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ything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding.

♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ dance to the radio, i got the world calling me tonight on the phone ♪ ♪ i need a lover that won't drive me crazy ♪ i need a lover that won't drive me mad ♪ ♪ i need a lover that won't drive me crazy ♪ >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome it to. twenty-three minutes after the hour. breaking news -- [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: they fired the athletic director at rutgers. you know why? because i just said that.

>> and immediately the alert came across. >> stephanie: carol in michigan you are on the "stephanie miller show." hello, carol. >> caller: hi, steph. how are you guys? >> stephanie: good. >> caller: there we go -- i didn't know how long it was going to take -- bear with me i'm not used to making these calls, but yesterday a friend of mine at work this morning was telling me that on the five program on fox here is how the right is changing their message so to speak; that they were calling these people that were, you know talking out about the rutgers deal. they said that the guys in the united states are turning into a bunch of wuss. i think people like bobby knight, if there would have been video capabilities and stuff

around -- i think he probably would have lost his job a lot sooner than he did. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: but they were actually standing up. and i'm thinking how can you say you are changing your message and that you have respect for people -- >> stephanie: right. >> caller: it was just horrifying for me to hear some of the things that she was telling me. and on hannity's program the night before they were making big jokes about it and -- >> stephanie: yeah, they always cry -- look at those politically correct liberals -- this behavior is just abusive. >> yes. >> stephanie: kicking people and shoving them around -- >> that's assault as well. >> caller: and the verbal stuff. the guys come in and they are wearing flip flops and he calls

them a bunch of you know what -- oh it was just -- regardless i just thought if you guys hadn't heard about that maybe you should. >> stephanie: thank you, carol. i have never heard of this thing, there being splits? famous republican families. [ wah wah ] >> stephanie: but theory -- the reagins. michael reagan. >> i don't believe in gay marriage. i think you can have a debate on that. i think it does send a splipry slope. if you accept a redefinition of marriage, then you have to expect a redefinition all the way down the line. >> stephanie: and patty davis.

>> i think he would be puzzled on the one hand at why anyone would have a problem with people wanting to be married because he wanted government out of people's lives. >> stephanie: yeah. same with barry goldwater my dad's running mate. we said it over and over again in the '80s. so that was exactly what they talked about, small government. so whatever. robert in albuquerque, you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi robert. >> caller: can i get a sweet jesus for shrilly mcshrillson out there. the deficit has been shrinking and sha s -- at a faster rate

since 1902. there are a lot of big military cuts and i think we're going to start to turn some swords into plow sheers, and i think we're going to have a leaner meaner military, but i think a lot of that money being spent there is going to go to infrastructure, i think this time sucks right now, but i think we'll start to see some government intervention and creation of high-speed rails and -- >> stephanie: yeah absolutely. by the way that was joe scarborough -- >> scarborough: oh, sweet jesus!

>> scarborough: oh, sweet jesus! [♪ magic wand ♪] >> stephanie: indy does not like chris matthews. chris matthews freaks her out. >> so chris matthews has the same effect that mary hart had -- >> stephanie: i swear to got, i turned on the tv and he was like welcome to hardball -- and she ran out of the room. [ applause ] >> stephanie: honey calm down. when al sharpton comes on it is going to get scarier. >> ah. >> stephanie: what? she was my precious pumpkin. i would like to thank the lovely couple who adopted indy who are a lovely couple. and there is no dirt in their basement. >> it's l.a. no one has a basement.

>> yeah, there's that. young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us.

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that's what he does. that's his job. >> stephanie: i have to entertain the host. >> stephanie: that penguin desperately needs marcus bachmann therapy. jim who said power without love is reckless and abusive, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. who said that? >> [ inaudible ]. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: no reverend martin luther king. michael goodwin of the the -- joining us now. whenever my union peeps are in trouble, i want to hear about it. there is a taxi strike going on in vegas, tell us what is going

on? >> the union represents the taxi drivers, and we have been on strike now for five weeks, and trying to bring as much attention to the strike as we can, because the driver earn $32,000 a year plus tips on average, and they have to work 12-hour days so it's a very difficult job, and they want more of the pie. these drivers in las vegas transport 27 million rides every year. >> stephanie: yeah, it has to be a huge business in vegas, absolutely. >> i haven't even count the millions. and basically the fight is over -- you know the -- the percentage of the meter that the driver would share with the owners, and they are looking just for a little bit more. the 32,000 is not much to raise a family on so they are out

