really is incredible. ♪ ♪ got cat style ♪ ♪ don't cross my path ♪ >> stephanie: 23 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. jim, this just in from george slaughter, our friend, the producer of laugh-in on presidential comedy. now, it is totally unprecedented, unpresidential for a president to do a comedy show. >> there was something on thirty rock. >> stephanie: eric boehlert in the sidecar. allison on fox and friends. >> presidential election is shaping up to be a battle between a vision of freedom some would say and a vision of entitlement. >> it is going to be a clear choice come november, isn't it? >> what? what the hell! >> freedom versus entitlement? >> you mean freedom versus a safety net? >> we were all laughing. i guarantee you some say refers to someone who said it on fox 40 minutes earlier. >> someone who wrote it on the page of the post. >> i think this clip was from "straight news story." news segment on fox news. media matters has documented this endlessly. on the news segments, they refer to some people are saying something awful about obama and something refers to the opinion shows on fox news. it is a very closed and loud loop they run over there. >> stephanie: exactly. michelle on the fox news. >> i judge him on his record because it is not just the republican base that has come to realize that barack obama is far from a nice man. people who have nothing to do with partisan politics who have seen the viciousness and the brutality of this administration. in crushing both its political opponents and otherwise. >> stephanie: he was brutal. >> i think that was the same show where she refused to say anything nice about him. i think neil cavuto said say something nice about the president as a man and she was brutal. if he weren't so brutally crushing, maybe she should find something nice to say. >> he was brutal to osama bin laden. >> stephanie: yes, that's true. eric, i was once pressed on that during the bush years. i was able to say he was very, very good for the effigy business. [ applause ] somebody -- they made effigies of the george w. bush that needed to be burned. >> good example of how we talk about the obama derangement syndrome. yes, people hated bush. he launched an awful war. but this is beyond -- they take it so personally. they internalize everything that there's nothing she can say about president obama as a man that would be nice because she thinks -- she can't think of anything. he's a human being. there's nothing he does. >> not even that he's a good father. >> no. >> probably accuses -- >> stephanie: good singer. come on, give it up. eric boehlert, see you next week honey. thank you. there he goes. [ applause ] you know why they have to do this? >> why? >> stephanie: because their candidate is a douche. mitt romney. etchy sketchy as we call him. ♪ ♪ they were afraid to come out and support him ♪ ♪ they were ashamed of their new candidate ♪ ♪ they were reluct apt to vote for a mormon ♪ ♪ the one they had to nominate ♪ ♪ who's the one they love to hate ♪ ♪ it was that etchy sketchy wishy-washy flippy floppy mitt romney the one they have today ♪ ♪ richy richy mitt ♪ [ applause ] >> stephanie: our good friend in asheville north carolina. hi! >> caller: good morning, everyone. >> who is wearing an itsy-bitsy polka do the bikini. >> later on. >> you have once again inspired me to get back in action -- i wouldn't normally take. i'm having a meet the candidate party at my house a local progressive show. i'm an elderly set in much like yourself. >> stephanie: owner of the elitist restaurant. >> i have disturbing news also. >> stephanie: okay. >> speaking of snobby and elite. the dollar horse that i rescued. >> stephanie: yes. >> my riding instructor, i have one because i did not want to kill myself or him. >> stephanie: yes. >> came over with beginning dressage. >> oh, no! >> now you're really an elitist. >> it was like he was holding a coiled snipe. but today i hope he's successful. thanks again for your inspiration to all of us, especially all of us here in rural north carolina. >> stephanie: well, i'm happy as a dancing horse. >> i like that. 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[phone ringing] >> hello. just a minute. dick, are you in? >> i'm always in for dick. >> that's not what i hear. >> stephanie: that's an old drop. this is "the stephanie miller show." 34 minutes. that was from my radio show in the '80s. 1-800-steph-12 toll free from anywhere. mel in los angeles, hey, mel welcome. >> caller: hi, steph. first time caller. long-time listener. >> stephanie: yes. >> caller: i just wanted to point out it seems like the media is not mentioning anything about great britain being in a double dip recession. like the paul ryan plan. >> stephanie: their austerity plan. >> caller: it is mind boggling to me and how over there but yet fox wanted to point out that spain is on the precipice of going over you know because they're socialists. >> stephanie: yeah exactly. exactly. brenda in california. >> shock doctrine. >> stephanie: hello brenda. hi brenda. brenda. >> caller: hi. >> stephanie: there you are. clear, go ahead. >> caller: hi, stephanie. >> stephanie: hi. >> caller: hi. i want