tv Liberally Stephanie Miller Current July 26, 2013 6:00am-9:01am PDT
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[♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: well good morning, tv land, here is the three minutes that we fill with television packing material because jacki schechner is not here. however, she is watching right now. >> hi, jacki. >> hi jacki. >> hi, jacki. >> stephanie: she is at a wedding in miami, not her own, because presumably we would have been invited. but i got my eaglet has landed
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text yesterday. and look, jacki, i got the navy blue nail gels -- >> it totally matches your background. >> caller: -- >> stephanie: right. i usually stay in the red pink area -- >> butching it up a today, huh? [ laughter ] >> stephanie: t-bone with the tip in. t-bone is here. and we caused a minor panic yesterday, because somebody said we are going off the air in two weeks, and we are not going off the air -- current tv will be changing to al jazeera in a couple of weeks. nobody panic. we will have another television outlet and we will let you know. >> you realize for the first
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hour of the show now i'm going to get calls asking where that outlet is now. >> stephanie: i would have to kill you if i told you. >> that's right. >> stephanie: you'll be able to see us don't panic. you'll still be able to see jim do mark o'mara. >> he is just a wonderful guy. >> stephanie: it started here in the morning, and it explodes across the twitter verse, and people were tweeting all day about oh, he just changed my tires, and now i feel better about him murdering someone. >> he is just incredible. >> he put sunscreen on me yesterday so i wouldn't get skin cancer. >> stephanie: right? he is just a fantastic guy. >> he is awesome. he got me a new dentist. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: people in england
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are like i don't understand what you are making fun of. we were the first to report that, t-bone that he delivered the royal baby because it was breech and then he dropped it down a well so he could rescue it because he is a helper. that's it for us. 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... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned great leadership so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter) >> cutting throught the clutter of today's top stories. >> this is the savior of the republican party? i mean really? >> ... with a unique perspective. >> teddy rosevelt was a weak asmatic kid who never played sports until he was a grown up. >> (laughter) >> ... and lots of fancy buz words. >> family values, speding, liberty, economic freedom, hard-working moms, crushing debt, cute little puppies. if wayne lapierre can make up stuff that sounds logical while making no sense... hey, so can i. once again friends, this is live tv and sometimes these things
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gripping, current. >> occupy! >> we will have class warfare. current perspective. documentaries. on current tv. ♪ ♪ it's a beautiful day ♪ ♪ don't let it get away ♪ >> stephanie: damn you jacki. okay. we have to fill at the top of the hour, so i'm not prepared for the actual show. get back here jacki. >> she is in her snuggy lying in bed. >> stephanie: in her hoodie
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using her wax vac -- >> ow! >> stephanie: while watching the show. happy friday, everybody. sexy liberal john fugelsang will join us in hour about two. >> and dean obediallah in hour number 2. >> stephanie: yeah he wrote a great piece. anthony weiner not a good poster boy for therapy. [♪ somber music ♪] >> i bet the words oh god have escaped his mouths a few times. >> and he just keeps talking. >> it's not dozens and dozens it's six to ten, i suppose, but i can't tell you absolutely what somebody else is going to consider inappropriate or not. >> stephanie: you moron! spitballing here, six, ten? oh, more? okay. 12. baker's dozen. >> okay, a thousand. >> oh, my god!
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>> he needs to shut up. >> stephanie: he needs to shush now. >> i have an entire bag of shhhwith your name on it. >> stephanie: exactly. oh, dear god. quite the wealth of material today. >> but none of it is prepared? >> stephanie: i'm spitballing like anthony weiner. six maybe ten stories. >> who is to say what is prepared or not. >> ten top stories and you wouldn't miss a thing. >> stephanie: exactly. because we are liberal and pathetic helpers, i'm trying to find at least one story that makes anthony weiner feel better. [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: and i found two. this one women gets head stuck in railing during sex. that is embarrassing. police in russia -- just say
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nyet to sticking your head in the railing during sex. >> was snowden involved? >> stephanie: no. police were called after neighbors reported seeing a naked woman stuck in a stair banister. oh, boy, if boy band never has to make this call. i got it on instagram -- >> that's what boy band totally would do. >> stephanie: right? listen, if you are watching boy band, and i get my head stuck in a banister during sex, just shush. >> boy band doesn't make up until about 11:00. >> stephanie: exactly. the woman said she was trying to spice things up with her boyfriend when she got her head stuck in that position. the boyfriend left her there, and that's when she called the police. he is probably laughing his ass
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off. okay. see ya. slam. >> oops, i left the door open. >> stephanie: check this out. oh that is spicy. okay. and then there is this one -- [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: more to the point. swedish lawmaker calmly instagrams his balls. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: they are much more laid back about it over there. >> i love those swedish meatballs. >> stephanie: he instagramed his swedish meatballs. he wanted to show off his new tattoo on instagram -- he didn't realize until it was published that his balls were also in the photograph. >> stephanie: a russian woman
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with her head stuck in a banister, and the swedish meatballs. he acknowledged his mistake on twitter. he wrote hah hah -- >> hah hah. you are not seeing my swedish meatballs. >> stephanie: i accidentally posted a picture on instagram that showed more than intended. [ applause ] >> i think if you are going to acknowledge that mistake, that's the way to do it. >> there you go. oops. >> stephanie: he was like a polite chipmunk oh sorry -- >> after you. >> oh, no you first. >> stephanie: all right. fine american julie in seattle -- [ ♪ patriotic music ♪ ] >> stephanie: this is for jacki because she is watching in her
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hotel room. don't say anything pervy jim. >> i'm trying to think of something that is not pervy. did you get your head caught in a railing by any chance? [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: oh! jacki schechner has never gotten her head stuck in a railing. >> as far as you know. >> stephanie: and by the way, tommy, she was not dumping champagne on hot brie. she is at a wedding in miami. >> but if she does be sure to instagram that. >> stephanie: that's right. and jim will instagram you back a picture of his balls. okay. julie writes i agree a thousand percent with ms. jacki on weiner.
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it is common knowledge beyond giving rousing floor speeches he had little support from colleagues and accomplished zero legislatively. ic. yes, we know people do that, but a politician makes us have a discussion about tasteless sex habits is no longer a cheerleader for anything. one effecting their auraer to skills -- doesn't mean we have to set ours up to have a national leader who runs his personal and public life like a dog who chases cars. just what the party needed a
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grown man who sent pictures of his [ censor bleep ] over the internet continues to humiliate his wife. generally speaking democrats have higher standards than republicans when it comes to treating women. nancy pelosi had a couple of thoughts on all of this yesterday, didn't she? she was not amused. >> we are not amused. >> stephanie: beyond disappointed. >> disappointed! >> stephanie: yeah, a little bit. she had her grandma face on. >> you don't want that grandma face. >> stephanie: manage how this would go if it was a female politician spending pictures of her crotch on the internet. >> it's not a chick thing to do. >> stephanie: right. i have mentioned that many
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times. yeah, loved what you said about we had our marriage problems crap from weiner. you think if hilary runs she will have carlos danger as a top today. chris matthews sums up the bottom line -- [overlapping speakers] >> stephanie: idiot as mayor of new york. >> also chris matthew's panel had to explain to them what sexting was yesterday. >> stephanie: wow! that sends a tingle in my leg though! >> i bet dick cheney has never done that. >> stephanie: and you knew it would not be long -- because bill clinton keeps coming up -- and again, we have talked about how -- to me i get the obvious comparison, but beyond that, i think there just is not one. but you knew there was going to be an auto tune bill clinton in
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blurred lines. you just knew it. ♪ if you can't hear what i'm trying to say, if you can't read from the same page maybe i'm going deaf maybe i'm going blind, maybe i'm out of mind ♪ ♪ you're an animal baby it's in your nature just let me liberate you ♪ ♪ that's why i'm going to [ inaudible ] ♪ ♪ i know you want i know you want, i know you want you are a good girl ♪ >> stephanie: that's funny. >> that's hilarious. [ applause ] >> stephanie: speaking as a woman, bill clinton, you know -- [ screaming ] >> stephanie: i told you when i worked at oxygen i saw three floors of women clear out when
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he was in the marketplace. i'm just saying a lot of them go anthony weiner ick. >> why? >> stephanie: i didn't explain it. bill clinton is incredibly charming -- >> interesting. >> stephanie: there was kind of a high five thing to bill clinton, which i'm not saying he was anymore morally correct, it's just -- >> he was hotter. >> stephanie: yeah, and there is an ick thing with anthony weiner. i saw a lot of guys that were interviewed and they are like oh, dude this is pathetic. >> is it because bill clinton was hotter? >> yes, and -- >> that is so shallow. >> stephanie: and he is a historical figure, anthony weiner is not. >> well, he sort of is now. >> stephanie: the safe word
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♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ she's going crazy, i really don't care ♪ that's my prerogative ♪ ♪ they say i'm nasty, but i don't give a damn ♪ >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." twenty-two minutes after the hour. i get it because -- yeah. >> yeah. >> stephanie: 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere, because everything you read on dirty.com now from weiner you are like that is
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nasty. >> yeah. >> stephanie: and now the latest is there is more. but he's not really sure. six, ten something -- >> stephanie: it depends on your polling -- >> yeah. >> stephanie: by the way so there's one conflicting poll that shows that weiner might not be cooked. >> okay. >> stephanie: quinnipiac shows him still leading for the race for mayor in new york but the "wall street journal" is the one that most people are talk about, he lost 14 in that one. >> yeah. >> stephanie: among registered democrats, 25% support quinn. a 14% swing in quinn's favor. so the weiner -- it feels cooked to me, a skosh bit. >> little roasted. >> hopefully not split and
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roasted. >> stephanie: ewe. doug in nebraska. with what he is doing it might be. hello, doug. >> caller: hey, stephanie, how are you doing? >> stephanie: good. >> caller: does this not look like the type of guy that was hung up by his jock strap in high school. >> stephanie: that's what i'm saying. there is a cool factor with bill clinton. >> ladies and gentlemen, major swirly. >> stephanie: i cheated on my husband michael tomasky who i want to kiss and date and marry. it was [ inaudible ] not michael tomasky who wrote that he's not bill clinton. i'm guessing that he did spend a lot of time hung up by his jock strap in a gym somewhere, and also -- pardon you, jim, but also people are mocking him
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because it didn't seem like he -- what is the word -- you know, lasted very strong. if you are reading some of the sex messages. and bill clinton he was negotiating like with four dignitaries while he was getting -- you know. remember the one -- >> oh, yeah. >> stephanie: he could still do foreign policy. that's impressive. because most men get that bobblely baby head and bill clinton -- that is impressive. who was he talking to? >> i think it was the prime mainster of israel. >> so you are forgiving bill clinton because he is hottest and has more charisma than anthony weiner -- >> stephanie: i am not saying one way or the other -- >> that's kind of what you are saying. >> stephanie: i'm explaining on
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behalf of chickdom. >> he is hotter so you forgive him. >> stephanie: i don't forgive him. i think he was not an effective congress woman -- or man. there is a scandal. [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: he has a huge [ censor bleep ] for a woman. now i'm impressed. he was not a great congressman is what i'm saying. he really didn't get anything done legislatively because no one liked him. he was a jerk. and bill clinton i thought was a great president. i didn't agree with everything he did either, but i'm just saying -- >> a lot of people don't like what bill clinton did. >> stephanie: i didn't -- okay. all right. >> i'm just saying you are being a little bit shallow here.
