On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, there are times when you must confront evil. Mark Levin has been fighting for the conservative movement for over 55 years. There are these podcasters with big companies and foreign money behind them who haven’t contributed anything to the country. Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes haven’t done anything for the country, merely grifting for profit. Those with microphones must speak out and uphold integrity, honesty, and confront poisonous ideologies—left or right—that threaten the country, the culture and the party. Jews and Christians are under attack from these podcasters. Carlson is part of the enemy within. Also, Zohran Mamdani is a Marxist-Islamist bigot who hates America, Jews, and moderate Muslims as he smears the NYPD and IDF/Israel. His rhetoric sounds like Fuentes and Carlson. The NYPD is in for a horrific for years if Mamdani is elected as NYC Mayor. Later, the United States could be on track to lose a conventional war with China primarily due to a critical shortfall in industrial capacity to rebuild after initial combat waves. America lacks the ability to rapidly produce ships or tanks, while China excels at building them in massive quantities and at high speed. For over a decade, Communist China has operated on a war footing, aggressively preparing for expansionist imperialism and colonialism.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. There’s a whole lot to get to that I think will matter to you. But, you know, ladies and gentlemen, there are times. When you have to confront. Evil. There are times in your life. When you got to do something that other people won’t do. You’ve got one life to live. How you going to live it? As a bystander. As a coward. Somebody who acquiesces. The bigotry and racism and anti-Semitism. You know, it’s a funny thing. I would say now. Boy, am I getting up there for 55 years. I’ve been involved in the conservative movement, and I expanded the conservative movement to what I call the. Constitutionalist movement. 55 years. It’s an interesting thing. It was active in not just the Republican Party, but in promoting conservatism. Since the age of 13. Now, this isn’t a mark. This is your life moment. I’m explaining something for a reason. I got involved in campaigns for conservatives. At a young age, often in Republican primaries, challenging the establishment Republicans what we called rhinos. A phrase that was not that well known or popular when some of us began using it. Half a century ago. When I was in law school, and I got the law school early at the age of 19, I decided to run for my local school board. Why? Because the Republicans controlled the township at the time. Not any more. Cheltenham Township, outside of far off. It’s all Democrat now. But the school board was filled with these RINOs and some Democrats, and they were massively raising property taxes on the people there, many of whom were blue collar. On the west end of the township. In the east end of the township, you had mostly Irish, German and Italian In the center part of the township, you had mostly Jewish. I ran for the school board in the Republican primary. But I created an organization. I created an organization back then. I guess he didn’t even have to register these organizations. A political action committee. Called Citizens for Tax Limitation. It was a tax revolt before there was a tax revolt. It was a tax revolt before there was a tax revolt on Prop 13 in California. My entire family was involved. I was able to raise $5,000 to put out a a mailer one. I went door to door in a township. I guess back then it was about 35,000 people. I hit 5000 doors. Mr. Produced. With my mother, my father, my brothers and me. My buddy Eric, a couple of others. I printed up a business card, put my number on it. I probably had 40 or 50 what we called back then coffee clutches, community meetings. Did something nobody was doing organized at the local level. Formed an independent entity. It was unheard of back then. I was 19. I won the Republican primary in a landslide. They went on to win the general election. Let’s try to do my legal studies at the age of 19 and then I turn 20. At the time, anyway, I was the youngest elected public official in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And I served on that school board for three and a half years. It was a six year term, but I eventually graduated law school and went out of state, practiced law for a period of time while I was on that school board. The votes were always. There were nine of us. 8 to 1 or 7 to 2. My buddy Bob Selleck. He was 27. At that point, I was 20. We had a tax revolt. A well deserved tax revolt where the citizens rose up. In fact, the tax result, the revolt was so significant, it was catching on throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Back then, a newspaper called The Philadelphia Bulletin covered it. Call me the whiz kid. He was pretty, pretty well known back then. Philadelphia Inquirer. Always Left Wing Covered it. We had quite a battle in that school board, but the people rose up and on one occasion in this relatively small township. We had to have a school board meeting in the high school auditorium. 1500 people showed up. And they’re so furious that they rushed the table and turned it over. This was beginning of the Tea Party before there was a Tea Party. 