Writing from his negro-proof panic room (which doubles as the laundry room when his wife sends him out to get milk) a sweaty, disheveled, and quite possibly drunk Mark Levin types out a warning, inserts it into a hamster ball with Mr. Skittles the Wonder Hamster and then lobs it through a cracked door in the hopes that, God willing, it is not too late to save America:
I’ve been thinking this for a while so I might as well air it here. I honestly never thought we’d see such a thing in our country – not yet anyway – but I sense what’s occurring in this election is a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places. I can’t help but observe that even some conservatives are caught in the moment as their attempts at explaining their support for Barack Obama are unpersuasive and even illogical. And the pull appears to be rather strong. Ken Adelman, Doug Kmiec, and others, reach for the usual platitudes in explaining themselves but are utterly incoherent. Even non-conservatives with significant public policy and real world experiences, such as Colin Powell and Charles Fried, find Obama alluring but can’t explain themselves in an intelligent way.
There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign has carefully and successfully fabricated, which concerns me….
Actually the whole thing is like a thousand words and it’s kind of all blahbitty blah blah whatever, so here’s the film version because you probably have better things to do:
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Given the primary defense mechanism of these fools is projection, I can’t help but wonder if Mark Levin isn’t trying to talk himself out of voting for Obama.
Shorter Mark Levin: Everyone who disagrees with me is INSANE!!!!!!
OK, I wasn’t going to follow that link. Then I did. Now I’m sorry. But …
“Special Obama flags”? He isn’t thinking of that crazy old coot who thought the Ohio state flag was displaying an O for Obama, is he?
“Fainting audience members at rallies”? No-one’s fainted in months, have they? Since last summer, in fact? When it was hot?
“A graphic with the portrayal of the globe and Obama’s name on it, which adorns everything from Obama’s plane to his street literature”. Mark, that’s a campaign logo. McCain has one on the front of his bus. It’s that blue sign with McCain written on it.
Boy – there’s not enough Depends in the world for these people, is there?
Hey, that could be a stock to look into. Adult diapers…
So Levin says conservative and moderate Republicans crossing over are speaking nonsensically? I’d ask him to look back to the winter of 2003 when their wack became fully evident to the compulsively sane.
My absolute favorite quote from Levin is “it is no longer acceptable to minimize community organizers.” I think that’s the most inane statement anyone not named Palin has made in years. I picture Mr. Levin reminiscing fondly over those long-lost glory days of insulting voter registrars over a glass of sherry with pals. And it brings up the another essential question, what other demographics does Mr. Levin nostalgically wish for just one more chance of minimizing?
I giggle.
Oh Mr. Levin, you do not grasp the principle of news cycling, the result of reducing all media to entertainment venues. But you don’t object to letting the market, rather than some socialist “Fairness Doctrine” determine what appears on the TV screens of America, do you?
The Reverend Wright was featured over and over again during the primaries. I remember seeing the video of him saying “God damn America!” over and over and over again back in the spring. One example of this coverage:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=4443788
But now that is OLD NEWS. It happened back in MARCH 2008, for Reagan’s sake. Been there, did that, the T-shirt is already faded from repeated washings.
So what new dirt do you have on Obama? The MSM is waiting with cameras and mics ready to roll. Ayers is last month’s news. Accusations of “Socialism” were last week, but they might stick if you can come up with some examples. C’mon, can’t you find someone who can testify that Obama wants the government to nationlize the shoe stores? Can you find people who will go on camera and say that they would feel as victimized as William Wallace, who was eviscerated for his rebellious streak, if they suddenly started earning more than $250,000 per annum and had to pay $700 more in taxes than they did under Bush?
Don’t you know how the game is played now, in a world where corporations have been allowed to expand to economy-killing size, and wealthy people have been allowed to buy entire television networks? What are you complaining about? This is the world Reagan and Bush advertised in their speeches. Enjoy!
Fixed.
Yes, it’s an internet tradition. I think RFC-6666 covers it.
I’m really glad that the media never brought up the good Reverend Wright or William Ayers or the Obama man would be toast, right?
And ya know what, I am pretty tired of buying new shoes for my teenage son. All he ever wants to do is wear camo and march in military order chanting Obama’s name. It’s costing me a fortune, I tell ya.
Normal person: “The area of a circle is π times the square of the radius”.
Levin: “You’re babbling incoherently! What is wrong with you?”
Hopefully Levin, Hannity et al will stay exactly where they are. Adelman was bad enough. To paraphrase Groucho, I wouldn’t want to belong to a club that would have Mark Levin as a member.
I think you’re exactly right. Mark is trying in vain to resist the temptation to go with the flow and vote for Obama: “the pull appears to be rather strong…” — tell us all about it, Mark. How does it feel when your lizard brain is struggling to resist the onslaught of logic and reason? It’s a bit like taping yourself working up the mother of all hangovers, and then running the tape in reverse, isn’t it? At some point, towards the end of the film, you’ll actual be sober, sane, and coherent.
