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♪ [♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: hello, happy friday, everybody. wow, darren criss from "glee" is going to be on the big show today, along with richard belzer -- jacki schechner. >> stephanie: what is that? >> can you hear me? i'm a little echoey. >> stephanie: that's all right. >> we met darren at the inauguration. we saw him trying to get into the green ball but they didn't know who he was, and he was having a little bit of difficulty, so we leaned over to
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our friend who was in charge, and said do you know who that is, and we helped him get in. >> stephanie: i remember that and he is indebted to us for life. >> that's right. >> stephanie: i have a roland story at the top of the hour which will make you laugh. in the meantime here she is. >> good morning, everybody. dzhokhar tsarnaev is out of the hospital and has been moved to a medical center. dzhokher has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction. he also told he and his brother had hatched plan to drive to new york city to drive to time square for another bombing.
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while sirrian officials are denying the government used chemical weapons against rebel forces, u.s. intelligence says it has found evidence to the contrary. it found that it has used chemical weapons against its own people on two different occasions. jon mccain is now asking the president to take action. >> those stocks of chemical weapons, some of which are in disputed areas must be secured, and we must give the opposition the capability to drive them out once and for all. >> long lines at airports is forcing congress to do something. the senate has okayed a deal to stop the cuts for the faa.
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[♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: happy friday everybody. darren criss from "glee" coming up on the big show. richard belzer it's a star-studded lineup. six minutes after the hour 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. stephaniemiller.com, the website, check it out. our good friends are bustling around the news room yes we are for all of the latest on the boston stuff. ♪ imagine me and you, and stephanie too, i think she gets up in the night and burns the
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light, the only one who didn't fail and got it right, was jacki schechner ♪ >> stephanie: good morning, jacki schechner. >> good morning, sorry we were a little delaid there, travis and i were planning out our weekend. >> stephanie: exchanging recipes. >> we're not doing it on your time or dime or anything. >> stephanie: no. no. you know how rolland sexy liberal tour director, is a tiny bit high strung. he just moved to a new apartment, and it's like near 54th and the river, he had just fallen asleep last night when there were huge explosions and he woke to a firework display. and twitter exploded like could you give us some notice --
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>> what was the holiday? >> appreciation of fireworks day. >> i have visions of roland buying a boat and just tying it there. >> stephanie: a lot of work on twitter, really? his doing butters even more high strung than roland -- >> butters melted. >> stephanie: exactly. jacki schechner that's the big news is he is out of the hospital already and into prison. >> yes, that dzhokhar tsarnaev is now out of beth israel medical center and moved to a medical facility because some of the victims were being treated there and they were upset that he was being treated there. >> stephanie: i think my producer, chris lavoie is
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deliberately giving me the wrong pronunciations -- >> why because dzhokher is -- >> stephanie: he said it was joe-car. and it's also not zuuble-dot. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: you can give me my russian music in general. [ russian music ] >> stephanie: dear steph if the tsarnaevs were in under asylum wouldn't they be killed when they traveled back to their country. and how were they able to get travel passage without question. why are their parents back here? aren't they in danger for their lives. if not why not?
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randy rhodes surmises that putin want wants us to not sympathize with the chechnians. what do you think? >> there's so much foresight involved in this. who has this kind of time to plan this kind of long-term conspiracy. yeah, it's possible there is something larger at play. but i haven't dug into the details enough to feel like i can speak on that issue with any authority. >> it's entirely possible they slipped through the cracks -- >> it really got my attention when putin -- >> stephanie: yeah he knew who the suspects were before we knew. >> yeah, and why are we having
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such a breakdown in communication between federal agencies, and it appears they are still not communicating with each other. and at least one case, there is an agency that is not talking to itself. >> stephanie: i'm not talking to me. >> you would think we would learn our lesson after 9/11. >> yeah, that was part of the big findings that we have got to have better communications between and within agencies themselves. i think we have a real big problem that we need to take a look at why our systems aren't working. >> it sounds like there is too much rivalry between the agencies that need to be communicating. >> yeah, and there's this really big trend in washington of [ inaudible ] up. there are a lot of people in these government agencies who aren't very good at their jobs -- >> stephanie: what!
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>> it's very hard to get them fired. so instead of getting rid of them they recommending them for the other department and people are failing up. and we need to say look if you are not doing your job, it's time to move on. >> i'm president of the herp derp desk. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: it does not appear thus far that this is connected to some larger organized terror organization. they are like yeah we're going to go bomb new york but we're out of gas. what? really? >> didn't they bring some cash for gas or something? >> yeah, i'm really curious -- we got slim jims gatorade -- >> tickets to a show. >> but we got corn nuts. >> worst road trip planner ever.
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can we stop for fast-food? yes. do we have gas, no? >> stephanie: let's talk about zoobl-dot. there's no l. >> the i looked like an l to me. >> stephanie: is there a desperate housewives of kazakhstan -- really. >> she was caught shoplifting from lord & taylor. >> well, to her credit have you been in a lord & taylor lately? it's pretty quiet. >> it's like the place where your grandmother shops. >> they have some good brands but at least the one in d.c. i used to shop at it was very
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very quiet. >> stephanie: yes, she is % very -- >> there's a lot of rending of garments with her, nashing of teeth and rending of garments. >> well, one of her sons was just killed and the other is being accused of wielding weapons of mass destruction, there is some parenting issues going on. she and dena lohan need to have a chat. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: here she is. >> it happens -- [ sobbing ] [ inaudible ] >> well, when your kids blow up a lot of people in boston america tends to take your things away. sorry. >> no kids for you.
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[ laughter ] >> stephanie: wow wee. >> she is a little hard to understand too. i don't know if it is all of the emotion or the drama -- >> i see a reality show. >> stephanie: yes, and the dad as i mentioned not the keenest legal mind. >> no. you know what the new reality show is that woman paired with a guy who cursed on his local tv show. >> and the sorority letter writer. >> that is genius. >> stephanie: i would like to see that letter now. >> [ overlapping speakers ] >> she has a bucket of pig blood waiting for someone -- >> stephanie: we have this executively produced by stephanie miller -- >> yes. >> stephanie: i have an omg wtf
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for jacki's health care corner. i hear it on rush limbaugh and i automatically assume it not to be true, but there was actually in "politico." both parties are engaged in talks by exempted -- this does not look good, does it? >> no. worse pr move ever. i'm not entirely sure what the facts are behind this in terms of how much is real and how much is a little bit overblown and fabricated. i think the question is the way it works now is government people get their benefits through the federal employee health benefits program, which is essentially the same way that private insurance works with your company. your company subsidizes your premiums. and that's how the government works with its employees
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benefits program. and they are trying to figure out will the government continue to subsidize at the same rate that it does when all of these people join the exchanges. because if you don't subsidize insurance then it is going to be expensive, and we have to get the subsidies in place to people can afford it. i don't think it's a matter of is the quality good enough for congress, the question is how much money will be dumped in to subsidize compared to where it is now. >> stephanie: yeah. here is a question that it raises would john boehner's new son-in-law be able to go to say rehab for marijuana? >> oh, my god, i saw that and immediately sent it off to you and chris, it was like he doesn't just look like he smokes weed, he does. >> they are going to the chapel smoking gonja to get married.
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>> oh. >> stephanie: he is jamaican and has a giant -- >> hat. >> stephanie: yes. >> and we made -- you guys made all sorts of jokes yesterday about his potential for pot smoking, and then there was an article that he actually got arrested for smoking weed. >> stephanie: yeah because we know john boehner has plenty of cheetos around for munchies. that would be funny if all they serve is munchies at the wedding. cheetos and tang. jacki schechner thank you. love you. >> my pleasure. >> stephanie: eighteen minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: call the political party line now, 1-800-steph-1-2. ♪
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doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people but somehow he thinks raising the the middle class. but we do care about them, right? vo: the war room monday to thursday at 6 eastern alright, in 15 minutes we're going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the 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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♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ on this perfect day, nothing standing in my way ♪ ♪ perfect day ♪ >> stephanie: uh-huh. it is the "stephanie miller show." this hour brought to you by therabreath mouthwash and toothpaste. available at target wal-mart walgreens and other fine stores. i was mentioning high strung rolland sexy liberal tour director who is even more high strung because there was a firework's display right off -- >> could he see them?
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>> stephanie: i'm not sure. but people are a little bit skittish these days. >> really? >> stephanie: however, they also had really good news this week. he was nominated as theater producer of the year for the stephanie miller sexy liberal tour. >> nice. >> stephanie: yes, live theater producer of the year. >> can we vote? >> whatever! >> and they did a firework's display in his honor. >> can the public vote on this -- >> stephanie: no probably just fancy theater people. >> okay. >> stephanie: shirley in washington. >> caller: hi, i love your show. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: and i just want to say that i'm a liberal, i'm a democrat, i'm a progressive, but i think liberals, democrats and progresses have got to take the cotton out of their brains as far as islamic extremism. >> stephanie: how so?
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>> because since 9/11 i have been doing a lot of research and reading on the ideology of islamic extremism, and it is a serious problem in that religion. i know there are christians that are nut jobs but they don't threaten to go out and kill anybody, and it's a serious problem -- >> stephanie: well, shirley that part is not true. a lot of people were comparing this to eric rudolf who blew up the gay night clubs and abortion clinics in atlanta. >> and the atlanta olympics. >> caller: that is true, but people are not aware of the rampant violence in the islamic world. the arab countries. i mean if you read the looming tower -- everybody read the looming tower, and you get a hint of what has been going on actually since the decline of
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the ottoman empire. >> how seriously do you take christian extremism, shirley? >> caller: i take it very seriously. i'm an atheist, so i don't like religion per se. but aside from eric rudolf -- >> stephanie: and tim mcveigh. >> caller: they are christians but -- >> stephanie: shirley -- >> caller: you have got to read about what has been going on in the islamic world. >> stephanie: i'm not saying that part of what you are saying is not true but i think what we're saying is we had this muslim commentator, lawyer comedian friend of mine dean obediallah, and he was saying as a muslim he looks at this as the people that misuse islam like this, like some christians
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misuse the bible to commit violence, he was saying it wasmor political not religious. >> caller: well, the whole islamic issue is the fact that since the death of the ottoman empire, there have been massive numbers of muslims who have not been able to accept that demarcation between government and religion. they want to -- >> not all -- not all countries have a demarcation between government and religion. >> caller: that is true. but that's the problem. they have huge populations that want to restore that. >> stephanie: okay. >> caller: they want to restore that -- the unity of government and religion. >> right. >> stephanie: okay. but for instance shirley these particular bombers, the boston suspect suspects or suspect, you know,
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he has said and we'll see, but he has said it was driven mostly about us being in iraq and afghanistan. that's political, isn't it? it's not religious. >> caller: that is true but -- they did it under their religion -- >> stephanie: yeah, that was obviously a part of it. you are right. it is certainly part of it. yeah, it is absolutely misusing islam. >> uh-huh. >> caller: the thing is in the united states these christian nuts when pat robertson says something idiotic there is a massive blowback on what he says. >> not as massive as you might think. >> stephanie: and we just did a story yesterday on a guy who suggested it would be a good thing if more abortion doctors were killed. >> caller: yeah, that is a nut. but he suggested it but he is not doing it. >> he is kind of inciting
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violence there. >> caller: but it is a problem in the islamic world. >> it's also a problem in other religions. >> stephanie: he is talk about the doctor who was shot in church in front of his family by a christian extremist. is it not the same thing? >> caller: it is, but the thing is, in the islamic world, it's almost a given that people think like that. >> no, it's not. those are the extremists. >> stephanie: what about all of the mosques in the boston area that said they will not do a service for tamerlan because it is -- >> caller: i'm sure there would be huge blowback -- >> from muslims there would be blow back. >> stephanie: all right. i'm not certain what happened there. >> and another thing is the -- >> she wasn't listening to you. >> stephanie: what?
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♪ >> well, i would love to stay and chat, but -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. . >> -- you're a total bitch. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. thirty-four minutes after the hour. i had extra carnation instant bitch this morning. >> did you? >> stephanie: uh-huh. 1-800-steph-1-2. a lot of people on twitter calling bull [ censor bleep ] on that last call. >> yeah. the only thing she didn't say is she is a small business owner.
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i am a leftist democrat -- >> stephanie: and i have concerns on muslim extremism. >> the only people who use the word leftist are those who use it as a pejorative. >> stephanie: ammni hi. >> caller: hi stephanie. the last caller was saying that terrorism is a real problem in the middle east. and it's more about power, and they are trying to get more power, and more power is more money. >> uh-huh. >> caller: and it's not about islam itself. most of these people that are performing these terrorist acts in the middle east are it literate. and they are looking to religion
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to help themselves. and they listen to the [ inaudible ], and they are telling them this is what you have got to do so they don't question it. and it makes me really mad as a muslim that they are portraying the whole religion because of these extremists and nut cases. >> stephanie: yeah some of these places are a theocracy over there. it's not that she didn't have some points. but as one of the moms said in -- outside of boston, it specifically stays in the koran -- it's the same in any religion thou shall not kill. so are they taking him back to russia? >> not before they take him water skiing.
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[ banging ] >> stephanie: i am mother, you are lazy. i thought you better water skiing than that! kevin in ashville. >> caller: hi, i also am annitist or what i like to say is a recovering christian. the caller was just plain offensive. i'm not sure if she has heard of jim crow or the kkk -- >> stephanie: yeah exactly. >> all religions in a nutshell teach some sort of bigotry, because they claim to have a monopoly on truth. >> stephanie: yeah, did you see lincoln, there they were using the bible to justify slavery. >> caller: right. and we're a few decades away
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from it, but it doesn't that long ago when it was very, very common for people to get together and lynch a black man in the middle of town and we're not that far removed that we need to have people going around saying the entire muslim religion is evil and violent. >> stephanie: yeah our friend dean who is muslim he said he hate them more than most people because every time it happens they are like oh, great, we're going to take the brunt now. >> and a lot of islamic fundamentalism came directly from us overthrowing the democratic administration in iran in 1953, i think it was. >> yeah, that was a big problem. >> and they went to truman about it, and he told them to go to hell. and we were trying to promote
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democratic regimes. >> stephanie: yes, and george w. bush it's nice because he opened his libary yesterday. >> libary. >> stephanie: it was nice to remember all of the gifts he gave us yesterday. >> yes but he thingthened the medieval whack jobs. and the hussein administration was sunni. >> stephanie: yeah i got that twitch in my eye yesterday, because he was once again going freedom -- my whole commitment was to freedom. >> my deepest conviction the guiding principle of the administration is that the united states of america must strive to expand the reach of freedom. one of the benefits of freedom
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is that people can disagree. it's fair to say i created plenty of opportunities to exercise that right. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: freedom. >> that is the force of freedom in all of the world. freedom -- freedom -- freedom, liberty -- global appeal of liberty -- liberty in our land -- liberty in other lands the meaning and promise of liberty, and the liberty bell -- american freedom -- america's ideal of freedom -- in america's ideal of freedom -- the message of freedom -- the cause of freedom -- liberty for all and -- >> whatever! >> we liberate a lot of people from their bodies. >> stephanie: that's firey freedom with some shock and awe berries. when you realize what he is talking about, that was
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justification number 12 for going into iraq. >> about 3% of the population in iraq were christian. >> and a jewish community in bagdad. >> that's all gone now. you're welcome america. [ mocking laughter ] >> stephanie: richard in arkansas. hi, richard. >> caller: good morning, steph. how are you? >> stephanie: good morning. >> caller: it is rough growing up down here in the land of the rednecks. all we have is you to listen to other than that we got liar pryor and the rest of them. >> stephanie: you got nuttin'. go ahead richard. >> caller: that woman who was talking about islam, if you look at the koran and the bible, they are so close and they both say that no harm no foul, don't do wrong to anyone.
