[ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> stephanie: all right everybody. everybody look alive. we're on royal baby watch and the president mentioned being black. [ ♪ dramatic ♪ ] also, i have balls today. >> what? >> excuse me. >> stephanie: i brought meatballs. jacki schechner had some. she was at my little party saturday night. >> i have a question for you. as drunk as you got as discombobulated you are ever felt a need to post a naked picture of yourself on twitter at 1:00 mt. morning?

>> stephanie: no, i did not. >> geraldo rivera did that. >> stephanie: he didn't have the decency to wear a hoody. >> you couldn't see the nether regions but you could see enough to know -- >> you could see a hint of -- >> stephanie: i wondered why my google machine told me geraldo rivera trending. here she is, jacki schechner fully clothed in the current news center. >> i warn you not to look. good morning everybody. president obama shifting focus this week, will try to steer a conversation toward the economy in a series of speeches starting on wednesday. he's going to give the speeches that are designed to highlight the benefits of the second term agenda. priorities like healthcare, education, immigration reform. he will talk about ways to expand domestic manufacturing and to continue to revitize the housing sector. as a preview to wednesday's first two speeches, one at knox college in illinois and one in

missouri, this highlights past economic speeches including one at knox college when he was still in the senate. president obama will call for an end to the sequester when the new fiscal calendar starts in october. but he is likely to face the usual opposition from house republicans. tonight in d.c., the president will address organizing for action. the advocacy group created out of his former campaign structure. other featured speakers include senate majority leader harry reid nancy pelosi and cecille richards of planned parenthoods. ofa gearing up for action august which will be an action to get lawmakers to get to work on immigration, gun control and on environmental reform. we've got images coming in this morning from china's state-run tv after an carte quake hit this morning. at least 75 people reported dead. another 584 injured. heavy rain is expected to make rescue and recovery efforts more difficult.

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lots to get to. we're recovering from the nude geraldo rivera. >> i just think i'm gonna burst. >> you can see pubic bone though. >> stephanie: he's looking through rose-colored glasses. >> he has colored glasses on. who does that? >> geraldo. >> stephanie: was he drunk or what? at 1:00 a.m., he decided america needs to see him in all of his -- >> stuff? >> stephanie: okay. >> all of his waxed glory. >> stephanie: yes. obviously, amazing stuff all weekend, trayvon martin, vigils and protests around the country and of course, geraldo rivera, pretty low bar there. he pretty much limboed under it. he said if you dress like a thug you get treated like one. kind of had it coming. >> wearing a hoody and it's raining. >> stephanie: i would much prefer geraldo wore several hoodies in that picture. however, he did not. >> way that cover up that

mustache. >> stephanie: oh that one. his facial hair is what jim was referring to. all right. and then obviously everybody talking about that that was pretty extraordinary the president's speech on friday. and i was -- i literally -- you know, as you're watching it, you're like oh, the right wing is going to say a whole bunch of [ bleep ] about this. >> yeah, they did. >> stephanie: i tune into meet the press and i'm like can this guy not say or do anything right for anybody at this point? he's like oh, he didn't give a press conference. he was pushed. how do you know? the president can't say anything on race without taking it from both sides. i thought it was pretty extraordinary and moving and personal. the president on friday. >> obama: when trayvon martin was first shot, i said that this could have been my son. another way of saying that is trayvon martin could have been me. 35 years ago.

>> stephanie: yeah. i thought -- anyway, i just thought it was -- he spoke -- what was that, for like 19 minutes or something. it was a complete surprise. he came in the briefing room. >> no teleprompter. just from his heart. >> stephanie: they weren't able to do that criticism. >> stephanie: because you know, that was an extraordinary moment to go wow this is the president of the united states of america and talking about how this has been him. a lot of experiences that a lot of black people talk about. frankly, as liberal as you can be is white you don't understand it. you haven't been followed in a department store. you haven't been pulled over just for driving a nice car in a nice neighborhood or whatever. so i thought it was extraordinary. the president. >> obama: there are very few african-american men in this country who haven't the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. and that includes me. there are very few african-american men who haven't

the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. that happens to me, at least before i was a senator. there are very few african-americans who haven't the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. that happens often. >> stephanie: i was going to say it probably still happens to him every now and again when michele bachmann is in the same elevator with him. i'm just guessing. >> the day is at hand. your jehovah god. >> stephanie: please let us get to the fourth floor without the black man taking my purse. >> you want to know what sean hannity said when the president said that trayvon martin could have been him. he said well, yeah, both of you smoked pot and did a little

blow. >> stephanie: yeah. i saw that elsewhere. in the right wing twitter verse. they're both potheads. okay. so yeah, i'm guessing he still hears a lot from tea party republicans probably when he comes in for the state of the union, probably hear locks. >> shh, he's back. >> stephanie: i'll bet you joe wilson locked up his belongings, his hoods and things, whatever it is he carries to work. >> different kind of hoody. >> stephanie: then i could tell the parallel universe was complete when i read a headline that says john mccain agrees with the president. [ ♪ dramatic ♪ ] what? on stand your ground. that stand your ground should be looked at. didn't say it should be repealed. they should look at it. >> stephanie: ya think? >> obama: i just ask people to consider if trayvon martin was of age and armed could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk. do we actually think that he

would have been justified in shooting mr. zimmerman because he felt threatened. and if the answer to that question is at least ambiguous then it seems to me that we might want to examine those kinds of flaws. >> that's what i was saying. >> it is trayvon martin is dead because he followed the license and protected him against unstoppable deadly force. >> stephanie: by the way someone else made the point we made on "meet the press" about they said yeah, i haven't noticed the narks -- nra said trayvon martin should have had a gun. where are you wayne lapierrre. [ crickets chirping ] >> trayvon martin would have been completely within his rights to shoot him dead. >> stephanie: by the way what is with this bogus right wing -- they keep circulating these pictures that are not trayvon

martin. >> some rapper guy. >> stephanie: this is what they're trying to hide from you. they used a picture of when he was 10. what? literally, this is like what he really looked like. that's totally not him. tattoos all over his face. >> some sort of license to -- over at fox. >> it wasn't fox news. it was an e-mail that was circulated. >> stephanie: i got it. it looks like mike tyson. you're like wait a minute, huh? anyway. that's the latest conspiracy theory. let's go to john in jersey. >> caller: how you doing stephanie? the thing i noticed about the whole situation with the president in this case is i noticed a lot of the right wings are talking about how he's creating racial statement but all he's talking about is his own experiences. sean hannity's special on this

whole case and the uncle tom of the month club on these guys. >> stephanie: i don't think it is an official thing but okay. >> caller: uncle tom of the month club because it looks like mccarthy's -- knucklehead. >> actually, that was -- >> stephanie: all right. >> charlie mccarthy and mortimer snerd and it was jerry mahoney and smith. >> stephanie: anyway, can i just tell you i literally -- "meet the press," really, travis smiley, so they find -- not using that phrase but they find a black guy to come on and say the president is not leading enough he didn't lead enough on race. he didn't say it soon enough. >> said it too soon and yet not soon enough. >> stephanie: the right wing twitter verse went crazy. he said too much and he's racializing. it is like oh, my god.

>> stephanie: really people? let's go to linda in tennessee. >> caller: hello, stephanie. stick with me a minute here. i'm not a conspiracy theorist but you know, they didn't want to bring that case. they done said there's no problem there then the outcry, they had to prosecute it. and then i find out that cory is a right wing conservative. so i think they prosecuted because they had to but i think they did the least they could to. >> stephanie: linda here's a question. we're not in a post-racial america. how do you get an all white jury? >> caller: absolutely. >> stephanie: race was an issue here. it absolutely was. >> caller: it absolutely was and that prosecutor was horrible. i sat here on the couch i'm not a lawyer. i could have done better than them. they were terrible. i don't think they tried. >> i don't think we should mention that -- i don't think

that's the right thing to do. >> mark o'meara impression first thing on monday morning. >> sorry what? i don't think. i don't think. >> stephanie: all right. >> could we mic him? >> i can't understand what he's saying. >> i don't think that the prosecution -- >> stephanie: he's like a set of those clattery comedy teeth with a face around it. >> that may be what it is. >> they put a rubber face around it. >> they put jerry mahoney's face around it. >> twitter wants to know if that is a dog drowning in the martini glass. >> stephanie: no the dog is not drowning, it is drinking. >> on your shirt. >> that looks like a shirt you would get at the airport. >> stephanie: well, i did not. 17 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show."

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fact. >> stephanie: a lot of people have been talking about that. every time we get a right wing caller, the blacks like each other -- first of all so we should be -- whites should be able to kill them, too because sometimes black people kill each other? a lot of people made the point people tend to kill people where they live and where they work and adam lanza was in his neighborhood. and killed all white kids. anyway, i don't get some of the arguments in relation to the trayvon martin case. so that makes it okay? so the president said trayvon could have been me 35 years ago. he sent thoughts and prayers out to trayvon martin's family. they dealt with the entire situation. i don't know if you heard trayvon's mom speak. she was really amazing. >> she was. >> stephanie: we talked about that he had mentioned he said he could be my son but he said the

fact is he could have been me 35 years ago. he talked about his own experiences in a personal way. the president. >> obama: as difficult and challenging as this whole episode has been for a lot of people, i don't want to -- us to lose sight that each successive generation seems to be making progress in changing attitudes when it comes to race. doesn't mean we're in a post-racial society. it doesn't mean that racism is eliminated. but you know why i talk to malia and sasha i listen to their friends and i see them interact they're better than we are. they're better than we were. on these issues. and that's true in every community that i've visited all across the country. >> stephanie: he said he concluded that americans should have confidence that these kids these days have more sense than

we did. more than our grandparents did. not a perfect union but a more perfect union. >> sean hannity's response was -- the president's -- listen, george w. bush smoked a little pot and did a little blow. >> stephanie: he must have meant george w. bush. >> he just misspoke. >> i can't believe i let him fly an f-102 when he was fly -- high before he left the ground. >> stephanie: the discussions contributes to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, both the outcome and aftermath might have been different. no kidding. i said this on -- whatever it was like cnn a week or two ago. give me a break. this is a white frat kid from university of miami. >> you were pressed. >> stephanie: thank you. i also was psyche ignore. the president. >> obama: reasonable doubt was relevant and they rendered a verdict.

and once the jury spoken, that's how our system works. >> stephanie: in this case, badly. okay. one more time. >> obama: if i see any violence, then i will remind folks that that dishonors what happened to trayvon martin and his family. >> stephanie: steve in new york. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi steve. >> good morning. >> caller: love your show by the way. watch it every morning. can't get out of the show without watching your show. >> stephanie: good. >> caller: yes, i was a young man many, many years ago i worked for the new york stock exchange. i worked on west 71st street. i picked up my cleaning and groceries across the street. went to a drugstore. i was smoking a pipe at at the time. i'm in a suit and a tie. i put my pipe in my together pocket. an elderly white gentleman stuck nis hand in my pocket to see what i had stolen.

