On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, President Trump honors our military service members on Veteran’s Day. Meanwhile, Iran has been at war with the United States for nearly half a century and it should be carried through to a decisive victory rather than stopped short. Failing to finish off the regime would leave future nuclear and missile threats intact. We need to fight for victory rather than containment. Also, there is a broader influence operation involving Russia, Qatar, and Communist China that has affected segments of the conservative movement, encouraging opposition to Ukraine, Israel, and military action against Iran. Isolationism ultimately benefits adversaries such as China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran by weakening support for allies and reducing the willingness to confront hostile regimes. Later, the Woke Reich embraces views harmful to constitutional conservatism, particularly regarding Iran and U.S. national security. These people are not traditional, constitutional conservatives and sound more and more like both neo-fascists and DSAs. Yet they infiltrate our institutions and media, such as Blaze Media and the Claremont Institute. Afterward, Democrats want to expand Obamacare and take over Medicare, which would ultimately destroy Medicare rather than strengthen it. Guaranteeing health insurance for every person, combined with open borders and weak immigration enforcement, would overwhelm the system, increase government control, and undermine both Medicare and private health coverage, including union-negotiated plans. Meanwhile, Politico is working on a “story” that criticism of the VP from Brian Kilmeade, Marc Theissan, and me are broadening and strengthening his support. It looks like operatives and surrogates are manipulating a willing media in hopes of creating a pseudo-news story to advance an agenda. In the case of the reporter, better access. In the case of the politician, to discourage criticism. We won’t be played. Finally, France burns under weeks of riots while novelist Michel Houellebecq is charged with hate speech for criticizing Islam and mass migration, a warning of what the Marxist Islamist alliance has in store.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello America, Mark Levin Here. Our number, 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Rich, I don’t mean to surprise you. Can you send me the post I made about AOL yesterday? Uh, can you find it among the zillion there? So I made the point America, that I have a problem with AOL and email. Now the reason I’ve stayed on AOL is because I’ve got decades and decades of email there and literally hundreds if not a thousand or more people who email me over the course of a period of time. So to change over to another email site would be very complicated and very difficult. It’s that simple. It’s not like Gmail or Outlook or Yahoo or somehow much more sophisticated and modern. It’s just the nature of the beast. Although we are setting up now a parallel email site or email account, uh, because we were attacked and that’s being looked into. But thanks to our great folks Josh and Rich and others, uh, we have managed to circumvent uh, the attack, the cyber attack and we are now fully online now. That said, when you have that, shoot it to me. Rich, it was a self deprecating statement. In fact when I posted it I was laughing, including it myself. And let me just paraphrase the point I made. I said I think I’m um, probably the last person on the planet who still uses AOL. That said, you would think AOL would be at least somewhat responsive to the problem that we’re having because they were not for a very long period of time. So the usual parasites and leeches. What do you mean you’re using AOL? What are you this or that? Uh, here’s what I wrote folks. I’ve spent literally the entire day trying to get someone at AOL to unlock my email. For the last eight hours I’ve been told that the issue has been escalated to supervisors who would contact me. I haven’t heard a thing while we did finally earlier today, you would think that since I’m one of the last human beings on the face of the earth still using AOL, they would take care of this. Remember we were laughing about that line, Mr. Medusa? It was self deprecating that I’m still using AOI. So these people come in. What are you, Boomer? What? Are you still using AOL? Yeah. Why don’t you try this? People don’t even know how to read now. For the most part it’s funny, but there’s a couple people on there who I Just despise who are fools. And so they take an opportunity to jump in. I’ve exposed most of them for what they are. Some of them are constantly scratching at my door here. And Mr. Producer can vouch for this, wanting me to put them on to promote their books and their movies. What’s that idiot’s name? Matt. What is his name? I forget. I forget all of a sudden, Mr. Producer. No, I said who promote. To promote their movies or books. Uh, so Matt. All right, never mind. I’ll figure it out. So, um, no, he works with Ben. So. So is it Knowles? No, I don’t think it’s Knowles. Some. It’s somebody else. I’ll figure it out. During the break, we’re throwing names around that are not correct. So this individual in particular, he feels it necessary to really jump in because he’s so smart and so sharp. So we’ll deal with some of them. Even my own old Blaze. Now here I am with Carrie Katz, a wonderful patriot. We founded Conservative Review. Conservative Review