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>> stephanie: right. >> caller: but when you look at what the christians have done here in america, i'm part cherokee indian, and when you look at the tribes that were killed out in the name of christianity, children taken away from their parents and sent to school, so i am a christian, but i -- i see the things that christianity has done. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: in the name of christiany. >> stephanie: yeah. there's people that of course cherry pick the koran and say this is a violent religion. read some some parts of the bible. >> caller: yeah and when they came to america they saw the indian people as subhuman, so they thought if they aren't christian, we may as well kill
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them to they can go on to heaven. >> stephanie: yeah, good point. roman in chicago on the same point. >> caller: hi, stephanie. to try to understand islam and compare it to the bible, i think fails to understand the point. the trouble with north african countries and middle eastern countries is largely understood because of the struggles they have had in the post colonial word. we have medaled in those countries ever since the discovery of oil, and they have not been able to establish any type of political stability. you were just talking about the overthrow of the shaw by the cia, and we do it today. and if you want to see another area of the world where this problem exists it's throughout africa, but there's not a lot of oil there, so we don't keep going and interfering with their
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governments, and so tlovr -- we make ourselves the obvious target of their rage because we meddel -- >> stephanie: well it doesn't justify violence -- >> right. but it's nothing to do with the strict interpretation of the car ran, and the similarities to the bible. it's all economics. it's all about the economy of the people of those countries that they only really got autonomy when the british left after world war i, and then world war ii for india and other countries, and they have struggled for years and the we med meddel in those countries -- >> stephanie: yeah pat buchanan said they don't hate us for our freedom. they hate us for our policies. robert in albuquerque. >> caller: again, i just want to
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pile on to the previous caller, and anyway, you know it has -- radicalization of islam has everything to do with economic issues and you only have to look at far as tamerlan tsarnaev. he couldn't find regular work, had time on his hands, and after a while, you listen to the first -- you get devout religious, and you are going to listen to the first person that come comes to talk to you, and i think that's what has happened in the middle east, because there's a big disparity between the rich and the poor, and it is happening here in the united states, and we may not see it from islamic folks, but we may see it from christian folks. it doesn't matter what religion is involved. it's economic injustice. >> stephanie: yeah, that is certainly a component. >> it wasn't the over throw of the show. it was the overthrow of the
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[ inaudible ]. >> and installation of the shaw. >> stephanie: that's what i was going to say. we put the shaw in. forty-five minutes after the hour. back with darren criss from "glee." >> announcer: i got her number off of the men's room stall, 1-800-steph-1-2. very, very excited about that and very proud of that. >>beltway politics from inside the loop. >>we tackle the big issues here in our nation's capital, around the country and around the globe. >>dc columnist and four time emmy winner bill press opens current's morning news block. >>we'll do our best to carry the flag from 6 to 9 every morning.
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this show is about being up to date, staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they
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actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. ♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ shaka kohn -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ shaka kohn ♪ >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. wayne in spokane you are on the
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"stephanie miller show." hi, wayne. >> caller: oh, you caught me in a marco rubio moment and i was taking a sip of water. sorry about that. my wife is a muslim and we go to turkey a lot, muslim country. my personal experience -- and i realize this is just me but they are just wonderful people. where are you from? i'm from the united states. i love america. i want to go there. maybe they are trying to get to know me so i can become an al qaeda mole. >> stephanie: really in -- >> hillary clinton: turkey? >> yeah. people go you are from america and we talk. so i realize we're not going to all hold hands and skip merrily
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through the tulips but to cast a blanket over the whole muslim world is just ridiculous. and i speak a little bit of russian, and i would to compliment you on your pronunciation of zooble-dot. i think it translates to crazy woman who has lost all reality. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: that's right. ozzie in chicago. hello, ozzie. >> caller: hey, listen, i think in all of this discussion about religion and violence, christianity just gets a huge pass by the corporate media, two cases, george bush who publicly stated that god guides him in
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his decisions, invades a muslim country causing the death of millions, and no one mentions that maybe christianity played a roll in this. >> stephanie: that's right. >> caller: and [ inaudible ] in his biography when he was trying to convince the french president that it was god's work et cetera. so why does christianity not even play a role in the fact we invited iraq and the virginia text shooter, he was avowedly christian. so i'm not saying that -- i'm saying if you are going to attack islam all of these time you have got to take into account other religious motivations as well. >> stephanie: that's right. that was my point.
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dweb deb in california. her ex-husband is a saudi. >> caller: hey sweety. yeah i want to make sure my husband doesn't get bad at me. my ex-husband spent years in saudi arabia checking out american. he was a better american thank was at the time when i was in my 20s. i didn't know a lot of things that he knew because americans seem to not be paying attention to actuality. it seems as though because -- you know, the dumbing down of the american public when the -- when the schools all of a sudden weren't. say in the state of california in the late 1970s, they decided we're not going to pay our property taxes and fund our schools, and that was so they could get everybody to be stupid enough to vote republicans. americans need toad indicate themselves, and i mean us, i
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mean me when i say something. there are times when americans really need to get that we are the luckiest people in the world even though our government is a little bit awry -- a little bit awry, it's a broken. >> stephanie: yes, i agree. sue in michigan. >> caller: i just wanted to say what jim said about the shiite muslims, and it's a point he has made a few times. as a shee it muslim myself, i have to correct you on something. it's not this extremism that is coming out of the religion -- it's not from the shiite it's from the sunni sect, a specific part of the sunni sect. it's the [ inaudible ].
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they fill in the vacuums basically. everybody has been saying before me. it's economics and the conditions they live in and in that region of the world, people you know -- religion is so important to them. so if they have somebody telling them that your religion is telling you to act this way towards the west this is what they cling to, because they have nothing else. and more muslims have been killed by al qaeda and the [ inaudible ] than any other people. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: because -- i come from -- my family comes from lebanon, we get, you know, a lot of our news from the middle east, and what is going on right now in lebanon and syria and egypt, all of these [ inaudible ] are moving in and causing problems, and they are backed by saudi arabia, and 9/11 and what has been happening
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doesn't come from the shiites. the shiites were sup press pressed under saddam hussein. now you have al qaeda in iraq moving in. and he is not a religious figure. so they take advantage of the religion. >> stephanie: absolutely. all good points. that was again part of what we were saying during iraq. george bush didn't even know the difference between sunni and shiites. >> yeah, and people applauding when saadam's statue was toppled were the shiites. >> stephanie: i will say the wahabi make great teas -- [♪ circus music ♪] >> stephanie: anyway, my point is -- they are spicy. >> oh, god. >> stephanie: jeff writes steph when president bush is opening his presidential libary, when we
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took office the federal reserve warned that we might pay off our national debt too quickly. he presided over the two longest wars in our nation's history, the worst economic recession since the great depression and an increase of 5 million people living in poverty, it look under 200 years to run up the national debt that bush doubled in only eight years. gun sales were declining, threatening many gun industry jobs, after bush weakened gun laws, gun sales started thriving again. price of gas $1.50 a gallon after bush came gallon, gas rose to -- >> you are welcome america. >> stephanie: thank you
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[♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: all right. tv world, darren criss from "glee" coming up in just a couple of opinions here. jacki i'm not sure how you try dealts feel about the delta gamma resignation, but is it a sad day in the sorority world? >> it is a sad day. no, i don't care. it really is every parity about
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sorority girls ever. >> stephanie: the only thing we can say for certain that with her enthusiastic skills she will be more successful than the stupid [ censor bleep ] she believes behind. here she is jacki schechner. >> good morning, everybody. former south carolina governor, mark sanford has until may 7th to convince the voters that he deserve deserves a second shot. now that he is running for congress, a new ad is hitting him hard on the fact that last time on the job he ran away from the job and towards his mystery. >> mark sanford abandoned his post. no one, not even law enforcement or the national guard could reach him. >> now house majority pac which works to help get democrats
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elected to congress is putting another 6-figures behind the ad. with word that his ex-wife is accusing him of trespassing, he has lost his backing and is slipping even further in the polls. a quinnipiac poll shows that toomey is at 48% approval and voters think better of him by a 54% marge because of the bill he cosponsored. in comparison a public policy polling survey took a look at new hampshire senator, kelley ayotte and showed that her approval rating dropped 15 points when she voted no against
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the bill. we're back after the break. stay with us. ♪ going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the 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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>> if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> watch the show. >> only on current tv. you know who's coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys who do like verse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. >> she gets the comedians laughing... >> that's hilarious! >> ...and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there's wiggle-room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> you would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me. >> absolutely! >> and so would mitt romeny. >> she's joy behar.
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current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> only on current tv. [♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: happy friday six minutes after the hour. darren criss from "glee" coming up in just a couple of minutes. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. we have been talking about the latest out of the baston bombing case dzhokher is out of the hospital and in prison. >> the two brothers had six improvised explosive devices. we don't know if they were related to the brother's spontaneous decision to target
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time square. >> stephanie: he said they were coming to new york to party. that's what he first told investigators. but he later -- after later questioning, said they changed their plans on the fly, and planned a second attack, except they didn't enough gas. [ wah wah ] >> they had corn nuts but not enough gas. >> stephanie: that is a well-planned organization. their mother zubeidat insisted that her sons were innocent. he said i'm sure my sons were not involved in anything. >> she said it was like a play with paint instead of blood. >> stephanie: oh, that's right. that it was staged. there were actors and it was fake. >> i'm sure that -- >> stephanie: i'm telling you there is a producer listening right now in hollywood that is
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working on the real house wives of -- the stan she is in. representative peter king yesterday. >> the fact it was cut short at 16 hours means there is an awful lot of information that could have been obtained. >> stephanie: what is he talking about -- >> the interrogation. they were interrogated for 16 hours, and they got a lot of information. >> stephanie: right, but then they read him his miranda rights and he stopped talking. so he is saying 16 wasn't enough -- >> no, he was saying that got a lot of information in that 16 hours. >> stephanie: they have so much other stuff. >> i know. >> stephanie: if that doesn't fall under the public safety exception, i don't know what does. lindsey graham. >> i blame the administration for not having situational awareness. radical islam is alive and well.
