but poor sean hannity doesn't know any of that about paul, and, you know, how love is. , he's not going to want to believe it. nothing, nothing now could make sean quit paul. joining me now is ari melber, correspondent for t"the nation" and an msnbc contributor. ari, what poor sean doesn't know about paul. turns out he's just a classic congressional political hack doing what they've all done for so long. >> well, lawrence, a man crush is a powerful thing. and a fox news man crush can, as you say, be blind you. paul ryan was for earmarks before he was against them. he was for deficits before he was against them. and he's part of a political party that inherited a surplus from a democratic administration in 2001, and as you said in the introduction, spent their way into this big deficit. they are the party that goes out with you for dinner, orders not just appetizers and dessert, but two big bottles of fancy wine, and when the check comes, they start yelling at you and the restaurant and the waiter. this is not acceptable behavior among your friends and surely not by your

. >> of course, we saw that he went on talk radio, he was on with sean hannity and he explained to sean hannity, sean hannity was trying to explain to him, you know, you've got mitt romney, paul ryan called him as we reported on monday night, all of the missouri former senators and the current senator, and this was his response with sean hannity on the radio yesterday. >> if you were in romney's position, don't you think that he may have bit this thing up and made a bigger deal about it than he needed to? why couldn't he run his race and i run mine? >> so clearly, he's missed the first window to get out cleanly. he could still drop out by september 25th. he would have to go to court, it would have to be certified by the secretary of state in missouri, who is a very prominent democrat from a prominent democratic family. but that doesn't mean he could not still get out. >> all the indications are and all the sound you just played, he's not going away any time soon. he's actually not going to go down without a fight. i think one of the more extraordinary stories in all this is that todd ak

we're loaded up. >> brian: i'm telling the true story of sean hannity. for example, this. efore. >> how much time we got? >> five minutes. >> brian: what is it about sean? >> it allows it to get the message out. fox has done, there is another side now. he's got a huge audience, and mostly conservatives and we like it because we can get our message out. >> he's so great. all of america loves him. who wouldn't? what girl doesn't have a crush on sean hannity? >> brian: it hurts my feelings the way you talk about him. >> he's adorable. every girl's dream. >> i couldn't get a date my whole life. >> brian: halfway through the show, 28 minutes remain, what's coming up? >> listen, it's so unpredictable, even i don't know what's coming up. >> brian: turns out you did not memorize the run down. i think i exposed the fact that he does prepare, is a perfectionist, or at least i'm buying it and he's claiming it just for this show. now back to the action. show over. it comes off. >> immediately. just to spend all this time with you l kilmeade, has been an honor and a privilege beyond any

paul ryan sat down with sean hannity and discussed the negative tone of the campaign. >> i am used to it. it's what we expect from president obama these days. this is what you do if you can't run on your record. president obama clearly cannot run on his record. all he's offering is more of the same, that's not good. look at the economy. it's stagnating. what they are now going to try to do is bring this campaign down to little things distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration. this is just that. the country is not going to buy it this time. hope and change they are not doing that. they are doing attack and blame. i think people are going to see through this. they want real leadership. they want to get the country on the right track. it's on the failed leadership but it's a positive vision of how to put the country back on track. the president you can't compete with that. >> paul ryan reveals what his relationship with president obama is like. he spoke with sean hannity. >> ooo-hah lot of people are concerned about this. >> the forecast from the national hurricane cente

but akin later told sean hannity's radio show he won't quit all though he did back track on rape. >> i had heard from medical reports that rape is such a traumatic type of thing that it -- that there is a reaction. you know, though, that's wrong. >> reporter: democrats led by the president sought to take advantage. >> rape is rape. and the idea that we should be parcing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we're talking about doesn't make sense to the american people. and it certainly doesn't make sense to me. >> reporter: the biggest beneficiary akin's opponent democratic senator claire mccaskill. >> i don't think this is somebody that most of the moderate republicans in this state can support. >> reporter: the biology is not in doubt. girls and women raped have about a 5% chance of getting pregnant no different from unprotected consensual sex. the politics are also clear. in a race where the president had a 15-point advantage with women voters in the last nbc news/"wall street journal" poll republicans were reeling. tonight conservative republicans are increasing the press