bought the Blaze at the request of Glenn and the Blaze. So we bought it and we brought it into Conservative Review and we called the, huh, entire enterprise Blaze Media. So Blaze has hired, in my view, too many of these woke, right, neo fascist types. Just, just my opinion, one of whom I’ll talk about a little later in the program. They don’t even understand that they owe their jobs to, among others, me. And yet they conduct themselves in the most reckless ways. The Claremont Institute in California. I was a Lincoln fellow there like 35 years ago. That’s where I met Larry Arn, the great Larry Arn, who’s a dear friend of mine. He runs Hillsdale College, but he also, uh, was head of the Claremont Institute. Two years ago, the Claremont Institute gives me their Statesman Award, one of their highest awards. And I flew out to California and received the award. It was a wonderful, wonderful time. I was given this beautiful sort of a, uh, head statue of Churchill. It’s beautiful. Statesman Award 2024. And the person who introduced me was Molly Hemingway, who I still like, but I strongly disagree with a number of her positions over there at the Federalist. But that’s fine. At least when she and I talk to the extent that we do on these things, it’s very rational and very civil. But a lot of them are not like this guy. Sean Davis is probably one of the dumbest human beings walking around on two feet. He used to work on the Hill, so he’s been a Washington D.C. you know, sort of a Washington D.C. rat for decades. Nasty guy, dumb guy, puts out graphics, puts out videos of him. I’ve hammered. I hammered Mark Thiessen and Mark Levin and. And Ben Shapir. It’s sick. I wonder, what did these guys do all day? This is what they do. This is it. Sean Davis, Sean Davis, I think, has been on this show once or twice. We help promote him and the Federalist and these other guys. But you know what? Uh, there’s no reason to promote any of these guys anymore. That’s it. Matt Walsh, this guy, Matt Walsh, he’s got the IQ of a kumquat. He’s in controversy after controversy after controversy. Not a conservative. So he was scratching at Mr. Producer’s door, our door, or his publicist, was to come on the program to promote his movie, which I certainly did. And I thought it was very gracious in the way I interviewed him. One or two of his books, I think he had a kid’s book and then he had an adult book before that had him on promoted them. Now radio and the Boomers, nobody listens to that. Well, why do they keep editing, asking to come on this program and so we’ll dismiss him. That was a mistake. It’ll never happen again, period. And he’s not the only one. There are others. And over at the Blaze, they are breeding this type. There’s a few good people over there, but not enough. And they are breeding this type of. One of these guys is some guy named Oron McIntyre. The hell is that? Any of you folks ever heard of Oron McIntyre? Oron, is that an American name? What kind of Name is Oron McIntyre? He’s a host and he’s a columnist at the Belay at the Blaze. He’s got a book he’s hawking out there. Oh, yes, he’s very, very important. Nobody knows anything about him. He’s never done anything profound. He’s not exceptional. He’s just a, uh, self aggrandizer, a self promoter. And a lot of these guys are part of the Woke Reich movement now. Woke Reich, R E I C H. And they sound like neo fascists. Whether they are or not is for you to determine, but they certainly sound like it. They have trashed the President of the United States as he’s taken on Iran. They’ve undermined the United States military. Oh, yeah, undermined the United States military. They’re giving aid and comfort to the enemy day in and day out that loves what they say. They sound like Bernie Sanders and Chris Van Hollen. And even EL said, when it comes to defending this country against lunatics and radicals that want nuclear weapons that have killed Americans for 47 years. This is what much of the Blaze has turned into. And it’s very troubling, Very troubling. So this guy, this guy in particular, McIntyre, Oron McIntyre, he’s a dummy, but he has a platform. And there’s more and more dummies with platforms, and they are secreting themselves into our institutions, whether it’s Blaze, whether it’s the Heritage foundation, more and more, the Claremont Institute, a number of these places. They are not constitutional conservatives, as you in this audience are, understand that to be. They’re not traditional conservatives. They’re not religious conservatives, they’re not fiscal conservatives, they’re not social conservatives. They’re constantly trashing our country, constantly, constantly giving aid and comfort to the enemy during the course of this. It’s not a war, this military operation, such as it is. No military activity of any significance taken in six months, of course, blocking the Strait of Hormuz. But I’m talking about actual military attacks on the Iranian regime. So we’re going to be monitoring this in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I would encourage you to take a close look at particularly two individuals who are online on X. There are many who are exceptional, many who are absolute dogs, but there are many who are exceptional. James Lindsay, spelled L, I n D S a Y. We’ve had him on this program. And Insurrection Barbie is the name she goes by. Brilliant, brilliant lady. A wife and a mother, apparently. And they have pointed out this Russian ops and these activities that are going