there fighting for more money, but it was triggered by unfair labor practices. asking for more money now, but in the beginning the employer was on stan nant ignored the union, wouldn't give them the necessary information to develop requests, and so forth and so on, so we filed charges, and we have numerous of those. and we're doing everything we can to bring action. but i wanted to call to your attention -- i learned this. i thought it was amazing. did you know the strip in vegas is not part of the city of las vegas. >> stephanie: you are kidding? >> caller: no. they are in clark county, what the corporate giants did here is somewhere along the line they carved the strip out of the city of las vegas, and the reason for that, of course is so that the

corporations can govern themselves without having to worry about tax like everyone else for a city for its services and things like that. and how it became relevant was the nrb under the obama administration has ruled that we have a first amendment right to place a rat in front of these hotels. the obama administration said that the rat is a first amendment right, you can put a rat at the hotel. so we proceeded to put these rats in front of these hotels, and lo and behold clark county said you can have the rat there, but no generators to blow them up. so they specifically banned generators on the strip because it blocks this kind of activity. it's a conflict between federal law and what clark county is

doing. so this weekend we have a huge convention, 96,000 people coming in. it's the national association of broadcasters convention -- >> stephanie: oh, yeah, yeah, right. >> yeah, so we're asking them please find alternate means of transportation when you come to vegas this weekend. >> stephanie: okay. good idea. michael because we were saying -- it is amazing how these days almost every republican effort has something to do with union bashing. they find a way to get that in there, and i think because they think they have you guys on the ropes, as you say, they don't even have to come to the table. we just did another story today about income inequality. >> that's right. and it's so obvious here in vegas, you can see the glitter in the millions and here are these poor workers struggling on this $32,000 a year salary.

>> stephanie: yeah exactly. michael best of luck to you, we stand with you as always. >> appreciate your support, stephanie. >> stephanie: all right. thank you, michael. [ applause ] >> taxis are a necessity in vegas. and if they don't get paid well -- >> stephanie: yeah, you try raising family on $32,000 a year. >> exactly. >> stephanie: living high on the hog. >> and if they can't get paid well there, they are going to go elsewhere. >> stephanie: katie in chicago. >> caller: oh, hi. i was cleaning while i was waiting. i wanted to call about the social security for the obama budget, and i think he is being smart, because they are not going to take it anyway. he is showing good faith, and

i'll talk about entitlements everything could use some cleaning up. we have to keep looking at it, so sure i'll do this, but you are going to raise taxes. they are not going to pass it anyway, so it doesn't matter. so he is just showing that he is willing to work with them yet again, and when we jump on the bandwagon of getting mad at him, i think we have to remember the congress he is working with. no president that i have ever heard about has ever had to deal with this. >> stephanie: yeah. the last midterms we heard a lot of whining, and this is what we got. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: republicans have a tendency to impale themselves.

media-ite hillary clinton republican voters still show no inclination to vote for the one guy who can challenge her and continue to want to vote for the guy who is not so sure about civil rights. senator rand paul senator aqua buda has surged into the lead. going past chris christie and jeb bush and paul ryan. chris christie consistently polls guest, but republican voters have shown a consistently clear reference for more beating candidates. and i say you go for it. [ applause ] >> don't compromise. >> stephanie: winning is not -- >> winning is for wusies. >> stephanie: right. >> idealogical impurity. >> stephanie: margaret in texas welcome. >> caller: hi, stephanie. love your show. give me just a minute, okay?

>> stephanie: all right. okay. >> caller: i'm slow. i'm old and decrepted. >> stephanie: i have already beat you there, margaret. >> caller: well, i heard someone -- i don't know who, there's so many on there, on the news say that lbj took money from social security if he did, so he and reagan are both thieves. it wasn't their money to take but anyway what people who are young and have good jobs don't realize is that they could be unable, because of losing their job -- it's possible a lot of people have, haven't they? >> stephanie: yeah absolutely. >> caller: good jobs a bad accident or disease and need ssi, health care food stamp, the whole thing, and to -- before they get old.

the world has ways to let you know you are not invincible. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: and the republicans have always been the party of the rich and when things go bad because of their stupidity, they want to put it on mothers and young -- young mothers with children with no fathers, and old people and they -- i'm 77. i heard politics and seen it for many, many years, and this i know, they are only for the rich, because that's what they are. >> stephanie: exactly. >> caller: and they will always be that way. >> stephanie: exactly. >> caller: and everybody -- or even the republicans in this country should know it by now, what do they have to be beat over the head or something >> stephanie: well, let's not suggest that? we're just saying. speaking of single mothers, michelle obama -- >> oh, yeah.

