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lees1975

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Wed Nov 20, 2024, 02:49 PM Nov 20

Among American media, Stephanie Miller is exhibiting rare courage. [View all]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/11/stephanie-miller-exhibiting-rare.html

If it were not for three hours of sanity, from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. Central time each morning, I do not know how I would be handling this election and its results. For me, it's on an AM radio station, WCPT in Chicago, which is the only radio station to which I now listen, since the music station I used to put on in the afternoon has CBS news on the hour. The steadfast beacon of reason and hope through what I see as impending disaster for this country has been the Stephanie Miller show.


Stephanie Miller stands to lose as much as anyone in the media on the left. People sometimes look at me driving in traffic like I'm an idiot because I'm fist pumping or applauding some pithy, insulting thing they've said about Trump. There have been mornings when I've laughed so hard, I've had to pull over and get out of traffic because I literally couldn't see or hold my composure well enough to drive. Who'd have ever thought that political reality could be so terrifying and yet so funny at the same time?

She is one of just a few media personalities whom I now trust to tell me the truth. She hasn't backed down. She's shared the same fears and feelings we all had when the election results were announced and the same sense of being lost, not knowing what to do, and wondering where we are headed. But she's remain steadfast in her convictions, and her approach, the manner in which she delivers her message, and the truth she tells, and nothing has changed in spite of her clear awareness of any and all possibilities as Trump's administration settles in.

When I tuned in and listened to her program the morning after the election, I cried. Not because I was disappointed in the results, though I had cried about that earlier, but because I was listening to some truly genuine people who thought like I thought, and who were expressing the same feelings, in public, on the air, as I was feeling at that very moment. I've been tuned in every morning since then. I work in an environment that would get pretty hostile and uncomfortable quickly if I had her show on the radio in my office. I have a hearing device and I can connect it to the live stream from my phone and listen that way, and no one else even knows.
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🤜🤛 Traildogbob Nov 20 #1
I'd be lost without Stephanie and the crew. wryter2000 Nov 20 #2
I would also be lost without Stephanie and Tom Hartman. rich7862 Nov 20 #4
I wonder how long MSNBC will be trustworthy, or will keep their better commentators like lees1975 Nov 20 #5
Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, and my favorite, Michelangelo Signorile. phylny Nov 21 #28
Same! I love her so much! LymphocyteLover Nov 20 #7
freespeechtv.org gab13by13 Nov 20 #3
me also! rurallib Nov 20 #6
Steph, her Crew & fellow "Steph-heads" have been my sanity also! maspaha Nov 20 #8
99% of people will never hear her. onecaliberal Nov 20 #9
Me, too! ybbor Nov 20 #10
She has a deep grounding in clarity and political history bucolic_frolic Nov 20 #11
Love her and the mooks mountain grammy Nov 20 #12
She is/ has been a national treasure. rubbersole Nov 20 #13
We're all Family at least that's how Miss Miller and the Mooks proud patriot Nov 20 #14
I'm a proud Steph-head! Love Stephanie, Chris, Jodie and previous members of her crew over the years sueh Nov 20 #15
I also subscribe to Bob Cesca's podcast Bettie Nov 21 #22
I listen to LPBBEAR Nov 20 #16
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We all have what we like Bettie Nov 21 #23
I listen to her every single day, but I have to agree with you on your points. Xavier Breath Nov 21 #24
Good additional points LPBBEAR Nov 26 #33
That is what I like about Tom and Micheangelo (on Sirius): they let the callers have their say. Xavier Breath Nov 26 #34
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Stephanie is talking about this now. lastlib Nov 21 #19
Every day a must!!!!! Traildogbob Nov 21 #21
I'm probably not the only one proud patriot Nov 21 #25
That was fun to hear! mcar Nov 21 #30
Every morning without fail Bettie Nov 21 #20
Miller is definitely an acquired taste as far as I'm concerned. I never really warmed-up to her * Oopsie Daisy Nov 21 #26
Been listening to The Stephanie Miller Show La Coliniere Nov 21 #27
I have her on every weekday morning and then Thom Hartmann. CousinIT Nov 21 #29
Yes!!!! MontanaMama Nov 21 #31
I don't listen as much since I gave up my morning commute. BluRay76 Nov 22 #32
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