>> really? >> really. i mean i was mortified. he said oh, oh, oh, i'm so sorry. i took my pipe, put it back in my pocket, picked up my cleaning and groceries and walked out of the store because i knew if i stood there i may have slapped the bejeebers out of this man. >> stephanie: it is not even generational. i was listening to a kid being interviewed, one of the trayvon protests. he was talking about he and his class did a tour of the hershey factory. turned around. said what are you stealing? do you have candy in your pockets until his teacher said leave him alone. he hasn't done anything. you go this is not something that happened 20 years ago. forsome people, it is 20 minutes ago. >> are you sure this is your dry-cleaning? >> caller: hello! i mean it was unbelievable. i was just -- mortified. >> stephanie: how many people steal other people's clothes without trying them on first to make sure they would fit.

>> oh, you bought white bread at the grocery. >> stephanie: thank you for making me part of the morning ritual. >> caller: my day can't start without me watching your show. >> stephanie: thank you. appreciate it. yea. there you go. >> stephanie: shower, shave steph. thank you. glenda in ohio. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi glenda. >> caller: hello, miss steph. how is your lovely self? >> stephanie: i'm doing fine. go ahead. >> caller: two things, ma'am. first of all america -- white america's perception of black america is tainted because all of the negative hype that a lot of media channels give to black crime.

second of all my daughter and i was school shopping at one of the clothing stores and this lady followed me around waiting for me to steal something while i followed two white teenagers around and watched them take everything that they laid their eyes on. >> stephanie: oy! i guess they've how they miss that. they were too busy watching you. oi vai. nastiest conservative responses to obama's trayvon speech. you can almost predict them and yet -- and it is worse than what you can imagine. 29 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show."

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because she's too posh to push. >> stephanie: that's awesome. okay. [ laughter ] what is not awesome about that? the president one more time on friday. talking about the trayvon martin. >> obama: useful for us to examine some state and local laws. >> stephanie: john mccain. "meet the press." with the president. he does think -- all states including his own should review stand-your-ground laws. john mccain. >> yes, i do. i'm confident the members of the arizona legislature will be and because it is very controversial legislation. >> stephanie: he said i can also see the stand-your-ground law. maybe something needs to be reviewed by the florida legislature. he also praised president obama's speech. about trayvon martin and the racial profiling that black men regularly face. events like this emphasize we

have a long way to go. the president highlighted a lot of that yesterday as only the president can. wow. ♪ let's hear it for the boy ♪ ♪ let's give the boy a hand ♪ >> don't worry by this afternoon, he will be back to the old crotchety, john mccain. >> stephanie: okay. sorry. >> benghazi! >> he will be colluding with kidnappers and terrorists in syria by this afternoon. >> stephanie: okay. nastiest -- would you like the fun facts? >> sure. yeah, i don't know why even like before he had seven words out of his mouth i thought oh, the right wing twitter verse. let's see. it doesn't matter who does it. it doesn't matter who. i don't know who half of the people are. obama has no business stating the states need to look at their laws and redo them. it sounds like he's trying to riot. yeah, that was pretty much the substance of his remarks. he was encouraging people to

riot. i think we played the sound byte, he said the opposite. i encourage peaceful -- let's hear it again. >> obama: if i see any violence, i will remind folks that that dishonors what happened to trayvon martin and his family. >> see? code for riot. code that only black people understand. >> stephanie: holding a bubblegum wrapper up to a mirror. i encourage you to riot. >> what bubblegum wrapper did you hold up to a mirror? >> bazooka go. >> stephanie: there was a hidden message. you had to hold it up to a mirror and read -- leave me alone. >> i ate bazooka gum in the '70s and i don't ever remember doing that. >> stephanie: well, you're mistaken. stop beating around the bush, obama. say it already. get out there and riot. do not get of let this die. he will be milking this forever. >> what an idiot.

>> stephanie: maddie somebody who cares. >> if obama had a city, it would look just like detroit. by the way morons -- detroit the city is different than the auto industry. okay. because by the way another little fun fact for you the president doesn't do the accounting and the books for the city of detroit. he's not involved in the city government. okay. >> amazing. >> stephanie: someone named bob tweets barack obama and eric holder just want to run a clan with a tan. >> oh, really? >> that's clever. >> stephanie: if i had a son he looked like trayvon wasn't subtle enough for barack obama. now he's openly race baiting the hispanic guy. again, that was the whole point of his remarks is hispanic guys suck. >> that's exactly what he said. hispanic guys like george zimmerman? [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ]

>> stephanie: if -- somebody named dan writes if you ever had any doubts obama is the first racist in chief. john writes i like living in a country where a black president-elected twice complains about racism. right. hey, john, here's a thought. sometimes two things can be true at the same time. we elected a black president twice and there's still racism. >> exhibit a. >> stephanie: and yet there's still morons. and we've elected morons, george bush, and yet we have not eradicated moronism, have we? no. oh dear. that was unnecessary. that was gratuitous. though true. >> i like toast. >> stephanie: so now obama claims he could have been trayvon 35 years ago. we know they both were potheads. >> george w. bush was renowned drug user. especially the peruvian marching powder. >> stephanie: todd of the fox

news writes up -- president obama is now a race in chief. his remarks on the trayvon martin tragedy are beyond reprehensible. >> oh, my god! >> because he mentioned race that, makes it beyond reprehensible. >> stephanie: help rehensible. lois in pittsburgh. you're on the "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: hey, steph and the mooks. this is on tavis smiley. he, cornell west and what's the guy in congress who is doing all of these hearings? >> darrell issa. >> i think they're triplets. before this man took the oath of office, they were criticizing his performance something that hadn't happened yet. you criticize somebody on something that they may orb may not do in the future and with tavis smiley, he was raised in the church, in an abusive way.

he wrote a book on that. and in fact, this is coming back. it is like no matter what the president does, i think people should critique our president you know. honestly critique him. but not on this crazy stuff about he's -- should he have been shot before it happened? i think tavis is his own worst enemy. >> stephanie: we can predict this stuff from the right wing on anything the president says but it's just -- i sort of don't get that because if you listen -- he's always criticized him for everything. the president is never saying enough about race. he's never -- and i think is a fine line, don't you? the president i think he gave that one speech that i thought was amazing about race. what do they want him to do? start every press conference with by the way i'm black? >> as president, you've got a

certain job to do. you're the leader according to all of us of the free world. so if he didn't even address -- >> stephanie: he's got other stuff to do. his entire job is not to talk about race. >> if he showed up wearing bling, sing and dance, good to be a gangsta that would be a little bit too far. >> that's office space. >> stephanie: i hope he does do a gangsta mic drop. damn, save the economy. bam! see ya! [ laughter ] >> gold tooth. >> stephanie: he just smiles at the camera. bling. suckers. >> chris rock. >> stephanie: hal in california. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi hal. >> caller: hi, stephanie. good show. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: i want to say about zimmerman, i think he made up his mind to shoot him before he got out of the car. he said i'll be a cop by the end

of the morning. once i shoot him i'll be a cop. and one other thing on the election next year -- >> stephanie: i was going to say by the way hal when you see him going through doing the crime scene thing with the cops, you can tell he's doing a training video for the cops. he walked over here. >> this is how it's done. >> stephanie: it is like whatever big man. gerald in indianapolis. >> caller: thank you for accepting my call. but i just wanted to make a comment. one thing for sure is we'll never get to the bottom of all of this until everyone starts working together. and it is going to take awhile. but the thing i want to bring to light is i heard where on the news, they would be saying that they were expecting black people to riot and everything. but i never heard anyone say

anything about what the right wing was putting on the internet about what they were going to do to black people had the votes went the other way. >> stephanie: right. nobody warned white people not to riot if zimmerman was convicted, right? some people, i think the bottom line, some people are expecting black people to riot. >> sure. >> stephanie: fox news, talkin' to you. raymond in maryland, you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi raymond. >> caller: good morning. how are you? >> stephanie: good. go ahead. >> caller: my call was simply a question. i've heard so many times about zimmerman having a concealed carry license. how did this man who had a protection order from an older girlfriend, he had assaulted a police officer. i have a permit and i know that with any of that on your record, you cannot get it.

who pulled strings for this guy? >> stephanie: his daddy is a judge. it is one of the many questions i've heard asked that i don't know what the answer is to that. he, to me, is a perfect poster boy for who should not have a gun for a number of reasons. all right. 45 minutes after the hour. lots more on this as we continue on "the stephanie miller show." >> announcer: pull over. you're dwl driving while laughing. it's "the stephanie miller show." the middle class over. cenk off air i don't want the middle class taking the brunt of the spending cuts and all the different programs that wind up hurting the middle class. cenk on air you got to go to the local level, the state level and we have to fight hard to make sure they can't buy our politics anymore. cenk off air and they can question if i'm right about that. but i think the audience gets that, i actually mean it. cenk on air 3 trillion dollars in spending cuts! narrator uniquely progressive and always topical the worlds largest online news show is on current tv. cenk off air and i think the audience gets, "this guys to best of his abilities is trying to look out

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>> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ come on ♪ >> stephanie: i just burped. i don't know if that microphone was on. 49 -- that was jim and i everybody. 49 minutes after the hour. [ applause ] i forgot so many mics here. not just this one. snoopy snoopy, snoopy, welcome to our new nsa world. 1-800-steph-12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. we're on royal baby watch. >> mo rocket when they tie the umbilical cord, will they use a windsor knot? [ ♪ circus ♪ ] >> stephanie: representative marcia fudge democrat of ohio yesterday. >> i don't care how many laws you put in place, you cannot legislate against prejudice or bias or racism. you cannot do it. >> stephanie: so great piece in the "daily beast," trayvon rally, she's been awesome.