>> stephanie: she said that she a busy single mother -- >> stephanie: huh oh. potus on line 1 for you. [ applause ] >> say what? >> stephanie: he is busy potusing. >> as you do. >> stephanie: forty-five minutes after the hour right back on the "stephanie miller show." [ laughter ] >> i don't get it. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> watch the show. >> only on current tv.

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past us and hit austin. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> stephanie: i kid. but we were saying that was kind of random yesterday, they threatened to hit austin. why? >> why not hit bismark. >> stephanie: and good barbecue for god's sake. chuck hagel. >> we take those threats seriously. we have to take those threats seriously. >> we have missile cruisers there ready to shoot down in missiles. >> stephanie: yeah. >> it was ratcheting up on their side that caused us to need to shore up our defense posture. we have done that but we have also been saying all the way through that this does not need to get hotter.

that we can change course here. >> stephanie: yes, we could do that couldn't we? victoria newland again yesterday. >> when you have a country that a making though kinds of bellicose threats that they are making, and taking the steps that they are taking and when you have allies and treaty commitments you have to take it seriously. >> stephanie: yes, there only would have been one choice if dick cheney was in rike faster! kill! kill! kill! >> shut up! shut up! >> stephanie: a north korean spokes woman yesterday. >> get ready for this. >> the ever escalating u.s. policy will be smashed by the strong will of all of the united service personnel and people and cutting edge smaller, lighter, and diversified strike means of the dprk. >> stephanie: that is a good

translator, that's all i know. she sounded like a korean version of that woman that called earlier screaming at me. >> it sounds like cling-on to me. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: okay. kamala is a road flair mary fan. >> caller: hi i love you. i love road flair mary she is a living dinosaur. do you not love her? >> stephanie: i do. she is like an addiction. >> she called in to complain about us making fun of her. >> caller: oh, come on. dennis rodman should be brought in to help with the situation with north korea. >> stephanie: oh, yeah. and what about meadow lark

lemon. >> caller: i'm from the school of whatever works. >> what about curlily neil and meadowlark lemon. what the heck? slacking around. >> on their ass. [ harlem globe trotter's theme song ] >> stephanie: dribble between kim jung un's legs -- >> throw a bucket of confetti on him. [ laughter ] >> do the harlem globetrotters even exist anymore? >> stephanie: yes. and some called her road kill mary yesterday. >> hi, this is road kill mary. i just wanted you to know that i'm opening up the new used food emporium on the east side of

chicago. we welcome all at our used foods emporium, except for [ censor bleep ] [ censor bleep ] [ censor bleep ] [ censor bleep ] we specially don't want no [ censor bleep ], and no we don't take no food stamps neither. go somewhere else. my son is on food stamps. he needs more. used foods emporium. with the softest apples in town. >> stephanie: that was a good impression from kenny pick. >> you know what? >> stephanie: you know what i think we should give her a weekend radio show entitled -- >> you know what? >> stephanie: with road flair mary. >> i would listen. turtle head here would love to

hear it. >> stephanie: right. and the blacks in their escalades with too many groceries. shalex, am i saying that right? >> caller: yes hello. i need an answer and i know you guys have it. why is it that most of what you hear from the republicans regarding the debt makes about as much sense as a screen door on a submarine. >> stephanie: yeah it does. i don't get it. you don't get a nobel for economics -- just do what he says. >> yeah! >> just do what paul krugman would do. >> stephanie: and kenny pick wants us to know the worded he

bleeped were made up words. >> anything sounds filthy when you bleep it. >> stephanie: hi david. >> caller: hi there. everybody agrees that the congress and senate is doing a minimum job, don't you agree? >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: so i would like to get something started here as far as getting their pay cut back to minimum pay. at best they are a minimum job. >> stephanie: yeah wouldn't that be something if they made money based on merit on what they got done. they would owe us a lot of money. pat in minnesota. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i'm going to throw out a couple of things to your crew there -- >> stephanie: crew pay attention. >> caller: okay. first thing is, is why are local state and fellow governments pissing away so much time on gay marriage?