on, and they’ve been able to determine and expose a number of individuals who’ve been behind this effort over the course of the last few years. And they are exceptional. And there are others. So if you’re going to be online, you don’t need to trust me. But if you’re going to be on X and you’re going to be online, you should search out those people, among others. And there are others. And maybe what I’ll do over time is I’ll make a list of the good, the bad and the ugly, because there are the good, the bad and the ugly. And I don’t mean to overlook all the good. I’m certainly not going to overlook all the bad and the ugly. But we’ll deal with that in the days and months ahead. This is radio. It is not podcasting. It’s not online, Although this program does podcast and is online. But I’m saying this, the heart of this is radio. We, uh, are not Going to have another person on this show who attacks this format of conservative talk radio. Never. Because they, they try to exploit it and then they go online and they trash it to prove how cool they are and how young they are. They’re stupid. Whether they’re young, old or middle aged, it doesn’t really matter. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
Of course, President, uh, Trump. As we honor those who have served and so many who have given their lives. President Trump at Arlington National Cemetery today. Cut one, go. We come today to these Howell grounds and they are indeed very special rolling hills and hold the names of our great heroes etched in stone to honor 250 years of service, valor and sacrifice unsurpassed in all of the ages. On Veterans Day, we reaffirm our undying gratitude to every patriot who has answered the call of duty. We pay tribute to all of those who have won the wars and worn the uniform, who face the enemy, who have beaten the enemy at every turn, who have borne the burdens of fate and destiny to stand as our, uh, protection in battle. You are indeed our protection in battle. And we thank almighty God for the noble warriors of the United States military. Military who have always stepped forward so that America might always stay free. To every veteran here at ah, Arlington and across the nation today we render you the highest salute. We offer you our deepest respect and love, and we pledge to you our utmost loyalty and devotion. Please join me in thanking every American veteran of the army, Navy, Air force, Space force, Coast Guard, um, and the United States Marine Corps. And we want to thank you very much. Mhm. We’re going to do a little bit more of this, uh, after the break. So I don’t rush through it because it’s very important that we acknowledge so many wonderful heroes that have come before. And you know, among those buried at Arlington National Cemetery and other military cemeteries, our men and women who were murdered, killed by the Islamo Nazi regime in Tehran and in cemeteries all over our country are civilians who were murdered by the Islamo Nazi regime in Iran. They have committed acts of war m one after another against us over 47 years while we sat still and did not nothing.
Segment 3
A little bit more. I think it’s important of the president at Arlington National Cemetery today. Cut two go: to inherit a free nation is among the rarest blessings that any people in history have ever known. To defend that freedom is among the hardest and highest obligations, one of the most difficult tasks imaginable. Across every generation, American liberty has been preserved by legions of selfless patriots who have raised their right hands and sworn an oath of flesh and blood for a cause whose full cost could not be measured in advance. There’s no way it was doable, they thought. In every era, they’ve stood watch, they’ve held the line, they’ve hold a charge bravely into the fray that few people would have wanted to do or could have done. It’s something that lies between order and chaos, freedom and tyranny, civilization and barbarism and good and evil, exact opposite ends of the spectrum. Time and time again, for 250 years, the American warrior has returned victorious. Our republic has triumphed. And today, our country is stronger than it has ever been before. A nation without heroes is like a sky without stars or a heaven without angels. But in America, we’ve never known that darkness. Because we have the men and women of America’s armed forces, our guiding lights, our greatest heroes, and our guardian angels. Mhm. Cut three. Please go. Each day at Arlington Cemetery, sometimes as often as 30 times a day, a bugler plays the sound of Taps over a new grave of an American veteran. In those 24 notes, there is sadness, there is pain. But there is always pride. There is pride in our nation, pride in our flag. And there’s never any doubt. No doubt that our heroes served a noble cause. No doubt that they gave themselves to a righteous mission. No doubt that they had victories and won. They just won, won, won. That’s what they want to do. That’s what they know how to do. That’s all they know how to do. The freedoms they preserved and they legacy that they secured have, uh, outlived them, um, in so many cases. But they’re looking down on us right now. And with God’s help, we will do things that we’ve never been able to do before. Our country is becoming a far greater country than it’s ever been before. So today, as one people, we say to every American veteran, the sacrifice you have made. We will never forget the oath that you have kept. We will never take for