but >> stephanie: even my mom who loves sean hannity.oh, no i will never be invited back. my mom has officially given up on me marrying sean hannity now. >> you could mary ann coulter. >> stephanie: oh, please i wouldn't [ censor bleep ] her with [ censor bleep ]. what? let's go to buddy. >> caller: hey, steph i think romney's campaign is like performing art. >> yeah. >> caller: it's so over the top and bad. but one other thing i can't wait to see you guys on the sexy liberal show and everything. and i wrote a little song for jacki. >> stephanie: oh, no. we're almost out of time but -- >> caller: hold on. >> stephanie: okay. 20 seconds. >> please come to columbus with a sexy liberal tour you can hitch with ride with the sexy liberal show. >> that was it? [ applause ] >> stephanie: okay. there goes that spot for sexy liberal. carlos alazraqui, check him out on facebook and twitter. >> stephanie: that's it for us we'll see you tomorrow on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ >> he evolved the wrong way. mitt romney signed into law.

i mean, i don't think i have ever said these four words, but sean hannity is right. the way he described the stakes here, ed, it really is dire for the republicans. but you've done a great job already of showing there's not a whole lot of daylight between todd akin and the rest of his party. this notion that he just misspoke, he gave us a window onto the way they think and talk about women and particularly the horrible issue of rape. i mean, listening to the way he described it, who goes around i mean -- thinking about things like that? it sounds kind of perverted. >> idealogs? >> idealogs and weirdos. >> what gets me about the conversation by republicans is they're so concerned about the political fallout, they're not so concerned about women's health and where the party really stands on women's health on this. >> no, they're not. there's no sense of this is just a despicable thing to say about a woman in this crisis. there was no talk about it, the way the president talked about it. it's all political calculus. and you know, the war on women rhetoric was starting t

i think sean hannity has a bigger crush on him than any woman i have talked to. fantastic. >> stephanie: john there is a theme. jacki sent me this you are on sandra fluke's email list. >> i think it was from the obama campaign. and they are using her as a surrogate. >> stephanie: right, but she is the one that rush limbaugh called a slut for a week on her show because she was talking about birth control. but she writes mitt romney and paul ryan have tried to distance themselves from the akin remarks, but they are in lock step with akin. the policies are dangerous for women. there is a clear chance in this election stand with president obama, that's what i mean there is a through line. >> right. >> why do you think it makes men so angry. why is there such anger. >> i have a theory on that -- >> what the hell are you talking about, woman! [ laughter ] >> stephanie: get back in the news center and make me an omelet! [ laughter ] >> stephanie: go ahead, john. >> i think that it's -- i think that a lot of them don't actually care about abortion one bit. the bush famil

sean hannity. >> we begin in california yesterday the senator tolded planned parenthood supporters thatmen. and maureen dowd who scolded anybody for dared to call paul ryan hip or part of a new generation, because according to her he is just a fresh face on a tall tallban crede. >> they just wrote those things to make sean hannity's head explode. >> and it did. >> stephanie: have you heard that my listener saved he is a [ censor bleep ] without the riot. michelle malkin. >> now the republican party has gone along with the rigged game we call the presidential debates. we are having these so-called journalists who are part of the liberal establishment once again playing referee. why can't we have somebody who is honest about their biases be up there on the stage. why does it have to be the same homogeneous group up there? >> stephanie: why can't we have all fox people? i don't understand. >> yeah, that would be farrier and balanceder. >> stephanie: all right. rush limbaugh. >> what do you think our voters are stupid? yes! that's why we try to trick them. it doesn't take much. >> stephanie

i think he's been very popular on the conservative radio and a conservative television and sean hannity has been one of the prime examples of that. he's been on the hannity show frequently. and morris who is a commentator on the show once said that republicans would be crazy or something to the fact didn't put him on the ticket. he's very popular with the two-party and there is a crossover to the conservative radio. one thing we haven't talked about but also very popular with evangelical christians and catholics because he has had a connection to both of those religions that he is a practicing catholic who said he goes to mass every day in washington, d.c. but he goes to protestant evangelical church with his family in florida. in addition to that, as a child for time he was a mormon and returned to the catholic church then became self identifying as a baptist, then became self identified as a catholic and then sort of the hybrid, now mostly catholic but also with a little bit of evangelical, so religion is this complicated and very important, please a very important complicated role in