it's a no-brainer. everybody deserves the same thing. >> stephanie: yep. >> caller: the second thing i have got for you guys -- second thing i have got for ya is why are we still throwing good money on the war on weed away. i'm going to let you guys discuss it, i'm going to listen to what you say. >> stephanie: all right. >> yeah, make it legal and tax it. >> stephanie: washington officials -- [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: just because it is legal you can't light up anywhere. listen washington residents we're sure some of you are pretty damn excite now that marijuana is on the up and rise but that doesn't mean you can drag your pipes into the local watering hole. we'll talk about that as we continue on the "stephanie miller show."

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[♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: hello current tv land, hour number 3. sexy liberal john fugelsang coming up for fridays with fugelsang. jacki schechner look alive there. >> i am. i'm awake-ish. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: all right. you were having a bad insomnia night last night. >> i was. and the worst thing this morning i have this coffee maker i'm in love with, it's a grind and brew, and this morning it

decided to stop the brew part. >> oh. >> stephanie: it's trying to make you go cold turkey. >> the best part was my old fashioned trying to pour the hot water through the grinds it was not good. at 3:00 am it is a joy. >> stephanie: and yet still a journalistic wonder. >> good morning, everybody. north korea is saying that foreign diplomat should get out of the country before april 10th that in case of an event the north korean government cannot guarantee their safety. buzzfeed is monitoring reactions from around the world. according to germany that country is evacuating that embassy. russia is still trying to clarify whether the evacuation is an offer or a threat.

president obama spoke earlier this morning at the easter prayer breakfast and after joking that he knew better than to peach to a group of people who new better, he reflected on his trip to israel. >> so many of you know that few experiences are more powerful or humbling than bringing that sacred earth. >> two more senate democrats are caming out in support of same-sex marriage. joe donnelly, and heidi heitkamp both support overturning the defense of marriage act. donnelly and heitkamp say the decision comes after much consideration. we're now down to four senate democrats who have not come out in support of same-sex marriage

and we're now up to just two republicans who have, mark kurt of illinois, and rob portman, of course, of ohio. we're back after the break. ♪ >> jack, how old are you? >> nine. >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current.

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pagoda. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: that's a great promo for chicago. >> stephanie: very exciting. so we were -- oh, travis is mad at me, because he said i activated the medical marijuana phone tree. sorry travis. >> any time you bring up pot? >> they light up? >> so to speak. >> stephanie: in washington they legalized marijuana, but you can't just toke up anywhere. some bar patrons are getting ahead of themselves. there is still a law on the books that prohibits use in establishments especially those who sell liquor. so don't smoke if you got them in washington, calm down. >> if you are eating a pot brownie, who would know. i probably shouldn't tell this

but a friend of mine took a pot brownie into disney world. [♪ dramatic music ♪] >> that's the only way you can survive it's a small world. >> yeah. that was brilliant. i was so happy when pat robertson came out in favor of medical marijuana, because i thought that's the only way i can watch the 700 club. [overlapping speakers] >> stephanie: what else is there to do in topanga canyon? a guy won a settlement from disneyland because he got stuck on small world for eight hours. ♪ it's a small, small world ♪ >> stephanie: you would be to heroine by an hour or two -- >> can you imagine lsd. i can see the music!

>> and all of those "zero dark thirty" torture guys are like damn we're trying too hard. >> stephanie: john -- >> hello. >> stephanie: hello. >> great to talk to you guys. >> stephanie: you as well. are you ascared about north korea? >> it's pretty great that frado got to run the corlione family. and let us say that dennis rodman is the nevel chamber lynn of our time. >> stephanie: yeah good job nose ring. >> this guy keeps on saying he is at war with us -- and he is right now screaming at his brother's laser printer in the office for not hitting control p

right. but at some point he is going to have to put up or shut up to all of his daddy's friends. and his number one interest is being able to keep control and hang on to power. but we're talking about a guy who is unelected, he is the son of a former leader, who is threatening to attack a country that never attacked him [overlapping speakers] >> stephanie: i heard the train coming down, ding ding ding -- >> yeah that was a loud premise [ overlapping speakers ] >> they are not crazy. he is not crazy. he doesn't want to die. but the korean war has never ended. and at some point this guy is going to have to put up or shut up and actually do something. >> the chinese and russians are