1976 actually was 1974. My older brother Doug and I, unfortunately, he’s quite ill. We went to Philadelphia. Through a dinner. They introduce. Republicans in that area to a governor who we heard about and didn’t know much about name Ronald Reagan from California. It was introduced by a senator who we knew less about named Paul Laxalt from Nevada. They were best friends. Neighboring governors. I watched Reagan. I said, That’s my man. My brother and I. The problem was in Pennsylvania, a fairly moderate Republican state and a Democrat state, very competitive as it is today. They were not Reagan fans. They were Gerald Ford fans. And after Gerald Ford in 1980, they were George H. W Bush fans. I was a Reaganite. And we formed a group of young Turks. To run for delegate the 1976 convention. The vote for Reagan. I believe by memory there are 82 delegate slots. Unfortunately, my position on the ballot. Was way down the list. And in order to help some of the other delegates, that is delegate candidates, he stepped out and supported them and we won several. And at that convention in 1976, I believe it was in Kansas City. Ronald Reagan almost defeated Gerald Ford. It was about 100 votes apart. And after Reagan spoke, everybody in the convention knew that they had picked the wrong Kennedy. In Gerald Ford who went down to defeat. 1980 was another battle in Pennsylvania. The same Republican establishment backed George H.W. Bush. Reagan decided not to campaign in Pennsylvania to focus as resources elsewhere. And so we did a write in pretty much for him, and he did a significant number. He did very well. But as you know, he went on to win the nomination. I left everything behind. My law, my betting law practice, and. Joined the Reagan administration actually joined it before the president was signed in. It was sworn in. In December. 1980. My father and I, we drove up from Dallas. He came down to Dallas to pick me up and bring me. To Washington. I started to work in the Reagan administration early on. Who knew I would become. The number two lawyer and interior deputy solicitor who knew I would become associate director, presidential personnel overseeing federal judges and so forth. Who knew? That I would become chief of staff to the attorney general of the United States. Always a great honor. To serve great men and to serve a great purpose. I never expected to be in this business radio, that’s for sure. Fast forward. As I left the Reagan administration, I eventually joined an organization called Landmark Legal Foundation. What a great group. And they still are. And we litigated for school choice. We won the first major case in the state of Wisconsin in the Supreme Court there. We won two Supreme Court decisions, federal Supreme Court, thanks to Landmark and a couple of other the conservative legal foundations. We now have school choice. We didn’t before. We had to clear the constitutional weeds out of the way. We went after the National Education Association and beat them for using dues, paying money for political campaigns without reporting. We went after the Environmental Protection Agency. We beat them, too. They were held in contempt. We went after Bill Clinton down in Arkansas with Judge Susan Wright, and it was our filing that had him held in contempt. And I can go on and on and on. What a great honor. I eventually became president at a landmark. 1987 being a talk radio fish, yada. I started to listen to a guy by the name of Rush Limbaugh. And I would hear him. I said, This guy is good. Before him, I used to listen to a man name. You know who? Mr. Producer in New York. Bob Grant. Philadelphia. I listen to conservative hosts there as well. I would send stuff to rush through a fax machine on the Constitution and the law. I stopped. I figured he didn’t care. He used all of it. None of the blue. He called me on the phone. He said, Keep it coming, Market come. And it’s very important. I kept it coming. Then you said, What’s with the fax machine? It’s time to use emails. But we didn’t use emails a lot back then. So I did. Catherine. Was his right hand lady. Absolutely fabulous. And one day he called me. If Lee Levine, the director of his legal division, I was shocked and honored. We became best friends. He introduced me in his own way to Sean HANNITY. We became in our best friends. I’ve been involved in the Reagan Revolution. I’ve been involved in the Tea Party movement. When my book, Liberty and Tyranny, went to multiple mass rallies. It’s where I first met Donald Trump. My book, Liberty and Tyranny. The Convention of States movement am one of the founding fathers of that with Mark Meckler with my book, The Liberty Amendments. And on and on. And here I am on radio. Having been a guest. Then offered a platform. You know, prior to radio, I never earned a lot of money and very little money. At a foundation. Working politics, working for the movement during these sorts of things. I never earned that much money. Now I do very well. Even early on in radio, I didn’t earn very much money. Now, where am I going with all this? I’m going to tell you in a moment, because it’s very, very important. It’s not about me. I know. It sounds it. That’s not my point. I want to talk about a lesson in what is important in life and what is important in our movement and our mission. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
