of the president's speeches he is one of the longest-standing clients of the u.s. business agency. he helped his company secure a $800,000 government loan to build his small business. delaware lieutenant governor

candidate, she touched on the we built this theme. and last april she was in an ad on how to build small businesses with -- >> government money. >> stephanie: yeah government money. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> >> stephanie: and she took more than $15 million in government help. condoleezza rice give an excellent speech. she told the story about she couldn't get a hamburger at a lunch counter in alabama, that's all great, but rand paul spoke for her, a lot of republicans had their way, she still wouldn't be able to get a hamburger at that lunch counter. >> right. >> stephanie: and how about you say something about all of the black voter suppression going on by all of the republicans in the starry. her personal story was very

compelling, but there is a reason the president has 94 to 0 -- >> she probably shouldn't have mentioned 9/11. >> stephanie: when we had our worst security failure in our history -- >> yeah, on her watch. >> stephanie: however, it was a delightful speech. >> it really was. she is great speaker. >> stephanie: and susana martinez also a great speech. >> yes. >> stephanie: we'll be back with david shuster. 29 minutes after the hour. on the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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did you sleep with bee arthur last night or what -- >> stephanie: is she still with us? >> you. that's why it would be really weird. >> stephanie: matthew in albuquerque with some of the same questions that we have about the african american polling numbers. steph i was looking at the "wall street journal" poll that shows mitt romney with zero support from african-americans. and the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1%. what if it is the minus, it would open a worm hole to allow african-americans that don't even exist yet to object to his policies. that's what i said it could be black fetuses.

there could be doctors reading sonograms, saying we don't know if it is a boy or girl but we do know it hates mitt romney. poltergeists exactly. just saying. okay. >> i saw candy man. i know what goes on. >> stephanie: somebody made a good point about condoleezza rice, great speech but again, if many of our republican friends in the party got all of their states rights ideas past, she still wouldn't be able to get a hamburger at that lunch counter where she grew up. and here it is -- she is best known for her anti-immigrant stances, susana martinez.

again, war on women. it's their policy. it's not just one guy make an unfortunate statement. and speaking of minority issues oh why -- >> bill: from current tv our good friend, david shuster. >> he is the most interesting man in the world. ♪ shuster ♪ >> stephanie: good morning, david shuster. >> good morning, stephanie miller. there has been all of this falsity about the gm plant and he talked about his music list

and it goes to ac/dc to zeppelin -- and it is actually led zeppelin. >> stephanie: exactly. >> so his list goes a to l. >> >> stephanie: yeah, we talk about whether it's a dog whistle that mitt romney is making a birther joke or this welfare ad also based on a lie, but every time we talk about racist signs, they go well that never happens there is no racism. so tell the story that hand on the floor of the rnc. >> on tuesday there were -- you know we got a report -- first of all [ inaudible ] i worked at cnn for four years early in my career, and i still am a good friends with a lot of editorial people there including people at

this convention. so there's a cnn african american camera woman who was on the edge of the floor essentially providing the video for reporters, and she was get heckled by a couple of folks, and that's not unusual for members of the media to be heckled. but this started to get pretty mean, and these two republicans started throwing peanuts at this african american woman, and then they said, this is how we feed the animals. and the woman who put up the nonsense she and the producer and security came over identified the two people and they were kicked out of the arena. at first the rnc didn't want to talk about it, cnn got to report it. and i said you got to be kidding, and then a couple of

calls, found out who the people were at cnn and they said this happened, but we were focused on covering chris christie's speech, and finally under pressure because all of the reporters started calling about it, cnn put out a brief statement saying yes there was this incident involving one of our employees, and the rnc put out a statement saying the actions of these two people were deplorable and despicable. >> and wolf blitzer finally talked about it tomorrow afternoon. >> that's true. but just about everybody at this convention is polite and i don't think most people will throw peanuts at african-americans, but you detect a nasty tone an us versus them message that comes from the

podium, whether it's speakers who say we believe in america, as opposed to what president obama doesn't believe in america? and it's this us versus them that is really, really dangerous, i think. >> stephanie: and john boehner set the ugly tone talking about the president is some bum you throw out of a bar physically, right? >> yeah, there's that, and you ask people about the welfared a, and president obama wants to give stuff away for free, and people don't deserve it. well, that's not what he is doing. but when you have this message out there from the leaders of the par ity, then you have people who are not really paying at attention who will start to blindly follow, and then you understand why they have this hate red of the media and democrats, and because there are hardly any african-americans in the crowd, and then you start to

