Friday. Pantsfree friday. Get it right. Stephanie she started with help me. Im having all sorts of technical problems. [ mysterious music ] stephanie oh, look who is here right on time as usual, its jim ward. The good news is thank god we dont need a journalistic goddess, the guy who owns the show sent us the news yesterday that susan rice withdrew. [ laughter ] if only we had a tv. Stephanie right or computers. Here she is news goddess Jacki Schechner. Secretary of defense has authorized deployment of 400 troops to man the turkey syria border. They are emphasizing this is only a defensive mission. Susan rice will meet with president obama at the white house today. He has already accepted her withdraw for consideration to replace Hillary Clinton. She is a fighter but not at the cost of what is right with the country. The president praised her strength of character, and called the attacks on her in recent weeks unfair and misleading. The reaction to the withdrawal were short and dismissive. The behavior of certain republican senators was a disgrace on National Security issues. Im not mad at you. Im just very disappointed. We have always heard that from our grade school teachers. Stephanie several republican senator went after rice following the attack on the consolelate in benghazi. Abc pointing out that rice had been criticized before specifically for her past work during the clinton administration. Aledgedly she was a little too sympathetic to the row juan dan president at the time. But there is conflicting reports. Thats from my upcoming benefit for victims of hurricane sandy. I booked the strongest, smartest comics i could find. My comedian friends and i will raise money to rebuild homes and lives one laugh at a time. Awe damn, the lights are out you know what . Ill watch a Little Television until they come back on. Only on current tv. [ technical difficulties ] it got great reviews when it was on broadway. Stephanie right, were going for booze and dope after the play. You should go to porter grill while you are downtown there. Stephanie okay. Stephanie susan [ inaudible ] owns the place. Stephanie awesome. Lets tell everybody where were going to be. [ applause ] [ laughter ] stephanie exactly. For all of you pervs out there. Sorry mrs. Schechner. Washington stephanie kids see what you see right here in the studio. This is the opening act of sexy liberal dc. Did you hear were getting a tour of the white house. I dont think you are supposed to say that. You ruined it for us. Yeah you have to pass a background check. Stephanie i have some time to clean some things up. Yeah. Get harvie kitel to get the blood and brain matter out of the car. Stephanie yeah. Rolland sexy liberal tour director says there are some great 45 seats in the lower balcony. The 45 seats have amazing views of the stage. There are probably only about 100 orchestra seats left. And then we have two huge surprise celebrity guests on panel. I dont know either of them. Stephanie you dont . No. Stephanie oh my god you are going to [ censor bleep ] yourself. It smells like somebody did in here can we please not bring in salmon and Brussel Sprouts on the same day . I burned them look at that. Blackened Brussel Sprouts. Im excited to go spinning with you. Stephanie katherine in pittsburgh, listen every day through iheart radio. I captured the moment you were tea bagged by rob reiner. Oh, here. Stephanie wow, its a rearview. Oh geez. [ applause ] i think it is better than being tea bagged by carol oconnor. Well, since he is dead. [ wah wah ] what . Too soon . Stephanie this week is just the gift that keeps on giving. The hate mail just keeps coming from fox news. Hateful hating haters i hate you stephanie do we have that whole song . The thing we played . My sister said it was such a cute little song parody. But they are proving my point exactly. I play some cute little song parody, and i get called the c word and they hope i die. And the point of the segment is the leftwing is engaged in more hate speech than the rightwing. So is this the whole song . Yeah. Wing nuts roasting for mittys fire pundits growing a big nose stocking toys being sold by big liars, like fox and friends media hosts Everybody Knows a turkey like sean hannity has an audience thats white tiny brains viewers who just dont know that what he says just isnt right stephanie all right. [ applause ] the entire viewership is almost exclusively old and white. Stephanie he opened by saying i called him a racist. Mary who sang that she could not have been more excited. She is like me on fox. [ explosion ] stephanie like christmas came early for her and Rocky Mountain mike. Hi, steph words cant describe how excited i was on fox news. We are legend cookies and freedom for everybody. [ applause ] hate hate why do the liberals hate so much . [ laughter ] its amazing we are the big ten exclusive party. Stephanie right. Jim said yes, sean hannity is so thin skinned he is nearly translousent. Stephanie this one the subject line is sad. I heard a bit from her show this went to travis for some reason. Mr. Travis. Yeah. Stephanie i heard a bit from her show, and what a idiot, you liberals are racist and violent. You are an ist. Stephanie wow, radical muslims stephanie by the way where is my Christmas Music. [ Christmas Music ] stephanie God Bless America and Merry ChristmasMerry Christmas bitch we havent had a single marksist stephanie how about this one . Somebody spilled like rum and coke on their caps lock. Marxist atheist muslims this is rum and coke . I think it looks more like moon shine and mountain due. Stephanie oh thats right. The original mountain dew was moon shine. Stephanie his email name is actually complainant. I love that. Stephanie i think he complains a lot about a lot of stuff. So maybe im not even that