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>> stephanie: what that is new information? has there ever been a deep end in this pool. >> there's no diving board, and there's a reason for that. >> stephanie: i'm a wading pool. you can stand anywhere in me. >> i'm sure weiner will take you up on that. >> stephanie: it depends on what kind of shoes i'm wearing. gabriel, hello. >> caller: i agree with the gentlemen. i'm confused as to what message you are sending out to kids. as long as you are good at your job, it's okay to be a cheat -- >> stephanie: that's not what i'm saying. >> caller: yes, you are. >> stephanie: i'm saying there is a difference -- >> caller: there is no difference. this has everything to do with what he did -- >> stephanie: i'm not commenting on that. i'm commenting on why he had a
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70-something approval rating -- >> caller: yes you are -- >> stephanie: i'm not saying it is okay. >> stephanie: you started this and look at how happy you are. >> caller: that's like a man come coming home and saying -- >> stephanie: i wouldn't marry him -- >> caller: i'm talking about the message you are sending here. >> stephanie: i'm not saying it is okay -- >> caller: yes, you did! >> stephanie: look what you have done. you started a chick fight. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> you went shallow on us with a double standard. >> stephanie: now we can't have nice chick things here. i'm making the same point that michael tomasky said in his piece -- >> caller: it's not different -- >> stephanie: oh, i -- [ laughter ]
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>> stephanie: if michael tomasky says it is okay -- i actually should have left her on hold as my co-host all morning, shouldn't i have? >> yes. >> stephanie: that would have been funny. no, it is not different! what about the children. first of all, i am not for the children. >> you never have been. >> stephanie: no. i'm not saying it is okay. i'm saying there is a reason why anthony weiner dropped precipitously in the polls and bill clinton didn't. i'll explain it after the break. >> stephanie: you better. >> stephanie: screw you! >> with your blue nails. >> stephanie: right back 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
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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) 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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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
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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? ♪
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>> announcer: stephanie miller. >> some fresh-faced 45-year-old bimbo. ♪ >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome it to. thirty-four minutes after the hour 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. now look what at the [ censor bleep ] storm you are riled up. >> what did i do now? >> stephanie: look, i'm just making the same point that my future husband michael tomasky is making in "the daily beast." >> if michael tomasky told you to jump off of a bridge you could do it. >> stephanie: yes, i would do it. i would stand by your man. no that was not my point. my point is also political. i'm not saying it is right. >> i'm not arguing with you about that!
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>> stephanie: i'm not arguing with you about that. his headline one is a weiner the other is a hero. he says huma -- she's not a victim anymore. it makes her a coconspirator. the comparisons between the two are absurd. and don't get me started on huma. this is just his opinion, but i agee with him. this is somehow like the bill clinton scandal, i have come to hate nothing more than glib and ignorant comparisons. two men caught up in sex scandals, they must be alike. please. the blurring of these differences aside from just
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making or culture that much stupider do it a profound disservice. ♪ if you can't hear what i'm trying to say, if you can't see from the same stage ♪ maybe i'm going blind ♪ [ ♪ patriotic music ♪ ] >> stephanie: my point is what clinton did was bad, but at least it felt within thealment of what normal human being do and didn't do it again in a year of being caught. it's also about -- >> right. he said he would stop doing it
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but then continued to do it. >> stephanie: right. >> that's a difference here. >> stephanie: blah blah blah blah. and then he said if i am a woman or gay i'm pretty clear which end of those i would rather be -- >> then he is jumped into the shallow end of the pool -- >> stephanie: well but he says clinton had a presidency to protect. that was a witch hunt against his personal life. people did not think -- anyway. yes, yes he almost through it away. but he was and it is sitting president, and quite a large majority of americans never considered it grounds for removal from office.
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hilary, i remember reading all of those columns how could she stay with him? how could she not stay with him. it was at plot to chase her husband from office -- blah blah blah. hilary was right there was a vast right-wing conspiracy. and he says google everything that happened back then. why did they hate clinton so? because he was a substantial historical figure and they knew it. he created more jobs than any modern present in the process showing trickle down economics was voodoo. it adds up to 60 or 70 electoral
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votes, that was why he was impeached -- [ applause ] >> stephanie: historically and politically -- >> you are pretty worked up aren't you? >> stephanie: because you keep poking me with a stick. >> you know how i know because are having an msnbc moment. >> stephanie: diane in north carolina. hello, diane. >> caller: hi. i just wanted to tell you my feeling about bill clinton and mr. weiner the difference between them is that women can imagine having a real good time with bill clinton -- >> stephanie: that's what i'm saying -- >> don't shot. >> stephanie: first of all i'm gay -- i'm just saying what women i know -- that's what they say. >> caller: that twinkle in his eye, and the voice the kind of crack -- >> stephanie: how are you doing
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darling? >> caller: on the other hand mr. weiner looks like a young curlily haired mr. smithers -- >> stephanie: like he was hung from a jock strap -- you know what it is because you were hung by a jocks strap -- >> no because you are excusing -- >> stephanie: i am not. >> caller: stephanie they need to back off of you because bill clinton just has it. okay? i mean, i could be his daughter but he is so fine when i see him now -- >> wow! >> stephanie: that's right. >> leave it alone! you are lucky she even performed for you bastards! [overlapping speakers] >> caller: -- all of his life. come on. >> stephanie: okay.
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janeta we're not talking about that he was hot, we are talking about he was president and this was a republican witch hunt. >> caller: in addition to that it's the jfk syndrome. look at jfk. look at all of the stuff they found out about him after the fact. >> ask not what your country can do for you. ask what marilyn did for me. >> caller: i love all of you guys, but it is a woman thing. >> stephanie: it is. >> so women can be just as shallow as men. >> stephanie: we have made a lot of good points here, and you keep going with that -- >> that's what you keep coming back to. >> bill: -- >> caller: also you guys really missed it yesterday, he is
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pushing for the runoff. get it. >> stephanie: i see was that a sex joke. okay. >> i'm not going to vote for hilary now because she is not as hot as tina dupuy. >> stephanie: i'm saying they had no business investigating his private life in the first place. >> then why bring up the tingle in his eye? >> stephanie: at least he wasn't sending pictures over the internet. >> she glauses right over that question. >> stephanie: well, he did have a tingle in his eye, but i'm just telling you i knew gay women that would [ censor bleep ] him. i'm just saying you can't deny that, and i'm not saying that makes it okay -- you know what i'm going to have a stroke. >> you are already stroking out under your arms. >> stephanie: grandma can't get this excited anymore.
