March 13th, 2024

On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, Communist China has a massive propaganda operation that reaches into our homes and our culture. The issue with TikTok has nothing to do with the First Amendment, libertarianism, or Facebook, and it is upsetting to see conservatives and pseudo-conservatives argue like liberal Marxists to allow TikTok to remain in the hands of China. Also, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times is an enemy of the state of Israel and has spent two decades trying to destroy the current state of Israel and replace it with a fairytale. Friedman is a mouthpiece for the self-hating Jews in America and does not want Israel to win against Hamas, just like the Biden Administration and the pro-Hamas Democrat party. 8 Democrat senators led by Bernie Sanders are demanding that if Netanyahu and Israel do not bow to their demands, they will cut off military aid and support to Israel, but they do not demand that Joe Biden stop funding Iran and their terrorist surrogates. Later, Mark is joined by Bernie Moreno to discuss the Republican primary race for the Senate seat in Ohio, his fight against an establishment RINO, and his endorsement by Donald Trump and conservative Republicans.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin. Here are our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. You remember it wasn’t that long ago. Four or five years ago. When the Mueller report came out. The Mueller report came out. You remember that? And our friends at MRC. NewsBusters. They wrote that Attorney General William Barr’s inclusion of the phrase does not exonerate in his summary of the Mueller report does not exonerate, said Bill Barr. That is, it does not exonerate Trump. Has become a much needed security blanket. This is back four or five years ago for liberal journalists. For the past 24 hours, CNN commentators, correspondents, they just look at them. They keep repeating it does not exonerate. That’s not exonerate. Does not exonerate. And honestly, Bill Barr started it. But that’s what you get. And so I want you to listen to this. And it has relevance today for obvious reasons, but I’ll underscore it. Go. Vindication on collusion. Yes. Exoneration on obstruction, Not so much total exoneration. That’s not what it says in here. It is no exoneration. There’s also a direct quote that says, while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate the president. It said it didn’t win. It did not exonerate him. It did not exonerate him. Mueller specifically says, well, this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime. It also does not exonerate him. He lied today when he said, I’ve been fully exonerated. He could not be exonerated if he does not exonerated, but he’s not exonerated. He was not exonerated. President Trump was not exonerated. Did not exonerate the president. Mueller didn’t exonerate Trump. He is not fully exonerated, if not exonerating specifically not exonerated. And it wasn’t going to completely exonerate the president, which it didn’t. So, you know, not to pat myself on the back, but I think that this does not exonerate, does not exonerate, does not exonerate, does not exonerate, did not exonerate. Doesn’t exonerate. Doesn’t exonerate. Does not exonerate. It’s not exonerate. It doesn’t exonerate. Does not exonerate President Trump either. Wow. Now if we had a montage today on Biden does exonerate does exonerate does exonerate does exonerate, does it go be the opposite? Just shows you what a bunch of lousy place these people are. Did I say lies? Hmm. Makes sense, though, doesn’t it? It just shows you really doesn’t matter the issue. They’re like a conga line. They’re like the Rockettes. Well, actually, I wish they were. But ugly Rockettes, if you know what I mean. Slobbering themselves, bouncing around on the stage. Left foot, upright foot up at flag, up right foot. They just repeat themselves. No exoneration. Yes, exoneration. And whatever the Democrat Party spews, they spew and vice versa. That’s the way it works. And I still insist and argue that Liz Cheney needs to be investigated. She needs to be, you know, giving testimony under oath. And the media is pushing back, of course. They’re kind of attacking Chairman Loudermilk, who we had on the program and will have on the program Saturday on Life, Liberty and Levin saying that they’re trying these Republicans, you know, to delegitimize the January six report. What kind of a report is that? It’s just so grotesque. It’s so preposterous. So they’re trying to. Why don’t they look at the report? It’s 81 pages long. There’s a lot of information in there. There’s relevant. I think, important. But I wanted to discuss this. Tick tock. Tic tac. No markets. Tic tac. Oh, okay. The vote overwhelming today. And the the overwhelming number of Republicans, only 15 voted against it. And even the overwhelming number of Democrats, only 50, voted against it. And I wanted to tell you, as I told you I would last night, which Republicans did not. You know, the bottom line for me is communist China has a massive. Massive propaganda operation that reaches into our homes, into our children’s bedrooms. They reach us and every part of our culture. And we’re told Thomas Massie, this has absolutely nothing to do with the First Amendment. I’m sorry. I’m the real libertarian here. I would