i'm john fuglesang. ying bass with blue oyster cult back in 1978 when bill was a touring bassist? >> something like that. >> john: i thought so. joe biden band. i'm not sure. we're taking your calls all morning at 1-866-55-press. that's 1-866-55-press. you know, things were just getting interesting with lilly. i'm amazed when i hear someone talk about how they're a progressive democrat then you bring up an lgbt issue. well, i'm a christian. the good news of jesus, he wasn't a douche bag. jesus is not a homophobe. you cannot use the bible to say that same-sex relationships between consenting adults are wrong and i can prove it with an abacus and an etch-a-sketch. you can't do it. the book of leviticus is where it says ye shall not lie with a man and a woman. then you have to follow all of the laws which means execute gay guys and children who are gluttons or drunks, execute people who work on the sabbath. that's saturday, sorry nascar. execute adulters which includes people who get divorced and remarried.

hal sparks, john fuglesang aisha tyler, me and huge! [ explosion ] huge, comedic superstars. okay.irst time in my life, hal. >> ruth fuzzy. >> stephanie: carol burnett. [ screaming ] >> did you say hello to her from my mom. they knew each other. >> stephanie: really? okay. so you know, she's been my hero all my life. she and lily tomlin, obviously any woman in comedy -- so and lilly, as you know, i've known and interviewed and been friends with for 25 years and i still sound like a dork when i talk to her. we should get the tape of the first one in 1987. >> do you have it? >> stephanie: probably. >> victoria jackson. >> stephanie: i'm friends with her daughter, jodie now and she took me to the tonight show. we'll post pictures. they're awful of me but there's one of me and carol and j. she's as nice as you would think she is. jodie writes hi, steph my mom loves you. [ screaming ] >> despite the fact you went to usc. she's a ucla gal. >> stephanie: wait, there's more. listen on wednesdays in particular, i need some self-esteem because i get nothing but -- [ bleep ] people. let's see

follow me on the twitter at john fuglesang. sadly, you have to know how to spell john fuglesang.oes. i'll be here tomorrow morning. for those of you watching us on tv, if you're lucky you'll stick around listen to "the stephanie miller show." i had a great show with her in seattle. we were joined by ron reagan and dan savage on stage. it is october 1st. enjoy the fall and get your friends to vote! we'll see you tomorrow. news. that's my parting shot for today.

thanks to john fuglesang our good friend from current tv and to jamal simmons for sitting in as guestot lots of good comments from listeners and viewers about both of them. so we thank them. yesterday, everybody thinks the presidential debate was the big news of the day. we who live in washington, d.c. know that that was not the biggest news. the biggest news was it was the final day of the season for the nats. peter and dan were there at the game. and the nats went out in style. here's the final call. >> nationals have outhit the phillies 11-6. a swing and a fly ball to left field. still back, brown is there. he makes the catch. yep. w is in the books. it is the 98-win season in 2012 for the national league eastern division champions. >> bill: eastern division champs huh? >> haven't heard that said in awhile. >> i honestly didn't think we would hear it this soon. they really turned it around. last season they weren't very good. this season they just crushed it. >> bill: look at this. >> look at you! >> bill: post-season payoff thanks to cyprian. isn't that great? >> that's a great sh

john fuglesang does the hilarious -- he goes i have a -- he goes right over to her.e alley drunk. >> you were fing with the interpreter? >> stephanie: he was. she was a good sport. [ applause ] >> stephanie: i would like to have sex with a guy on stage. it was bad. he made her say -- >> that's adorable. >> stephanie: that's adorable. >> oh, no, now i've got you saying it! [ laughter ] >> stephanie: stephanie in illinois you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi steph. >> caller: hi. happy monday morning. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: you know what? paul ryan may need to go back to college since math -- ryan math 101 because you put -- you have to figure out how you got them. anyway, bain capital has visited illinois and freeport and they're closing a plant right before the holidays, beginning of november and laying off 140 i think people, taking the company to china because the company -- very profitable but it wasn't enough profit so they're laying them off. they've been sitting there trying to hold -- awareness of what they're doing. i'm going to bring a mill

john faugel sang makes -- fuglesang makes the same sound.l geeks, it is debate week. tomorrow night, of course. the big town hall format. what are you anticipating? >> i'm hoping obama actually challenges some of the stuff that comes out of romney's mouth. like every other liberal-leaning, i voted for obama type of person out there it is like okay, when he said the exact opposite of everything he's been saying for the last two years, maybe it is time not to be above the fray and it is time to call him out. it was so easy four years ago. >> stephanie: get your face up in the fray. >> yes. four years ago, obama was running against a man whose hair was on fire. he was suspending his campaign and getting sarah palin on the ticket. just acting erratically. so it was really easy for him to play no drama obama right? and this year, it is not that easy. this year, there is someone who basically will say absolutely anything including look, i'm cool with abortion. i'm not going to do anything to make it illegal. relax, ladies. don't worry about it. wh

as our own john fuglesang here at current tv, he put it so wonderfully, it was as if romney were introducing the me, too doctrine. so how much does mitt romney support the president's foreign policy? well, let me count the ways. he agrees with the president's proposed 2014 withdrawal from afghanistan. he agrees with putting sanctions on iran. and he agrees with the president's handling of the iraq war. and the drone strikes and targeted killings in pakistan. but one place the candidates do diverge is on spending. here's what that looks like when you put the two plans side by side. president obama would honor the department of defense's request that defense spending be 3.3% of gross domestic product and keep the funding stable over the next decade. mitt romney on the other hand, he would bump that up to 4%. so that's where you get that huge $2 trillion increase over ten years which by the way the military has not even asked for as the president has said. a "new york times" op-ed in august called romney's plan -- get this, force-feeding the pentagon. which might be how you make foie gras but i