see why, okay member of the media with cnn, african american, and a woman, that checks off all of the boxes for the racist in the crowd, and people want to act horribly. >> stephanie: and i think the right-wing always tries to deny these stories when a lot of the members of the black congressional caucus were spat upon, and they try to -- they literally then just say, oh, they are lying. that didn't happen. >> yeah. >> stephanie: as if we haven't seen some of these signs at tea party rallies, a bone through the president's nose or watermelons on the white house lawn, come on. >> yeah, the racism is there. and what is so frustrating to me is there is also an absence of logic. people say you have to prove this happened. where is your video? >> well you don't need video, because when even your party

says it happened don't believe me, fine. but it's just the logic of these people is non-sen call and then there are the people that are like, they were just joking around. yeah, the last time i threw food at somebody i think it was seven, and i got hauled out of the restaurant by my parents and threatened with bloody murder. everybody who is at this convention is there because they are a certain hierarchy in the political party. and there are thousands of people who would like to go to the conventions who are not allowed to so we're talking about political leaders. >> stephanie: right and there is rick santorum on stage, of course repeating the welfare lie and who of course blew the dog whistle fairly loudly in his campaign, and then tried to say he didn't. that was the most ridiculous line of the primary, i didn't say black people i said

bla -- and it's on tape. >> yeah and then you overlay this with the stuff that they are talking about, the blatant falsehoods and lies. now you can get up and lie right and left, well, if it's so easy for them to lie about things and it's easy for them to use the dog whistles and rude -- ridicule them with things that are false it's not that far of a stretch to believe that people have these views and they are willing to express them in a public setting. >> stephanie: yeah, and they will use condoleezza rice as exhibit a. >> on a personal note, a little girl grows up in birmingham the

segregated city of the south, where her parents can't take her to a movie theater or to a restaurant, but they have her absolutely convinced that even if she can't have a hamburger at the wool worth lunch counter she can become the president of the united states, and she becomes the secretary of state. >> and let 9/11 happen on her watch. >> oh, stop it. that was a great speech. >> stephanie: yes, it was a wonderful speech, but her party, if they had their way on states rights, she still might not be able to have a hamburger at the lunch counter let alone be secretary of state. >> exactly. and the other thing that you get at with all of this -- and i glad you mentioned this every part of the speeches and platforms -- particularly paul ryan last night. normally candidates shift back to the middle.

run hard to the right or left in the primaries and then try to go back to the center. the speeches last night particularly paul ryan is that no mitt romney is going tea party. we should all be left alone to define our own journey, unless you are pregnant and have been raped, and in this case the government gets to tell you what to do. but it's the republican philosophy of no the government is the problem with the economy. government spending government programs. and my sense even talking to republicans that are not part of the campaign. the romney campaign has it wrong. people accuse the government of not doing enough to fix the problems, and i think that's where ryan and romney is going far to the right and i think it will cost them among voters in the middle. >> stephanie: yep, absolutely.

david shuster you are the most interesting man in the world. >> oh, stephanie, i am so -- i'm so looking forward to our hammock next week. >> stephanie: yes, i'll be speechless looking directly into the blue eyes but i will see you in charlotte next week. >> and even my fiance thinks you are hot. >> stephanie: oh, whatever. buzz kill. oh, wait a minute. he said fiance, and i didn't wait until he got to the end. see you honey. >> thanks stephanie. >> stephanie: jan schakowsky is at the rnc. >> stephanie: awesome. braver woman than i. we'll talk to her next on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: if you turn her on, she'll turn you on. it's the "stephanie miller show." unsurpassed insight into the most buzz worthy tweets, posts

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♪ don't you know that you are a -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ -- don't you know, don't you know ♪ >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." really good observations online. it is true that people who wear sunglasses inside -- >> they have to because it's only sinny in doucheville. >> stephanie: exactly. [ applause ] >> here it really is sunny in doucheville. >> stephanie: 52 minutes after the hour. jan schakowsky joins us from the rnc, you are a stronger woman than i. >> i'm having fun. i'm seeing some of my

colleagues. >> stephanie: how exciting it is to be you. >> enjoying the spiritual hurricane according to michele bachmann. >> oh, boy. >> stephanie: paul ryan very good speech, almost completely fact free. it was a fact-free zone. and that was kind of scary, because i thought it was a pretty good speech but just one lie after the other. how about that janesville gm plant that closed before barack obama game president. >> stephanie: you have say that like it wasn't his fault. >> oh, yeah. excuses, excuses, and the stimulus money that paul ryan tried to get for his district. and then, you know the one that really gets me is they talk about how the credit rating of the united states went down. remember who did that. >> stephanie: yeah.

