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Showing Original Post only (View all)Among American media, Stephanie Miller is exhibiting rare courage. [View all]
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/11/stephanie-miller-exhibiting-rare.htmlIf 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.
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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I wonder how long MSNBC will be trustworthy, or will keep their better commentators like
lees1975
Nov 20
#5
I'm a proud Steph-head! Love Stephanie, Chris, Jodie and previous members of her crew over the years
sueh
Nov 20
#15
I listen to her every single day, but I have to agree with you on your points.
Xavier Breath
Nov 21
#24
That is what I like about Tom and Micheangelo (on Sirius): they let the callers have their say.
Xavier Breath
Nov 26
#34