0:00

It's all quiet in

0:02

the underground bunker. Doors

0:05

closed, blocks bolted. But

0:07

the Great One isn't just resting on

0:09

his laurels. He's making sure

0:12

your weekend is even better by giving

0:14

you his best. This is

0:16

the best of Mark Levin. I

0:21

went to California over the weekend to

0:25

go to a fantastic event at the Claremont Institute. I

0:28

have deep and long ties to the Claremont Institute.

0:32

They have a Lincoln Fellow

0:35

program, and other programs since. And I

0:39

was in the first class of that

0:41

Lincoln Fellow program. Good Lord! It's

0:44

got to be more 35 years ago, give

0:46

or take. And

0:48

at that time, the president of Claremont was Larry

0:51

Arnn, who's the president of Hillsdale College. And

0:54

I want to thank them for a very kind

0:58

reception, all the people who were there. I

1:01

want to thank them for giving me the Statesmanship

1:03

Award, which is a

1:05

big deal there at Claremont, and for me, and I appreciate

1:07

it. As you can

1:09

tell, I sound a little under the weather, because I'm a lot

1:12

under the weather. It

1:14

never fails. Because when you

1:16

meet a lot of great people, they want to talk

1:18

to you, shake your hand, and you get to smell

1:20

their breath, Mr. Producer. I

1:23

mean, right in your face. And

1:25

so, here I am. Now that

1:28

said, it was a room of

1:30

tremendous patriots. And

1:33

honored to be with them. And

1:35

I want to thank Molly Hemingway and her

1:37

wonderful husband, Mark. Had

1:39

a great time. We were at the table together,

1:41

and she introduced me, and she is fantastic. I

1:45

was sitting next to Mr.

1:48

and Mrs. John Eastman, which

1:51

was also a great honor. History

1:54

will deal with what was done to him. It's

1:57

not possible for the

1:59

body politic. to deal with it today.

2:02

It's so corrosive and so

2:04

tyrannical. But

2:07

all through the weekend and before, I do

2:10

my research. It's nonstop. I

2:13

did it right up to the beginning of this program. I

2:16

do it until two, three, four in the morning. One

2:19

of the things I found about

2:22

48 hours ago is

2:24

when I go to this site memory, which I told you I encourage

2:26

you to do, mmori.org.

2:32

I found this protest at

2:34

something called the International Out Cuds,

2:37

Out Cuds, that's Iranian, rallying

2:40

Dearborn, Michigan on Friday.

2:45

And just to show you how important you

2:47

are and how important we are, I

2:50

posted it on my social sites,

2:53

Twitter and then the rest. And

2:56

it started to work its way through social media,

3:00

through independent conservative news organizations, and

3:02

then finally into Fox. It

3:07

is not something that you see on NBC or

3:09

ABC or any of the Sunday shows, not one.

3:13

It's not something you'll see in most of the Democrat

3:16

Party newspapers either, because

3:18

they want to conceal what's going on in this country. And

3:22

what's going on in this country, we don't know the extent

3:24

of it, we don't know the numbers, but we know it's

3:26

there, we know it's growing. It's

3:28

an enemy from within. American

3:32

hating, Israel hating, Christian

3:34

hating, Jew hating, Islamists.

3:37

I didn't say Muslims, I didn't say

3:40

Arabs, I said Islamists. Islamists

3:45

are radicals. Islamists

3:48

are violent. Islamists

3:50

threaten. Islamists commit acts of

3:54

violence. I've

3:58

told you over and over again, if you hate America, hate

4:00

Israel, if you hate Israel, you hate America. And

4:04

this has demonstrated so clearly

4:07

and so utterly. And

4:10

so I'm not looking for any of

4:13

these news organizations or internet organizations

4:16

or cable channels to say, oh, here's where we

4:18

got it from. But I

4:20

got it from memory.org, M-E-M-R-I dot

4:23

org, and I pushed it

4:25

out into the media. It's important

4:29

to see what we post. I

4:31

don't engage in the comments because

4:34

so many of them are bots who

4:38

stick stuff in there, and I don't really care. So

4:42

let's begin. You need to

4:44

understand that Joe

4:47

Biden has sent senior campaign

4:50

operatives into Dearborn, Michigan to try and protect his

4:54

vote. This is Rashidat Ali territory. That he

4:56

is utterly destroying the

4:59

state of Israel,

5:03

its government, the prime minister to the extent he

5:05

can on behalf

5:07

of these individuals because he wants their votes.

5:12

And it's the same Joe Biden that threw in the

5:14

Senate's favorite

5:17

Klansmen when

5:20

he first got to the Senate. Now

5:23

he's throwing in with Hamas, Nazi supporters,

5:27

Iran supporters, and

5:30

American haters. Let's go on and go. We've

5:36

been asked in the past, why

5:39

are our protests on the International Day

5:41

of Quds, why are

5:44

they so anti-America? Why don't

5:46

we just focus more on Israel and not

5:48

talk so much about America? The

5:53

Gaza has shown the entire world why these

5:55

protests are so anti-America because it's the

5:59

United States' day of Quds. government that provides the

6:01

funds for all of the atrocities that we

6:03

just heard about. And this

6:06

is why Imam Khomeini who declared

6:08

the International Day of Quds, this

6:10

is why he would say to

6:12

pour all of your chance and

6:14

all of your shouts upon the

6:16

head of America. Now understand folks,

6:20

Quds is the, it's

6:22

like the SS of Iran. When

6:27

you see commercials, tunnels

6:31

to towers, wounded warriors, these other

6:33

fantastic groups, and

6:35

these men without limbs, some of

6:38

them with horrendous brain damage and so forth, the

6:41

Quds were behind most of that. The

6:44

Quds, particularly as

6:46

it applies to the

6:49

war in Iraq. And

6:53

I want you to understand that this

6:55

person and these people who are rallying

6:57

to this cause are the

6:59

enemy. They're

7:01

a domestic enemy. And

7:04

if we had a real administration that

7:06

cared about our country, our country's security,

7:09

our country's future, they would be looking at

7:11

the status of each one of these individuals. If they're

7:13

a citizen, if

7:16

they seek citizenship, or

7:18

if they're not a citizen and deal with

7:20

them accordingly. And let me suggest

7:23

to the FBI, rather than infiltrating the

7:25

Catholic Church, which is

7:27

not a danger to anybody, you

7:30

need to get your head around and your hands around

7:32

what's going on in Dearborn, Michigan in places just like

7:34

it. These

7:36

are no go zones in America now. I

7:38

talked about this last week. These

7:40

are no go zones. Certain

7:44

people of certain faith with

7:47

certain symbols on their clothing or on their heads

7:49

or certain facial hair. They

7:53

can't go into these areas. It's

7:56

like the suburbs of Paris. around

8:00

London and

8:02

Berlin. It's

8:05

here right now. This

8:08

is who's in the streets with the

8:10

American Marxist from our

8:13

universities, our faculties, who

8:15

are marching down the streets. They don't represent America.

