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[ theme music ] stephanie hello, current tv land. Hour number 1. Karl frisch right out of the box. Youre letting karl frisch out of the box. Stephanie yes. At the risk of winding up the health bot were going to have to have a Health Care Corner. The government is running half of them may be preferable right . Right. Because theres Bargaining Power and solidarity to having the National Government run the state health care exchanges. Stephanie rather than republican governors that arent for it. Yeah. Stephanie that are going to perhaps deliberately screw it up to make the president look bad. Yes. Stephanie we will have a jackis Health Care Corner to tell everybody what will be happening. Here she is in the meantime. Good morning, everybody. Samesex marriage advocates are urging the president to file a friend of the court brief today asking the justices to overturn prop 8. President obama reiterated his support for days by and lesbians to have the same protections under the law last month. And they hoped the president s brief would help overturn prop 8 and make it unconstitutional to ban samesex marriage in the future. The government did file a brief last week saying Section Three of bow ma was unconstitutional. And today is the last day of work for pope benedict. The has pledged quote unconditional reverence and oh beadance. He gave an unexpected speech today, in which he encouraged the cardinals to Work Together harmoniously. The cardinals will meet monday. The pope leaves the palace for the last time as pope at 5 00 tonight at 8 00 pm he is officially retired. Well be back after the break. Youre going to want to stay with us. Its a pretty, little town, with an ugly reputation. You just google harrison, what will come up is the klan. Im all for that. The kkk doesnt speak for us at all. 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Announcer ladies and gentlemen, its the Stephanie Miller show im walking on sunshine woe ho im walking on sunshine woe ho its time to feel good hey all right now its time to feel good [ laughter ] stephanie all right everybody look alive Rocky Mountain mike wants you to know the popes going away lunch at the olive garden. I heard they have the best food in rome. Stephanie jim said i think i broke a table last night. Stephanie he said i probably shouldnt drink vodka. It makes me angry. Is there something you drink that makes you a giggly drunk . Ill have to work on that. A flirtini. Stephanie i depreciation drinking less went into effect for me last night. And it went really well. Roland and i talked about going cold turkey, and now were like how will bottles can we bring to rehab . Thats what were doing. Which is which . Stephanie doesnt matter. The important thing is guess who is here . Jackie chan . You can get karl frisch or karate karate. Stephanie he does do a little political jujitsu. Hi karl. Stephanie your tweets consist of political jujitsu. Yeah, let me move these cinder blocks out of the way. Stephanie i loved your tweet, now republicans can get back to blocking Everything Else after chuck hagel is confirmed. House gop could learn something from Chris Christie, people like you when you work with obama. Isnt that something . Well, i it is something. I dont know why 74 of new yorkians like Chris Christie. The only thing i can chuck it up to is that he worked with the president. So i think House Republicans i mean if you look at any poll the most unpopular its always fun to watch boehner and the Congressional Republicans talk about how congress is broodly unpopular. Stephanie exactly. It is an interesting case in point, here is Chris Christie who was broodly criticized for working with the president and now he doesnt even get to go to cpac. Yeah, that rightwing sleep over. Stephanie and of course Michelle Obama. I dont even think i got to type the number 2 before it started. Stephanie yeah, and they literally say this will never happen and laura bush and Ronald Reagan by the way. And then my friends are quick to point out. Well, they didnt give best picture. Stephanie oh, yes. Oh, my god. Stephanie when Michelle Obama does it, its uppity. Yeah, i have no problem with the first lady or the president giving an award or saying something. If there is a point of criticism it would be over hypocrisy. And if there was something critical about them doing it that would be one thing but there certainly was werent Michelle Obama. Stephanie right. And then domea this is big stuff going on. What was it 80 republicans that was amazing. Yeah as of 8 00 this morning, all of the bills are in. But i think they announced approximately 100 republicans that have come out against stephanie yeah. You have Christy Todd Whitman who was interesting. Stephanie and david frum wrote a piece on why he signed the brief. Yes. Its not the typical names you are used to seeing. Stephanie i can make one prediction is that scalia will Say Something incredibly irritating and homophobic. Yeah. During oral arguments yesterday, which sounds much more exciting than it is at the Supreme Court, there is a case called Shelby County in alabama, versus holder which is challenging the key provisions of the Voting Rights act of 1965. It was also one of the it was the seminal thing that made it so all of those voting id laws didnt go through like they planned last time around so during the oral arguments scalia called the Voting Rights act, a racial entitlements. Stephanie is that unbelievable. And the fact there has been a unanimous vote forit must mean there is something wrong with it. Yeah, and if scalia is right that a senate vote is suspicious because it is unanimous. It is worth remembering that he was confirmed to the Supreme Court on a 980 vote. [ dramatic music ] stephanie oh, that deems looking into. And what this really sets up is what is Justice Roberts going to do . Is he going to show that the Supreme Court believes scalias arguments, or make the mountain of evidence that there is still a problem with rich shall discrimination when it comes to voting. Stephanie yeah. And even if you are included in the act it doesnt mean you have to be forever, if you can show the federal government that for ten years you have not tried to keep from voting based on the color of their skin you can be opted out. So Shelby County could show ten years of consistency and be out of the Voting Rights act. Stephanie absolutely. In other pope news. Pope benedict will take the name pope classic. Thats better than crystal pope. [ laughter ] stephanie lets dive into the rightwing world. Monica crowley. President obama and the democrats have massive congressional majorities for the last two years, after that when the republicans got control of the house, republicans have done nothing but compromise. [ overlapping speakers ] a lot of his agenda. They gave president obama the tax hike he wanted. Where is the balance coming from the president. Stephanie did she just say House Republicans have done nothing but compromise with the president . She did. Yeah, its ridiculousness like that that gives fox news a bad name. Lets review the evidence okay . They did not have a supermajority for two years. Even if you think they did, remember they didnt have 60 votes in the senate until almost a year into the senate term. And then even after that they didnt have 60 votes because Joe Lieberman sat out there as an independent. And it is a fact it is almost fact, which i realize the right thinks has a liberal bias that the republicans in the senate have filibustered more and blocked more nominations than any senate in the history of the senate. Stephanie yep. Sean hannity. To me were stealing from our kids, and he wont every acknowledge obama give us 6 trillion in debt. What is wrong with them . They cant acknowledge basic simple truths. [ laughter ] wow. Stephanie once again arguing about numbers. Yeah. He is like the epitome of the man looking in the mirror and oreilly has gotten really good at claiming that too. Hell put a number that says the debt was this in this year and it is this now. Without explaining where the money came from, not talking about during the bush administration, we didnt put the wars in iraq or afghanistan on the budget. He didnt talk about how Medicare Part d was not paid for. He didnt talk about how the bush tax cuts drove the deficit. And how that makes up for almost all of the spending. Stephanie yeah, has anyone ever said that to sean hannity. Stephanie you want to hear what that sounds like. Ill play keith elson, and you play sean hannity. Stephanie okay. The president put 6 trillion of debt on our children. You are wrong keith, and you are wrong and you are a liberal and you are just apologizing for the president. [ applause ] stephanie thank you, karl frisch. I will have Michelle Obama accepting the award on my behalf. Stephanie yes. Rush limbaugh this is in direct violation of the oath of office defend and protect the constitution of the united states, and the people. He is opening the doors of prisons before the sequester has even happened. Before there have even been any budget cuts. This is so childish. Stephanie first of all, ice has said these are not dangerous criminals. Right. Stephanie again, it is because of the republicans that we have the sequester, and this is completely untrue. Yeah, in translation, were talking about brown people on the streets my friends [ laughter ] yeah, Rush Limbaugh at this point has become a caricature of himself. Stephanie exactly. Kids carbonite, why must i say it anymore . Do you know the it recovery guy . Remember he had written me and he said someone has a ka pooey, something happened, lost everything in her computer. She did not have carbonite, he had to call a Data Recovery company, they charged 2,000. And they didnt get everything back. For just 59 for the entire year, she could have had carbonite. Carbonite backs up everything in your computer on the icloud automatic excuse me on the cloud. Not necessarily the icloud just a cloud. The carbonite cloud. Stephanie a few clicks and you get everything back. Its amazing. Stephanie just 59 for the entire year, and that includes access to all of