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>> stephanie: really? really? he takes every opportunity to criticize the president. look we have a big star. let's take a break from all of this. darren criss from "glee" whom we saw at the inauguration joining us now. hello, darren. >> hello, what a morose story to come out of? >> stephanie: that's right. >> radical islamist and, you know, here is darren. >> stephanie: here is radical singer darren criss. [ laughter ] >> yeah. >> stephanie: i don't know if you remember this, but we saw you at the green inaugural ball and you were having trouble getting in -- and we had to tell the event organizer, don't you know who that is. >> i always say the best way to not get into somewhere is to assume anybody shows you and gives a shhhhh -- >> stephanie: all right. darren you are kicking off your tour which is very exciting.
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it is 16 cities and entitled listen up. >> yeah, it's a chance for me to get new songs out there, that anybody who saw me before or after "glee," or however way they are interested in my music, i have been in studio for a while now. 26 years in the making, and you make all of this guesswork in studios and your office and in my studio i am always writing different things, and there's a separation between -- you know, the people who are supporting you and interested in what you are doing, and kind of this solo experiment behind closed doors, and i'm saying i have my summer break essentially -- i feel like a high school student, because i have an actual break from "glee," and i'm like i want to put this on the road and get a real reaction and vibe from people, and just experience live performance again because i come from the world of live
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performance and being on camera or youtube, it separates people. you interact with people via twitter or things that are separate, but i just want to be in a room with people and figure it out for myself. so it's a chance for me to connect with those guys and i couldn't be more excited. tickets go on sale tomorrow. bring it on. >> stephanie: you kick it off on may 29th in your hometown of san francisco. i saw you out here live at the obama lbgt fund raiser, and you were fabulous. >> thank you. that was pretty nerve-racking, man. talk about -- that was probably one of the most nervous i have ever been. any time you are playing for -- you know the president, whoever really -- i mean come on, we all know how this feels playing for the president. am i right or am i right? >> stephanie: yeah, when potus is in the house it's a little nerve-racking.
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>> yeah. that's pretty crazy. it's blaeszing and a curse because i'm such a fan of collect schism and being as veriried as possible. like at events i'll play the jazz standards but playing at the troubadour and being in a t-shirt, so this tour will be a little varied but much less suit and tie and a little more rock and roll. >> stephanie: darren you were really active in the obama campaign. i remember you out there on the campaign trail. >> yeah, in my very limited way -- in whatever way hollywood actorland can provide, i did -- the singing at the fundraisers counts as that then sure, yeah. >> stephanie: it is interesting what is happening in terms of marriage equality and gay rights as well, obviously shows like
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"glee" are part of what made that happen so quickly. are you nervous or excited about what is going to happen at the supreme court? >> yeah, i think like anybody who stands sort of -- my sort of -- i think it is -- it is exciting and nerve-racking like anything when you have a big decision like that coming up but i think it's a good time for it. i -- i think it's about time, but it's also a -- you know usually when things like that go to the supreme court, if it's a little premature you go that is never going to work, but there is, you know, a huge shift in our sort of public consciousness, and i think a lot of it has to do -- i'm not going to flatter myself, because i'm just a puppet on the show but things like "glee" and a lot of forces in -- in culture, which are -- you know, normalizing a lot of things. i don't think "glee" -- i don't look at "glee" or a lot of other
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programs on television, media or the films, i don't think of it as an agenda thing so much as an normalizing agent that things can be a concern way without a controversy controversy. when people are rooting for curtain bling, it's because like those people. just like ross and rachel. >> stephanie: i like that. you are the gay ross and rachel. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: and you have a film debut coming up with kristin wig -- >> yeah. oh, my god hearing you say that is just such a trip. that was so wonderful to work with them. in the kind of music word i have gotten -- i'm knocking on right now is pretty amazing.
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i have done broadway and i am a musician, but i always set out to be an actor. and as a kid growing up, all i wanted to do was do films or television or theater with actors i really really admired. and, you know, people like annette bening and matt dillon and kristin wig -- is just -- i would have been happy with any one of them. >> stephanie: yeah. >> between that and the tour this summer it is christmas for me, i can't wait. >> stephanie: christmas has come early. darren what a pleasure to talk to you again and if you need help getting into another fund raiser, let me know. [ laughter ] >> all right. i will be looking for you. >> stephanie: thanks darren talk to you soon. there he goes. [ applause ] >> stephanie: we were like don't you know who that is? he is like at the table at the
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rest of us. is my name on the thing, and it was not. >> ah. >> stephanie: he is delightful. >> he is. >> stephanie: let's go to frank in san francisco. >> hey, loving the show. i loved that clip -- that w clip you ran where he was talking about liberty and freedom -- >> stephanie: right. >> caller: look at all of the careers that were crushed by cheney, the list goes on and on of all of the careers that were -- trampled on. he was a pathological liar. >> stephanie: yeah, that's right. value valerie [ inaudible ] didn't have the freedom to continue to be a cia agent. >> exactly. i have a public access show called the second frank on
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bayvac. >> stephanie: you are a psychic? >> caller: yes, i am. it's a live call-in show. people call in i do the tarot cards. >> stephanie: do you any anything in my future at all? >> caller: i can pull the cards right now. can i get the day and month of your birth. >> stephanie: 9/29. >> caller: we add that 6 to 2, if is your money, your power year, your year to think big. america's day and month, july 4th the same day as you. okay. thanks. >> stephanie: thank you, wow thank you psychic frank. awesome. [ applause ] >> stephanie: last year was a rough year. which year isn't. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: all right. seventeen minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie
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♪ ♪ hot -- >> announcer: testififystephfy ♪ ♪ in the city, running wild and looking pretty hot -- >> announcer: stephfy. twenty-two minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. this is a death of comedy story, because the sorority writer has
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resigned. one week after a foul-mouthed crash course put the sorority on the [ censor bleep ] [ censor bleep ] map. they are just accepted the resignation of its author. the post referred to the email as highly inappropriate and unacceptable. it should not be depicted as anyway standard or routine. what the world holds next for the junior who wrote the email is unknown. as i mentioned earlier the only thing we can say for certain is her enthusiastic management skills will be more successful than the stupid [ censor bleep ] she believes behind. >> and a.j. clemente. >> stephanie: right? i smell a reality show.
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that's probably basic cable. let's go to brett. hi, brett. >> caller: i wanted to thank you for your hospitality this week while i have been on vacation i have enjoyed watching your show. got to get back to work next week, though. as i was listening this morning, you had a lot of caller somebody called in and said something about the muslim terrorist, and your next caller said you have christian terrorists too. i think that's part of our problem as a country, is we don't want to put the responsibility on the individual. whether it's the gay/straight debate, christian/muslim we have crazy people all over the place. the guy that tried to go into the family research council with a hundred rounds of ammunition to kill people. it's the individual and too many times in our country, we
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put ourselves in a box, and we don't speak out against people in our own box. i am the first to slam a conservative like david vitter or mark sanford when they do something idiotic, and i think we need to look more at individual behavior instead of trying to tie it to a group -- >> stephanie: i attack the weaner in my box. >> sorry, what? >> stephanie: anthony weiner. i'm just saying i did. >> and his pick dill lows. >> no wonder he didn't find a man. >> stephanie: exactly. yesterday was george bush libary day. >> the political winds blow left and right, polls rise and fall supporters come and go, but in the end leaders are defined by the convictions they hold. and my deepest conviction the guiding principle of the administration is that the
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united states of america must strive to expand the reach of freedom. [ applause ] >> stephanie: free doom trademark, george bush. >> i believe that freedom is a gift from god. and the hope of every human heart. >> stephanie: you know what my deepest conviction is that you will go down as the worst president in history. >> whatever challenges come before us, i will always believe our nation's best days lie ahead. [ applause ] >> stephanie: now that you are not in office anymore, that could be true. we're still digging out -- >> i imagine touring the bush libary is like going on the
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hersheys chocolate ride with mr. toad. >> stephanie: i miss that maniacal little giggle. >> freedom to blow stuff up. >> stephanie: laura you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> caller: good morning. i have compassion for the parents of the bombing suspects. i just -- i feel like when i heard that tamerlan called his mom in his last moments and told her that he loved her, it just broke my heart. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: i feel that pathological people they can hide their true selves even those that they are closest to and be very persuasive. >> stephanie: on a human level i get what you are saying. but i don't think we know the whole story yet. there has been some stories that they don't know who radicalized who.