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let's go back to the sequestration. >> yeah, let's go back to tax policy. >> stephanie: buddy go ahead. >> caller: when anthony weiner talks about his fantasy about being behind a woman and doing it in the mirror at that point is he a cocktail weiner. [♪ circus music ♪] >> stephanie: see what you did there. let's get to the serious part. >> caller: the serious thing our attorney general is a no-good douche bag. a federal judge gave relief for a dying man to marry his partner. the dying man's wish is that this man -- he is listed on the -- on his death certificate as a husband of someone else that simple. our attorney general is working
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to block it. how mean and petty and small can you be? >> stephanie: yeah. didn't somebody compare what anthony weiner was doing to being gay? >> yes. >> stephanie: [ inaudible ] cites -- andrew sullivan wrote in defense of anthony weiner. and i see points on either side. weiner was caught deceiving the public again by claiming he stopped sexting while he compulsion clearly was not over. the "new york times" [ inaudible ] once a politician has deceives people he gets a second chance, when he deceives again -- he says the problem i suspect a lot of people have with anthony weiner is not that he had an affair but he is not marchly good at politics.
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part of pitching your politics is pitching your image. everybody was playing that clip where he originally lied and said his account was hacked and then this latest one, i can't say, six, ten -- >> i told you there would be more. >> stephanie: we've had this very public thing happen to us. i don't know how it happened. because you wouldn't stop sending pictures of your [ censor bleep ] to people.% it is not his desire to get off that of fepd -- offends, it's sending pictures of yourself on twitter. to do the same thing again to your wife is cruelty. i find the argument for same-sex marriage compelling not in spite of morality but because of it.
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public office is an honored and honorable position, i don't think it's wrong to ask our officers to be compassionate and wise. i think it's the faith of all men sending [ censor bleep ] picks hurling through cyberspace. i promised sydney leathers and i failed to deliver. i will deliver more sydney leathers, and there is no safe word -- >> that was your stripper name at the itchy kitty. >> stephanie: right. >> wow, at least it's a good place to see celebrities. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪
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honest. i think the audience gets that i actually mean it. michael shure: this show is about being up to date so a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. joy behar: you can say anything here. jerry springer: i spent a couple of hours with a hooker joy behar: your mistake was writing a check jerry springer: she never cashed it (vo) the day's events. four very unique points of view. monday through thursday starting at 6 eastern. >> she gets the comedians laughing... >> that's hilarious! >> ...and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there's wiggle-room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> she's joy behar. >> and current will let me say anything. >> only on current tv. ♪
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♪ i love -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ so put another dime in the jukes box baby ♪ ♪ i love -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ going to take your time and dance with me ♪ >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome it to. fifty-one minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. all right. you think that things were bad already. i got a hate letter saying that i am racist against black people. [ applause ] >> why? >> stephanie: not only am i a race traitor against white people, but -- i'll tell you why. [♪ "jeopardy" theme music ♪] >> stephanie: now everyone is mad at me. that woman that i should have just left on hold for the whole show. she would have been like charlie brown's teacher.
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wa, wa, wa. jim who said why did they hate clinton so because he was a historical figure and they knew it. he was just a self centered and oilily person and i have begun to conclude his wife isn't much better. the moment in the press conference when anthony -- when huma learned of the allegations, he said she knew all along this is a process. this is something we knew going into this decision about whether i would run. that doesn't make her a victim. it makes her a coconspirator. let's not compare them to the couple who was the target of the biggest political hunt in
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history. who said that jim? >> dick cheney. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: no, michael tomasky in "the daily beast," talking about the clinton and weiner comparisons. >> he is going to tell you to lie down in the middle of the 5 freeway, and you are going to do it because you love him that much. >> stephanie: it depends on whether it is trafficy or not. >> let's hope george zimmerman will be there to save you. >> stephanie: the george zimmerman super helper guy, someone tweeted hey, guys george zimmerman just showed up to change my tire now i feel differently about him murdering somebody. >> he's so awesome. >> stephanie: all right. so a lot more on that and the juror that spoke out yesterday. we have a big full show. >> we really do. >> stephanie: but first of all,
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sydney leathers. that's our new safe word. you know, actually i was just going to say, michael tomasky echoed what jacki said -- and i do feel bad for huma as a human being, she is someone with a knew baby i feel bad, but jacki said the same thing she doesn't think she is brave for allowing a man to mistreat and humiliate her publicly in this fashion. but sydney leathers, also not a victim. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> stephanie: just like monica lewinsky also not a victim. she knew he was married. >> famously so. >> stephanie: yeah. weiner's sexting partner speaks. she is a 23-year-old democrat from indiana.
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like i said yesterday it's his pattern of these fan girls that write him. and he's like thanks can i bend you over -- whatever. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: i don't know why you are wearing [ censor bleep ] shoes -- >> i don't think this treatment is covered by a health policy. >> i think you need a different kind of treatment. >> stephanie: she said she was shocked as to be so foolish to do it all over again. he was making campaign promises that he totally changed, and i am proof that that's not true. asked if she felt that she loved weiner. she replied maybe not loved but i definitely cared for him. he texted her to hard defeat all of our chats. >> computer says naaa. >> stephanie: he said weiner was absolutely trying to deceive me and the voters.
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and that's what i think the issue issue issue. [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: and sydney leathers alleged i will contacted anthony weiner on facebook. her mother is no fan of the candidate, i have nothing to say except god help new york if he gets to get be mayor. say her mother laura leathers. >> carlos danger and laura leathers -- >> lola. >> lola, and -- >> stephanie: oh, dear. weiner tried to regain his political footing yesterday, presumably not in [ censor
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bleep ] shoes, just in regular man shoes. because i guess if you are in the shower that -- you have to wear shoes in the shower? what? >> what are you doing in the shower -- >> stephanie: so he can keep his footing. go to dirty.com you'll see. he sent an email reassuring his supporters. he said i will never quit on you. actually if you read some of the texts he quit rather quickly. i said doesn't he have a wife? and she said oh, yeah and brushed it off like it was nothing. leathers from her high school yearbook, her main goal is to become famous. >> well, she succeeded. >> stephanie: and weiner demonstrated a major shoe fetish.
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whenever they had phone sex, he always asked what shoes she was wearing. >> stephanie: maybe that will be next, maybe he is gay. what straight man cares that much about shoes. >> dudes only care about how the shoes make your legs look. they don't care about the brand. >> stephanie: right. i'm not acquainted with a straight man that cares that much about footwear. >> you don't care that much about footwear. >> no, i wear ugs who is going to get off on that? all right. right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪
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>> stephanie: all right. current tv land, hour number two, once again remind us to send a big magical fruit basket to jacki schechner who is off today so we have to fill all of these big chunks of time at the top of every hour. hi, travis bone thanks for helping fill the fray. you are the equivalent of conversational packing material. >> i'm like styrofoam peanuts. the rice cakes of talk radio. >> well, that killed 45 seconds. >> stephanie: there you go. and what did he say? nothing. it's about nothing.
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see, i just filled some more time. >> and we're not even doing radio that's the best part. >> why do we have our head phones on? >> stephanie: because we're radio geeks. we have a show coming up. >> yes we do. dean obediallah is coming up at 10:30. >> stephanie: and then sexy liberal john fugelsang? hour number three. >> the show is going to explode. [ explosion ] >> we have 1:20 left. >> stephanie: i will tease there's more paula dean nows. >> when i saw that story coming in i'med chris saying i can't. >> aunt jamima is involved.
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>> stephanie: and for those keeping track, i have been called a racist, and i have also been called a race traitor. now everyone hates me. >> kids who play on rocks. >> stephanie: right. fat kids. skinny kids. kids with chicken pox are a little on the fence, because they are home. so they have to watch. this is the worst time filler we have ever done. i'm just saying next hour -- i suggest you put on the yule log at the top of the next hour. >> or let's watch wax vac guy. >> stephanie: yeah, just over and over. oh, thank god. that's my favorite thing he does which means we're done.
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>> "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... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned great leadership so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter) >> cutting throught the clutter of today's top stories. >> this is the savior of the republican party? i mean really? >> ... with a unique perspective. >> teddy rosevelt was a weak asmatic kid who never played sports until he was a grown up. >> (laughter) >> ... and lots of fancy buz words. >> family values, speding, liberty, economic freedom, hard-working moms, crushing debt, cute little puppies. if wayne lapierre can make up stuff that sounds logical while making no sense... hey, so can i. once again friends, this is live tv and sometimes these things happen. >> watch the show. >> only on current tv.