to talk about the economy. for the past three years of the republican congress has stalled and just blocked everything that the president has put forth as far as healthcare and for jobs. now during an election year, they're yelling about ooh, look at the economy. look at the economy. it is lousy. don't they know the american people have seen through the past three years what they have done. i don't understand where they're coming from with this. >> stephanie: exactly. the boehner, i love this. boehner attacks obama then denies it. he listed the ways obama is diminishing the presidency. he buffett rule that most americans, the vast majority of americans are for. manipulation in the oil markets without one shred of evidence. then they pick the student loan fight. where there is no fight. he didn't pick a fight. he wants the loan rates you know, to not double and mitt romney supports it and then they have to turn around. >> and backtrack. >> stephanie: that was the president picking a fight? okay. all right. let's see. candy crowley asked how many days does boehner wonder if he wanted the job. >> i think she called him boehner. >> stephanie: probably. he probably wishes he could -- >> the tavern. >> stephanie: did you see jimmy kimmel's joke on the feud between boehner and kantor. they couldn't agree on the wording of a ransom note. more from jimmy kimmel. >> president obama wanted to move the dinner to the kennedy center but the republicans wanted to keep it here at the hilton so they compromised and here we are at the hilton. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: let's go to maria in chicago. hi maria welcome. >> caller: hi, stephanie. how are you? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: i want to make a point about how the republicans always say we need to give tax cuts to the job creators is a they'll create jobs. when we had the collapse of the -- the financial collapse in 2008, didn't the job -- some of the job creators get like $790 billion? >> stephanie: you're talking about lehman brothers. >> caller: didn't wall street get like $16 trillion they defrauded allegedly out of the country? >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: so how many jobs were created the month after that, the six months after that. let's take six months. oh wait, weren't we losing jobs? >> stephanie: thank you. good points. let's go to elizabeth in chicago. hi elizabeth. welcome. >> caller: hi, stephanie. congratulations on your show. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: well, i'm actually calling to say how hilarious our president was at the correspondents dinner. and to point out that lindsay lohan was the guest of greta van van sist ern. >> at the same table as kim kardashian. >> drag down the i.q. of that table tremendously. >> scary stuff. >> stephanie: let's go to sandy in pennsylvania. >> caller: hi, steph, hi everybody. love your show. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: i would like to be your keystone connection from pennsylvania. >> stephanie: all right. >> caller: unfortunately, i live in the state of governor close your eyes corporate. now, my 85-year-old mother who has voted in every election get her photo i.d. she does not have a raised seal birth certificate so now i have to drive her to harrisburg, get her a birth certificate. 13-week waiting period for her to vote. >> stephanie: huh. it is almost like they're trying to make it harder! >> caller: i live near the amish country. their religion forbids photo i.d.s and they mostly vote republicans. >> nah nah nah nah nah. >> stephanie: suddenly like they found out that that most people are going to get i.d.s would vote republican, suddenly, they would be like what? >> stephanie: wayne in dallas, welcome. >> caller: hi, stephanie. >> stephanie: hi. >> caller: i'm a first-time caller. i enjoy your show. i really do. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: it is good and refreshing to have a liberal show like yours on television. actually get the truth out. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: my comment real quick is in regard to fox news and michele bachmann. they're from another planet. you know. don't be surprised whatever they said because they're desperate people. they're here just because we've got -- in my opinion the thirdest cool president we ever had. i'm a vietnam veteran disabled. my opinion about the republicans is we don't have that much time. keep up the good work. >> stephanie: thank you, honey. >> caller: keep exposing these republicans for what they are. >> stephanie: democrat on tv on the karl rove going thanks, that's a great ad. yes! he is really cool. >> yes, he is really cool. >> the president think he's cool and everyone else does, too. i think that might have been paul on real time this weekend. >> stephanie: i missed that. joe in long beach. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi joe. >> caller: hey, i'm watching the news last week and of course, boehner is on the florida house just blasting the -- is on the floor of the house just blasting the president. what does jim think of his impression of sylvester the cat? it was spot on the entire time then he got to the word pathetic. i was on the ground. i mean what could be better than listening to boehner or tom brokaw trying to pronounce the name of sofia vergara. >> that's despicable. >> that's -- you're despicable. >> stephanie: sorry. >> you're despicable. >> stephanie: wendy in illinois, you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: hi. i'm downstate illinois so i'm -- so refreshing to have your show. i have five quick ones. i wanted to get back, i've been wanting for some time, somehow to get the message out that -- go back to the point someone mentioned about what made liberal such a bad word. i think it goes back to gingrich when he was in. i'm not positive. i think what's wrong with kansas, i think thomas frank or someone wrote that book. it goes into some of that. but conservative -- i looked in the dictionary and thesaurus we're talking narrow focus changing, die hard preserving status quo and oppose change and liberal is tolerant, open-minded, not narrow in opinion or judgment. >> stephanie: wendy, that's what -- >> caller: we as all of us liberals need to drop an education or dictionary bomb because i think so many people -- >> stephanie: wendy, that's exactly why we called it the sexy liberal show. it referred to the audience. it is sexy to be liberal. you're open-minded empathetic. >> caller: they're not stupid. a lot of people are ignorant. you hear things enough, you believe it. they've destroyed that word. we need to take it back. another thing they go on about the religion thing. mormon and all of this. nobody ever mentions that nixon was a quaker. i don't understand why they don't ever bring that up. probably because they're not too hot with the watergate thing. >> stephanie: wendy, i remember once going on -- you remember when i went on hannity's show and he was like are you a liberal? and i was like yes. couldn't be prouder. he didn't know what to do. you're supposed to kring in terror -- you're supposed to cri nge in terror. >> caller: you all have a great show. i wanted to ask a question, i wonder how the republicans in the house and the senate can do their job which part of their job is to appropriate funds but they have signed a pledge with global saying they'll never raise taxes. so how can they do their job when they have already pledged themselves to someone else rather than to the constitution of the united states. >> stephanie: i don't know if you heard the interview with ron reagan. skied him what his dad would have done with the norcross pledge. i think my version is he would have wiped his ass with it. what he would have said to grover norton. who are you? why are you in my office and get out. oh, the president has a new -- we have a new campaign slogan. >> okay. >> stephanie: video. forward. republicans, regressive. put it in reverse. put it in r. back to the '50s or whatever. the president who is handsome and romantic and a good singer said the choice between going backward and moving forward has never been so clear. he told several hundred women. >> i've heard. >> stephanie: as long as i'm president, we're going to keep moving forward. you don't have to take my word for it. you have my signature for it referring to the lilly ledbetter act. he said because something like standing up for the principle of equal pay for equal work is not something i have to get back to you on which is what romney said. it is first law i signed. we have governors in legislatures across the river and virginia and up the road in pennsylvania saying women can't be trusted to make your own decision. they're pushing and passing bills forcing women to get ultrasounds. if you don't like it, the governor of pennsylvania said you can close your eyes. it is appalling, out of touch. the fight over contraception was illuminating for republican's views on women. it was like being in a time machine back to the '50s or earlier. >> more like the '20s. >> stephanie: so far the quinnipiac poll shows him 10 points above romney. obama used the speech to utter the same broken promises to women. uh, no! he said women are not an interest group. women shouldn't be treated this way. he told the cheering crowd. 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[ applause ] >> they might need to punch that up a little bit i think. >> stephanie: andrew in madison, you're on "the stephanie miller show." welcome. >> caller: guy from wisconsin. the wisconsin state motto. >> stephanie: perfect for the 99% movement and for this year's election. >> you betcha. >> stephanie: they have angered the honey badger in wisconsin. let me tell you what. [ applause ] all right. hey, pope benedict, welcome to the war on women. come on down! as an ex-catholic girl gone wild, i need to defend my nuns. please take the organ out for me chris. oh, look, i brought an actual new york times in today because i didn't have time to order you around to send it to me on the computer. >> you ordered me to your house on friday. >> that was for tech support. i tried to make it seem like it was show-related, jim and i made him do a bunch of stuff on my computer. >> tricky that way. >> stephanie: see what i did? i got you to be the entertainment for free for m