yeah. >> it was because the republicans threatened to go into default as the united states of america. that was why the credit rating went down. but of course they want to blame barack obama. the speech made me crazy, talking about medicare and funneling the money out of medicare. one, we actually strengthened medicare, and, you know, made the life of medicare longer and more benefits and of course paul ryan took that money, the same money, $716 billion and gave it in tax cuts to the wellny his budget. >> stephanie: yeah. exactly. really it was sort of stunning. i mean -- so that's the thing. good speech very touching about medicare and his grandmother and mother and how grateful he is for it, but the fact remains his proposals would end medicare as we know it. >> end them. and i served on the simpson

boals commission along with paul ryan who voted against it -- >> stephanie: oh, right he talked about the president walking away -- exactly. the whole speech was incredible. >> it -- i don't usually yell at the tv, i'm sort of used to that, but this was really -- you know how can the american people elect and trust a team that is so full of lies? >> stephanie: how about this? paul ryan last night. >> college graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms staring up at fading obama posters, and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. [ cheers and applause ] >> stephanie: here is a guy that wants to cut pell grants take kids off of their parent's health insurance -- >> and part of the party that has engaged -- i want to use the

word sabotage -- every day in the congress to make sure jobs are not creates and the economy does not improve. you know what, steph, i got to run. >> stephanie: oh, okay. i'll talk to you next week. [ applause ] >> stephanie: a bigger name, i'm sure. >> the owner of the show that is trying to kill you for life insurance money ran in and basically handed her the phone. i have her onthe phone. you need to answer. i'm like ron -- >> stephanie: he still doesn't know what we're doing when we're on air and sends emails from several months ago sometimes several years ago. >> did you know we're out of vietnam. >> stephanie: i told you seriously -- we have been doing this nine years. >> we're coming up on our ninth year.

>> stephanie: every time i have been with him, littlely like five minutes before i am supposed to be there, he always calls me. >> okay. >> stephanie: okay. you are supposed to be somewhere. [ screaming ] >> you are slowing me down! >> stephanie: i would be getting ready to join you if you -- >> instead i'm answering the phone. >> i'm trying not to use the phone. >> i'm trying to use the phone! [ laughter ] [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: the party in charlotte next week -- which he'll be doing that every day -- did you know we have a broadcast -- >> yeah, and i need to take you there avoiding all highways. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: right. meanwhile we're late because he avoids highways. >> stephanie: and we were driving from boulder to denver avoiding highways. >> this is weird. >> stephanie: next week is going to be a nightmare. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: by the way, i

forgot to mention who was speaking -- the romney yacht party on his yacht cracker bay which flies the cayman islands flag. >> cracker bay, really? >> yeah. >> stephanie: guess who the speaker was, transvaginal bob. >> really? >> stephanie: okay. 58 minutes after the hour. dear god we have mudcat! we have stuff going on. we have a full show. we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> may cause dizziness, sexual nightmares, and sleep crimes. announce it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ she is awesome. we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show."

[♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: hello current tv world. mudcat saunders coming right up. jacki schechner is all over everything all the time, not only is she on the awesome convention coverage, she also wants us to know this week is the first-ever video cat show in indianapolis. and first male model in the history of the price is right. >> uh-huh. >> i figured chris and jim and t-bone can all head there after the show. >> yeah because i would make a great male model. >> stephanie: that's what you

are here. you are a stephanie miller swag model. >> yes, i am. >> stephanie: are you going to enter your cat in her famous laying in the sink routine? [ laughter ] >> hours and hours of -- >> stephanie: yeah. all right. now here she is not a cat in a sink a girl in a news room, jacki schechner. >> good morning, a new gallup poll says people like mitt romney a little bit better than he liked him last month. he still trails the president in everything from caring about the needs of people like you to being honest and trurt worthy. romney has a chance to make a dent in those numbers with his speech tonight but we'll have to work hard to convince the voters to abandon the man that they know and voting for a man

