November 18th, 2024

On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, Comcast is finally looking to get rid of MSNBC. Mark has warned in the past that they would pay a public price if they don’t cut ties with MSNBC. The news divisions are separate on Fox News but not separate on MSNBC and CNN – you can’t tell one from the other. The Washington Post is almost dying, if they didn’t have Jeff Bezos, it would be dead. It’s not because of technology, it’s because people are sick of these media companies. Later, President-Elect Trump confirms plans to use the military to deport illegal aliens after declaring a national emergency. This is what Dwight Eisenhower did. If Trump doesn’t have mass deportations, we can multiply the number of illegal aliens in the future because of chain migration. These mass deportations must be done, or the country won’t survive. Also, Democrats are still trying to steal the Senate race in Pennsylvania and Gov Josh Shapiro does nothing about stopping it. This is a miscarriage of the electoral process and justice. Salena Zito calls in to give us the latest in this election fight. Bob Casey can’t win but what the Democrats are trying to do is set a precedent to try and weaken Pennsylvania voting laws.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here, our number. No, I’m not taking any cabinet positions. 877-381-3811-877-381-3811. Not that I’ve been offered any, but some really good people. The president is selecting, you know. Mika and and Joe Scarborough. We’ve talked about them way too much here. And the reason we have and they’re in one of my books on freedom of the press is because of the really poisonous and cancerous way they’ve talked about Donald Trump for almost seems like a decade, I guess seven or eight years. And one of the things in and freedom of the press, which is three or four years old now, is the constant reference to Hitler. And fascism. And the things that. Donald Trump is and would do if he’s elected president. Now, of course, they’re not alone. In fact, the entire lineup at LSD has been doing this, the entire lineup there. And there’s a report out, Mr. Producer, that Comcast is looking to get rid of MSNBC. Did you see that? Let me read this to you, ladies and gentlemen. Let’s take our time. We’re in no hurry here. We have three magnificent hours. Three magnificent hours. Free beacon. Tired of losing Why Comcast May Cut Ties with MSNBC. Now, ladies and gentlemen, you talk about an echo chamber. For the last two weekends. I mentioned on Fox and I have mentioned for the last two weeks here that if Comcast doesn’t clean up NBC and MSNBC, they will pay a corporate price for two publicly owned company. I’ve said the same thing about Paramount and CBS. I’ve said the same thing about Time Warner and CNN. And you go right down the list. Ratings are down and the partisan hosts are increasingly unhinged, writes Andrew Stiles at the Beacon. Donald Trump’s first term as president was the best thing that ever happened. MSNBC, the Democrat aligned cable news channel, enjoyed record ratings between 2017 and 2020 as anxious resistance, Liberals tuned in for group therapy sessions hosted by Joy Reid, Nicolle Wallace, Rachel MADDOW and other anti-Trump commentators whose increasingly unhinged rhetoric mirrored the deteriorating mental health of their viewers. Unhinged is right, and there’s nowhere to go. Once you’ve lost your job at CNN or MSNBC, there’s nowhere to go. It doesn’t get any lower. Those are going to hang around airports and try to get on the radar system. But after four years of sagging ratings under President Biden amid a media landscape that has changed dramatically since 2016. There’s a reason to doubt that MSNBC, in its roster of relentlessly partisan grievance mongers, can repeat that success in Trump’s second term. A more pressing question Can the network even survive in its current form? Answers no. But that’s just me. In the days since the election, MSNBC’s ratings haven’t seen a Trump bump. They’ve cratered. More on that shortly. But the ratings collapse comes as MSNBC, with its increasingly ugly rhetoric, denigration of Trump supporters and ethically challenged host, has emerged as a major headache for parent company Comcast. Much as Fox Channel was a perennial problem for its then parent company, 21st Century Fox. I have no idea what the hell this guy’s talking about in that regard. Or CNN’s wants for its then owner, Time Warner, in Trump’s first term. Furthermore, MSNBC’s harsh partnership and increasingly seen as a drag on its sister news operation, the supposedly nonpartisan NBC News, dogged by allegations of liberal bias and continues to draw fewer voters excuse me, fewer viewers than rival ABC News. Now, Comcast’s recent comments said it’s considering spinning off its portfolio of cable channels, suggests the company’s owners, the billionaire Roberts family, would like to rid themselves of MSNBC and the accompanying bad publicity once and for all. Well, this