On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, President Trump deserves great credit for the trillions of dollars he’s bringing into our country from foreign governments and overseas corporations! It’s absolutely unprecedented! Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia included some of the lines used by the Soros-Koch isolationist crowd about neocons and interventionists, but the irony is that it was given in the context of a globalist outreach effort to make economic and military deals with and between Middle East monarchies/dictatorships and the biggest of America’s globalists/internationalists/corporatists. Also, in On Power, there’s a stark contrast between America’s founding, rooted in a blend of faith and Enlightenment ideals, and the centralized control sought by political Islam, as highlighted by Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim reformist. Jasser argues that Islamism, unlike the Judeo-Christian principles shaping America’s Constitution, rejects individual liberty and enforces a monolithic faith, often tied to anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agendas, as seen in groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. Drawing from Alexis de Tocqueville and Jasser’s insights, Mark explores how Islamists, inspired by figures like Sayyid Qutb, aim to dismantle Western society, viewed as ignorant of divine guidance, to impose a rigid “pure Islam.” This clash of ideologies, coupled with the deceptive language of tyrannies like Islamism and Marxism, underscores the battle for liberty and the soul of nations. Later, neocons, many of whom were former Jewish Democrats, left the Democratic Party and adopted a hawkish foreign policy stance. While many are no longer alive, today, some avoid blaming Jews for pushing war, instead pointing to neocons as the instigators. Opposing Iran’s nuclear ambitions is patriotism, not neoconservatism, due to Iran’s terrorist activities and history of violating agreements. Finally, Ken Hartman, Founder & President of Our Community Salutes, calls in to discuss his national nonprofit organization, which is dedicated to recognizing and supporting high school seniors who plan to enlist in the U.S. Armed Services after graduation. Their goal is to get 250,000 Americans to sign a thank you card to our nation’s newest enlistees in the military.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here, our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. So, Mr. Producer, you sent me this article right before the show from a website that is sort of the media matters wannabes site filled with reprobates morons and. Their ilk. And so now I have to make a decision. Do I address Chatsworth Osborne Jr as Rush column or do I wait? And I’m grinding my teeth, biting the bit. To address Chatsworth Osborne Jr. But let me do it this way. I’m sure you have my phone number. If something you want to say, be a man. Pick up your damn phone and call me. Don’t twist my words and then pat yourself in the head with some clown sitting next to. I don’t even know who this guy is. Honestly, I don’t watch, but I’m just saying. Feel free. And maybe. And maybe I’ll take this battle public day in, day out, day in, day out. But it is a waste of time. And just plays into the hands of the leftists. But I got to do what I got to do. Reading is fundamental. Read. Give me a call. Chatsworth. Chatsworth Rush Star has it on his website. It was a character from Dobie Gillis in the 1960s. You can check the Internet. Mr. Producer says, No, no, no, no, I’ve done it. I’m telling you, I’m ready to roll. I really am. But I’m going to hold back right now. And you guys, that media is disgusting. He just this guy you exist to do stupid stuff was stupid headlines. Then he gets suckers who are hooked on it regurgitated. But it’s important that people learn how to read. It’s important that they they learn how to reason. And so we’re more than happy. You got my number, pal. Pick up your damn phone and call it. Now let me move on. First of all, I want to thank you, folks. This book on power is in the top 100 on Amazon, and I spoke about it for about 30 or 40 minutes yesterday. And you are patriotic, intelligent, smart people. That’s what you are. That’s why you’re here. That’s why you watch the Fox show while you watch the show. Millions and millions of you. Because you’re curious. Because you’re intelligent. Things are going on that are upsetting you. And me too. And so I told you, I’m going to give you just a little flavor here in there of what’s in the book. Just a little touch, because that’s all I’m allowed to do. Quite frankly, my discussions with the publisher. And I can sit here and read the book to you. There will be an audio if you’re interested. But it relates to what’s taking place for even right now in the Middle East. And let me say a couple of things about that. First and foremost. Number one, credit where credit is due, President Trump is literally bringing trillions and trillions of dollars into this country. He literally is bringing trillions and trillions of dollars into this country. And we’ve never seen anything like it. And obviously that’s going to have positive consequences on the workforce. Re industrialization of America and so forth. I’ve talked about the tariffs before. And what I believe is purposes. Any succeeding. But also, if you can get the Saudis and others to spend hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars and buying things from us rather than communist China, that’s a good thing. The president deserves great