March 7th, 2024

On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, there have been many important speeches in the past like Lincoln’s second inaugural address. Biden will drone on at the State of the Union speech, but it only took Lincoln less than 7 minutes to give one of the greatest speeches ever. Lincoln could have yelled about threats to democracy, but he wanted none of that. He wanted to unite the nation. Biden, in every respect, is a failure. He never takes responsibility; he always blames others. The real Biden is the one who befriended racists in Congress and said that busing policies for desegregation would turn public schools into a racial jungle. Then, pro-Hamas protestors were blocking streets in D.C. in order to prevent Biden from speaking at the State of the Union. These are insurrectionists. Will they get the January 6 treatment? Also, Biden has turned 100% against the state of Israel; they are not allowed to win. Biden is ready to limit munitions to Israel if they invade Rafah, which is where the majority of the terrorists are. UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron says that Britain may recognize a Palestine state. Cameron isn’t doing this on his own. He’s doing this at the urging of Biden and Blinken.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. 3 hours away from what will be the most contemptible, divisive, dishonest speech by any president in American history. Barely. Gibbon in a coherent way. He’ll work his way through. I’m sure they’ve pumped him up as something. And you’ll see the clapping CEOs and the Democrat Party jumping up and down. Every syllable will be so historic. But it’s going to be painful because you and I are not honest people or people of virtue. Joe Biden is the opposite. His party is the opposite. The Democrats in the House and the Senate are the opposite. And of course, the media is beyond contempt. There have been important speeches in the past. People say this is the most important speech in Biden’s career. Notice how they say that it’s the most important speech in Biden’s career. It was about Biden. It’s about his party. It’s about their power. Not about America, although they’ll try and wrap themselves in the American flag, which they so hate. But it got me to thinking. About Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address. Biden will drone on like Castro. He’ll give a Castro like speech. Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address, as you well know. What, 701 words? It took him less than 7 minutes to give it. My dad did a beautiful book on this. Malice toward none. With fantastic illustrations and explanations, and I was honored to write the forward. And I want to read it to you. Because they’re three years. Excuse me. 3 hours away from something quite different. In November 1864, Abraham Lincoln won a resounding electoral victory over Democrat George McClellan, whom he had removed a few years earlier as Major general of the Union Army. Alma Kleinman was popular with the troops. Lincoln lost trust in him. Due to his interception this and at times defiance. Lincoln’s re-election initially in some doubt was improved significantly by a number of union battlefield victories in the late summer of 1864, especially the Battle of Atlanta and the March to the Sea, led by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman. A March 4th, 1865. At his second inauguration. And on a day that began with miserable weather and heavy rain. Lincoln gave what many, including Lincoln himself, consider his greatest speech. Yes, even more profound than the Gettysburg Address. It was a speech delivered as the Civil War seemed to be coming to a close with important victories in South and North Carolina. As well as Virginia, among other places. Indeed, 36 days later, Confederate General Robert E Lee would surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse on April nine, 1865. And tragically, 41 days after his second inauguration. Lincoln will be assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Booth, along with other conspirators, was among the onlookers in the crowd that Inauguration day when Lincoln gave a speech. Also present and listening attentively. Lincoln’s speech was Frederick Douglass. The former slave was a courageous and outspoken leader of the abolitionist movement. Douglass was originally skeptical of Lincoln’s commitment to ending slavery. But after their meetings and Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on January one, 1863, among other things, Douglass became an admirer. Douglas also attended the inaugural reception at the White House that evening, but was initially prevented from entering the East Room by the police. He pushed his way past them. It was quickly noticed by Lincoln. As Douglas recounts, and I quote, Lincoln called out. Here comes my friend Douglas. Lincoln shot Douglas hand and said, Douglas. I saw you in the crowd today listening to my inaugural address. There is no man’s opinion that I value more than yours. What do you think of it? This is recounted by Douglas in his own memoir. Douglas replied, Mr. Lincoln, It was a sacred effort, and it was the last time Douglas would see Lincoln. In a sacred effort. It was on so many levels. Lincoln’s second inaugural address is among the most impressive of all speeches delivered by history’s great statesmen. Although a mere 701 words and 7 minutes in duration. Not much longer than the 271 word Gettysburg Address. In the second shortest inaugural speech of any president bar George Washington’s second inaugural speech. Lincoln could have claimed vindication or gloated about the union. And its triumph as so many political demagogues would have. In fact, the speeches devoid of the kind of endless personal references to self familiar in the prose of modern presidents. Nor did Lincoln set forth a long list of specific tasks confronting the nation and attempt to rally the people in their discharge, as many had expected. Instead. Instead. As Gettysburg. Lincoln delivered the ideal speech. The speech where every word was carefully chosen, every sentence carefully structured was a tour de force, not only in its precision, but more important for its message of