tell Nancy Mace. This has nothing to do with Facebook. That’s a separate issue that needs to be addressed by all means. And I am troubled when I find conservatives and pseudo conservatives using the argument and the argument tactics, I should say, are the Marxist left the version Shiny objects. Facebook is not being voted on here. You already have a number of companies and individuals have come forward and they say they’ll buy it because. It’s a massive profit center. With 170 million building users. So it’s not a matter of whether tick tock is destroyed. It’s not a matter of free speech because the communists don’t have a protected constitutional right. Undermine our country. By sending propaganda in here. And I can prove that to Mr. Massey if he wants to call and explain to him what the founders actually believed. When the Bill of Rights was adopted after the Constitution was it are more than happy to. So all these arguments I told you last night, the effort to make this into some kind of a libertarian thing, which it’s not a free speech thing, which it’s not. These 15 Republicans. They voted against, essentially. Stopping communist China from brainwashing our children and destroying our culture. That’s what they did. And I don’t care what they argue. And that’s why the vast majority of the others, including the vast majority of the Freedom Caucus, our buddies there. Jim Jordan, Chip Roy, Byron Donalds, So many others voted yes. They voted yes. And then the argument goes, well, we can’t trust the government with this company. Who owns the government, but buying a company? Well, somebody will buy the company or some group of by the company and they’ll use it like they did Twitter, which is now X. Although a user like Facebook is being used. This is bizarre. Those are separate issues that must be and can be addressed. But we actually have the communist regime that’s doing that and much more and much worse. So there’s not a hypothetical, there’s not an alternative argument. This is taking place today as I speak. I mean, why is communist China funding Confucius Institutes and colleges and universities? Why is Qatar spending billions and billions of dollars in colleges and universities? Why is the Hamas network spending a fortune on Students for Justice in Palestine and other terrorist supporting organizations? Why are they doing? They want to overthrow our country. They want to destroy it. And we’ve seen it in our straits. We see it in our streets. The attack on American history, the attack on the founders in their framers, the attack on the declaration, the attack on the Constitution. We see it all. And communist China is behind a lot of it. And they’re going to make a free speech argument. I don’t know. Do Tokyo Rose have a free speech? Right. I’m just sitting here thinking. Oh, no, no, no. You can’t stop her broadcast. No to violate free speech rights. That is about as stupid an argument as I’ve ever heard that this is protected by the First Amendment. I’ve never heard anything so stupid. I don’t know is espionage and the stealing of information, Mr. Producer, from our contractors and our developers. Is that protected by the Commerce Clause? I’m just I’m just curious, is that protected by the Commerce Clause? Of course not. It’s not the kind of commerce that we’re talking about. Any more than communist Chinese propaganda aimed at undermining our country, brainwashing our children. As a First Amendment right. A foreign country does not have that First Amendment right. We have a right to confront it, defeat it, and destroy what they’re doing. So there are people who are making these arguments. You’re not making genuine arguments. The vast majority, anyway, are making these arguments because they want the campaign dollars from the people who’ve invested in tick tock, including one billionaire in particular. They make these self-righteous arguments and there’s nothing righteous about them. But it’s twisted logic. Like with the impeachment. America’s twisted logic about the Constitution. Twisted logic. We don’t want the government to get into the habit of doing this. Congress is voting on this. This company is not going to disappear. It will be owned by Americans. Well, you’re stealing the communist Chinese property. So what? They’re the enemy. I can just see World War Two. Well, hold on now. You’re stealing Hitler’s property. Oh, you’re stealing this. What kind of stupidity? And these are conservatives are so-called conservatives. We’re making these bizarre And that’s right. Bizarre arguments as far as I’m concerned. Well, Mr. Producer, I can’t get behind the paywall to name the 15, but actually, you sent me an email earlier, didn’t you? Folks, I’m having a hell of a time at my computer, so I have to go back. The iPhone always happens. I have some of the cheapest crap when it comes to an old and we must reduce her. Cheap and all. That’s where we that’s that’s you know keep an old. Just kind of like Joe Biden. But I want to give you this information. It’s very, very important. Let’s see here. I will find it. Come hell or high water. Mr. Producer, just send it. Okay. I’ll tell you what. We’re going to take a brief break and I will have it. I want you to hear the names, and I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