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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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♪ ♪ it's a beautiful day ♪ ♪ don't let it get away ♪ >> stephanie: huh-uh, it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. six minutes after the hour. if you are just tuning in on the radio, you missed the worst three minutes of television ever. we are having to fill because jacki schechner is at a wedding. courtney said she loved it. goes to show you where the bar is. >> it's a where courtney is obviously. >> stephanie: oh it was great. okay. is she in chicago -- is she? >> yeah, she tweeted me and said by the way i'm in chicago. >> stephanie: i put a micro chip in here, i need to recalibrate
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my gps -- >> better watch out for bags of vipers they are all over the place this time of year. >> stephanie: by the way we caused some panic yesterday. somebody said we're going to be done in two weeks. current tv is changing to al jazeera in two weeks. we'll have another tv outlet. but i'll be doing the radio show until i die. follow us on twitter and at stephaniemiller.com and we'll let you know the new lands -- >> stephanie: so you can still see jim's impression of mark o'mara. >> he is just awesome. >> stephanie: we have listener comedy. hi steph, like you i have spent a lot of time expressing outage
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over george zimmerman. but i now see things differently. zimmerman has probably encountered dozens if not hundreds of black teenagers in his lifetime who he hasn't shot. roughly 30% of the population of sanford, florida is black. so while we have spent all of our focusing on the one he has shot, we overlooked the 15,000 that zimmerman didn't shoot. 15,000 to one is an amazing record. >> okay. >> awesome record. >> stephanie: so instead of being a glass half empty kind of liberal, remember all of the thousands george zimmerman hasn't shot and killed yet. [ applause ] >> you know what else is awesome, the soundtrack to zanadu. >> stephanie: wow, here is
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another story about how guns are always awesome. a woman shoots family of seven for backing up in her driveway. they decided to take a scenic root home, got a little lost and had to turn around, he backed up into a driveway and all of a sudden shots were fired. my wife hollered we're just turning around. scott notified officials who arrested the woman. she has had a continuous problem with team tearing up her driveway. that would be stand your driveway. >> f-ing punks. >> stephanie: can i just tell you people turn around in my driveway all the time. there could be a lot of dead folks if i -- because you know where i live -- it's one of
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those places where -- >> f-ing punks turning around in my driveway. >> stephanie: wow! so now because of my defense of trayvon martin thinking george zimmerman is a murderer who should be in jail i have been called a race traitor as you recall. so now -- who is this? shawn. i don't -- this hate letter and you are involved. >> oh i am. >> stephanie: black woman neck. >> oh, god this. i saw this yesterday. >> stephanie: did ya? >> yeah. >> stephanie: because you did that and i said you are not trying to do black woman neck are you? >> you called it black woman neck first. ♪ >> stephanie: okay. my black women friends have said the same thing to me -- and you make fun of me all the time. >> yeah, and you said i can't do black woman neck, because i have
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no neck. >> stephanie: which, jim -- jim has tried to helpfully pointed out to you a gym tip, you are not supposed to lift the whole machine. >> but what if you can? >> stephanie: oh show off. >> then you complain your back hurts. >> stephanie: wtf with you and your muscular build man talking about black woman neck. you and i -- and i -- your hateful staff and bigoted friends. that ain't funny. racist bigot -- >> my black friend rodney thought it was funny. >> stephanie: -- on your show who has not checked you in this. >> stephanie: i need to tell aisha tyler. >> yeah, rodney thought it was
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hysterical. >> stephanie: i'll get other behind me to rid you and your hateful platform. this is a reflection of you and your kids. well, he's new, i'm a childless loser. >> i don't think he was a potential fan. >> stephanie: really, shawn, really? are you not acquainted with the fact i am a race traitor. >> the rod up that man's butt must have a rod up itself butt. ♪ >> you are a race traitor stephanie. ♪ >> you are a race traitor. ♪ race traitor meep meep it's
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amazing what they'll do ♪ ♪ race traitor ♪ >> you are a race traitor. >> stephanie: okay. shall i just forward him all of the mail where i get called an n-word lover every day? wow. that's hard to accomplish pissing as many people off as i appear to. all right. wow. [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: and this just in about paula dean, really? paula paula dean's long time chef she asked me to dress and aunt jamima. one season's chef, has been head
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cook in dean's kitchens for the past 22 years, some friendship memories they share include humble beginnings years of birthday parties and all of the instances when she said she wanted charles and others to dress up inning aunt jamina costumes. dean denies the allegation. [ inaudible ] >> are you sure it wasn't mrs. butterworth. >> do we know mrs. butterworth's race? i thought she was just maple. >> stephanie: you are right. she is maple syrup colored. what race is maple. >> canadian. >> stephanie: maybe she's canadian. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: oh, we are ridiculous. okay. so speaking of the george zimmerman trial.
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b29 -- >> bingo. >> super fortres. >> stephanie: >> my first thought was second degree murder. and in the nine hours it was hard. i wanted to find something bad, something we would connect to the law. for myself he's guilty because the evidence shows he is guilty. george zimmerman got away with murder, but you can't get away from god, and at the end of the day, he's going to have a lot of questions and answers he has to deal with. the law couldn't prove it, but, you know, the world goes in circles. >> stephanie: interesting stuff. let's go to debbie in oregon. >> caller: hi, i want to talk
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about the zimmerman superhero moment. because all of the people that were involved are disappearing faster than cockroaches when the lights come on. anyway, if he is willing to lie about that -- >> stephanie: yeah. we have been calling bs on this whole thing from the beginning. it was weird the press conference got canceled there was mark o'mara and he is like the people that he rescued they didn't show up. >> caller: i'm really confused about all of these people that are getting all softy and stuff because it has been two weeks and all of a sudden there is a whole lot of people he didn't kill -- there were a whole lot of other people that manson didn't kill either. >> stephanie: that was a joke.
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jim you have were saying there was something about the 911 call. >> yeah, i was listening to part of the 911 call but the part i heard there was no mention of george zimmerman. >> stephanie: interesting. kevin in d.c., hello, kevin. >> caller: good morning, simultaneous racist and race hater. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: please keep that up. i like that kind of racism displayed towards me. >> stephanie: the interracial commingling we did at d.c. sexy liberal? is that what you are referring to? >> caller: we live in the trayvon martin age, don't publicize it, shhh. >> stephanie: okay. go ahead. >> caller: speaking of which jyeah, the juror saying thatdy -- i at least feel a bit more sane there was something going on back there, because like a lot of people might say, it was really really stunning,
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and when i see the poll -- you know, i caught up with the poll you mentioned the other day that 49% of white people thought that the verdict was just and true and good or whatever. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: wtf. i mean i guess we still have a long way to go. there is still a group of people in this country that our mere presence is a threat. >> stephanie: yeah, i was surprised by that too. the racial divide. >> caller: and one quick thing about -- somebody brought up what about oj simpson. a lot of black people i talked to -- because i told you that oj was guilty as a preacher with
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his pants down in a whore house, but it was more about maybe once white people know how black people feel. >> stephanie: and i think oj was a poor -- let's say hero for -- >> caller: absolutely. >> stephanie: for minority rights. i think george zimmerman is an awfully poor hero for -- oh chris rights turn off the air or send that bitch to a doctor because that is [ censor bleep ] disgusting. listen, everybody give me a break today. [ applause ] >> stephanie: i may be stroking out, and nobody cares. >> we'll just call john fugelsang. he is actually going to be here in about 40 minutes. >> stephanie: good. good. all right. nineteen minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: it's not radio.
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♪ >> listen to -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. . >> -- from a location midway between the loud speakers. ♪ one, two, three, four hit it ♪ >> this sequence is repeated several times. ♪ >> stephanie: uh-huh. okay. >> is that michael weiner. >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. twenty-four minutes after the hour, oh sorry pardon me, didn't mean to interrupt you. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. terry writes steph the modern republican party the vagina dem demagogues -- [♪ circus music ♪] >> stephanie: you know ken
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cuccinelli -- >> the kuch they call him. >> do they know what that means? >> they probably don't. >> stephanie: he is running for governor. he is far, far right -- >> he wants anti-sodomy laws passed. he wants to pass any kind of laws that stop sex except for procreation. >> stephanie: ken cuccinelli currently in a right race recently attempted to use social media to bolster his supporter database, if those who had been to his website would quote add
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your name to our map. yes, i would love to endorse you. my name is satan and i love to support you. somebody writes no thanks i like [ censor bleep ] jobs. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: somebody writes no, but perhaps you can tell me how an overzealous prosecutor is supposed to be conservative choice. eric wrote no but please have your wife look me up. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: and david writes simply [ censor bleep ] me. with a b. >> okay. >> stephanie: okay. that's funny. [ giggling ]
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>> i'm sure he might blow him a kiss. >> stephanie: exactly. sergei in fort worth. >> sergei. >> caller: it's actually sir-gee. >> stephanie: so screw you. >> caller: i have been listening since '06 -- >> since you were six? >> stephanie: since '06. go ahead. >> caller: number two i'm a gay man, and i normally like dudes but i think clinton and weiner are both hideous. >> in the '90s -- >> stephanie: he is charming -- >> caller: i have seen pictures of him from the '90s and he wasn't hot back then either. and finally number three looks
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are not, wrong is wrong. infidelity is inexcusable. i don't care if you are the hottest dude on earth, infidelity is wrong period. i don't care how anybody looks -- >> yep. >> caller: it sickens me to see people defending bill clinton. what he did was just as wrong -- >> stephanie: that is true. and yet you are kind of a prudy gay man, aren't you? >> caller: no comment. >> he is a lady in the street and a freak in the bed. >> stephanie: i'm just going to keep of februarying everyone this morning. ross hello. >> caller: don't pick on steph she has about an hour left and she is going to be accused of hating gays. >> >> stephanie: right. >> caller: no wonder you are
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sweating bullets. big difference between bill clinton and anthony weiner. anthony weiner is one of these guys that is going to be walking around central park in an overcoat. the guy is a flasher. clinton is not a flasher. >> stephanie: yeah and at least he wasn't dumb enough to be tweeting pictures over the internet, oy vey. oh, goodness. okay. twenty-nine minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ 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
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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. 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?
