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Cattledog

(5,914 posts)
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 05:56 PM Jun 2017

Stephanie Miller Is Rallying Millions Against Trump.

...Miller does what she does — seamlessly blends a mélange of fart jokes, bleeped-out profanities, morning zoo slide whistles, harp tinkles, parody songs skewering Trump (Bob Dylan's "Tangerine Man" repurposed as a Trump diss) and Ginsu-sharp wit into what may be the smartest, sharpest, funniest, fiercest progressive political comedy soufflé on the planet.

Miller does not boast the name recognition of, say, a Samantha Bee or John Oliver or, ahem, Bill Maher. Her shows are unlikely to generate the kind of water-cooler chat borne of, say, Melissa McCarthy rampaging through a press gaggle on a weaponized lectern or Alec Baldwin as Trump blowharding "believe me" in a Saturday Night Live cold open. She doesn't break bombshells the way Rachel Maddow does, or make Trump lose his shit over a particularly blue zinger à la Stephen Colbert.

Miller is perhaps the underground's answer to those celebrities — if someone belonging to the underground can host Hollywood A-listers for dinner and reach millions of households (and cars) across the country. In the last six months, she has emerged as one of the nation's most influential radio personalities, conservative or liberal (and yes, that includes Rush Limbaugh), certainly the most consequential to be operating without mainstream fame.

"I listen to Steve Colbert every night, and I love what he's doing," says Lily Tomlin, the comedic icon and Miller's mentor, who currently stars in the Netflix dramedy Grace and Frankie. "But there's something about Stephanie's show, the fact that it's longer format and they can talk in a different way, like a conversation. I just see it as having compassion and being a true person and being a true human being and being able to relate to everything in a more sensitive, human way. I just wish we had so much more."

http://www.laweekly.com/news/the-stephanie-miller-show-is-rallying-millions-of-listeners-against-trump-8347794

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Stephanie Miller Is Rallying Millions Against Trump. (Original Post) Cattledog Jun 2017 OP
She's buddies with Malcolm Nance and he's on regularly. Ilsa Jun 2017 #1
I prefer Randi Rhodes .... less silly stuff. OnDoutside Jun 2017 #11
They both have their niche Chicago1980 Jun 2017 #21
Jackie Schechner isn't a rep rurallib Jun 2017 #20
I miss her show. louis-t Jun 2017 #2
Stream it on WCPT Cary Jun 2017 #3
Yeah, tried it. Sporadic at best. louis-t Jun 2017 #4
Listen on the I heart radio app on your phone wryter2000 Jun 2017 #7
iHeart radio app... DAMANgoldberg Jun 2017 #27
Try this padah513 Jun 2017 #12
that is where I listen - no commercials rurallib Jun 2017 #19
I pay and stream it at my leisure from her website--its about $6 a month. diane in sf Jun 2017 #6
I presume you have check this on her website ? OnDoutside Jun 2017 #10
Listen on line!!!!! Never miss her. DK504 Jun 2017 #18
Thanks for posting...had not heard of her...but will check YouTube for her. bresue Jun 2017 #5
She is the daughter of Goldwater's running mate dsc Jun 2017 #8
Love Stephanie .. dad Bill, not so much. DemoTex Jun 2017 #9
I don't think much of that quote, but Bill Miller was an assistant prosecutor LisaM Jun 2017 #14
Who was also a Nuremburg Prosecutor burrowowl Jun 2017 #23
The glory days zentrum Jun 2017 #13
Steph's radio show is aired on Sirus XM Radio/ channel 127/ mon-fri 6:00 am c588415 Jun 2017 #15
She's the absolute best. broadcaster90210 Jun 2017 #16
As Stephanie always says, "When news breaks here, it stays broken" world wide wally Jun 2017 #17
I don't get enough of Stephanie, she is da bomb LiberalLovinLug Jun 2017 #22
Stephanie rules! shenmue Jun 2017 #24
I listen every morning Bettie Jun 2017 #25
Watched her for a time religiously on cilla4progress Jun 2017 #26

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
1. She's buddies with Malcolm Nance and he's on regularly.
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 06:07 PM
Jun 2017

She has Rep. Jackie Shectner (sp) on regularly, and Carol Burnett's daughter Jodie Hamilton, and comediennes "Frangela" are on Fridays. The show is usually a hoot.

rurallib

(62,406 posts)
20. Jackie Schechner isn't a rep
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:41 PM
Jun 2017

she was one of the people that did much of the grunt work putting the ACA together.
Her insights on the ACA and health care are incredible.

She also has Charlie Pierce, Bob Tomasky and John Fugelsang on regularly.
It is a hoot!

rurallib

(62,406 posts)
19. that is where I listen - no commercials
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:39 PM
Jun 2017

freespeech is about the only left wing TV there is.
And I donate to them.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
18. Listen on line!!!!! Never miss her.
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:35 PM
Jun 2017

I love Randi too, but sometimes ya' gotta laugh or you'll have to start taking Prozax and Xanax.

DemoTex

(25,393 posts)
9. Love Stephanie .. dad Bill, not so much.
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 07:15 PM
Jun 2017

Goldwater’s running mate, Rep. Bill Miller, spoke at Notre Dame during the 1964 campaign.

At a press conference afterwards, a reporter asked Miller why Goldwater was so “extreme.”

Miller asked the reporter, “Are you married?”

“Yes.”

“Would your wife rather you be moderately faithful to her, or extremely faithful?”

End of press conference.

LisaM

(27,801 posts)
14. I don't think much of that quote, but Bill Miller was an assistant prosecutor
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 07:47 PM
Jun 2017

for the Nuremberg trials, and a 12-year veteran of Congress. If there were any Republicans of his ilk in Congress right now, it would be a better place.

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
13. The glory days
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 07:42 PM
Jun 2017

....when she shared the airwaves with Al Franken, Jean Garafalo, Sam Seder on Air America. And I think that's where Rachel Maddow got her start too. Wow

c588415

(285 posts)
15. Steph's radio show is aired on Sirus XM Radio/ channel 127/ mon-fri 6:00 am
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:18 PM
Jun 2017

I listen to her show, Joe Madison's show channel 126 , and Pete Dominic's show channel 124. All shows aired on Sirus XM Radio

LiberalLovinLug

(14,173 posts)
22. I don't get enough of Stephanie, she is da bomb
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:45 PM
Jun 2017

I think MSM news networks are afraid of her. When I have seen her on as a guest, which is very rare, she literally destroys any RW guest with her quick sardonic humor. She has deserved her own TV show now for a long time. But I don't think any of the corporate media wants her on TV. She is just too good, too funny, and too efficient in her job exposing the naked hypocrisy of Republicans, and she makes them look like the fools they are. Doesn't jive with the MSM false equivalency MO.

Bettie

(16,089 posts)
25. I listen every morning
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:05 PM
Jun 2017

Especially on Fridays...love Frangela and John Fugelsang usually calls in too.

cilla4progress

(24,726 posts)
26. Watched her for a time religiously on
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:30 PM
Jun 2017

FSTV. Now tune in from time to time. Really like her. Silly and smart.

Saw her live in Seattle with some of her crew...including Fugelsang. Who I LOVE!

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