Here, the Republicans who voted the wrong way. And despite all their twisting. Despite all the static. Despite all the so-called principled arguments, the fact is, if they had had their way. And let’s hope the Senate takes up this bill and passes it. Now, Communist China would still be in our bedrooms, in our kitchens and our homes and our schools and everywhere else. Here they are. Andy Biggs of Arizona. Dan Bishop, who I believe of North Carolina. Warren Davidson of Ohio. Janice Doherty of California. Matt Gaetz of Florida. Marjorie Taylor GREENE of Georgia. Clay Higgins, Louisiana. Nancy Mace, South Carolina. Thomas Massie, Kentucky. Tom McClintock, California. Alex Mooney, West Virginia. Barry More Alabama. Scott Perry. Perhaps the one that disappoints me the most. Pennsylvania. David Schweikert Arizona. And Gregory Stubby. Greg Stubby, really in Florida. Those 15. The vast majority of conservatives. Voted for the bill. The vast majority of the Freedom Caucus voted for the bill. I just wanted to make that clear that these are outliers in many ways. And they can wrap themselves in the Constitution all they want. That is a pathetic joke. They can try and get you upset with Zuckerberg and Facebook because you’re already upset with him. And so am I. Has nothing to do with that. You don’t give the communist Chinese a pass because of Zuckerberg and Facebook. How stupid is that? They’re already offers on the table to buy this tic tac mothership company. So what does it have to do with Facebook? Nothing. All their arguments are smokescreens. And it is too bad. It’s too bad when you have. Over 150 Democrats who vote the right way and 15 Republicans who don’t. I mean, it’s crazy. And this is the problem. I don’t believe these people are arguing about conservatism. Not the conservatism I’m aware of, not the Reagan conservatism, not the Goldwater conservatism. Go. Gordon and Reagan wouldn’t have put up with this. They would have said it was a grave threat to our national security. They wouldn’t have argued that the First Amendment gets in the way because it doesn’t. And they would have been appalled by the amount of money being spent by billionaires and others. To buy votes and influence votes. As for populism, how is this populist and by the way, most of the populist Republicans in the House voted for this bill as well. It’s not a populist position to support the communist Chinese propaganda operation massive in the United States of America to destroy our culture and undermine our country. It’s quite the opposite. So traditional conservatives and populists really take the same position. It’s individuals who have their own thought processes or whatever they have who’ve taken the position that they take. They don’t really represent anybody or anything but their own views, which is perfectly fine. But this is. A perfectly ridiculous vote, in my view. Now, when we come back after the bottom of the hour. I want to reacquaint you folks with a man by the name of Thomas Friedman. He’s got more Pulitzer Prizes. Then Joe Biden has hair plugs. Because the truth be told, the Pulitzer committee is headed by a bunch of leftists who hand out prizes to themselves. When I tell you about Thomas Friedman, I’m going to tell you about his view of the world, whether it’s communist China, fascistic Russia, Putin, whether it is Israel, and whether it’s our own country. And what a complete jackass this guy is. We’ll be right back.

Segment 3
Thomas Friedman has been writing at the New York Times a very long time. He was a man for a relatively modest means, but he married into enormous wealth. He currently lives but recently did anyway, on a compound of about seven acres in one of the most expensive places in America, the Maryland suburbs. The Washington, D.C.. And most of the time this is where he writes his columns from. Here’s an individual who lived on a kibbutz. For a period of time. In most of the kibbutz, kibbutzim are very left wing, very liberal. That’s where he learned to speak Hebrew, although he said you don’t need to understand Hebrew to understand Israelis. He majored in Middle Eastern studies and Arabic at Brandeis, another left wing operation studied at Oxford University in England, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and American University in Cairo. He is now. And it has been, frankly. One of the leading. Opponents. Of the existence of the state of Israel as it exists today. He has spent two decades trying to destroy the current. The current state of Israel and replace of a one. Based on his own imagination. This is the same Thomas Friedman and I wrote about liberty and tyranny. Who some years back praised the communist Chinese regime. At least they get things done, unlike in Washington, where we have all these debates. Which, of course, is the point of the Constitution. The guy is not bright. And they couldn’t make them smart despite how many schools he went. I call him out on it over and over and over again. He finally kind of relented. This is a man who used to praise Vladimir Putin. As a new kind of leader. Then he realized he was kind of wrong about that, too. But one thing he’s been consistent about. This is abject hate for Benjamin Netanyahu. Because Benjamin Netanyahu, when he was in a cabinet in Israel, the longest serving prime minister of Israel. Doesn’t share Thomas Friedman’s view of how to remake and fundamentally alter Israel and the people in Israel. So Thomas