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>> caller: yeah, she has had some kind of far out -- >> stephanie: i don't know. you end up with two terrorist bombers as children -- you know, i think something has gone awry in the parenting, don't you? >> yeah, and that they have been apart for so long too -- i'm not trying to defend them. and she may very well have had something to do with it but eventually they will either accept that their sons committed this atrocious act, or stay in denial. >> stephanie: i get what you are saying. i have gotten a couple of hate letters for mocking her, but do i have the same sympathy for her as i do the mother of the eight year old that got blown up no i don't? >> caller: no, i don't either but i have a son that screwed up in the past and i understand her pain. >> stephanie: he didn't screw up that bad, right, laura?
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>> caller: no. >> stephanie: screwing up -- >> yeah, that's a sliding scale -- >> stephanie: miss a mortgage payment, whatever. kevin in d.c. -- credit score is bad, oh, okay. kevin in dc. >> caller: good morning, lovely stephanie. >> stephanie: hey, honey, 30 seconds go. >> caller: thanks a lot. as any black person will tell you, we have to explain why we do stupid crap so why are we spending any time listening to bush for any period of time. there's no way this guy should be featured except for an example of the worst president ever. >> stephanie: yeah, people were going out of their way to say nice things on george bush libary day. whatever. twenty nine minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show."
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that viewers like about the 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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>> if you believe in state's
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rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> watch the show. >> only on current tv. you know who's coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys who do like verse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. >> she gets the comedians laughing... >> that's hilarious! >> ...and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there's wiggle-room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> you would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me. >> absolutely! >> and so would mitt romeny. >> she's joy behar. >> and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> only on current tv.
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♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> you tell me you are a super mega, ultra lightning babe that's all right with me. i'm good. >> stephanie: thirty-four minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. jill in ithaca on the boston bombers. hello, jill. >> caller: good morning. congressman peter king who happens to be from long island new york is definitely anti-muslim and he has proved it time and time again, and what he was saying about the 16-hour interrogation, he was upset that
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dzhokher was read his miranda rights. >> because he was wanting -- >> stephanie: right. >> enemy combatant status for him. >> exactly. and alan colmes happens to have a book out, and mentions peter king in it and this guy has been like the mosque in new york city, he has been horrible about that -- he is just a -- >> stephanie: he does not want a coat factory defiled in that way. >> caller: exactly. and can i speak to jim for you. >> stephanie: jim it's for you. >> caller: i know they refer to you as a conspiracy snosage. now you are my reality punite.
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>> stephanie: speaking of conspiracies. we were talking about this david waggel piece, he said unlike other major tragedies this one boasted too much reality based evidence to give much encouragement to nutballs -- >> but there is one guy with a backpack that disappears -- >> stephanie: he had a conversation with zooble-dot at one point. her theory was it was staged actors and stuff. that's what she said -- zooble-dot. "the daily beast," strange and alarming high potsy --
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>> maybe it was faked -- >> not everything on the internet is real. >> stephanie: particularly alex joan and glen beck's website, many fall under the category of false flags. whereby a ship flies [ inaudible ] in false flag theories what looks to be innocents, looks like a criminal act of terrorism, reality a sinister clandestine depreciation by the government -- tighten the government's iron grip on every day existence. stella trembley from new hampshire she posted on glen beck's facebook wall the boston marathon was a black ops terrorist attack.
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winter -- one terrorist was killed and the other one should be soon. >> the other one has spoken now. >> well, via computer -- >> he said one word -- >> no. >> no! >> stephanie: he was walking down to the basement -- >> hum? >> stephanie: isn't that what names do? they walk down in the basement. >> oh, yes. >> stephanie: tom you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> caller: how are you doing miss miller my english is a little screwed up i'm a polish immigrant. i love your show and the debates the last few weeks of
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[ inaudible ] in very civilized way, and i do have to agree [ inaudible ] religion went the wrong way in the last few years. i do not agree we should not put religion on the discussion. it's the first time i am calling your radio show, i can do a russian accent -- >> stephanie: unfortunately it's not your accent it's your phone that is crappy and i can barely hear what you are saying. >> it sounds like it is encased in cotton balls. >> stephanie: exactly. hi matt. >> caller: good morning. it's good that there is a library. i do like how our country kind of honors ex-presidents despite their horrible record.
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puts aside the politics. i mean as much bad as he did it's good -- now he is a retired guy, and he was our leader. i didn't like his presidency, but i do like how we respect them for their time -- >> stephanie: i wish we had had less time with george w. bush frankly, but okay. >> and the libraries are built with private funds, so -- >> stephanie: yes, okay. the president -- >> he doesn't put on any pretenses. he takes his job seriously, but he doesn't take himself too seriously. he is a good man. >> well. >> stephanie: war criminal! what? [ inaudible ] >> stephanie: the only good news out of yesterday is barbara bush said we have had enough bushes. ♪ hallelujah ♪ >> stephanie: she was asked about jebby. >> jebby, smart one -- >> stephanie: she said we have
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had enough bushes. she also has bush fatigue. >> yes and she is around them all day long. >> does she own a bush master. >> stephanie: she said by far he is the best qualified man, but no. there are other people out there that are very qualified, and we have had enough bushes. to which i say -- ♪ >> two incredibly mediocre came out of that family. >> stephanie: bill clinton yesterday. >> a couple of times a year in his second term george bush would call me just to talk politics, and a chill went up and down my spine when laura said that all of their records were digitized. dear god i hope there is no record of those conversations in
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this vast and beautiful building. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: okay. and bush 41 -- this was very touching actually because he has been very, very ill. >> yeah, he stood up and got -- >> stephanie: yeah. >> it's a great pleasure to be here to honor our son -- our oldest son and this is very special for barbara and me. >> stephanie: i actually -- yeah when you just said two mediocre presidents -- he was -- maybe it was because of how bad bush junior was he to me -- when you talk about this is not goldwaters party or reagan's party it is not george wh either. jimmy carter who is always shunned at these events. >> i'm filled with admiration for you, and deep gratitude for
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you about the great contribution contributions you have made to the most needy people on earth. thank you very much. >> also thank you for making my presidency look good. >> stephanie: exactly. >> bush did do a lot for aids in africa, and that's what jimmy carter was thanking him for -- >> stephanie: yeah you are right. bush said he would not comment on same-sex marriage. he said i'm not going to weigh in on these issues. i have made the decision to get off of the stage and so i'm off the stage, except he talks about security and immigration reform and other stuff, but okay. jim in minneapolis. hi, jim. >> caller: hi, [ inaudible ] it's matter of him being a war criminal, and we look at what nixon did and what reagan did and what w did and the crimes keep on getting worse proportion
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at itly, and our response gets less. >> stephanie: yeah, well -- i mean -- yeah, that's -- that's -- i mean it's interesting, even on tv. it's just there really is that thing of oh it's a day of niceties, but i think history will be clear on all of that -- >> you don't go to the opening of a presidential library to bash -- >> stephanie: i think it would have been an excellent place for the hague to locate him. and ratings magic for tv. >> a tractor beam? i thought that was only in signs fiction movies. huh oh. >> stephanie: president obama yesterday in texas. >> obama: we may not all live here in texas, but we're neighbors too, we are americans too, and we stand with you, and we do not forget. [ applause ] >> obama: and we'll be there
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>> dan in kentucky things you are very pretty, but he is afraid you are going to have back problems if you keep slouching. >> stephanie: oh there you go. dave hi, dave. >> caller: question, have they discovered where the brothers kaz-mer-off got their guns? >> stephanie: i don't know. i think they have been more focussed on the bombs, but good question. there was another story that came out about people with guns stopping violence sort of almost never. how about this story -- [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: mormon bishop uses samurai sword to stop mugging. when his son informed him that a female neighbor was being attacked a mormon bishop in utah
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reached for his samurai sword. he quickly drew his sword and ordered the man to get on the ground. he said his eyes got as big as saucers and jumped back. nobody hurt. no guns involved. >> kind of hard to carry a concealed samurai sword. >> stephanie: i don't know why i just picture john belushi. what is best for comedy? there is zooble-dot but for my money ricin guy. zooble-dot and ricin guy -- it's like the hatfield and mccoys. wtf seriously. paul kevin curtis and jay
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everett dutchkey. douche-key. >> let's go with douche key. >> stephanie: this from "the daily beast" who has quite a break down on what is happening. it has been quite a week here in tupalo. paul kevin curtis was free and head back to heart break poetel to shake his exonerated pelvis all over mississippi again. then accused child molester -- >> what? >> huh? >> stephanie: there is that, and one time gop candidate for the mississippi house of representative -- >> a republican too. of course. >> stephanie: then stories spread this curtis and dutch-key
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people had it out with each other. they had snarky comments left on each other's facebook pages. curtis not just an elvis impersonator, he also does a mean conway twitty prince -- after being freed, he offered his lawyer a foot rub. >> what? in lieu of payment? >> stephanie: i'm not certain. he is a fiction writer elvis impersonator, karate master. the fiction writing -- this is the body part thing. when he worked at a hospital in mississippi he once found a bunch of body parts severed
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part. the karate part would not have been so bad if not were the toxic relationship he found himself in with the owner jay douche-key. by his posting on his myspace page -- >> myspace. >> stephanie: he wanted to specialize in psych at rick nursing but ended up in radio -- oh, well, that's pretty much everyone's story. he is a proud member of mensa, and a rock band called dusty and the robo drum that includes tons of lasers. january he was arrested on charges of molest a 7-year-old girl. but pled nothing. they exchanged several heated
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emails about being mensa members. >> sounds like he needs just to pick the hill he is going to die on -- >> stephanie: yeah, he is a little scattered -- >> he spelled it mezna -- >> stephanie: he threatened to beat up paul kevin curtis over there. the war between the two of them started with the body parts thing. curtis convinced dutch -- key that he ought to write about the body parts. but he refused. the two have gotten along rather foully with a string of emails that consists of you are a dumb ass. >> spelled yur.