special. Complainant writes racist blood sucker. Democrats are just what you are. Gutter rats you have a tiny brain and you you stupid poopy head [ laughter ] how is that spelled . Stephanie how could you feel good about yourself you racist pig . Based on what exactly . Stephanie that we played this song. Stephanie he is not sticking to points. Usually they say i have no ratings. But he says im being a racist pig to get ratings. You are nothing but a rating whore. Well thats radio. [ laughter ] you stood naked in a barrel in a shop window to get ratings. That was a whacky morning radio d. J. Thats when i was sister sleaze dont bring that up. You are igniting the racial element for your audience. What a vacuumous pig you are. Usually vak wows doesnt make it to west virginia. Stephanie chris, you have no proof he is from west virginia. Stephanie thats a little manic. Ha ha ha stephanie good look swirling in your bowel of sewage steph. [ laughter ] stephanie ps, oh hang on theres a hopeful note at the end. Ps i might be a new listener if you do the following. A list of demands. [ laughter ] stephanie can you send me a hat. Do what i say or ill shoot. Well, ratings whore what does he want. Stephanie explain why the president would lie about benghazi. [ wah wah ] stephanie oh damn that was so hopeful for a minute. Thats like the email equivalent of pasting the letters from a magazine. A ransom letter. By the way the song which we didnt write, said seans audience is old and white. They are old and white and pasty people. Stephanie we apologize to the pasty people in the audience. Steph are you spending sean hannity and his listeners pro flowers . After all he was 80 of the show yesterday. [ applause ] stephanie thats true. I think i will. Send him a sodastream. [ laughter ] stephanie why what a good idea. 18 minutes after the hour. You know [ applause ] timing . Stephanie even sean hannity wont be quite as grumpy if he has a sodastream. I have looked forward to being able to weigh in on sodastream live. Because i have one and i love it. What is your favorite flavor. I dont use the flavors i make spell er. Stephanie she hasnt consumed anything with calories for years. [ laughter ] stephanie sodastream it transforms water into fresh fizzy soda or seltzer as Jacki Schechner likes to call it. Its simple to use you fill the bottle were going to get notes on this thing. I think we are. Stephanie there are over 60 flavors. Name brands . Stephanie yes. Like . Stephanie country time and crystal light. Thats my favorite. Prices start around 80. And its pretty, right . It is. Very easy to use. Stephanie at bed bath and beyond macys kohls or go to sodastream. Com for a location closest to you. Stephanie well be right back on the Stephanie Miller show. And well be right back. Announcer its the Stephanie Miller show. nn5959onn vo missed some of the insights, analysis and laughs . Im a slutty bob hope. The troops love me. The sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. Announcer Stephanie Miller. Dont be fizzy, just get dizzy, why so serious so raise your glass if you are wrong in the right ways all my underdogs stephanie all right. All right. Everybody settle. Settle. It is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome it to. Thirtythirty minutes after the hour. Hi, Jacki Schechner. Look at my beaver. Good morning. You know i came in just to see your beaver. Stephanie its bucky the christmas beaver. I would not turn down i would not turn down the opportunity to see stephs beaver. No, and who would. Kelby loves to focus on your beaver. Stephanie oh. By the way we missed their birthday. Happy birthday. Dory in massachusetts. Caller good morning, darling. Today is my birthday and since i have the [ inaudible ] all over me, i would like to ask squeezy to wish me a happy birthday. [ heavy breathing ] what are you wearing . I bet you are in your birthday suit. Stephanie dont encourage him. For gods sake. What is going on with janet in georgia. Welcome. Caller hi, steph and mooks im calling from a red state and i wanted to ask the health care geek what is going to happen now that our republican governor has turned down the expansion of the medicaid. Well, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government couldnt require states to expand medicaid, so unfortunately there will be a lot of people who fall below 133 of the Poverty Level in your state who would have had access to health care who now probably wont. I dont know what the contingency plans are for that or statewide what they are going to do, but the reason why it is such a good idea for states to taken that opportunity, was the federal government said well pick up the tab 100 for the first three years and 90 after that. So it is not going to cost the states anything to expand medicaid and cover people who fall below 133 of the poverty line. Its unfortunate the Supreme Court ruled that the states werent going to be required to do it. Stephanie i dont know if the Supreme Court takes into account how much the republicans will do just to spite the president. Caller that exexactly why this is being done. Stephanie yeah, thats what i mean. You were saying these fiscal cliff negotiations its presuming their care for something other than their own power. Thats what were walking about peoples lives. Stephanie and its completely counter intuitive. They are screaming Smaller GovernmentSmaller Government and now the federal government will have to do it for them. Yeah. Stephanie this is a love letter to my listeners [ romantic music ] stephanie we are just a dysfunctional little loving family. I missed this i also missed Rocky Mountain mikes birthday. But one of our listeners knew. Steph, because Rocky Mountain mike has given us so much joy this year, i thought i would try to return a song