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>> announcer: stephanie miller. >> i am calling human resources and setting up a mediation for you. >> i told you, i don't drink that much at work. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." thirty-four minutes after the hour. >> was that amanda bynes. >> stephanie: stop it. who wants some more cocktail weiner for breakfast. >> it's not dozens and dozens. it's six to ten i suppose, but i can't tell you absolutely what someone else is going to consider inappropriate. >> stephanie: six, ten, sixty-nine -- >> if he doesn't have a solid definition of inappropriate -- >> stephanie: yeah i think it was about six and a half that hit an inappropriate -- >> after the first time he said he was never going to do it
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anymore. >> i am never ever going to do -- except for this time. ha ha ha ha ha. >> i am not one of your fans! >> stephanie: oh right. my buddy dean obediallah who i'm on cnn with almost every night. good morning, sir. >> how are you? i heard it has been a crazy morning. >> little bit. >> stephanie: little bit of news. little bit of news. you actually brought up a good point that democrats invoke therapy, and republicans invoke god. i would not say that anthony weiner is the best poster boy for therapy. >> no, but huma talked about it yesterday, they have been in a lot of therapy. and other people have said he has to go back to therapy. it's just politicians playing to their base. republicans you talk about god,
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in new york more people believe in therapy than god. so they are like i know what you are talking about. >> stephanie: yeah he was probably plenty religious during it -- >> oh, god! >> well he didn't have sex. i don't know what he was doing while he was tweeting and typing these things -- >> stephanie: i have a good idea what he was doing -- >> does he have three hands? >> or was it purely a bizarre visual thrill for him that was like a game. like i fight with the right-wing trolls on twitter, it is not sexual -- >> stephanie: but it gets you off. >> yeah in a intellectual sense because they are basically dumb people. and playing with the bible for the south, it works perfectly. so i don't think there is anything different.
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i think you took a southern politician and put him up here he or she would talk the way you have to get reelected. >> stephanie: you contrasted talking about therapy with mark sanford. a god of second chances and be the better for it. and he said he was aware of his human failings. yeah, it's interesting how easily god forgives republicans. >> and when mark sanford won a few months ago, he said i stand before you with a whole new appreciation of the god of second chances. so there is more than one god, i guess. >> stephanie: and eliot spitzer no mention of god, and vitter he said i asked for forgiveness from god and my wife.
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>> in the south republicans put god first, then your wife then your girlfriend mistress prostitute, whatever it might be. >> stephanie: you talk about they are playing to their base. you say god is huge. >> yes. i think they are really playing to their base but they invoke it well and it works. everybody believes in forgiveness, except for like aerial castro or somebody like that. >> stephanie: that's what we were talking about on cnn was ariel castro and i'm a little swishy as a liberal on the death penalty anyway, but i think it's more appropriate for him because
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it spares them from having to testify -- >> oh, my god. i used to be a lawyer and i wasn't even a great lawyer but when i cross-examined people they start sweating. it confuses them. there are literally 440 counts of rape. meaning these women have to testify about 440 times being raped. and how confusing and is that the right day? and it just becomes a painful deal for them. so for me it is all about the victims. if they say do the plea bargain just life in jail, i'm cool with that. i didn't believe that medved agreed to that. >> stephanie: yeah, a worm hole opened up in the universe once again. we were talking about -- a lot of this too is how weiner has handled this. he said my twitter account was
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hacked. i can't say for sure it was me. i think it is breaking the public truth even. he did the same thing again after telling the public that he was, you know, not doing it anymore and was reformed and all of that. don't you think -- i mean -- it looks like the latest polling that's what is happening. >> that is where it goes beyond being between him and his wife or family and us is when you can't trust the guy. it's like he's almost sociopathic. he really has some problems between right and wrong on this issue. i love when he said i apologize to anyone who may have received this like he is spamming pictures of his weaner all over the world. >> stephanie: yeah, you are right. that's really incriminate. >> stephanie: yeah he is in a
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lot of in-boxes. what do you think there was a quinnipiac poll that showed him still ahead. >> i live in new york city. i think the ones that are still supporting him now will probably stay with him until the end. christine quinn is going to win the primary, but she is not going to get to the point of there not being a runoff. and i hope it's a real candidate, not weiner so they can talk about the real issues on where we live. let them have a real discussion as opposed to weiner and twitter and facebook it gets away from the issues that people live in new york city about. crime is doing pretty well here but the racial profiler -- he was at cnn the other day going on after us and i said this surveillance of muslims is going
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too far when the police police -- commissioner is standing next to me. >> stephanie: so there is general weiner fatigue? >> there is weiner fatigue, and spitzer is looking like husband of the year. >> stephanie: yeah, i agree. and i really like eliot personally, and i think he is very smart, and we have been all over the differences with clinton and this and that and he said i told you there was more. it reminded me of lance armstrong saying well you should have known i was doping you idiot. >> how could i win those races? i'm a small white guy, you jerk. >> stephanie: but it's about the public trust. that lance lied to everybody including the public. gawker says lance armstrong has filed a motion to dismiss the
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federal lawsuit claiming he didn't defraud his sponsor, because the postal service should have known he was cheating the whole time. news outlets reported he was doping and the post service should have known about his lying cheating ways but did nothing. >> why didn't you stop me? >> stephanie: is that incredible or not? >> as a former lawyer that is something i would have brought up too, because you say some of it is the victim in this case for not being sir couple speck. and armstrong should run for mayor comptroller. he has the scandal -- >> stephanie: yeah. >> you have a sex tape? cabinet position. [ laughter ] >> >> stephanie: we played the
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anthony weiner sound bite before we had you on, so this is the moral question of our time, how many pictures of your [ censor bleep ] do you have to send before it's inappropriate? [♪ "jeopardy" theme music ♪] >> stephanie: where would you put the under, over. >> it depends on the span of time i'm going to go with three? [ applause ] >> stephanie: while your wife is pregnant. let me educate you just one! >> no, have john talk about this woman that is in relationship with weiner online, she came to him first. >> stephanie: i did not know that. >> he mentioned it in the break so you can have this little information -- >> stephanie: oh, she's like a liberal guy fan girl, right? >> yeah, and she sent pictures of her with not a lot of
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clothing on. >> stephanie: oh, my god. >> so you have that on john. i saw him last night, and it's -- you guys are great. >> stephanie: by the way, as we know john fugelsang is unbelievably mind bendingly smoking hot, so this girl, come on -- she is very indiscriminate. there's -- >> i get photos from women saying can you forward this to john. >> stephanie: really, you can't get john, so anthony weiner is your next? >> john would be a great mayor of new york. >> stephanie: there you go. >> articulate -- >> stephanie: and dreamy. >> dreamy to many. white and pasty to others. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: you were on last night with our good friend hot brea, melissa fitzgerald. who asked me is dean single?
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and i said no but it's okay because he is muslim. >> yeah, i can have more than one wife. >> stephanie: i'll try to hook you up brother. >> thank you. >> stephanie: i'll sniff out her friend's interest in being wife number two. >> well send me some photos -- if your name is anthony weiner, carlos danger is a step up. >> stephanie: yeah it's like all right. whatever. somebody said he should have said his name was john boner. >> that's too obvious. >> stephanie: dean see you in the tv machine later. >> all right. >> stephanie: we're on the erin burnett show pretty much every day with dean and others at 4:45 pacific -- >> not literally on erin --
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>> only on current tv. ♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ working for the weekend ♪ oh, you want to be in the show ♪ >> stephanie: oh, yeah. fifty-one minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. well that was a little bomb that dean obediallah dropped. john fugelsang apparently he said -- told him last night that what is her name leathers --
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>> sydney leathers wrote to john fugelsang as well. so she is obviously like a liberal guy fan girl. >> we're going to be talking to john fugelsang in about 15 minutes. >> stephanie: i can't wait. >> you might want to stay tuned for that. >> stephanie: right? [♪ dramatic music ♪] >> that's what we call a tease. >> stephanie: i wonder what the name generator does with fewinger sang. i have already forgotten mine. at any wait, by the way there is an actual carlos danger. he is real. he is a republican. and he wants you to leave him alone. gawker brings us the story, carlos danger is not a quaff, it is also the name of a real psychiatrist in miami, with a real address and phone number. he does not want to talk to you,
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his answering service does not want to talk to you, his staff who have been forced to be the front of jerks really don't want to hear your calls. no comment the receptionist barked. >> i put john fugelsang's name in the -- >> stephanie: what happened. >> rolondo covert. >> stephanie: we just pictured our vacation pictures. and donald -- [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> stephanie: for one is disgusting. and there's one funny picture of me getting a facial and i have white stuff all over my face. and donald writes that's what steph would look like after a night with me. >> what was that white goop?