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>> stephanie: the fbi came knocking and laura curtis's door, she said he is nowhere smart enough to make ricin. he would blow up half of mississippi trying to make something like that. [ applause ] [ inaudible ] >> stephanie: stop it jim. [ censor bleep ] >> stephanie: tragedy and time. oh, my god, seriously who is getting a reality show first ricin guys or zooble-dot. >> or the samurai sword john belushi impersonator. >> caller: i'm getting fatigued
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from all of this fear the republicans are wanting me to have over the hype of terrorism. i remember my fifth grade teacher say they had to duck under their desk. and i said why don't we do that? >> and he said the weapons are much more powerful now, if we have a war you'll all be incinerated instantly. >> oh, good. >> caller: exactly. my freeways are more terrifying than these terrorists. my streets the handguns in this country are more terrifying where are people so scared when there are many more threats in our country than some loan terrorist doing something -- not to say we don't have to be concerned about that. but on a statistical level you look at it and think -- if anyone has a memory, i'm sure some of these republicans my age
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remember what it was like and you thought, i'll be lucky if the reddest don't nuke us until we glow. >> stephanie: right. when you think about it -- getting under the desk really not the best plan either. >> no. >> those were some great desks that would withstand -- >> stephanie: yeah it's like no offense, but the seat belts on the plane. really? really? >> i think the sequester and food poisoning are much more terrifying. >> stephanie: yeah. lack of regulation. >> exactly. >> stephanie: fifty-eight minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪
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[♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: i screwed up the phones. i apologize. hello. welcome to hour number 3. thank god it is the last hour of the week. richard belzer comedian extraordinary coming up in just a moment. i spazzed out what can i tell you. thank god i'm not an air traffic controller. the senate moved quickly thursday to help ease the faa's ability -- air traffic
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controllers seems somewhat key jim. i'm not a pilot or anything. hopefully they will grow some common sense. i apologize about the phones jacki but here you are. >> good morning, everybody. happy friday. president obama will be speaking this hour at though planned parenthood gala in washington, d.c., he is likely to talk about abortion rights and aspects of the affordable care act. he is holding a meeting later with the king of jordan they are expected to talk about the current crisis in syria, and then the president meets with a group of business leaders with interest in business in mexico and south america. bill nelson says he is not going to run for governor. roll call reported and then a nelson spokesperson confirmed that nelson was considering it earlier this week but now he claims he has his hands full
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and has no intention of trying to challenge currently wildly unpopular rick scott, however, charlie crist charlie chris is planning to run against scott and he will do so as a democrat. there is a joint hearing this morning entitled islamic extremist in chechnya. no one from the administration is scheduled to attend but speakers include academic experts on islamic extremism in the region. russian security services warned the fbi and cia about tamerlan tsarnaev, saying he was a follower of radical islam and planned to travel to meet with groups in the region. the fbi said it did its due diligence, and found nothing. it says that hindsight now is
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the experience of yentle and you played it yesterday, and now i can't get it out of my head -- ♪ papa can you hear me -- ♪ yes but i wish i hadn't ♪ >> stephanie: man shoots up public -- and poops pants. he is an orlando resident. he allegedly shot up a public dock and admitted to pooping his pants while being questioned. [ farting sounds ] >> stephanie: was there alcohol involved? yes, at least eight alcoholic beverages. in the meantime guess who is here with bells on it's richard belzer. good morning, sir.
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>> good morning. my underwear are very clean. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: how are you, sir? >> i'm good. thanks for having me on. >> stephanie: we were just going through ricin guys. like what does a person have to do to get in the news. the ricin guy is just get nothing love. >> yeah, one guy framed another guy, right? >> stephanie: yes, in mississippi, it's a elvis impersonator, body organ harvester conspiracy theorist. >> oh boy. >> stephanie: what do you make of the boston bombing. >> well, what is interesting is that many people don't believe what the government is saying. even though the government might be telling the truth, now it's
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very hard for americans no matter what your iq is to believe the government anymore. so we are a very strange psychological place as a nation. the system is broken. we can't trust our leaders. >> stephanie: what makes you suspicion about the boston thing in particular. >> everything. >> well, for example there was -- >> well yeah i mean they were -- it seemed like they -- i'm just speculating, but it seems like they had several types of suspects ready to display, and we're deciding what would best serve their purposes. and i was also surprised that it was chechnians. but we have been using chechnian fighters in iraq and using them
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as mercenaries and solders of fortune, so my name for those two guys is lee and harvey oswaltovic. >> stephanie: you are hilarious. >> they could be set up guys. it is a fishy. >> stephanie: we were saying when putin offered to help before we even knew who the suspects were that was somewhat suspicious. >> exactly. but listen very closely, because russians say that because they want to let the world know that they know that these guys belong to america and not them. and they don't want to be blamed. >> uh-huh. >> it was very interesting that the russians wanted to warn us about this guy about a year ago. that was them making it known,
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that hey, they are not ours. the russians, you know know that we have tried to set them up in the past for things they have done -- i'm not a big fan of the russians but they don't do every bad thing in the world, and they can't be used -- you know, constantly as a source of some mysterious muslim cell that they -- manchurian candidates and then sent back here. nobody is buying that. >> stephanie: are you going to be doing another version of dead wrong straight facts? >> well my current look is "hit list," which is the -- i -- 50 cases of mysterious deaths in and around the kennedy assassination. a lot of witnesses started disappearing or dying of one strange suicide or car
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accidents -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> yeah, jim bower is a big example, but the thing is if there is anyone left who doesn't think there is a conspiracy left in the murder of president kennedy, then why would they murder 50 different people at various times when they were getting ready to testify. >> coincidence. >> exactly. >> stephanie: speaking -- >> why would you kill all of these people? >> stephanie: speaking of gun violence, were you surprised the way this gun vote played out in the senate? >> i was so sickened by it. we're no longer a democracy, 90% of the people want something and a handful of people can stop it.
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and the notion that you have to have 60 votes, which as we know is almost impossible to do -- so the system is broken. >> stephanie: yeah, go ahead sorry. >> i was just going to say the system is broken. >> stephanie: yeah, it's interesting. the senate yesterday finally realized that maybe laying off air traffic controllers was ant good idea. so they are trying to at least fix that part of the system. >> they learned that lesson from reagan when he fired air traffic controllers, people don't realize the amount of -- >> oh, it's coincidence. >> it's a very dangerous thing. what about poor people and health care and cops and -- you know, we always worry about oh the rich traveler. okay. that's fine. that's inconvenient.
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but what people who need medical care, arpreschool, soldiers the sequester is -- you know starting to show it's ugly head. >> food safety is another victim of this. who needs food safety. >> stephanie: exactly. >> that's the scariest part. that's why i live in france. i don't eat in america. >> stephanie: no wonder you are so therein. honey thanks for taking time with us this morning. >> thank you so much. the book is "hit list," it's available everywhere. >> stephanie: awesome. thank you honey. [ applause ] >> stephanie: i mean try to just sort of fix these -- most agee rowsous things peace mail is insane.