8:17

They hate America. Did

8:19

you hear Joe Biden say a word about

8:21

this today? Not a word. When's

8:25

the last time he stood up against these

8:28

Islamists and

8:30

talked about anti-Semitism in this

8:33

country? Never. Never. Has

8:37

Chuck Schumer talked about this? Not a

8:39

word. How came

8:41

Jeffries? Not a word. Instead,

8:45

we get Nancy Pelosi who signed a letter

8:47

with 37 other clowns insisting

8:50

that the Biden administration literally

8:52

cut off arms to the state

8:54

of Israel. I heard

8:59

a friendly voice on TV today, not

9:02

one of us, conservative, but a friendly voice say,

9:05

all Biden wants to know is what is Israel's exit

9:07

strategy and present it to them? Let

9:09

me explain something. Israel has no exit

9:11

strategy. That's their country. That's

9:15

their country. There's nowhere to go. They're

9:18

surrounded. As

9:21

I speak, missiles keep getting fired in

9:23

still from Gaza. Missiles are fired in

9:26

from Lebanon. Imagine living under these circumstances,

9:29

day in and day out, day in and

9:31

day out. This is an advanced, democratic, Judeo-Christian

9:34

country. It's a Western country

9:36

surrounded in many cases by

9:39

barbarian terrorists and barbarian terrorist

9:41

regimes. And I would add

9:43

as a footnote, ladies and gentlemen, if

9:45

you've been checking these information out

9:48

the last two days, Hamas and

9:50

Qatar are now trying

9:52

to overthrow the King of Jordan. Right

9:58

now with the backing of Iran. It's

10:00

no two-state solution issue. This

10:04

is a worldwide effort. I've talked to you about this

10:07

before. This is a second

10:09

Muslim crusade. Now by that I don't mean Muslims

10:12

who obviously aren't involved in this. I'm

10:14

talking about people,

10:16

Islamists, using

10:19

the Muslim faith to

10:22

try and conquer the world. In

10:25

one town after another, one state after another,

10:28

hell, one country after another. And

10:30

look at the influence they have in the United States today.

10:33

Look at the influence they have in the American media. Look

10:36

at the influence they have in the Democrat party. Look

10:38

at the influence they have in the White House, in

10:40

the State Department, in the Defense Department. They

10:43

have far more influence than

10:45

any Jewish organization or Christian

10:48

organization. They

10:52

have an enormous amount of control and influence. Continue,

10:59

please go ahead. Now

11:08

come, I said, and I

11:10

quote, we live in one

11:12

of the raw, inest countries that has ever existed

11:15

on this earth. I love it when people with

11:17

thick accents in this country, they don't have to

11:19

be here. Or maybe they're

11:22

second generation, talk about how horrible America is. You

11:24

need to hear this. You need to understand what's

11:26

going on. You're not going to see

11:28

it on MSNBC or CNN. You're not

11:30

going to see it on CBS, NBC or ABC. You're

11:32

not going to see it on the Sunday shows. You're not

11:35

going to read about it in the front pages of the

11:37

New York Times or the Washington Post. You

11:39

are not. And yet this

11:41

is what's going on. This

11:43

is what's going on. And

11:46

this is what Biden has responded to and Blinken is

11:48

in support of. Blinken is in support of this. As

11:53

are the Marxists, the Bernie Sanders, the

11:55

AOC, the overthrow of America. That's

11:58

their wet dream. Go ahead. Joe

12:01

that has to go, it's the

12:03

entire system that has to go.

12:05

Any system that would allow such

12:07

atrocities and such devilry to happen

12:10

and would support it, such a

12:12

system does not deserve to exist

12:14

on God's earth. And

12:16

so when these fools ask us

12:18

if Israel has the right to

12:20

exist, the chant death to Israel

12:22

has become the most logical chant

12:24

shouted across the world today. Cut

12:28

to. Yvonne

12:31

Chomeini recognized that Israel

12:33

is an evil settler

12:36

colonious project. He

12:39

realized it is a cancer and

12:42

he established this day. Israel before

12:44

this brothers and sisters was a

12:46

sacred cow. Nobody

12:49

could criticize Israel. Everybody was

12:51

terrified of being anti-Semitic. Everybody

12:54

was afraid of them. But

12:56

now the people of conscience

12:58

very openly will criticize Israel.

13:01

They recognize Israel for what it is. Israel

13:04

is ISIS. Israel

13:06

are, they are Nazis. They

13:09

are all fascists. They are racist. The people

13:11

of the world now know this. I believe

13:15

that was an imam. Again,

13:18

I want you to bookmark memory.org, memri.org.

13:20

You'll be way ahead of the knowledge

13:24

game before any

13:26

of these other news outlets. Even

13:29

think about reporting this. And

13:32

the border is wide open. People coming

13:35

in, including from the Middle

13:37

East, you have to assume

13:39

a certain percentage of them hate the country. You

13:43

have to assume a certain percentage of people coming into

13:45

this country from wherever they are want

13:48

to do violence to this country. And

13:51

when you heard these two, these

13:53

two rat-think reprobates, I

13:57

wanted you to know that these are the people of

13:59

the world. people that Joe Biden is

14:03

carrying favor with. And

14:06

he never says a damn thing, nothing.

14:10

And the FBI knows what's going on in Dearborn,

14:13

Michigan. And

14:15

when the editor of memory.org wrote

14:17

his piece in The Wall Street Journal,

14:20

the rest of the media attacked him. Because

14:23

the rest of the media are

14:25

perfectly comfortable with this. Their silence

14:28

speaks a thousand volumes. Right

14:31

Jake Tapper? Right

14:33

Wolf Peltzer? Right

14:38

Joe and Mika Scarborough? Mark Lofin.

14:44

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14:46

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14:48

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14:50

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14:52

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14:54

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14:56

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14:59

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15:01

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15:03

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15:06

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15:08

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15:10

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15:12

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15:14

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15:17

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15:19

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15:21

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15:26

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15:31

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15:33

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15:35

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15:38

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15:40

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your weekend even better, this

15:52

is the best of Mark

15:54

Levin. So the state of Nebraska

15:56

with just a couple of electoral votes is crucial.

16:00

You know Maine does what Maine does

16:02

but Nebraska has the same bizarre system.

16:06

They assign an electoral vote to each of

16:08

their congressional districts, each of the two.

16:10

One of them is a Democrat district

16:12

in Omaha and

16:15

yet the Republican always wins a

16:17

significant majority in Nebraska so it's

16:20

set up in a way that the Republicans

16:22

lose an electoral college vote and

16:25

so there's a movement of a foot to fix that. So

16:30

when Donald Trump wins Nebraska he's not

16:32

assigned one electoral vote and Biden won

16:34

electoral vote. Notice none of the dark

16:37

blue states do that because

16:39

it's stupid. Notice

16:42

none of the other red states do what Maine

16:45

has done because it's stupid but

16:48

it was done about 30 years ago so it's

16:50

time to fix it. The

16:53

problem is you do have some foot draggers in the

16:55

Republican Party. I know it seems insane but you do

16:59

and time for the legislature is running out

17:01

so what do you do? Well the governor

17:03

needs to call a special session, emergency session

17:05

of legislature and get this legislation passed. You

17:09

know damn well if there was a Democrat running the

17:11

show under these circumstances they do whatever they have to

17:13

do and

17:15

so I want to encourage you my fellow

17:18

Patriots that for

17:20

once we have something that we can do rather than

17:23

wring our hands and wine. And

17:26

I'm going to look for more and more opportunities like this

17:28

as well. I

17:30

want you to get engaged. You

17:33

can even sit at your chair you don't have to even move. I

17:37

want you to get engaged and

17:39

here's what I want you to do. The

17:42

governor's office has closed today it's in Nebraska.