they really don't know. the obama campaign is out with a new web video, using the etch-a-sketch theme. >> mitt romney's an economic heavyweight. we're in trouble because he was 47th out of 50 in job creation in the state of massachusetts. >> they have laid out four objectives it thinks romney needs to achieve, the first is what i just said. he has to make the public comfortable with the idea of being president. he has got to convince vote thaers he does or can at least empathize with their needs, and he has got to explain his policy plans, and how they would be different from the previous republican administration, and why they would be better than president obama. it's a tough road ahead for him. we'll see how he does tonight. you can join us online

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immature. >> you should get cheryl-dactle in there too. >> stephanie: all right. we have mudcat. ♪ mudcat ♪ >> stephanie: dave mudcat suanders joining us now. ♪ ♪ mudcat ♪ >> stephanie: good morning mudcat. >> greetings guys, how y'all doing? >> stephanie: good. getting ready for the big party in charlotte. are you in tampa? >> of course not. i'm -- that -- that ignorance down there is contagious and i might catch it. >> stephanie: yeah we were saying where do you start with paul ryan's, i thought really

good but fact-free speech last night. >> they talk about this fiscal conservatism, and his budget raises the deficit and debt by $6 trillion, and in the south here we really are fiscal conservatives, but like i said before this whole convention -- it's like i said before, they have told so many people they got a horse that they finally went and bought a saddle. and it's ridiculous. and it makes for bad viewing too. >> stephanie: yeah we just had thomas mann and norman ornstein on today, and they wrote the book "its even worse than it looks." and that's what you always talk about. wayne powell, your candidate -- your awesome candidate running against eric cantor, he released a tv spot to air on fox news, which must be making them crazy.

>> making them crazy, they have gone completely nuts. i have done this before in campaigns that i have worked in. the right-wing extremist republicans, they think fox news is their sacred ground. and no democrat can battle them on that ground. the cantor campaign has gone nuts. the idea is -- is that eric cantor says he is a fiscal conservative, but he is not. and the punch line on that wayne powell must might be your kind of republican. but they -- we stuck that every hour on fox news channel throughout the market here in the 7th district of virginia. well they come out with an email yesterday, and i mean it's -- i mean lying is one thing, but -- but -- you know, in this part of the world, there's a strong affection for the all mighty you know, we're in the bible belt here and he

sends out an email and says that wayne powell wouldn't have it too good as a republican but they have it in here that his plan to -- oh no let me find it. his plan to reduce the tax deduction on -- to contributions to churches would get a few doors slammed in his face. an absolute lie. just made-up stuff. >> stephanie: right. right. >> and his stated position of having no objection to taking in god we trust off of u.s. currency, would probably alienate everyone in our party. just flat lies. and it shows we're getting to him. if you are a candidate who has all of those millions you don't even mention the other guy. >> stephanie: yep. >> we wept on the fox news channel and stepped on their

holy grown. >> stephanie: rand paul said i have yet to knock on a single door where the person is happy with what is going on in the cantor-run congress. 41% of voters saying he should not be reelected. his state-wide approval rating at 27%. >> that's why they kept him off of the podium. i mean he is despised here in virginia. this is his home district and that's all the approval he can get. >> stephanie: i love that no one knows how to poke the republicans with a sharp stick like you do since romney is smart enough to not let cantor

anywhere near the podium so there is no better way to reach him than fox news. [ laughter ] >> why not? why not go after him. the reagan democrats and i still say it they are retrievable. we didn't need to start building coalitions, when one out of four white males in america is now voting for democrats, that's all -- i mean we're doing something wrong. and these reagan democrats are retrievable and they are retrievable on issues like sending our jobs overseas outsourcing, this coin-operated government. we have a great opportunity here, but we have to reach out to them, and there's many areas of the south now with the demographic shift of more people moving in from other areas, is

the sun belt. it is the fastest-growing area in the country, but at the same token, mark warner in the same district, where eric cantor got 59% of the vote and john mccain got 54% of the vote in 2004 -- i mean 2008, mark warner got 60% of the vote. so that shows the reagan democrats will move if you give them a viable option. but for some reason or another we have not asked them to come home. >> stephanie: uh-huh. it is interesting, you have obviously been monitoring elections for so long. mitt romney may have a bigger problem than his low likability. many say he will lose to president obama. pollsters say that is actually something that has been very predictive in previous times. obama is way ahead in terms of people saying nay believe he is