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he said when i landed in l.a. last sunday you had long sullen faces, departure screenss striped with red. hundreds of air traffic controllers have been furloughed. this was lax, but the story was similar in major airports nationwide. this is just another depressing example of america's long side in to infrastructural obsolescence. the country's best interests are no longer important. if you question the portrayal, compare the airports in united states with those in singapore or hong kong.
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it's just -- again, it's like they are only doing this stuff when they absolutely have to. >> uh-huh. >> stephanie: i have more poop stories from florida real quick. >> oh, boy. >> stephanie: i'm just wondering wtf, florida seriously. the guy pooped his pants during interrogation. last may sherry barnes was arrested for allegedly threatening to take a [ censor bleep ] on someone's lawn. and [ inaudible ] threatened to pee and defecate on her husband's floor. in january [ inaudible ] got naked on the roof went
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downstairs and pooped on the floor. wtf, florida? really? really people? >> okay. >> stephanie: all right. is it me -- almost everywhere -- the ricin guys are going to move to florida, aren't they? >> probably. >> i think i may need to move to another country. >> stephanie: there is something terribly wrong here. seventeen minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> that was strangely arousing. announce it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ documentaries that are real, gripping, current.
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a -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ >> back, back, dude looks like a -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> stephanie: uh-huh. it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. twenty one minutes after the hour. tanya in charlotte north carolina. hi, tanya. >> caller: we were talking about the [ inaudible ] and that is important, but what is more important is what happened in texas. they keep talking about no epa or osha. i'm sure those people in bangladesh wish they had regulation. it's terrible how they are messing with the american worker, the middle class folk. i know the boston thing is important, but i wish we would push on that a little bit harder. >> stephanie: you are right. there has been so much news and they had how many times -- 1,350 pounds more than the amount they should have been allowed to
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have. and how many yards from a school and nursing home were they -- and that's right. because it's state by state and texas has very little regulation like that. >> caller: and i'm sure [ inaudible ] i'm sure they were dumping stuff in the water way before then. and it's ridiculous they don't want to pay wages -- you saw rick perry in chicago trying to bring another company down that's because he wants low wages -- and that is just sad. he could have been our president, and that is scary. >> stephanie: that would have been a big oops there. annette in georgia. >> caller: hi yes rick perry would have been -- would have -- i don't even know. [ inaudible ]. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: what i was calling for is that everybody was running around saying that president obama was an alarmist when he had faa people behind him, and telling -- listing the
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different things that were going to effect the united states with the sequester, and all i have to say now, and i know you have the music cued as neener neener, neener. hello, everyone is being effected and obama is not an alarmist. the republicans are mentally retarded. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: all right. get in the penalty box now. >> you didn't play her music. ♪ nah nah nah nah nah ♪ >> stephanie: what the what is happening with mark sanford. he is getting a little whack doodle. he has published the personal phone numbers of anyone who has called his campaign. he ran an ad that revealed he had been charged with trespassing at his ex-wife's house. he included his own cell phone number saying call if you have
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questions. and then he posted a list of phone numbers in an attempt to shame them. >> wow. >> stephanie: yeah, sanford's campaign has grown increasingly erratic. his polls show him trailing elizabeth colbert-busch even in a strongly republican state. guess what another republican has been caught on tape saying something embarrassing. "mother jones" strikes again. [♪ dramatic music ♪] >> stephanie: an individual crow of a republican -- this time gop pollster frank luntz, remarking that rush limbaugh and other right-wing talk show hosts are problematic. he said they get great ratings,
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and drive the message, and it is really problematic. marco rubio is getting his ass kicked by rush limbaugh mark levin and others. talk radio is killing him. ♪ nah nah nah nah nah ♪ >> stephanie: oh dear. now i imagine frank luntz is going to get his ass kicked. >> yeah. >> stephanie: have you seen this story out of arizona -- >> where i spent 13 years of my life. >> stephanie: a student holding that sign that read you deserve rape ignited outrage. dean saxston, regularly preached on the ua mall. he is a junior studying classics and religion studies. he said if you dress like a
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whore, and act like a whore, you are probably going to get raped. they should realize they do have a partial responsibility because i believe they are pretty much asking for it. ♪ you are an idiot ♪ >> stephanie: does he want the uofa girls to wear like wool dresses when it's 110 degrees out. >> stephanie: i feel like released sorority girl on his ass. she has some free time now. [ laughter ] [♪ "jeopardy" theme music ♪] >> stephanie: a tanning salon in utah refused to refund a patron's money after turning her away for being too fat to tan. the aloha tanning salon accepted her $70, but when she came in to
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get a tan, she was told the stand-up bed was broken and the traditional beds were not allowed for people over 200 pounds. she said okay. i want my money back. and he said no. >> i wouldn't be allowed in that tanning bed. >> stephanie: really? how much do you weigh? >> 235. >> stephanie: really? that is impressive. [ applause ] >> stephanie: it's all solid muscle. >> and they wouldn't refund my money either. and i would go ape dump on them. >> stephanie: you would [ censor bleep ] punt them into the -- damn skippy. dave in indianapolis, steph, i apologize if i sound like some freaky person who hopes you'll skid off of the road in a snow storm close to my house so i can
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tell you i'm your biggest fan. since i live in minnesota, this is not entirely impossible. seriously -- i'm sure for others who share my struggle just to get out of bed some days. so many believe that greed is a virtue. with your every laugh there is a bit more reason for hope. [ phyllis diller laughter ] . >> chris, john fugelsang, and hal, you are like the comfort family. i listen for a few minutes and can breathe easier knowing i am not crazy. and as much as you -- your show with fart jokes -- [ farting sounds ] >> stephanie: is blessed. bless me and my fart jokes. back at ya. jacki's health care corner is next on the "stephanie miller show."
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drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> watch the show. >> only on current tv. you know who's coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys who do like verse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. laughing... >> that's hilarious! >> ...and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there's wiggle-room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> you would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me. >> absolutely! >> and so would mitt romeny. >> she's joy behar. >> and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> only on current tv.
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♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> yay i'm not drunk. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." thirty-four minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. ♪ it's schechner again ♪ >> stephanie: good morning, jacki schechner. >> good morning. >> stephanie: that is in honor of george jones who just died. >> yeah. >> stephanie: i brought this up earlier, i hear something on rush limbaugh and automatically assume it is not true and in this case it is not true. [ bell chimes ]
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[ applause ] >> stephanie: thank god for the column in the "washington post" -- as you like to call you. >> erzra. he writes no congress isn't trying to exempt it's a from obamacare. members of congress are trying to exempt themselves and their staff from obamacare. ezra writes if that sound unbelievable it is because it is. >> right. let me break it down. the way that members of congress get their health insurance now and their staff is through the federal employees' health benefits program.
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and it works the same way any large employer works, right? you get your health insurance kind of in bulk, and your employer plays for either all or part of it. well, while this health care reform was going on, chuck grassley said if everybody is going to go on the exchanges, then we have to do. and democrats said fine, if you want to be in it we'll be in it. >> stephanie: again, this is what makes people furious with congress. it was basically to embarrass the democrats. so the democrats, you know, in -- you know -- he call it in a piece of [ inaudible ] of which they were inordinately proud, they instead embrace the amendment. >> right. and what they didn't consider by doing this they then dismantled the way the program works in
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that the amendment says as a large employer the government can't provide anymore because the exchanges aren't open to large employers. so the exchanges that we're setting up are good for small businesses and individuals. they are not going to be open for large businesses for a while. so let government go into the program as large company employers, or allow them to have what they have now. so they have gotten themselves into this word conundrum because grassley was trying to prove a point. >> stephanie: they would send this kind of energy trying to craft something that would be good for the american people rather than trying to trip each other up politically. >> yeah. it was designed to try to back
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democrats into a corner, if you want everyone to go into the exchanges than you have to too. and the democrats said fine. and it was all in good faith in that regard and it was a good idea, but what they didn't take into consideration is the fact if you are not going to let it be open to large employers then you can't let it be open to the government because that's the employer. you can't subsidize the government employees benefit. >> stephanie: right. no one is discussing excerpting the staffers from -- it is an attempt to flee obamacare, not to fix a drafting -- changes on behalf of congressional staffers who get caught up on a political
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controversy. but when you hear rush explain it, it is going to be too exmren expennive, and it's going to be a brain drain blah blah blah. >> that's silly. people who go to work in washington -- the low-level congressional staffers aren't going for the perks. they are going because they want to work in washington. they are not going to say i'm not going to get the same benefits as i did before. >> stephanie: would you consider yourself a frequent texter? >> yes. >> and she knows how to use the oh mowgy. >> i don't use them that's how you use them. >> stephanie: a lot of my friends very very angry with you that you showed me how to use moto cons --
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>> you know what is really out? lol. the way people use lol they write something and then be like lol. if it was funny i don't need you to tell me that you are laughing out loud. >> stephanie: the auto correct thing -- it's never the word i mean. >> when i am trying to type a common common profanity it always change it to ducking. >> you spend a lot of time ducking. >> stephanie: how much time do we all waist by having to send follow up text -- >> or oops sorry, that wasn't for you. >> stephanie: well that one. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: any way jacki that means you are a shallow money obsessed racist.