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>> stephanie: i don't know. it was a mask. when you are at a spa there are blurred lines. ♪ ♪ if you can't hear if you can't read from the same page ♪ ♪ baby i'm going deaf, maybe i'm going blind, maybe i'm out of mind ♪ [ cheers ] ♪ try to masticate you, but you are an animal baby ♪ ♪ just let me liberate you, you don't need no [ inaudible ] ♪ ♪ that's what i'm [ inaudible ] ♪ >> stephanie: yeah, you know you want it. ♪ i know you want it you're a good girl ♪ >> stephanie: i love auto tuning. who doesn't. mike in madison, you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, mike. >> caller: hi, first off my last
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name is dickman, and i have never flashed by weaner so it can't be the last name. [ giggling ] >> stephanie: i'm sorry, what mr. dickman? >> caller: he is another high profile person who has a sex addiction and can't control himself, so i don't really feel sorry for him, but i listened to the interview with the 23 year old, and for her to play this out like she was a victim -- did someone force her on to the internet >> stephanie: no she went after him actually. >> caller: i wish we would hold people to a higher standard and that starts with trust. >> stephanie: that's exactly it. and i think it speaks to personal issues too. it's not what someone does. it's the trust, and i think you are right, in this case it's more about the public trust. that he made such a big deal
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about telling the public and even i went okay. give him a second chance. and it makes us feel like idiots. >> caller: thank you, folks. >> stephanie: thank you mr. dickman, we appreciate it. seriously. if george zimmerman can have a series. >> more powerful than a locomotive, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's zimmerman! >> zimmerman who came to this planet from a strange and foreign place, and settled in florida jwhere the fought for truth, justice, and the american way, his american way. >> help me george zimmerman, you are my only hope. >> the adventures of zimmerman! [ applause ]
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>> stephanie: really, you think he rescued -- how long would it take him to get to the car. never mind i'm winded. >> there are some rumors floating around possibly salon.com. that the accident happened here where george was, and an officer arrived on the scene and called george on his cell phone and said get down here. >> stephanie: the whole thing seemed weird to me that authorities -- oh, the authorities that didn't investigate the original murder or prosecute you. >> salon is reporting that as a rumor. >> stephanie: tell me the story is not the weirdest thing you ever heard. really? he rescued some family from a car, who suddenly canceled the press conference at the last minute. >> hey, george, you have got to get down here, because there's a car that is overturned and it would look really good -- we
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have no information -- >> that's true. >> but it wouldn't surprise me a bit. >> stephanie: anthony in florida. >> caller: hello stephanie. i have a real problem with juror b29 -- >> stephanie: bingo. >> -- coming out at this point in time, and let me tell you why. she must have truly believed that some of the facts in the case pointed to murder, and she seems to be a woman of conscience, why not follow your conscience hold out for a hung jury and hope for a retrial? >> stephanie: yeah, i get it. but i think it's again the stand your ground in the jury instructions. john fugelsang next, hello, on the "stephanie miller show." ♪
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[ technical difficulties ] >> stephanie: sydney leathers. >> she sent john pictures. >> stephanie: that's what i think. that's what dean said. she sent pictures as well. slut that's what i'm saying. >> slut, she is a slut look at her! slut! >> stephanie: waiz looking at the screen capture of you doing mark o'mara, and that was really funny. >> george you should get down here. >> stephanie: we were saying salon was reporting that because that would be hilarious if they are the first one to call bull [ censor bleep ] on the whole george zimmerman story. oh, why it's stunning the timing of that. so that's what the rumor is is the cop at the scene called george zimmerman. >> there were rumors of i heard this is what happened -- >> stephanie: yeah, anyone with
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an opposable thumb can call a radio show -- >> stephanie: actually they just need a finger. >> all you need is a stump. >> siri can do it for you now. >> stephanie: i know we need time to fill things but you add nothing. [ buzzer ] >> packing peanuts. >> i'm packing peanuts, you are wallpaper. >> i'm rubber and you are glue. >> stephanie: what was my point? >> all about eve over here -- >> stephanie: i did have a point. i don't remember what it is now, but something about the zimmerman thing. >> you have 20 more seconds to fill. >> stephanie: really? at my age what are the chances i'm going to get that thought back that quickly? >> that was so three minutes ago. >> all right. wrap it up. >> stephanie: and scene! ♪ if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high.
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♪ ♪ it's a beautiful day ♪ ♪ don't let it get away ♪ >> stephanie: uh-huh. it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. six minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. oh, it's friday. which is always exciting but today even more. yeah, yeah, from the new york bureau. ♪ fugelsang's just all right with me ♪ >> oh. >> stephanie: squee! good morning, john fugelsang. >> greetings children hello from new york city. >> stephanie: our mutual friend dean obediallah was just on -- >> yeah, and he was on my show last night. >> stephanie: i know, and he
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mentioned that this -- what is her name sydney leathers wrote to you as well? >> oh, man, he told you that on air. [ explosion ] >> stephanie: sorry. >> i have exchanged emails with more than one of the women in anthony weiner's life because they tell you when that happens, although i got some letters from sydney over a year ago. very nice girl. likes politics and i think it's just like there are athletic groupies, and sports groupies and politics groups and anthony weiner doesn't really have a sense of parameters. >> stephanie: we were laughing right. we said liberal guy fan girl. but i said there's quite a drop-off from john fugelsang to anthony weiner. clearly it was grief over not being able to get the cream of the crop. >> well, thank you. she was a very lovely girl. but here in new york the weather has been so disgusting huma is
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defending it. [ buzzer ] >> i did the wendy williams show yesterday and all they wanted to talk about was anthony weiner. it's amazing this is the first sex scandal, with no sex, the guy is probably never going to have sex again, he is having no sex of any kind, and the media keeps saying he needs to pull out. [♪ circus music ♪] >> stephanie: all right. john fugelsang. the latest -- obviously the nba "wall street journal" shows a huge drop in his poll. what do you think is happening? >> he is not going to drop out. he is going to shuffle along, and gracefully lose the primary and go away. and that's how it is going to play out. he will stay in the race do very well in debates, say a lot of great things and then grasz gracefully go away. >> stephanie: i love he says
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things like this. >> it's not dozens and dozens, it's six to ten, i suppose, but i can't tell you absolutely what someone is going to consider inappropriate or not. >> he is making eliot look great. eliot spitzer is doing terrific stuff, and i think this helping elliot and christine quinn. and that's it. this woman has done everything society tells her she is supposed to do. stand by her husband better or worse, she keeps her family together, and she said i'm doing this for myself, my child, and my family. >> stephanie: i said that i can't speculate a woman with a new baby and what that is like. but it's interesting jacki is the one that said -- she object
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objected to people calling her brave, she said letting a man treat her like that is bad -- >> yeah. this woman's -- sydney i have never met her. she did send me some emails -- >> stephanie: did she send pictures john fugelsang? >> if she did i would be selling them now. >> show me on the doll where she touched you. >> she just seemed really young. and the fact that congressman weiner couldn't tell that tells me he was exploiting her -- >> stephanie: but she is also not a victim. >> oh no. she knew he was married and she is trying to get money out of it.
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she is hardly innocent. there are people you go down the path and say oh let me be the adult here. and he chose not to. i never spoke to her on the phone. i spoke to her on facebook, but again he exploited a vulnerable person no doubt. and that's hot for some people. [ laughter ] >> but the men out there in steph world if a woman you only met on the internet really wants you to send a picture of your penis, most likely she has a penis of her own. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: bonnie in riverside, california. hey, bonnie. >> caller: hi, steph. you let me down. i thought you were above sweating. like that wing nut that called in. >> stephanie: you thought i was what. >> caller: i thought you were above sweating. >> stephanie: no, i'm a woman of a certain age.
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>> caller: you are guilty of being witty, gorgeous and a liberal, and you are on the hit list obviously. but weiner's -- but what if weiner's wife had cancer was in the hospital, and he was out having an affair like gingrich. i remember him screaming at some of the wing nuts for liberal standards. and i think we should be kind of backing him and let him -- i think a lot of these people are set up. because i remember you saying you wanted to have babies one time with keith olbermann. and they admitted it got him out. >> stephanie: well that was a while ago. >> the gop are hate mongers. god is love and that's what christians are. god bless you all. bye. >> stephanie: john, she'll take no further questions. >> i can tell.