credit for this. It’s absolutely unprecedented. Then I watched the president’s speech was very, very interesting to me. And I thought to myself, is he promoting isolationism or globalism or both? And what I posted is actually Podesta’s speech, because here the the Jewish insider. Has this provocative title, Trump Embrace His Isolationist Worldview and Riyadh Speech. And then I got to thinking, the speech is a lot different than the action. So I posted actually produce a speech included some of the lines used by the Soros Coke isolationist crowd about neo cons and interventionists. But the irony is that it was given in the context of a globalist outreach effort to make economic and military deals with and between Middle East monarchies and dictatorships and the biggest American globalists, internationalists and corporatists in our country. Now we don’t know the details, but if they’re great deals for we the people, that’s wonderful. And I truly believe the president is the best at making great deals. But this looks to me like globalism wrapped in isolationist language. I’m just using their language. We have the globalists and the internationalists are I call them corporatists. The most wealthy on the face of the earth. From America. Meeting with these these incredibly wealthy monarchs and dictators in Saudi Arabia. Which is swimming in oil. We’re tens of billions, hundreds of billions of dollars in a tiny little monarchy. To make deals. Financial deals, economic deals, military deals. And I understand even a security arrangement is being worked out. Now, that’s not interventionism, but it’s certainly globalism. And you know, it’s funny when some of these people like Chatsworth, Osborne Junior and others were interventionists and militarists and all the rest, I wrote a book called Liberty and Tyranny and in Liberty and Tyranny, I have an entire chapter. On Iraq. Now, we were all kind of suckered into the Iraq thing. We all were. Even the isolationists and others of us. But that aside, I warned about globalism. I actually used the word and globalism to me means surrendering. Our sovereignty to international organizations, whether they be economic, whether they be environmental, whether they be governing like the U.N.. Because these organizations are the opposite of representative government. They’re the opposite of the consent of the government. You and I have no say in any of these international organizations or what I call these global institutions. We have no say in them whatsoever. So I reject it and I reject it before Most people reject it, but I reject it. Now, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be involved in the international scene, but a lot of these people. With podcasts and subscription platforms. They aren’t clear or precise about what they’re talking about. They commingle words. They throw around slogans. Like neocon. You know what a neocon is. Historically, a neocon is a person in the fifties and sixties that was sort of a moderate Democrat, much like Tucker’s father, I believe, but a moderate Democrat. Who say, wait a minute. The Democrat Party is gone, left wing nuts and the Soviet Union’s on the rise. And so they reconsidered their associations, they reconsidered their viewpoints, and they moved away from that, rightly so. Like Jeane Kirkpatrick, who was a genius, brilliant. A professor at Georgetown who Reagan appointed as his national security adviser excuse me, as his ambassador to the United Nations. And he appointed Democrats like that throughout his administration. Those were the neocons, neo conservatives. That’s the best definition there is for that, because there’s really no specific definition, but that’s who they basically were. So it has absolutely no relevance to today. They throw this term around. I’ve been subjected to it. Others have been subjected to it. Maybe not Chatsworth, but others as a pejorative for you. Or Israel First Honors or something like that. They know they’re doing it. We know they’re doing it, and many of them are open about it. And so when you use that phrase, especially when you’re Jewish, you’re an idiot. You don’t even know what you’re saying. Other people use it. They’re not idiots. They actually know what they’re saying. But that’s not my point. My point is different than that. Let me read a little to you from on power. And this is from the middle of chapter three on negative power. America, like much of the West, was born from the fusion of faith and enlightenment. And I spent a lot of time explaining the faith aspect of it, the enlightenment aspect of it, and so forth. I actually wrote that months and months and months ago. But it’s but it’s something that’s very important. I think as such, while faith is distinct from government. The latter being the organization of law by and through a manmade institutions. The fusion of which I speak informed the authors of America’s Declaration and Constitution. On the prudent and humane order of government affairs. Again. I explained that at length, but I’m not going to read that. Here’s what I want to get to. By contrast, for example, political Islam is Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a prominent Muslim scholar, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and a leader in the Muslim reform movement, refers to it, among others, seeks the centralized control. Think about these terrorist organizations and their ilk. Think about Qatar as a perfect example. Seeks the centralized control over mine, body, society and government. He explains, and I quote him Islam has yet to go through an enlightenment and reform against theocracy and for individual liberty and universal human rights. The dominant establishment of the Muslim community in the West and abroad supports Islamism and its believers. The Islamists. Like theocrats, Islamists and their sympathizers see faith as monolithic and do not tolerate diversity of interpretation. Now recounting his days in college, Jasser explains that Muslim campus groups promoted a form of Muslim identity that, quote, wasn’t about faith, but rather about their political agenda, and especially their anti-Israel motives, their anti-Semitism. It was pretty much dominated by the Palestinian movement. Now, of course, he’s a muslim, and there are incredible massive numbers of Muslims who do not agree with the Islamists or the jihadists, and many of them are killed in the Middle East. They’re slaughtered. Jasser argues that. The people of the Muslim faith deserve much better than this. He notes that the vast majority of Muslims are still a constituency that are not spoken for by anybody. Got that. And I agree with that. Hopefully we can grow our bandwidth to do that. Very, very important points by just Alexis de Tocqueville. And democracy in America is two volumes. He put it this way Mahama professed to derive from heaven. And he is inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims. Civil and criminal laws. You won’t find this in Judaism, Christianity, or most other faiths and theories of science. The Gospel, on the contrary, only speaks of the general relationship of men to God and to each other beyond which it inculcates and imposes no point of faith. Indeed in America today, Jasser notes that Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic Circle of North America, Muslim Students Association, Muslim Public Affairs Council do not accept that devout Muslims exist who reject their ideas. Now, this is very important. I have to take a hard break. I want to continue this so you fully understand what I’m saying. That’s not taken out of context. This is from on power. You can get it at Amazon.com or on any of my social sites. We’ll be right back.
Segment 2
You know, I’ve tried have tried, Mr. Producer, but I really can’t control myself. So I think next hour I will talk further about Chatsworth. Osborne Jr, what do you think of that? I’ll explain why you got that name. I’ll explain who gave it to her and why. I’m. On power. You can get it right now on Amazon.com. You know, there’s a term in there. I looked at some of their terms at Amazon and they make the point and I want to underscore this, if you preorder the book, even if it’s two and a half months from now, the lowest discount they give during that period of time and they’re going to cut it. That’s what they do it to generate as many sales as they can. You will get it, so you don’t need to worry about that. That’s number one. Number two, I know you’re going to love this book. I actually, unlike most, wrote it. Most people don’t even read the books. They put their names on every single syllable. But this issue is very, very important. And they only have about 30 seconds right now in the segment about a completely different mindset that these terrorists and terrorist states have, like Qatar versus we in the West. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Now let me pick up where they left off it. Very important in his book how I’m going to get my magnifying glass here in his book. Now, this is in my book on power. Again, you can grab it at Amazon.com. A Battle for the Soul of Islam. Jasser decries the preaching and writing of somebody named Saeed Kuttab. Now, you might say, who’s Saeed Kuttab? He’s known throughout. The Muslim world, especially in the Middle East, one of the most prominent thought leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and political Islam. And he explains that while the roots of Islamism can be traced back hundreds of years again, as opposed to. Muslims are talking about Islamists with the ideas of pure Islam. That’s what they call a pure Islam. Khartoum’s 1964 book Milestones has significant influence even now. Now, as I point out, two often mentions. G h i l y y h j how you Jabalya which he defines as the state of ignorance of the guidance of God. Here’s what he writes in part, What is extremely significant about this is that tubes view the entire Western world was riddled with Yahia the same time he concerted most Muslims of his time to be suffering from such ignorance. Zahir due to what he considered by watering down through the ages of pure Islam in part because of Western influences, but also due to what he considered Muslims tampering with the purity of Islam so that it no longer existed. Now, this is what we’re dealing with in Qatar, in Iran, among other places. Kateb saw it as his mission to revive pure Islam with its very strict interpretation of Sharia law and to never give an inch in terms of adapting or compromising with Western values, which he considered devoted to materialism, violence and racism. And then finally, as Jasper notes in his book, here’s what could to be writes I’m quoting from Katoomba Book. Our foremost objective now, this is the Muslim Brotherhood, what sprung from the Muslim Brotherhood. He wasn’t the first, but he was one of the most influential. It is what’s read now by Islamic Jihad, by Hamas, by the Islamo Nazi regime in Iran and the Islamic not to regime in Qatar and so forth and so on. Kateb wrote, Our foremost objective is to change the practices of this society. Our aim is to change the Charlie system and its very roots. That’s the West. This system, which is fundamentally at variance with Islam, and which, with the help of force and oppression, is keeping us from living the sort of life which is demanded by our Creator. Our first step will be to raise ourselves above the Charlie society, Western society, and all it causes and its concepts. We will not change our own values and concepts either more or less, to make a bargain with this Charlie Society. Never. We and it are on different roads. And if we take even one step in its company, we will lose our goal entirely and lose our way as well. That’s quotes. There’s more in the book, but I’m just giving a little touch of this. Consequently, as I point out, the constant bloody wars among different Muslim sacks, including in Syria, in Yemen, in Lebanon and elsewhere, and the targeting of the West by a long list of Islamist organizations such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Al Qaeda, as well as Islamist states that support terrorism, such as Iran and Qatar and others, provide ample evidence of the bloody Islamist impact, both within individual countries and throughout the world on Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Like Marxists, Islamists obviously reject liberty, but Marxism rejects faith altogether and in fact insists on the eradication of not only faith, but like Islamists, all historical and social ties. They contradict or compete with its ideology and delay or interfere with the inevitable revolution. And it goes on in a much more comprehensive way where I explain and talk about the fusion of Marxism and Islamism and again, the mindset. Of Islamists, the mindset of Marxists. And this is in the chapter where I talk about negative power. So when you read this book, you read that section. There’s a lot more to this book, the Marxists and the Islamists. It’s about on power, its effect on your life, its effect on whether you’re free or you’re not free. Look, there have been great. Philosophers throughout history. They’ve written about it. Probably a score of them. I mean, Socrates talked about it, Plato wrote about it, Aristotle wrote about it, Cicero wrote about it, Hobbes wrote about it. I can go on and on and on and in more modern times and so forth. But that’s not what I’m writing about. What they wrote about is not what I’m writing about. And they try to apply it to everyday America, too. Mr. and Mrs. America. What’s going on in our country? What’s going on outside our country? How it affects us? A lot of focus on what’s going on with our government right now. The judges right now, what they’re doing to President Trump. Again, it’s a piece of it. A lot of focus on the Democrat Party, what they advance in terms of negative power, negative language, what it is that they do that influences and in fact, in so many ways controls our country. I also talk about. The belief system of. Jews and Christians do Judeo-Christian concepts and understandings, how completely different they are than from the Islamists. They know it and we know it. And so when we negotiate. With a Qatar or or an Iran. We’re not just them when we tolerate. The invasion. People from these parts of the world who are inculcated with that ideology and have no intention of assimilating into Americanism. It has a consequence on our country. It has a consequence on our colleges and our universities and throughout our country. And so you’re going to learn about all this, the people who are involved in it. As well as more and more about our own country. Our sovereignty, where that comes from, our belief system. Why we live in a country like this that is diverse and accepts diversity. And why people live in other types of countries where they don’t really even kill people of their own faith because they’re not pure enough. Chapter one is on power. Chapter two is on negative power. The way I segregate this, Chapter three is on positive power. You’ll certainly understand that as time goes on, or at least my representation of it. Chapter four is on language. It’s critical. Chapter five is on rights. Chapter six is on liberty. As I said, I’ve written ten books. Eight. Number one New York Times bestsellers. Millions and millions of you reading these books, as are millions and millions of you listening to this program on every available platform. We’ve talked about liberty a lot. We’ve talked about rights a lot. We haven’t talked about a lot, although we’ve talked about it in the sense of references to it. Is power. Power. And it is a way of rethinking through, rethinking through, or at least adjusting somewhat how we think about what’s taking place day to day in our own country. Actually, in your own community and certainly. With foreign governments. And how so many of them literally from a mindset, an ideology. Look at things completely differently than we do. And this is one of my concerns. When we’re dealing with Islamist regimes, terrorist regimes. I mean, on the face they’re terrorist regimes. They’re called terrorist regimes for a reason. That means they don’t believe in civility. They don’t believe and so forth and so on. And what you’ll find more in the book is there’s an it there’s even a word in an ideology. For the Islamists that they use among each other. About deceit. And in the chapter on negative power, I talk about communication. The chapter about language. I talk about what kind of language is used, you know, in tyrannies, whether they be Marxist, fascist Islamists, whatever they are. And by the way, in democracies too, more and more language is