September 30, 2020

September 30, 2020

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On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, Only one candidate called the other candidate names at the Presidential debate – Joe Biden. The Commission on Presidential Debates organized a poorly moderated debate. Biden is a brawler that doesn’t use facts, he uses insults, lies, and interruptions. Biden failed to make the case of who he was, what he’s done, and why he’d be a better President than Trump. Later, John Adams versus Thomas Jefferson was the birth of negative campaigning. Adams and Jefferson were friends but party politics played a heavy role at that time and a sitting vice president ran against a sitting president. Then, Biden has failed to criticize Democrat Governors for the deadly decision of putting patients that tested positive for Coronavirus in nursing homes which cost the lives of so many elderly Americans. Now, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo denied that this ever even happened. Afterward, former FBI Director James Comey took the virtual hot seat in front of the US Senate Judiciary Committee where Comey minimized his role in signing fraudulent FISA warrant applications. Finally, Congressman Matt Gaetz calls in to discuss his new book – Firebrand: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the MAGA Revolution.

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Rough Transcript of Hour 1

Hour 1 Segment 1

The debate, you’ve heard everybody else comment. I have not. I have scrupulously not listened to other radio talk show hosts. Oh, I’ve watched the television. But no radio hosts, so I don’t know who’s saying what. I don’t want to know who’s saying what. But I watch this debate. Very carefully. It was a. Lousy presidential commission. System that was setup. It was moderated awfully. And I want to get into specifics here with respect to these candidates. There’s only one candidate who called the other candidate names. I went back and double check this. And that was Joe Biden. Clown racist. Stupid. Shut up. I’m not surprised by this. Joe Biden is a nasty old man and he was a nasty young man. And, you know, I take a risk when I post these things during the day because the backbenchers just cherry pick my post, that’s OK. But can I tell you. But Joe Biden’s always been this way. Whether it’s Robert Bork, as I posted this morning, or Clarence Thomas. Or scores of individuals who were nominated for judgeships and presidential appointments and Republican administrations. This is how he treats them. He calls them names. He uses surrogates. He leaks to the press. Joe Biden has had a 50year relationship with the Washington press. Donald Trump has no relationship with the Washington press, and he’s only been in Washington less than four years and at 10. And you can tell with respect to Biden in the press. Trump was cut off repeatedly. Buy was allowed to go on with these little monologues and what Biden does in a two minute monologue, he’ll tell five lies and throw 10 insults because that’s what they do in Washington. And that’s how Biden conducts himself. He doesn’t have brainpower. He’s a brawler. You think Trump’s a brawler? Biden’s a brawler. Now, I suspect, but don’t know that the president and his team looked at how Biden debated Paul Ryan. In October of 2012, where Paul Ryan was considered. A very decent guy. Whether you like his politics or not, that’s beside the point. A very informed young man, very attractive young man. He’d been in Congress for some time. Then everybody thought he’d whip out Joe. Let you see Joe doesn’t play fair. Joe makes. Facial ticks, he comments under his breath. He has sort of an odd laugh. He does things to try and disrupt. To disrupt his opponent. This is what he does. That’s what he did to Paul Ryan. That’s what he tried to do to Donald Trump, but Donald Trump was not playing the role of Paul Ryan. Donald Trump has a counterpunch here. And you go back and look at the beginning of this debate from last night and you will see it was Joe Biden. Who started the brawling in the interruptions? The name calling? In this constant, Trump is a liar, liar, liar. You know, Biden has an entire career of lying, plagiarism, stealing speeches from Robert Kennedy and Neil Kinnock. Lying about scholarships into law school. Lying about his IQ. Lying about his grades and on and on and on and on. Lying about his policies. I was deeply offended by some of the questions I were asked by the moderator, just telling you that I’m an American first. Not a radio host first, not a TV host first, not an author first. I’m an American first and I’m going to tell it like it is. We’ll get to some of this. This white supremacy stuff. Interesting that that Joe Biden wasn’t asked about it because he was the only candidate standing on the stage who actually dealt with white supremacists and segregationists and was damn proud of it. Kamala Harris even called him out, but the moderator didn’t. Implicit in the moderators question to the president of the United States was he must like white supremacist president of the United States who a week before. For the first time in our history. Issued an order. That lynching is a federal hate crime. It hadn’t been done under Obama. Obama Biden hadn’t been done under any Democrat. And as an arm’s length long list of policies that he’s implemented for the purpose of trying to assist. The black community. Joe Biden doesn’t have a list at all. Half a century. But I’ll circle back to that. We’ll circle back to that. If the presidential commission doesn’t like the way the debate went. Maybe they ought to do a better job in picking their moderators and maybe the Democrat Party ought to do a better job in nominating its candidates. Because the first one, the throw the mud was Biden. As I said, he’s a brawler. Now, I want to remind you of what happened October 11, 2012. Unfortunately, this is audio, not video. And throughout this, Biden is smiling, laughing, rolling his eyes. His body English mocking Paul Ryan. Keeps interrupting him, and I guarantee you, I don’t know for sure, but I guarantee you Trump and the Trump team saw this and they were not going to play the role of Paul Ryan because I’ve been hearing. News analysis, commentators, people I like. Not radio and listener radio. I hear them say if Trump would have kept quiet. Biden with a fallen on his face. No. If Trump would have kept quiet, Biden would have gotten away with murder. All of his lies and slurs would have gone unchallenged because the way the presidential commission set this up and the way the moderator was handling the debate, Trump couldn’t reply. He had no opportunity to reply. Several times, he said, Can I answer that? No, no, no. I’m going on to the next question. Well, you can’t leave things unanswered. October 11, 2012. Listen carefully. Paul Ryan and Joe Biden cut 10 go. Here’s the problem. They got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, turning Medicare into a piggy bank for Obamacare there. And by the way, throughout this he’s smirking, right, Mr. Producer? He’s smirking. He’s he’s motioning. It’s like he’s got a real Tourette’s issue or whatever itis. Go ahead. She came to Congress and said one out of six hospitals and nursing homes are gonna go out of business as a result of this. It’s now with a 7 8 9 senior stop, please. You’re going to hear throughout this little shots like that. Well, he’s violating the time the Paul Ryan has. Go ahead to lose the current Medicare Advantage coverage they have. That’s a thirty two hundred dollar benefit cut that we’re seeing more people sign. These are from your own. Why worry more about more people signed up for Medicare Advantage out the change? What? There’s nobody is this surprised right now? I know this is wrong, but this is I know you’re under a lot of duress to make up lost ground. But I think people will be better served if we don’t keep interrupting each other. Well, I mean, don’t take all the four minutes that. And this goes on. This goes on. And it wasn’t just on health care, it was throughout this debate. Biden was mocking, making faces that strange laugh that he has, rolling his eyes, interrupting. This went on. Now, Paul Ryan’s not Donald Trump and Donald Trump’s not Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan was as the Washington expedient, The Wall Street Journal editorial page, one of their favorite candidates. They loved Paul Ryan and they’re out there trashing, among others, the president, United States today. President, the United States had to make a decision. Once this debate started, once it was clear what was going on with the moderator, once it was clear was going on with a brawler, Biden in his history coming back, puking back up onto the stage, he had to make a decision. Am I gonna get rolled? Do I sit back like Paul Ryan did? Or do I fight back? Do I fight back? Do I confront Joe Biden? Do I confront. What’s happening in terms of the moderation of this debate? And he fought back. He had no choice. More when I return.

