On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, One-party rule is becoming the norm, and even worse most forms of communications (big tech and big media) are run by the left. The idea of progressivism has its roots in the philosophies of Hegel, Marx, and Rousseau and concentrates on egalitarianism and autocratic government. Progressives don’t hold on to any permanent truths and seek to rewrite or recreate history. From Cicero’s teaching, it’s known that virtue is the cornerstone of good government in our Constitutional system and that is not possible when corruption and immorality abound. Later, propaganda is the invisible arm of corrupt governments. Mao, Stalin, and other followers of Marx don’t believe in half-Marxists; they destroy what exists and attack the history that came before to promote their revolution. Does anyone know that it wasn’t Pelosi who set off these fanatics (who had their attack planned well in advance of Trump’s comments)? The BLM bail fund endorsed by Kamala Harris refuses to disclose who they bailed out and she’s never apologized for supporting it. When and if Republicans regain power in Congress, the House of Representatives must vote to repeal this unconstitutional impeachment of an innocent man. Then, patriots must stay away from Washington, DC. President Trump has authorized 25,000 National Guard troops and the use of lethal force to protect the Capitol against any violence during the January 20th inauguration. Afterward, Economist and Presidential Advisor Steven Moore call in to discuss Joe Biden’s proposed 1.9 trillion-dollar stimulus plan. Moore calls the plan fiscal atrocity and a wish list of liberal, programs stating that the current unemployment rate is equal to the rate for most of the Obama administration and trillions of dollars weren’t spent then. Moore argues that 2/3rds of workers will make less money at work than they would if they stay home.
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Rough transcript of Hour 1
Hour 1 Segment 1
Can’t do much on the Internet anymore, can we, Mr. Producer? Can’t do much on The Washington Post in The New York Times, can we, Mr. Producer? NBC, ABC, CBS, no. Not much. This. And once a week on Fox, that’s about it. And our friends on Blaze TV on digital. The Democrat Party in the left controls virtually all. Forms of communication. Big media, big tech. Really quite remarkable, one party rule is becoming the. The norm. A couple of friends of mine who work in the administration. Said that the Washington, D.C. area looks like an absolute Third World military encampment. There’s military everywhere, there’s military at intersections. You have to show your ID to get in and get out. I also wrote a piece that the National Guard troops stationed at the Capitol and this is in the blaze were cleared to use lethal force. So there’s no more concern about appearances and optics and whether or not the military can use loaded weapons. That those days are over. And as I’ve said before, capital needs to be protected. There’s no question about that. My rub was with the fact that the White House and other federal institutions came under attack, these very same leftists in Congress and in the media. Didn’t seem to have any kind of an urgency, a Mattis and Kelly and others said, you better not bring in any military. When the president was thinking of using the Insurrection Act. And of course, his administration has had to sign off on the use of the National Guard. There’s going to be 25,000 military unarmed National Guard troops for security, noting that they were serving at the Capitol in a support role that has changed. On Tuesday, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy authorized the thousands of troops providing security in the area around the capital to use lethal force, reports The New York Times. On January 12, 2021, National Guardsmen were given authorization to be armed in support of the U.S. Capitol Police to protect the U.S. Capitol and individual members of Congress and their staff. Guardsmen are trained in the use of lethal and less than lethal force de-escalation techniques, as well as the use of protective equipment. This is standard for civil disturbance response missions, the statement continued. The move was requested by federal authorities and authorized by the secretary of Army. McCarthy made his decision after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded that the Pentagon take a more muscular posture after a mob. Egged on by the president says The New York Times breached the Capitol. Now this is what is really disgusting to me. The mob egged on by the president, this is now the narrative for the rest of the time. For the rest of the time. And some of the media even circling back like the Post in The New York Times saying, you know, people are not making excuses for the president. All this preplanned stuff that was going on. Well, these aren’t excuses for anybody. They are facts. They are facts and some of us do not wish to participate. In deception. I do not wish to participate in deception. And it’s interesting, Nancy Pelosi was available for questions today. Mitch McConnell, I suppose. And to the best of my knowledge, I