. >> stephanie: yes, john fuglesang replied yes i called child protective services because i saw an oldoing to come at me like a cannonball. oh eddie munster, don't poo yourself. >> stephanie: karl frisch said he think marbles are cannonballs, he's so little. >> stephanie: hat trick of childishness came last tuesday. i applauded the scribbles of rude pundit. he said something rude. miller my favorite post of rude's is regarding paul ryan. chris lavoie, sidekick, oh, god. that's all you ever sayyou don't contribusa anier,. isn't thatie munster. lavoie, but it's true. again, you don't add much. >> stephanie: miller, i just love -- so you wrote yesterday vice presidential candidate appeared on with the gallstone named chris. ryan was there because his role in the election cycle is to be a little bitch not a man but a little yappy bitch dog. ready to leap in and just yelp little bitchy barks whoever dares move close to them. it is true.rote that ryan is like a fox terrier who got into the meth stash. again, funny. isn't al gore proud now that he's adding to the national conversation with th

. >> stephanie: and also our friend sexy liberal john fuglesang who of course will be on stage with memost other ones reflected the same thing. obama won by 30 points or as fox says, a draw. yeah. >> stephanie: i felt it was a bitch slapping of epic proportions. >> it is not just fox news saying that. a lot of people on cnn are saying that. too. >> stephanie: oh cnn. >> both sides are equal. >> they're saying it so they can still have a horse race so they can still draw viewers in to see the contest. >> waning by the second now. >> stephanie: it makes me crazy. like there's two sides to this benghazi thing. there is not! jim, i was watching, catching up on my real times last night in my insomnia state. there's darrell issa from two weeks ago saying -- guess what. it did have to do with the video, you douche. in the meantime, you released names of people -- endangered lives on the ground in libya. >> shouldn't that be a felony to politicize this. >> the whole trick is that -- that's the whole point of royalty, i get to do it and you don't. that's the whole point of being elite. >> steph

she stirred the audience and our own john fuglesang whose great show will be beginning shortly. a minute and less, we'll have the opening bell. jennifer, what do you expect to see the president do to show he's in command he's in charge. >> jennifer: i think he will speak with clarity about the differences between him and mitt romney. i think he will bring it home with optimism and passion. >> john: i think the president needs to show he's more comfortable around humans. this is the forum to do it. >> eliot: tonight will be about differences and contrast. if there was a word in the last debate, it was convergence. the president seemed to be malleable. >> jennifer: mitt romney was malleable. president can't allow him to do it. >> john: mitt romney has to be better than last time. if he plateaus, it is not a win for him. >> eliot: everybody looks at him and expects a super human performance. whether he can match that, who knows. town hall performance that makes it harder. you have to interact with the question of real people. that dynamic has to be navigated. let's join candy crowl

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myself, vice president al gore, eliot spitzer jennifer granholm john fuglesang. the crowd is all back! good night everybody. >> eliot: good evening. i'm eliot spitzer. this is "viewpoint." we're coming to you tonight from the fillmore auditorium in denver colorado, just 24 hours before president obama and mitt romney square off for the first presidential debate at the university of denver's magnus sports arena and about two hours before i debate talk show host glenn beck. details of where to watch it coming up. we're going to spend the next hour going over the issues that are expected to dominate tomorrow's presidential debate along with an issue which may not come up but should. gun control. but first, a little news. both candidates are reportedly spending the day preparing for wednesday's debate. which, if you can believe president obama isn't much fun. >> obama: basically, they're keeping me indoors all the time. it's a drag. they're making me do my homework. >> eliot: whatever he's doing seems to be working. "new york times" polls blogger nate silver rated th

i'm john fuglesang sitting in for governor eliot spitzer and this is "viewpoint." coming you on the show tonight and this is not an oxymoron, mormon feminists for obama. i think you're going to like them. but first, the romney campaign insists that it has what it takes to win the white house this year. not money. it's got lots and lots of that. no, they've got momentum. they say it began when the polls started creeping in romney's direction after president obama auditioned for an ambien commercial during the first debate. bill bennett of all credible sources has joined the romney surrogates claiming that mitt romney now carries the momentum into the homestretch. that was bush's education czar. the romney campaign even put out a web video titled momentum. three minutes plus it intercuts lots of patriotic scenes with lots of shots of smiling mitt and his pal paul ryan. two guys totally opposed to gay marriage who look like they're about to announce one anticipating that a tide of dissolution voters will easily sweep them into office. however, the numbers suggest that