going to win. >> look at las vegas right now the odds are you got 180 to 100 for obama. and las vegas they don't get it wrong a lot. >> stephanie: do you think romney is going to turn that all around with his sizzling personality tonight? [ laughter ] >> he is going to talk about his family -- i'm so sick about hearing about family. i don't want to hear about family, i want to hear what they are going to do. >> stephanie: exactly. somebody was saying that yesterday, ann romney is lovely and all, but we're not electing a dad. we're elects someone that -- and that's what -- i think the impression so far is it has been a lot of negative attacks but not like what is your plan? what are your solutions? >> the one that's going to -- that i think they are facing as far as an up hill climb is the gender gap.

>> stephanie: yeah. >> eric cantor you know, in our district he cosponsored 32 different pieces of legislation with todd akin including, you know, the forcible rape stuff, and the ultrasounds and all of this crazy stuff -- >> stephanie: yep. >> and he is yet to denounce -- everybody and their brother has denounced todd akin and saying get out of the race and cantor hasn't said a thing. >> stephanie: yep. >> but this gender gap we're kicking up on that. >> stephanie: yep. >> anybody can help us so you have got to step up right now, go to cantor -- cantor i hope not. go to powellforva.com. and step up and help us. we can take this guy out. >> stephanie: yep, that will be delightful. i will see you next week in

charlotte. >> i got too much to do here. >> yeah. >> we have a fight here. i would like to go and see a bunch of pals and stuff, but i'm going to have to hang here and fistfight a little. >> stephanie: all right. we'll talk to you on the phone as usual. love you mudcat. >> i love y'all too. >> camping what is this mogadishu? [ laughter ] >> love it. >> stephanie: all right. 17 minutes after the hour. you know what i am getting tired of telling you to get carbonite. i have no sympathy for you. i get these oh no letters -- [ wah wah ] >> stephanie: they sometimes write flargan, hargan. >> uh-huh.

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show." hi, mason. >> caller: i'm really happy that i'm talking to sane people today. because i really felt like after listening to the hot mess that was the rnc last night it felt like i needed a padded cell and a straight jacket. and what really got me is the warmongering language. >> oh, my god. >> stephanie: how do you criticize president obama, he has had one success after another. >> caller: yeah, that's just said. >> stephanie: well, as you know george bush got bin laden. >> all the fact checkers say that. >> stephanie: and mitt romney said i don't think we should move heaven and earth and spending millions of dollars just to get one guy. okay.

john mccain. >> we can't afford to gives in russia and china a veto. sadly for the lonely voices of decent in syria, iran and elsewhere in the world who feel forgotten in their darkness and sadly for us as well. our president is not being true to our values. >> what the hell is he talking about? he has been wrong about everything. iraq. don't ask don't tell. and even the heads of the military have said i was wrong. i'm man enough to say i was wrong. anyway. there he is again. >> friends across the world people are seizing control of their own destinies. they are liberating themselves from oppressive rulers and they

want america's support. america must be on the right side of history. [ applause ] >> what does he mean exactly. >> stephanie: did you see condoleezza rice this morning, she couldn't name one specific obama failure. she was on with nora oh donal, and always she could come up with some vague syria reference. and rice said it is not a time to look back -- >> oh, come on. >> stephanie: don't look at his string of foreign policy successes. she said it's a question of what mitt romney would do. and the american voice has been muted. >> what? [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] >> stephanie: she said all of

this gook about syria, and o-donell says i think the president agrees with that. so the policy that romney has articulated it is really not much from obamas. >> don't look back, look forward. >> stephanie: no, forward, go move. >> then you might notice that the economic crash hand on george bush's watch. >> which was also condoleezza rice's watch. >> stephanie: yeah. hello, larry in new jersey. >> caller: hello, you were talking about -- i forget -- the vietnam guy, i just wanted to say that mitt romney has no courage and honor, and his chance of winning the veterans and current service members votes is basically close to zero once they find out. when they find out that he not only ran off to france when his

country called him to serve, he was a pro-war campus vietnam protester. and it gets even worse. he was a pro-war college campus protester for vietnam and right before he left for paris. >> stephanie: exactly. >> caller: everybody knows he dodged the draft and ran from vietnam to go to paris -- >> stephanie: yeah we have had more than one vet call the show and say that. janet welcome. >> caller: thank you. what a night last night. we had a diverse group of people in our home latinos, italians greeks, democrat parties and republican, watching all of this. and there were a lot of people that had their views, and i -- i suppose i grew up as a democrat

and right now i would say i'm on the fence, and -- and we are calling your show because we want a bipartisan truth. we would really like some questions answered that we -- some of us -- we don't understand. >> stephanie: we only have 20 seconds now, so go ahead. >> caller: okay. they said that obama declared marshall law, which means -- >> no, he never did. >> stephanie: untrue. >> caller: okay. thank god. the republican party says he can come into your home, blah blah blah -- >> stephanie: no. next. >> caller: and he is also trying to take away our right to bare arms -- >> stephanie: all right. we're out of time but i'm just going to frantically say no. >> stephanie: romney passed more gun control laws than obama ever has. >> stephanie: all right. right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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[ ♪ music ♪ ] >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> there is something wonderful in my life that has been turned into a giant crabfest. >> every day in the show. >> stephanie: 34 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. that's a long title national political director and organize of the [ inaudible ] fund. >> yes, she is important. >> stephanie: good morning. >> hi, good morning. you are traveling to 11 states in 17 days as part of women are watching battleground state bus tour. where are you next? in tampa, right? >> we were in tampa yesterday, holding rallies -- >> stephanie: okay. >> during the republican

national convention. today we near west palm beach actually at a rally right now. and after this we're headed to charlotte. >> stephanie: oh, good. awesome. so you are in the thick of it in the war against women, aren't you at the rnc? >> yes we launched this bus tour to make sure we are educating women voters across the country about how out of touch and wrong for women mitt romney and paul ryan are. >> stephanie: he has said he would defund planned parenthood correct? >> correct. he has pledged to get rid of planned parenthood, which would deny women access to birth control and cancer screenings and he has always said that he wants to end the nation's family-planning program, which provides preventive healthcare to more than 5 million women. so that's just the beginning of why his platform is so wrong for this country. >> stephanie: what is the

percentage of your healthcare services that abortion makes up? >> more than 90% of the health services and health care that planned parenthood provides is preventive health care so less than 10% is abortion. >> stephanie: yeah, and it's interesting -- that's just one of the many, many things that republicans either -- well you -- you tell me whether -- they are deliberately lying or just misstating. they have been on the house floor saying the opposite haven't they? >> yes indeed. and they have given us a favor in a way, because it has really allowed us to educate people on what planned parenthood does. >> stephanie: and i -- you know, i can't believe we're having this conversation -- having to be as defensive about a woman's right to choose in the first place. do you know what i mean? >> yeah. >> stephanie: this is a legal procedure in the united states that you must just be shaking your head on a daily basis

between us talking about a woman that is raped, can't get pregnant, just though unbelievable, first of all scientific misinformation, and just the true massageny of it all. >> yeah, it's disturbing to us that people are legislating and running for office that have such disregard for women's health. and this is just the tip of the iceberg, and part of what is the most disturbing about the todd akin position, is that it actually echos the positions of mitt romney and paul ryan. they have vowed to overturn roe v wade, and have a whole bunch of changes that will take health care away from women. it's baffling to around the

country that we have met with. they are saying it is confusing and baffling to us that this is the issue that these folks want to focus on when there are so many important issues right now, that the republican party's leadership is laser focused on taking away basic health care for women is just baffling. >> stephanie: it is. one of these rallies -- my favorite sign was a woman holding a sign saying i can't believe i have to protest this [ censor bleep ] again. >> i know. >> stephanie: it is just stunning. that's why i love the president's campaign slogan forward. because the republicans are just taking us back, back back, right? >> yes, and this is really the leadership of the republican party and their standard of mitt romney, obviously. i don't think this is reflective of the view of most average,

regular republicans. certainly not the republican women we have met with and seen through this bus tour. so it's baffling to us why the republican leadership is going to far in this direction. >> stephanie: yeah, that's what we were talking about. ann romney it's a lovely speech and all, but, again, the way they are trying to appeal to women. i'm not really sure who her story resinates with she is from a very, very select portion of society. and on women's issues, the republicans are just bad on all of them. >> right. >> stephanie: it is in their republican party platform, right? >> yeah, it is. in fact their platform, which has been approved would ban safe legal abortion period, no exceptions, and takes away our sex education from schools, and has a whole host of other things way out of step with what americans truly want.