InsanityHannity calls Levin his “BFF”. What more do we need to know about this asshat?
Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading asshat’s gibberish. This election is turning out to be very tough for those with “conservative principles”. Poor babies.
The only conservative principle the Republicans have left is winning at any cost. Lamentably, their standard bearer is a confused, angry old man who failed to set a unifying theme for his campaign and to then stay with it. According to George Stephanopoulos McCain will wind up his train wreck with three, count ‘em three, closing arguments. That he’s managed to whittle down Helter Skelter ‘08 to only three themes is a tribute to his mavericky, POW, straight-talking, strong on defense, thoroughly tested, knows how to win wars, knows how to capture bin Laden, tax cutting, health care providing, bail out the homeowners, loved George W. Bush but now he doesn’t, now appreciates divided government, consistency.
Levin’s got a point. There is something scary in the air. I mean, when theories like the one below reach fruition, it’s time to worry.
“The president has specific constitutional power that is broad relative to war and Congress’s power wasn’t at issue. And, without some compelling constitutional basis for judicial intervention, which I don’t see here, the judiciary ought not trump the executive here. The underlying assumption that these 9 justices, and their lower court colleagues, are better qualified to balance individual liberties against national security interests, is unwarranted. And the president’s actions as to Hamdi are not excessive in any event. I think we can agree that in the companion case, Rasul, this same court demonstrated that it is not better qualified than the president. that’s scary.”
- Mark Levin at The Corner, 7/1/04
If limitations on executive authority such as judicial review of offshore, endless executive detention, are “scary,” then how must the prospect of such power in a popular former “community organizer” appear to people like Levin?
Thank you for freeing me to:
Work in the yard..
Watch my football team loose.
Snatch my neighbors body.
Deliver that load of pods to the greenhouse.
Chase some citizens down a hill, that will be fun.
Anything to get away from a thousand words by dickwad.
The most delicious unintentional irony is how Levin spends paragraph after paragraph in paranoid ravings about the symbology of conspiracy (convincing no one) and then accuses conservative defectors of being “incoherent” and Obama of being the “hardened ideologue.”
This guy needs to talk to the man in the mirror.
Normal person: “The area of a circle is π times the square of the radius”.
Levin: “You’re babbling incoherently! What is wrong with you?”
Don’t you see? Don’t you SEE??? He’s dabbling in irrational numbers! YOU COULD BE NEXT!!!!!1!!!!one!!!!!
Unfortunately Mr. Skittles was absorbed into The Body after leaving Mr. Levin’s tinfoil-lined haven and is now standing on a street corner in Pascagoula clad in saffron robes selling flowers for Obama.
I’ve started to read the whole Levin column but it’s kinda making me…sleepy…real sleepy…zzzz…Oh Bam Mah…Oh Bam Mah…must kill whitey…
No! It was the Raider offense. My bad.
Shorter Mark Levin: Obama is infecting normally “right-thinking” Americans with “black-cooties!”
I’m sorry, but the prejudice exhibited during this election cycle is annoying the sh*t out of me: The robocalls on behalf of Congress’ most vocal critic against unethical campaign tactics; the touting of fundamentalist X-ian Palin’s superior “family values,” despite her dysfunctional family, and the fact that she spent years ripping off taxpayers from her home state and the lower 48; the Jews who insist that a vote for Obama is a vote to “nuke” Israel; and of course the wingnut base, whose primary concern is not Iraq or the economy, but how to disinfect the White House in 2012 if Obama wins in 2008. Considering that the average wingnut toilet contains 2.3 million germs per square inch, and their kitchens are often worse, they would do well to consider scrubbing out some of their angst with a bottle of Clorox.
I love Mark Levin.
It’s guys like him, Hannity, Kristol and Limbaugh that have finally convinced Americans they are crazy as hell. After next week I hope the Republican Party, which has accused me of being anti-American and unpatriotic since the days of the Viet Nam War, will be a rump of its former self with only hard core Southerners and a few fringe characters like Mark Levin left.
Don’t worry – Levin even disagrees w/himself, ergo….time for Levin to eat his words: check this article he wrote in Jan.’08:
January 11, 2008 12:00 PM
The Real McCain Record
Obstacles in the way of conservative support.
By Mark R. Levin
There’s a reason some of John McCain’s conservative supporters avoid discussing his record. They want to talk about his personal story, his position on the surge, his supposed electability. But whenever the rest of his career comes up, the knee-jerk reply is to characterize the inquiries as attacks.
The McCain domestic record is a disaster. To say he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter. For starters, consider:
McCain-Feingold — the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.
McCain-Kennedy — the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.
McCain-Lieberman — the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.
McCain-Kennedy-Edwards — the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.
McCain-Reimportation of Drugs — a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).
And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric — tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class. The public record is full of these statements. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.