17:45

I'm going to hand you his number as

17:47

well as the link to his office and

17:49

that contact information as

17:51

well. We're going to post it on all

17:55

my platforms including Twitter and

17:57

all the rest and I'm

17:59

also going to mention them to you so

18:02

you can go ahead and use them. Now

18:05

obviously with the link

18:07

to the governor's office there's other ways to communicate with his

18:09

office other than by phone. If you call now you're just

18:11

going to get, and I tried it, a recording

18:14

saying the office is closed and so forth. And earlier today

18:16

they shut the phone off so you couldn't even get through

18:18

that way. But there are other ways if you go to

18:20

the link on

18:23

the website. And again we will post them but I want to

18:25

tell you what they are. And again we

18:28

need a mass, live in, surge

18:31

tomorrow if you're

18:33

calling by phone, tonight if you're using the

18:35

link to the website of the governor's office,

18:39

to politely and civilly urge

18:41

him, governor, governor,

18:45

you need to call special session of the

18:47

legislature and

18:49

change the way the electoral votes are

18:52

assigned in Nebraska. Winner

18:54

should take all. Encourage

18:56

him to do it. Encourage

18:58

him to do it. Here's

19:01

the number, again I'll post it so you don't have to

19:03

memorize it. 402-471-2244. Again,

19:07

402, if you're technocrats, 402-471-2244. 402-471-2244.

19:21

It will be on all our social platforms. As

19:25

well as you can go to the

19:28

site, the link of the

19:30

governor, governor.nebraska.gov. And

19:32

again that will be on all our social sites. Mr.

19:35

Producer is already putting it up if he hasn't already.

19:38

It's up. Governor.nebraska.gov, G-O-V,

19:41

it's Governor Jim Pullen,

19:44

or P-I-L-L-E-N and again just politely.

19:49

They need to fix their electoral college

19:52

count system there. We

19:56

can't lose this election by one electoral college

19:58

vote folks. It's just ridiculous. We

20:00

seem to do things that

20:03

are counterintuitive and counterproductive. As

20:06

I say, only two states do this. One

20:09

of them is Maine. Maine can

20:11

be problematic. Sometimes we win it, sometimes we don't.

20:13

But if we're asking, we win. And

20:16

we're handing one of the electoral college votes to the

20:18

Democrats every time. That's just

20:21

stupid. There's really

20:23

no rationale for this. That's not populism. We're

20:26

talking about a presidential election, not a congressional

20:28

election here. And

20:30

so you count the votes of the state and the people

20:33

of the state decide, not the people of Omaha. They

20:37

can participate like everybody else, but they shouldn't be

20:39

able to throw a presidential election in one direction

20:41

or another because they support a Democrat. So

20:45

again, I want to encourage you to do that. If you can't

20:48

remember the numbers, the link that I just told you, well,

20:51

we're all over the place. I want to

20:53

encourage you to do that. So this is an official second

20:55

Levin surge tonight. The

20:58

first one is to go to Ted cruz.org and please do whatever

21:01

you can to help the senator. He

21:04

is a leading light in the United States Senate. If

21:07

he's replaced by one of these left-wing Senate

21:09

Democrats who goes along with the most extremist

21:13

types from the state of Texas,

21:16

then you can't do that.

21:19

Most extremist types from the state of Texas. That'll

21:24

be a complete disaster in lieu

21:26

of Ted Cruz. Complete

21:29

disaster. And then

21:31

we need Nebraska. We

21:33

need Nebraska to get back in line

21:36

with the rest of us, with the rest of our

21:38

states and stop handing an Electoral

21:40

College to the Democrats. Electoral College votes are not

21:42

supposed to be handed out to cities. States

21:45

get them. It's the vote of the

21:47

states, not the vote of

21:49

pieces of the states. We

21:53

should be winning in

21:55

significant numbers in Nebraska and handing one Electoral

21:58

College vote to magnets. That's just ridiculous. So

22:00

I encourage you again

22:04

tonight if you want to use the link, but certainly

22:06

tomorrow with the call or the link if they unplug

22:08

the phone again to

22:11

contact the governor's office, the number again as

22:15

I pull it up here. Let's

22:18

see here, 402-471-2244, 402-471-2244 or you can go to

22:20

the website again, all this stuff

22:29

will be on my social sites. You

22:33

can go to the website, let's see

22:36

here Mr. Producer, here

22:38

it is, which is, what the

22:42

hell is it Rich, you just posted it here. Governor.Nebraska.gov,

22:53

and I think we may actually

22:56

have his email

22:58

address too. Let's say go

23:02

to contact info on the page, once you get

23:04

into the link and you'll have his email address.

23:08

Contact info on the page, not trying to complicate it, it's

23:11

actually quite simple. There's one link and

23:13

there's one phone number. If

23:15

you find you're blocked on one, use the other. If

23:17

you want to act tonight, use the link, not

23:20

the phone number, I think I spelled it out pretty

23:22

straight forward. It's very, very important that they call a

23:24

special session and get this done. It's

23:27

the Democrats' foot, alright. There's

23:30

no way I'm going to be able to cover all this.

23:32

It's a very important piece that nobody's even mentioned. It's

23:37

a piece by Aoi Ferdegrun and

23:40

Rand Kivitz. The

23:43

president's acknowledgment that a drone attack mistakenly killed

23:45

seven aid workers in Gaza has led to

23:47

renewed criticism of the Jewish state. The tragic

23:49

incident came less than three weeks after a

23:51

report issued by the Integrated

23:53

Food Security Phase Classification, I

23:55

don't know how that is, claimed

23:58

that 1.1. 1

24:00

million people nearly half the population

24:02

of Gaza face, quote, catastrophic food insecurity,

24:04

unquote. Conditions

24:07

at the northern Gaza will face

24:09

famine by May, if hostilities continue.

24:12

The European's high representative for foreign

24:14

affairs and security policy, Joseph Beral,

24:17

blamed Israel, saying starvation is used as a

24:20

weapon of war, Israel's provoking famine. US

24:23

officials unveiled a UN ceasefire resolution

24:25

that cited famine conditions after the

24:27

IPC report came out. But

24:32

Hamas, which has been hoarding food and

24:34

stealing from Gazans, is the root cause

24:36

of Gaza's suffering. As

24:38

Congressman Jim Hines, a Connecticut Democrat and

24:41

ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee

24:43

stating in a CNN interview, quote, Hamas

24:46

has a long history of stealing aid. He

24:48

used to stop that in the interest of the

24:50

people they prepared to represent. Well, that's a tough

24:52

message. Israel

24:55

has tried for years to balance its

24:58

interests with those of innocent Palestinians. Its

25:00

maritime blockade did not stop Gaza from

25:02

being self-sufficient in fruits and vegetables with

25:05

enough live over to potentially export. Despite the

25:08

war, three quarters of greenhouse acres were

25:10

still available as of February 15. So in

25:12

other words, they didn't take out the farms and everything. According

25:15

to a United Nations Food and Agriculture

25:17

Organization report, which has the

25:20

latest available data, Israel's coordination

25:22

of government activities in the territories

25:24

indicates that bakeries can still

25:26

provide over, quote, two million breads rolls

25:28

and pita breads a day. Since

25:31

the war began, the Israel Defense Forces have engaged

25:34

in what West Point Urban Warfare Studies chairman,

25:36

John Spencer, who was on my show the other

25:38

night, described as a

25:40

remarkable historic new standard for wartime treatment

25:42

of civilians, resulting in a

25:44

civilian to combat morality rate that

25:47

is historically low for modern urban warfare. He

25:51

said Israel regularly provides warnings of impending

25:53

attacks, assists with evacuations, even stops its

25:55

attacks on a daily basis to allow

25:57

humanitarian aid to arrive. As

26:00

I said at the top of the show, I didn't invent this

26:02

thought, but it's a brilliant thought. This

26:04

is the only war with a

26:06

victim that is now defending itself

26:08

and the annihilation of the perpetrator is

26:10

supposed to be feeding the perpetrator's population.