i don't think that women in this country will be distracted by the republican party putting forth ann romney and her professing her love for women or distracted from what really matters which is mitt romney and paul ryan's position on women. >> stephanie: how do we get information -- do we have something up at the website. >> at our website, stephaniemiller.com, and on your facebook page, stephanie. >> stephanie: okay. we can join the tour. because i have never seen women so energized. so we are with you, and thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you so much. [ applause ] >> stephanie: don with the jerry steinfeld subject what is wrong with these people. [ ♪patriotic music♪ ] >> stephanie: steph, this

definitely isn't your dad's gop. i have a not so fun fact for todd akin, and other defenders, a woman in the usa is statistically more likely to get pregnant from a rape than likely to see her rapist convicted. 5% of rape victims become pregnant, and only 3.4% will see their rapist convicted in court. i don't even know where to start with the guy who said you can't get aids from heterosexual sex. i can't even keep them straight anymore. [ applause ] >> stephanie: no straight people get aids. what? oh they are so anti-science and massageness -- >> who do you hate more women or science? >> stephanie: exactly.

that's a good pop quiz. [♪ "jeopardy" theme music ♪] >> how about women scientists. >> stephanie: oh, wow! [♪ dramatic music ♪] [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: i was talking to mudcat about this. mitt romney may have a bigger problem than his low likability. people that support him say he is going to lose. >> yeah. >> stephanie: pollsters say that's a serious handicap that deserves more attention than it is receiving. it might be wiser to try to make him more plausible. the who do you think will win question has a strong track record of signalling where an election is going. poll after poll shows romney trailing badly to obama when asked who do you think will win. >> and vegas is saying the same thing. >> stephanie: yeah. little bit. little bit. >> you should also read robert

wallace's article how romney is lying through his big white teeth. >> stephanie: he has have white teeth. [ mocking laughter ] >> stephanie: obama has the edge at least for now people who support a candidate have less likely to go to the polls if they don't think their candidate will win. >> that assumes that people who are voting for obama are actually allowed to vote. >> stephanie: there is that. >> talking to you ohio, again. >> stephanie: okay. paul ryan. >> they have run out of ideas. >> stephanie: no. >> their moment came and went. fear and division is all they have got left. >> stephanie: hum. >> with all of their attack ads, the president is just throwing away money, and he is pretty experienced at that. [ applause ] [ mocking laughter ] >> stephanie: not as much as you

are, because you voted for all of it. >> and you are a douche. >> stephanie: and furthermore a douche. okay. paul ryan one more time. >> it all started off with stirring speaks, great columns, the thrill of something new. now all that is left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that is already past like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind. >> stephanie: oh that was so -- what? something. >> crappy. >> stephanie: yesterday's winds? >> what? >> stephanie: i don't -- i would have -- i would have taken -- >> somebody needs to punch that up. >> stephanie: yeah, need something. >> focus group on that one. >> try to get sail on winds that are no longer there, because it's back there -- >> stephanie: the boat's kind of -- >> i got nothing.

>> stephanie: did they write that on romney's boat the cracker something -- >> the cracker bail. >> stephanie: no, cracker bay. they wrote that on cracker bay, drunk on flirt-intis. paul ryan >> we will not spend the next four years blaming others. we will take responsibility. we will reapply our founding principles. [ cheers ] >> stephanie: and then he went on to blame obama for the plant that closed in janesville that closed under george bush. >> we will not blame people who -- oh i just did. >> stephanie: i just did it. and he feels your pain. >> everyone who feels stuck in the obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. [ laughter ] >> and i hope you understand this too. if you are feeling left out or

passed by, you have not failed. your leaders have failed you. >> stephanie: and by the way we're going to leave out and pass by more people if we are elected. y'all all are screwed unless you are in the 1%. >> did you say y'all all? >> stephanie: i don't know. >> i think you did. >> stephanie: i was talking mudcat. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: all right. one more paul ryan. >> after four years of getting the run around, america needs a turn around, and the man for that job is governor mitt romney! >> run around, turn around clever! it's like a boat with the wind -- >> beth bette midler is searing -- >> stephanie: you sunk my battleship. all right, back with the final minutes of the "stephanie miller