granted the values you fought for. Will never. We will never, ever forsake the flag you held high. We will never let it fall. And the nation you served, we will never, ever let it fail. And then this. Cut four. Please go. America did not start a War with Iran. Iran has been waging war in America since 1979. This should have been taken care of a long time ago under this administration. Thank you. Under this administration. And it was about time somebody fought back. All of us fought back. We fought back, and we seriously fought back, and we won. It’s just a question of when we want to end it. We want to make sure we have a total victory. Not a 93% victory. It’s going to be total. It will take them, um, 25 years to rebuild back what we have destroyed, and hopefully we won’t have to destroy any more of that country. We’ve got a lot of work to do to put it back. As you know, I’ve been making this point. Iran has been at war with us for almost half a century, and now we are finally pushing back. In the New York Post, there’s a piece. Check that. The New York Compost. There’s a piece in the New York Compost that goes on about how there was a call, and it’s not the only place this is reported, how there was a call between Bibi Benjamin Netanyahu and the President of the United States. And there was a lot of yelling, so significant yelling between them. Netanyahu, uh, says, we got to take this regime out. We have to take the military action necessary, and we need to do it now. Apparently there’s resistance from the President. Now, I just want to make something clear to you, ladies and gentlemen. If we do not finish off the regime, we will not have eliminated the potential for nuclear weapons of the future and thousands of intercontinental ballistic missiles that can hit our shores, in fact hit the continental United States, anywhere. That is the potential for what’s taking place. I don’t have anything but what I’m hearing being said by the actors and reading, but the only reason there would be a. A shouting match, if in fact there was, and there probably was, and I have no firsthand, uh, information, is because of this disagreement, Netanyahu, uh, wants to finish off the regime, and we do not. I even heard Governor Desantis say we’re not about regime change. You know, the funny thing is this, ladies and gentlemen. During World War II, we didn’t say we’re not about regime change. We were all about victory. We have a completely different psychology and mindset. On the one hand, we say we’re not for forever wars. Then on the other hand, we fight wars such as they are to ensure that they are forever wars. We didn’t want victory in Afghanistan, and we didn’t get it. Instead we got a mess, a disaster in the end, didn’t we? You fight a war to win and you make sure you have everything in place so you can win. The Islamo Nazi regime is not made up of individuals who are 10ft tall. It’s not made up of so called leaders who are brilliant and special in any way. I thought that when this military operation began in February and the spectacular weeks that followed, and that maybe There was another 30 days to 60 days needed afterwards, that this was it. And then all of a sudden the brakes were slammed on, weren’t they? The Israelis were sidelined, the people were not armed. And really, ever since we’ve been going through this Kabuki dance and yes, our military has kept open the Strait of Hormuz, but the Strait of Hormuz was open before the war. And if we just leave, of course it will be closed and the consequences will be high gas prices, which of course at all costs, at every cost, at every conceivable cost, we can’t deal with that. Except when the Democrats but intentionally raise the price of gas, then we can live with it. But I just want to make the point that I am concerned. If there was a shouting match and it’s because Netanyahu wanted to finish them off and we didn’t, we’re not going to be able to contain this enemy. I’ve asked if there’s any governors out there or anybody in the administration can tell us how they intend to contain the enemy where nobody else could, by the way. How would this work exactly? Because it won’t work. And the enemy is the warmongers. Not our country, not our military, not our Secretary of War, not our President. The enemy. There is a big op going on in this country involving Russia and funding from Qatar as well as Communist China. But, uh, Russia, intelligence and counterintelligence has made a big advance within the conservative movement. That’s why you’re seeing people who are defending Putin, seeing people are defending Russia, seeing people who are literally trashing Ukraine, which is the victim which came under attack. That’s why you’re seeing the attacks on Netanyahu and Israel and our positions, the President’s positions when it comes to Iran. That’s why you’re hearing things like no wars. No wars of any kind. Even if they’re defensive wars. Right. Even if they’re wars against us. Even if it’s a 47 year war against us by the Iranian regime. This is a psyop. It’s had enormous influence. Many of the People downstream from it don’t even realize what’s happening. You can see the infiltration of certain of our institutions that are taking place. This is the mindset of the isolationist. The isolationist serves the interest of the communist Chinese, of Putin, of the North Koreans, of the Iranians, because we effectively disarm while they’re on the move. We’re at war with our own allies. We attack them, we undermine