McCain also led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.
And then there’s the McCain defense record.
His supporters point to essentially one policy strength, McCain’s early support for a surge and counterinsurgency. It has now evolved into McCain taking credit for forcing the president to adopt General David Petreaus’s strategy. Where’s the evidence to support such a claim?
Moreover, Iraq is an important battle in our war against the Islamo-fascist threat. But the war is a global war, and it most certainly includes the continental United States, which, after all, was struck on 9/11. How does McCain fare in that regard?
McCain-ACLU — the unprecedented granting of due-process rights to unlawful enemy combatants (terrorists).
McCain has repeatedly called for the immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay and the introduction of al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons — despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population.
While McCain proudly and repeatedly points to his battles with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who had to rebuild the U.S. military and fight a complex war, where was McCain in the lead-up to the war — when the military was being dangerously downsized by the Clinton administration and McCain’s friend, former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen? Where was McCain when the CIA was in desperate need of attention? Also, McCain was apparently in the dark about al-Qaeda like most of Washington, despite a decade of warnings.
My fingers are crossed that at the next debate, either Fred Thompson or Mitt Romney will find a way to address McCain’s record. (Mike Huckabee won’t, as he is apparently in the tank for him.)
— Mark R. Levin served as chief of staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese in the Reagan administration, and he is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host.
Either that (as if it wasn’t embarrassing enough) or it’s a Special Flag of Evilness and we can’t see it because we’re ensnared under his Spell O’ Enchantment..or ..something.
He lost me around ” Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria! …” and I couldn’t stop chuckling.
I caught about 10 or 15 minutes of this moron on Saturday night. He kept playing clips of Obama speeches from the 90’s which were supposed to demonstrate Levin’s contention that, essentially, Obama’s a Marxist culture-killer who’ll put us all on food stamps.
Obama sounded brilliant, as usual, and with every clip Levin played, I found myself thinking, “Keep playing them clips, baby. The more air time you nitwits give Barack Obama, the better he does in the polls. We thank you for your service.”
Shorter Levin.
Florida has hit the million mark — for voting, that is.
As of 5 this morning, the Secretary of State’s office said 1,016,275 people had cast ballots during the first week of early voting.
Miami-Dade officials say the county is well on its way to record voter turnout. So far, 112,000 people have cast ballots in the county and 92,104 absentee ballots have been returned.
In comparison, during the 2004 presidential election, 244,067 voters took advantage of two weeks of early voting and 98,466 voted by mail.
I went and looked-up some stuff from 45 years ago. The page 14 ad from the Dallas Morning News of November 22, 1963, and the Treason Flier that was being circulated that same day. Notice their bullshit hasn’t changed much, same fevered pitch.
WELCOME MR. KENNEDY
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/rus…..ce1031.jpg
WANTED FOR TREASON
http://www.orwelltoday.com/jfkadtreason.jpg
a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places.
Isn’t this a description of what happened under the Bush administration. More wingnut projection.
For CD-6 so far, we have 106,271 early/absentee voters out of 561,221 registered. Turnout for the youngsters is low right now (9% of 18-24 year olds vs. 31% of those 65 and over) but they are telling us they plan to go as large groups one election day and make a social event of it. We’ve got our work cut out making sure they follow through…
Mr Skittles huh ? so that’s what they meant by Let’s Roll! who knew ?
CNN (sanchez) asking the question: Who pushed the story about ashley toad?
Up shortly….
Wow. Not good with the youngsters. What’s the p[roblem? Kids will be kids I guess. In Orange County, Dems are voting at a 3-1 ratio compared to R’s. 3-2 if you add R’s and “others.” Some of the D’s willvote for McCain but the African American turnout has already exceeded EV in 2004. More people ahve vboted with eaxch day. i thought Monday or Tuesday would ahve been the big days since Obama was in town Monday. If it keeps going at a rate near what it is, it will be a massive EV turnout.
I just checked. We got 52,000 out of 604,000. You guys are way ahead. But w’re ahead of the pace for 2004 when there were 79,000 for the whole early voting. We can do better I guess. That’s why barack & The Big Dawg are coming (2nd time in 10 days, for barack)I suppose.
wait. I didn’t include absentee.
I think Palin’s body looks “un-used”.
Levin thinks Powell et al are babbling incoherently. McCain Palin keep demanding that Obama explain his relationship with Bill Ayers even though he’s done so repeatedly. Could it be that these folks cannot hear the truth when it’s spoken? Have they been listening to and spreading lies for so long now that the truth sounds like incoherence?
U had to Levin up this conversation..well huh!
Might I suggest to Mark and all his friends that there may be some room opening up in Canada soon.
They won’t like it here. We’re socialists. We have pension plans and public health care, paid for with public dollars. We have relatively friendly relations with Cuba and other socialist countries. Heck, Ian Welsh lives here! Stay away!