Hour 1 Segment 2

I neighbor of mine. He’s not particularly political. He’s not particularly a Trump fan. I was walking our dog Marnie this morning comes up to me. And he says once he gave his opinion about the debate, anecdotal, of course, but is very interesting. He says, so what do you think? I gave my opinion, he said, I’ll tell you what. There are other candidates. The Democrats would have chosen if they had chosen them, I probably would have voted for them. He said, when I watched this debate, my most most of my focus was on Biden. I said, why is that so? Because I know who Trump is. I know what his record is. I know how he talks, but I don’t really know Biden. After 47 years, he said after eight years as vice, I don’t really know this guy. I don’t know what he’s done. And he said, I watched him and I listened to him. I still don’t know what he’s done and I still don’t know what he’s gonna do. And I found it to be rather nasty. So I’m not voting for Biden. I’m voting for Trump. You know, Frank Luntz and others out there with their groups and they say this turns off. Independence, it turns out people haven’t made up their minds what turns them off a brawl? And so they they do one of these it’s a plague on everybody’s house. No, it’s not a plague on everybody’s house. If you listen to the debate, the president, the United States was prepared with specifics. He could tell you about his record. Joe Biden was not prepared with specifics. He refused to talk about whether or not he would destroy the Supreme Court by packing it. He refused answering question about the filibuster rule. He lied about his opposition to fossil fuels and fracking. And I hope you’re listening to me, western Pennsylvania and the rest of the country. He lied about his support for the Green New Deal. That whole section in 110 page excusing manifesto was written in part by AOC. It’s there on his website. And he lied about it because that’s what he does. He won’t. List of Supreme Court nominees, potential nominees, because he’s trying to conceal a radical agenda that intends to impose on this country. He lies about Obamacare. We don’t need him to tell us what’s happened to us. Our deductibles are crazy high, our premiums are crazy high. We don’t have multiple choices of insurance companies and insurance plans. We’re all straight jacketed in this plan. Even he knows it, which is why they keep talking about. We’re going to improve it, expanded even and reform it. God forbid. And you would lie like that throughout. He wasn’t challenged. No fact checking for the moderate. Who did some fact checking seemed to like to get into fights with the president, the United States. I’m just observing. It’s nothing personal with me, but I’m an American citizen and I’m watching this. So that’s what this neighbor said he knew about Trump. He knew nothing about Biden. And think about that all these decades. And he didn’t like what he saw. And he also said you don’t call the president a clown and a racist. You just don’t do that. The president, the United States was actually quite restrained. He didn’t say sleepy Joe. He didn’t call Joe a racist. He certainly could have. Again, I’ll circle back to this. When the when the moderator asks, President United said, will you denounce white supremacists? Will you denounced him there? Will you denounce them? Now, why would he ask a question like that? Did he? Biden did an outright anti-Semitism. Which is a poison in the Democrat Party. Some of the people who’ve been advising Biden are out of the closet and pay so much. Was he asked about anti-Semitism? Was Biden asked about his relationship with segregationists? That even Kamala Harris denounced during their debates, it’s out there, it’s about why wasn’t heat present, the United States has no relationship, no history whatsoever with white supremacists. Our white supremacy. Watch the game. The game is he’s picking up steam among African-Americans, particularly black men. And so that has to be staunched. You see they have to stop that because I could screw up the election. And the virulent anti-Semitism out of the left in the Democrat Party, not one question about them. Not one. Not one. You ask a president of the United States who’s done more to try and assist the black community than the first black president and Joe Biden than really any president in modern times. And you’re asking him, will he denounce white supremacy and white supremacism? That guy, the reverse, the 1994. Crime Bill. And put in this reform crime that you’re asking this president. Why? Because the inference is, ladies and gentlemen, that he got all this support from you and all of you out there must be white supremacists. Oh, yeah. And the Proud Boys. President, know what the Proud Boys is, I don’t even know what the hell the Proud Boys as I hear of them. I’m somewhat familiar, Jeff, based on what I read, but I don’t know the details of them. And then Biden says ATF has an idea. It’s not an organization. Well, that’s a hell of an idea. Going around, burning down cities, beating people’s brains in trying to blind cops with lasers. Oh, that’s some idea. And why did he call it an idea? Because he doesn’t want to say. And TFA is a domestic Marxist terrorist group. He doesn’t want to say it. I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 3