parody. But needed help downloading the karaoke, and my tom, my friend dean found a moment to record it. Here is a little part of it. He was born in the winter of his 50something year moving out to a place he had never been before he left [ inaudible ] behind him for the aspen trees he loves when he first came to the mountains, he already had a bed for the parodies he wrote for stephfys show and he did not disappoint he continued to amuse how he does it we dont really know stephanie no. But its happy birthday Rocky Mountain mike [ inaudible ] hello skeeter, goodbye mitt even more to life that twists Rocky Mountain mike Rocky Mountain mike [ applause ] stephanie ah thanks kids. How cute are your listeners stephanie i remember when Rocky Mountain mike first moved to the Rocky Mountains, he didnt have wifi, so he sat in the parking lot of the hotel to send us his bits. Stephanie ah. Twentynine minutes after the hour, back with representative gwen moore so update us on the fiscal cliff, as we continue on the Stephanie Miller show. Nobody knows disasters like comedians. New york, the hightech resilient city. Just dont get us wet. What the hell was that . Thats from my upcoming benefit for victims of hurricane sandy. I booked the strongest, smartest comics i could find. My comedian friends and i will raise money to rebuild homes and lives one laugh at a time. Awe damn, the lights are out you know what . Ill watch a Little Television until they come back on. Only on current tv. Announcer Stephanie Miller. I think i figured out why you are so cranky. Christmas is four days away and you dont even have a tree. Stephanie wa. What . Stephanie i have no one to put a tree up with. [ wah wah ] that was the saddest thing i have ever heard. Stephanie listen, i have the fiscal cliff to entertain me. Fiscal cliff clavin. Stephanie boner said ifs as and buts or only candy and nuts. [ applause ] stephanie representative gwen moore im so glad to have you on. Im so glad to be with you again. Stephanie are you hearing any progress being made . No, im not. I think theres some really wide idealogical kinds of differences. Everybody, stephanie knows we have got to deal with some debt reduction, but the the real Sticking Point is whether or not were going to throw the country into an austerity cliff, and really make the middle class, and pour people bare the burden of deficit reduction, or whether or not were going to ask people who are wealthier to sort of pick up some of the burden of the tenyear hiatus that they have had in making a real contribution. And i think thats a really wide wide goal. Stephanie representative moore, you can looking at the same polls we are, and it seems like they are getting worse for republicans. 75 of americans want the wealthier americans to pay their fair share and they dont want medicare or Social Security touched. Exactly. Stephanie who are they fighting for at this point . Well, i can tell you that the very rich and powerful have sent out various threats to the gop, you know, that if you dont do our bidding, were not going to fund your campaigns; that we want, you know Government Spending to yield to our corporatist interests, and, you know, take for example this demand from speaker boehner, that we do 800 billion in cuts in the social safety net. I mean thats coming straight from from corporate america. I mean they want to change the Social Security, cut 200 billion out of that. They want to cut 600 billion out of medicare by raising the medicare eligibility age to 67. This is what they campaigned on romney and paul ryan and they want to win by negotiation kiosk. They dont care that this is unpopular with the public. Stephanie right. Their masters have said that this is the demand that we want to make. Our counterproposal is sure we would love to change medicare but what we want to do is for example negotiate drug costs with the drug companies. That would give us at least 300, 400 billion over ten years. So we want to take it away from the very wealthy pharmaceutical companies, and they are saying no, you got to get this out of Social Security and benefits. So thats the difference. Stephanie yeah, and im looking like i say this is not even just polling. It is nonpartisan. The republicans screamed about this report, so they redid it and it reached the same conclusion. Exactly. Stephanie over the past 65 years the reduction in top tax rates has had little association with savingser our productivity growth. And this puts a steak in the heart of the republican argument that it somehow curves economic growth. Well, stephanie, the whole notion of the job creators, we cant hurt the job creators by taking money away from them. The point is they are not hiring because of these taxes. You get every single penny that you spend on payroll is deductible. Duh every single penny that you spend on renting, leasing, buying space is deductible. Stephanie right. From your income no matter how you are filing. So thats ludicrous that somehow rewarding income above 250,000 you know, somehow creates jobs. We know who creates jobs, the struggling brand new entrepreneurs who are bringing new people on and the president has provided 18 different tax cuts for Small Businesses. You know, we need to target help to Small Businesses more accurately instead of this fantasy stephanie yep. As you might characterize it, that somehow if we provide tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, well just magically help. Stephanie you have no idea how much the mocking tone of your voice is appreciated on this show. [ laughter ] stephanie representative before you go, wanted to get your take we have been talking about susan rice withdrawing. I just thought it was disgraceful that this accomplished woman became a political target of the republicans for no good rea