she really has. they write michael daily and the "daily beast" writes vigil swells trayvon's martin said she was only beginning her fight to save the next victim from her son's fate. a bullet forever keeps us knowing what trayvon martin might have become but the eternal magnificence was unmistakable as his more who stood in the broiling sun to address the vigil in new york on saturday. she said trayvon is not here to speak for himself. he was a child. i think sometimes that gets lost. it was a child who acted as a child, who thought as a child. don't take my word, he had a drink and child. i promise to work for your child as well so we change some of the laws. and big news was that jay-z and beyoncé showed up. but also they didn't take the stage. they just watched. they weren't there to speak or for a photo op. all right. then, of course, there is a little tiny dancer of deceptions your good friend, dana perino. >> when the president speaks, it is to multiple audiences so from

the prism of self-defense, if you think of the young mother whose 2-year-old son was shot in the face by the two black teens that approached her in atlanta and that baby died, why do presidents choose to talk about one case or another. they chose to talk about this one. i do think the president was signaling we're going to have to move on. >> i can think of one white person that president bush spoke on extensively. terry schiavo. he singled out that case in particular over and over and over again. so how dare dana perino say something like that. >> you have to talk about everyone, you have to take about everyone. >> stephanie: supposed to be like a cry. okay. i think the bloom is off the dana perino rose for jim. robert in albuquerque. hey, robert. >> caller: you know, the response that i was hearing this weekend from the right wing conservatives, mostly white was

that they just don't want to talk about it. they say let's stop talking about it. >> stephanie: yeah, let's move on. let's not talk about it. you know, the thing is -- you want me to tell you what the greatest race is. it is when we go interracial. let's look at the royals. if they hadn't jumped the royal fence once or twice, they would be drowning in their own hemophilia right now. so let's be honest about this. the most beautiful people are interracial people. and actually the strongest genetic are the interracial people. >> tay-sachs and sickle-cell. >> highest praise to our president for wanting to have an honest discussion about race. >> stephanie: purebred dogs have the most problems. the mutts keep going and going. i'm a mutt. >> are you? >> stephanie: yeah.

irish, german, polish. okay. >> irish german welsh and something else. american indian. >> stephanie: awesome. patricia in minneapolis. you're on the "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: hi, how you doing? >> stephanie: good. go ahead. >> caller: i was calling because racial profiling hasn't just begun. it seems as though because the president stated he had racial profiling or had been through it before he became the senator it all of a sudden now on the news and it is important. it has been going through -- this has been going on for forever. i just wanted to know why all of a sudden now it is taken so seriously. it is said that a young black man's life for it to come up, you know, come to this. it is just sad. it really is. this is nothing new in the african-american community. >> stephanie: right. i think every now and again there is a case like this that i think is egreenous that resonates with so many people.

that's why you see the protests because this is something as the president said, has resonated with black people who have had similar experiences and could very easily be trayvon. that's where that came from, right? >> we have. it seems as though it hasn't been this publicized. it has never been publicized like this until the president barack obama stated that it happened to him. and now it seems like everybody's in shock that something like this is going on. >> stephanie: yeah, well, exactly. that's the shock is it shouldn't be a shock. that's why i'm glad the president spoke out. i thought it was extraordinary and personal and in a way that we obviously have never had in our history. so let's go to lisa in houston. welcome. >> caller: hey stephanie. >> stephanie: hi. >> caller: i wanted to touch bases on two things. one is the tavis smiley. let's clear this up. everybody in the african-american community knows what happened between tavis and west and the president. it went from the president not

being able to attend the think tanks that tavis has been doing for 15 years and nothing's ever come out of if, except him selling a book and carnell west and when the president was inaugurated, they probably contacted friends about how many tickets they can get for the inauguration. they couldn't get the tickets so from that day forward they have decided they're going to bring him down and there are a couple of black caucus members we know this in the black community. that also were against -- had told him positions she was going to get them in. they bragged to people about it. when she didn't get it, they had not forgotten it yet. so anything this man does, they slip and they whisper and they go on. we call those crabs in a bucket. we also -- i thought that -- >> stephanie: lisa, i've sensed that a couple of people, i feel like it is a whiff of jealousy or whatever. >> the pot is boiling. they see the crab. they see the president getting out of that pot and them

grabbing his hand. they try to pull him back in. they sit in that being boiled crab. >> stephanie: lisa, the bucket of crabs analogy is the best one i've heard lately. >> caller: we call them crabs. i'm getting out the pot. you all are going to boil to death but don't want me to get out of the pot. this is the first african-american -- >> stephanie: the mooks are like my crabs. every morning. >> caller: if only we -- you remember when o.j. simpson and the goldman thing you know, white america still mad about that. i don't think black america really understood because nobody came out and said this is what we feel about that. this time to have him come out and say this is why african-americans feel so strongly about this. it is making it easy for people to say okay, now i see. i don't think it was divisiveness and i think he did it just right. >> stephanie: i hear ya. what do you think crabs? yeah. just when i'm about to get out

one of you grows another claw and pulls me back down again. >> i think you're the one pulling us down. >> stephanie: boiling bucket of crabs this morning. hi. >> caller: hi, stephanie. hello, everybody. >> stephanie: go ahead. >> caller: outside of the verdict which i think was just a travesty and completely crooked on george zimmerman was the complete callousness like this callousness that was demonstrated by the defense and everyone that supports it. you know, you have don west beginning his case with a joke right in front of the victim's family. you have that horrible tweet by his daughter. you have the insistence that the martins had no right to seek justice for themselves. >> stephanie: spiking the football at the press conference afterwards. like that was necessary. right back with eric boehlert as we continue on "the stephanie miller show."

>> stephanie: all right. eric boehlert from media matters coming up. oh jacki. >> yes? >> stephanie: we have something regarding your hair. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] kelly writes please tell jacki her hair looks great. >> oh, i was expecting something totally different. >> stephanie: love the blond highlights. she needs more. p.s. what's with chris' just for men look. is he auditioning for mad men? >> i'm trying something new. >> i got a compliment. >> stephanie: thumbs up for

jacki. >> i've gotten more compliments than criticisms on this hair though. >> i don't think i've ever seen chris look bad. >> bless your heart. >> it's true. >> stephanie: chris is dreamy. >> he doesn't have a lot of long hair to work with. i've never him look bad. >> stephanie: all right, blond highlights. here we go. here she is, president of the hair club for women, jacki schechner. >> good morning, everybody. as we've been discussing, most of the morning president obama did turn up in the white house briefing room on friday and gave some spontaneous remarks about trayvon martin and the jury finding george zimmerman not guilty. the president brought up the ambiguity of stand-your-ground laws and how we might want to start re-examining them. >> obama: for those who resist that idea that we should think about something like the stand-your-ground laws, i just ask people to consider if trayvon martin was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?

>> senator john mccain who's never shy about criticizing the president happens to be backing him up this time around. senator mccain has told cnn he agrees states that have stand-your-ground laws should take another look, including his own state of arizona. mccain added the president's speech has encouraged him to reach out more to hispanic and african-american organizations. a new quinnipiac poll out today shows a hillary clinton/chris christie presidential match-up in 2016 would be a dead heat in iowa. once again, it is very early to take a look at these sorts of things since neither of those people has said he or she plans to run. however, not stopping a new anti-clinton group from ramping up its efforts the conservative stop hillary pac is announcing leadership team today spearheaded by ted harvey. it is not packed with the high profile usual suspects or strategists and so far plans were unspecific. the group tells cnn it will support anything that's the

opposite of hillary. good luck with that. we're back after the break. this show is about analyzing criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal, or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i'm given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. i've worn lots of hats, but i've always kept this going. i've been doing politics now for a dozen years. (vo) he's been called the epic politics man. he's michael shure and his arena is the war room. >> these republicans in congress that think the world ends at the atlantic ocean border and pacific ocean border. the bloggers and the people that are sort of compiling the best of the day. i do a lot of looking at those people as well. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do

care about them right?

>> stephanie: 1-800-steph-12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. jim read an e-mail from someone good point about dana perino saying why didn't the president talk about the white babies. someone said well, when the teenagers get off like george zimmerman did there's many reasons why this is --

>> who shot the baby because they were standing their ground. obviously president can't talk about every case. >> you can talk about every case about anyone who ever shot anyone ever. >> stephanie: they thought it was unfair why the president commented on it. nobody is saying it is not a horrible thing. they robbed the mother and shot the baby. it is horrible. as far as i know, i don't know if they've been convicted. >> yeah, there will be. they're in the process of being convicted. >> stephanie: which, as they should. all right. hey, guess what. it is monday, everybody. you know what that means. it is a time where chris forgets to do what she's supposed to do. >> eric boehlert. ♪ hurts so good ♪ ♪ come on, baby ♪ ♪ hurts so good ♪ >> stephanie: let's dive into the right-wing world. >> i don't know what that means. >> stephanie: eric boehlert from right wing media who we

love. good morning. we've been talking about it already, we already went through the right wing twitter verse on the nastiest reactions to the president's speech. you tweeted as the right wing unleashes turbo race baiting chuckled at minority outreach, key point raised by the 2012 g.o.p. autopsy hashtag good luck. >> justin march the report came out, said demographics are shifting. republicans, if they want to be serious contenders in national elections, these are the things they have to do, strong emphasis on immigration. while house republicans now stand -- set to kill immigration reform. that was hallmark of this autopsy. we've got to pass immigration reform. we have to get hispanic and latino voters to pay attention to us. and the subset was we've got to do a better job reaching out to minorities and african-americans and you know, i think it was juan kohl who tweeted they won't be happy until democrats get