those backed up files from anywhere. Do it now. Dont be an oh no letter. Carbonite. Com, the offer code is stephanie. And dont make a 2,000 mistake. Stephanie right. Thats stupid stupid. Well be right back with more karl frisch on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer the station where the hand basket to hell leaves from. Its the Stephanie Miller show. [clucking]. Everyone wants to be the cadbury bunny. Cause only he brings delicious cadbury creme eggs, while others may keep trying. Nobunny knows easter better than cadbury this show is about being up to date, staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. In reality its not like they actually care. This is purely about political grandstanding. Bad bad announcer Stephanie Miller. Baddest announcer girl in the whole damn world stephanie thats the thing with addiction, sometimes you have to wean yourself instead of go cold turkey. Momma two glasses of wine last night. Screaming goats it might take longer. Like jump the shark. Stephanie yes, when someone sends you this you have to and i [ screaming goat ] will always love you [ screaming goat ] love you, i will always love you yeah stephanie im like just one more. Thats the last one. And then im done. My addiction is done. [ applause ] stephanie good morning, again, karl frisch. You know you wanted it. That was incredible. I thought we got enough of the screaming goat with scalia yesterday. [ laughter ] stephanie all right. Steve doocy. By releasing [ inaudible ] they have heard from ice it could be 10,000. Theyre hoping by releasing these people in advance of the sequester it puts the heat on republicans to go ahead and cave on taxes which theyre not going to do. Plus never let a good sequestration go to place there is a chance the administration are simply throwing their amnesty fans a bone. What . No, that has never happened before, and i love the way that fox news talks about this stuff, it is like they are letting brown people on the street. Stephanie yeah, scary. They will not compromise, even though brown people are being let out on to the street. Stephanie yeah, ice has said these are not dangerous criminals. These are the consequences of the sequester, right . You say dangerous they say brown. Stephanie and dan salomon. In the year 2013, were going to see an explosion of attacks on white haves by black have nots and more specifically on christian, heterosexual white haves, by black muslim and athreeists. If you are a white heterosexual christian, working, married person, if you dont have a gun on you, know how to use it and make sure that everyone in your family who is of age has a weapon and knows how to use it theres at least a substantial chance that you and or some member of your family will be hurt and or killed. By black people. Stephanie that was like a mirror image of obamas speech. I was trying to keep a weird messed up diagram of all of the people that are included and excluded. You know who was sitting in that interview with him was the president of gun owners of america. Which a lot of rightwing Media Outlets have been pumping up that guy and he agreed. Yeah. Gun owners of america are the rightwing version of the nra, if thats possible. Right. They are so rightwing that they dont even have wings. [ laughter ] stephanie you are just planning your next driveby of a white married christian man. Okay. Dennis miller on oreilly. Billy i was going skip the oscars this year but i was in my office at home, and i had the 24hour aday all barack obama channel on and there it was right between her gardening show, and obama raw ma, there were the oscars and then on her way home last night, she stopped and sunk a Half Court Shot and its a good day to be obama. You see photo ops of him in every single aspect of his daytoday life, say, what do they call that . Oh, yeah governance. I never see any of those shots. Is there a joke there there somewhere . Stephanie wow. See as jim tried to point out to the fledgling comedy people, it needs to be based on some sort of truth. Yeah, and just calling bill oreilly billy doesnt start it off as a joke. Stephanie yeah. Please. Okay. Have a good one. [ applause ] stephanie please call me babe for the rest of the show. Representative Linda Sanchez is next. Billy zane stars in barabbas. Coming in march to reelz. To find reelz in your area, go to reelz. Com announcer theres enough tuna and merlot to last me two weeks. But where would i pee . Oh, ill just go in the empty bottle. Yay. Stephanie all right. Thirtyfour minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. One of our personal favorites, one of the congressional dance moms and Congress Woman laura sanchez. Good morning, Congress Woman. Good morning. Clearly my reputation precedes me. Stephanie yes. Good morning. Happy sequester week to you. Oh, yes. Stephanie this is really i you know i dont know what to say. All the republicans seem interested in is the blame game. I was reading somewhere that boehners Spokes Person said we think we have succeeded in making the American People think it is the president s fault. And its like no it isnt. These guys are so oh gosh silly, because they voted for this. Eric cantor voted for this. The sequester was part of the budgetcontrol act that they passed last fall. I didnt vote for it because it was stupid deep cuts, and here we are. They are going to come into effect tomorrow, and now they are going to say that somehow its the president s fault . Its unbelievable how they are not willing to take responsibility for anything. And this is the same group that is always ranting and raving about we need responsibility in this country. Stephanie yeah this is going to put republicans on the defensive, and our friend Charlie Pierce that we had on yesterday was talking about this, there are local news programs everywhere that these are going to be all of the stories, right . Absolutely. It is going to effect every single district in the country. Just the talk of the sequester has already injected uncertainty into the economy. People are going to feel the very real impacts in each and every district. Because were talking about letting go of Law Enforcement and Public Safety personnel, letting go of teachers and head start teachers cutting meals for seniors, and food insecure women and children. You name it it will be affected by sequester. Stephanie it doesnt sound like there is any attempts at negotiation. Is that right . Right. We have known this was coming for a long time, and the republicans have dug in their heels and said first they tried to back out the military cuts and say 100 of the cuts on domestic programs. They are not willing to talk about revenue raisers. They dont want to take an balanced approach, and there is a certain idealogical group that thinks these sequester cuts are going to curve government spending, so its good for us in the long term, because the number one issue for them is deficit reduction. Stephanie right. If you talk to people across the country, were concerned about deficit spending but the number one fear and issue of people is am i going to have a job tomorrow and be able to support my family. Thats more important to them than these drastic across the board cuts that are going to you know, wind up, you know, forcing people to lose their jobs or be furloughed and thats just not good for the economy. Stephanie right. Congress woman sanchez somebody said this could be up to a million jobs. The president has said people are going to lose their jobs. This is going to mean job loss, and we are still in the stages of economic recovery. We have been seeing positive signs. s been a sort of a pattern of a slow but steady climb out of the recession hole that we were in, but these cuts are going to send us right back to the drawing board, because it is going mean higher unemployment rates, Less Consumer spending less investment by businesses. They get spooked, and they dont want to hire people. Its just a downward spiral all over again. Stephanie yeah. Congress woman we just finished rightwing world, and the mere mongering is all the president is releasing prisoners into the street, which is code word for brown people. And the president has said these are not dangerous detainees. No, these are people on home monitor monitors they have no past violent history. These are oftentimes very productive citizens that contribute a lot to their community and the economy, so because of the cuts that they are anticipating they are simply, you know, going to the least harmful solution which is, you know, to allow the, you know, the most productive folks to be not physically detained. Stephanie Congress Woman you heard john boehner say the senate needs to get off of its ass. Yeah. Stephanie Debbie Wasserman schultz said this yesterday. It is entirely within the purview of congress to pass legislation and second it to the president. So why didnt john boehner reaching out to harry reid sitting down with nancy pelosi, and Mitch Mcconnell and hammering out a compromise. Stephanie hello. Yeah, i mean he john boehner telling the senate they need to get off their ass thats the pot calling the kettle black stephanie or orange in his case. Right. If you look at the legislative schedule in terms of what baner will allow to come to the floor for a vote its meaningless. We cant even get the mustpass pieces of legislation done because boehner cant even get his caucus to support anything that would take care of the countrys business. They are the party of no. Compromise is a dirty word. They are not governing this country, and what i find highly ironic, these are the folks that are constantly harping about how we need certainty for businesses so they can plan their hiring and investing, and they are the folks who have been in charge the last two years, who have injected the most uncertainty into the economy by pulling these stupid games of were not going to pay our bills because we want it 100 our way, and its our way or the highway. Stephanie yeah. So, again, they are trying to pass the buck and pass responsibility off on to somebody else because they wont take personal responsibility for it. Stephanie yeah we played somebody on rightwing world that said that republicans have done nothing but compromise. And im sure thats how you remember it. Do you remember the little book 1984 by george orewell, where bad is good . Stephanie right. Thats the world we are living in. They are contort themselves and just basically flat out misrepresent things because they think it suits their purposes but i think the American Public is smarter than that. Stephanie they are actualtive rooting against america. They are hoping these cuts happen so they can blame the president. Right. Stephanie they are saying iceberg get ahead, go faster. Exactly. Representative there is a power chick breakfast in your honor, and we determined it would take me 14 hours to get from burbank to long beach to get there on time, but congratulations and thank so much. Thank you, stephanie. [ applause ] maybe there will be something in the future you can do stephanie we google mapped that. Were like i would love to but you cannot get there by 9 00 a. M. Last time you guys laughed at me when i had to get somewhere i had to get to the exotic movie location of culvert city. In a culvert. The wizard of oz was filmed in culvert city, so there you go. And gone with the wind. Yeah. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie big news yesterday was dozens of republicans what did he say 100 . Yeah, i think so. Stephanie signed the brief to the Supreme Court in support of samesex marriage rights. Almost 60 businesses have also signed briefs. Xerox did it first and then everyone else copied it. [ circus music ] [ laughter ] stephanie see what i did there. [ laughter ] [ circus music ] really . Really . Stephanie Andrew Sullivan said these businesses want to attract the best working forces as they can, and he added in the end the free market matters and in the end it wants gay equality. Yep. Lets hear it for the boys stephanie and thank you xerox, copy that. [ circus music ] stephanie i did it again. I went back and got it again. You are making my tummy hurt. Stephanie bam. Bah da boom bah da bing what aim a clown . Here to amuse you . Stephanie i cannot get any support here. Not after that. Stephanie copy that xerox. Announcer fresh republican outrage. 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If you believe in states rights but still believe in the drug war you must be high. Only on current tv. And running, and running, and running, and running, and everybody, everybody, get into announcer Stephanie Miller. Get fun, get fun lets get it started, ha, lets get it started in here lets get it started ha stephanie im like this with the peas as you know. Me and william hung. He is a pee. He had taboo on the show. Are you counting the lesser pea stephanie . Yes. He aint fergie. Stephanie yes, its like charles baldwin, its all right they all count. I dont think Daniel Baldwin counts. Stephanie not him. [ buzzer ] stephanie this hour brought to you by go to my pc. Try it free for 45 days type in the promo code stephanie, wont you . 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Oh, you know what i forgot say . [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie we have a former top interrogate for, when i read that piece about zero dark thirty. Jim was right dick cheney was the Technical Advisor any way, ali soufan wrote that piece, and he joins us at next and Jacki Schechner joining us at the top of the hour. Wee stephanie hi cherry in massachusetts. Caller hello there im from the peoples republican of massachusetts, and i was listening to the gun owners of america spokesperson talking, and i had a feeling how this was an eerie parallel to what happened in rwanda. And i think the folks at fox and the other Media Outlets are enabling these things. I think the First Amendment is central to our democracy, and the cure to bad speech is not sensorship but more speech. Stephanie exactly. More announcer Stephanie Miller. Stephanie is the answer to anything. Caller absolutely. Any time there are these horrific tragedies like newtown, gun sales go up. Stephanie yeah we were saying that Wayne Lapierre does not even speak for nra members he speaks for the gunbuying lobby. 61 of americans want stricter gun control laws. Did you see that sandy hook parent oh, yesterday he was testifying before stephanie oh. Holding the picture and crying. How are you a human and not and he was talking about banning assault weapons. How horrific was that to have to listen to him talk about the specific injuries his son suffered, and how he died and you know literally its just heart breaking. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie oh another edition of you are not helping. Okay. Stephanie idaho Lawmakers Force all adults into militias to protect gun rights. Theres a problem solver. You will be shocked to know its a republican lawmaker jim. He has proposed he feared the u. S. Supreme court would change the definition of the Second Amendment and argued that the federal government could never take away peoples guns if the Idaho Constitution were changed to make all adults go into a militia. I see where hes going. Stephanie five year olds. Thats the first step toward idaho succeeding from the union. Yes. Stephanie margo you are on the Stephanie Miller show. Caller hi, stephanie. You are the greatest. I want to talk about the i understand [ inaudible ] 147 days in 2012 congress. The voters should be able to vote that whatever you call that mad stupid party. They are 50 pay cuts. They dont deserve over 50,000 a year. They dont work, and they are a bunch of fascist terrorists and they are working against our government. They should all be put in prison for what they are doing to our country. Stephanie oh, my. She is on a tear today. Harry reid. Republicans are too busy fighting amongst themselves and instead they do nothing. Im sorry if you have to hear like this. I have offered him many times jim to work on his outside void. Im livid, im sorry you have to see me this way. Im beside myself. Stephanie okay. He makes senator Mitch Mcconnell look like some sort of a like a mad man. Nicolas cage of the senate. You wouldnt like me when im angry, i turn green oh wait i already am. He wasnt elected to work for the congress he wants. He was elected to work with the congress he has. Stephanie yep. Yep. And he tries to work with them and over and over again stephanie he tried to work with the douche nozzles he has, however pardon me . You dont go to war with the army you wish you had. You go to war with a count try you never should have started a war with in the first place. [ applause ] thank you. Stephanie a moment of honesty. Yeah. Stephanie when we come back hum . We have talked about this can eric bole lard and others, this media, oh, both sides its a this you know, bipartisan gridlock. It is not. It is entirely one sides fault and it is incredible how they pick that up. The president is not leading in some way. Well talk about that and jackis Health Care Corner as we continue on the Stephanie Miller show. [ theme music ] stephanie welcome current tv land. Hour number 2. Jacki schechner i know how shy you are talking about health care. Dont be nervous. There is a jackis Health Care Corner coming up at the top of the hour. Oh, there is. I texted you. I didnt see it. Stephanie you have been so notified. Good that it will be a big surprise. Stephanie right. Yeah, because its a great piece you sent us about states saying no to Market Health care places its about half and half. Theres going to be partnerships. And then some of the states are going to do it on their own. Stephanie its all coming up in what . Octoberish. They have to be up and running by october. Stephanie Jacki Schechner will tell you all of that. Nurse jacki coming up in just a moment. In the meantime its news jacki. Secretary of state john kerry is in rome today. He announced the u. S. Is going to provide direct nonlethal aide to the sirrians for the first time. The administration also giving an additional 60 million to help oust the president. Secretary kerry has always joined on to a joint statement with 11 other senior officials from countries who plan to coordinate help to empower the sirrian people. And briton and france have indicated a desire to supply the people if the European Union partners give the okay. In his state of the city address earlier this month, Michael Bloomberg announced his plan to get rid of plastic foam takeout containers. Now a new quinnipiac poll shows that 69 of new york city voters are behind the idea and only 26 are against. Less popular is his ban on big sodas. 51 of voters dont approve. The same poll asked a number of other questions including who city voters think the best mayor they have had in the past 50 years, Rudy Giuliani comes out on top, and then ed koch and bloomberg are tied for second. Now. vo she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. Ok, so theres wiggle room in the ten commandments, thats what youre saying. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. Absolutely. And so would mitt romney. vo shes joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . Announcer ladies and gentlemen, its the Stephanie Miller show im walking on sunshine woe ho im walking on sunshine woe ho its time to feel good hey all right now its time to feel good stephanie uhhuh. It is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome it to. Six minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Robert mcfadden at the bottom of the hour to talk about ali soufans oped in the New York Times. Great stuff. [ applause ] stephanie turns out it was all yeah. Stephanie i was quoting from that this week. All right. So important stuff coming up on health care. So you know what that means . Hello, come on its Jacki Stephanie hello, Jacki Schechner. Well, good morning. Stephanie good morning, nurse jacki. I feel the need to be cheery after that song comes on. Stephanie you make us happy. Obamacare has a better chance of success if it is taken out of the hands of governors who want to see it fail. Yes. Richard hersh is very good at breaking down complicated Health Care Policy into understandable terms. He is kind of the guy that i learned it from. And he is a Huffington Post piece up, and he talks about the Health Care Bill and what passed in the house versus what passed in the senate. And what passed in the house was the version of the National Health care exchange, and what passed in the senate was the idea that states would set up their own exchange. But the default was if states didnt do it the federal government would take over. Stephanie thats what you are here at the Stephanie Miller show, you are the momma bird and you regurdtait little pieces of Health Care Information into our mouths. Mixed with chunks of worm. Stephanie oh protein. [ overlapping speakers ] see what you did there . Stephanie jacki it is good news that states have anything to do with the [ inaudible ] he said resistance by republican governors is leading to implementation of the law in a way that is much closer to what you just said the house bill. But the point is better than having people that dont really believe in it implement it badly. Correct. You dont want people like rick scott, or rick perry pretty much anybody named rick. Stephanie right. [ laughter ] you dont want these governors who have been adamantly against the Affordable Care act from the beginning setting up the exchanges because they ultimately want to see them fail. So why would you allow or want them to be in charge. The idea that they are saying no and defaulting to the federal government is a good thing for us in the long run. Stephanie he says we can be the governors in these states would do the minimum. On the other hand some of the other states have decided to set up their own marketplaces are doing what the house law hoped being models like massachusetts, which did an excellent job. Thats going to be the good thing, right . Right. Try to make the purchase of Health Insurance not only easier, but also easier to understand, because its complicated, and every time you need to enroll in some sort of Health Insurance plan you have pages and pages of some sort of complicated language, and the idea of the exchange would be to make it more palatable all the way around and the federal government has the idea that they are going to partner with local institutions to get some places up and running, so there will be some alternatives to just these Large Insurance Companies if possible. Stephanie jacki for those who just tuned in, so by october all of these exchanges will be up and running, but for the layperson what does that mean . And what do you do . You think about it in terms of like when you travel shop online, you go to expedia or orbit or kayak, and it aggregates all of the information, and you can choose your flights and hotels so its going to aggregate all of the Health Care Plans in your state what is available, and youll be able to comparison shop and then youll be able to pick and choose what you would like online in this marketplace. Stephanie so individuals say were here in california. Individuals say who have a crappy plan now that doesnt cover much or say i have plans here for my Small Business, literally this show, are you going to be able to shop and go can i get a better plan . Individuals and some Small Businesses will be able to do that. It wont be open to Large Businesses at the onset, but it will be open to individuals in Small Business. But a large portion of people still get their Health Insurance through work. Like 95 of people. So were talking about hopefully covering you know, millions of people 29 million by 2021. I dont know why i said 2012 it should be 2014. I think it may be a misprint. Stephanie unless you are benjamin button. Right. So were talking about millions and millions of people but a majority of people still do get their Health Insurance benefits through their workplace. Stephanie as you know, as a Small Business owner im always look at ways to exclude chris hey stephanie but we can find maybe a better more affordable plan as a Small Business right . Yes and also its not going to be able to reject people with preexisting conditions. A lot of people lose their jobs and when they lose their jobs they lose their benefit. And if you have ever had to go out on the Insurance Market yourself, Insurance Companies are very good at over pricing it or rejecting you out right for a preexisting condition. So if you have a hang nail it can be a preexisting condition. Theres no standard as for what is and isnt considered. Now this will allow everybody to buy an affordable plan or get a taxpayer subsidy, to help you afford a Health Insurance plan. I dont have a hang nail you know why . Because you talked me into getting gel nails. How do you like the new color . I like that. It is better than the pepto bismol pink. Stephanie okay. Dave in north carolina. Caller hey, there. How are you doing. Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller [ inaudible ] well but anyway. I have been dying for ages to say these six words on your radio station. Health insurance for profit is immoral. Uhhuh. Stephanie yeah. Amen. [overlapping speakers] caller outside of the united states, as you can tell from my accent im actually appalled [ laughter ] stephanie as an american im appalled. Caller yes [ inaudible ] having been raised in engineer engineer england, if you dont want National Health insurance you are perfectly welcome to buy it. But they are not for property fit. Stephanie right. Jacki wouldnt life be the first thing isnt the whole concept wrong in this country . Yes. Because were not voluntary consumers in the health care marketplace. So you are forced into the marketplace unfortunately when something happens to you and you are not in a position generally to comparison shop. And the Insurance Companies responsibility is not to the American Public and the wellbeing of the American People. Stephanie dave raises a great point. We are crazy in america. Yes. Stephanie why is it that when your house is on fire you call the Fire Department but when we get sick, our society says you are on your own. Can you pay for that . Because weve built this forprofit market. And there are billions and billions and billions of dollars at steak. And there is so much money you are fighting against. All of the pieces of the medical industrial complex, its huge and you cant wipe that out. Its just not feasible, but what is interesting, and richard points this out, as we go to these state models vermont for example, is edging towards a single payer system. And they are hoping to have Something Like that in place by 2017. So the question becomes can we on a state level maybe some progress for a single payer model . And maybe thats a state by state thing. Stephanie absolutely. People will have to cross state lines to get health care. No buying across state lines are necessarily a good thing. Because right now Consumer Protections are state by state. So these corporations would state up in states like delaware like your Credit Card Company does, where they have really weak consume protections. Stephanie are you implying that republicans like to favor big corporations in some way . Corporations are people my friend. Stephanie another spectacular Health Care Corner. [ applause ] stephanie eighteen minutes after the hour. Go to my pc is how we run this ramshackle business, right, chris . Oh, yes. Stephanie were all over the place in this day and age. We have a lot of work to do. Places to be. And right after this show we have to vacate this studio and if i need something often of this computer the only way i can get it is go to my pc. Stephanie right. The only way i can get it is go to my pc. Stephanie im entitled to get the hell out of here. Thats why i use go to my pc by citrix. You can access your files from anywhere. With go to my pc you can program, edit any file anywhere. Plus go to my pc is easy. It sets up in just minutes. Freedom, jim. Thats my line, jim. I know. Stephanie you get a 45day free trial just for my listeners, enter the promo code stephanie, thats gotomypc. Com type in stephanie. Announcer she is the life of the democratic party. Ignore the lamp shade. Its the Stephanie Miller show. Can become major victories. Im phil mickelson, pro golfer. 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Caller hi, guys hello . Stephanie yes, hello. Caller hi, guys. Stephanie yes, go ahead, jason. Caller sorry guys im trying to take you off of bluetooth. Im calling to argue with you guys, which i very rarely do. But today i want to pick on you guys for making a big issue out of gun control. What everybody isnt talking about is how the last 30 or 40 years, how we have as a society started to slowly accept and condone killing and assassination, and i think this is stephanie okay. So youre doing the drone argument . Caller no, its not even just the drone argument. Its a the argument that its okay for bush or obama or this government that we have to publicly condone assassination and killing. You know we go to war, which is ridiculous stephanie right. But jason, do you not condone lets say the assassination of Osama Bin Laden . Is that not a better result than the entire Afghanistan War . Caller stephanie people can make the same argument about killing lincoln, you know. Stephanie killing lincoln . Caller yeah, i mean a lot of people would say, well if lincoln had been killed earlier lots of americans wouldnt have died stephanie they could make that argument, but they would be a dope. Caller okay. My point is that stephanie my point is theres no analogy between Osama Bin Laden and lincoln. Never mind. If i need to explain it you are to dumb to live. Oh. Stephanie not to him, just in general. If you saw zero dark thirty and lincoln, and thought the same thing so a lot of people died in world war ii, so was that wrong as well . Stephanie right. If you thought both of those guys had it coming there is something wrong with you. You must have been educated in texas. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie back to the fry basket. Okay. Americans worry more about gun violence than losing their jobs. The Kaiser Foundation asked how much they worry about certain situations. This is interesting. Poll just out americans worry more about being a victim of gun violence, than losing their job or being able to pay their mortgage. Wow. Stephanie and then in another edition of [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie colorado man arrested last week for harassing a speaker giffords has become a verb now. She is a black woman legislator who lost her son to gun violence, who is pushing for some gun control measures. He also mentioned beth mccann, he said hopefully someone will giffords both of your asses. He said there will be blood im coming for you. And its because of guys like that that we need gun control. Stephanie he repeatedly apologized to one detective for using sexually derogatory and racist statements. He said i dont use those words, im not a racist. Whatever stephanie were talk about zero dark thirty with a former interrogate for next on the Stephanie Miller show. Go ahead vo currents Award Winning original series is back, with a World Premiere episode. Its a pretty, little town, with an ugly reputation. You just google harrison, what will come up is the klan. Im all for that. The kkk doesnt speak for us at all. It speaks against god. vo which side will win the soul of harrison . Were never gonna move. Do you two have to immate everything you see on announcer Stephanie Miller. Were 12 so yes. [ laughter ] stephanie true that. Thirtyfour minutes after the hour. 1800steph12. Were all in the oscar after glow out here in hollywood. And i was talking about a great piece by ali soufan entitled torture lies in hollywood. Because i just saw zero dark thirty. He writes i watch zero dark thirty as someone who enjoys hollywood movies. As a movie, i enjoyed it, as history it was bunk. The filmmakers pass fiction off as history. Amar is a composite character who bares a strong resemblance to a real life terrorist, but the cia has repeatedly denied he was ever water boarded, and he did not give up information that lead to bin laden. After being water boarded 132 times he actually played down the information that led us to Osama Bin Laden. Good morning. Good morning. Stephanie what a great piece this is. Yeah, i think it was a terrific piece too, but with a little bit of bias on my part, i should say. Stephanie a tiny bit. [ laughter ] stephanie i wanted to see the film katherine biglow wrote an editorial for the New York Times where she said i dont personally believe that torture lead to the capture of Osama Bin Laden, but i agree now having seen the movie with ali, do you, that it absolutely gives the impression that torture lead to getting Osama Bin Laden. I agree completely. I saw the movie on the first nights opening in new york. And it is an entertaining movie. The last 30 minutes of the movie, if it doesnt get your heart rate up nothing will. Stephanie right. But the opening frame where it talks about based on firsthand accounts and then immediately goes to the scenes with amar getting the torture, yeah, i did have a problem with that. And i agree with the oped piece too, that it says that hollywood is not really compelled to get it right or have any kind of moral compunction. That really should up to the president , the congress the report that i think well probably talk about, but the other part of it too, and granted the film makers are trying to tell a very very complicated history of over ten years, and its pretty tough to do, but not even a passing reference to the debate about the efficacy about those techniques. Stephanie yeah, numerous investigations, most recently a report by the senate reached the same conclusion enhanced interrogation didnt work. This is a disservice both to our history and our national security. And that is the point he is making, this is too important of an historical event to get it wrong, right . Absolutely. And what we have been seeing is to the extent possible in a secure and righteous way the report should be declassified and released to the public. To the extent that it protects sources, but still, though, from the words of senator feinstein and senator mccain himself its misleading and theres no indication that the torture was anything but wasting times and lost leads. Stephanie thats right. John brennan, now president obamas nominee recently testified the classified report raises serious question about the information he received. He said publicly what many of us who were in interrogation rooms had been warning about for years, senior officials, right up to the president has been mislead. Thats another two terrific points there. It would good to hear mr. Brennan say that. If you have been in government long enough, you see this over and over again. And its almost never with ill intent, but you get into this phenomenon where seniors are over briefed. Theres this internal pressure to put the best look the best face on a program. So someone like brennan up through the former president and Vice President were probably a lot of times over briefed on the results of these kind of things particularly if you have seniors within an organization who are proponents of that program. Stephanie ali says some of these memos pointing out they have been declassified and it is the same thing. Meanwhile [ inaudible ] selectively declassifying material and providing false information that fits their narrative. You said the creators of zero dark thirty attempted to document the greatest manhunt in our nations history. And this stuff really ought to be declassified right . Right. Thats exactly the other point you raise there, stephanie, is the idea of okay they had access to individuals who were aware of the program and so by having that kind of perspective then they are controlling the narrative, and thus it comes out that way on the film and its inaccurate and misleading. Stephanie ali writes only those with security clearance like mr. Brennan can read how the public was mislead. And advocates of torture dont want release. Thats the only way to ensure that future generations wont go down that path again. And thats exactly what dick cheney doesnt want right . For us to know the whole truth. Exactly. Stephanie i thought i dont want to express an opinion without having seen the film, and i have to say you are absolutely right, it is a great movie, but again, you cant take something that historical and can you imagine if they got everything in lincoln wrong . Yeah. [ laughter ] absolutely, and see thats the thing. I mentioned before and i believe ali did in his piece, that its really not hollywoods responsibility. But none the less we as former practitioners involved in our post government working life we we have concerned that this will become you know lets say the definitive history of how bin laden was captured, and that was the close on that era of terrorism which again, its inaccurate, and were talking about two important things, efficacy and then the huge thing we havent even mentioned yet, morality. Stephanie yeah. And i share alis hope. He says once it is declassified it wont be long before another hollywood story comes along to tell the real story of the capture of bin laden. I think thats true . Yeah. Stephanie i went to the film with a guy who is very liberal. And we were talking afterwards, and he was like sometimes i think torture does work or whatever. And i sent him this piece, and he is like okay, i was wrong. But thats the visceral thing that you and ali are saying that movie movie creates. And the point of this whole piece is no, you dont, and it doesnt work. Yeah, and you talk about the sequence with the way the film started with the firsthand accounts and then the actual recordings of victims pleading for help and then the very next seen is amar undergoing the treatment, which by the way it didnt happen that way anyway. Stephanie right. It is flooding that feeling we had right after 9 11 to go and you are absolutely right. The issue is morality. Yeah, if you are a pretty normal human being after the opening scene like that and then the very emotional recordings, most people would say, yeah, they deserve that. But that has nothing to do with getting information efficiently, quickly and then using it in an actionable way. Stephanie absolutely. Robert thank you so much for coming on with us. I know ali is traveling and you have so many of the same experiences. Thank you so much. My pleasure. Stephanie there re goes. [ applause ] i loved that scene in lincoln when he called for an air strike of f16s. Stephanie yeah, that was awesome. And then George Washington shot him. What . Wait a minute that didnt lincoln didnt have any nuclear submarines. Stephanie the civil war would still be going on although there were submarines in the civil war. Yes, handcranked sub are submarines. Exactly. Stephanie good morning donna. Caller i wanted to call about california, there is a policy now that they can get. Our Insurance Agent called me the day after the Supreme Court ruled on the Affordable Care act, and said i have great news you can get a policy now. Its the preexisting condition insurance plan, and people can google it. Pcip on their internet and find out. I went six years without insurance, and my arthritis went to osteo par row sis, but i have insurance again, and im so excited about it. And i want to let people know. Right now there is only a little over 1500 of us enrolled in this plan, and we need more people enrolled to make it work. The premium is 492 a month, which is not really that much. The previous program, california had was called a major risk medical insurance plan, the premium on that was 1,200 a month, 4,500 deductible and lifetime cap of 85 k. Stephanie donna we have to break here. But thank you so much for that. And people can google that. Shaf would like to say that lincoln didnt have drone, but mary lincoln was known to drone on. Stephanie yes, thank you for setting the record straight, shaf. [overlapping speakers] stephanie i need that like i need a hole in the head that lady is bipolar, run stephanie blah blah blah. Were doing like 16 different skits at once. I know. Announcer excatholic girl gone wild. Her grade school nuns would like to slap her silly. Its the Stephanie Miller show. vo from the underworld, to the world of privilege. 