tolerance and reconciliation. Its purpose was to address war weary Americans lay the foundation for peace. Lincoln knew well. That every corner of the country had been impacted by the war. The casualties were unimaginable. With hundreds of thousands dead. post-War reconstruction will be an incredibly difficult and complex task involving the restoration of the economy, rebuilding cities and towns, assimilating regions, promoting racial harmony, caring for the maimed and widows, legal and constitutional challenges, and so much more. Although Lincoln would not live to lead the reconstruction efforts. The spirit and direction of his intentions. Could not have been clearer. They were best exemplified by these magnificent and most memorable words. With malice toward none, with charity for all. During the course of the war, Lincoln was known to pray frequently. Seeking strength from God and his hand in guidance. Some noted, including Douglas, that Lincoln’s speech seemed fashioned after a sermon. In fact. Nearly half the speech invokes references to God or Scripture. Lincoln spoke of the woe due to those by whom the offence of slavery came. He observed that both Northerners and Southerners read the same Bible, pray to the same God, and each invokes his aid against the other. The prayers of both could not be answered. Lincoln proclaimed that American slavery was a blight that God quote knows no wills to remove now, wills to remove. And despite the toll in lives and treasure, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous all together. If there is ever any doubt that the Civil War was fought not only to maintain the union, but in the end to drive the horror of slavery from the land, there was no more. It is reported by numerous reliable observers that one link began his second inaugural address. The stormy weather clouds of that day gave way to the light of a shining sun. Walt Whitman was one who wrote about it at the time. He was a news reporter and he watched it. It is an image that underscores Lincoln’s exceptionality. He was not only an extraordinary president, but a remarkable man whose wisdom will continue to span generations. My father wrote that. I think I said I did, but that’s ridiculous. My father wrote that. She was a great writer. Great writer. Now I want you to hear what Lincoln said again. Second inauguration, not State of the Union. But the importance is the issue, the nature of the speech. The nation is watching. And we’ll see how close Joe Biden comes to Abraham Lincoln standing. And trust me when I tell you, Lincoln. Lincoln could have been yelling, raising his voice. Threats to democracy could have been attacking the Democrats. The Count. The Confederacy. He wanted none of that. He said at the second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there’s less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first, he said. Then in a statement, somewhat in detail of of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point in every phase. The great contest, which still absorbs the attention and it grosses the energies of the nation little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself. And it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future. No prediction in regard to it is venturing. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it. Also to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place. Devoted altogether to saving the union without war. Insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war. Seeking to dissolve the union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And so the war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern parts of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar, powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war to strengthen, perpetuate and extend. This interest was the object for which the insurgents would run the union even better. Well, the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war of this magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, pray to the same God, and each invokes his aid against the other. May seem strange that any man. Should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other man’s faces. But let us judge not. That we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. And he quotes the Bible. We went to the world because of offences for it. It must needs be. The offence has come. But woe to the man by whom the offence cometh. If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which in the providence of God. Must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointment time. He now wills to remove that he gives to both north and South this terrible war as the world due to those by whom the offence came. Shall we discern there in any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribed to him? Finally, do we hope, fervently do we pray that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away? Yet if God wills that to continue, like all the wealth until all the wealth piled by the bondsman, 250 years of unrequited toil shall be sunk in it till every drop of blood drawn with a lash shall be paid by another. Drawn with the sword, as was said 3000 years ago. With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. Let us strive on to finish the work we are in. To bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him, who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan to do all which may achieve the cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. Joe Biden is incapable of a speech like that. More when I return.

Segment 2
I have very little time here. That segment went long for obvious reasons, and I’ll discuss some more length after the bottom of the hour. That said, it’s too much to expect Joe Biden, who’s been in the public eye for more than half a century, has given thousands of speeches, not one of which is remembered, not one of which has anything profound in it, that he will rise to the occasion. The media will love whatever he says, they’ll say was combative. They’ll say that he was taking on Trump MAGA and that he’s defending democracy when in fact he’s burning down the country. That’s what he’s doing. More when I return.