100% of the african-american vote based on this race baiting in the wake of the verdict and in the wake of obama's comments. good luck with the rebranding and good luck with trying to reach out to nonfox viewers. here is another thing. mentioned why doesn't obama talk about other gun violence. why is he obsessed with trayvon martin. after newtown and in january he talked about gun violence. he talked about chicago gun violence and the right wing media told him to shut up about gun violence in america. it is none of his business. >> why is he talking about it? >> stephanie: can't win. i loved your other tweet. twitter cons think the city of detroit bankruptcy means the bailout of auto business was a failure. happy tag so awesome. >> so this is a classic example of crazy or stupid. do they actually think the

bailout of detroit which has been short hand for the auto industry for 85 years did they actually think the bailout of detroit meant the city or are they being an tuesday and stupid and trying to make a point? >> stephanie: the president, of course, is the city comptroller. >> but you wouldn't believe, you know, the hundreds of crazy right wing twitter people who are yelling at me all weekend. about how obama failed to say -- the auto bailout failed to save the city of detroit. they actually think this financing for g.m. and chrysler was somehow going to the board of ed or something. and again you set back, you're like are you this stupid or are you just sort of playing games? so it is not just people on twitter bought you've got -- but you've got right wing media. are you professionally dumb for a living or do you not understanding when people talk about hollywood, they're not

actually talking about the city of los angeles. they're talking about an industry. when you talk about detroit you're talking about the auto industry. so -- >> stephanie: that was our favorite thing. they said let me get the lawyer for hollywood on the phone for you. they're going to sue hollywood. great piece obviously that you trayvon martin and why the right wing media spent 16 months smearing a dead teenager. of course, it does not stop. interestingly, you bring up geraldo rivera, i don't know if you saw the twitter picture at 1:00 a.m. of a nearly naked geraldo. i would prefer he been dressed like a thug or anything frankly. but that really was -- in the low bar that this case set eric. you dress like a thug, people are going to treat you like a thug. obviously implying, i guess trayvon had it coming. >> absolutely. that was the theme. you know, originally concocted

in march of 2012 to try to move the attention away from the shooting from stand your ground from concealed weapons and the right wing media decided they were going to tell the truth about trayvon martin and he wasn't this, you know, innocent young kid that was being portrayed and so they came up with a phony pictures of him from facebook and spread them around. started talking about he was a drug dealer. you know, glenn beck, the blaze published a piece suggesting maybe he was a kidnapper an arsonist or a murderer. so, it was definitely -- it was just classic blend of victim. oh, he's dead. this is a problem for the gun community? we'll blame that kid. then they resurrected it after the verdict. it has gone beyond that. ben shapiro at breitbart wrote a column last week saying trayvon martin came from a broken home was a factor in his death. so now his parents are to blame for their unarmed teenager

getting shot. so it's just really awful sort of -- immoral attempt to spin away and blame teenagers. >> stephanie: i miss geraldo -- you said he claimed all female jury would have shot and killed trayvon martin a lot sooner than george zimmerman did. nice. that's nice. you write there's something spectacularly misguided about wanting to turn an unarmed shooting victim into the bad guy and blame him for walking home with skittles and an ice tea. that's what conservative ins in the press have been doing for nearly a year and a half now. and you also you quote a good, kevin drum at mother jones no special conservative principal that says they should be able to shoot anyone who is suspicious. it says local police forces should pretend to investigate the circumstances of a shooting, there's no special conservative principle that says young black men shouldn't wear hoodies. i guess your point is they didn't get involved in this

early on, right? >> yeah. if you go back and look at the very early -- the story sort of emerged february, march of 2012, slowly and gained momentum. and in mid march last year, right wing blogs weren't writing about it. fox news didn't care about the story. so it wasn't like it hit a nerve with them early on. it was only -- when it became clear it was going to become a problem for the gun lobby. it was going to become a problem for people who want to conceal -- carry concealed weapons. it was only when obama was asked a direct question at a rose garden press availability in late march and once obama says anything about anything, that unleashes the hounds and then obama derangement syndromes. so as i quoted someone saying, once it became "a democratic issue" to care about this case,

the right wing media decided it was all fair games and the dead kid was fair games and his family and parents and all of it. but the reason i quoted kevin drum was because i've always wondered, you know, why would the right wing media become so obsessed in a local crime story? why would they turn george zimmerman into a hero? i understand why civil rights leaders would be interested and certainly had concerns about racial injustice and things like that but why this -- you know, became sort of this complete obsession with attacking the victim and supporting george zimmerman and a lot of it had to do with guns and a lot of it had to do with the absolute right wing talk point that racism doesn't exist. if you suggest it does, therefore it becomes a hoax and it is their job to reveal the true hoax. so it touched on a lot of issues but again it is strange for the political partisan press which usually deals with politics and

elections to become so consumed in a local crime story. >> stephanie: you talk about -- we were mentioning earlier, really has reached the level of -- the fake photo. it is this photo going around that's not trayvon. their point is he was really a thug that looked like this and the media hid this from you. >> it was all media bias. >> wait a minute that's mike tyson! >> stephanie: i know. >> there was a photo on facebook passed around that wasn't him. an argument on the right wing blogs that the photo that a lot of the press used of him had been lightened to make him look less dangerous and also all of this became a second -- >> stephanie: let's skip over the inherent racism in that. the darker you are the more dangerous you are. >> they're not particularly self-aware when it comes to that topic. all of that was an attempt to say it was an attempt to say this case -- all of it, blaming the victim, media bias, all of

that stuff was an attempt to say this case doesn't matter. he doesn't matter. the story is not important. and we shouldn't pay attention to it and here's why. because we're going to tell you this kid was really just a thug who deserved it. and the fact that obama became involved only upset them more. what they've seen more recently again is you know, first last year was this case doesn't matter. it's not really racial injustice. now, in the wake of the verdict it was this case doesn't matter because you know, young black people are getting killed in chicago. and so how come we're not paying attention in chicago. what i started to say at the beginning, when people like obama talk about gun violence in chicago, right wing media tells them to shut up because you know, we don't want to hear about gun violence and why are you poking your nose into local crime? >> stephanie: it seems to me, eric, the second amendment crowd picked a pretty shaky hero in george zimmerman.

someone pointed out on the sunday show, something we did last week is you don't hear the nra saying if trayvon would have been armed this would have been better right? >> no, the nra has had no interest in arming minorities in america. and it never becomes a talking point and you're right the first point in terms of picking a shaky folk here, again they realize that early on. there was no real good way to spin this for the nra and this was sort of their worst nightmare. this is what critics of stand your ground legislation was pending claim. this is exactly what they feared. this was the worst-case scenario for the nra so the reaction was -- their allies in the press was let's blame the dead kid. >> stephanie: i hate to say it eric -- you can imagine behind closed doors going thank god it was a black teenager. a black kid right? and not a rich, white frat guy from the university of miami or you know, this really would have

been a [ bleep ] storm right? >> absolutely. again, the optics were not good and that's what i think sort of shifted in the right wing media into this hypersmear campaign. that they've been running on and off for over a year now and also tweeted last night again when obama talked about the trayvon case and just the guttural reaction to it and the guttural hate we've seen, the race baiting. imagine if zimmerman had been found guilty what we would be dealing with right now? i put hashtag fox news riots. i think there really probably would be. if you talk about violence and this pseudofear of violence in the wake of the zimmerman trial based on what i'm seeing, absolutely, that would be a far more -- a far greater fear. i mean the fact that they're this angry at a not guilty

verdict, you know, i shutter to think what would have happened if the opposite had been true. >> stephanie: one can only imagine to gretchen carlson's hair if there was a riot. great stuff as always, eric. talk to you next week. he stayed on with me. he's starting to like me. 20 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show." >> announcer: there's a tea party in her pants and you're invited. call now. 1-800-steph-12.

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♪ we've got to get it on ♪ >> stephanie: going to go back to comic-con. we're irritating him on purpose this morning. every time i print something what do we do? mr. man! please bring it in. bring in the thing from the printer. in this case -- ohio gun group buying zimmerman a new gun. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] perfect. he will be an even better second amendment hero when he shoots someone else. he's talking about how threaten and paranoid he feels. >> but he's getting the old gun back. why does he need a new gun? >> stephanie: soliciting donations to provide zimmerman who has no current source of income. >> guess that whole cop thing didn't work out. >> stephanie: to replace his firearm, holster and other gear. citing a news report, he asked police to keep possession of the evidence most likely so they can use that evidence in conducting a federal

investigation. they just want to hurry up and get them shooting again. come on. that's the most important thing here. >> he hasn't shot anyone in months. come on! >> stephanie: really? what the -- um, what was i going to say? by the way i thought eric hold her a good point about stand-your-ground laws too. he was talking about why fix something that's not broken. what is wrong with self-defense laws? this is a ridiculous kill your only witness law. >> i feel oogie about someone you have a right to kill them. >> stephanie: hi, yes yesy. >> caller: i wanted to bring up a point. the right wing is talking about riots. there will be riots everywhere and kind of the way we took obamacare away from them, i would like to riot in the polls. i want us to get out and riot

and vote because it is important and i live in jacksonville. >> caller: we need to get out and remember not just trayvon martin but jordan davis, his trial is starting soon. i can't even go to that side of town anymore because people are crazy. and i guess that's my only point. i really want people to vote because it's important and when we don't alec moves in, these laws get passed and this craziness happens. it is the wild, wild west. i'm not a gun owner. i don't have a problem with gun owners but i'm starting to feel like my state is forcing me to buy a gun. because i could be be walking down the street. i could be doing anything. and somebody thinks that i don't have the right to be there. >> stephanie: that's what it seems like. they want the wild west. everybody walking down the street packing. >> even the okay corral. thought about gun control.

they didn't allow -- >> they had rules. you had to walk ten paces before you shot. >> you had to leave your gun. >> that was a little bit of a cooling off period. >> stephanie: had to wait for the barroom doors to stop swinging. you had to wait for the tumbleweed to go by, right? >> broken down old whore with her dress cigarette hanging. >> stephanie: i thought you were talking about me. [ laughter ] >> usually. >> tattered red velvet dress. cigarette hanging. >> stephanie: forget it. that tumbleweed took too long. let's do the broken down old whore again. by the way speaking of other cases, this horrible case, this limo caught on fire. >> san mateo. the women all died in the backseat. estranged wife of the limo

driver who was behind the wheel killed five women celebrating a wedding said he had been arcing with her on the -- organizing with her on the phone. she said he turned up the music in the limo so the passengers couldn't hear the conversation. she said the music was really loud. i kept yelling i can't hear you. you're not paying attention. get off the phone, stop calling me and they're speculating that's why he didn't hear the women crying and locked the doors in the back. >> there should be more doors on stretch limos and you should be able to unlock them from -- >> stephanie: so the driver is not your jailer as well. 29 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show." 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 there is any chance we'll ever hear the president even say the word "carbon tax"? >> with an opened mind... immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view.