Every so-called newsroom in this country to go back and re watch that debate. And see who threw the first mud bar and who started the interruptions first. And I encourage all of you, my fellow Americans, live in age to do exactly the same thing. As I said, I was taking notes at the time it was Biden. But I’m watching TV and they’re saying, you know, Trump has a plan to knock Biden off his game. That’s not what happened. Trump was there to have a debate, a straightforward debate. And Biden was there to brawl. I know this seems to be hard for people to digest mentally, but it’s true because that’s what Biden does. That’s what he did with Bork. That’s what he did with Thomas. That’s what he did with Paul Ryan. That’s what he did with everything. Everybody, because he’s a low IQ guy. Now, another thing people are saying on TV should await Trump should have let him get away with all this and just be quiet because he would have Tripp. These are the same people who are saying Trump and his team underestimated or put out the word that, you know, Biden is not capable of it, but Biden is. So which is it? The fact is, at least in the first hour, Biden was in fact capable of debating, not well, but debating. He wasn’t slobbering all over himself. It would have been a huge mistake for the president, the United States, to allow Biden to go on and on and on, because today we’d be talking about what the hell happened to Trump. He let this guy get away with lie after lie after lie. He didn’t confront them. He let this guy interrupt them over and over and over again. That’s what we would be discussing today if Trump followed any of the advice you’re listening to. He was pinned against the wall. He had to make a decision. Am I going to be Paul Ryan or am I going to be Donald Trump? I’m dealing with a hostile moderator and I’m dealing with a brawling Joe Biden. That’s who he is. That’s what he is. One more thing on this white supremacy issue. Richard Spencer, I believe that his name, if not the leading one of the leading neo-Nazis in America. He has endorsed Joe Biden. Why wasn’t Joe Biden asked about that? The mass murder in Pittsburgh and that synagogue, who slaughtered those those Jewish parishioners there? He hated Trump and he hated the fact that he had Jews in his family. Is this great support for Donald Trump among the white supremacists? It’s shocking. Meanwhile, another African-American state representative, this time in Ohio, has endorsed Donald Trump. Why isn’t she getting the same attention as Tom Ridge or John Casey, who endorsed Biden? We know the answer to all these questions doorway. All of them. And Joe Biden accuses the president, the United States, of killing over 200000 people. How did that get through the cracks? It’s so sickening, such a disgusting and outrageous accusation and all the people who’ve lost somebody. Do you appreciate Joe Biden exploiting the death in your family? These people are sitting at a table in there. They have an empty chair. And that’s Donald Trump. Donald Trump. Sickening. He never criticized the decision to these big blue, very heavily populated governors in these states. Who decided to put Corona positive patients in nursing homes? And put them in assisted living homes. He’s never once criticized that. Not once. And believable. The tax issue. Now, if you’re going to bring up the tax issue and your moderator get it right. Read the entire New York Times article deep into the article I talked about this last evening. Way into the article hidden by The New York Times, like they did with the Holocaust. It says Trump from 2010 to 2017 paid the alternative minimum tax. That is a federal tax. Approximately twenty four million dollars. It’s right there in the article. We don’t have the documents that were purloined. A felony committed, but if you’re going to bring up the damn tax issue, at least read the article and get it right. And then we all know about Biden, Dr. Jill and Joe setting up an S one corporation. What did they do that for? Because he was making a ton of money, giving speeches, slobbering incoherent speeches. Millions and millions of dollars over 13 million, thirteen point three million. So he sets up this S one corporation. Why did Mr. Lunch Bucket Scranton versus Park Avenue set up this corporation? Why did he do it? So he wouldn’t have to pay the payroll taxes, including Social Security and Medicare. It’s Joe Biden who explicitly, specifically chose not to contribute to Social Security and Medicare. Wouldn’t you think you bring that up if you’re going to bring up a specious issue that Donald Trump, The New York Times says you spent only seven hundred and fifty dollars in tax spending and tax payments. You don’t use the talking points or the left or the rest of the media, which is so corrupt, thoroughly, completely correct. You notice what else didn’t come up. Biden didn’t bring it up. Russia. But I’ve been to Russia. What happened to the collusion with Russia? Three and a half damn years this nation has to suffer through this never comes