have to admit, I haven’t monitored all of it, but I’ve looked to the best of my knowledge, neither have been asked what they knew and when they knew what, if anything. Even though the former head of the Capitol Police said he told the sergeant of arms of the House who reports to Pelosi and the sergeant arms to the Senate, reports to McConnell that we needed more National Guard. And I just want to know what those two politicians said or knew. But that’s apparently too complicated. And even asking the question is a problem, apparently, but I’ll ask whatever questions I wish. The end of the 19th century. Saw the rise of a movement. Fairly hostile to the underlying principles of the nation’s founding, the so-called progressive movement. Now, they call themselves progressives, but they’re statists. Now, progressivism was imported from Europe. And we result in a radical break from America’s heritage fact. It’s best described as an elitist driven counterrevolution to the American Revolution. Which the sovereignty of the individual natural law, natural rights and the civil society built on a foundation of thousands of years of enlightened thinking and human experience, will be drastically altered and even abandoned for an ideological agenda broadly characterized as historic progress. I’m telling you something that virtually no members on Capitol Hill who are Republican even comprehend. And certainly the mouthpieces in the media, whether they comprehend it or not, don’t give a damn. This idea of progressivism and the inevitability of historical progress and the perfectibility of man and his self realization through the national community are the collective. Is an ideology that was imported from Germany. From Hegel, from Marx, from Engels. But also Ruso, I suppose. While it’s intellectual and political advocates close its core and populist terminology. Despite the existence of democratic institutions and cyclical voting, progressive emphasis on material egalitarianism, and you hear it every day and social engineering and its insistence on concentrated, centralized administrative rule lead inescapably to varying degrees of autocratic governance. And you see that now. Moreover, for progressives, there are no absolute or permanent truths, only passing a distant, distant historical events. This is from rediscovering Americanism. That’s even values are said to be relative to time and circumstances like the 1619 project, of course. There’s no eternal moral order that is that what that what was true and good in 1776 and before is not necessarily true and good today. So the very purpose of America’s founding is debased and you hear that and you see that over and over and over again. When I was doing research. For this book, Rediscovering Americanism and the Tyranny of Progressivism, I came across a fascinating letter. One that doesn’t get much attention. It was a letter to John Adams from Thomas Jefferson. And it was dated December 10, 1819. It’s a fascinating letter. While reflecting on the reasons for the demise of the Roman Empire. It described the basic elements of liberty and good government with an emphasis on virtuous people. The letter. To Adams from Jefferson said, I’ve been amusing myself latterly. With reading the voluminous letters of Cicero, Cicero was a prominent senator in Rome who Caesar eventually had executed. Brilliant man. They certainly breed the present effusions of an exalted patriot. While the parasites Caesars left an odious contrast. When the enthusiasm, however kindled by Caesar’s pen and principal, subsides into cool reflection. I asked myself. What was the government, with the virtues of Cicero, were so zealous to restore and the ambition of Caesar to subvert? So Jefferson’s asking himself. Cicero, so brilliant, gave his life. Basically challenging the establishment. Cesar. And if Cesar had been as virtuous as he was daring and sagacious, what could he, even in the plentitude of his usurped power, have done to lead his fellow citizens in a good government? So he sang. Cesar was an all powerful dictator. He was an emperor. There was an upper. Could he have actually led his citizens in a good government if that was his mindset? Jefferson says, I do not say to restore it because they never had it. From the rape of the Sabines to the ravages of the Caesars, if their people indeed had been like ours, enlightened, peaceable and really free, the answer would be obvious restore independence to all your foreign conquests. Relieve Italy from the government of the rabble of Rome, consulted as a nation entitled to self-government and do its will. That’s steeped in corrupt advice and venality, as the whole nation was, and nobody had done more than Caesar to corrupt it. What could even Cicero, Kaito, Brutus have done, the great three thinkers, scholars, activists. Really for representative Republicanism. He says, what could they have done had it been referred to them to establish a good government for their country? In other words, even if they were in control, what could they have done with this country? They had no ideas of government themselves. But other degenerate Senate. Nor the people of liberty, but of the factitious opposition of