26:15

So Israel is not only fighting to protect

26:17

its citizens, it's supposed to be feeding the

26:19

citizens who voted in Hamas. Now

26:22

how many of you veterans out there, especially

26:24

combat veterans, have you ever seen

26:26

anything like this before? Despite

26:31

the recent tragedy, the IDF tries to ensure

26:33

that Gazans don't starve throughout the war. The

26:37

data show that 290,000 tons

26:39

of food and beverages have been delivered to Gazans

26:41

since October, recently as many as

26:43

200 truckloads a day. Full

26:46

distribution of these supplies would deliver about 1.82 pounds of

26:48

food daily for the

26:51

2 million people in Gaza. Based

26:55

on FAO estimates of the average daily

26:57

consumption in Asia and Africa where Gaza

26:59

is situated, this alone will be

27:01

enough to supply 50% of Gazans

27:03

daily consumption needs on top

27:05

of the food they continue to produce themselves. Israel

27:09

has also collaborated with America to provide

27:11

further aid. The Biden administration recently announced

27:13

plans to build an emergency pier that

27:16

would provide 2 million meals per day. This

27:18

idea was first suggested to Biden

27:21

by Netanyahu last October. Six

27:24

weeks after the war started by Netanyahu.

27:28

Unfortunately this is not the first time that

27:30

leaders have been misled about the data surrounding

27:32

the Israel-Hamas war. For example, policy

27:35

maker and news media have repeatedly cited

27:37

casually numbers we've talked about this ad

27:39

infinitum, taken from none

27:41

other than Hamas itself. And

27:44

of course Abraham Weiner who I brought on my

27:47

Fox show as well as this radio show, professed

27:50

a statistic state of science at

27:52

Wharton University of Pennsylvania. He

27:54

said the numbers aren't real. For one thing he writes

27:57

there's little variability in the daily reporting he

27:59

goes through. We've already done that But

28:02

Biden doesn't care. He doesn't care about facts. He does. He

28:04

doesn't want to believe any of that He's on a mission

28:07

and he wants to get a vote from the

28:09

Dear Bornestan Islamists We're now out

28:11

of the woods Talking

28:13

about destroying America from within the

28:16

enemy from within And

28:19

it goes on And

28:23

it goes on You're

28:32

listening to the best of Marc

28:34

Lavenne. There's a breaking story this

28:36

evening Which

28:39

kind of illustrates and underscores what I've been

28:41

talking about The

28:44

violent terrorist mindset in

28:48

the United States With

28:51

open borders and

28:54

the Democrat Party embracing if

28:58

not promoting But

29:00

certainly not condemning The

29:04

Islamist mindset that

29:06

is spreading like wildfire in this country From

29:09

one no-go zone to another We

29:13

played the memory video audio

29:16

for you folks Were

29:19

an Islamist Imam and some

29:22

other rat-fink We're talking

29:25

about destroying America that America

29:27

needed to be destroyed and they didn't quote Martin Luther

29:29

King. They quoted Malcolm X People

29:33

come into this country you have

29:35

a first generation and a second generation in the case

29:37

of those two people And

29:40

they come here to hate it I've

29:44

also spent months trying to explain That

29:48

this ideology is not

29:50

just about slaughtering the Jews although that certainly is

29:52

a priority It's

29:54

about destroying us Because

29:57

we're the most powerful force and not just

29:59

militarily but morally and

30:01

constitutionally that stands against these

30:05

Islamists. So

30:08

what happened today? From

30:10

Fox, FBI arrests Idaho 18-year-old for

30:12

violent plot to attack churches on

30:15

behalf of ISIS, Justice Department says.

30:19

They arrested an 18-year-old

30:21

in Idaho after uncovering his truly horrific

30:23

and violent plot to attack churches in

30:25

Coeur d'Alene this past weekend

30:27

on behalf of ISIS. Alexander

30:30

Mercurio is now facing a federal

30:32

charge of attempting to provide material

30:34

support or resources to

30:36

a designated foreign terrorist organization after the FBI

30:38

says he devised a plan to,

30:41

quote, incapacitate his father,

30:44

restrain him using handcuffs, steal his firearms

30:47

to use for maximum casualties, quote, unquote.

30:50

In an attack he had been planning

30:52

to carry out in northern Idaho, the

30:54

resort city in

30:56

northern Idaho, Coeur d'Alene, on Sunday. The

30:59

defendant allegedly pledged loyally to ISIS, sought

31:02

to attack people attending churches in Idaho,

31:05

a truly horrific plan which was detected

31:07

and thwarted by the FBI's Joint Terrorism

31:09

Task Force. FBI Director

31:11

Christopher Ray said in a statement, the

31:14

Department of Justice will continue to relentlessly

31:16

pursue, disrupt, and hold accountable those who

31:18

would commit acts of terrorism against

31:21

the United States. And

31:24

who are they? I

31:28

don't think you'll find them in the Catholic Church. I don't

31:30

think you'll find them in a temple, Jewish temple. Who

31:33

are they? In

31:37

a criminal complaint, the FBI says the

31:39

investigation began when Mercurio, who is a

31:41

resident Coeur d'Alene, quote, reached

31:43

out to confidential human sources online and

31:45

indicated his support for ISIS and terrorist

31:48

organizations. Mercurio

31:50

spread ISIS propaganda online and

31:53

solicited ISIS's involvement in

31:55

and approval of his propaganda efforts discussing travel

31:57

from the United States to join ISIS and

31:59

consider and planned ways to

32:01

support ISIS financially. His

32:04

attack plan involved using flame-covered weapons,

32:06

explosives, knives, a machete, a pipe,

32:10

and ultimately firearms. His

32:12

plan grew more precise as he eventually identified

32:15

the specific church and date on which he

32:17

planned to attack. And

32:19

they grabbed him the day before he was going to

32:22

attack. You

32:26

better get used to this. I don't

32:28

mean used to terrorism. I mean

32:30

used to these threats. And

32:34

the FBI is not going to be able to stop all of them. You

32:36

can't play defense. We have

32:38

an immigration system. Check that. We don't have

32:40

an immigration system. Any

32:42

would-be terrorist from the Middle East can slip right into this

32:44

country, and I guarantee you they have. We have

32:49

Soros prosecutors in this country that will not

32:51

prosecute individuals,

32:55

individuals who are recidivists, who

32:57

even do violent crimes.

33:01

You have coddling judges, but

33:04

worst off, you have a President of the United States who won't

33:06

stand up to

33:09

anti-Semitism. Instead, he spreads

33:11

it with his blood

33:13

libels day in and day out against the state of Israel.