not very happy with him right now. >> stephanie: it just sounds scary when a north korean spokesperson says it. >> kim jung un could feed a family of starving north koreans for a year and that could happen. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: stu, welcome. >> caller: i was just calling -- you were talking about social security before, and i don't want to get too wonky, but i heard tom hartman talk about this and paul krugman has written about it if we could just lift the cap we would actually retire earlier, so being a bumper sticker mentality, if we could just put a simple message on a bumper sticker such as lift the cap, retire at 60, i think that would

get a lot of people's at attention, but god for bid we raise taxes on the job creators. >> yeah. they right stop creating jobs. oh, wait. >> stephanie: yeah. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: i love this story from gawker. there was a piece in wall street journal. rich people would like you to know that owning a castle is a lot of hassle. they published a heart breaking story addressing an issue that affects all americans castles. and owning them can be a real headache. the thing that maintaining an 11th century bavarian castle is expensive. nicolas cage who bought the castle was forced to sell it a fear three years later due to what he described as the difficult economic situation.

>> i hate the economic situation of working class people who paid money to see nicolas cage films. >> stephanie: if he can't hold on to his castles what hope is there for us? one family told the journal they must endure an agonizing five-minute walk to their castle from their car. the castle is only accessed via drawbridge. so they can only make one trip to the grocery store with an extensive list. if you say i forgot the butter, that's a little difficult. >> but if you can afford to live in a castle don't you have a staff that you can sent out to get butter? >> stephanie: one would think. like the guy that takes care of

the mote. you can drive for butter, can't ya? how much do alligators eat? >> on the upper west side it's not easy to get a good mote man. >> stephanie: right. but the worst thing has got to be the historical preservation clause that sometimes prevent you from owning an indoor toilet. congratulations, you are the lord of [ censor bleep ] manner. [ applause ] [ laughter ] >> but you get a lovely [ inaudible ], you know, chamber pot. >> yes. >> stephanie: they are drafty. >> do you think the queen complains about living in her castle? >> they need indoor plumbing. >> stephanie: she needs indoor plumbing because she is -- >> we are in a desperate state!

[ farting sounds ] >> bob dillen bought a castle. >> really? >> he doesn't share much about his private life with people, so i'm not sure how it is going. >> stephanie: there are so many people that are going to go, really that is horrible? five-minute walk. >> you were talking about taxing the rich. a carbon tax could cut the deficit by $1.2 trillion over ten years. >> stephanie: you socialist. all right. fridays with fugelsang we roll along on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: join the party, [ phone ringing ] .

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>> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ >> stephanie: i can't talk to you now, i'm texting with a rock star. okay. steven stills is coming in monday in studio. he thought it was today, and he said i feel like a right berke in i missed that. that's british for it's okay. steven stills live in studio on monday. [ applause ] >> stephanie: all right. >> real deal. >> stephanie: acollieses and

call mook, >> there is a picture of jesus with his head in his hands, saying omg guys i said i hated figs. >> stephanie: did you see the happy penguin. >> can we hear that korean lady again. [ korean spokesperson. ] >> i have never korean spoke with an austrian accent. >> stephanie: that penguin needs marcus bachmann. no not that -- >> what? >> if you have a loved one like this ♪ >> this saturday bring your brother, your uncle, the one you are not too sure about, bring

them to the balk man -- bachmann overdrive ♪ ♪ taking out the gayness, taking out the gayness ♪ ♪ get them over guys ♪ >> bachmann gets them over guys. this saturday trade your prius for a camaro. [ applause ] >> stephanie: conversion therapy in new jersey is becoming a big issue. >> yeah, it look chris christie a long time to decide whether he thought that was a good idea or not. chris christie is not your friend. >> stephanie: yeah exactly. dana in maryland. >> caller: good morning, everybody. how are you? good morning, john. >> good morning. >> >> caller: it's good to here

your voice. >> oh it's very good to hear your voice. i am very proud of my state today with the gun laws. now if they could just legalize marijuana, we would be perfect. and look -- >> no, if you would bring back the wire maryland would be perfect. >> caller: john look at what these states are making now on frivolous amounts on your person. they are saving $65 million, colorado will make that. >> it's interesting you say that, because there's a lot of decent among policemen and law enforcement. we have a cop on who used to be -- a lot of cops have second jobs. and he applied for a second

lobbying job. they said yes. and he was actually lobbying to change the marijuana laws so you would not only get a ticket for a small amount of marijuana. and his precinct decided to sue him -- >> caller: i saw that. >> stephanie: would you like to get a room. >> every time i open for bill maher, i always meet all of these cops and judges who want to change the law, but there are a lot that don't because of civil search and seizure, and a lot of times they get to keep all of the swag and money. [overlapping speakers] >> caller: -- we're smart

people. >> my belief is legalized cannabis is the conservative point of view. >> caller: yeah, very proud of the gun law, and, you know, we're psyched. >> stephanie: good job. good job. smoke if you got them. just don't shoot. >> and more crab cakes. [ laughter ] >> especially if you are high. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: i read on the way back from vacation, was a roll me up and smoke me when i die. willie nelson's book. >> have you heard the song? >> stephanie: no i have not. >> it's willie nelson with snoop dogg, and snoop dogg sings. >> stephanie: i was telling the story that i got to hang out at annie and willie nelson's house while it was poker night. and someone asked me did willie light up?

and i'm like it's willie nelson of course he lit up. he has this big sleeve -- >> what it is in >> splif. >> stephanie: okay. i don't know. >> i got to go into his trailer and i went to interview him, and i had to ask if i could move the giant bowl of buds out of the shot. >> stephanie: annie came to pick us up, and i pictured the car in cheech and chong. >> with the smoke rolling out. >> stephanie: billy in jacksonville. >> caller: hey, steph. i am the official gay polish truck driver of the "stephanie miller show."

[ bell chimes ] >> it's about time. >> caller: actually two years ago i was hurt on the job. i have a spinal chord injury, and i have been trying for the last year and a half to get disability, and it's almost impossible unless you are like paralyzed from the neck up. and when and if i do get disability it will be $881 a month. can anyone that you know live on $881 a month? >> stephanie: it's tough. >> not on their own. >> and they are going to do this chain cpi thing -- >> stephanie: yeah we'll talk about that at the bottom of the break here. and jim will explain what a yurt is. twenty minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show."

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[ applause ] >> you are fired! >> stephanie: some [ overlapping speakers ] >> lou lou lemon. fox news did a 10-minute segment on that story. while president obama was getting a medal in israel. they were covering that story. >> stephanie: john you started talk about social security before the break. >> just that i -- i -- i -- i wasn't really but i really hope he doesn't try to do these cuts. how about you, steph? >> no he can do no wrong? >> if he tries to raise the eligibility age would that be wrong? would it? would it? why do i hate the president so much? >> no, it's not like that, john.

but he is breaking a promise. >> stephanie: when we did all of this whining last time what he got is this congress that we can't get anything past, and he made this point yesterday, because he was walking about washington gridlock the senate and the house obviously two different ball games. president obama said i would be dishonest if i isn't say it would be a whole lot easier to govern if nancy pelosi was speaker. we're not going to see anything get done. so he -- >> but we're also not going to see a republican row to the mid-turns like in 2010. the democrats are going to be in a very good place to take back the house. >> stephanie: yep. lee in missouri on this very same subject. hello, lee. >> hi, thank you for taking my call. >> stephanie: yes. >> caller: i am in missouri

obviously not a great place if you are a democrat. land of jerry fallwell and the house of shame. but i am really really upset about the cpi. we don't need it and we -- the big three right now are the only ones that are standing strong and they are self-sufficient, everything else have been privatized and including -- i'm a teacher, so my retirement they are trying to put in what the police and firemen and the other employees are losing, because they are luted all of theirs. ours is strong. >> yeah as many people say these are the last big tranches of money. >> and i understand we needs to get stuff done. i do understand that. i have always voted straight democrat. but i'm really getting

disheartened by this. and like i think john said many times on his "viewpoint" show -- [ bell chimes ] >> caller: it seems like democrats fall like a house of cards sometimes -- >> i said wet cardboard. and i said that about harry reid. there are some real fighters in the democratic house and senate. >> stephanie: yeah john this gun stuff is incredible to me. including harry reid and some conservative democrats. these are the kind of guys we have on the other side. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: head of the -- the former nra lobbyist billy brown compared deer-hunting season with election season where republicans should be free to hunt democrats. we tell gun owners it's time to hunt deer, and the next election