this guy was covering this thoroughly and he does a decent job rather than quoting pucks. Dylan Byers You were quoted me right, Mr. Producer, You were quoted me warning Comcast that they can’t keep this up. It’s a publicly owned company and investors are going to start showing up at the shareholder meeting. MSNBC is hardly the only liberal media outlet struggling to confront this grim reality. CNN is reportedly planning to fire hundreds of employees, scale back a ludicrously exorbitant anchor salaries. Who is John Berman and why does he make more than $1,000,000 a year? That is crazy. In an effort to cut costs and divert more resources to a digital operation to restore its once respectable brand while digital. Excuse me. Digital is where a lot of. Cable dollars are going Fox and elsewhere and so forth, because people are. Are dropping a lot of them, their cable subscriptions. The beleaguered Washington Post conducted a round of layoffs in 2023. That’s another paper on Bezos, even though he’s a liberal, is trying to save that newspaper. The owner of the L.A. Times is trying to save that newspaper. And they’ve all gone. Hard, hard, hard core left. And there’s just nothing there. The Washington Post. Traffic has dropped 60% since its peaked in April 2020, when lefty readers flocked to the website in droves for anti-Trump COVID updates. But there’s a reason to believe that MSNBC’s uniquely ill suited a bounce back in the post binary. The network’s top personalities exude all the traits many Democrats argue have caused the party to lose touch with normal Americans. Sneering condensation, condescension, inscrutable woke vocabulary, tendency to embrace bizarre conspiracy theories and view every political problem through the lens of patriarchal white supremacy. I mean, Joy Reid, as I’ve said, what, for several years now? Just a disgusting disgrace. Their stable of talent is rife with individuals tainted by scandal of some kind. Let’s take a look. Rachel MADDOW is this boring or is this interesting? I think it’s interesting, don’t you, Mr. Producer? Rachel MADDOW, MSNBC, its premiere host, is now making about $30 million a year. How do I get that job? What do I do it turn into a leftist kook. 30 million here to work one day a week ideal that’s become an increasing source of embarrassment for a former boy. Wonder Cesar Condé, the NBCUniversal News Group chairman who was somehow suckered into approving the arrangement over the last eight years. During the period to her semi-retirement, MADDOW has sought to justify her astronomical paycheck by pushing a Spanish welter of conspiracy theories. We have the Russian collusion thing as a perfect example. And it was constant. Maddow’s years of credulous on camera detective work, quote unquote, being thoroughly discredited, kind of decided to pay her more to work less. Earlier this year, MADDOW produced her first documentary, shamelessly titled From Russia with Lev about Lev Parnas, the obscure Ukrainian figure who served 20 years in prison for making illegal donations to Trump’s campaign. We’re still waiting for NBC’s disinformation reporter Brandy Zadrozny to turn her attention to Myra’s Russia reports. Then there’s Al Sharpton. The how does he make. Say what? The formerly obese racial agitator who promoted the Tawana Brawley rape hoax and incited an anti-Semitic riot in Crown Heights, they write, has found a lucrative home at MSNBC, collecting what’s believed to be a high six figure, two low seven figure salary. The struggle to read the teleprompter on his weekend show Politics Nation. He frequently appears elsewhere on the network as an expert on racial grievances and combating anti-Semitism. Seriously. And it goes on. He recently orchestrated a half million dollar donation from Kamala Harris, her campaign to his nonprofit. Weeks before conducting a softball interview. Joy Reid. I’m not going to read them all because the conga line of reprobates is long considered by many cable television observers to be MSNBC’s new standard bearer. And later, Maddow’s near-total absence. Joy Reid is believed to make about $3 million a year. Must be the man her Mr. Producer must be the system. She uses her MSNBC platform to spew unchallenged, racially charged bile at the same time as she puts one foot in her mouth after the other. Last week, Megyn Kelly called Reid racist. Say what? Last week. How about the last five years I’ve been calling a racist and a bigot, and I read this. Anyway, this guy’s not worth it. Nicolle Wallace. Disaster. Stephanie RUHLE Awful. Joe Scarborough. Mika Brzezinski. Jen Psaki They hire. Which is crazy. And it goes on and on and on. It is. Chris Hayes is another loser, I believe used to write for the nation. But I could be wrong, which is about as radical left as it gets. They probably love their publication in Russia was on the wrong side of the of the Cold War. So I read this piece. There’s nothing new here. It just kind of sums things we’ve been saying over the years. This is really a MSNBC. It’s just a a so-called platform. For Never Trumpers. For un-American leftists. For a whole host, as they said of Reprobates. We’ve been putting pressure on Comcast to behind this microphone on Blaze and on Fox to do something about it. You may not know that Andrew Styles to do something about. And hopefully and apparently they will. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