Freeman is out to destroy him cause Netanyahu, an extremist, calls his cabinet an extremist. He does this no matter. The different governments they get elected and that Netanyahu leads as prime minister doesn’t matter. This is the same Thomas Friedman, who hates half of this country for not supporting Biden, who hates for this country, for not supporting Obama. He writes about. Donald Trump in the most horrendous ways. And yet he writes about Netanyahu more and even more horrendous ways. I’ve talked about self-hating Jews before America. Just as there are self-hating Catholics and on and on. And Thomas Friedman is their mouthpiece, not their intellectual advocate, their mouthpiece. He’ll show up at J Street, which is an organization of self-hating Jews. And despite the fact that Israel’s fighting for its very existence, despite the fact that it’s winning. Under the leadership of their commander in chief, Benjamin Netanyahu. They don’t want Israel to win because according to Friedman and according to Blinken and according to these other truly sick, self-aggrandizing self haters. They want to rejigger the entire Middle East where cultures respect each other and have their shared differences. Where Iran is just as strong as Israel and has atomic weapons to prove it. That the problem in the Middle East isn’t terrorism. It’s not Islamism. It’s Israel. But for Israel. But for Netanyahu. There would be peace in the Middle East. October 7th would never have happened. And on and on and on. This is what Netanyahu and his brothers have to deal with. From the pages of The New York Times, from Bernie Sanders and his and his comrades in the Senate from Talib, an outspoken Jew hater. And Joe Biden. The only prime minister Joe Biden has ever liked are the prime ministers who go to him on bended knee, which is exactly what. Menachem Begin. And Bibi Netanyahu will not do. Thomas Friedman writes piece after piece about what piece should look like. He’s basically a mouthpiece for the Biden administration, for the Obama administration, for the most radical elements in our politics. That’s why he gets popular. Pulitzer Prizes. That’s who it goes to. Conservatives don’t get those anymore. You see? And despite the fact Friedman’s been demonstrated wrong time and time and time again, he’s got a long record of writing columns, thousands of them. Despite the fact that his barely literate or coherent columns. Have stood the test of time. He insists that he’s right. He insists that the body politic follow his lead. He demands a two state solution. He demands that Israel stop destroying Hamas. He demands that the Israeli people overthrow Netanyahu, but they voted for him. That doesn’t matter. He demands that the Israeli people. Turn him out. He demands that the Israelis comply with the dictates of Blinken and Biden. He talks about the peace for Palestinians, but he can’t point them out. He too, believes. Like. Blinken Like that Trader Malley, our negotiator on nuclear weapons. That the Obama nuclear deal was great. That Trump should never have ended it. He believes. That sanction should be lifted. That time and again, over and over again, an olive branch me handed to the Islamo Nazi regime in Tehran. Let the money flow. Do not hit them back when they kill three of our soldiers. This is who Thomas Friedman is. He’s a low class. Surface level self-hating. Self-destructive. Individual who projects his own. In my art, my views, psychological and other problems onto the state of Israel. That’s my view. And he meets with and he talks with Blinken. He’s one of the whispers from Lincoln and vice versa. And so much of our foreign policy, especially when it comes to Israel, is being made at the New York Times Corporation. Now if you are a self-respecting American. Let alone a self-respecting Jew. How could you even be employed by and paid by the New York Times? There have been scholars who written big books with all kinds of footnotes in their notes explaining how the Jewish ownership of the New York Times, just like the Jewish Thomas Friedman, just like the Jewish. Antony Blinken. They’ve been books written. About how The New York Times covered up the Holocaust. One’s called Betraying the Jews. And the others that we’ve talked about. I’ve written about them at length. In two of my books. The same State Department has today. Back then was a beehive. Of Antisemites. Back then it was the Brahmin types. Today, it’s the Islamist types. But the end result is the same. Thomas Friedman has a long piece yesterday. And, of course, the left. Well, they just think of the fantastic. And what is that piece? Well. Here’s something I want you to know right now. Right now. This is from the Free Beacon, one of the great sites. Adam Credo, one of the great writers. You haven’t seen this on a single news site tonight. Not one. The Biden administration today. We approved a sanctions waiver. That unlocks upwards of $10 billion in frozen funds for the Iranian regime. According to a copy of the notice submitted to Congress late today, that is now in review by the Washington Free Beacon. The sanctions waiver, which has drawn fierce GOP opposition on Capitol Hill, allows Iraq to transfer electricity payments to Iran via third party countries. The sanctions waiver was last approved by the Biden administration in November. After October 7th and set to expire this