is time to hunt democrats. >> that's clever. [ overlapping speakers ] >> martin luther kings death. great. >> stephanie: renee in nashville. >> caller: good morning, stephanie. >> stephanie: good morning, go ahead. >> good morning. >> caller: i'm really concerned about the state's rights in tennessee and the way they are left to administrate federal programs. what is going on in tennessee there have been two votes, headed for a third, their intent is to tie a child's grades to food stamps of their family if their grades slip -- >> but their grades probably slipped because of malnutrition. >> stephanie: exactly. >> how about we tie congressional pay cuts to how well state economies are doing. >> stephanie: yes. could you take your organ out for me. >> my pleasure miss miller. >> oh please slap it out.

[♪ organ music ♪] >> oh, it's out. >> i can hear it is out. >> stephanie: you have michael thomasky on all the time on "viewpoint" on the current tv network -- >> steph wants to gay marry him. >> on current tv which still exists by the way. >> stephanie: we're here. [overlapping speakers] >> stephanie: i have steven stills on my show monday. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> guess who i have bill donahue of the catholic league. he doesn't know what he signed up for. >> stephanie: no one tell him. anyway he writes about eagan -- what are evangelical

conservatives going to do? i am profoundly -- it's a question growing more and more urgent, mike huckabee says if the gop embase same-sex marriage evangelicals will take a walk. i reckon a critical mass will decide by 2024 it was fun while it lasted, but it was hopeless. i expect to see senator tumble like dominos. this is what he goes on to say, by 2024 evangelicals -- with what to show for it? a country where abortion is still legal, and adam and steve

are saying their vows. and they will walk away to where they smell more votes and money. >> with mexican guest workers on top of it. >> stephanie: there you go. >> it's really interesting, and i think -- i'm of a mixed mind of it >> mike huckabee has one job promoting mike huckabee. his concern is his own ratings and consolidating his own power base. but the republican party has been the servant of three masters for a very long time. wall street the right-wing fake christians, and the guys who like tom clansy books and war porn. and this is why you have got so many republicans willing to have immigration reform and willing to have gay marriage because they care more about power than ideology. evangelicals, it will happen

more and more, but they are hang on tenaciously for many decades to come. they should really go to the right to life party. and at least they are not total hypocrites. >> stephanie: yeah he closes that maybe they will stop obsessing so much on this life and start preparing for the next one. it will be interesting to see if that is true. >> or follow jesus's teachings of helping the poor and sick. >> stephanie: oh that's crazy. [ cuckoo clock chimes ] >> stephanie: don't you love the poperazzi don't like him because he is doing too many things like jesus did. >> yeah, this pope was lobbying

heavily for civil unions. i don't think we'll see women priest in him -- [overlapping speakers] >> stephanie: he is not wearing the lib -- libber rach inch -- >> he kissed the feet of a female muslim prisoner in jail. >> wow. >> this guy did more for the catholic brand than the last three popes combined with that. >> stephanie: yeah, i agree. let's go to deb in california. >> caller: hey there loves. how are you doing today? >> stephanie: we're loving you. >> caller: me to you back. the reason i called was because of the north korean thing because thanks to current, we're

informed that the reason that kim jung un is acting like such a fool is because mr. obama has changed the way that the united states treasury responds to the threats coming from north korea, and it just started in 2009. in the spring, they either do it every year or every other year the military in north korea goes we're going broke, and jim does the most hilarious impression of kim jung un and il. [ impression ] >> caller: so the thing is they do this every year or every other year in order to get american funds. mr. obama stopped doing that in 2009. >> stephanie: exactly. >> caller: and these are all the people that say that mr. obama is a democrat and a liberal,

which he is but he love him anyway. >> he is a democrat. >> stephanie: i know, in the words of the north korean spokes woman. yeah. >> barack obama also stopped paying pakistan bribe money after lying to us that they didn't have osama bin laden. >> stephanie: forty-six minutes after the hour. right back with the remaining moments of fridays with fugelsang on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: as it turns out, the revolution will not be televised. it's on the radio. it's the "stephanie miller show."