them. We don’t fund them, we disarm them. You can see what’s going on with the Democrats in Israel. It’s our number one issue. And then we have a lot of suckers who go along with this. Different websites, different podcasting companies, different podcasters, and as I said, formerly conservative institutions that are going along with this. And online, anybody who dares to challenge this from m. A patriotic point of view, from a pro American point of view, they start with the trash mouthing, the name calling and so forth and so on. And that involves many of you who’ve decided to go online and take a look. They’re trying to threaten you, intimidate you, smear you. Just be strong and push back. Marco Rubio, uh, at the G7 in France yesterday. Cut five, go. Oh, I think Iran, Iran would love a deal. The problem is the conditions they continue to place are absurd. Like, they’re not even serious right now. So. But that could change, certainly. I mean, the pain that they’re feeling is eventually you have to eat. Eventually you have to be able to pay your own fighters and your own security forces and so forth. Eventually, the economic realities penetrate the skull of even the most radical. Let me just say this. I’m a huge fan of Rubio. I do hope he runs for president. He’s going to need to resign from the state position quickly if that’s his goal. Takes time to build a campaign and so forth. I don’t know. I’m, um, told he’s risk averse. I just don’t know. But I think he’d be a fantastic candidate. Mhm. Ladies and gentlemen, if we think the economic pressure is going to topple the Iranian regime, we are wrong. Any more than the economic pressure toppled the North Korean regime. The North Koreans don’t care if every single person in that country starves to death. It is a concentration camp, and that’s how they’ve conducted themselves. They live very well, they’re very wealthy. You can see how what a fat slob. UN is. His father was, his grandfather was. They’re all just living the life of, uh, kings and queens. The regime in Iran, uh, they want to survive and they are not going to starve to death and they’re not going to go without. It’s the people who will. And even if the army’s not paid and the police aren’t paid and other people are paid, this regime will outlast that. And so there is a very positive effect from sanctions and from keeping the strait open except to their oil and cutting them off. But that affects the people more than anything. Those 92 million people in Iran, economically, they are suffering. And they are suffering under the iron fist of that regime, the regime. There’s no evidence that the regime is suffering at all. Yes, we took out a whole bunch of them, one layer after another. But, but then we have the administration or somebody leaking. I don’t remember what I was saying. That may have been a mistake because now we have nobody to talk to. The goal is to make sure there is nobody to talk to. Not now and not ever. In my humble opinion. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
By the way, Mike Huckabee, not because of our familial association, is a tremendous ambassador and a tremendous human being. Just been terrific, absolutely terrific. And here is Ambassador Mike Huckabee on Newsmax yesterday. Cut seven, go. What most people don’t get is that Israel was the ones who initiated the conversation about let’s phase out the money that America sends. What Americans don’t understand is every bit of that Money times about 100 is then turned around and spent in the US because they buy pieces of Arrow 3 missile defense systems. Iron Dome, David Sling. All of the ammunition that they shoot for the IDF is made just outside of Little Rock, Arkansas. Those missile components are made in my home m state of Arkansas. 4,000 jobs there. There are jobs in Indiana, Minnesota, Arizona and other states. Plus if you start adding the F35s, the F16s, the F15s, the Apache helicopters, every bit of that’s made in America by American workers. And Israel buys it. We don’t give it to them. They buy it from the United States. So this, this idea that somehow, uh, we are funneling all this money to Israel, it’s said by people who haven’t done the math on it and don’t really have good information. In fact, they’re putting out disinformation. But we will learn the lesson, unfortunately. We will learn the lesson, unfortunately. I say that from my perspective because it’s not just military technology. It’s medical technology. It’s intelligence in the Middle east as well as the rest of the world that they pick up, um, all these sorts of things. It is an ally like no other that we have like no other in the world. And if the woke right neo fascists and if the Marxist Islamist democrats decide that they want to cut off Israel, Israel will survive. It’ll survive with India, it’ll survive with Greece, it’ll survive with Hungary, it’ll survive with Argentina. And you know who’s going to approach Israel, Mr. Producer? Russia. You know who else will approach Israel, Mr. Producer? China. I’m not saying Israel will bite. But how stupid, how backwards is this whole thing when you have an ally like that in the Middle East? Meanwhile, you have all these Arab countries that are worth trillions of dollars in the aggregate getting money from us, getting weapons from us. We have 19 bases over there that nobody wants to discuss about taking down. I think I’m going to discuss it on Fox too, maybe on Saturday or something like that. We’ll be right back.[