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>> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ you're a heart breaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me ♪ ♪ you're a heart breaker, dream breaker, heart breaker don't you mess around with me, no no no ♪ >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 51 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. from the current news center my bff jacki schechner. >> good morning. >> stephanie: good morning precious. what time does the coverage start again tonight? >> 4:00 pm eastern, so 7:00 pm

eastern. >> stephanie: you are everywhere, covering everything. >> yeah, it's a huge staff in new york, and once in a while they go to the huge staff in los angeles, and once in a while -- >> stephanie: it's not your grandmother's convention coverage. >> it is really fun. it's as fun as an rnc can be, but it's fascinating. because a lot of time you watch coverage and you say gosh i wish they would say what they really think. >> stephanie: right. and you are covering all of the real time reaction and it's very exciting. >> if they want to say something while the speech is going on. the staff in new york will say something while the speech is going on. they will call out live the lies being said. >> stephanie: and who better to host mystery science theater than al gore. >> that's exactly what it feels

like. we have this really neat thing on politicallydirect.com, where they have these bubbles, and you can click on the bubbles and -- i like bright shiny objects so it works for me [♪ mysterious music ♪] >> so does stephanie. >> stephanie: it only needs one thing, and you know what that is, jacki, right? >> what? >> stephanie: sue for instance writes steph as a seasoned high school band director, i'm thinking of writing a sexy liberal halftime show, so many of your songs you use are standards -- the most recent being when you say mitt you said it all. ♪ when you say mitt you pick the one who will say whatever he must say ♪ >> stephanie: there you go. which is also the second answer of the university of wisconsin marching band. maybe jacki could come and twirl

her baton. >> i knew where this was going. >> stephanie: if you really loved us. >> you want to add one more thing to my blade of responsibility. >> stephanie: do it one for me for god's sake. >> i will encourage people to tune in, because it really is entertaining and educational at the same time. as paul ryan was lying his tush off last night, everybody on twitter were fact checking and the people were antsy in new york waiting to get their hands on the untruths that he was spewing. so it is fun to watch. finally a news organization that says exactly what needs to be said. >> stephanie: thank you, jacki. >> republicans don't believe in fact checkers. >> stephanie: yeah we are the only ones that need those.

all right see you at the top of he hour honey. yay! [ applause ] >> stephanie: condoleezza rice last night. >> people have come from all over because they have believed our creed of limitless horizon. they have come here from the world's most impoverished nations just to make a wage and they have come here as engineers and scientists to fuel the revolution in the silicon valley of california, in the research triangle of north carolina, in austin, texas, and across this great land. [ cheers and applause ] >> stephanie: awesome say something about black voter suppression now. [ ♪patriotic music♪ ] >> she was good. >> stephanie: she was it is a good speech. >> and romney wants to turn this into an impoverished nation.

>> like the one people fled from. >> stephanie: yeah and his other top 1% cracker boat. cracker bay. >> spelled there three ks. >> no! >> stephanie: gay republicans party at homo-con. hosting hundreds of guests at the honey pot. the three-floor bash featured go go dancers clad in t-shirts with the words freedom is fabulous i guess except for the freedom to marry. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> stephanie: but other than that, go on with your bad selves. mike huckabee explaining that the president is not the right kind of christian. >> i want to clear the air about something that has been said people wonder whether guys like me an evangelical would only

support a fellow evangelical. of the four people on the two tickets, the only self professed evangelical is barack obama. he supports changing the definition of marriage, believes that human life is expendable at anytime in the womb and beyond the womb. and the attack on my catholic brothers is an attack on me. [ applause ] >> huh? >> the democrats are brought back that old dance the limbo, so see how low they can go in attempting to limit our ability to practice our faith. >> no lie. >> this is about conscious and the creator. >> stephanie: okay. >> let me say to you tonight, i

care far less as to where mitt romney takes his family to church than i do about where he takes this country. >> hello he lies. >> that was based on a single lie. obama is not a evangelical. he doesn't believe in throwing religion in your face. >> stephanie: he is the kind of muslim that has a crazy christian preacher. [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] >> stephanie: all right. that's it for us. thank god, i take anymore. it's mittens big speech tonight folks. >> oh, god. >> stephanie: we'll see you tomorrow on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ john in detroit gets to close us