On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, the media is truly stupid in its reporting on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, which portrayed PM Benjamin Netanyahu as the unprovoked aggressor hammering Lebanon with no context whatsoever. In reality, while Iran negotiates with the United States, its proxy Hezbollah has launched more missiles and drones at northern Israel than ever before, killing people, and forcing evacuations as part of a deliberate plan to drive Israelis out of the north and then the center, concentrating the population in a tiny area. The entire ruling class—including Democrats, some Republicans, and the media—is pathetically weak and stupid, while many podcasters gain attention simply by being as obnoxious, vile, and poisonous as possible. Also, it’s a tough challenge to keep an Islamist, Nazi, 7th-century, barbaric, primitive ideological regime contained when one of its core principles is to lie, cheat, deceive, and conceal during any deals. The Iranian regime exists solely to promote a revolution by imposing its Islamist Nazi ideology on the West and every other corner of the world; it will not negotiate that objective away. They are the warmongers, while the United States is simply trying to defend itself. Later, Rep Chip Roy calls in to explain what’s at stake in today’s primary runoff election for Texas Attorney General. Meanwhile, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued an administrative subpoena to Hasan Piker and Code Pink co-founder Susan Medea Benjamin for possibly violating Cuba sanctions during a March trip to the island for an “ideologically charged transnational convergence of Communists.” Piker identified billionaire Neville Roy Singham as the key “funding vehicle” behind a network of tax-exempt nonprofits that organize and finance anti-American street protests and political movements. These tax-exempt groups function as overt political operations in violation of nonprofit laws. Finally, Roy Altman calls in to discuss his new book – Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law.
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Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. You know, over the weekend. And as I prepare for this program and right before the program started, I’m watching the news. I listen to them certain people, and I thought to myself, God, there’s a lot of stupid people in the media, just stupid, not just ideological. There’s plenty of that too, but truly stupid people. Literally minutes before I come on the program. Come you. There’s a report. Out of the Middle East. But Israel hammering away on Lebanon, Hezbollah. And that Netanyahu was pushing and pushing and pushing hard so creates him. As the aggressor. No contact whatsoever? None. What’s been going on, ladies and gentlemen, is while Iran the regime has been, quote unquote, negotiating with us, the United States. Its proxy, Hezbollah has been firing more missiles and launching more drones against northern Israel. Then any time since open warfare. They’re destroying homes, they’re killing people, and people are evacuating the northern part of Israel. And Hezbollah’s plan is to move the Israeli side of the northern part of Israel and then move them out of the central part of Israel. So the population of Israel is concentrated in a very small, tight area. That’s the plan. Netanyahu is taking a tremendous amount of heat back in Israel. From the center, left and left wing parties. That he’s not fighting back, that he’s Trump’s lapdog, and that Trump let him fight and on and on. You’re not getting any of this context. Me, I’m giving it to you. And yet the president of the United States in the administration has told. The Israeli administration in the last 24, 36 hours. Do whatever you have to do to defend yourself against Hezbollah. Because ISRO was going to do it anyway. They have to protect their citizens. And so the IDF has moved back into Lebanon. Do they want to? Of course not. These are citizen soldiers for the most part, but they’ve moved back. Ground forces. Pushing them back. But we said don’t hit Beirut. And the Israelis say, but that’s where their headquarters is. That’s where they now don’t hit Beirut. So, again, Israel’s fighting will be on one arm tied behind its back. And so Netanyahu’s taking hell over this. But he’s fighting back. And that’s why Israel is fighting in Lebanon, because the Lebanese government and the Lebanese army are incapable of stopping Hezbollah. They don’t have the manpower and they don’t have the will. But Israel is not going to sit there and continue to let this happen any more than we in the United States would allow it to happen, would we, on our southern border, A northern border? We certainly wouldn’t listen to some country telling us what to do. I’ve come to the conclusion. That we have a very weak ruling class. When you watch the Democrats and listen to them, when you watch some of the Republicans and listen to them. The media is included in the ruling class, as I just mentioned, how they’re pathetically stupid. And of course, the vast majority are left wing. But the podcaster clashed. I’ve come to the conclusion these are. Not all. Of course, there’s some very smart and good and smart podcasters, but they’re the exception. There’s a lot of really stupid people. You talk behind a microphone. A podcast is easy to set up easy, and the way you draw attention to yourself from the thousands, if not tens of thousands of people who are trying to be podcasters. Is to be as obnoxious, as vile, as poisonous, as cancerous, as racist, as bigoted, as anti Semitic, as anti-Christian as humanly possible. And hence you have little Ada for Winters and hence you have Candace Owens. And hence you have. Kelly. He will do anything and is anything. She’s a chameleon. And