August 18, 2020

August 18, 2020

Michelle Obama / Getty Images / Chris Delmas

On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, Former First Lady Michelle Obama addressed the delegates at last night’s Democrat National Convention with a demagogic speech. Mrs. Obama harped on “empathy” as BLM rioters beat a man to a bloody pulp in the street. Then, Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to transform the government by taking over the entire federal leviathan. The left plans to stack the courts, and change America by fiat. Later, Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke at the DNC convention to promote himself and to continue the cover-up of his incompetent executive actions that may have killed 11 million New Yorkers living in Nursing homes. Afterward, a nationwide manhunt is underway for the BLM rioter that savagely attacked a man in Portland. This is what the leftwing Democrats refer to when they say they seek unity? Finally, Professor Paul Kengor calls in to explain how cultural Marxism is taking over large American cities. America now has Mayor that cite Marx and use Leninist tactics. Kengor also provides historical context through his new book “The Devil and Karl Marx Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration.”

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Hour 1 Segment 1

Michelle Obama spoke at the convention last night. Anybody watch? I didn’t watch. I have the clip. Anybody actually watching this? I’m not. We collect the clips the next day, as we did today. But I understand the news reporting is. Fascinating. Our friend over rights group Brian says just reporting the news, Chris Wallace must have had a chill up his leg as he glowingly lauded Michelle Obama’s speech. I didn’t hear or watch what Chris had to say. But if so, he certainly wasn’t alone. We have never, ever, ever. A first lady who’s as fantastic as Michelle Obama. She’s down for the revolution as she cashes are checks from Netflix and her publisher. She and her husband, Barack Milhouse Benito Obama. And Michelle has to be worth about 200 million dollars right now. The system is just systemically racist. Now’s our opportunity in America to fundamentally transform our country. Do you realize that he’s been in a fight with the neighborhood where he wants to put his half a billion dollar library in Chicago that they don’t wanted their. But he doesn’t care. It’s taken him to court. Do you realize, as I said yesterday in Hawaii? That they’re using loopholes. The estate where they used to shoot Magnum P.I.. To get around the environmental rules here to protect the coastline. I mean, is this a joke? You realize all the talk about spreading the wealth, the top 1 percent that they’re in the top one one hundredth of 1 percent. None of that matters. They have a collective. Chill going up their leg is the Great Lake. What the hell was this? Chris Matthews used to say. And here’s the thing. She spoke last night. Most of you didn’t hear it, but it’s all over the media. They’re pushing it and come Wednesday and maybe Thursday. Nobody will remember two words. It won’t matter. But they talk about tradition, the president, United States is out there, is robust. It’s vibrant. Going to battleground states this week, and they’re the very offended in the media about tradition. Because he’s fundamentally transforming the way campaigns can’t do that. And yet there’s the former first lady, Michelle Obama. Do we have former first lady’s trash mouthing current president of the United States? I can’t think of one. It’s all right. It’s Michelle. Michelle Obama, a self-made first lady. She is speaking while Joe Biden is vigorously campaigning on his street in Wilmington, Delaware, which he doesn’t leave. He’s campaigning basically in two states. He’s not even campaigning in two states. He’s campaigning in Wilmington. And every now and then Scranton to pretend that those are where his roots are. His family yanked his ass up, as have five year old. They moved the Wilmington. Who might have burst bubbles? Who might have burst bubble? And the love story between Dr. Jill and. Dr. Needing Joe. We’ll get to that later. And they’re still pushing their conspiracy theory with the post office. Like Day 7. The missing post mailboxes. How can that be? Processing machines that they’re shutting down? No, they’re repairing them and renewing, putting news, it doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter. We’ve got a storyline in our narrative and we’re not moving from it. So what did Michelle say that was so? Fantastic. Unbelievable. What did she say? That was. At flayed and sliced and diced the president. They made a difference. Made a difference in the campaign. Let’s let’s just listen to a little. Cut one go. He is clearly in over his head. He can not meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. Wow. It is what it is. Fantastic. Now, I understand that my message won’t be heard by some people. No. We live in a nation that is deeply divided. And I am a black woman. Speaking at the Democratic can not hold on right there, Mr. Producer. You are Hulu. Who knew, why can’t you just be a human being speaking at the Democratic convention? Why can’t you just be a former first lady speaking at the Democratic convention? We know your skin pigmentation. I just don’t this this Democrat party. And it’s race baiting and it’s identity politics, which it has done really since its creation, quite frankly. Two centuries ago. It’s really quite shocking. Martin Luther King never got up and said, I’m a black man speaking at an act. He just spoke. The power of his words, the power of his ideas. Man was brilliant and brave. Go ahead. But enough of, you know, me by now. You know that I tell you exactly what I’m saying. You know, this reminds me of her husband. I I I I this I’m this, you know, I you know me, you know. You know how I am. Wow. So find nothing. Go ahead. You know I hate politics. Why don’t you also politics, Texas politics is made you and your husband very wealthy. Very wealthy. I don’t know why you hate it. I didn’t even know you hated it. Did you know she hated it? Mr. Producer. Go ahead and I care about this nation. You know