33:17

Hamas doesn't fear Biden. Iran

33:19

doesn't fear Biden. Hezbollah, Houthis, they all

33:21

laugh. I

33:25

mean he's insisting that Israel provide

33:27

more food, more medicine

33:31

to people in Gaza, even though

33:33

Israel is trying to defeat their leadership.

33:36

And that leadership didn't shoot its way to the top.

33:39

That leadership was elected, and then they

33:41

shot their way to the top to stay there.

33:45

In fact, the so-called peaceful

33:47

Palestinians, Arafat's PLO, they're

33:51

talking about a united government. They

33:54

can just get their hands on Judea and Samaria, where

33:58

Hamas would have cabinet positions. No,

34:00

I bet you didn't know that. So

34:03

in the middle of all this, Joe Biden is actually

34:05

reaching out to

34:07

Dear Bornestan because he doesn't want to lose

34:09

the vote of the Rashida

34:11

Tlaib constituency. Of

34:18

course, the media are not going to report this. They'll

34:20

attack anybody who exposes it. They can

34:22

attack all they want. The truth is the truth. They

34:26

have no influence over people like me. As

34:28

a matter of fact, the more they attack, the more I push back. But

34:32

you are going to see much more of this because

34:37

of the rhetoric Biden uses because it's

34:40

now okay. Look, the heads of Hamas,

34:42

memory.org, interpreted

34:45

what they said. They

34:48

are celebrating the position of

34:50

the Democrat Party and

34:53

the American media and the Islamists

34:55

and Marxists in the streets. They're

34:58

celebrating it. It's open season now.

35:00

It's open season on the United States. It's open

35:03

season on Israel. Open

35:05

season. Dear

35:09

Bornestan, that's what I've been calling it because that's what it

35:11

is. The

35:14

propaganda that Joe Biden uses against

35:18

the state of Israel could be used by

35:21

skinheads. He's

35:23

a Muslim.

35:25

He's a Muslim. His

35:29

blood labels. And

35:32

of course, Anthony Blinken, his

35:35

family is bought and paid for by George Soros. For

35:38

him, this is ideological. He

35:40

doesn't really care. Everybody

35:43

said to me, he's actually Jewish. No, his

35:45

mother was Jewish, which

35:48

is fine. That's great. But he

35:50

has no connection to the Jewish faith. Most

35:54

grandparents or his great grandparents or one or more of

35:56

them had suffered through

35:58

the Holocaust, but that's not him. He

36:00

hasn't suffered through anything. And

36:03

so why is he playing FTSE with Iran? He wants

36:05

to create another Holocaust. Why

36:08

is he helping to fund Iran? I don't give a

36:10

damn about

36:13

his lineage. In fact,

36:15

that underscores what a complete insane

36:18

buffoon this ideologue is. Blinken

36:22

is a traitor. He

36:26

was involved in getting in the

36:28

first place in the Obama administration

36:30

as deputy secretary of state. He

36:33

was involved in that deal intimately that would ensure

36:35

that Iran would have nuclear weapons. And

36:37

all he's involved is secretary of state to ensure that Iran

36:39

has nuclear weapons. There's

36:42

not a single media outlet in America that

36:45

has asked Blinken or Biden, what

36:47

are he doing about the nukes that Iran is

36:51

developing? Even

36:54

on these surrogate sites. Mediate,

36:58

Media Matters, these Soros related or

37:00

Dan Abrams related site. Not a

37:02

word, nothing. And

37:06

so here's a case where

37:08

this guy was found out and nabbed. And

37:11

there'll be many cases where nobody's

37:13

found that and not nabbed and the horror will be

37:16

done. And

37:19

even today, Joe Biden has said nothing. He

37:23

said nothing and the comments were

37:25

made in Dear bonus then nothing. He

37:28

said nothing when those

37:30

Ivy poison Ivy League presidents or those

37:32

universities said what they said. He

37:34

said nothing.

37:37

No speech to the nation. No concern

37:39

at all. Mark. Make

37:52

sure we can even better. This

37:55

is the best of Mark Levin. You're

37:58

buying a nasty man who should never get it. been anywhere close

38:00

to the Oval Office. Again

38:03

today, listen to this one. Cut 4 Go. My

38:07

predecessor and his MAGA friends wanted, I

38:09

love the phrase that the language used,

38:11

they wanted to terminate the Affordable

38:14

Care Act. Terminate.

38:17

Well guess what? Killing millions of

38:21

Americans, take them off of health care. You

38:23

listen to this? Just stop a second. Killing

38:28

millions of Americans.

38:31

Donald Trump is not a philosophical conservative. When

38:33

it comes to

38:37

Medicare and Social Security, when

38:40

it comes to certain of these programs, health care

38:42

and so forth, he's

38:45

actually relatively liberal on these programs. And so

38:47

it's Joe Biden

38:50

that has the history. And I played the audio

38:52

for you repeatedly. I played the video

38:55

on Fox and on the Blaze. Who's gone after Social Security in 1984, 1987, 2004, 2007,

39:05

four times at least. Is Obamacare's God's gift? Most

39:08

people with Obamacare don't care

39:13

for it that much. Is that the only way to

39:15

go? No, there's options. There are other ways to address

39:17

this. So his view is if you don't support Obamacare,

39:20

you're going to kill millions of people.

39:22

Now they say we should elevate our political speech. Is this elevating

39:27

it? So so far Donald Trump is the greatest threat to

39:29

democracy. Donald Trump's going to

39:33

kill millions of people who are on Obamacare. Donald Trump's

39:37

going to kill millions of people who

39:39

are on Obamacare. Donald

39:42

Trump's going to destroy Social Security and

39:44

Medicare. Listen to this one. Cut five,

39:46

Mr. Producer, go. Now comes to Social

39:48

Security and Medicare, my predecessor recently said,

39:50

quote, there's a lot you can do

39:53

in terms of cutting. What he's talking

39:55

about is fraud. He's

39:57

never supported cutting it. So Biden is a lot of

39:59

people. lying again. It's Biden. That's

40:03

the history of Biden in the Senate, who

40:08

over and over again talked about that. But

40:11

listen, listen to his propaganda. Go

40:13

ahead. I love it.

40:15

Right on cue, House Republicans released

40:17

their budget that would raise the

40:19

retirement age of Social Security. Now

40:23

what it would do is a proposal that's

40:25

been on the table for three or four

40:27

decades. That

40:30

is, for people who are say 40, 45

40:33

years old, they'd raise the retirement age by a

40:35

couple years because Social Security is going broke. Trump

40:39

has not endorsed that. I

40:42

endorsed that. Would

40:44

you rather be eligible

40:47

for Social Security at 67 rather than 65 or not

40:49

have any Social

40:51

Security whatsoever? That's the issue. But

40:54

you can't have a rational debate when

40:56

you have a guy like Biden. Biden can only win. Listen.

41:01

So just listen to this. So Trump

41:03

wants to destroy democracy. Trump

41:06

wants two million people to die. Trump

41:09

wants people on Social Security

41:12

to go without. He wants people Medicare

41:14

to go without. Where's this coming from? It's

41:19

coming from a man who has used

41:21

these tactics to character assassinate people before

41:23

as chairman of the Foreign

41:25

Affairs Committee, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary

41:28

Committee. Use these tactics against

41:31

Robert Bork, against Clarence Thomas. He used

41:33

these tactics against all kinds of nominees

41:35

for district and circuit judgeships.