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>> stephanie miller. >> yea! yes, your queen is back! >> stephanie: speaking of the queen, we're on royal baby watch. what's happening? >> we are not amused. >> stephanie: by how long she's taking to push it out. she's not going to push because she is -- >> too posh to push. >> stephanie: cesarean is what we're told. >> well, we don't know. >> how can she be in labor if she's a tori? >> stephanie: british humor. >> british political humor. >> stephanie: 1-800 -- that ain't no benny hill there. 1-800-steph-12. >> we could have a benny hill joke. now, a benny hill joke. >> quack quack quack.

[farting sounds] >> stephanie: british human in my opinion, sometimes dumb. >> bring in a couple of jugy blonds and run around, just jiggle. ♪ >> stephanie: oh, my. all right. damian in johnstown pennsylvania, writes steph, i heard about that gun group buying george zimmerman a new gun. all of the second amendment advocates, having guns for protection, why aren't they coming to marissa alexander's aid. what is it about her that makes her unworthy of such support. i wonder if it could be, in case you haven't noticed she's black. >> oh, my goodness, he's black. >> stephanie: in case -- you haven't seen the story on tv, she's the black woman, her abusive husband, she was trying to get him out of the house. she fired a shot into the celling. didn't hit him or anybody. she's in jail for 20 years. >> and zimmerman is a hero for shooting an unarmed kill. >> stephanie: rod in south bend indiana.

go touchdown jesus. hello, rod. >> caller: hi. >> stephanie: go ahead. >> caller: oh. okay. i just want to put my own observation in on the trayvon situation. after further review, george zimmerman followed or stalked trayvon. he baited him. terrorized him and murdered him case closed. i mean it wasn't even a miscarriage of justice. it was no justice at all. >> stephanie: yep. no justice no peace in my opinion. i'm not encouraging rioting. stop it. are you going to make a nose whistle joke? don't do it. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: sometimes we startle people out of a nap. didn't know i was going to get to him that quick. >> he sounded like herbert the pervert from family guy. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: got something to say. rita in florida. go ahead. >> caller: hi, i watched the

sunday news shows every sunday. >> stephanie: yep. >> caller: i'm not watching it anymore. all they want is a riot. i'm proud of the youths of america. >> stephanie: yeah, you know what? a lot of the rallies, they were very -- i thought they were very powerful because a lot of the kids can relate. they relate that they could have been be trayvon as the president said. that's why it was so puzzle what the president said on friday. here he is the president on friday. >> when trayvon martin was first shot, i said that this could have been my son. another way of saying that is trayvon martin could have been me. 35 years ago. >> stephanie: by the way did you see boehner? congress ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal. it is not what we do. it is how much we undo that's the important thing. here he is. >> we should not be judged on

how many new laws we create. we ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal. sometimes, you know, the american people don't like this. >> i'm going to -- >> stephanie: you mean the mess you're in charge of? >> yeah. that's it. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] >> stephanie: boehner refuses to take a stand on key immigration provisions. why would you? he refuse yesterday to say whether comprehensive immigration reform should include a path to citizenship. it is not about me. he -- he says it is not about me and what i want. it is about allowing the house to work its will. which is as he just stated previously nothing. or undo everything that has been done. >> what are the laws for anyway? >> stephanie: boehner said the sweeping senate bill would not pass the house. they would tackle it in chunks. in smaller chunks. i'll say. >> i just think i'm gonna burst!

>> stephanie: we want to deal with this in chunks that the members can deal with and grapple with. frankly, chunks the american people can get their arms around. corn. >> i just think i'm gonna burst. >> eat corn. >> what? >> that's out the other end. >> stephanie: you can have chunks of corn as well. let's go to dave in buffalo. hi dave. >> caller: hi, mama. in about 25 seconds, i'm going to explain to the right-wingers where liberals and black americans are upset about this. juror b37 on what's his name's show don't even care -- >> anderson cooper. >> caller: basically said but what he did was not illegal. so when zimmerman went packing with a pistol, that was not illegal. and when he stalked trayvon, it was not illegal and when he shot confronted, fought and stood his ground against trayvon, was not illegal. essentially making walking while

black a crime which falls right into the stereotypes that america -- that the media projects about young black males and females that they're thugs. so what is happening is de facto stay on your own side of town because i don't understand your dress. i don't understand your music. i don't understand your language and if i see you over here, i'm going to use the law to shoot you legally. now, i think that the d.a. should have brought different charges on this, recognizeless endangerment of life. assault with a deadly weapon, et cetera, et cetera. in this case, unfortunately, it was overcharged because of the stupid laws that the nra and eric or whatever it is called, the -- >> stephanie: dave, i'm sick of hearing people say they weren't charged with stand your ground. it was in the jury instructions. it had something to do with this verdict. >> caller: absolutely. that's what we're all upset

about. so that means that they can't come and shop at the shopping malls near dark over in amherst or in all of the little towns down there which i really don't even care about? that means -- you know what i'm saying. that's why we're upset. it doesn't have anything to do with zimmerman or even with trayvon that much except it was -- a child in the wrong place at the wrong time and suddenly it is legal to shoot him. >> stephanie: dave refers to amherst from mama's hometown -- east amherst just translating for all of you upstate new york impaired. hello, julie in california. >> caller: hi, stephanie. first off, i just want to say that since we're still talking about tray, i understand why everybody's upset still but however, the president's speech is a contradiction to what he has said in the past. first, he said justice was served. now on friday, he said, stirring the pot that it could have been

him 35 years ago. >> stephanie: he did say that -- he didn't say justice was served. he said the verdict has spoken and that's how our system works. >> caller: but as president he shouldn't say that because he's instigating riots or -- >> stephanie: he said exactly the opposite. where is that sound byte? he said obviously he was urging people to be peaceful. here it is. >> obama: if i see any violence, i will remind folks that that dishonors what happened to trayvon martin and his family. >> stephanie: wouldn't that be the opposite of encouraging people to riot? >> caller: now i have a question for you. >> stephanie: okay. >> caller: how would you feel about dating a pretty young girl such as myself? >> stephanie: for god's sake. what is going on today? i think she just tried to get through to the right-wingers to see if she could kiss and date

me. >> computer says no. >> stephanie: what is happening? would you look at what the homosexuals have done to me? >> look at what the homosexuals have done to me. vicky in alabama, you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi vicky. >> caller: i love your show. i just started watching it. i get my dvr set so i can watch at night. >> stephanie: awesome. >> caller: they keep on calling trayvon a thug and say he's a bad person. if trayvon had been a thug, zimmerman would have been killed because the thug usually carries the gun. >> stephanie: that's right. that's right. it is a caricature. that they've painted of him. caroline in north carolina. hi caroline, welcome. >> caller: good morning. >> stephanie: good morning. >> caller: enjoy your show tremendously. >> stephanie: thank you. go ahead. >> caller: couple of points i would like to point out. number one the president

crossed the line and has sounded like he was a racist. this is something he should not have said. and number two -- >> stephanie: why is that? why shouldn't he have said something? >> caller: he should have said something but he should not sound racist doing it. >> what did he say that sounded racist to you? >> caller: talking about 35 years ago it could have been him. >> it could have. >> caller: that's true. >> so why is that wrong for him to say? >> caller: he sounds racist. >> stephanie: against himself? >> caller: against anybody including himself. >> okay but what was done against him possibly 35 years ago and what was done against trayvon martin was racist. >> caller: i just feel it is racist. i also feel like that the news media -- >> so mentioning race is in itself racist.

>> caller: trayvon because all that is new -- >> stephanie: mentioning you've been racially discriminated against is racist? >> caller: yep. >> stephanie: okay. all right. >> some biscuits and mustard. >> that makes no sense. >> stephanie: i'm befuddled by that call and i will need time to recover now. >> need to recover with a muffin. >> stephanie: all right. 45 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show." >> it even vibe right of rates like real. -- it even vibrates like real. >> announcer: it's "the stephanie miller show." gripping, current. >> occupy! >> we will have class warfare. (vo) true stories, current perspective. documentaries. on current tv.

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a p.r. nightmare. he was caught on a -- people, we live in an nsa world. stop whacking off on camera. caught masturbating inside his pizzeria's kitchen. someone noticed more than the dough was being kneadedded a jersey joe's pizzeria. and news of the wanker spread according to gawker. it has been rechristened jerky joes pizzeria. a little jerky. [ ♪ circus ♪ ] >> not that kind of jerky. >> stephanie: a lot of people took to yelp to leave rave reviews praising the owner's hard work and the pizza's distinct nutty flavor. [ ♪ circus ♪ ] >> oh! >> not in a good way. >> stephanie: women are gross story. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] a new mexico man is hoping to identify the jogger who has popped next to his home four

times since april. malicious fecal distribution for the man you can see also video. people you can't jerk off at work and you cannot [ bleep ] in people's lawn. there are cameras everywhere. >> i saw on older woman squat behind a bus bench a couple of days ago. did i just see -- no. >> i was in san francisco over the weekend. i saw that. that happens a lot there. >> stephanie: i lived in new york. oh dear god okay. on the video, you can see a female jogger turn from the road and enter an alley next to the man's home run to a wall and squat. he said if it happens again i'm going to run out with a hose and hose her down and sad bad human. >> did he really say that? [ ♪ circus ♪ ] >> maybe you should go before you jog. >> stephanie: i have a conif es to make. i have, like it's bear i have [ bleep ] in the woods. stuff gets jostled around when

you're running sometimes. >> maybe she takes a preworkout supplement that makes things move at the same time every day. >> stephanie: something. >> if you think you're about to -- >> you shouldn't be taking a jog. >> stephanie: take a baggy with you. a pooper scooper something. debra in portland, oregon. >> does she wipe? >> apparently not. >> don't take laxatives and go for a jog. >> stephanie: if you do not regularly [ bleep ] in your neighbor's yard, there's nothing for you to worry about. >> caller: basically what i'm calling to say is i'm getting tired of listening to people being afraid of people just because of the color of their skin or how tall they are or the clothes that they wear or whatever. i was on -- blare high school campus in southern california right after the second rodney king verdict. and i was there putting together a fund-raiser for the kids.