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♪ ain't valley low enough, ain't no river high enough to keep me from -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome it to. fifty-one minutes after the hour. fridays with fugelsang, yes, john? >> hi, guys. rush limbaugh just donated $1 million to aids. not research the actual virus. [ buzzer ] >> oh, john fugelsang for heaven sakes. we want to take a moment to give a posthumous shoutout to roger ebert.

>> yeah. >> >> stephanie: no good film is too long, no bad movie is short enough. >> exactly. >> stephanie: and a side fun fact, he wrote beyond the valley of the doll. >> yes. great film. i got to meet roger at the academy awards, and he was very kind to me. he retweeted a lot of my jokes. and in addition to being the only -- i did a commentary on him last night for "viewpoint" that is on facebook and twitter and all of that but he is the first film critic to ever win a pulitzer prize. he was a great political writer. if you go through his political feed, really progressive really liberal -- >> stephanie: he grew up in a very liberal household. he said he remembered them root rooting for harry truman. >> yes, he was in an interracial

marriage, and he got so many caucasians to see films that the market wouldn't have even showed. and he became such an an inspire ration. >> stephanie: yeah he refused to hide even when it has gotten as had as it has gotten. and it was brave. >> yeah, really a heroic guy. a great writer. there are a lot of mean people saying nasty things about him. but he defined liberty as kindness, and he didn't want people hurting each other. >> stephanie: it's that jfk quote about what it is. many it fiends caring about other people, then yeah. >> i have a tribute to him on my facebook and twitter, and list his ten best movies in it.

>> stephanie: rick in texas. hi rick welcome. >> caller: hi, how are you today? >> stephanie: good. >> caller: that woman that called in and saying that grades will be tied to the welfare checks -- >> stephanie: food stamps actually. >> caller: yes, i think that ought to be. you got so many kids 15, 16, 17 hears old that are still just sucking on the system, and their mommy doesn't even know where they are. >> can you give me an example? >> caller: no. >> or are you just pulling that out of your posterior. >> caller: that's right. >> google big oil subsidies and see how many billions of dollars we give oil companies just for being themselves. >> stephanie: thank you for calling with that freshly made ass fact.

jayson in dc. >> caller: everybody keeps talking about carbon taxes, but if you applied carbon tax to a meat-based diet, the average price you could pay for steak, chicken and so forth would be about three or four times higher. so the single biggest thing you can do if you want a better environment, is adopt a vegetarian or quasi vegetarian diet. but just like everything in politics we say use sweet and low, but you can have cheesecake. this ties me back to the gun stuff. if people were serious about dropping gun deaths they would decriminalize drugs and the majority of these deaths would disappear. >> we'll be ready for your points of view in 50 years, sir.

>> stephanie: john we here this regularly in hollywood, don't you know who i am. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: gawker brings us a [ censor bleep ] hole [ inaudible ] fires security driver who doesn't recognize his [ censor bleep ] hole face. james dolen, well-known [ censor bleep ] hole cried out before firing a security guard who asked to see his id. she was just doing her job. after a good night's rest he fired her back the next day. >> he started reading his press. >> i would like to point out that kurtco bane killed himself

19 years ago today. and dick cheney never gets depressed. >> stephanie: let's go to karen in madison. >> caller: hi, thanks for taking my call. i wanted to respond to the earlier woman who was really concerned about -- >> stephanie: oh screammy mcscreamerson. >> caller: yes. i want to ask them where they have been for the last 30 years. here are the numbers on the debt. when president obama walked in the door there was $11.9 trillion in debt -- [♪ fun-facts music ♪] >> caller: then there was the $1.4 trillion of interest on the debt which happens with a credit card -- you have this interest that grows and that was over his 4.-years of his presidency for president obama. and that wasn't his fault. and then there was the $3.2 billion of revenue shortfall from the tax breaks

that president bush, jr. had left. so when these guys are hysterical, they have to go back 30 years and stop reading the conservawiki peedia. >> stephanie: john fugelsang hosts "viewpoint" on current tv. >> i do. which still exists. >> stephanie: monday live in studio in that chair, steven stills, crosby stills and gnash. the man, the myth the legend. very, very exciting. and i'll be with john fugelsang on stage in chicago next saturday. >> it is going to be a really really great show. and it's our first show without a blues band. which i'll miss the band but it means more material from us. >> stephanie: see you monday. love you john.

>> good night, guys. >> thanks, john. ♪