used to deceive, to confound, to confuse the public. More and more. So this is unlike any book I’ve ever written. It’s tighter. It’s more concise. There’s some quotes like the quote I just read to you, but less quotes, more my analysis, my reasoning about about these things. And it’s written for you, for you, the American people. You can go to the link on Amazon.com directly or on my Twitter site or through social site website. Mark Levin showed ICOM the mothership or any of these other social sites. You know, I don’t promote our social sites almost at all, do I, Mr. Producer? We almost have 5 million followers on X and I never even mention it. Maybe I should mention it so we can get up the 10 million, but it doesn’t matter. I’m not interested in the grift. I’m not interested in the hits. I’m not interested in the clicks. I am mission oriented. I’m an activist, but I want to inform. I want to provide you with information, at least from my perspective. You can check it out. You can disagree with. You can do whatever you want. But that’s where I’m coming from. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
Oh, it’s a damn shame. Major League Baseball waited until after Pete Rose died. What do you think, Mr. Producer? To lift the ban from the Hall of Fame? This is something you wanted to do right up to his death. He was in Chantilly, Virginia, not too far from where I am right now, doing a, you know, signing, making a couple of bucks off of every signature with some of the other retired baseball and other stars. And my daughter, my grandson got to see him because my grandson loved Pete Rose. Pete Rose played a long time not just for Cincinnati, but the Philadelphia Phillies. He was one of a kind. He was a superstar. And again, without getting into the weeds here, this is something he wanted. He wanted to be in the Hall of Fame, and he will be there posthumously, along with Joe Jackson. Another one of the greats. But it’s too bad they waited after Rose died. That’s my take on it. How much time do I have, Rich? I think we should get started here. Hold on one second. Let me see if I can find something. Now, Rush used to call our friend Tucker, who was a friend of mine. I mean, we didn’t socialize or anything, but Tucker’s had Tucker’s kind of transition, if you will. He was first at The Weekly Standard, which I think he would call a thoroughly neocon magazine with his friend Bill Kristol. And I believe they’re friends anymore. I don’t know. I don’t keep track of either one, quite frankly. And so I guess he was a neocon at one point. In our eye. Now he is whatever he is. But Rice used to call him Chatsworth Osborne Junior, because he wore that kind of goofy tie at the time and he had a caller did Rush and this is still on his website. And Rush and I were best friends, so I knew all about it. He didn’t think much of Chatsworth, but that’s neither here nor there. So caller calls and he says, Hi, mega dittos. Rush My question is real simple Why Chatsworth Osborne Jr Well, you mean, why do I call Tucker Carlson sometimes? Chatsworth Osborne? Jr Yeah, I call him that now. My wife says, Stop that laughing. Do you know who Chatsworth Osborne Jr was? Oh, I Don’t you remember watching television show? How old are you? 60. I didn’t watch much TV, though. Well, there was a very, very popular TV show in the sixties called Dobie Gillis. Okay. I never saw that. It was a college kid program. Dobie Gillis was a college student and his buddies were college kids. It was kind of like a college kid version of Leave It to Beaver. And one of the characters was is uppity, elitist, snobbish, no, nothing character named Chatsworth Osborne JR You know who would name a kid? Chatsworth. It’s obviously somebody’s last name. Chatsworth. Osborne. Jr So the kid was a preppy and it’s a very affectionate nickname that I’ve developed for Tucker Carlson. I haven’t used in a long time, but that is the source of it. You should YouTube Dobie Gillis and you’ll see the character. Well, I’m going to now when I get home, I should be able to make it home tonight. You’ll probably recognize the actor who portrays Chatsworth Osborne Jr. But that show is now the Sixties. That show is close to 70 years old, and it was in black and white. And I don’t remember who starred as Dobie Gillis, but that was the name of the show. There are all kinds of great characters in it. It’s basically a bunch of smart ass little college kids. Even back then, it was just about their lives and how they interacted with the professors. I was nine or ten years old, said Rush. When the when the show ran on, I’m not even sure my memories that accurate. But what you need to know is that it was an affectionate nickname. Yeah. Dwayne Hickman. That’s right. You’ll recognize him. Dwayne Hickman was Dobie Gillis, the star of the show. You’ll recognize Chatsworth Osborne Jr. He’s a character actor. It’s been in a suit, shoes. I’ve been in stuff for 60 years. 50 years at least. Anyway, I’m glad you called out there, Mark. Not this Mark. Now, that’s a great open line Friday Question mark. Were you offended by that or were you worried that Schatzberg would be offended by it? Then he later says Rush after the raid. No, no, no, no, no. I was not describing Tucker as a no, nothing elitist. It’s a physical similarity. Chatsworth has Brown Jr. And I named him that when Tucker was hosting CROSSFIRE back on CNN. But I’m not done. I want to address what Chatsworth said. And again, Chatsworth. You can always man up and call me on the phone. I’ll do this for the next ten years. I’ll be right back.