All right, let’s go. Joe and Mika Scarborough. Sacco and Vanzetti. There’s a little montage hat tip, Fox of Scarborough trashing Trump. And this could go on for days. Actually cut 16 go. The retweeting of neo-Nazi videos Charlottesville. I mean I could go on and on what he said about majority black countries that is tearing more the fabric of the more so twisted everything he’s talking about these these countries. It wasn’t about black countries, per se. The Charlottesville thing, we were the first one to go through that at length. I remember sitting in my studio in Florida with you, Mr. Producer. You were in New York parsing through every single syllable of what he said and playing. You remember all that and all the other conservatives were standing by shaking in their boots, wet their pants. All of a sudden you do that and then the others pick it up. Go ahead. Then attacks on the Twin Towers. Did we rebuild from that? We became stronger because of that. But this is seems to me a far greater. Ever graver threat to the idea of America. If Republicans continue this line of thinking, if they continue their their support for Donald Trump. They needn’t fool themselves. A second Trump administration would destroy the Department of Justice, would destroy the FBI. This is not a reach. I can go back and talk about Nazi Germany and I do it. I do it without any concerns whatsoever. And if people can start drawing the parallels, well, you’re just stupid or you have your head in the sand or you’re one of them. When you look at a Republican nominee, potential Republican nominee that’s talked about terminating the Constitution, he said to terminate the Constitution, arrest political opponents using the Justice Department to assassinate generals that weren’t sufficiently politically loyal to him, saying that he was going to take the FCC and bring it in to the White House and he would decide what networks were on and what networks were not on. And it goes on and on. I’m not going to pull out. And freedom of the press and redo the quotes were actually a lot worse than. That so-called montage. But here they were today on Masiello stay. Their ratings are really in the tank and all across MSNBC, all across CNN. Just really, really in the tank. Cut 15. Mika Brzezinski and Joe, go ahead. Over the past week, Joe and I have heard from so many people, from political leaders to regular citizens, deeply dismayed by several of President elect Trump’s Cabinet selections. And they are scared. Last Thursday, we expressed our own concerns on this broadcast and even said we would appreciate the opportunity to speak with the president elect himself. On Friday, we were there talking to like 95,000 people, give or take. Did you know that, Mr. Mueller? It’s like two stadiums. That’s it. Talking to themselves, essentially. You know, a footnote here, Mr. Producer remembers this when I started out as a syndicated show. Syndicated show. And we had five radio stations, ABC and four others. We’re about an hour in. And then it occurred to me. Nobody was listening to the show. Remember that, Rich? I mean, they all had other things going on. Basketball or whatever. What fire stations. It was early on, we didn’t have the contract we have now, and we were little literally not playing anyway. And I’m doing a radio show. Well, that’s what it must feel like on MSNBC every damn day. Go ahead. Entity to do just that. Joe and I went to Mar a Lago to meet personally with President elect Trump. It was the first time we have seen him in seven years. Now, we talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets. We talked about that a good bit. And it’s going to come as no surprise to anybody who watches this show has watched it over the past year or over the past decade that we didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of issues. And we told him so. What we did agree on was to restart communications. My father often spoke with world leaders with whom he and the United States profoundly disagreed. That’s a task shared by reporters and commentators alike. We have not spoken to President Trump since March of 2020. Other than a personal call Joe made to Trump on the morning after the announcement. And I don’t much care, to be perfectly honest with you, President Trump said. It sounds like they came here and we had this big, you know, meeting and so forth and so on, he said. They begged eventually to come here. I let them come here and we spoke and pretty much Mika was very pleasant and that was that. But there is more here. I’ll get to it in a moment.