up. Not once except by the president, who’s trying to explain it, and he’s cut off repeatedly, cut off repeatedly. And The Wall Street Journal editorial page wonders why weren’t we playing by Queensbury rules here? We wanted Donald Trump to come out like Paul Ryan and why get his brains beaten in. Ask yourselves a question, not these these people who look with 20, 20 hindsight, they’re so proper. I would have done it this way, I would have done it that way. You wouldn’t have done anything. You’re not on the stage and there’s a reason for that. So he’s taking incoming Biden’s the first one to start brawling. That’s what Biden does. Trump is well aware that’s what Biden does. He’s well aware, I assume, what happened to Paul Ryan. He remembers. He knows what happened to Bork and and Thomas and the rest of them. He knows he’s dealing with a reprobate, a guy that’s just going to throw around lies and attack. He should just let them fall on his own face. He wasn’t going to fall on his own face the first hour. Again, the same people who give Trump that advice are the same people out of the other side of their mouth who say, I think Trump and the Republicans have have overstated Biden’s incapacity. And he will outshine what they’ve, you know, the standard that they’ve set. Well, he was. That guy guy’s good. He’s a good liar. And he was prepped to lie two minutes, getting as many lies as you can. And the other thing he kept doing. Donald Trump’s a liar. Donald Trump’s solar. Can you tell me one thing Donald Trump lied about during that debate, Mr. Minister? Nothing. What are they talking about? Coming from the biggest zero liar over 50 years in Washington, D.C.. What did he lie about? You lie about anything. So once again, people don’t like, you see, because Donald Trump. Doesn’t take B.S.. He stands up for himself. He fights back. They don’t like it. He kept interrupting, kept interrupting. Who started the interrupting? Go, look, you’re not the trust. Go look. It was Biden. Who’s the brawler in these? Biden. It is a very good friend, a very smart friend of mine said to me, when you compare Trump’s performance last night to what took place in 2016.He was much better this year. Excuse me. This time than in 2016, much better. Member Hillary Clinton was said to have blown them out. Well, none of the serious polls show anybody blowing out Donald Trump. Some of them show him winning. I don’t think it was a strategy to knock Biden off his game. I think he was defending himself in his policies and trying to explain to the American people what was going on. And it was Biden who was the aggressor, Biden who is the brought brawler, Biden who who’s the bully. And as this gentleman said down the street from me, I know about Trump I didn’t know about. By now I know about Biden and I’m not voting for. No, I’m not voting for. When I first started in radio, it’s almost 20 years now. Right, Mr. Producer? Close to it, the first debate that took place, took place, and you go back and check this. It’s all over the place. I said we need to eliminate moderators. Others have picked up this point since then and what was I talking about? I explained what I was talking about, the Lincoln Douglas debates. Not that we’re going to have Lincoln Douglas debates. But these moderators are impossible. And I’m not just picking on the moderator last night. All of them. Almost all of them have been a disaster. The campaigns, we don’t need a presidential commission on debates. The campaign should get together and decide what, if any, kind of debates are going to have. This is a political process. Now, I want to tell you one other thing. I don’t give a crap about this debate. I don’t give a crap about the next two debates. I don’t give a crap about the vice presidential debate. I know the media cares. Oh, I know it’s endless. I understand. Don’t get sucked into this. This election really very simple, it comes down to one thing. Do you love your country or don’t you? Don’t expect to learn things from the debate, the media love this. They love the gotcha moments. They love their headlines. They love to lecture us. Lecture the candidates. They like to influence the outcome of the election. I am telling you. We’ll watch them. We’ll comment on them. But it has absolutely no influence on me whatsoever. Why? You either love this country and you want to save this republic. Well, you don’t. And that’s what this election comes down to. Debate or no debate, interruption or no interruption moderator, a no moderator. Presidential Commission on Debates or no presidential commission on Debates. This election comes down to your survivability. You want to befree? Or not? You want to save your way of life or not? That’s the issue. Do you want to end the violence in the streets or not? You believe in Democratic socialism, a.k.a. Marxism, because it’s on the move. It is devouring and conquered the Democrat Party. That’s your choice in this election. Screw the debates. That’s the bottom line. I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 4