Segment 3
You know, when you look honestly at the quality of men who stood in front of Congress in the nation and delivered the State of the Union address. I think before Jefferson, that never took place, but nonetheless. We have sunk so low. To have a man in the Oval Office like this. Let me be as blunt as I know how. Joe Biden in every respect. Is a failure. Oh, sure. He got elected to the Senate repeatedly from a little Democrat state, and he was plucked out of the Senate to run with Obama. But there’s nothing in the man’s background character experience, knowledge based achievements, nothing. That commends him to the presidency. Nothing. Quite the opposite. They talk about Trump getting a Trump doesn’t get angry rarely. Biden’s always angry. Biden does not accept responsibility or accountability for what he does. He blames others. Biden is. Incredibly insecure, which is why he has to lie repeatedly about things he never did. But is not very bright, which is why he plagiarized in law school in a major test and graduated near the bottom of his class. Biden will do anything for power as when he stepped into the Senate in 1973. Over half a century ago. The first thing he did is he befriended. The most racist segregationists. In the United States Senate. Several, but three in particular, the two senators from Mississippi, Eastland and Stennis. And the senator from West Virginia. Robert Byrd. Robert Byrd. Was among those who filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But he won’t be remembered in history as the man who spent the longest amount of time filibustering over 14 hours. Byrd and the others also oppose the 1965 Civil Rights Act, often called the Voting Rights Act. Now, this was the history when Biden came into the Senate of these three men. But Biden needed their help and they wanted his help. Biden opposed the integration of our public schools by busing. It’s very controversial back then. But Biden took the lead. He wasn’t passive. It wasn’t just mildly supportive. Biden was the author. Of legislation to end it. And he wrote a letter to James Eastland. I’ve researched all of it and it is a letter to James Eastland. He thanked Eastland for supporting his bill. And Biden did, in fact, say all those things. He said all those things. That people said, he said. About a jungle that he didn’t want his kids. To be in a jungle. So he sent his kids to parochial school. Just as he had graduated from parochial school, not public school. That’s fine. But he’s a hypocrite. And there’s much more. Stennis gave him the desk. On which this Southern Manifesto or whatever it was called was signed. In the late 1950s by a conga line of racists and segregationists from the South. And Biden happily took the desk. You see, Biden was close to these men. He became very close to the. They were dear friends, not just colleagues, but his people he had to work with. And by was very comfortable around these men. He needed their help and as they said, they needed his. And that’s exactly what happened. He knew their backgrounds. He knew what they stood for. He knew about the 64 and 65 civil rights acts. In fact, these same three men voted against the 1968 Civil Rights Act. Just four years before Biden won his Senate race. Biden also became friendly with a man you may have heard of before. George Wallace. George Wallace. Segregation now. And segregation forever. That’s what he said. Words to that effect. And he and Orval Faubus and the others stood in the door house of their little elementary schools to prevent little black kids from going to school with little white kids. When Orval Faubus did that in Arkansas, it was one of Bill Clinton’s mentors. And when Faubus used the National Guard to block the front of that elementary school or that school, rather, Dwight Eisenhower said, okay, now that you called out the guard, the guard works for me. Those are federal troops. And the guard literally switched sides. And protected those in. William Fulbright senior, said his senior senator from Arkansas was another one, but he was anti-Vietnam War, so he got a pass. He was embraced by the hardcore left in the Democrats, the McGovernites, the media. They excused him. These were the circle of people, among others, that Joe Biden was involved in. In 1993. The man who’s going to give the speech tonight. He was the not a co-sponsor, the sponsor. Have a piece of legislation. A piece of legislation that was tough on crime, or so he said. But that piece of legislation. Targeted most of all black people. It targeted the drugs. The use of the drugs. The sell the drugs that were most prevalent in black neighborhoods. Like crack. Not so much cocaine. At the time, there were a number of black civil rights organizations. They complained to Biden. That objected to this bill and said, sir, that because they were soft on crime, but because of the targets. In 1994. That crime bill passed by and refers to it all the time are used to. Then he apologized for it in 2020 when he was on the stage with Kamala Harris. You’ve heard Biden say horrific things about black people, even in recent times. Oh, that’s just Joe. No, that really is Joe. Joe has always been a bigot. It just depends who his target is. Its target right now is