month, putting the White House in a tight position. There’s a mounting chorus of GOP lawmakers express concern about sanctions being bypassed. He could care less. He could care less. The authority granted in the latest waivers allows Iraq to convert dinars into euros and transfer payments into the Iranian bank accounts in Oman. Republican foreign policy leaders in Congress raised concerns about the waiver earlier this week, the Free Beacon reported saying that sanctions should not be lifted on the hardline Iranian regime in light of its support for Hamas and other terrorist proxies waging war on Israel and America and American outposts. And while the regime maintains the funds can only be accessed by Iran to pay for humanitarian supplies in a. I’m so sick of these lying bastard. You have no idea. Like food and medicine. Critics of the sanctions. Now, the sanctions waiver, I should say, are that money is fungible. And of course, we all know it is. The State Department would not immediately confirm let me put it this way, Why will we have sanctions if all it was doing was feeding people? Of course, it’s ridiculous. Is that what Trump did? No. He put sanctions on to break the back of that regime. And they were working. It’s just like the border. Biden reverses course. So the Iranians are stronger. They’re more flush with money. They have more arms than ever before. The enemies on our border. Well, it’s the Mexican cartels, the communist Chinese pushing poison into our country and so forth. They’re flush with money. They’ve never seen anything like this before either. The only people who aren’t are the American people. The State Department would not immediately confirm transmitting the sanctions waiver to Congress, but defended its previous renewals in response to the Free Beacon questions. And it goes on. So the Thomas Friedman. Tony Blinken. Blinken. Bernie Sanders. Rashida Tlaib. A Gender. Is to pour tens of millions of dollars into Iran, pour hundreds of millions of dollars into UNWRA, which funds Hamas and strategizing and participates in their terrorism, including October 7th, to pour hundreds of millions to Arafat’s PLO. To make sure that when Iran attacks us through its proxies, that we never, ever, number one, blame Iran. And number two, don’t respond by hitting Iran. Instead, all the attacks, all the pressure, all the threats need to be placed on Israel. Richard Goldberg, who we’ve had on TV, a former White House national security adviser, member who worked on the Iran portfolio, said the latest version of the sanctions waiver is substantially different than the one issued during the Trump administration. The Biden version, he says, gives Iran far more leeway in how the money used to be used. So they sat there and tried to figure out and then did on how to make a sanction. A waiver. Take the phony bipartisan secure the border bill. This is not the same waiver for Iraqi electricity imports that has been issued since 2018, he said. This is an Iran sanctions relief waiver that allows Tehran to access money and use it for budget support, including debt payments and import subsidies. The fact that the administration will not even tell the American people how much money Iran has access to over the last four months, money that subsidize three American soldiers deaths and non-stop attacks on the American Navy should prompt the US Senate to immediately pass the No Funds for Iran Terrorism Act and send it to the president’s desk. And the Democrats are on board with Biden. The Democrat Party is now I will announce the official wing of the terrorists in the Middle East. They have members who support them. The members who support what they’ve done to Jews and Americans, that is, to Israeli Jews and Americans. And you have Joe Biden and Blinken doing everything they can to destroy the government of Israel as they, by the way, are destroying our own government. So another 10 billion for Iran on top of hundreds of billions as a result of the lifting of the oil sanctions. And in little Israel while trying to defend itself against enemies that surround it. Has an enemy in the Oval Office, in the State Department, in the Biden regime, and in the Democrat Party who’s demanding that it loose, demanding that they put an appeaser in the position of Prime minister so our government can work more closely with the Prime Minister and together they will appease and destroy the state of Israel, arm Iran with nukes, and threaten the United States directly. We’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Everything is very expensive. Did you see the latest inflation report? I noticed Joe Biden didn’t go to the podium and talk about that because it’s moving north again and it’s going to keep moving north. Folks, I got some news for you. I went through his budget proposal, $7.3 trillion. That’s crazy. The most massive tax increases in the history of this country. It’s just. It’s insane. He’s going to destroy America, small business. He’s going to destroy America, large corporations. So they’ll continue to produce things overseas while he has the border open. So we have people pouring into the country are going to take jobs from Americans. This this is the policy of an administration that is truly fundamentally transforming America into more of a third world country, but certainly a nation that’s in decline. Be right back.