their tribunes. In other words, he’s saying so corrupt was the society. So corrupt was their government. What could these three wise men even do if they had the power to do it? They had their Trojans and others. Who had the will to make them happy in the. I did not see their way clearly to do it. No government can continue good, but under the control of the people and their people were so demoralized and depraved as to be incapable of exercising a wholesome control. The Reformation then was to be taken up from infancy. Their minds were to be informed by education, what is right, what is wrong to be encouraged in habits of virtue and deterred from those of vise by the dread of punishments proportioned indeed, but irreversibly in all cases, to follow truth as to the only safe guide. And if. So in other words, even if you teach them good from evil. Good ethics, good morals. What then? He gets this point. In other words, were the Roman people. Really capable. Love embracing and digesting such things. These are the inculcation necessary to render the people as a sure basis for the structure of order and good government. But this would have been an operation of a generation or two, at least, within which period would have succeeded many Niros who could have quashed the whole process. So he’s saying the people. We’re without VirTra. The greatest scholars, the greatest activists, the greatest minds couldn’t fix that. Not in time. Regardless of what kind of government they had. I confess that I can neither see what Cicero, Kato and Brutus united and uncontrolled. Could have devised to lead their people into good government. Nor how this enigma can be solved, nor how further shown that anybody to go back with our principles and opinions to the times of Cicero, Carter, Brutus, and tell us by what process these great and virtuous men could have led so unenlightened and vitiated of people into freedom and good government. In other words, the people were irredeemably lost. No matter what anybody could do, he said, that’s the difference between Rome and America. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 2
I’m told by Mr. Producer you’ve had a few drop outs on the technology here. We seem to have a lot of problems on this program when it comes to technical quality. I can’t tell you why we had a little problem with this on yesterday’s show, but apparently are. Crack folks who are supposed to address this didn’t do anything effective. But they need to do something effective now. And I want to apologize to you because it’s very unprofessional. I have no explanation for. After the bottom of the hour, I’m going to read your piece in The Washington Post by a fellow by the name of Aaron Blake. We’ve pointed out Aaron Blake before. I want to show you how there’s an attempt, a very vile, grotesque attempt by the likes of Aaron Blake. And he’s not alone to write the history of the events in the last week, despite new information that’s coming out. We call this propaganda in The Washington Post and The New York Times and the rest of them. They really are not journalists. These people, these are not really journals of news. They are absolutely propaganda papers. And I’ll prove it to you when we return.
Hour 1 Segment 3
Politico Feds back away from claim the capital riders were looking to capture and assassinate officials, acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwen told reporters today. This is from Politico that prosecutors don’t have concrete proof of such an effort. The lead prosecutor overseeing the investigation into the capital riot backed away Friday from his suggestion in a court filing that participants in the takeover of Congress last week were seeking to take officials prisoner and potentially even execute them. Images of intruders with zip tie, handcuffs and video protesters chanting Hang Mike Pence have let many lawmakers and other observers to conclude that some in the crowd were intentionally capturing and possibly killing prisoners. However, acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherman told reporters Friday the prosecutors don’t have concrete proof of such an effort. Right now, we don’t have any direct evidence of kill captured team, Sherman said. Sherwin’s contention undercut the flat assertions made by federal prosecutors in Arizona, who described in a court filing Thursday what they called strong evidence that capital rioters intended to, quote, capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States government, unquote. The D.C. prosecutor suggested those claims were the product of miscommunication or lack of coordination or what has become a sprawling investigation. Seeking to question and arrest suspects have returned to their home states after traveling to Washington for the pro Trump protests that turned violent. There are other prosecutors. They may be a disconnect that may be adding information that’s not directly to excuse me, related to what we have, said Sherwen. And it goes on. We need the facts. We don’t get the facts. And in the case of too many news outlets, we’re getting propaganda, not the facts. And the other day I pointed out that we need a commission like we had on 9/11 to get to the bottom of all of this. But here’s a piece five hours ago by Aaron Blake in the wall in The Washington Post. The worst defenses of Trump on the capital riot. You know, so we’re not talking about Biden. And his radical plan said he has for America. But he goes on this guy in the weeks plus since the storming of the Capitol. Actually, that’s not where it starts, here’s his first paragraph on January six, misinformation promoted by President Trump and his allies fomented a violent attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. And since then, similar misinformation has been used to try and explain it all away. This guy is a radical propagandist. As her gaining more and more facts, what he should be doing is adjusting his propaganda, but instead he doubles, triples, quadruples down. I mean, if this were the case, wouldn’t the Russia collusion stuff that went on year after year after year be the basis for for writing and and all the rest that took place? No ties are made to the Democrat Party or anything of the sort, he says in the week plus since the storming of the Capitol, narratives have quickly emerged, excusing Trump and his supporters of culpability. Well, maybe Trump and his supporters, other than the people who rushed the Capitol building, don’t have culpability. Often they lack any real substantiation, other times they’ve quickly been contradicted, yet still others present straw and knocking down an argument that’s not actually being made. This guy sounds like a commentator on CNN, but let’s run through some of them, he says. It was antifa or other provocateurs. No surprise that the vast majority of commentators I know conservatives never said it was antifa or other provocateurs. What I’ve said is I want to know who these people are. Now, why does that assume it’s antifa other provocateurs? I wouldn’t know who these people are, what their backgrounds are. I want to make sure that they are punished. Under our justice system. This was the initial narrative promoted by Trump and his allies, despite there being no real evidence to back it up. How could that be promoted by Trump, Mr. Producer, when Mr. Trump was banned from the Internet for all intents and purposes? The idea was simple, this wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, and some ne’er do wells were just trying to make Trump look bad. Who said that? And by the way, they did find a couple, at least one BLM guy there had identified members of Antifa in the crowd, but the article turned out to be wrong and was corrected. Representative Paul Gosar baselessly speculated the same day as the attack that it was a false flag event. Axios even reported this week that Trump has been pushing this narrative behind closed doors, with his Twitter ban perhaps being all that’s preventing him from directly sharing it with the world. Pushing it behind closed doors with his Twitter ban, preventing him from sharing it with the world. It’s amazing how much Aaron Blake knows without investigating anything. I just read you a story in Politico that corrected a story, I think that was in The Washington Post and elsewhere about the attempt to kidnap catcher and murder members of Congress. It’s not true, according to the acting U.S. attorney in Washington. So what was that all about, Mr. Blake? In other words, folks, the situation is enough of a powder keg that we don’t need hotheads and propagandists like Blake and others to keep pouring fuel on the fire, but they can’t help it. This is who they are. They can’t help it. Advocates, it goes on to this theory, have since begun to seize upon the arrest of one man involved in the scenes, John Sullivan. Sullivan doesn’t fit the mold of a Trump supporter. In fact, he’s a self-described racial justice activist. He’s actually a member of Black Lives Matter. Trump’s personal lawyer. Giuliani late Thursday use the arrest to again point the finger at alleged R.A.F. involvement and talked about it on his podcast. Donald Trump Jr. liked a tweet highlighting Sullivan’s role. Well, what does that have to do? They didn’t like a tweet he retweeted. And is it that important information? What is it that Aaron Blake wants? Should that information not be provided, should it not be retweeted? Is it possible that there were some non Trump supporting provocateur provocateurs in the crowd that stormed the Capitol? Listen to this, of course, was a big crowd. But just don’t point them out, that’s all. There’s no evidence that they actually led the charge. As House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said during the impeachment debate this week, you see this is what happens when you’re poorly educated. I don’t mean that he didn’t go to a great school, but he takes opinion, takes a little cherry pick facts, makes it, but pushes his narrative. It doesn’t matter here. He’s quoting McCarthy, who doesn’t know any more than anybody else on his floor speech. To counter information about this guy who has a left wing background. Nobody’s saying that that demonstrates that they were all left wingers, certainly not me, but it’s a piece of information people want to know. Yet the narrative persists and has landed with force, with a poll this week showing 74 percent of Republicans believe Antifa was indeed involved or was actively involved. Wasn’t involved. Also, during the impeachment debate this week, Representative Brian Mass, now they’re going to attack mass because Jake Tapper did. Highlighted a variation of the above theory, the idea that whoever these people were, whomever these people were, they weren’t acting on Trump’s behalf or more directly at his request. As Philip Bump wrote afterward, Philip Bump, that’s another reporter for The Post. We’ve dealt with a fist bump. The one nobody had indeed been brought to answer that question in the House’s proceedings, there are examples of those who participated, citing Trump’s invitation. One man, Jacob Consoli, also known as QAnon Shaman, told investigators he was there, according to court documents, at the request of the president that all patriots come to D.C. on January six, 2021. What does that have to do with anything? Politicians are always gathering at rallies and gathering people at rallies. What does that have to do with anything? So this guy heard it. And he showed up, so what? Now, what Blake doesn’t do a show is that the president said now charge the building violence. Everybody’s looked at this, everybody’s gone over his language, whether it’s Charlie or Dershowitz or whether it’s Shapiro. What of the who used to prosecute cases like this or me or whatever. So they have to infer. And project, that’s what this entire articles about. He’s insisting Trump did this. The preplanning by some shows Trump didn’t incite, another prevalent argument is that the increasing evidence that preplanning by some involved in the attempted insurrection suggests Trump didn’t actually incite them. This is in many ways a straw man argument whether Trump bears any responsibility for his comments at the rally that preceded the storming of the Capitol. That’s hardly the only thing he did, which has been said. Let’s stop there. Notice he doesn’t go into the timeline that The New York Times in his own newspaper actually provided directly and indirectly. They cannot make the connection between the speech. And incitement for violence, they cannot make it. There’s simply no evidence. We’ll look at the video genius at work. The video shows the violence at the Capitol Building. We have people call this program. And so they weren’t even aware what was going on in the Capitol building. How does the president incite an attack that was preplanned and already underway before his speech was concluded? Representative Scott Perry, Republican Pennsylvania, asked rhetorically Wednesday, by the way, this guy Perry is really top notch. Top notch. Representative Lee Zeldin added, We know this was preplanned and it started while the president was speaking. Why is that? Not in the Articles of the Month Club in.
Hour 1 Segment 4
So people like Aaron Blake and his ilk, and they’re not just in the media, they look at this powder keg that they’ve helped created in the aggregate. And they keep putting fuses in it. Through their lies, I’m going to explain to you next hour what a propagandist is. And that we’re surrounded by the. National Guard, 25 to 27000 of them in Washington, D.C., armed. Aren’t being told that they are free to use their weapons. We need to protect our capital. We need to protect the inauguration. Four years ago, the inauguration was under attack. I didn’t see 25,000 to 27,000 National Guard. I didn’t see armed National Guard protecting the courthouse in Portland that was under attack for 100 days. That’s Article three, a part of our Constitution. I didn’t see the armed National Guard surrounding the White House and protecting the president and the Secret Service who came under attack from Black Lives Matter and Antifa and others. Armed. To protect the Article two part of our Constitution. I didn’t see governors and mayors bringing in the National Guard to protect innocent people, their homes, their businesses, Minneapolis and Portland. In Seattle and Philadelphia. In New York. In other places. I heard retired generals saying you better not bring troops into the streets. He’ll only make matters worse. And threatening the president of the United States who never did. You never did. I saw a woman running for vice president, the United States, Kamala Harris, who was making donations. To an organization that was providing bail as fast as it possibly could to allow rioters out of jail. I saw her on a comedy show that’s not even funny. Basically celebrating the events. I saw Joe Biden sitting on his mouth for the vast majority of the summer until the polls started to turn, and then he he issued a very tepid. Comment about the violence. I saw the same people calling our law enforcement in Portland, federal law enforcement, storm troopers, Nazis. Aaron Blake doesn’t write about any of this because he’s a clown. If you truly believe in the Constitution, then defend it in our newspapers. If you truly believe in the Bill of Rights, then defended in our newspapers, defend it on our televisions, defend it on radio. Otherwise, you’re just another miscreant and malcontent and part of the mob. That’s all you are. And nothing more. And nothing less. I’ll be right back.