hence you have Tucker Carlson going off again. On demons and satanic beliefs. The guy is mentally ill. I really believe that. It’s just my opinion. And they’re not alone, though there’s all kinds of second tier podcasters. Same thing. Center, just stupid. And if you look at their backgrounds. Who’s that guy? Benny. What is his name? Rich. Penny Johnson. Never heard of this guy before. Penny Grifter. He’s been a drifter. Got serious questions raised about plagiarism in the past and things of that sort. I never. I don’t even know the guy. I don’t even know the guy. But he’s not alone. There’s a whole bunch like that. And you start digging into their backgrounds. You go, What kind of crackpots are these? That people are listening to them. And the truth is, people are not. Americans, I should say, are not. They’re mostly foreigners. Or they’re mostly very young people who who have no perspective, or they like the drama. They like the gossip. They liked the F-bomb. They like things like that. And I’m going to predict to you right now this won’t last. Because there are too many of them that sound the same way. Too many. And you notice the worst of the politicians, of the worst of the podcasters feared on each show they got this guy, Thomas Massie. Who is this guy? He was a gadfly. He was a backbencher. I had him on once or twice because he was good on the spending on the budget. Then he kind of flipped out. Now, every other sentence out of his mouth is about the Epstein class and the Israeli lobby. He didn’t lose because of the Epstein class and the Israeli lobby. He lost because he’s sabotaging his own party, sabotaging the press in the United States. You and I voted for the President of the United States. We voted for the majority of the Republican Party. And here you have this outlier, this rogue, who keeps sabotaging the agenda. It’s that simple. Has nothing to do with Jews, nothing to do with Epstein. The guy says, I’m going to name everybody will name them. Name them. One person online. She said, Make sure you name them on the street. Not when you’re in Congress. Protected by the speech and debate closed. Just make sure you go outside. And read their names. And read the names. He won’t is a coward, I guarantee. But who’s stopping him? Who’s stopping bloated Bannon from releasing his hours and hours of video with Epstein? How come none of the podcast or class points to that? When is Tucker Carlson going to release his texts? Well, the enemy, the Iranian government, he’s got he was texting back and forth. He said so he said, So when will he release them? Never. Never. No. And then I thought to myself. It’s one thing to have a substantive, real disagreement, say, with the president on a major issue, or at least to voice different differing views and, you know, spitball them, see how they work or don’t work. And it’s quite another to trash him, try to sabotage him and stab him in the back. I’ve talked about this for years now. Four years. To try and ruin his presidency, to try and undermine his support base. Is quite different. Quite different. Then what Ted Cruz said over the weekend, what Lindsey Graham said over the weekend, what Mike Pompeo said over the weekend or what I’m saying. I say it my way. They all say it their own way. And we don’t say the same thing either. My position from day one has been no deals. Now that’s known to everybody, including the president. Including millions of you here, including on Fox, including everywhere. And I’ve given the reasons I’ve written them, I’ve posted them. Because this enemy is a terrorist regime. They’ve never honored any agreement. Their word is not their bond, and they have no intention of honoring anything after Donald Trump leaves. They may not even honor it while Donald Trump’s in office. And look what’s going on right now. We’ve had to attack their ships that are planning mines while we’re negotiating the removal of mines. Then we had to attack. One of their launched locations because there were launching missiles against our our planes. We call this a defensive action that we still have a cease fire. So I said, okay, we need more defensive actions then, don’t we? And these negotiations apparently are very, very painful. I talked about sequencing. That you got to be very, very careful, as I posted several days ago. They don’t get anything up front. Certainly no money under any circumstances. None are there. Start rebuilding their war machine again. My problem with all this is they survive. This started out. With helping the Iranian people. Then we move to nuclear weapons and we move to uranium. Now they have thousands of ballistic missiles, so they have the capacity to make them quite quickly. And from a conventional point of view, those are. Devastating. Devastating. And they will continue to use them. I also said my concern is that Hamas will remain armed. Nobody’s disarming Hamas. I told you phase two of that deal wasn’t going to work as a work was to produce. No, they’re not being disarmed. In fact, they’re getting stronger. I said the problem is going to be here, that you’re going to have Hamas survive, Hezbollah survive, the Iranian regime survive, and the Netanyahu government told. And some of the Netanyahu haters out there will be thrilled with Why? Because they have left wing guys running for prime minister. Except for Bennett, who will be left wing one day, right wing the next with, you know, he’ll do whatever needs sort of making Kelly in pants. And that is a disaster for us. We need a strong ally there. But. We’ll see how it ends. Well, declare victory, I’m sure. I’m glad it’s this president, not some other president handling this. There’s no question about it. He brought us to this point like no other president. We’ve talked about that over and over again. He brought us to this point. The question is, what do we do from here? And we need to have a healthy debate. We, the American people. But then you go online and you see. B.J.. That’s right. B.J. Benny Johnson. I know nothing about other than what I just studied. I researched his background. He’s a real. Sleazeball. And. Oh, the war, guys. They want war. They want war. You know, this is this. And he’s not alone. And it’s a mind of a Nobody is dummy. We want war. Who wants war? We want to end the war. We want to end forever wars. We want to end terrorists who’ve been attacking us for 47 years. These morons don’t even understand or don’t want to understand are playing to the peanut gallery. With slogans. This is why they so easily move hard left. This is why they so easily move towards neofascism in neo-Nazi ism. This is why they have so much in common with the Marxist Islamists. And their ilk. Because their principles. Are negotiable. Even worse, the principles are dependent on who’s paying the bills. We have Congressman Congresswoman Luna from Florida says we need to be transparent about podcasters and everything. Well, what’s stopping her if she’s got, quote unquote, the receipts, put it out. Who’s paying what? Whom? I’d love to know. Who’s stopping her? Who’s stopping anyone from Congress from revealing it? Certainly not me. I want to know who’s funding whom. Let’s get it out there. If you got texts with Iran, I want to see them. If you got video with Epstein, I want to see him. Let’s do it. Get it out. But they won’t put it out. Why not? Why won’t they do it? I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
It’s a tough one. How do you keep an Islamist Nazi seventh century? Barbaric, primitive. Ideological regime in a box. When one of the principles is to lie, cheat, deceive, conceal. When making deals. Because you exist that. Listen to me. This is important. That regime exists. To promote a revolution. That’s the only reason it exists. They take the Islamist Nazi ideology and impose it on the West and every other corner of the world. It’s not going to negotiate that away. It’s just not going to do it. They’re the warmongers. We’re trying to defend ourselves. The United States of America. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Don’t forget Texas. Vote for Chip Roy, our buddy, solid as a rock and he’s running for attorney general of Texas. And he will fight. The growth of Islamism and the other isms there. I know them well enough to know that he’ll do that. So we’re heard all over Texas. And so I hope you folks will vote for Chip Roy, very, very important, in my humble opinion. You’d be a great, great attorney general of Texas. Today, John Wayne’s birthday. My buddy Bruce reminds me of this. And so in honor of John Wayne, who I grew up watching as an actor, some young people probably don’t even know he is, but he was very patriotic. And I got to know a couple of his family members. And they’re very patriotic, too. Very nice people. Let’s do it. Go. John Lennon, America. You asked me why I love him all the time. I’ll explain. You see McKenzie’s sunset or. On Arizona Rain. You drifted on a bayou down Louisiana way. You watched the gold fog drifting over San Francisco Bay. Have you heard of Bob White golfing in the Carolina Pines? I heard the bell on a diesel at the Appalachian mines as the color of the Negro venue when you hear waters all. Look, we are wondering. Massachusetts shore, where men who braved a whole new world for his attempt on Plymouth Rock. You think of them when you stroll along the New York City dock? I was in a snowflake drifting in the Rockies way up high. You seen the sun blazing down, right? Nevada’s gone. Hail to the Columbia is rising. Oh, your head at Gettysburg. I struggle to be free. Have you seen the mighty? We watched in Ingleside and you seen the Mississippi roll along Missouri’s rebellious yell at Michigan one on a winter’s day or waters of rage along the shore and thunderous display. Does the word aloha make you? He was there in disbelief when he. See the surge on the war in Yemen. Why American? From Alaska’s gold to the Everglades, from the Rio Grande. Like polls runs past a mind of her domain. You ask me why I love it. I have a million reasons why my dutiful American youth does wild life stuff. We. Let see. Beautiful. This is what we fight for. We? You live in its great patriots, Mr. and Mrs. America. We love our country. And we will defend our country. And sometimes we have to defend it against forces we thought were with us, but they’re not. They’re not. They attack the country just as much as the isolationists, excuse me, as the Islamists and the Marxists and their isolationists. You know, I. I just taped the podcast, Hannity’s podcast. And we must have spoke for an hour and a half. And I was in Florida. And he and I are like brothers, best friends for, I don’t know, around 30 years now. And really, Rush was our best friend to the three of us. And I should mention David Rush’s brother. Well, extremely close. And so we. We talk about a lot of this, and I think you’re going to find it entertaining. I’ll go on in a moment. But I’ve invited Chip Roy to come on for a few minutes at a big time right now, just an hour, an hour and a half left to vote in Texas. Chip Roy, how are you, friend? Doing great. Mark, great to hear from you. I appreciate you. All right. I’ve told our fellow Americans, live nights, get out there and vote. You’d be a fantastic attorney general for Texas. And that’s crucial for the whole country. Take a few minutes and explain what people need to do and why. Well, Mark. Yeah, I appreciate it. You know, an hour and 20 minutes left in polls. This is the final day. This is the runoff. This is going to decide who the Republican nominee for attorney general will be. I happen to think it ought to be someone who’s been in a courtroom who’s prosecuted bad guys. He’s put bad guys in jail, who’s been the persistent attorney general, who’s worn the battle scars of fighting the conservative fight, and someone who’s gone out and earned it. And unfortunately, my opponent’s been trying to buy this election. We’ve done some quick math. We think he’s spent close to $30 million in this primary, most of it his own and most of it in negative ads attacking me. And a lot of those, if not most of them, are false and lies. And we’ve been combating them. We feel good about the direction everything is going. Turnout is high today. We think that our message has been resonating, but we need everybody to turn out to vote. Every vote’s going to matter. If you’re out there and you’re debating if you’re in your car, get to the polls. You got an hour and 20 minutes left. This is an important election. We’ve got too much at stake. Islam on the march, criminals on our streets or marches that are funding these days. And these judges, the source funding left the open borders when you don’t have Donald Trump and Tom Homan, these guys securing the border, you’ve got somebody who will fight. So, you know, we don’t have time to mess around. Texas is the crown jewel, and we’ve got to have a strong attorney general. And you’re endorsed by conservatives in Texas and all over the country, almost to a man, aren’t you? Yes, sir. Great, great support. Ted Cruz has endorsed me, the former solicitor general. Texas is one of the most brilliant lawyers we know in the country, much less in public service, great support for a lot of the grassroots groups. I won’t go through them all, but a lot of the gun groups and the liberty groups, Tea Party, Jenny Beth Martin, all all the folks that you would expect who have been in the trenches and know who to count on. Cleta Mitchell, our mutual friend who has fought hard to defend the president and fight for election integrity. As you know, I’m the lead author of the Save America Act, which we’ve passed three times in the House to protect American citizens only voting in our elections. And unfortunately, the Senate has been, you know, stubborn in getting it move. And we’re going to keep fighting that in DC. But you’ve got to have somebody who knows the issues, knows how to fight. And again, I want to mention again that issue of Islam, Mark. I mean, you and I both feel so strongly and passionately about the founding principles of this country and the rooted in our Judeo-Christian history and founding principles. And Islam on the march is a direct affront to it is incompatible with Western civilization. If you don’t have an attorney general who’s smart enough to figure it out, figure out how to win the fights in court, and how to win the messaging battle as well, then we’re not going to stop it and we’ll lose our country. So it’s it’s now or never to pick somebody who’s ready to fight. And your opponent really doesn’t have a conservative record. He has a very thin record. He’s what we call a RINO pretty much. And he is a blue blood, which is okay. They’re blue Bloods have actually done things, but he hasn’t done that much, has he? He hasn’t. I mean, he’s total service in public service has been something south of a year and a half because he’s basically bought his seat in the state House twice in the state Senate. And that’s fine. I don’t begrudge that. But, you know, he should have stayed there working harder to kind of build up his background, his reputation before becoming the attorney general, which he views as a stepping stone to becoming governor, where he can use his fortune to try to buy the governorship in the future. And again, I don’t wish him ill. I don’t like it. Primaries are tough. You’ve got to have thick skin to go through this stuff. But he’s been saying a lot of things that are untrue about me spending that fortune in order to try to win the seat. So we’re game time and again. If you’re out there and you’re a great friend of the show, Mark’s a longtime dear friend of mine, We’ve been in the trenches together. I trust God and I trust the people of Texas. But let’s go get this done. And if you’re in your car and we’re debating what to do, if you’re at the polls and you see a line, stick it out. They’ll get there, get in line to vote. Let’s go make this count. We’re heading in the right direction and we feel good about the results. If we keep our turnout up through through the end of the election tonight. All right, Chip, be a great gray knight if you win that race. So we’re all for you, obviously. I support you very, very strongly. I’ve known you got to be, like, 20 years now. 20 years ago, sir. 20 years. All right, brother. Good luck. And God bless. God bless your family. Love you, too. Take care. He’s had cancer. He’s fought cancer. He’s. He’s just fantastic. And. There is a perfect example. He and I have had some differences in the past, but we’re best buddies or best friends. For the longest time. But nothing significant. I mean, you would have on the Supreme Court Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas. Who might agree on an outcome but disagree on the means and the process. Happens all the time. So you don’t destroy Justice Scalia and you don’t destroy Justice Thomas because they’re trying to head in the right direction. And try and get the right result. The constitutional. And the constitutionally based result. Chip would be an absolutely fantastic attorney general in Texas. Just ignore all the advertising. Go with your gut, you know? You know what’s right and what’s wrong. And you know who will fight for you. It’s not somebody who’s just rich spending a lot of money. Even though there are those who do, but not this particular guy. I will point that out to you. All right. We have to take another break. We’ve got a lot to do. We’ll be right back.