I’m getting to a point, you understand, to stick with me and be patient. In 2014, a wonderful man came to me. Fairly wealthy man named Carey Katz. Quiet man. He said, I’d like to start a digital TV network or a platform independent of everything else. And in 2014, he and I, the two of us, founded Conservative Review and Conservative Review TV 11 years ago. In 2018, Blaise came to us. They were looking for more liquidity and Blase didn’t purchase us. We purchased plays. And then you have Blase Media today. So we did that as well. I want to talk about the next step and why I’m bringing all this to you. So there is some context. In much of the time when the conservative movement was getting stronger, particularly the constitutional part of the conservative. There was no Fox News or Fox News was relatively new. We’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Wrap this up and then to get to the point that I’m laying the foundation for here, I think my contribution to talk radio, in addition to being supportive of Rush and Sean. And Bob Grant, for that matter. This is several fold. Number one. I’ve decided to use this format. To delve deeply into American history. And the Constitution. This format has never been used for that before. I. I came to talk radio about a quarter century ago. And work closely with Russian shown on both of those. Number two. When I got into syndicated radio, you know, my first radio station was ABC in New York. But when I got into syndicated radio, the ABC Radio News network wanted to syndicate me at the time. Even conservative hosts never got involved in Republican primaries. They had different theories for that. I gave him my background. There wasn’t a Republican primary that I ever ignored because that’s where the rubber hits the road. I began getting involved in Republican primaries. I began getting involved in taking on the Republican establishment, particularly in Washington, D.C. There were a few pieces written, including a national review. What does he mean by establishment this live in? I knew what I meant by establishment. Since the age of 13, I’ve been fighting this establishment. I’m trying to advance constitutional conservative government and culture. We’ve come a long way since then, haven’t we? So many of you embrace it and support it. And I’m thankful for that. And the whole constitutional conservative movement. Which has always been at the center of what I’ve done as including as chief of staff to Attorney General Meese, who really pushed the whole notion of originalism has been key to what we do here. Among other things, among other things. So we changed conservative talk radio and that sense. Less slapstick, less Happy-Go-Lucky. Although that’s fun, too. Don’t get me wrong. Much more serious, these substantive issues. And I’m not putting down anybody everybody’s contributed to this is in this, but almost in this format. The left could not compete with us in the early two. Thousands really took off more in like 25, 26. That area podcasting came to be without getting into the whole technological history of that. And that meant basically anybody. Could get on, quote unquote, on air. Anybody from any room in their house. Before there were even video feeds and so forth. She got this podcast. Podcasting relies on what? Mr. Producer? The Internet. It relies on the Internet. It relies on handheld devices. This program is podcast. This program is podcast. Not new podcast Infamy. The program I do is podcast because people like to have their devices and listen on their own. That’s fine. My my attitude is, let’s push it out on all platforms. Humanly possible. Now we get to the nub of the matter. You have people who are podcasting, who have big companies behind them, big foreign money behind them, big domestic money behind them. Some of it dark money. Who are not so much broadcasting. They’re podcasting a word that was developed in the early 2000s. That’s iPods. iTunes. They came up with podcasting. Not all, but most of these people haven’t contributed a thing to this country. Nothing. You look at Tucker Carlson, what has he done for the country? He’s written for magazines. He’s been on TV, he’s been on radio. Now he’s a podcaster. That’s big money. I told you before, I didn’t really come into money until I did broadcasting. Candace Owens. Podcasting. What has she done for the country? Absolutely nothing. Zero. Nick Flint is 27, 28 year old punk. A racist, a neo-Nazi. What has he done for the country? Absolutely nothing. Zero. Then we have their surrogates. Who are with them. And after the first of the year, I’m going to start mentioning them to. Who’ve made an enormous amount of money off these platforms. Some of them are disgruntled former employees at FOX. Disgruntled former employees at one of the network TV’s, whatever they are. Some of them were doing morning radio. What have they done for the country? What movements have they been involved in in a significant way? I don’t mean ride the coattails. And grift off them. Nothing. Nothing. That’s okay. But when you have a microphone. Whether it’s a podcast or whether it’s radio, whether it’s satellite, whether it’s television, you have a responsibility to contribute something to the country. At least integrity and honesty. And not just grift. You also have a responsibility to your fellow countrymen. So if you see some poison that is spreading, some cancer that is metastasizing. That’s going to damage our country, damage our culture. It damage our society politically, damage our party. And destroy everything that’s been built. You have an obligation. But the acquiesce to it has a coward. Certainly not to join in with it, make excuses for it, but to confront it. Whether it’s on the left or the right. You have an obligation, a moral obligation. To do just that. No, it’s not a waste of time. Your time or my time. When I do it, it’s crucial to who we are as a society. It’s very crucial. You’ve got guys like Bannon. The guy pled guilty to a felony. Ripping off little old ladies. Raising money for a wall that was never