I ♥ STEPHANIE MILLER

Stephanie appeared on Hannity & Colmes to discuss the Fats Limbaugh smear of our soldiers. As a bonus package of wingnuttiness, Melanie Morgan was also in the same segment. Stephanie more than holds her own and we need more like her! Here's part of the transcript from Lexis-Nexis:

MELANIE MORGAN, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: What's clear to me is that this is a manufactured controversy by media Matters for America, an organization that's been determined to take down conservative talk show hosts for many, many years now. Rush Limbaugh is a Man who is truth teller and one of the most effective communicators of our generation. And that's why they're continuing. They're continuing.

COLMES: That doesn't answer my question, though.

MORGAN: They're continuing to attack him.

COLMES: I'm trying to understand the explanation.

MORGAN: The story about Pfc. Jesse MacBeth was a reference to a reference -- I believe it was an Associated Press article. It wasn't that it was ABC's Brian Ross. And it was an actual soldier who had been engaged in phony service.

COLMES: I understand that. But it wasn't clear earlier in the conversation to me that that, Stephanie Miller, who he was talking about because MacBeth's name didn't come up until about two minutes after the "phony soldier's" comment.

STEPHANIE MILLER, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Yeah, I'm still wiping my eyes a little bit over Rush Limbaugh, truth teller. OK.

Yeah.

COLMES: Ha, ha, ha.

MILLER: The out of context excuse, Alan. His name was nowhere near when he made these comments. And he's done it before when he said it about Paul Hackett, who ran in Ohio as a democrat. Oh, he was just padding his resume in Iraq. I think Americans are tired of people that have never worn the uniform, particularly ones that got out of combat because of a giant anal cyst, criticizing people who have served their country.

COLMES: And the other thing is, Melanie, is that after he said it was about just one soldier, the next or a couple of days later, he went on to then renounce Jack Murtha again and put him in the "phony soldier" category.

So it really wasn't about one soldier and he did use the plural soldiers initially, so again, I'm just trying to understand this.

MORGAN: Alan, this is just a ridiculous conversation.

COLMES: Oh?

MORGAN: You know exactly what he meant. Everybody knows what he meant.

COLMES: I really don't.

MORGAN: And what he meant was accurate. There is an effort by the left in this country to denigrate conservatives who, as your narrative described.

UNKNOWN MALE: Melanie, it's more than that

(CROSSTALK)

MILLER: No, Melanie, I'm sorry, soldier is.

HANNITY: Melanie, it's more than that. What they're trying to do here is.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE[MILLER?]: Soldiers like 70 percent of the American people that are against the Iraq war. They're all "phony soldiers." Their views don't count.

HANNITY: Melanie, what they're trying to do here, they know this is a phony issue. They know the context in which Rush was talking about here. They know his history of supporting the military. But they're trying to distract from their positions on the war. And Harry Reid literally said on the Senate floor today, he called Rush unpatriotic. Does that mean we can call him unpatriotic for sending kids to war and telling them they lost? Or John Murtha who accused Marines of murder and now many of them have been vindicated and he hasn't apologized? Is he unpatriotic? Was Obama unpatriotic when he said our troops are air raiding when they don't do any such thing? Now they're going to open that door?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE[MORGAN?]: This is what Michelle Malkin has been writing about at her blog for a long time now. A number of soldiers who are fake or who are embellishers, or who are posers, who go out there, or soldiers like John (UNINTELLIGIBLE) of (UNINTELLIGIBLE).org who go out there and use their far-left, anti-American agenda and political agenda to undermine the real mission of our troops, our heroes who are out there, who are fighting in a hot war, who are fighting for our lives and for our security and our safety.

HANNITY: Stephanie, the bottom line is these same democrats that couldn't condemn the general "Betray Us" ad, these same guys that want to cut off funding bullets, armor, Humvees, and supplies, the same guys who accused them of murder and as John Kerry said, being terrorists, you know what? Why don't we have a resolution for each and every one of them and their statements? Would that be fair?

MILLER: I'm sorry, was that a question?

HANNITY: It was a question, yes.

MILLER: It seemed like run-on talking point.

HANNITY: Even a liberal can figure that out.

MILLER: Yes. You know, if the Senate is going to waste time condemning a moveone.org ad, they certainly should spend time condemning this. And I'll give you, Sean, it wasn't as bad your friend mocking Michel J. Fox's Parkinson's symptoms. This is pretty bad.

HANNITY: You don't think -- George (UNINTELLIGIBLE) the reason democrats couldn't condemn moveon.org is because they want (UNINTELLIGIBLE) money. Isn't that what it is. They care more about their power than the soldiers to call a four-star general hero, putting his life on the line, a betrayer of his country? You'd condemn that, Stephanie, wouldn't you?

MILLER: I've gone on record as saying that I though the Move On ad was a little over the top and it gave people like you.

HANNITY: A little over the top?

MILLER: . ammunition. But you know, we have a right to question General Patreaus.


Stephanie has kindly put up the video at her site and it's shareable and clears up some of the name confusion in the transcript: