On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, the liberal media is the propaganda wing of the Democrat party, and the credibility of the mass media has never been lower because the American public is on to them. There was a shooting in Philadelphia during a Ramadan event and the media was ready to use it to push their agenda until it turned out to be unrelated and did not fit their narrative. Also, President Trump’s campaign is picking up steam and so are the attacks from the Democrat media mouthpieces. What has been done to Trump by the media, the law, and the justice system has never been done to anyone before. Meanwhile, President Biden is supported by the corporatists and billionaires who make money from government regulations and will do or say anything to get a vote. Our enemies like China, Iran, and Russia are rooting for Biden to win because he is destroying America from within. Later, Cesar Chavez was very anti-immigration and would be strongly opposed to Biden’s open border, which is why it is ironic that Biden has a bust of Chavez in the Oval Office. Today labor unions lobby for amnesty and advocate for illegal immigrants because they have sold out the American citizens.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. I hope you’re well. A couple of hours ago, there was headline news. Mr. Producer, I believe it’s the last day of Ramadan. Eid, I think it’s called, and it’s Islam’s holy month of fasting. And there was a shooting that occurred in Philadelphia in the Parkside neighborhood and IT event. Almost a thousand people were there. It’s a lot of people. And there were gunfire. People got hit. It was a terrible scene. As a matter of fact, in a park. And the media were all geared up. They brought on f x FBI agents. ex-Police. And others. That were if not suggesting, certainly implying. This was a shooting because it was Ramadan, the last day of Ramadan, and a thousand Muslims were gathered in this one place. Now, let me make something abundantly clear. I have nothing for contempt for anybody. Who kills anybody. Innocence, period. I have no problem whatsoever. With people who practice their faith peacefully. Period. Period. And the funny thing is. People talk to me. The person I work with at my bank. Is a Pakistani Muslim. Per people that I know quite well, quite closely. And all sorts of things that we do around this house and we do around our studio Muslims. And they are disgusted. Many of them with the Islamists because they threaten them to. But stereotypes are created by the media. So when you criticize Islamists, notice I didn’t say Muslims. When you criticize Islamists, terrorists who pushed terrorist ideology. The media want you to say muzzle? Now the media were all geared up to hit this morning, noon and night. It’s disappeared totally from the headlines now. Why? Well, now we know more facts. Two factions reports ABC News pulled our guns and started shooting at each other at the outdoor gathering, according to Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel. 30 shots were fired. A 22 year old was shot in the stomach during the gunfire. Juvenile south transported to a hospital with a gunshot wound to the hand. Both are in stable condition. An officer at the event showed a 15 year old boy who was allegedly armed with a gun, according to. The teen was shot in the shoulder and leg. The officer recovered the firearm and transported the teen to a hospital. Child also fractured their leg and they were hit by responding officers car. Five people have been arrested in connection with the shooting. They include the 15 year old who was shot by the officer, as well as four suspects, three juveniles and an adult who fled the scene with guns. Multiple guns. According to Barthel, five weapons were recovered. A motive remains unknown. But they said two factions pulled out guns and started shooting at each other. So the headlines disappear. Because the media wanted it to be something else. They certainly thought it would be something else. It’s not to say that can’t happen. There’s a lot of very evil people, a lot of very evil people. It’s not the same can happen, but it didn’t. The media, the American media. There’s a lot being said today about a gentleman named Uri Berliner who’s very courageous man. He’s a veteran reporter, employee of PBS. Of NPR, rather. And an editor. And he’s worked very closely with people who work there for a long time. And apparently, he wrote a piece in The Free Press, which I want to get to momentarily. But here’s what amazes me. He doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t know. The fact is that he’s very brave and coming out and telling us, reinforcing what we already know. So I would tell my colleagues in TV and radio, it wouldn’t hurt you. It wouldn’t hurt you if you would actually educate and inform yourselves more. Over half a million of you read a book called On Freedom of the Press. You know what’s going on in the press instinctively, it’s common sense. And you also know the history of it and the extent of it because you read. They don’t. And freedom of the press is about how those entrusted with news reporting the modern media are destroying freedom of the press from within. Not governmental prisoners suppression. Not President Donald Trump’s finger pointing. This was written several years back, but present day newsrooms and journalists indeed social activism, progressive groupthink, Democrat Party part partisanship, opinion and propaganda passed off as news. The staging of pseudo events, self-censorship, bias by omission, and outright falsehoods are too often substituting for old fashioned objective fact gathering and news reporting. A self-perpetuating and reinforcing mindset has replaced independent and impartial thinking. And the American people know it. That’s the credibility. The mass media has never been lower. This book could easily have been ten times in its current length, but that would make it unreadable for most. Nonetheless, meaning it is currently unreadable for some, apparently. Much ground is covered in research undertaken and many authors and scholars consulted as the history, The American press and the evidence of its decades long demise are carefully examined. The purpose of freedom of the press is to jumpstart a long overdue and hopefully productive dialogue among the American citizenry and how best to deal with the complicated and complex issue of the media’s collapsing role as a bulwark of liberty, the civil society and Republicanism, ranging from the early newspapers and pamphlets. Promoting the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to the subsequent party press and transparent allegiance to one party or the other, to the progressive approach of so-called professional reporting and now the ideologically driven advocacy press of today. So for those of you who read this, but this is not new. What’s new is that gentlemen had the courage to come forward, for which he should be thanked. Unlike the early Patriot press, today’s newsrooms and journalists are mostly hostile to America’s founding principles, traditions and institutions. They do not promote free speech and press freedom despite their self-serving and self-righteous claims. Indeed, they serve as societal filters, attempting to enforce uniformity of thought and social and political activism centered on the progressive, a.k.a. American Marxist ideology and agenda issues, events, groups and individuals that do not fit the narrative or dismissed or diminished those that do fit the narrative or elevated and celebrated. Of course, this paradigm greatly influences the culture, the government and the national psyche. It defines a media created reality, whether or not it has a basis in true reality around which individuals organize their thoughts, beliefs and in some cases, their lives. Yet there is mystery and opacity. That’s around all of it. And if one dares to question or criticize the motives and work product of this enterprise or aspects of it, that is the reporting by one or more newsrooms, the response is often knee jerk and emotionally charged. Well, the Inquirer, our critic, portrayed as hostile to press freedom and the collective media circling the wagons around themselves. Bears remembering that the purpose of a free press, like the purpose of free speech, is to nurture the mind, communicate ideas, challenge ideologies, share notions, inspire creativity and advocate and reinforce America’s founding principles. That is, to contribute to a vigorous, productive, healthy and happy individual and to a well-functioning civil society and republic. And the media are to expose official actions aimed at squelching speech and communication. But when the media function as a propaganda tool for a single political party and ideology, they not only destroy their own purpose, but threaten the existence of a free republic. It is surely not for the government to control the press. And yet the press seems incapable of policing itself. We must remember we are not merely observers. We are the citizenry. We, the people for whom this nation was established and for whom it exists. In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and I quote, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and serve the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Hence, we must demand a media worthy of our great Republic. And we begin the process by informing ourselves about those institutions and individuals and their practices and standards, who, by their own anointment proclaim the high minded obligation of informing us. That’s the three page introduction on freedom of the press. It only gets better after that. So it is somewhat. Curious. That this book that was number one on the New York Times bestseller list last month or two, maybe three, but sold over a half a million copies, received virtually no notice on any conservative newsroom other than on the Internet. Why would that be? I’m not saying opinions. Opinion makers. I’m told that newsrooms. Now comes forward. Uri Berliner, a veteran of the public radio institution. And he says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think. And you already know this. What’s unique here is that somebody has come forward, still works at NPR. So he comes forward at personal potential personal attack against him. And that’s what they’ve started to do. And he says in the Free press, and I will note that The New York Times. The Opinion page or book review section never reviews my books. Not when Barry Weiss was there in that sense. And that’s okay. They would just trash him anyway. He said, You know, the stereotype of the NPR listener and EV driving world playing tote bag carrying coastal elite, It doesn’t precisely describe me, but it’s not far off. I’m Sarah Lawrence. Educated was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother. I drive a Subaru and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley. I fit the NPR mold a copy of that. So when I got a job here 25 years ago, I never looked back. As a senior editor on the business desk, where news is always breaking, we’ve covered upheavals in the workplace, supermarket prices, social media, air. It’s true. NPR. NPR has always had a liberal bent. But during most of my tenure here, an open minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not a knee jerk activist or scolding. In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different. The distilled worldview of a very small segment of the US population. If you’re conservative, you will read this and say. It’s always been this way, but it hasn’t. Actually, it has. Maybe not in NPR, but certainly in the last multiple decades. For decades since its founding in 1970, a wide swath of America turn tuned into NPR for reliable journalism. Gorgeous audio pieces with birds singing in the Amazon. Millions came to us for conversations that exposed listener voices around the country in the world radically different from our own engaging precisely because they were unguarded and unpredictable. No image generated more pride within NPR than the farmer listening to Morning Edition from his or her tractor at sunrise back in 2011. Although NPR’s audience tilted a bit to the left, it still bore a resemblance to America. Large 26% of listeners described themselves as conservative 23% middle of the road, 37% is liberal. By 2023, the picture was completely different. Only 11% described themselves as very or somewhat conservative, 21% middle of the road, 67%. We’re very or somewhat liberal. We weren’t just losing conservatives. We were also losing moderates and traditional liberals and open minded spirit no longer existed within NPR. And now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America. That wouldn’t be a problem for an openly polemical news outlet serving a niche audience. But for NPR, which purports to consider all things, it’s devastating both rates journalism and its business model. There’s a few more paragraphs I want to continue when we return, because it’s reflective of the entire media, quite frankly. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
He says. Like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy, at least in his surroundings, took off with Donald Trump at his many newsrooms. His election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger and despair. Just to note, I eagerly voted against Trump twice. But folk were obliged to cover him fairly. But what began as a tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent truth and a president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency. Persistent rumors that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia over the election became the catnip that drove reporting at NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff. Chip, who was the top Democrat on the House Intel Committee. He became NPR’s guiding hand its ever present muse. By my count, our hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia, And during many of those conversations, he alluded to purported evidence of collusion. And yet the Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR News reports. When the Miller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded by in our programming. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
There’s a magazine out there. What’s it called? Talkers magazine. Most of it is. Which is interesting because nobody ever talks about it. Most of you never heard of it. It’s run by a fairly small group of individuals, and it relies heavily on advertising. I don’t believe Cumulus advertises in the magazine if it does. Not that much. Some companies advertise more than others. It issues this list. These lists are so repulsive, with about 14 different disclaimers of the heavy 100 broadcasters. The survey, audiences know they would cost too much and there would be too accurate. They basically sit on their ass. Some of them work from home, some live in an office, and they decide who the heavy ones are. They decided that yours truly is number six. They decided that Dan Bonjean was number 13. Where do they put? Our man said, I don’t remember. Anyway, it’s. It’s a phony, phony list. Sid’s 15. It’s ridiculous. He’s number one in New York. It’s a phony list. By every metric. It’s a phony list. If they like you and they know you, and if you’re supportive of them, you move up the list. It’s not even close with the second largest. Radio show in the United States. HANNITY would tell you that he’s number one. One and two. There’s nobody close to this show. That follows. That’s not to say there aren’t great shows. There are. That’s not to say there aren’t great syndicated shows. There are. One of them being my buddy Bongino. And same with well, I’m not going to start naming them. Same with a lot of them. But it really is repulsive. When they put together this list, they give it sort of a glitzy headline. Then they tell you 14 different ways that the list is not really an empirical decision. Mr. Producer, open your microphone. How many guests do we have to turn down every week? A lot. Scores. How many authors keep scratching at our door? Tons. For me to interview them. Tons. How many movements, ladies and gentlemen, have you and I led? From the Tea Party and other movements. The influence that you in this audience, Not me, you in this audience. The influence you have is enormous. It’s enormous. This is the smartest audience and the most loyal audience. You you’re the most activist audience. That’s you. How do we know? Because when we actually used to do research, which most radio companies don’t do anymore, but when we did, that’s what they found. We’re the most loyal. You’re the smartest. You’re the second largest in the nation. Why? Because I’m on 6 to 9. That’s why people do the things they do and nobody else can hold the slot like we do nationally. It’s not possible. How do I know? Because they’ve tried. You and I have a special relationship. You don’t want stupid on radio and you don’t want a conga line of gas on radio. You want to know things. You want to learn things. You want to. You want a viewpoint on things. You want somebody who can defend them and not somebody who’s going to in your homes and your cars and your businesses wherever you are and your trucks, to reinforce your belief system, your pro-American belief system. That’s all lost on Talkers magazine. They don’t care. They don’t know who you are. They know the foggiest idea. None. It’s because of you in the audience that we’re number one on Fox on the weekends, primetime at night, because of you. It’s because of you in the audience. They’re on the New York Times bestseller list. Ten books in a row. Number one, seven books in a row. That’s you, not me. And I could go on and on and on. I don’t have to prove a damn thing. But what I want to point out is that when people come out with these phony lists. They should be denounced. Michael Harrison and his Talkers magazine denounced. For putting out what I would call propaganda. And in some cases, I think, self-serving propaganda. There’s no way. Bon Genos Number 13. There’s no way I’m six. But it doesn’t matter. Bongino and I were texting earlier today. This is laughable. We laugh at these people. And we plow ahead. I don’t know how much longer Talkers magazine will be around when it spews out the stupid stuff. It’s not the heavy 100. There’s nothing heavy. About the way they put their list together. It’s purely opinion based on biases, not based on any metrics that are measurable. None. Talkers magazine. It’s a fiction as far as I’m concerned. Let me finish with what this gentleman was saying. I’m not going to read the whole piece as it’s very, very long. Uri Berliner at the Free Press. I would encourage Barry Weiss and the rest of the free press who’ve come to freedom late in life, but at least they’ve come to freedom. They understand the Democrat Party now. They understand the ideology, the American Marxist. They understand all of it. And they’ve been abused by these people and smeared by these people. So welcome. Welcome. But it wouldn’t hurt if he read a little a little bit beyond your little inner circle. That’s my view. Take it or leave it. So he writes, These are perilous times for news organizations. Last year, NPR laid off four but put out 10% of its staff canceled for podcasts following a slump in advertising revenue. Our radio audience is dwindling, and our podcast downloads are down from 2020. The digital stories on our website rarely have national impact. They are in conversation. Start as our competitive advantage in audio, where for years NPR had no peer is vanishing. There are plenty of informative and entertaining podcasts to choose from. Even with our diminished audience, there’s evidence of trouble at the most basic level. Trust. That’s right. Trust I. Talkers magazine. No Trust. In February, our Audience Insights team sent an email proudly announcing that we had a higher, trustworthy score than CNN and The New York Times. Pretty low bar. But the research from Harris poll was hardly reassuring. It found that three in ten audience members familiar with NPR said they associate NPR with a characteristic of trustworthiness. That’s 30% only in a world where media credibility has completely imploded with a three in ten trustworthy score be something to boast about. But declining ratings, sorry, levels of trust in an audience that has become less diverse over time. The trajectory for NPR is not promising to passim it is promising now not the trajectory, but NPR is not going anywhere because you and I help fund it. It’s not a market system. It’s donations and taxes. Donations and taxes. Big fat left wing foundations prop it up. Big fat government props it up. We don’t get any of that, by the way. He says, two paths seem clear. We can keep doing what we’re doing, hoping it will all work out, or we can start over with the basic building blocks of journalism. We could face up to where where we’ve gone wrong. News organizations still go in for that kind of reckoning. But there’s a good reason for MPR to be the first. We’re the ones with the word public in our name. Despite our missteps at NPR, defunding isn’t the answer as the country becomes more fractured. There’s still a need for a public institution where stories are told and viewpoints exchanged in good faith. Defunding as a rebuke from Congress wouldn’t change the journalism at NPR that needs to come from within. It says. A few weeks ago, NPR welcomed a new welcomed a new CEO, Katherine Mayor, who’s been a leader in tech. She doesn’t have a news background which could be an asset given where things stand. I’ll be rooting for. It’s a tough job. Her first rule could be simple enough. Don’t tell people how to think. It could even be the new North Star. Yeah, right. Here. The problem is, NPR has propaganda. And so are 95% of the rest of the American media. Their propaganda and the propaganda for one party. You can read about it in full with the research, with a background in on freedom of the press in American more. Sexism. It’s all laid out there, and it always has been and it always has been. And I want to encourage our friends with the conservative news platforms. You might want to check it out, too, because none of this is a surprise. What’s important about your piece? It’s from an insider. That’s why it’s important. But when you look at CNN or MSNBC, these are organizations that are supported by multi-billion dollar globalist corporations. They don’t even care about ratings. They could care less about ratings. They could care less about profitability. There are people on an elephant’s ass on these multi corporate. Global businesses. And they keep them around to protect themselves. CNN will never trash AT&T and their ilk. MSNBC will never trash calm Comcast and their ilk. And the story goes on and on and on. New York Times is owned 17% by the wealthiest man in Mexico. And, of course, The Washington Post never has to worry. Bezos owns The Washington Post. So these are entities that really do not respond to market demands. These are entities that are in the propaganda business for a one party monopoly that they’re seeking to build, along with the Democrat Party. This is autocracy. Autocracy. It’s not freedom of the press. When you look at what’s been done to Donald Trump in the press by the law in the injustice system. It’s really quite obvious to anybody who stands back and watches except these doctrinaire. Doctrinaire zombie leftists. What’s taking place in this country? I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
Hamas tells negotiators it doesn’t have 40 Israeli hostages anymore. They said they’re unable to identify and track them down. They murdered them. The Israelis said women and children first and the elderly. And they told them the 40 they’d need to come out first. We don’t know where they are. Says Hamas. There were that ten month old baby who was taken hostage, Mr. Producer. I think their ten month old babies online. Ten month old baby needs a lot of care loving attention. Milk, diapers. You think that’s what they did for that ten month old baby? Joe Biden did an interview on Israel the other day, trashing Netanyahu, trashing Israel, trashing the IDF. Giving more aid and comfort to the terrorists, giving actual money to the terrorists. Never mention the hostages once. Doesn’t even mention the five American hostages. Where are they? Hamas told Qatar and Egypt it does not have 40 living hostages who match the criteria for release. They murdered them. If a courageous senator from the great state of Missouri, Ted. But. He proposes legislation, pushes it hard on the floor of the Senate today. They were required. Qatar. Which is a loathsome terrorist organization that buys its way into Washington, D.C., buys its way into the Democrat and Republican Party, has put up $5 million for the Medal of Honor Memorial. This is what they do, has golf tournaments and tennis tournaments, the likes of which Christopher Murphy, the disgusting, pathetic senator from Connecticut, attends. And he said that ties should be cut with Qatar unless they meet certain. Obligations. You know, we have these obligations for Israel now. We have obligations for Qatar. And yet Christopher Murphy objected. Senator of Connecticut. Who morally preens on MSNBC and CNN trashing Trump all the time, trashing MAGA all the time. This guy is a punk. He is a punk. He represents Hamas. In the United States Senate. I don’t want to hear the static. I don’t want to hear the excuses in the footnotes. You either for good or you’re for evil. That man’s for evil. Like his good friend Chris Van Hollen in Maryland, another anti-Semite. That’s right. I said it so me. I’ll be right back.