built. He’s telling us Trump’s going to run for a third term. Well, there is the thing called the Constitution. Nobody gets to run for a third term. Nobody. And he won’t. Vintage playing you. Jews are under attack by these people. Because anybody can get behind a microphone. And it just turns out that Jew haters are very much attracted to the microphone. Like flies. Do you know what? But now Christians are under attack. By these people. You, Mr. and Mrs. America, Jewish, Christian, Judeo Christian values system that created this marvelous wonder. Called the United States of America. You’re now under attack by some of these people who you’ve been following, who you being paying money to, who you defend, whose comments you repeat. Why am I the only one talking out about it? I don’t mean posting something on the Internet. I know you are in my audience. You want the truth? You work hard. Those of you retire have worked hard. We know about the Marxist Islamists, the Communists. We see it, we know about it. They talk about it every day. But there’s another cancer growing. Then. And it’s our responsibility because they’re waving around our flag. They claim to speak for you. neo-Nazis. anti-American. anti-Military. Or one or more of the above. It is shameful. That people were big. Audiences say nothing. But I know why they don’t. Because when you do speak out, you come under vicious attack, not just by them. But by the liberal media. Who promotes the Tuckers and the font, the and the banners and the Owen’s day in and day out. They promote the anti-Semites and the bigots and the isolationists. And they hate America. They want them to define you and me and our party and our movement. They paint a picture of America. That is dark. They paint a picture of America. That is racist and bigoted and anti-Semite. They paint a picture of America. That rejects the majority faith in this country. Christianity now. I’ll get to it. Trust me. They lie. They twist. They spew. And they know. That at least for now. The more they do that, the more they attract and the more money they make and the more attention they get. And that’s what they have to have if they’re podcasters or if they’re subscription based services or whatever they are, they need it. They don’t need 90% of the country. They need 2% of the country. That’s good enough. Good enough. 5% good enough. So they get more extreme and radical and crazy by the day. And that media I spoke about promotes them more and more by the day that media, the left media knows they’re liars. Knows who they are. Hates their guts, but uses them. To try and dumb down that country and try and convince the country that this is you and me. When it’s not you and me. So I want to talk about this more when we return. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
These guys talk about the forgotten man. What have they done for the forgotten man? What have they done in our politics, in our society? To duke it out with the elitist, with the big government types on the left, with the beer? What have they done for the forgotten men? Nothing. They claim to stand for young men who are put upon. By this culture and this society. Well, what have they done for young men who are put upon by this society? They preach desperation. There’s no way out. Who are these people preaching to us? And from what experience? I remember Joe Rogan. I think it’s great he’s successful and he’s fantastic and all the rest. I remember him doing TV shows during UFC. What has he done for the country? We sit around. Is he going to endorse Donald Trump? Is he going to interview Kamala Harris? Look at his great influence. We hear this from people who’ve done about as much for the country as he has. We cable TV with podcasting and so forth. People become famous very quickly with very, very thin backgrounds. Very thin. There’s something going on that’s very destructive. To those of us who believe in liberty. And free speech. There’s an exploitation and abuse taking place. Like people who will move from one site to another and get $100 million while they’re talking about the average guy. I don’t like what they’re doing to illegal aliens while they go on yachts and everything else. There’s some disconnect out there. It’s problematic. There’s a great fiction out there. And next hour, I want to play a few clips, clips that are out there that are pushed out there by Dan Abrams group Mediaite, by Matt Drudge, his website. I don’t even know where he is anymore if he even exists. Boy, you ought to see the text they have for Matt Drudge when he used to be conservative. I got texts. I got him from everybody. I refused to release my text with Charlie Kirk, in which he condemns one congresswoman in particular and other people, because when he texted me, he did not expect me to be releasing his texts. So I’m not going to do that. But I know what he thought. In others. This is one of these long form shows where I’m not bouncing from issue to issue, even though there’s many important issues out there. Nothing more important. Nothing more important than the truth. Nothing more important than having respect for this audience. People have come into this program over the years, tens of millions, tens of millions from when I started. When was it 2000 to read something like that? A lot of people. They’ve come through these airwaves right here. And I want to finish up the point, because now Jews are under attack. Christians are under attack. Charlie Kirk is under attack. Trump is under attack by these very voices and these very same people who claim to represent you. I’ll be right back.