anyway, i left because the principal said there's something going on in campus, i need you to leave because we need to make sure you're safe. i made a wrong turn, wound up in an area where i couldn't find the parking lot. and i tapped on the little -- tapped on the gentleman's should shoulder in front of me. it turned out to be one of the high school, teenage very tall guys. i said i turned the wrong way. i don't know where the parking lot is. he turned and he looked at me with this horrified look on his face and he said you should not be here. he reached around and he got the attention of some of his friends and very soon i had a circle of five very tall very big very strong guys around me who ushered me to my -- ushered me to my car and walked me out of the parking lot followed in my car. i told the boys thank you very much. you're a credit to your parents. yes, there were five very tall, very wonderful very caring

black gentlemen. and there was no reason to be afraid. they were there protecting me. and they weren't protecting me because -- out of some sense of whatever. they were just being good kids. >> stephanie: yep. exactly. >> george zimmerman shot them. >> stephanie: as the president said the scattered violence there's been in protests, that does not honor trayvon. that's the thing. it has nothing to do with race. it doesn't serve anybody. let's go to donna in atlanta. you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: hey, mama, how are you? >> stephanie: good. go ahead. >> caller: i'm a first time caller but i have three comments to make. number one about the president did anybody remember that his mother was white? i think he's talking from what his experiences have been. as the president of the united states it is important that he let the nation know that yes

this does happen. and a lot of reason that he can't get a lot of bills passed is because he is an african-american president. if this was a white president sitting where he sits, the majority of the things he's tried to pass would pass. >> stephanie: donna i've said this many times. certainly you can't ascribe everything to racism but there is a level of disrespect and there is a vein of race that's ran through it. a congressman yelling you lied during the state of the union. sarah palin accusing him of shuck and jiving on benghazi. take anything ann coulter says, you can't say some of it isn't -- this last caller, i was just thinking of a story from my past years and years ago. i thought that really is the point. there are obviously good people and bad people of every race. i hate when people cite the black teenagers that shot the baby -- it is like okay. some black people belong in

prison. george zimmerman talking to you. some white people belong in prison. when i lived in new york the first time. i got mugged and my bike was stolen while i was riding it. i got it back. this was in central park. i used to ride around central park and a young black kid tackled me off my bike. i started like -- then i ran and jumped on him. i put a lawrence taylor flying tackle on him. but at the same time, a couple of black ladies stopped and their car and started screaming at him. at the top of their lungs to leave me alone then he got scared and ran. so, you know, you can look at that through race or -- >> is that wise to try to tackle him? >> stephanie: no, i could have gotten killed. i had just bought the bike the day before. i tackled him. he looked back at me like you crazy bitch really. i held him up long enough until people started screaming.

>> it probably wasn't the smartest thing to do. >> no, it was not. he started to go like this like he had a gun or a knife. it probably wasn't wise but it was a happy ending. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] it was thanks to my two good samaritan ladies who yelled at him to leave me alone. i got my crap back. >> that's a different story. about her riding a bike. and laxatives. >> stephanie: no. that's a story for a different -- oh, yeah. >> same city. >> stephanie: two weeks before my bike ride. that was another story. >> you didn't make it to your apartment. you only made it as far as your lobby. >> you're like the jogging woman. >> stephanie: at least it was my own lobby.

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>> stephanie: hello current tv land hour number three. pardon me. i was facing out. jacki schechner's healthcare -- >> did your own show catch you off-guard? >> stephanie: it did. sometimes i'm the james stockton of my own show. >> stockdale. >> stephanie: see, that's how old i am. i can't remember who stockdale is. jacki schechner's healthcare corner is coming up. >> yes. happy to chat about healthcare any time. >> stephanie: i need some colon blow for my mailbag. i have a lot of ask jackies. there you go. we'll handle some of that. in the meantime, handling the news duty, jacki schechner. >> good morning, everybody. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is getting a tea party challenger for his bid for re-election next year. local businessman matt devin plans to announce his candidacy on wednesday. and then launch a three-day eight-stop tour across the state of kentucky. better known as.

connecticut company that's been around 160 years. he's currently a partner at a kentucky investment firm. he's rich and that could help him in his bid against the incumbent. if mcconnell makes it through the primary phase, he would face democrat grimes. what happens in detroit is in the hands of a state appeals court which could rule on the city's bankruptcy filing as early as today. a lower court ruled the filing unconstitutional on friday saying that the michigan constitution bars the city from taking action that would cut public pensions. "the new york times" reports detroit's pensions make up about $3.5 billion of the city's $18 billion debt. at the same time, governor rick snyder's brushing off any suggestion of the city getting any kind of federal bailout money in order to help. and there are some great new photographs coming out of the white house and posted on their flicker account. all from the month of june. they include some from president obama's time with chinese

president ping including this shot of the two sitting on a redwood park bench gifted to china. the next one is the president holding the 6-month-old daughter of a staff member who happened to be leaving the white house and then this one is the president in ireland at the g-8 and speaking to the housekeeping staff out in front of a lodge at the resort where the summit was taking place. be back with more show for you after the break. i'll do a healthcare corner on the other side.

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good morning jacki schechner. >> good morning precious. >> stephanie: melissa in marshall north carolina, and a lot of people in states that are being uncooperative we're disappointed in, have questions like this, i imagine. dear jacki -- i'm sorry. >> disappointed. >> stephanie: red states we are disdisappointed! >> stephanie: sadly i live in north carolina where the state has decided not to expand medicare. the legislature has not yet approved setting up an insurance exchange. i started receiving mailings from blue cross blue shield north carolina, the biggest almost only insurer in north carolina. one line jumped up. your monthly premiums may increase as a result of changes under healthcare reform. it offers plans to help you reduce the impact. i've tried to share with neighbors and friends that healthcare reform will help them referring to healthcare.gov. fear and confusion return. because of our state is not an active participant in the affordable care act will we

indeed be looking at higher costs in order for premiums to go down, are we at the mercy of competition. thanks for your continuing information on this complex issue. melissa. >> first of all, it is medicaid, not medicare. medicaid is for those who need financial help who don't make enough money. so there is a difference. a lot of states decided not to expand medicaid which is totally a state decision and it is ridiculous because the federal government was going to cover 100% for the first three years. then only down to 90% it is not going to cost the states very much and it would provide healthcare for the poor. boo on north carolina for that one. i would tell melissa, this is important for people to understand. don't give into the fear and confusion. it is not that confusing. the states that opted out of

running their own exchanges they're participating in the affordable care act. they'll be run by the federal government. which is what we were lobbying for in the first place. you have more bargaining power and more control when there is a nationally-run mechanism. each state as they run their own, that's ideal when there is a state that is actively participating but if you've got a state that's reluctant, it is good for the federal government at this point to get involved. at least there will be some standards. >> stephanie: i know we're just speculating but do you think, you know, is there going to be a big difference between states that are being cooperative. blue states where they are cooperating and setting up their other exchange or do you think the ones in red states like -- melissa is talking about, if they're run by the federal government, will there be an apreachable difference, do you think? >> it is tough to tell. melissa brings this up.

blue cross blue shield in north carolina is almost the only insurer in north carolina is a problem nationwide. one or two insurers control the majority of the market. the exchanges will allow smaller companies to participate or companies that aren't normally in the individual market in that state to enter and participate in the exchange. so she will get competitive prices and an opportunity to comparison shop. i think what i would guess is blue cross blue shield is doing at this point is it is afraid of losing its monopoly and afraid of losing the state at this point. it is sending out this information to fearmonger and get people signed up for new plans before the exchanges are up and running or open for enrollment in october. so if you enroll in a plan, you're committed. you can't go shop on the exchange. >> stephanie: interesting. didn't we just hear that blue cross -- blue cross blue shield has opted out of the exchange

here in california it. >> it has opted out of the small market business exchange. they said if you want to participate in the individual insurance exchange, you have to offer small business plans and anthem said it is not going to do that. i think the california legislature or the organization that's watching over this allowed them to do that. that's okay because i don't understand -- >> stephanie: i'm a small business here in california and we have anthem blue cross blue shield. >> we do. >> stephanie: what does that mean? >> nothing. you'll continue to have your plan. somebody brought this up to me on twitter. i responded to it. it seems odd to me if you've got a whole group of people going to exchange and they're shopping on the exchange and they're going to look and comparison shop apples to apples to apples for the first time, why would you want to be part of that? if you're choosing not to be part of that because you think

you're going to offer a better product or your prices will be competitive, that's only a benefit for consumers. can't imagine anthem would opt to stay out of the exchange and by the way we're more expensive and we're giving you less. it seems like a rotten business move so the only way that that could be of benefit to them is if they're going to offer a better product or try to offer a better product. but it does seem like that's likely. why would you not want to be in the mix. where all of the people will be shopping. >> stephanie: i think that's a really important point you made. out of the box there is they could be very well trying to scare you into doing something before the exchanges start and they have to compete. people should not overreact and sign up right away necessarily right? >> wait until october. wait until you can sign up and look at the exchange plan. there's so many facets of this. the most exciting part of it is i think you'll finally be able to see what you're getting for your money. you'll finally be able to look and say this is what's offered. this is how much it costs. this is what this plan gives me.

right now, it is so confusing and explikated intentionally. they do it to confuse you. hopefully now we'll have the opportunity to look at things side by side by side and decide what we want. i wouldn't panic. i wouldn't worry. you're not going to lose your healthcare, your doctor is not going away. this is really -- the fearmongering at this point is absurd. because nobody is -- it's not going to happen. the sky is not falling. just relax. you're going to get to see a doctor if you get sick. it is not -- we're not taking anything away. >> stephanie: nurse jacki talking you down from the ledge. nurse jacki, can you put me on o with news jacki? >> hold on. hi! [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] >> she made along. >> stephanie: journalist helen thomas obviously passed away. 92 years old. i got to meet her in new york. as the president said, she was a true pioneer break down barricades for women in journalism.