. >> bob: talking about, sean hannity they play the group at sean hannity's concerts last summer.,000 people. to my surprise i got a lot of cheers, except for one group of bikers in the corner who were booing me like crazy. guy from the lynyrd skynyrd band goes up and says something and they shut up. i said what did you say? he said if you boo my man beckel i'll shoot you. >> brian: if you want protection, they're two doors down. they're hanging out at the lobby in hotel. >> andrea: they are good protection. if anyone tried to invade the country, southern rockers wouldn't let it happen. >> bob: the dna truck better not get near them. >> eric: most patriotic guys you want to meet. awesome dudes. great band. gary, ricky, thank you. last thought? >> dana: great you thought to interview them. cool. >> andrea: they got their start by opening for rolling stones in the '70s. did you hear the story? the stones were so drunk they could barely play. lynyrd skynyrd came out and rocked it. they were opening for like little river band. no offense little river band. >> brian: that was the bigge

. >> first let's hear f ann coulter's explosive reaction to the ad telling sean hannity she thinks it is despicable. >> it is a despicable ad it shows the true colors of a man that is hope and change. no he was too young to show his true colors. >> at some point it has to back fire. do you believe mitt romney could cause you to get cancer? his father would be embarrassed he is running for the heist office of landau believe he hates woman and hates dogs? >> it remind me how glad i am we are running mitt romney against this despicable campaigner because they can't go into his divorce records. he makes you and i look like paris hilton. i think it ad would be the turning point. most americans would say this is absolutely despicable blaming this woman's death on mitt romney. >> that harsh criticism isn't just about sean hannity and ann coulter. bill o'reilly weighed in. >> this is using a guy who is accusing romney of contributing to this woman's death when romney had nothing on earth to do with it this man falsely -- they had insurance for two, three years after he left his job. falsely s

sean hannity had austan austan goolsbee. >> president had nancy pelosi in the house and harry reid inate. he got the budgets passed, stimulus passed, healthcare bill passed and we still have $1 trillion deficits. wait a minute. he failed. we have fewer americans working today. $5 trillion in debt. you are going to tell the american people that is a success? >> you are trying to switch it around. >> got to focus here. >> your first charge is that the president say he would cut the deficit in half and he didn't. now i remind you when -- >> he broke his promise. he failed. >> no. it was off of the 1.3 trillion deficit that he was left with. >> eric: nice job, sean. meanwhile, president panel bam spent today in battleground state of ohio. here is a clip. >> you know this country wasn't built from the top down. it was built by the middle class. it was built by farmers. and factory workers. and startups. and small businesses. >> eric: wait a minute. farmers, factory workers, startups, small businesses built america? >> if you've got a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that

that would be incorrect. >> i blame sean hannity for all of it. >> stephanie: stop it. tuesday night at the republican national convention is going to have a theme. the g.o.p. is calling the night we built this. they are trying to play off a twisted interpretation of the president's speech in virginia last month when he talked about how businesses get help from government-funded projects like roads and bridges. the romney campaign has been insisting the president intentionally insulted businesses and entrepreneurs. well, here is a fun fact. as the arena where the g.o.p. is holding this night of the convention, that was built in large part due to public funds. according to a 2001 sports facilities report from the national sports law institute the "tampa bay times" forum arena which is home to the tampa bay lightning was paid for with a combination of team money and public money. $86 million of public money to be exact. >>> there is a new iphone app that is going to help people identify who's behind super pac ads. it is called likely enough, the super pac app that works w

sean hannity has been one of those prime examples of that and he has been on hannity shows frequentlye is very popular with the departed. there is a crossover on conservative radio. one thing we haven't talked about that is also very popular -- he is popular with evangelical christians and catholics. because he has had a connection to both of those religions. he is a practicing catholic who has said that he goes to mass every day in washington dc. but he attends a protestant and evangelical church with his family in florida. in addition to that, as a child, for a time he was a mormon. he then became self identifying as a baptist. then became self identifying as a catholic. then sort of a hybrid. now, mostly catholic but also with a little bit of protestant and evangelical. religion is complicated. and the very important -- a very complicated and important role in this national image. >> one follow-up. i am continually amazed by these talk show hosts who, in the beginning, are blasting rubio and mitt romney and everybody -- and everybody else like them. now, all you hear is he is the g