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she made a couple of good points if anthony weiner has tortured some guy or used taxpayer funds to go have sex with someone in other country, the gop would have to support them. mark sanford blazed a mighty trail, and anthony weiner doesn't come anywhere near vitter, but they'll forgive a serial sinner, but not a serial liar. >> stephanie: yeah. >> and huma ever plans for running office herself, she'll have to leave him. sometimes you really do love and person and you forgive them and make it better and the marriage gets stronger. but i think if she ever wanted to run compared to hilary she would have to divorce him to have credibility at this point. >> stephanie: that was part of
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my point about the hypocrisy on the right, people on their third and fourth marriages were commenting on clinton's thing in his first marriage. >> yeah. we lost two republican congressman for inappropriate sexual things in the past years, please, david vitter is still in congress. >> stephanie: exactly. [ baby crying ] >> thank you screechy baby. i come here to get away from one of those. >> stephanie: speaking of polls, rand paul polls ahead but still gets crushed by hilary. they are all running for the right to get crushed by hilary. this would be awesome, right? john this is it. are they really going to go that right-wing crazy. >> oh, we can dream. >> stephanie: a new ppp poll
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shows rand paul holding a three-point lead over his nearest competitors but still trailing hilary by 8 points. rand paul's defense of lincoln hating success nis hasn't hurt him it has only helped him. >> that's because rand paul has done so much for black folks, especially when he opposes the americans with disabilities act. and there was a great piece about please make ted cruz run. and hillary clinton is not monolithic, folks. she's a terrible public speaker. the gop rated here in the '90s loved her as a rather conservative senator, and now they hate her again. i need a mix tape for all of the
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changes. >> stephanie: all of the republicans who poll closest to hilary now are all losing to rand paul, who as tomasky pointed out it literally is not outside the realm of possibility, it could be ted cruz. my friend, michael tomasky -- [ ♪ patriotic music ♪ ] >> whom you want to date hug, and love and call george. >> stephanie: you are right, john, this is a great piece. ted cruz off to the races. he was in iowa insisting he was not thinking about 2016. >> and ted will take the whole party down with him too. >> stephanie: and he has only been in the senate seven months -- >> well, barack obama lacked the experience that's why i like sarah palin and ted cruz. >> stephanie: yeah. in today's republican party nothing is preposterous.
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he could run, the real question is how far is the gop willing to go before it comes back to reality. and the answer is pretty damn far. far enough to back cruz. and we should have another goldwater year. >> that would be so awesome. >> stephanie: ted cruz much better choice -- >> i want to see that birth certificate, it is going to be huge. where is that canadian birth certificate, cruz? >> stephanie: seventeen minutes after the hour. we'll be right back on the >> michael:. >> oh, i like her. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ 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
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♪ we got the beat we got the beat ♪ ♪ yeah we got -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> stephanie: uh-huh. it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. twenty-two minutes after the hour 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. sexy liberal john fugelsang in the new york bureau, fridays with fugelsang. excuse me. hello john fugelsang -- >> good morning. >> stephanie: i was reading more of the michael tomasky piece you were talking about it really is so titillating that they might choose someone like ted cruz. >> that would be awesome. >> stephanie: i bet conservatives will think in the back of their minds, what the hell we're going to lose anyway. we might as well choose somebody we really like.
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i say yes, pick the crazy bastards win! go on principles. >> reck it reck it reck it we'll be gerrymandering for decades to accommodate you freaks. >> stephanie: tomasky says cruz would lose clinton will destroy him. if they put clinton against cruz, the democrats could win georgia. [ phyllis diller laughter ] >> stephanie: a cruz presidency would be a horror beyond my ability to comprehend -- >> oh, the comedians would dance. >> stephanie: he says i welcome a cruz candidacy, the most important thing for that to could is for the republican party to return to something that it was in the '80s when it
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wasn't devoted to an abstract america. a cruz candidacy hastens this day. >> this 1950s era they long for it was more socially conservative, but it was also morphous cally responsible. >> stephanie: yep. go ahead, jim. >> no, never mind. >> stephanie: all right. >> obama: we have begun to lay a new foundation for a stronger more durable, more sustainable economic growth. >> stephanie: if we could get a little help! >> obama: with an endless distraction of political posturing, and phony scandals and lord knows what washington keeps taking its eye off of the ball. and that needs to stop. >> that passage drove fox news
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a-dump yesterday. >> they had so many mass orgasms over the phony scandals -- >> what about benghazi! >> benghazi is a real tragedy that you exploited to smear a president -- >> but the irs! >> stephanie: yesterday jim as you know the boner said the president's speech was an easter egg with no candy in it. >> it doesn't mean there is any sizzle left after you have reheated this thing so many times. >> the bar must be hungry. >> sweet or savory. >> a twinkie with no jam. >> an easter steak with no peanut butter. >> stephanie: that's exactly
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right. god. do we need to write everything for you boner. brian in charlotte, you are on the "stephanie miller show" with john. >> caller: hey, good morning. hi john. >> hello. cm >> caller: on the zimmerman thing, they proved he was a liar. they proved his family were liars. they have this guy on videotape changing his story about a thousand times, but what they failed to prove was that he got out of the car to intentionally kill trayvon martin. >> no, they didn't prove that. and i don't believe anyone believes that was his intent when he got out of the car. >> caller: right, so according to the law, which is the worst law in the history of laws he was able to get away with murder. and the brother who called who
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said you are a racist, if you are listening, good luck trying to find other brothers to back you, because it ain't happening. >> stephanie: thank you, baby. the president again. >> obama: unfortunately over the last couple of years in particular, washington hasn't just ignored the problem, a lot of times it has made things worse. i'm laying out my ideas to give the middle class a better shot and if the republicans don't agree with me, i want them to lay out their ideas. if they have better ideas to make sure that every american knows the security of affordable health care, share it with the country. instead of repealing obamacare and slashing our budgets in education and research and infrastructure, that's not an economic plan. >> yes, it is! >> obama: you won't pay the bills in this country when we already racked up the bills. that's not an economic plan. that's just being a dead beat.
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>> stephanie: snap. salon tweeted so much for autopsies and rebranding. voters for republicans down 20% since -- >> wow! [♪ somber music ♪] >> stephanie: how is victory the victory elephant selling these days now? >> they copped out and said they are conservatives now. >> stephanie: the president one more time. >> obama: health care costs starting to slow down deficits plummeting jobs up exports up, energy production up. we have cleared away the rubble from the financial crisis thanks to the grit and resilience of the american people, and we have begun to lay a new foundation for a stronger more durable, more sustainable economic growth. >> stephanie: and by the way, john, speaking if they go that far right, and choose ted cruz or rand paul for president, it's
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the same problem that they had in the house, they are only worried about be primaried on the right. >> that's right. chris christie is a person who would repeal roe v. wade and make women who terminate pregnancies go to jail. >> stephanie: speaking about the right, we'll tell you about mitch mcconnell's turtle trouble. >> oooooooooh. i have some lettuce stuck in my craw. >> stephanie: all right. we'll talk about that next. fridays with fugelsang next 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.
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>> 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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bodies ... (adam) we're going to places where few others are going. [lady] you have to get out now. >> lots of terrible things happen to people growing marijuana. >> this crop to me is my livelihood. >> i'm being violated by the health care system. (christoff) we go and spend a considerable amount of time getting to know the people and the characters that are actually living these stories. (vo) from the underworld to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current. >> occupy! >> we will have class warfare. (vo) true stories, current perspective. documentaries. on current tv. ♪
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>> well i have never seen a woman drink that much. you are amazing -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> oh, heck, i haven't even started yet. woo! [ laughter ] >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. thirty-four minutes after the hour. fridays with fugelsang 1-800-steph-1-2. jim we have turtle trouble -- >> turtle trouble. >> stephanie: allies of senator mitch mcconnell tried to push matt bevin not to launch a primary challenge. mitch mcconnell's people reached out to matt trying to convince him not to run. they were desperate not to have him because they are scared. first they tried to threaten him and then tried to dangle shiny political prizes [♪ mysterious music ♪] >> i'm just going to stay in my
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shell from now on. >> turtle trouble. >> stephanie: yeah, so this is how they are already tea partying him. mitch voted for all of the bailouts, voted to raise the debt ceiling at least nine times, he voted for higher taxes. he is one of the biggest cult profit of bigger spending. >> that is a lie. he didn't vote for amnesty. amnesty is what ronnie reagan did. so if you don't like amnesty, you have to throw out your ronald reagan blow-up love doll. >> stephanie: yeah it's interspee -- interspecies. daryle you are on with john go
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ahead. >> caller: to me it is amazing that anthony weiner is still running for mayor. because part of the job description is to keep your nose clean and stay on the straight and narrow and he's not doing that, and -- i mean first and foremost he is really above all else a figure head. >> stephanie: he is definitely not keeping his keyboard clean that's for sure. >> caller: yeah, he has dozens of people as advise source to help in decision making and his job is to look like a mayor. >> and turns out he is kind of a weaner. >> and carlos danger you killed my career, prepare to die. first the naked pictures then filthy dialogue then carlos danger. he is the first man to use politics as a stepping-stone to porn. >> stephanie: kathy in spokane.