how much I care about all of our children. So if you take one thing from my words tonight, it is this. If you think things cannot possibly get worse. Trust me, they can and they will. If we don’t make a change in this, not tell you how I take this, I take this as a threat. I take this as a threat. You care about all the children. Then you need to speak out against what’s happening to all the children. But you don’t speak out against the rioters in the violence. Not one damn person at that convention, black, white, Latino in between, whatever. Now, one of them spoke out against the violence. They care about all the children. Things can get worse. What you think about this and she’s praised by all newsrooms, whether it’s FOX or CNN or MSA. That matter. All of them. Go ahead. And if we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives, depend on our lives depend on Joe Biden. If our lives depend on Joe Biden, why didn’t her husband endorse Joe Biden during the busy primary period where there were. What it doesn’t doesn’t and a half Democrat candidates. He was the last one in. If our lives depend on voting for Joe Biden. Why does he talk about Joe Biden the way he does her husband behind his back like Joe can still f this up? Go ahead. I know, Joe. He is a profoundly decent man, guided by faith. Apparently not so profoundly decent, according to Tara Reid. And half a dozen or more other women who he’s fondled. Apparently not. Another story at another book coming out. Ten to one against Trump. But here’s one about Biden. Both Biden’s. Apparently, it’s not the story we’ve been led to believe for half a century. And I know Joe Biden, too ladies and gentlemen, and I know what he did to Robert Bork and I know what he did to Clarence Thomas and I know what he did to other wonderful men and women with whom he disagreed. He destroyed them or he sought to. He is not a decent man. He is a character assassin. And it’s too damn bad we don’t have any real journalists when this is going on to push back. They either don’t have the guts or the wits to do it. Certainly not the integrity. Go ahead. He was a terrific vice president. He knows what it takes to rescue an economy, beat back a pandemic and lead our country. And of course, he doesn’t. Because we’ve talked about what took place in2009. It’s been all over Politico and other publicationsthat support Biden effectively. The record is the record. He didn’t rescue any economy, the economy never grew over3 percent under these two Biden and Obama, he rescued nothing. Go ahead and he listens. He won’t say, listen, you can’t talk, he can’t finish his sentence. But anyway, go ahead. Both and trust science. He will make smart plans and manage a good team and he will govern as someone who’s lived a life that the rest of us can recognize. No, I don’t recognize a life for. You’ve served in government half a century. Do you recognize a live for you spent almost your entire career in the Senate then as vice president, ladies and gentlemen. Of course you don’t. Because that’s not normal. Joe Biden spent 15 minutes in the private sector. No more. He has no experience in the private sector. So is no experience on how to figure out how to get an economy moving. None. This is the fantastic speech they’re talking about, goes on just a little bit more. Cut 2 go right now. Kids in this country are seeing what happens when we stop requiring empathy of one another. I don’t know what you mean, empathy of one another. I see no empathy from the Democrats, from Michelle Obama. When it comes to the people who are being brutalized in our communities and in our inner cities as a result of these riots, I see no empathy from the Democrats. The Democrat mayors or Michelle Obama on all the small business people, including minorities who’ve lost everything as a result of the looting and the arson. I see no empathy from the Obamas when it comes to school choice. The same school choice they had for poor inner city minority kids, particularly black kids who are forced to go to the government facility down the street and whose parents know their better schools and the community, but they cannot afford to send their kids there. And the Obamas do not believe they should be able to. Is that the empathy she’s talking about? The apathy. When Kamala Harris. Attack Brett Kavanaugh all the way she did because she disagreed with him, tried to ruin him and ruin his family. Is that the kind of empathy she’s talking about? No, I don’t think so. The Democrats, the left, the Obamas have no more empathy. Than anybody else, and I would argue because of their ideology, they have a hell of a lot less. A hell of a lot less. Go ahead. They’re looking around wondering if we’ve been lying to them this whole time about who we are and what we truly value. People shouting in grocery stores, unwilling to wear a mask to keep us all shouting in grocery stores, unwilling to wear a mask, really? Is that what you see? Michelle Obama? Do you see an TFA anyway? Black Lives Matter anyway, do you see a federal courthouse under attack? D.C. police officers who we should respect, peace officers who are being brutalized or being blinded are getting concussions. People pulled from their trucks and their cars and beaten to a pulp. How about that, Michelle, rather than people not wearing masks at the grocery stores? And I don’t know about you folks, I go to a grocery store a lot and ninety nine point nine percent of the people are wearing masks, so I don’t know a grocery store she goes to or even if she ever goes to one. I have no idea what she’s talking about. Go ahead. They see people calling the police on, folks minding their own business just because of the color of their skin. There you go. People call on the police just because the color of their skin. One more on a New York. That’s what she sees in the last three or four months. That’s what she sees. She sees nothing that the rest of us see. She sees none of our reality. And this is what they’re praising in the media. This is what they think is magnificent in the media because they completely and fundamentally in the tank corrupt and out of touch. I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 2

Let’s finish with Michelle’s fantastic speech. Go ahead. They see an entitlement that says only certain people belong here. Why? Greed. La la la la lala la la. Who says that to here illegally? We have a tradition in this country. We enforce our border laws and our immigration laws. And your husband knew this. He deported people. Go ahead and winning is everything, because as long as you come out on top. It doesn’t matter what happens to everyone else. Well, what are you talking about? This man gave up a multi-billion dollar business. To be president, the United States. You guys have become enormously rich as a result of the office you used to hold. You’re selling your prior office. Go ahead. What happens when that lack of empathy is ginned up into outright disdain? They see our leaders labeling fellow sit. All right, we’re out of time. I hate to tell you, she accuses the president of embracing the white supremacists and also putting little kids in cages, which, of course, those photos are from her husband to whom she’s married. First lady putting little kids in cages. Was it this great?

Hour 1 Segment 3

You know, these newsrooms are so appalling and so many of the mare so corrupt. Let’s say you have these these big Democrat figures speaking, none of them. Taking on the violence in these Democrats cities, not one of them. Not one of them standing up for law enforcement. Not one of them. She doesn’t mention Michelle Obama. People being pulled out of their cars and out of their trucks. Then the other day, it was a white man pulled out of his truck and beaten to a pulp and kicked in his head. And the week before that, it was a five year old little white kid shot in the head by the neighbor who was black. This is the identity politics, right? We’re not even supposed to talk about human beings harming human beings. She doesn’t talk about the crime in the inner cities. The mass murder taking place in these inner cities. Vast majority of black on black crime, black on black murder. She didn’t talk about those little babies. We’ve seen them. She didn’t talk about MS. 13. And other horrific. Organizations that come into this country and kill our people. Not a word. It’s like two different worlds. She talks in platitudes, she talks about generalities, she didn’t say anything particularly profound. She attacks the president of the United States. She talks about Charlottesville, lives about Charlottesville, lies about the cages. Even the Associated Press, their fact checker and they hate Trump, had a corrector. And it could get worse, she says. In other words. If you don’t elect Joe Biden. We’re going to make sure it gets worse. The Democrat Party, the left. Unbelievable. She was so upset. She says children are torn from their families and thrown in the cages, soup set at that horror. That her husband was doing it, those photos that we saw were from 2015. Barack Obama photos. That even AP had to say, wait a minute. Those are from the Obama administration, so horrified was she she didn’t lift a finger. You probably even know about. The Democrats, including Obama, are trying to create a monster out of our president. They’re trying to create something that does not exist. And then they’re trying to rile up people, get them angry. It’s not enough what’s going on in our inner cities. It’s not enough. What’s going on now beginning in our outer suburbs? It’s not enough that people lost hope in their government. It’s not enough. The police forces are standing down. Record numbers of retirements. It’s apparently not enough. And the media in Washington, D.C. and the media in New York thinks this was a fantastic speech. That it scored points. It scored points. It’s a disgrace. The Democrat Party is a disgrace. It’s a disgrace that they’re nominating a man who is incapable. Mentally. Substantively incapable of being president of the United States and they don’t care. And they don’t care. It’s really quite shocking. Now, what are we talking about in this election that really needs to be talked about by our newsrooms rather than them giving their opinion on somebody’s speech? As they continue. To cross the line from news to opinion. What is it? Well, Bernie Sanders tells us over and over again what’s going on. Here he was just the other day addressing the DNC Youth Council, actually today addressing the DNC Youth Council cut 17 go. When Joe Biden is elected president. Don’t we have a Democratic House? Well, we have a Democratic Senate. We can begin the process of transforming this government and our nation. That’s it. Said, sounding like a pragmatic moderate to you. The only way you can transform this government and our nation is through amendments to the Constitution. But apparently that’s a quaint notion. They intend to transform this. They’ve built this massive leviathan in Washington, D.C., it is ubiquitous. Its tentacles reach everywhere. They’re going to muscle it up. They’re going to devour the suburbs. They’re going to devour parts of the Constitution with Fiats and regulations. They’re going to stuff the court. They’ve told us what they’re going to do. This is what they are going to do. And that apparently is a newsworthy. It’s shocking. It’s lawless. Here’s a piece from today. Excuse me, yesterday evening in Politico. Politico, a liberal site. Progressive’s prepared to put the squeeze on Joe Biden. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks about economic recovering during a campaign event. Joe Biden was just about the last Democrat the progressives wanted as the nominee. But now that he’s the one taking on President Donald Trump, they’re working harder to put him in office than they ever did for Hillary Clinton, then planning to give him how the minute he sets foot in the White House. I’m quoting. In conversations, more than two dozen left wing elected officials, labor leaders and strategists in the days before the Democratic National Convention, progressives a.k.a. Marxists, Marxists. Described an attitude toward Biden that is strikingly different from their previous relationships with either Clinton or former President Barack Obama, and which could have enormous consequences with regards to the shape and power of a Biden administration. We’re getting sirens cut not from Drudge. He’s a sell. He’s done. We’re getting sirens all over the place warning us about this. The Democratic Party’s left flank is firmly united, with moderate Democrats behind the goal of ousting Trump, with former Bernie Sanders aides and allies, creating super PACs and promising to spend millions to elect Biden in away they never did for Clinton. What do they see? Ladies and gentlemen, but progressives who are emboldened after successfully ousting several entrenched Democrats in recent primaries are also clear. Unlike with Obama, there will be no honeymoon for Biden. So Obama was a moderate to these nuts. Biden is exactly what the vice president said. A Trojan horse or the president has set an empty suit. He’s a front man. That’s it. That’s why he doesn’t want to take questions. That’s why he doesn’t want to take a campaign. He’s masking all that with a mask. If they follow through right, Politico Biden’s ability to cut deals with Republicans. A central pledge of his campaign would be hemmed in from day one. Signs are everywhere that progressives, a.k.a. Marxists, are unbowed. Former staffers to Charles Booker, who came close to defeating establishment pick Amy MCGRATH. And Kentucky’s Senate race this year are making plans to create a group to help put progressives in the chamber. Top Medicare for all activists are in talks about forming a PAC to put single payer advocates in office and fight the policy’s enemies. In other words, Stalinist centralized health care. A Freedom Caucus for the left is being discussed and even before they’ve defeated Trump. Progressives are warning Biden that he or his running mate Harris might be challenged in the 2024 primary if they’re not sufficiently progressive. While they’re taking on a historic female black woman, no matter where the left, they can do whatever they want. Our movement is ascendant, said Jose. Jabar Haski, if that is his name, executive director, the Sanders founded group Our Revolution. How many times have I said. That these rioters that and TFA Black Lives Matter. These are really Bernie Sanders supporters dressed up as something else. That’s who they are. They are Marxists. This entire convention is being controlled by Sanders and the Marxists. The iron fist is hidden. Buy a glove. But that glove will be removed. Should they win the minute, the minute after the election. And that iron fist will be used on you. Our movement is ascendant, said Joseph Give, our horsey executive director, the Sanders founded group. Our revolution. Finds it founds a group called Our Revolution the risk that Biden or Harris faces as a challenge from the left than 2024 if they govern as third. Or do Clintonesque triangulation. They’re not messing around. Do they meet their demands or they burn the system down? It’s not what that guy said in New York. The head of Black Lives Matter in New York. Twitter, Alinsky said. While progressive members in Congress are not yet willing to threaten their party’s 2024 ticket with an electoral challenge the way activists are, they are already alerting Biden that they will challenge him legislatively. Two of their top priorities are a massive green jobs plan and a health care proposal that makes Biden’s public option as robust as possible. We have to continue to push for our values, continue to push and advocate for people to join the administration, then progressive, said Representative Raul Kahana, Democrat, California Rocha. Hunters are not. She’s a 20 20. Sanders campaign co-chair, she told Politico. I’m confident progressive, well, a big, big role in the prior administration. They’re going to take over the federal government. They’re going to secrete themselves into the massive bureaucracy and they’re going to bewelcomed with open arms by the leftist who are already there. MONDELLO Jones, the Sanders endorsed Democrat tow in the primary this year in New York, 17 congressional district is expected to carry the general election was more blunt. She said, quote. Maybe it’s a he. I have no idea. And Congress progressives must act in a voting block. We should be withholding our support. Excuse me, for legislation that they consider too watered down. We’re going to take a short break, but I’m going to continue. Because they’re telling Politico and Politico is telling us. Exactly what their plans are. They are Marxists and they mean business and they intend to act through Joe Biden. Joe Biden is the front man who they hope to get elected. Because they know Sanders can’t get elected, Well, he wasn’t nominated, but he couldn’t get elected by the people generally. So they use Biden. Which is why The New York Times and AP and STEPHANOPOULOS and the others saying, oh, they’re moderate, pragmatic and pragmatic when they’re neither. And I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 4

You know, it’d be nice if Melania got one tenth of the positive coverage that Michelle gets, it really would. I mean, she’s an immigrant. She speaks five languages fluently. She’s obviously a very beautiful woman. She is a self-made woman. She didn’t get political jobs in the Chicago machine because we all know how Michelle hates politics. But Melania made her own way as a top model and made a small fortune on top of it. Maybe not so small even. So she’s a real independent woman. She’s a real businesswoman. She’s a real person who who’s led the American dream. Independently. You can see the disparate treatment can’t shoot pretty early, incredible and disgusting. It goes on and I’ll complete this at least to the top of the hour. Even if Biden wins and Democrats takeback the Senate, progressives will face serious hurdles. And so they’re tough about the pass major legislation. Biden will need the votes of conservative moderate Democrats such as Manchin of West Virginia, a cinema of Arizona, cinema of Arizona. And while Biden may be eyeing and FDR like president, he also still a longtime deficit hawk who opposes left wing priorities such as Medicare for all. Why he doesn’t anymore. Those days are over. If the squad doubles in size this year, which seems very well like it could. That’s a pretty remarkable transformation, said Karthik Gana Thi, a Democratic strategist who worked on Sanders 2016 campaign. So you see, all these Sanders handlers, ideologues, operatives, consultants are everywhere. They have swamped the Biden campaign. They are in charge. They are in charge. This is why. Look, when The New York Times says something, believe the opposite. They lie and lie and lie, whether it’s the Holocaust or whether it’s this. One of the biggest challenges facing the left is itself. The movement has a reputation of being young, white and college educated while attempting a takeover, a party with a base of older black people who tend to support more moderate candidates. While that won’t matter, because if they’re in control of the administration, if they’re in control of the bureaucracy, it doesn’t matter what other people think. They’ll be spitting out radical left wing anti-American regulations as fast as possible, and they’ll be enshrining themselves in the bureaucracy by the hundreds, in the thousands. I’ll be back.