she covered every white house since president kennedy. she never failed to keep presidents myself included, on my toes. >> she was feisty. >> stephanie: she was just as feisty in person when i hit her. >> -- when i met her. >> we had her on the show. >> 92 is good. it is sad when somebody passes like that. >> stephanie: my mom is 90. it always makes me -- >> before helen thomas, they didn't allow women in the white house corps. >> stephanie: she was shorter. she got under the door. no, she didn't. oh, jacki schechner. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] jacki, look at this. u.s. american rates have dropped to a new law. look at what the gays have done. >> totally the fault of the gays. >> stephanie: the gays have ruined the marriage. would you look? all right. yeah, the marriage rate in the united states is continuing to -- >> look what the homosexuals have done to me. >> stephanie: would you look? american rates in u.s. continuing decades along --

fewer women getting married and others waiting to wed. your thoughts? >> well, yeah. i would imagine the rising divorce rate and the proliferation of starter marriages is probably a good idea that people are waiting longer or not getting married. >> when will liberace marry? >> stephanie: exactly. i have a good reason for not marrying no one has asked me. >> is that all it takes? [ applause ] >> will you marry me? >> i didn't realize we were not discriminating. >> stephanie: marrying anybody here is a crab bucket. it has dropped to a new low of 31.1%. 31 marriages in the u.s. for every 1,000 unmarried women and interesting, in 1950, the number was 90.2. in 1920, it was 92.3. >> this is going to come come back to haunt me. is there a lack of not eligible men? >> stephanie: i'm going to say yes. >> and by eligible, i mean viable candidate. >> stephanie: somebody pointed out, the divorce rate remains

high in the u.s. and individuals there less likely to remarry than they were in the past. it is the been there done that clause i suppose. >> a lot of times it used to be people got married and stayed married because it was the thing to do, not because they were happy but there was a stigma on divorce. now, unfortunately people take marriage more lightly and they realize there is the opportunity to get divorced. and remarried. i don't know. i feel like maybe -- also our society has changed. you don't have to be married. >> stephanie: i think we've taken out the till death do us part clause. in sickness -- kind of icky, smelly kind. >> oh. >> stephanie: all right. >> i don't want to wash your socks anymore. >> stephanie: i don't feel like it. love you nurse jacki. thanks for the great information. fabulous corner. by the way ken cuccinelli, speaking of the gays, he had some thoughts. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] quite a choice there in

virginia, don't they? saturday's debate, the race for virginia governor, attorney general ken cuccinelli. did not back down from comments he made previously attacking gays and lesbians. judy woodruff asked him if he still believes being gay is against nature and harmful to society? >> he said my personal beliefs haven't changed. i find it delightful. by the way he's been touting his on-going defense of oral and anal sex in his state. no fun for anybody slap. >> computer says no! >> can you legislate that? >> stephanie: what? >> can you legislate that? >> tiny little drones. >> stephanie: separate police forces? oral and anal. can you tell who's knocking on your door? >> stephanie: oral police. >> oh, you're anal. [knock at door] >> hang on, i have to call the other team. we don't govern that area. [ laughter ]

maybe they have to report it to each other. sorry, we've got some oral going on. do you believe what these people are doing? >> look what the homosexuals have done to me. >> stephanie: do they go in the back door? [ ♪ circus ♪ ] >> they would be expecting that. >> stephanie: he said lgbt people have no souls and are inherently self-destructive. >> i wonder what the lovely and talented mrs. cuccinelli thinks? >> one wonders what mrs. cuccinelli thinks about the ban on oral and anal. he also once ordered the virginia state seal, not the fish, you know, the actual seal to be -- >> a seal is not a fish. >> stephanie: you know what i'm talking about mammal. be redesigned so as to cover the bare breasts of the roman goddess depicted on it. >> john ashcroft did. wanted to cover up the breasts.

>> stephanie: virginia is for lovers. >> computer says no. >> stephanie: no fun for anybody. 19 minutes after the hour. >> chaste lovers. love from a distance. >> love that is only missionary. >> stephanie: all right. 19 minutes after the hour. >> from a distance? >> stephanie: right back on "the stephanie miller show." >> announcer: for a good time call now 1-800-steph-12.

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♪ here comes stephanie miller ♪ ♪ snow, snow, nah nah nah nah ♪ >> stephanie: 1-800-steph-12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. june in georgia. hi june. >> caller: hi, stephanie. >> stephanie: hello. >> caller: listen, i wanted to bring up something here. you know those kids that were in new york when they had the central park rapists, all of those kids, those black boys -- teenage boys were picked up in the park and put in jail for a long time. i'm not sure like ten years or something. >> stephanie: they referred to as the wild in central park. >> caller: they had no evidence outside that they were all picked up in different parts of the park. they accused the boy said you're the rapist.

it turned out the guy that actually did the raping was in jail. he admitted to the rapes and proved those boys were innocent. they were all released later -- years later. you don't remember that? >> stephanie: no, you're right. that's a long time ago. i do remember now. interesting. debi writes this is a love letter. >> okay. >> stephanie: love your show. i'm a white woman with a black son-in-law so my grandchildren are mixed race. one of my granddaughters came to me when she was 6 because she thought she needed to apologize because she considered herself black. she was near tears when she told me this. it was all i could do not to hold back my own tears. what i did at the time was comfort her and assure her i loved her very much and never doubted she loved me. she said the reason why people of mixed race consider themselves part of the darker race is because the darker race will accept them. i'm afraid it will take tame to change the way people feel about

darker skin and then it will be keeping those feelings in check. jeanette in california, you're on the "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: good morning, stephanie. i would like to i'm an african-american woman from california. i stumbled upon your show two or three days ago. i would like to whend -- commend you because when you first began to discuss this trayvon i actually felt you sniffle and cry. and you were fighting back your tears. in essence what i'm saying, i happen to watch another show where this guy lappie or tape, they had him on a whole show, he stated blacks, they're killing each other off which is true. but that would be like me pointing the finger saying it was a white person that killed all of those kids in columbine or the sandy hook.

>> caller: you're pointing the fingers then you shared your own personal story how someone tried to take your bike. and the black women stepped in and stopped it. so there's good and bad in all races. >> stephanie: that's right. >> caller: the only other thing i would like to say stephanie is this. i have a question in my mind. first of all the zimmerman guy number one he disobeyed orders. >> uh-huh. >> stephanie: number one. >> caller: he disobeyed the higher -- his higher command. >> stephanie: exactly. he doesn't have a hire command. he's not a cop. by the way, i would like to take credit. i'll bet i scared that young guy straight. he's probably lived in fear of some crazy little -- >> caller: trust that. >> stephanie: he's probably lived in fear his whole life of skinny white women tackling him. >> he's probably never made anything of himself because he scared him so bad. >> stephanie: i'm going to say

he's probably going to be our next president. >> yeah! no offense. >> stephanie: skinny white woman in 1989 tackled him when he was trying to steal her bike and he, you know, scared straight. just sayin'. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] okay. [ laughter ] >> it could happen. >> stephanie: amid the stories of interracial healing ray dodge chong called oprah vile and uses the "n" word. >> stephanie: she's tommy chong's daughter. she was in "the color purple" with oprah. >> she was in the getting the chopper scene. she was in the get in the chopper scene. >> stephanie: that's who was supposed to get in the chopper. she's half black and hispanic. >> chong. half black and half chinese. >> stephanie: right.

anyway, my point is she called oprah the n word. there's some details. she said some nice things about oprah then some -- then some mean things. >> unleashes. >> stephanie: yikes. tell you all about that as we continue on "the stephanie miller show." they should self-deport? >> no, they said "make us a turkey and make it fast". >> (laughter). >> she gets the comedians laughing. >> that's the best! >> that's hilarious. >> ... and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there is wiggle room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> she's joy behar. >> ya, i consider you jew-talian. >> okay, whatever you want. >> who plays kafka? >> who saw kafka? >> who ever saw kafka? >> (laughter). >> asking the tough questions. >> chris brown, i mean you wouldn't let one of your daughters go out with him. >> absolutely not. >> you would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me? >> absolutely!

>> (singing) >> i take lipitor, thats it. >> are you improving your lips? >> (laughter). >> when she's talking, you never know where the conversation is going to go. >> it looks like anthony wiener is throwing his hat in the ring. >> his what in the ring? >> his hat. >> always outspoken, 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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always go your way. >> stephanie: a tiny picture of a puppy. oh look. he kisses a kitty. okay. i'm back. 1-800-steph-12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. okay. one more story about how men are gross. sorry, i'll find another one about pooping somewhere. >> that was a woman. >> stephanie: that was part of our men with gross and women are gross segment earlier. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] an airline passenger accused a fellow passenger of molesting her on a flight from phoenix to newark. i'm not the only one who gets molested on flights. she said that -- she was on a united airlines flight last summer when she woke to find the guy next to her and slipped his hands into her blouse and shorts. she reports the woman said the stranger whispered kiss me into her ear and she woke up. [ screaming ] >> and then i woke up. >> stephanie: oh, god.

although i would fly any airline to get out of texas. >> from san antonio to el paso from austin to fort worth, suddenly we've noticed people want to get out of texas. they're transvag nal airlines. thanks to us, people have discovered thousands of exciting destinations outside the lone star state. it has become like a whole other country. contact your travel agent and meet us at the new gate. ♪ we're transvag nal airlines, something special on the air ♪ >> stephanie: i thought after the president's extraordinary speech friday, we were in a period of post-racial healing. not if you're ray dodge chong tommy chong's daughter in "the color purple" with oprah. she had some nice things then not so nice. she said when we worked with her, she was that fat chick that

was the wanna be cheerleader that was best friends with the principal. she was that fat chick in school that did everything and everyone loved her. that's oprah. love me, love me, love me. you have to respect her no matter how vile she is because ultimately, she's all about oprah and she's boring. she took a woman if you look at the way she looks 60 years ago she would have been a housekeeper. luckily, she would not have been a house n word, she would have been a field n word. >> oh, my god! >> stephanie: that was -- >> thanks, rae. >> stephanie: she needs to get back in the chopper now. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] >> i dare say that oprah is marginally more successful than her. >> stephanie: just a skosh. in a totally unrelated story nothing to do with rehab amanda bynes, ran up a bill at the ritz-carlton $2,000 worth of room service.

before getting the boot. on thursday, she was apparently ejected from the hotel for smoking weed inside her hotel room as well as for being inle tokerbly rude to staff. she placed 40 separate room service orders. munchies. [ applause ] >> that's child star syndrome, i think. get everything you want by the time you're 11. >> stephanie: ray wood in louisiana, you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: good morning. >> stephanie: good morning. >> caller: i'm watching your show and i'm thinking about all this going on about zimmerman and trayvon martin. you know, you don't hear nothing about o.j. simpson when he killed that white woman and that white man. you don't hear anything about that. >> stephanie: there was hardly any publicity about the o.j.