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you are on with john. >> caller: hello. i wanted to talk about the situation with anthony weiner. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: what i am not understanding is why is it different -- i mean why do you guys keep lifting hilary up? and why do you keep ignoring the other people? why are you only comparing what happened after he was elected as before he was elected president? >> that's a bunch of questions at once. >> caller: let me narrow it down then. why is hilary praised and huma whatever her name is -- >> stephanie: huma. >> caller: huma is being demeaned by you guys. >> stephanie: no i said i have sympathy for her in having a baby and all of that -- >> hilary wasn't praised. she took a lot of really unfair heat -- >> caller: i'm talking about
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right now. >> well, you brought it up. that's why i addressed it -- >> stephanie: hang on, let her talk, john. go ahead, kathy. >> caller: i'm talking about right now. it's like you have some just completely -- you are acting like the republicans do like we're not going to talk about that part. we're only going to talk about this. we're not going to talk about the women to we're just going to talk about what happened when she gave that interview with "60 minutes," but there are other prior to. and the monica girl came after that interview when he looked straight in the camera -- >> stephanie: right. no one is saying what clinton did was right. we were talking about that earlier, i just think there are a lot of difference and tomasky wrote a great piece about that as well. it was taxpayer funded partisan
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witch hunt into clinton's personal life while he was a very popular president. and anthony weiner put this out himself. that's part of it. he was dumb enough to put this out himself over twitter and whatever. on facebook, online and then asked the public for forgiveness, saying he reformed when he knew he hadn't. >> anthony weiner is guilty of creepy male online behavior and that's the sort of thing any woman with a computer has had to deal with in the past. and it's not like you are a rock star. you are running for the public trust. and it just doesn't work. last night we tried to focus on anthony weiner's record in congress. and we had one call in and say carlos danger did support the iraq war, but the texting really
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makes me angry. he was a great champion of single-payer health care. he was an attack dog for the left. he was a great spokesman in many ways. he only passed one bill in 12 years of congress, and he has a really really really long history of saying factually inaccurate things about the palestinian people. he is a great spokesman -- but he blew it. >> stephanie: yeah, david in st. louis. you are on with john. >> caller: hi, steph. how are you doing? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: everybody is talking about this weiner character. i just wanted to say that's not the worst thing he did was this peter tweeter stuff. [ laughter ] >> caller: the worst thing he did was to enable a republican to take his seat in congress and nobody has even talked about that and that is unforgivable.
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>> stephanie: uh-huh. that's right. gary in cincinnati. hi, gare. >> caller: hey, stephanie, y'all keep talking about weiner let's go back to david vitter and mr. larry craig it's all of these family value guys -- >> stephanie: yeah larry craig was the poster boy, john because he voted in every gay rights measure that came before him -- >> let me be clear. i am not gay. i never have been gay. >> stephanie: i said larry craig came before him. [ giggling ] >> it was that he was a homophobe and then did it. that's the problem. >> he's a dirty nasty, dirty
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naughty boy -- >> look, we all like sex in public bathrooms that's how i bet jim ward [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: oh jjohn. eric holder. >> today i'm announcing that the justice department will ask a federal court in texas to subject the state of texas to a preclearance regime similar to the one required in section 5 of the voting right's act. this request to bail in the state of texas, and require pre-approval from the department or federal court is available under the voting right's act when intentional voting discrimination is found. >> as it has been found many times in the state of texas. >> stephanie: john have you
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ever noticed that scalia is kind of a douche. >> yes. and you actually owe an apologize to summer's eve for that. >> stephanie: i apologize. >> first they acknowledge that yes, racial discrimination still exists and then they cut the voting right's act. and this was about the states that had a long history of obstructing the vote for minorities and then saying you have to get approval from the doj if you are going to change any programs. this is going to -- within hours texas was having their phony fraudulent voter id scam law -- more people are killed by tv sets falling on their heads ever year, and it doesn't just hurt black folks. it hurts seniors, college kids
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and anyone without ready access to state-issued id. >> stephanie: yeah. eric holder again. >> it's the duty of the just disdepartment to monitor changes that may hamper voting rights. the net ruling the court noted that the parties, and i quote, though parties provided more evidence of discriminatory intent than we have space or need to address here. this is the federal court that said that. >> stephanie: did you hear the republican from texas, john? >> part of the long-term strategy of this administration is to try to turn texas blue so they are engaging in this kind of bogus political activity to try to raise concerns with regard to things like minority voting that simply is not supported by the evidence. i think this is to create a
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false impression that somehow minority rights are being protected, which they are. >> george w. bush signed the voting rights act back in 2006 and all of congress did it. i want to hear these guys say they have contempt for the constitution. >> stephanie: boy, he really ripped the evil lid off of the obama administration's plan. >> the only thing that is going to turn texas blue are the latinos who do not like the republican party. >> stephanie: i can't wait for that night. >> did karl rove poop his pants again? [ farting sounds ] >> stephanie: all right. forty-five minutes after the
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strike ♪ >> stephanie: fifty minutes of the hour. john fugelsang, you can watch him host the "viewpoint" television program every evening, and it's spectacular. >> with melissa fitzgerald joining us last night. >> stephanie: i heard you were fabulous. >> she was lovely and we'll have her on next week with a one on one we prerecorded. >> stephanie: awesome. mark o'mara watches. it was awesome. >> you had hot brie one on one. damn. >> stephanie: steven from waterdale, hello steve. >> caller: good morning, i'm actually on telly. >> stephanie: yes, you are and on weiner. you had something to say about anthony weiner. >> caller: i am on weaner this morning, because i think this could be a strong learning opportunity for parents to teach their children what they should and should not do in the future on the internet. >> stephanie: yes, this is a teachable moment for sure. everybody anthony weiner did
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don't do that. >> don't do that. >> caller: and it's nice to see someone on tv that has my same last name. it's bizarre. >> fugelsang. >> lavoie. >> la-voy. >> stephanie: or as siri says lavat. >> apparently it is a very common name in french canada. >> caller: yes, that's true. >> you have to learn to talk like [ inaudible ]. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: all right. yep there are no blurred lines there in that whole weiner scandal, are there, john? no. you know what i'm talking about. i got to hear it again. ♪ if you can't hear what i'm trying to say, if you can't read from the same page, maybe i'm going deaf maybe i'm going blind ♪ ♪ maybe i'm out of mind ♪
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♪ [ inaudible ] domesticate you, but you are an animal ♪ ♪ just let me liberate you, our you don't need no ♪ ♪ and that's why i'm going to -- good girl i know you want it, i know you want it ♪ ♪ you are a good girl ♪ >> stephanie: on his worst day bill clinton was not as misogynistic as that song. >> you know what else was ma mauj nisic [ inaudible ]. >> stephanie: oh jim. it is so late for a hitler reference. tommy chung is defending his
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daughter, saying she was just being honest when she said oprah would have been a field n word back in the day -- >> why? why? >> why! [overlapping speakers] >> stephanie: yeah, that's not a fair fight. he said if you think of what she said she said back in the day oprah would be working in the field because she is not that beautiful -- [ buzzer ] >> knowing oprah she probably would have just chuckled. >> and how well was tommy chong know oprah. >> oprah's not here man. >> yeah, they don't know each other. >> stephanie: by the way, john did you hear the other latest -- paula dean asked -- >> oh, no. >> stephanie: -- a black woman
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chef that worked for her to dress like aunt jamima. >> poor paula dean so misunderstood. she represents everyone with no hatred in their heart and they just can't stop the racist crap as soon as it comes out of their mouths. rand paul is ahead now in the presidential republican field. since he defended the southern avenger. >> oh yeah. >> stephanie: two weeks after news broke of his history of a neoconfederate radio host [ inaudible ] he is out. but he was really more of an overall confidante of rand paul.
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lincoln's imperialism was little different than that of george w. bush. >> rand paul supports removal of slavery but only for the plantation owners. >> stephanie: he chose him to advice him on all things on foreign policy. >> he has a confederate mask he wears. >> stephanie: right. he annually toasted the lincoln assassin's birthday or saw that sick bearded bastard to hitler. >> that's the guy that is advising the guy that republicans want to be president. >> stephanie: indeed by all accounts it was hunter who decided to quit. he didn't get fired. and rand paul tried to state was
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some sort of youthful indiscretion. he said can a guy not have a youth? and he was in his 30s. >> rand paul puts the aryan in libertarian. >> stephanie: there was a great piece in "new york times" that said that the gop has gone off of the deep end. and we were talking about that. it could be true. >> it could really happen yeah. >> absolutely go for broke. >> i don't know how much of a real libertarian rand paul is. but these polls mean something for president. it will not happen. i can't even guess who their nominee will be, but it most likely be a really bland sacrificial lamb, it could be paul ryan.
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>> stephanie: the budget monster? wouldn't that be wonderful eddie? >> isn't that wonderful, eddie? >> i won't go! i won't! i won't! >> rand paul like one quarter of the time is really smart and more progressive than the democratic party. he has that sanity chromesome and the gop doesn't like it. and he'll be punished for it. >> stephanie: yeah. "viewpoint" it is spectacular, get it while it lasts. >> three more weeks kids until the great cable box in the sky. >> stephanie: we'll see you monday on the "stephanie miller show." love ya, you know. >> thank you. ♪
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