41:40

He uses these tactics when he runs for office

41:42

or did in the Senate. And

41:47

the media will let him get away with it.

41:49

He talks about the greatest debt in American history

41:51

due to Trump because of tax cuts. The

41:56

problem, or not tax cuts, the problem is spending.

42:00

Everybody said this, even some people on the left

42:02

have said this, but

42:04

he doesn't care. He's got Pinocchio's

42:07

coming out of his ass from

42:10

these fact checkers who say, no, no, no, that's not what

42:12

happened. He doesn't care. And

42:17

this is how he hopes to win. He

42:22

might. Because

42:25

an appellate judge today

42:29

ruled that the case brought

42:31

by Alvin Bragg in front of a corrupt

42:34

judge, intellectually, politically corrupt, I'm

42:36

not saying he's taking money, I'm saying he's

42:39

a hack, a

42:42

case that never should have been brought, a case

42:44

that was turned down three times by the Federal

42:46

Election Commission, the U.S. Attorney's Office, and his own

42:48

office, that

42:50

it should go forward. April

42:53

15th. April

42:56

15th. That's

43:00

six days from today, six days. President

43:05

Trump will be brought before a phony judge,

43:08

phony court, phony prosecutor,

43:12

phony jury, they'll go through

43:14

the motions, 34 counts,

43:17

I believe it is, 34, all they need is

43:19

one. Jury

43:23

your peers, not a jury of left-wing Democrats

43:25

in Manhattan, no, it doesn't matter. Doesn't

43:30

matter. And of course they'll have a right to appeal,

43:34

but it'll be too late between the media and the

43:37

way Biden talks and the rest. And

43:39

they know this. If

43:46

I had to sum up Joe Biden, I'd

43:49

say he's a low life. That's basically what he is,

43:51

he's a low life. And

43:53

I hope everybody regurgitates exactly what I

43:55

said, friend and foe alike. He's

43:58

always been a low life. Always

44:02

been a low life. Anything from

44:05

power. He has no real world experience. He

44:07

gets elected when he's 29, sworn

44:09

in when he's 30. He's immediately part

44:11

of the segregationist racist wing of the

44:13

Democrat Party. Now he's part

44:15

of the Marxist fascistic wing of the Democrat Party.

44:18

Not all that far apart if you give it really serious

44:20

thought. So

44:23

he's going to run a lie. Real

44:28

terrorists have been pardoned by

44:31

Jimmy Carter, by

44:35

Bill Clinton, by Barack Obama. Real

44:37

terrorists. Barack Obama,

44:39

as I said, was best friends with a domestic

44:41

terrorist. Two of them. Actually

44:44

three of them. Three

44:46

of them. Joe

44:49

Biden is the biggest slaver in American history. That's

44:51

what I would run on a commercial. 100,000

44:56

Americans dead and he pretends he cares about civilians.

45:01

Just not American civilians. Just not Haitian

45:03

civilians. Just not only civilians he cares

45:05

about. Oddly enough for those

45:08

who voted for a terrorist regime. And

45:12

after attack, after attack, murder, after murder,

45:14

after murder, Israel finally said we've had

45:16

enough. We're taking you out. Biden

45:18

says no you're not. In

45:21

fact we're going to build a port for

45:23

the Gazans. And

45:26

we're going to destroy our 76 year relationship

45:28

with Israel. Because

45:31

I need those votes out of Michigan. Look I'm

45:33

buying votes left and right with student loan forgiveness

45:35

even though it violates the Constitution in a Supreme

45:37

Court order. A direct order that said no. I

45:42

will continue to push the top of the state

45:44

of Israel. I will continue to fund Iran to

45:46

attack Israel and the United States if I have

45:48

to. I

45:51

will continue to keep the border open so we

45:54

can keep importing future Democrats. To be honest that's

45:56

what's going on here. What

46:01

do I give a damn about Israel? What do

46:03

I give a damn about the southern border?

46:07

All that matters is my election. Power.

46:09

That's all I've ever done. That's all I've ever

46:11

pursued in my entire life from speaking as Biden.

46:15

Election after election, power after power. That's

46:20

what he's doing. Look

46:23

at the things he says about Trump. He doesn't even call

46:26

out the Islamists from the other day. Not a word. Nothing.

46:31

The presidents of these universes, not a word. Nothing.

46:34

Zero. The

46:37

little crystallinox going on all over the country, not

46:39

a word. Nothing. No

46:42

go zones now popping up across him, not

46:44

a word. Nothing. Zero. The

46:50

greatest danger to you, my fellow

46:52

Americans, is Joe Biden. He's

46:54

destroying our economy. He's

46:57

destroying our supply chain. He's destroying our

46:59

energy system. He's

47:03

destroying small business. He

47:09

wants to tax you into oblivion. He

47:13

wants your money. The only reason they want

47:15

to raise taxes is so they can control you. So

47:18

they can control what you earned. Inflation,

47:22

he denies there's inflation. I'd ask

47:24

you, is there inflation? We know that food prices have gone up

47:26

40%. Since

47:30

the end of 2009, 40%. $100

47:37

in groceries in a

47:39

grocery basket today is $140. He doesn't

47:41

care. You're

47:44

paying for the food that he puts in his big mouth. You always have. Or

47:49

the communist Chinese have, one or the other. So

47:53

Trump is a threat to democracy. Was

47:56

he a threat to democracy when he was president for four

47:58

years? He was at a single court order. he

48:00

violated. None. Zero.

48:02

They tried to take him out from day

48:04

one. Russia collusion, planning

48:07

stories, two phony impeachments, a criminal investigation

48:09

that came up with nothing because there

48:11

was nothing. It is endless. But

48:15

this is more than a war on Trump, it's a

48:17

war on you. Listen to the way he says, MAGA,

48:19

MAGA, make America great again. MAGA,

48:21

MAGA. He

48:23

hates you. He

48:26

despises you. He

48:29

doesn't care. Israel goes under, Israel goes

48:31

under. United States goes under, the United

48:33

States goes under. Remember what I keep telling you. For

48:36

a guy like Biden, it's party.

48:38

Party matters most. Power, power, power,

48:40

power. Like these communist regimes. The

48:43

country is nothing unless it's controlled by

48:45

their party, a monopoly party. That's what

48:48

we have.

48:50

A party that wants to change our election laws and

48:53

Schumer tries it every year right out of the box so

48:56

they can't lose. And

48:59

then they talk about voter suppression. The

49:01

party of voter suppression, talking about voter

49:03

suppression. They

49:06

have no respect for black people, none.

49:09

With the kind of propaganda and rhetoric they use

49:12

in black communities or focus on black

49:14

individuals, it's grotesque. While

49:16

he's horrible, fall but standing in the

49:19

schoolhouse doorway preventing little black kids from

49:21

getting the hell out of these lousy

49:23

schools. He's the one stopping him because

49:26

he doesn't believe in integration

49:28

in our public schools. He said so, but

49:30

he's changed. No. A

49:34

chameleon only changes for

49:38

their own purposes. He's not

49:40

changed. He's the same hateful bigot he's always

49:42

been. First

49:44

it was the blacks, now it's the

49:46

Jews. That's simple.