By the way, we have some really, really loyal living knights, most of you. We get these e-mails all the time because when I’m done with the program, I shut everything off. And what we find is. My commentaries are monitoring. Not just by the political class, but by cable shows, cable networks. Enemies like Media Matters and media ITE and people like that. And so they cherry pick stuff. Some cherry pick it to play dry. Some cherry pick it to attack. I don’t care. It’s like the president’s talking to the American people. I’m talking to you live tonight. I’m talking to my audience. I don’t care what the others say or do. It doesn’t matter. Some of you get worried, you say me. Don’t worry, it’s OK. Now, there’s a lot of hand-wringing out there, like we’ve never seen anything like this. Jake Tapper, who is a Democrat, embed over at CNN like most of the other hosts. He said this is the worst thing he’s ever seen. And it’s Trump’s fault. And the level of commentary and the. And the IQ number goes down and down and down as they begin to talk to other hosts and commentators, same thing at MSNBC, there’s really no difference between those two networks. Really the same thing. And that’s because these hosts are left wing Democrats and they’re illiterate when it comes to history. You know, for the left, history begins when they were born. History begins when they choose it to begin. I’m going to do something I doubt any other radio host has done. We’re going to go through a little bit a history of some of these campaigns. Is this really? The nastiest campaign ever. Like the geniuses at The Wall Street Journal editorial page said, you know, Franklin, this is this is just or we’ve never seen anything. Paul, what do you think, Paul? Well, I really don’t know. Naomi, what are you. Well, I’m appalled. This is worse than professional wrestling here. Never seen anything like this. And of course, I read their editorial. Again, very emotional. But they didn’t explain anything that I’ve explained to you. They didn’t go back and they didn’t look. Well, who’s the one who started this? And the brawler with Paul Ryan? Not a thing. They didn’t mention the president didn’t call Joe Biden sleepy Joe or Haydn Joe. None of the. Now, there is only one person on that stage who disrespected the presidency, the office, the presidency, and that was Joe Biden. And he thinks he’s gonna slide into a. He thinks he’s going to slide on it because he’s got the media in his back pocket, which was evident and continues to be evident. Joe Biden, when he gives a speech like he did, he got on a train. Kind on a train today. I’m doing a whistle stop pour, I’m going to Western, I shut up, you idiot. He’s doing a whistle stop tour. So in giving a speech, he’s trashing the president. He’s lying about the president. He’s the worst president in American history, not James Buchanan. No, no, no, no, no, not Andrew Johnson, no, no, no, no, no, not the rabid racist, big time progressive Democrat, Woodrow Wilson. No, not Lyndon Johnson. And what he did with Vietnam. No. Donald Trump is the worst president in American history. So pathetic. I’ll be right back.