u and sean hannity went at it. >> juan: we did. people told me it's great tv.ensity of it suggests that people think this is a very negative campaign. and the question is from both sides, who is more negative in you look at the poll, talk about the polls later, people think both sides are being too negative right now. the reason that we did that segment is because rick warren, the evangelical minister said he is not going to have a session with the two of them on stage, because he thinks there is too much negativity. >> greg: do you buy that excuse? ricfrom rick warren? nobody committed to going. i've don it with parties and i sent out invitations and i don't get any. you know that party i was planning, turns out i'm going to be out of town. i'm too embarrassed. >> dana: i've been thinking about that, too. rick warren is a person that could have a venue where there is discussion. disappointing that you said not to have it. >> andrea: when he did it in 2008 it was really fascinating forum. a lot of information came out of it. all right, eric, i want to ask you,

he goes on sean hannity's program. this is what he said. >> rape is just rape.s horrible, and it is abhor rent to me because even as as a pro-lifer i always stud up for the people who were the most vulnerable. >> cenk: isn't that an amazing thing. did you catch it? i'll put it in a graphic. said even as a pro-lifer i've always stood up for the people who were the most vulnerable. so if you're pro-life, it's like a big deal if you step up for people who are vulnerable. i mean, look, women who have been raped, even if as a pro-lifer i want to say if you got raped. that's an evil act if it's a legitimate rape. i just called him a scum bag a while ago. are you beginning to get a sense of why i'm doing that? who sense things like that. he said, oh, i misspoke. what did you misspeak about? tell me, and nobody has ever asked him. he just went on hannity and huckabee because he's a coward. what do you mean you misspoke. what does that mean? of course, he won't explain--he didn't misspeak. i'm going to show you exactly what he meant in a second. but first here is the rig

but again, this idea it's okay to parse this language and i'm going to tell you, i agree with sean hannity. every single gop candidate should be asked do you believe that rape is rape or let them see if they'll say it's forcible versus some other kind of rape because that is going to lose them the women's vote. >> you mentioned this tweet, but he's been condemned by everybody within the republican party including speaker john boehner. can we really survive? they've even threatened to withdraw their funding for him. >> apparently, there's one deadline for tomorrow, then another that's further along. my asunlts, let's do some fund raising, do what we need to do. rove and cross roads has pulled out now, but money will be there for him. >> were you surprised that mr. ryan and romney issued a written statement through their spokesperson as opposed to taking an opportunity to come out and condemn these disgraceful remarks for what they were? >> of course i was. but of course, they did it on paper, martin, because then that way, you can make sure nobody misspeaks and that you get it out correctly

it was sean hannity. is he the liberal media now?

there is an endorsement here from sean hannity, president bill clinton, and your friend chris matthews. that's across the whole spectrum. so what's the point here? where are the good alreadies going? >> the point is, one, we've become afraid of losing our jobs. that's the thing that drives politics, even more than the ideological polazati. and two, we don't hve respect for our citizens. in other words, we think tathat they're all awe tom tons who react in a very narrow way. take the issue of gun control. charlie, if the president of the united states-- and i'm not following him over governor romney-- faulting him over governor romney or anybody else, if the president had said two, three, days after arizona, going back to to you son and gabby gird, said, "everybody who is sane knows we shouldn't allow people t possess assault rifles, everybody who is sane says we shouldn't let people hold magazines that have more than 10 clips in each magazine, 10 bullets in each magazine, i'm going to ask the congress to outlaw them. and i want all americans to say enough is enough. no more tu sons. no

rush limbaugh, sean hannity or mark levin on the panel and that would boost ratings. >> and mixed mediaction, the scene on wednesday off floyd corkens, a young man, volunteered for a center allegedly marched in the family research county building with gun and seriously and denounced frc's policies and shot a guard in the arm before being subdued. and it seniors on the southern poverty law center and the media. >> i think this comes in with the southern poverty law center, he came in with not just a gun, but 50 rounds of ammunition and chick-fil-a sandwiches and the controversy with chick-fil-a and media reports. it was reported that chick-fil-a and their statements about being anti-gay and supported the family research council and that's what reports have said. and in those reports, they say that the family research council, which is a hate group, a certified hate group from the southern poverty law center. >> are the media treating this as a hate crime, judy. >> depends which media you're watching or reading. i mean, there were some networks, i bet, who are going to have a hard time fi