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Top of the hour. No go to my pc mobile apps try it free for 45 days. For my special offer, click on the try it free button and type in the promo word stephanie. [ applause ] stephanie lots of people loved our discussion on zero dark thirty. I made the point can you imagine if they got all of the facts in lincoln. As long as the kids remember the history of mitt romney correctly. History tells us that willard mitt romney ran for president in 2012. But history doesnt tell the whole story. Romney vampires are not people my friend. Im here to turn the living dead into a living nightmare. Mitt romney vampire hunter. He ran for president for four score and seven years. Romney these vampires dont have any experience running a business. Mitt romney vampire hunter. Mediocrity shall not parish. [ dramatic music ] [ applause ] stephanie yay. Thanks Rocky Mountain mike. Stephanie doris in michigan. Hi, doris. Caller hi, thanks for taking my call. Stephanie thank you. Caller he first time i heard you on the radio you had broken your foot or something. Stephanie wow, that was quite a while ago. All right. Go ahead. Caller im physician and theres a couple of examples but if i can get to the first one anyway. If one were to talk about universal health care, and people talk about socialism and all of that but my brother was a marine in vietnam. So he qualifies to go to the va. And he came back stephanie which is swimming in socialism. Caller yes. Yes. And its wonderful, and mr. Potter i think wrote a book on the best care anywhere was in the va but one of the things about the public money goes to the va and the help of our veterans, which if want it all to go for that and they have a low overhead like 2 or 3 but if you were to argue on the other side you would say i would like to take 30 of what we give of our public money, and give it to a guy who has a corporate jet, and then thats twothirds left for my brother or everybody elses brother or sister, how about that . I dont know too many people would say yeah lets cut a third of that and throw it over to number who wants to make money. Stephanie yeah. Caller i think they would see it in a little different way. Stephanie yeah forprofit Health Industry is immoral as our british caller said who said he is appalled as an american. He has one of those fake british accents like madonna. [ laughter ] stephanie did i say 350 economists say sequester cuts will hurt the economy. How many economists does it take to make republicans and the congress pay attention. Prominent economists who have issued important statement warning that the fragile recovery is threatened by the obsession with cutting the deficit. They are warning that big spending cuts aimed at reducing the deficit could make the deficit worse. And then we can blame it on the president. Stephanie the establishment, obama derangement syndrome. They have to make both sides seem equal in every debate. Bob woodward on wednesday morning, arguing obamas decision to not seize imperial powers, but follow the letter of the sequestration laws amounts to madness. Obscure budget document is a dually enacted law. The only ways around it as the president has said is for congress to change it or for obama to break it. They they keep trying to give him powers he doesnt have. Which is it . Like we keep saying. Why wont the president lead . Why wont the president get out of the way. Why dont you shut up . Thats what i want to know. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie now the president is letting brown people out to kill you. Yeah. Fox news just went ape dump over this. Stephanie the white house is threatening the Public Safety by releasing dangerous criminals. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pushing back by saying it is not endangering american lives, saying it took steps to avoid anyone who poses a threat. Detainees with serious criminal histories have not been released. As kong woman sanchez told us they have ankle monitors. Do we get anything else from rightwing world . Stephanie no. [ world news tonight theme ] president obamas team concedes the almost certain cuts on friday will not immediately produce the layoffs and airport delays, but its the drip drip, drip of bad news and hopefully it will put republicans on the defensive and get something done here. Well talk more about that next hour. Its the Stephanie Miller show. [ theme music ] stephanie Jacki Schechner . Yes. Stephanie current news senator. Interesting debate with our interrogate for guy, right . Very much so. I have a little important announcement to make though. Stephanie oh. It is the last day for the pope on the job, it is also the last day today for somebody that is very important to me personally, and that would be lisa ferguson. She is leaving us, and moving on. And well miss her producing skills and also keeping me sane and calm in the earlymorning hours. Stephanie yes. You would be surprised what goes on bep behind the scenes. So i wanted to say goodbye to her on the air. Stephanie thank you, lisa and by the way jim, smoking hot. Yes, she was wearing a bikini at your house. Stephanie jim has a private goingaway party planned. Dont go lisa. Here she is Jacki Schechner in the current tv newsroom. Good morning, jacki. Good morning, everybody. Participate will most the swearing in of jack lew next hour. Vice President Biden will be administering the oath. The Senate Confirmed leu late yesterday, and now he has to get right to work, because it looks like the sequestration is going to kick in tomorrow. And he will be looking for ways to roll back the cuts once they are in place. The first lady continuing to promote her lets move campaign was in an oped today. She celebrates the move american businesses are making to bring fresh fruits and vegetables to consumers. And applauds walmart in selling more fruit and vegetables. Mrs. Obama emphasized what is good for our bodies also good for business. We spent 190 billion a year treating obesityrelated health problems. And the house today expected to vote on the violence against women act finally. Republicans are going to try to pass a watered down version of the bill first, and if that fails, then they will go for a senate version. Were back after the break. Go ahead vo currents Award Winning original series is back, with a World Premiere episode. 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Sweet home chicago is about to get a little more sugar from momma. Stephanie yeah, get it go. The marquee is up. Hurry get those tickets. Somebody else sat on the remote and found us by accident. Charlie in kansas city. Hi, charlie. Caller no, i cant find you on current tv. I found you on satellite radio. Stephanie oh, okay. Caller you was making fun of mitt romney. Stephanie right. Caller what has obama done . He hasnt done anything. Stephanie has he done too much and he is a socialist or has he not done anything . Im not going to say he is a socialist. But he was a Community Activist and he never ran a business he was also a state and federal senator. Caller how long was he a senator . Stephanie okay. You are running the last election. What do you mean . He has done a lot of things. He has gotten health care done caller he hasnt gotten anything done. Health care, the cost of it is enormous. Stephanie no, its not. So is the cost of our health care system. Were going to bring the prices down. Caller no it aint. Its not the governments responsibility to give us health care. Stephanie this is not Government Health care. Its privately run health care. Caller oh, dont give me that. No, they are run by private companies dude. Stephanie single payer would have been a government system. This is not a government system at all. Caller and they are talk about all of the gun stuff right now. And there is more crime in chicago stephanie right. Because there are very lax gun laws everywhere around chicago. National gun laws federal gun laws that apply to every state caller but obama has not done a dang thing to help this country. Stephanie oh charlie, you are the cutest little thing. He aint done nothing. He aint none done nothing he was totes adorbs. Thats hilarious. Stephanie he still has early obama derangement syndrome. He is like a preskeeter. He is not even skeeter from this obama derangement syndrome who needs health care he aint never run no business. [ laughter ] stephanie we have got to put him in the next version of this. Here go. Meet skeeter. Skeeter is afflicted with obama derangement syndrome. For less than the price of two lattes you can help skeeter get basic education, and learn hygiene. We might prevent skeeter from running for a second congressional term. Please help us erase obama derangement syndrome a halfbaked thought is a terrible thing to waste. [ applause ] stephanie he aint did nothing. And by now we actually agree. [ magic wand ] [ laughter ] stephanie thats a little inside joke. Im just kidding oh, my goodness. Were still employed you know . Stephanie right. Im very we were discussing during the break my drinking solution that has veered into a problem now. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] Stephanie Jim came in and said i shouldnt drink vodka, it makes me angry. I think i broke a table. You think you broke a table . Yeah, there was a little side table that the top was off of it that is not connected to the legs anymore. It could be a cat jumped on it stephanie i would go with that. You have five of them. Stephanie maybe vodka makes your cats angry. They have been dipping into my vodka stephanie which makes you even angrier. We were talking about it and im like i cant go cold turkey so im on a Reduction Program thats going very well please and thank you. Well it has been one day. Stephanie shush, im under a lot of strain but some addictions take some time to break, for instance screaming goat parodies. It has already jumped the shark, and you think im done with that internet meme . Right . We played bon jovi and who else yesterday . Taylor dane somebody sent me goatteea. Stephanie right. Hal was here yesterday and he put it [ overlapping speakers ] you are drunk. Stephanie that is the problem is im not this morning. And its very different. But what im saying is just one more, one more screaming goat parody, and thats it because whitney. And i [ screaming goat ] will always love you [ screaming goat ] i will always [ screaming goat ] [ applause ] stephanie its funny because its the sound of my love life. You are so weird. Stephanie its twue. Ryan in pennsylvania. Welcome. Caller hi, steph and the mooks. I actually have a larger point to make about the gun violence in america, but first i did want to touch on something an earlier caller had said you had asked him would killing bin laden earlier have saved american lies and he said you could say the same thing about killing Lincoln Stephanie yeah. Caller i think he had abpoint in responding to your question, and then you kind of disconnected, and then like made a straw man argument stephanie it is my first morning of sobriety just go with me please. [ laughter ] caller what i was going to say about gun violence here in america is i think that lot of times in america people argue about what needs to be done. And i think its more of the reality of violence. I think the generation of people that grew up now, the teenagers, the ones going to war, are they have grown up around us being in a perpetual war, where its a okay to kill people in afghanistan iraq pakistan stephanie i dont think people think it is okay. Many, many people were against the iraq war caller oh, yeah, i definitely was. Stephanie and my point was had we killed bin laden the way we did we might not have had to have the Afghanistan War. I dont think people are for killing civilians of any kind. No civilians were killed in the killing of bin laden right . Caller right. Stephanie im sorry, people the house, but if you are hanging out with bin, your choices are worse than mine. And they were sober apparently. I have not made many of my choices sober. Pat in l. A. Welcome. Caller yeah, hi steph. Long time listener. Stephanie thank you. Go ahead. Caller i listened to you years ago when you were on another channel, and some person was saying that you knew nothing about republicans, and you said yeah, but your father had run for Vice President under the republican ticket and i thought that was like an woodial len moment. I loved that so much. Thats when i became a fan. But about the movie i think you are missing the point. Clearly the character that got water boarded was a compilation of many people. Its a twohour movie, you cant show everything stephanie but water boarding actually lead us away from bin laden. So thats a fact is wrong. Caller but it didnt show that water boarding actually lead stephanie pat it strongly implied it. It strongly implied it. I think if they had not shown water boarding it would have been a disservice, because water boarding was part of the story. Caller you stephanie you are right, but if you are going to be accurate you would have included it as something that was not helpful in us getting bin laden. Caller yeah, but this was a character that was representing the whole stephanie he was a character that was a real character that was not water boarded. So they water boarded caller yell, they are saying it a compilation of characters. [overlapping speakers] caller but theres one thing that i think you missed remember the monkeys in the cage the guy the actual torturer and later on the monkeys were gone and he said my work here is done, they have taken my monkeys away. He was referring to the fact that he could no longer torture, and it wasnt until well after that they got the information, so i think the movie in the idea of what happened is being accurate. Stephanie well, i would strongly disagree but it is my first moment of being sober, so i apologize. You know what i need jim . A lot of drinks to kill the bug that is up my ass. [ laughter ] announcer for a good time, call now, 1800steph12. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. I love announcer Stephanie Miller. So put another dime in the jukes box baby i love announcer Stephanie Miller. Put another dime and dance with me [ screaming goat ] stephanie screaming goats. Twentytwo minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Tomorrow fridays with fugelsang. Indeed. Stephanie august no april 13th. Chicago theater. Sexy liberal get it go. And we have the return of Kathleen Madigan in studio. [ applause ] i love her. Thats tuesday. Stephanie she is too rich comedy wise for all of the time but when we get her she is like a fluffy comedic desert topping. I always get the response no yes, because shes traveling. Stephanie and then shell Say Something hilarious. Can you share . Stephanie no i cant remember the last one. Who can remember all of her hillarity. Its too much. Janet that janet nepal on the noe, says there is no progress expected before the boner the president is trying to scare the American People yeah. Strategies for the boner believe [ inaudible ] as computer says no. Stephanie by the by we have a new defense secretary. Thanks to the republicans help once again. Chuck hagel yesterday. Budget, sequestration, i dont need to deal on all of the good news there. Thats a reality. We need to figure this out. Stephanie yeah. And he also talked about you know we cant dictate to the world, but we must engage in the world. We must lead with our allies. Stephanie the Republican Partys family feud exposed. The republicans need a Richard Dawson figure. The sexy headline, almost 60 , jim, of the Republican Party is out of touch with the American Public, the poll exposes a bigger problem for the gop. The party is deeply divided, and fractured. With many holding decidedly negative views about their party. Why are your hitting yourself . Why are yao hitting yourself . Stop it. Did your brothers do that to you . I had a sister. I think roman gomez did that to me. Stephanie right. That would be before he held me down and drips toothpaste into my mouth. Is there Something Different and more dangerous happening here . I think so. [ applause ] [ sighs ] stephanie okay. A girl can dream. [ laughter ] stephanie [ inaudible ]. John in arizona. You are on the Stephanie Miller show. Caller good morning, little sis. Stephanie pardon me . Caller i love you guys. Yeah, i live in arizona. Its kind of weird out here. I grew up in colorado and moved here because i really liked john mccain when he was antibush. You moved to arizona because you liked one of their senator . Yeah when mccain used to go headtohead against bushs policies thats really a reason to pick up and move interstate. Caller well, i lost my job okay. [overlapping speakers] caller he opened up a shop down in bull head and [overlapping speakers] caller and then when i got here he died. His wife sold the business and i have been kind of stranded ever since. I bought a house that i cant sell stephanie well youll always have bull head. [ laughter ] you got out of that just in time. Stephanie eddie in tennessee. Caller hi, how are yall doing . Stephanie good. Caller liberal caller from tennessee. Thats kind of unusual, isnt it . Actually we have been getting quite a few since we have been on current tv. Stephanie yeah. Caller here is the deal, i was watching one of these shows i cant tell anymore whether they are conservative or liberal, but they were talk about the Second Amendment, people say we should abolish the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment gives us the right to carry firearms and there was this british guy talking, british, english, you know what i mean. And [ inaudible ] problems in the whole world. We have the lowest homicide rate stephanie are you drunk by any chance . Caller no. Just a bad imitation. Stephanie oh, i see. Caller right, and the other guy said, okay coming across the other way, said the reason we have the Second Amendment was because of you talking to the british guy. If the british would have let us be, and let us do our thing stephanie eddie, sorry, were out of time. As much as i would like to hear your impressions of a conversation on another radio show between some guy and whatever stephanie while you have been drinking moon shine, i think yeah were up against a hard break. Stephanie as far as you know were up against a hard break. Now we really are. Well have to leave it there go ahead vo currents Award Winning original series is back, with a World Premiere episode. Its a pretty, little town, with an ugly reputation. You just google harrison, what will come up is the klan. Im all for that. The kkk doesnt speak for us at all. It speaks against god. vo which side will win the soul of harrison . Were never gonna move. Oh, my god, thats announcer Stephanie Miller. Its like meeting mickey mouse and walt disney at the same time. Only two and a half hours until exbenedict. [ circus music ] stephanie it is the farewell lunch for the pope is at the vatican olive garden [ circus music ] stephanie hurry. Hurry. It is going to get crowded. And the new pope will be the new pope, and this pope will take the title pope classic. I prefer pope zero. [ circus music ] hes too pooped to pope. [ circus music ] stephanie thats that puffy cheesy thing going for ya . [ circus music ] you know we are going to get cards and letters from catholics. Stephanie jerry you are on the Stephanie Miller show. Caller greetings from motown, and in the immortal words of the four tops, detroit is reaching out. Will you be there . Stephanie we are here. We are here detroit. Go ahead. Caller i wanted to bring up the issue of the fight over renewing the the Voting Rights act, and what Justice Scalia said calling it stephanie he calls it a perpetuation of racial entitlement, the Voting Rights act. Go ahead. Caller yeah, i heard that. And speaking as a black man, white people since the beginning of this country, especially conservative whites have had racial entitlements for 400 years here. Stephanie thank you, exactly. Caller and for [ inaudible ] and then on top of that you had the lead justice, john roberts claiming there is more voter disenfranchise choicement in massachusetts than mississippi. Stephanie what . I think i speak for all hardofhearing darth vaders when i say what . [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie Justice Scalia called it a