the Israeli Jews. His target two years ago was. Were the Asian students who were being blackballed by Harvard and North Carolina and some of these other schools who are prevented from being admitted in these schools because of their race? You see, they were just too smart. We can’t have all these Asians in our classrooms. That case went to the United States Supreme Court. Joe Biden had ordered his attorney general, Merrick Garland, a lapdog. To go to the Supreme Court. Which is solicitor general did and tell the court not to take the case. And if they take the case to rule for Harvard to rule for North Carolina. And the Supreme Court ruled on the case. And I’ll tell you in plain English, what they said is we haven’t seen segregation like this since the fifties and sixties. They didn’t put it that way. That’s what they said in in more words. And they needed to. That this was blatant. Racism and segregation in clear violation of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. They struck it down. Joe Biden attacked the court. Viciously attacked the court. His side lost. He took the side of the racists and the segregationists in our poison Ivy League colleges, among others. And then, of course, Joe Biden turned his sights on women. And he directed his Department of Education into Department of Justice. To institute a rule. That would permit biological men. To compete with biological women. We call that science. Now you hear people talk about Title nine. Title nine was passed as an amendment to the Civil Rights Act in 1972. See. I know all this. Joe Biden destroyed half a century of women’s progress in our colleges and our high schools. An access to sports destroyed them. In the name of transgenderism and self-identification. He did. He has destroyed women’s sports in this country that were fought for in women’s rights, fought for. And of course, the enters at The View and the phony feminist organizations didn’t say a damn thing. Blacks. Asian. Women. And I might add, Hispanics. What’s going on in the southern border isn’t exclusively about Hispanics. But it is significantly about Hispanics. They’re being raped. They’re being abused physically. Other ways. They’re being murdered. They’re being sold in the sex slavery. They’re being sold into labor slavery. As are the little children. Not all of which, but a significant number of whom are. Hispanic. The inhumanity that’s taking place, the enriching of the drug cartels and the communist Chinese. They’re the only ones benefiting from this. Hundred thousand dead Americans a year from fentanyl. The substance of which is provided to the drug cartels by the communist Chinese. As Peter Schweitzer so brilliantly writes in his book Blood Money, which by the way, was number one on the New York Times bestseller list. They sell on the machines to process it to create the capsule, and they launder the money in Chinese banks for them. Blacks, women. Asians, Hispanic. Individuals. You’ll hear a laundry list tonight of all the great things Joe Biden has done for the country and especially. These various communities. He’s done nothing. Except late a match to them. And speaking of standing in the door, house of schools is Joe Biden, who opposes school choice despite the fact that he sent his children to parochial school. He doesn’t want little black kids, little brown kids. Leaving their. Failed neighborhood schools. To actually get a real education. He doesn’t want parents of these little kids to be involved in the decisions about where their kids should go to school and can go to school. There’s no reason that little kids have to go to the school that’s down the street, especially if the school is a failure. Joe Biden likes to talk. That his relationship with black people. With Hispanics, with others, minorities. He has none. None. The only time he talks to and about black people is when he needs their votes. But African-Americans shouldn’t feel singled out. He does the same thing in Palestine, Ohio. Well, there’s mostly hardworking white people who only goes here for a photo op, goes down to the border twice, and is long and failed career both times. He goes where the migrants are not because he doesn’t care. That’s the real Joe Biden. He’s the one now standing in the doorway of schools to prevent little black kids and little Hispanic kids, a little Asian kids and yes, little white kids from going to better schools because he’s thrown in with the teacher union bosses. He wants their money and he wants their votes. It’s that simple. He’s callous and he’s cold blooded. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
You’re going to be upset and frustrated listening to the Biden Castro like speech. Because it’ll have more lives in it than all past State of the Union speeches combined. It’s the only way he hopes to win. It’ll be a vicious speech. It’ll be a vile speech. It’ll be a historically condemned speech. And yet the same people who are destroying our country, the same people trying to put the hurt the future Republican nominee in prison, the same people who open our borders, the same people who’ve destroyed our budget and our finances, they will be applauding. They will be applauding like seals for their man, Biden. I’ll be right back.