Segment 4
I don’t understand people like Mark Levin. I don’t understand Roger Wicker in the Senate and Ted Cruz. These people are all lashing out at the president and I lash out at the president, Mr. Peterson. See if you’re low IQ and you’ve failed in at least ten jobs. And you’ve been accused of plagiarism and you’ve been fired for it. And you have just figured out the best gift as a podcaster is to be the biggest A-hole imaginable. To lie. To deceive. They have no respect for the people who are listening to you. But you’re desperate. You’re desperate and your views are very similar to Hassan Piker. But don’t tell anybody. But they are, especially when it comes to the Middle East. Then you’re a B.J. or a Benny Johnson. And I’m going to study this guy more and I will reveal to you what I’ve learned. Mike, why are you punching down? Look. When I see a cockroach on the floor, I got to deal with it. It’s just the nature of the beast. The nature of the beast. Trashing the president. Hardly trashing the Iranians. These guys, they defend the Islamo Nazi regime in Tehran. They have defended Hamas, though not directly. They’re too conniving for that. They really, desperately, desperately want to be. The next four went theirs in something of that sort. They want to be famous or infamous, whatever it takes. They’re loathsome. They’re low IQ. They’re stupid. They’re very stupid. The warmongers are the enemy for 47 years that have killed thousands of our people. They don’t even care. They don’t even care that the Iranians have killed and maimed thousands of Americans and they refuse to talk about it. Never. I support the president going to war with Iran. 100%. I’m even accused of dragging him in, which is so preposterous. And then I raised questions about if Iran could be trusted to actually follow any deal, even the greatest deal of year. Oh, yeah. Trashing nobody’s trashing him. I’m certainly not. Lindsey Graham is one of his best friends, as far as I know. But Benny Johnson, a nobody and his ilk. And his ilk. They’re the ones who trashed the president. They give aid and comfort to the Iranian Islamic regime. They want the same audiences of who went there saw it. Tucker. And they’re desperate for it. They’re desperate for it, but they’re mental midgets. That’s what they are. That’s where B.J. is. I can’t spend my whole show on him. None of you’ve ever heard of them before. I never heard of them before. To be perfectly honest, just maybe a month or two ago. Because Marjorie Trader Gangrene was attacking him. I think she called him a scumbag. It’s great. Look at these people at each other’s throats. Mr. Is. Kind of sick. Sick. That whole world is sick. But the lowest of the low. They do very well there because they have all the foreign viewers. That’s one of the main reason I don’t understand people like Marc Lamont. I’ve never talked to this guy in my life that I know he doesn’t understand me. I’ve written books, been on the air many decades, and TV. He doesn’t understand me. Was he that stupid? I suppose he is. But, you know, on my radar. Lucky him, don’t you think, Rich? B.J. Benny Johnson. Of course you’ve never heard him. This guy has had more jobs. More jobs I had. I think he started out as a left winger. He’s not a conservative. He’s not a constitutionalist. Is he done something to show that he’s a constitutional conservative? I don’t think so. Has he been in the Tea Party? No. Convention of states? No. The Reagan Revolution? No. The Trump Revolution? No. Who is he? What is He is a nobody. The guy with a microphone. Bang, bang, a. You tell him, Barney. You tell them. I don’t understand. Roger Wicker, the head of the Senate Armed Services. Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is the most conservative member of the United States Senate. Does he not understand him either? The guy is a complete moron. I’ll be right back.