perpetuation on a stephanie that was a gasp. Get that ready on prop 8 because you know he is go to Say Something incredibly homophobic. [ gasp ] thats the best gasp i have ever heard. [ laughter ] stephanie the last time the Voting Rights law was before the justices, it passed 980 when it was before the Senate Scalia claimed four years ago this vote undermines the laws. He said the israel Supreme Court used to have a rule that why are we quoting israely law. Stephanie right. Rich shall disenfranchise choicement is unacceptable because lawmakers are too afraid to be tarred as rarist. Why is he quoting israely law . We are not israel, we are america. We have our own laws. Stephanie right. Okay. Stephanie get the gasps ready. [ gasp ] stephanie and mummers. [ mumbling ] stephanie did he just use the f word for gay man. [ gasp ] stephanie by the way david frum wrote a piece in support of gay marriage. Samesex rights have finally jumped a generational divide. Samesex marriage rights can now show support everywhere in the party. He was talking about just his evolution personally. He said as a conservative he was always saying its he was talking about from the economic point of view i have been convinced i have been worrying about the wrong thing. Stopping samesex marriage excludes and punishes people who seek only to live as conservatives would urge them to live. Like many signatories see biggest predicate for is that you know and love somebody that is as scalia would say a limpwristed [ gasp ] a limpwristed homo. Stephanie right. [ gasp ] all right. Thats going the way of the goats. [ laughter ] stephanie culture war politics has done to my own party. There you go. Thank you david frum. [ applause ] [ gasping ] stephanie nothing more to say. Brett in virginia. Hello, brett. Caller haye steph, long time listener, love you guys. Two things i wanted to touch on first with the bin laden and torture thing, if that were so true why did the Bush Cheney Administration have to close the cia bin laden unit back in 2006 . Stephanie exactly. Do you think that impeded the search for bin laden in any way . No. Stephanie all right. By the way we have been talk about guns off and on all morning. Vice President Joe Biden yesterday. The excuse that its too politically risky to act is no longer acceptable. Stephanie yeah, if anybody saw the sandy hook father on tv last night with a picture of he and his son crying talking about the assault weapons ban, again, it is not a partisan issue anymore. Senator Lindsey Graham wellknown southern bell. It is more about who has the gun than the gun itself. Thats part of it. But if you have a huge magazine so you can keep firing and firing and firing and nobody can stop you, thats a problem. Stephanie yes. Milwaukee police chief. It doesnt matter [ overlapping speakers ] i want to finish the answer. I want to stop 76,000 people from buying guns illegally. Thats what a background check does. If you think were going to do paperwork prosecution, you are wrong. [ applause ] wow stephanie yeah. He must have clutched the pearls continuously. Bile on the fainting couch. Not enough mint juleps in the world stephanie why i never [ laughter ] stephanie i will be on the fainting couch forever oh god. Stephanie oh really . Stephanie okay. [ laughter ] were going to be hearing from the Senators Office pretty soon, i think. Stephanie oh i declare are you going to let that man speak to me that way . I swear, i shall never go hungry again stephanie i need pie shes from the carolinas, so is Lindsey Graham stephanie that man spoke to me [ laughter ] surprise, surprise surprise stephanie its my new impression Lindsey Graham as aunt bee. Andy opi [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie how awesome is [ inaudible ]. Stephanie how many how many cases have you brought to trial, [ crickets chirping ] [ mumbling ] stephanie she made bernanke hum nah hum nah. Did you see that . I did stephanie look at the time. Grilling Federal Reserve chairman ben bernanke. Here is some of that. I understand that were all trying to get to the end of too big to fail, but my question mr. Chairman is until we do should those biggest Financial Institutions be repaying the american taxpayer that 83 billion sub side that they are getting . It is working like an insurance policy. Ordinary folks play for homeowners insurance. And these big Financial Institutions are getting cheaper borrowing to the tune of 83 billion in a single year simply because people believe that the government would step in and bail them out, and im just saying if they are getting it, why shouldnt they pay for it . I think we should get rid of it. Stephanie and then bernankes confidence seemed to waiver when pressed by warren later. He suggested the governments tools to wind down the big banks were still a work in progress. He said i think we have made some progress. We have a plan thats moving in the right direction. She said any idea when were going to arrive . Oh [ dramatic music ] stephanie bam right in the neck mic drop. Stephanie she said mic drop and she walked off. Gangsta mic drop. He said its not a 01 kind of thing, bernanke stammered in response. Over time we will see increasing ah ah ah increasing ahhhhh stephanie increasing Market Expectations that these institutions can fail i have to go potty. Stephanie it sounds like boner doing the cowardly lion when they step on his tail. Somebody stepped on my tail [ [ sobbing ] now you went into Charles Nelson riley. And then Lindsey Graham said i have got what is wrong with you . Stephanie this stopping drinking is a bad idea yeah, you may need to go back to drinking stephanie animating tweety birds around my head. [ laughter ] stephanie fortysix minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer excatholic girls gone wild her grade school nuns would like to slap her silly. Its the Stephanie Miller show. Billy zane stars in barabbas. Coming in march to reelz. To find reelz in your area, go to reelz. Com the bar harbor bake is really worth trying. [ male announcer ] get more during red lobsters lobsterfest. With the years Largest Selection of mouthwatering lobster entrees. Like our delicious lobster lovers dream, featuring two kinds of succulent lobster tails. 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Baby come and get it baby come and get it come and get it while its hot baby come and get, baby come and get it, youll always get the best ive got stephanie oh sorry. You broke the show stephanie i called you a bad word. You did stephanie it was comedy. And you fake cried. You have something in your teeth. Stephanie you are still a [ sobbing ] stephanie this hour brought to you byier this bier this bier this are breath lozenges. Travis forwarded this email, is the show really that funny, or does it just seem that way because im always high when i watch it on current tv. [ applause ] probably a little bit of both. Stephanie Stephanie Miller. Right. Its morning everywhere stephanie right. Wow. Stephanie some dude watching some current. That takes some dedication to get high this early in the morning. Stephanie the headline Chris Christie not sweating cpac he is sweating Everything Else, but he is not losing sleep over not being invited to the conservative Political Action conference. Thats their prerogative. They say im nasty, but i dont give a damn. I was free styling. He didnt say that. But he said thats their prerogative. They said organizers snubbed him, and he made it very hard for republicans in the congress at a time when we were trying to deal with fiscal constraints. [ baby crying ] stephanie you needed it in a timely manner [ baby crying ] stephanie all right. Seth mcfarlane has ruled out an oscar return. He said he had a lot of fun, but it is not an experience he wants to repeat. I thought it was funny. Stephanie were too politically incorrect theres a difference between jokes about sex, and homosexualtive stephanie we did see their boobs. We did. Stephanie and it got great ratings. Anne hathaways acceptance speech, she reportedly rehearsed her acceptance speech a lot. I guess she was planning on women. She thanked her husband and fellow fellow lait came true. It was a thing on i dream a dream. She apparently practiced the speech in an effort to appear more likable. If you have to rehearse appearing likable, and authentic there was a little bit of a backlash to anne hathaway. Stephanie because of les mis stephanie there was the thing going around facebook where it was flowchart. So a backlash was started. Stephanie leave her alone. She has made a nation of women want to be as thin as dying french prostitutes. [ applause ] stephanie is that an insult . [ laughter ] stephanie speaking of the oscars how much do we love adele. And she won her oscar for skyfall. You know where she went . Where . Stephanie in and out. That is a block and a half away from stephanie i bought a hamburger. Ben affleck shaved off his lucky beard moments after received his oscar. The whole family was tired of the beard. He did it to mark the end of a chapter. Okay. Stephanie that means i need to regrow my unibrow. To mark the end of what chapter stephanie what are you telling us . Stephanie no to make me a major hollywood player again. It was good luck for him the beard. So i should have not tweezed my unibrow is my point. There is no splashy awards show for radio. Stephanie no, they dont. What did the hollywood publicist say to you once . You have to realize how low on the entertainment totem pole radio is. Stephanie they were like oh no. Do they still have that . All right grandma. Stephanie kanye west launched into another diatribe where he considered himself the musical equivalent to picasso and speak stephanie he said no matter how they try to control you or the mother i am picasso, walt disney and steve jobs. And hell be hosting the oscars next year. Stephanie kanye is so hes a jack ass. Stephanie thank you mr. President. Gawker wants us to know that Janet Jackson secretly married a [ inaudible ] businessman last year. Janet jackson surprised the world today that they have been married since last year. [ applause ] stephanie all right everyone move on with your life. And