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>> oops. >> stephanie: according to signs. ♪ signs ♪ >> stephanie: psychologist at the university of winnipeg completed a three-year study that it cans that heavy texters are horrible [ censor bleep ] people. they test the so-called shallowness hypothesis. >> i would say people have short attention spans, but it doesn't mean they are shallow or racist. >> stephanie: social media like texting and twitter, show shallow thought. [ overlapping speakers ] >> the department of leaps? >> stephanie: the more you text the more likely you were to be a bigot. >> yeah, that seems like quite the stretch -- >> well, maybe they just tweet
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about it more -- >> way to go fatty. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: stop it. we have an ask jacki for health care corner -- i did not screw up the phones this time. vince in new jersey you are on with jacki. go ahead. >> caller: yeah, thanks. as a physician, i think that -- you know, in terms of how this health care law is coming out, expanding a -- a part of the -- of the health care access, which most physicians don't even accept i don't even think it's health care, medicaid and now with these exchanges they are talk about giving reimbursements between -- close to medicaid reimbursements, which is going to be another situation in terms of access, because no one -- no physician can treat patients with medicaid reimbursements. so this is going to be like a
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cadillac reimbursement program which is again going to be a significant problem for access. >> medicaid and medicaid reimbursement is totally separate in terms of the exchanges. >> it's taking care of poor people. and the federal government is playing 100% of that cost for the first three years for states to expand medicaid to poor people. then the state-based exchanges, which are people who make between -- or actually it's open to anyone as an individual frankly, are really just marketplaces, and places for people to shop for private health insurance, so when we talk about expanding access, we're giving people an opportunity to kind of comparison shop the same thing you would do with travelocity, you compare prices and then pick
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the plan that is best for you. and if you -- >> caller: i understand that. but in terms of whoever is in these exchanges goes to a health insurance company and enroll the reimbursements are going to be close to that for what are close to medicaid. you do an app pen deck mommy you get -- >> the rates are set by the government. they sometimes revolve around medicare, but it is usually the other way around. >> caller: that's the point i'm trying to make. when you have private insurances that are going to pay you let's say 120 to 130% out of medicare yeah, the government doesn't set the rates, but that's how the private insurance bases their rates. now you have got these health
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insurance exchanges which are going to base their rates, based on what medicaid pays. >> no, no. health insurance exchanges are just marketplaces. they aren't an entity in and of themselves. the private insurance companies are responsible for setting their own rates. they have nothing to do with medicare or medicaid. >> caller: are you trying to tell me that those individuals who shop in this health insurance exchange are not going to be categorized into a type of insurance -- >> no. no. they are private insurance companies. it's all the same companies we use now. >> caller: i understand that. however, their reimbursement for that type of insurance, you have got gold silver all of these different types of insurance within those exchanges, it has already been noted that those reimbursements for those types of insurances are going to be close to what they pay for
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medicaid. >> that's not true. they haven't set reimbursement rates for plans -- they are setting the basic minimum of what those plans offer. it is setting a base level of what those plans offer for your money -- >> caller: that is inaccurate. >> stephanie: she helped craft the health care law. >> well, i worked on it. >> stephanie: i'm hanging up on him, because you are out of time and you kicked his ass. >> he is smooshing together two different -- medicaid and the health insurance exchanges have nothing to do with each other. >> stephanie: you are the smartest prettiest girl in school. are you coming to my party? >> i absolutely am. as long as i don't have to sing or play an instrument.
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>> stephanie: you just have to talk health care geek stuff. >> i wasn't invited. >> stephanie: you are going to your whatever -- >> little house on the prairie-oke. >> what? >> stephanie: i love you jacki schechner. >> i love you guys too. >> stephanie: all right. forty-six minutes after the hour. right back with the remaining moments of the "stephanie miller show." >> it even vibrates like real. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." (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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>> stephanie: i want to be in the show. it is the "stephanie miller show." fifty-one minutes after the hour. jennifer in fresno. you wanted to respond to the physician talking about the health care exchanges. >> caller: oh, yeah see i'm actually working on the project for my insurance company dealing with them. and while the gentlemen is correct that yes there will be different levels, they will have the bronze silver and gold it will work similar to what you are normally offered from your employer, and the reimbursement rate are going to be based on the standard contract with the providers, because the rates will have to be approved by the state, and you are going to that marketplace to get that insurance, and the premium will be paid to them and all the insurance company is going to be do is providing those benefits. >> stephanie: pretty much what jacki just explained.
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>> exactly. >> stephanie: that's the thing we have said before jen, is the insurance companies are death panels now. >> caller: exactly, they really are. >> stephanie: look out, everybody. we got trouble in bieberland. police in stockholm sweden said they mound drugs and a stun gun on his bus. >> anne frank's sister said she would have been a belieber. >> yes, he should haven't said that. >> stephanie: thank you. let's see here -- we have had so much news, i haven't gotten to my hate mail.
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do you need hate mail music >> stephanie: sure. this is a short one. someone in oakland, you would support obama if he wanted to blow up an orphanage. >> computer says no. >> stephanie: i get it i'm being called a stupid obama apologist. >> all right. >> stephanie: all right. enrique -- we were obviously talking a lot about this social security issue before the breaking news. enrique says steph i love you but you are driving me crazy on the social security issue. it could be made solvent for years by simply raising the cap. why should bemake cuts instead of increasing revenue -- saying the democrats are refusing to cut social security is false
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equivalency. deep breath, enrique in wichita. >> well that's true. >> stephanie: okay. i'm just giving the opposing point of view. >> which is? >> stephanie: well here it is. momma, though you may be a martin luther king-like figure -- >> oh, wow. >> stephanie: that like at the chicago sexy liberal said that. >> sure. right. you need to walk that back a little bit. >> stephanie: i did. i said thing you very much but -- ♪ you are an idiot ♪ >> stephanie: it was the black gentlemen who said what you do is every bit as important as what martin luther king -- >> no, no no no. >> stephanie: it's hard undo all of the social security -- hype
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ventilated daily, the truth is if obama doesn't short shifting money all of us old people are going to end up on icebergs being shoved out to sea. republicans have done a good job of convincing young people that they will never see a dime from social security. cutting a bit into the rate in which benefits go up seems a small price to pay. if they get the chance to fix it, paul ryan would be backing a bahs over -- a bus over it. and do people get more back than they put in? according to the institute -- a two-earning couple receiving an average wage and turning 65 in
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2010 would have paid $722,000 into social security and medicare, and can expect to take out over 900,000. many seniors will receive much more in benefits than what they paid in. ronald brownsteen wrote a piece echoing some of that. it's questionable economics and also politically by prioritizing entitlements over discretionary -- we always talk about. they get people to vote against their -- their best interests. >> that's right. >> stephanie: blah blah blah -- republicans in the 2012 elections, obama is ahead of his party on the future of the coalition.
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so he is casting it in political terms. the plan does too little not too much. but even with this careful first step, obama is pointing to an overdue -- from the past to the future. so it's just an interesting part of the debate in terms of people not hyperventilating. >> so old people can just suck it. >> stephanie: no my point is i would support obama if he blew up an orphanage. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: what. i would like to thank chris lavoie and jim ward but i'm not going to do. i'm only going to thank tbone and jacki schechner.
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see you month on the "stephanie miller show."
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>> i'm jacki schechner. it's a noon eastern, and here is what is current. boston bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev is now out of the medical center moved to a federal medical facility in massachusetts overnight. some of the victims of the marathon attack are being treated at beth israel and were upset that the suspect was in the same facility. dzhokhar has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and he said he and his brother hatched a spontaneous plan to drive to new york city and bomb time square. they had at least six more explosives with them as they carjacked a vehicle in came braj, but their plan dissolved when they realized the vehicle was out of

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