49:51

Democracy and freedom of the greatest threat is Trump.

49:55

Who do you think our enemies are rooting for? China

49:57

and Russia? Iran?

50:00

North Korea, they're rooting for Biden. Who

50:05

do you think the drug cartels are rooting for? They're rooting for

50:07

Biden. They've never had it so good. Who

50:11

do you think the communist regime in Cuba and

50:14

Nicaragua and Venezuela,

50:16

who do you think they're rooting for? Biden.

50:20

Of course. Who

50:22

do you think the prisoners, the

50:25

criminals in our jailhouses across the country

50:27

rooting for? Biden.

50:30

The American Marxists, the American Islamists, who are

50:33

they rooting for? Biden.

50:36

Biden. The

50:38

Democrats always win, Dearbornestand. Why is

50:41

that? Why

50:43

is that? It's

50:45

called a rhetorical question. Mark Levin. We're

50:54

giving you nothing but the

50:56

best, the best of Mark

50:58

Levin. I hope you're well. A

51:02

couple hours ago there was headline news,

51:04

Mr. Producer. I

51:08

believe it's the last day of Ramadan. Eid,

51:11

I think it's called. It's

51:17

Islam's holy month of fasting. There

51:20

was a shooting that occurred in

51:23

Philadelphia in the Parkside neighborhood. An

51:26

Eid event. Almost

51:29

a thousand people were there. It's a lot of people. There

51:35

were gunfire. People

51:39

got hit. It

51:42

was a terrible scene, as a matter of fact, in

51:45

a park. And

51:50

the media were all geared up. They

51:53

brought on ex-FBI agents, ex-police.

52:00

and others that

52:04

were, if not suggesting, certainly implying

52:08

that this was a shooting because

52:11

it was Ramadan, the last day of Ramadan,

52:14

and a thousand Muslims were

52:17

gathered in this one place. Now let me make something

52:19

abundantly clear. I have

52:24

nothing for contempt for anybody

52:27

who kills anybody, innocence,

52:32

period. I

52:36

have no problem whatsoever

52:39

with people who practice their faith peacefully,

52:44

period, and

52:50

the funny thing is, people

52:54

talk to me, the

52:56

person I work with at my bank is

52:59

a Pakistani Muslim, people

53:04

that I know quite well,

53:07

quite closely, and

53:09

all sorts of things that we do around this

53:11

house and we do around our

53:14

studio, Muslims, and

53:18

they are disgusted, many

53:21

of them, with the

53:23

Islamists because they threaten them too, but

53:28

stereotypes are created by the media. So

53:33

when you criticize Islamists, notice

53:35

I didn't say Muslims, when

53:37

you criticize Islamists, terrorists, who

53:39

push terrorist ideology, the

53:43

media want you to say Muslim. Now

53:48

the media were all geared up, they hit this

53:50

morning, noon, and night, it's disappeared totally from the

53:53

headlines now. Why?

53:59

Well now we know more facts. Two

54:01

factions, reports ABC News,

54:04

pulled out guns and started shooting at

54:06

each other at the outdoor gathering, according

54:08

to Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel. Thirty

54:11

shots were fired. A 22-year-old was shot in

54:13

the stomach during the gunfire. Juveniles self-transported to

54:16

a hospital with a gunshot wound to the

54:18

hand. Both were in stable condition.

54:25

An officer at the event shot a 15-year-old boy

54:28

who was allegedly armed with a gun, according to

54:30

Bethel, the teen was shot in the shoulder and

54:32

leg. The officer recovered the firearm and transported the

54:34

teen to a hospital. A child also fractured their

54:36

leg. They were hit by

54:38

a responding officer's car. Five people had been arrested

54:40

in connection with the shooting. They

54:42

include the 15-year-old who was shot by the

54:44

officer, as well as four suspects, three juveniles

54:46

and an adult who fled the scene

54:49

with guns, multiple guns, according to

54:51

Bethel, five weapons were recovered. A

54:54

motive remains unknown. But

54:58

they said two factions pulled out guns and started

55:00

shooting at each other. So

55:05

the headlines disappear because

55:09

the media wanted it to be something else.

55:11

They certainly thought it would be something else.

55:15

That's not to say that can't happen. There's a

55:17

lot of very evil people. A

55:20

lot of very evil people. Not

55:22

to say it can't happen, but it didn't. The

55:27

media, the American media, there's a lot being

55:29

said today about a

55:31

gentleman named Yuri Berliner, who's a very courageous

55:34

man. He's a veteran reporter,

55:38

employee of PBS, of

55:43

NPR, rather, and an

55:47

editor. He's worked

55:49

very closely with people who

55:51

worked there for a long time. Apparently,

55:53

he wrote a piece in the Free Press, which

55:56

I want to get to momentarily. raises

56:00

me. He doesn't tell us anything we

56:02

didn't know. The fact is that he's very brave

56:04

in coming out and telling us, reinforcing what we

56:06

already know. So I

56:09

would tell my colleagues in TV

56:11

and radio, it

56:14

wouldn't hurt you. It

56:17

wouldn't hurt you if you would actually educate

56:19

and inform yourselves more. Over

56:24

half a million of you read a book called Unfreedom

56:26

of the Press. You

56:29

know what's going on on the press

56:31

instinctively. It's common sense. And you also know

56:33

the history of it and the extent of it

56:35

because you read. They don't. Unfreedom

56:41

of the press is about how those entrusted

56:43

with news reporting in the modern media are

56:45

destroying freedom of the press from within. Not

56:48

governmental pressure or suppression, not President Donald

56:50

Trump's finger pointing, this was written several

56:53

years back, but present

56:55

day newsrooms and journalists, indeed

56:57

social activism, progressive group thing,

56:59

Democrat party partnership, opinion

57:01

and propaganda, passed off as news. The

57:04

staging of pseudo events, self censorship,

57:06

bias by omission and outright falsehoods

57:09

are too often substituting for old fashioned

57:12

objective fact gathering and news reporting. A

57:15

self perpetuating and reinforcing mindset is

57:18

replaced independent in a partial thinking.

57:21

And the American people know it. That's

57:23

the credibility. The mass media has never

57:25

been lower. This

57:28

book could easily have been 10 times in

57:30

its current length, but that would make it

57:32

unreadable for most. Nonetheless, meaning

57:34

as current length, it's unreadable for some

57:36

apparently. Much ground

57:39

is covered in research undertaken and many authors

57:41

and scholars consulted as the history of the

57:43

American press and the evidence of its decades

57:45

long demise are carefully examined.

57:49

The purpose of unfreedom of the

57:51

press is to jumpstart a long

57:53

overdue and hopefully productive dialogue among

57:56

the American citizenry and how

57:58

best to deal with the conflict complicated and

58:00

complex issue of the media's collapsing role as

58:03

a bulwark of liberty, the civil

58:06

society, and republicanism, ranging

58:08

from the early newspapers and pamphlets,

58:11

promoting the principles set forth in the

58:13

Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, to

58:16

the subsequent party press and transparent allegiance

58:18

to one party or the other, to

58:20

the progressive approach of so-called professional reporting

58:22

and now the ideologically driven

58:25

advocacy press of today. So

58:30

for those of you who read this, but this is not new. What's

58:34

new is the gentleman had the courage to come forward, for

58:37

which he should be thanked.

58:42

Unlike the early patriot press, today's

58:44

newsrooms and journalists are mostly hostile

58:46

to America's founding principles, traditions, and

58:49

institutions. They do

58:51

not promote free speech and press

58:54

freedom despite their self-serving and

58:56

self-righteous claims. Indeed, they

58:58

serve as societal filters attempting to

59:00

enforce uniformity of thought and social

59:02

and political activism centered on the

59:05

progressive, aka American Marx, as ideology

59:07

and agenda. Issues,

59:09

events, groups, and individuals that do

59:12

not fit the narrative are dismissed

59:14

or diminished. Those that do fit

59:16

the narrative are elevated and celebrated. Of

59:18

course, this paradigm greatly influences the culture,

59:21

the government, and the national psyche. It

59:24

defines a media-created reality, whether

59:26

or not it has a basis and true

59:28

reality, around which individuals organize

59:30

their thoughts, beliefs, and in some cases,

59:32

their lives. If

59:37

there is mystery and opacity, that's

59:40

around all of it. And

59:42

if one dares to question or criticize the motives

59:44

and work product of this enterprise or aspects of

59:47

it, that is, the reporting by

59:49

one or more newsrooms, the response is

59:51

often knee-jerk and emotionally charged, with

59:53

the Inc. or critic portrayed as

59:56

hostile to press freedom and the

59:58

collective media circling the wagon around

1:00:00

themselves. Bears

1:00:03

remembering that the purpose of a free

1:00:06

press, like the purpose of free speech,

1:00:08

is to nurture the mind, communicate ideas,

1:00:10

challenge ideologies, share notions,

1:00:12

inspire creativity and advocate, and

1:00:14

reinforce America's founding principles,

1:00:16

that is, to contribute to

1:00:18

a vigorous, productive, healthy, and happy individual

1:00:21

and to a well-functioning civil society and

1:00:23

republic. And

1:00:25

the media are to expose official actions

1:00:27

aimed at squelching speech and communication. But

1:00:30

when the media function as a propaganda

1:00:32

tool for a single political party and

1:00:34

ideology, they not only destroy their own

1:00:36

purpose, but threaten the existence

1:00:38

of a free republic. It

1:00:41

is surely not for the government to control the

1:00:44

press, and yet the press seems incapable of policing

1:00:46

itself. We must

1:00:48

remember, we are not merely observers. We

1:00:50

are the citizenry, we the people, for

1:00:53

whom this nation was established and for whom

1:00:55

it exists, in order to

1:00:57

form a more perfect union, establish justice,

1:00:59

ensure domestic tranquility, and I quote, provide

1:01:02

for the common defense, promote the general

1:01:05

welfare, and serve the blessings of liberty

1:01:07

to ourselves and our posterity. Hence

1:01:10

we must demand a media worthy of our great

1:01:12

republic. We begin

1:01:14

the process by informing ourselves about those

1:01:16

institutions and individuals and their practices and

1:01:19

standards, who by their

1:01:21

own anointment proclaim the high-minded obligation

1:01:23

of informing us. That's

1:01:26

the three-page introduction unfream of the press. It

1:01:28

only gets better after that. So

1:01:33

it is somewhat curious

1:01:40

that this book that was number one on the New

1:01:42

York Times best seller list a month or two, maybe

1:01:44

three. It

1:01:47

sold over half a million copies, received virtually

1:01:49

no notice on any

1:01:51

conservative newsroom other

1:01:54

than on the internet. Why

1:01:58

would that be? I'm not

1:02:00

saying opinions, opinion makers, I'm

1:02:02

talking about newsrooms. Knott

1:02:07

comes forward, Yuri Berliner, a veteran of

1:02:09

the public radio institution. And

1:02:12

he says the network lost its way when it

1:02:14

started telling listeners how to think. And

1:02:18

you already know this. What's

1:02:20

unique here is that somebody's come forward, still

1:02:23

works at NPR, so he

1:02:25

comes forward at personal, potential

1:02:28

personal attack

1:02:32

against him, and that's what they've started to do. And

1:02:36

he says in the free press, and

1:02:40

I will note that the New York Times opinion

1:02:45

page or book review section never

1:02:47

reviews my books. Not

1:02:50

when Barry Weiss was there, and Knott's sense.

1:02:53

And that's okay, they would just trash him anyway. He

1:02:57

said, you know the stereotype of the

1:02:59

NPR listener, an EV driving, worldly

1:03:02

playing, tote bag carrying, coastal elite.

1:03:04

It doesn't precisely describe me, but

1:03:07

it's not far off. I'm

1:03:10

Sarah Lawrence, educator, was raised by a lesbian

1:03:12

peace activist mother. I drive a Subaru,

1:03:15

and Spotify says my listening habits are

1:03:18

most similar to people in Berkeley. I

1:03:21

fit the NPR mold, I cop to that. So

1:03:24

when I got a job here 25 years ago,

1:03:26

I never looked back. As a

1:03:28

senior editor on the business desk where

1:03:30

news is always breaking, we've covered upheavals

1:03:32

in the workplace, supermarket prices, social media,

1:03:34

and AI. It's

1:03:36

true, NPR has always had a liberal

1:03:38

bent, but during most of my tenure

1:03:41

here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We

1:03:44

were nerdy, but not knee-jerk activists or scolding.

1:03:48

In recent years, however, that has changed. Today,

1:03:50

those who listen to NPR or read its

1:03:52

coverage online find something different. The

1:03:54

distilled world view of a very small segment

1:03:56

of the US population. conservative

1:04:00

you will read this and say, duh, it's always

1:04:02

been this way. But it hasn't. Actually

1:04:05

it has. Maybe not at NPR.

1:04:08

But certainly in the last multiple

1:04:10

decades. For decades since

1:04:13

its founding in 1970, a wide

1:04:15

swath of America tuned into NPR

1:04:17

for reliable journalism in gorgeous

1:04:19

audio pieces with birds singing in the Amazon,

1:04:21

millions came to ask for conversations that exposed

1:04:24

us to voices around the country and the

1:04:26

world, radically different from our own,

1:04:29

engaging precisely because they were unguarded

1:04:31

and unpredictable. No image generated

1:04:33

more pride within NPR than the farmer listening

1:04:35

to Morning Edition from his or her tractor

1:04:38

at sunrise. Back

1:04:41

in 2011, although NPR's audience tilted a

1:04:43

bit to the left, it's still boring

1:04:45

resemblance to America at large. 26% of

1:04:47

listeners described themselves as conservative. 23% middle

1:04:50

of the road, 37% as liberal. By 2023, the picture was completely different.

1:04:52

Only 11%

1:04:59

described themselves as very or somewhat conservative. 21%

1:05:01

middle of the road, 67% were

1:05:05

very or somewhat liberal. We

1:05:08

weren't just losing conservatives. We were

1:05:10

also losing moderates in traditional liberals.

1:05:12

An open-minded spirit no longer

1:05:15

existed within NPR. Now, predictably, we don't

1:05:17

have an audience that reflects America. That

1:05:21

wouldn't be a problem for an openly

1:05:23

polemical news outlet serving a niche audience,

1:05:25

but for NPR, which purports to consider

1:05:27

all things, it's devastating both for its

1:05:29

journalism and its business model.