trial. >> o.j. who? >> stephanie: what now? >> i have no idea who you're talking about. clearly it hasn't been talked about. >> stephanie: that wasn't covered enough. that's what most people said. how is that trial going? all right. the president has ignited another discussion on race. here he is friday. >> obama: there are very few african-american men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. that includes me. very few african-american men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. that happens to me, at least before i was a senator. there are very few african-americans who haven't the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off.

that happens often. >> stephanie: it just happened in the congressional elevator with michele bachmann. >> the day is at hand. we're in the last days. jehovah god. >> let me out! >> stephanie: i'm sorry what, jim now? >> i forgot. >> stephanie: tom in chicago. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hello, tom. >> caller: hi, how are you? love your show. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: i just wanted to make a couple of points and bring it back down to the human aspect. my wife and i have been tore up over this story about trayvon since we heard if. and i've noticed a lot of people -- we're both in the service. she's in medical field. i'm in the industrial field. i'm on new job sites. she has five to ten new patients every day. we see and hear a lot about this from all kinds of people. and i've come to the basic

understanding that anyone that gets told this story no matter where you're from, what your race is. your religion, your sex nothing. whoever you are if you hear this story told to you and it doesn't bring a tear to your eye, there's some kind of disconnect with humanity and you've got some soul searching to do. sadly enough, we meet and hear from lots of people every day we talk about it all the time. we don't understand why they really are disconnected to some degree with humanity. we don't see this happening. >> stephanie: eric boehlert was just on with us, talking about this right wing machine that was so invested in smearing a dead teenager for the last year and a half. someone they didn't even know that, you know, i don't think like you say according to anybody, did anything wrong. except that you know, was in the wrong place at the wrong time, i guess for -- zimmerman being around right? >> yeah. i have four children. my wife and i have four children. there isn't a minute of the day if i'm not looking at right

them, i'm worried about them. if i put myself forward in time, they're young. my oldest is 9. if i put myself at let's say a 17-year-old and put myself in the shoes of that family, the kid went down to the store and 40 minutes later you get a phone call like this. >> stephanie: yeah. >> unbelievable. if that doesn't wrench your heart and bring you to tears you have a disconnect with humanity and you've got some soul searching to do. >> stephanie: i agree. sharon in alabama you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: good morning, stephanie. >> stephanie: good morning. >> caller: i wanted to call and talk about that juror that was interviewed on cnn. two or three things. first of all, i don't think she was open-minded at all because the way she referred to mr. zimmerman was -- she called him george. >> stephanie: georgie. i was like what? >> caller: later on in the interview when he asked her about miss chantal's testimony

she said she sounded not to be credible but when he asked her about that remark, creepy white cracker, she said she believed they did say that. she believed that part of the conversation. so i say that to say this. when he went on in the interview, she kept referring to them as they, they, they. as though they were the other. >> stephanie: yeah, yeah. >> caller: when enhe asked her what she believed happened thee said she believed that trayvon got mad and then got mad and it didn't say she proceeded to fight him. she has the picture of an angry young black male. >> stephanie: what she said is he was scared. she said she told him to run. let's go to -- annette in chicago. hi annette welcome.

>> caller: hi, stephanie. >> stephanie: hi, go ahead. >> caller: i love your show. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: but i'm calling about -- i'm 66-year-old black woman. and i voted for many presidents. i didn't vote for bush but i respect bush as my president. what i don't understand is why so many white people can't accept our black president. black people have accepted all of the white presidents that we have had. we didn't riot because we didn't get the president we picked or if we won or lost. >> stephanie: you know who did riot is whites. remember the brooks brothers riots in florida? >> phony izod rebellion. >> stephanie: to stop counting the votes. the phony izod rebellion. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] fans threw food at rihanna.

has she not been through enough. >> apparently she needs to bring her umbrella, ella, ella. she was forced to stop her performance in manchester when fans began hurling potato chips in protest of her arriving an hour late. she ranted this is the next level. there is a good crazy and bad crazy but when you throw [ bleep ] up here, that's an epic fail. i swear to god cut that [ bleep ] out. chips, chips? really? it's that important? >> potato chips don't hurt though. >> if you've survived chris brown. >> the munchies. chips there are french fries. >> stephanie: well then those are heavier. >> not like they're batteries or anything. >> stephanie: it is not philly. robin in north carolina. listen i survived a philly sexy liberal. >> caller: love your show. listen, we have to -- all of the

people that call in who aren't crazy tails. we have to stick together. what zimmerman did is [ bleep ] disgusting. >> stephanie: did you get that, current? that was a nice big f bomb for mama. do i need to keep talking? >> one more f'ing call. >> stephanie: stop it. then they'll do it too right? and then i'm screwed. can i say that? >> yes, you can say that. >> stephanie: do i need to take another call? all right. one more. jim in oregon, please do not drop an f bomb on me. >> caller: you got it. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: i just wanted to comment. i'm almost 60 and i've seen a lot of racial stuff that's unreal. if there's still white americans that believe that racism does not still exist in america, all you have to do is go on the internet and check the stats for prison sentencing.

for the white defendants compared to black defendants for the exact same crime. if that doesn't get it through their thick skulls, i don't know what will. the disparity is just outrageous. >> stephanie: it is a [ bleep ] disgrace. just kidding. >> sheesh. >> stephanie: you were paying attention. 46 minutes after the hour. right back with the remaining moments of "the stephanie miller show." >> announcer: i got her number off the men's room stall. 1-800-steph-12.

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>> stephanie: it is "the stephanie miller show." a 1 minutes after the hour. 51 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-12. julie in seattle wondering what kind of show we're running. >> how can you call yourself a news show without providing minute by minute update on how far kate is dilated. i have no idea. she's too posh to push. >> too posh to push. >> stephanie: i think the queen will do the cesarean herself if it's not out by noon. >> if the baby does not emerge by after lunch. >> stephanie: she has a thing later with the corgis. [ whatever! ] >> tea to get to. >> we're on holiday. >> stephanie: oh my goodness so scott writes i told my delightful story about the late '80s when i was riding my bike in it will park. >> -- in central park. >> the one where you pooped.

>> stephanie: that was the seaweed story where i didn't quite make it. i remember it was explosive and there was stuff on the ceiling. that was a bad, bad day. that's not my point. [ explosion ] it was a happy ending to that story. >> how is that a happy ending? >> stephanie: kid tried to steal my bike while i was riding it. i having bought the bike the day before i tackled him on top of the bike. a couple of black ladies started scrimming at him. he got scared and ran away. i'm just saying -- good white people and black people and whatever. scott writes so, you stood your ground. it was nice to hear you stood your ground, stephanie. you're lucky your mugger didn't file assault charges for attacking him on what was now his bike. >> stephanie: right. >> good point. >> stephanie: as for the zimmerman case, he was attacked by martin. who, according to his friend rachel thought he was a

homosexual predator. oh, he's a lush listener. he's a rush listener. >> stephanie: that was the real story there. trayvon was a gay basher. >> nice try. >> stephanie: nice try sir. let's go to patrice in chicago. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi patrice. >> caller: hi, stephanie. i was just calling to say a couple of things that it is not about racism or anything or zimmerman getting off. it is the gun companies that win because if people are angry they go out and buy guns. people are scared, they go out and buy guns. they're racist, they go out and buy guns so they're capitalizing off of this whole shenanigan. >> stephanie: patrice, we notice the nra didn't say anything about if only trayvon martin had a gun. >> what's the difference there? funny that. [ ♪ "jeopardy" theme ♪ ] what could it be? first time ever we've not heard them say that? >> if only trayvon had a gun.

>> oh, wait. >> stephanie: curtis in oklahoma. you're on the "the stephanie miller show." hi curtis. >> caller: good morning, stephanie. >> stephanie: good morning. >> caller: first of all you're a very beautiful young lady inside and out. >> young? >> stephanie: shut up! >> parts of her are. >> stephanie: shut up crab in the crab bucket. thank you, curtis. >> caller: i'm a 61-year-old vietnam veteran. >> stephanie: thank you for your service. >> she's only ten years younger than you. >> stephanie: shut up. >> caller: what if the roles had been reversed and that troy van martin, george zimmerman deal. >> if he shot zimmerman. >> what would america's thoughts then be? i don't use the "n" word, not even around my friends or anything. i don't believe it. yet i have been called honky,

white trash cracker white bread, every derogatory name that a white person can be called. and so i'm just -- i don't know. >> stephanie: do you think that has the same -- the same, you know, let's say -- >> i don't even know what honky means. >> stephanie: they all sound goofy. >> upper class twit. thurston howell sort of way of speaking. >> stephanie: cracker just makes me laugh. patricia in ireland. hello. >> caller: hello. >> stephanie: are you actually calling from ireland? >> i'm not. i'm from there. i'm a naturalized citizen which makes me feel like i had an operation. thank you, pretty lady for taking my call.

i have one comment. my feeling that the rage and prejudice exhibited by the white race toward the black race emulates from their feelings of guilt about the way they have treated them years ago. and they're still doing it. >> stephanie: yeah. well, we should have some guilt i think. and if you don't -- >> the irish have been discriminated against as well. no dogs or irish need to apply. >> stephanie: right. >> they don't know the difference. >> stephanie: you're trying to get me to say manly. okay. stop it! [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] jacki mentioned this earlier jim. senator mitch mcconnell is going to get teabagged. did you hear the news? >> i'm not sure that's possible

if i retreat within my shell. >> he also doesn't have a nose. >> stephanie: he is reportedly getting a challenge in his 2014 re-election with kentucky businessman matt bevin planning to announce he's running against mcconnell in the republican primary. unless you get teabagged you better ske -- skedaddle along. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] >> stephanie: i feel the need to announce this. johnny depp likes to go commando. >> shouldn't do that when you have rips in your pant. >> stephanie: he had to patch a rip in his jeans with duct tape because he doesn't wear underwear. >> stephanie: i have not thought of the duct tape solution. i also go commando. >> have you ever ripped your jeans there? >> stephanie: cher scored $6.5 million for dagestan in russia. an area so dangerous tourists are warned away because of

bombings shoot-outs between police and terrorists that occur almost daily. but are no match for cher dactyl, as you know. >> we don't have time to play it. >> stephanie: that's it for us. i would like to thanks chris lavoie, jim ward, travis on phones who smells like a bag of garbage from comic-con. see you tomorrow on "the stephanie miller show."

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