Segment 3
So you see what’s happening in MSNBC. Absolute chaos and turmoil as it should be. They need to clean the place out as go the Democrat Party. So goes MSNBC and so goes CNN. CNN’s going to be laying off, quote unquote, hundreds. Its ratings are plummeting. That’s because they’re not. They don’t even dress up as quasi news organizations. And it’s one thing to have advocates on. Look, we have advocates and talk radio for sure. We have advocates on Fox and so forth. But the news divisions or the news divisions. That’s separate. And it’s separate at Fox. It’s not separate. On MSNBC or CNN, you can’t tell one from the other. And they’re spewing the Hamas statistics and they’re spewing all the hate that comes out of the Democrat Party and the others when it comes to Trump. I mean, they’re they’re a mirror image of each other. That is the Democrats and these various media outlets. In the newspapers are dying. The Washington Post is close to dying. If they didn’t have a man who’s one of the richest men in the world backing them up, it would be dead if they didn’t have a extraordinarily rich man backing up the L.A. Times. That paper would be dead if they didn’t have a billionaire from Mexico, among others, that put money in The New York Times, that newspaper would be dead. It’s not just because of technology. It’s because people are sick of it. They’re sick of. It feels like a network news programs. The ratings are so much lower than they were five, ten years ago. They just are. They are. And that’s why I laugh when they attack conservative talk radio. We just had a Pew study that said the there’s been no change from 2020 to 2024 on the big shows like mine and HANNITY. None, none. We’re up against everything. My show time wise, I’m up against all the sports, the playoffs, the big games. I’m up against dinner, I’m up against all this, and nobody else is. During the course of a show from 6 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time. I know we run other times throughout the country. Given your time slots. You know, 3 to 6 on the West Coast and so on. But it is the toughest timeslot there is for half the country. And here we are pounding the hell out of all our competition. One day I won’t be here. Then the radio companies will see what happens. From 6 to 9. It will plummet. No brag, just fact. Because we’ve had stations. Ask us back. Because we’ve seen what took place before. This is no credit to me. It’s credit to you. If I decide to retire six months from now, I don’t know. How many are you going to turn on your AM radio station from 6 to 9 p.m. on the East Coast? I’m guessing not a ton. If I decide to retire and just do a podcast, how many of you will stop listening to radio, at least during this timeline and shift over to the podcast? I’m guessing a whole lot of you. That will be tested one day in the future, maybe in the not so distant future in one market or another, and so be it. The way the cookie crumbles. Now, Trump confirms plans to use military to deport migrants after declaring a national emergency. New York Post and other outlets. President elect Donald Trump confirmed Monday he would declare a national emergency to deport illegal immigrants using military assets. Once he steps back into office early next year. Trump made the statement on True Social responding to true to a post from Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton citing reports that he would do so. Tom is a great guy, by the way, now. This is exactly what Dwight Eisenhower did in the 1950s. They used to like Eisenhower. They called him a moderate Republican, and he worried about the military industrial complex. You know, he countered Joe McCarthy. He countered the, quote unquote, right wingers in his party. But here they hate his guts. And you know what they called this operation? It’s not nice. It’s a pejorative. And I don’t like it. They called it Operation Wetback. That’s the history. I would never use it and I didn’t. Cesar Chavez. Very famous was the leader of the Farm Workers union trying to organize all these farm workers, particularly those from Central and South America. He didn’t succeed very well, but they had strikes. He attacked what he called wetbacks. He was absolutely opposed to illegal immigration. Absolutely opposed to and in fact. Many of his members would join with others to monitor the southern border and report when illegal aliens were coming across to back then the I.N.S. Immigration Naturalization Service. This is all in my book. Liberty and tyranny of 15 years ago. On the chapter on immigration. It was that time the Democrat Party opposed illegal immigration. He marched against illegal immigration famously. So was Ralph Abernathy. Southern Christian. Organization that Martin Luther King once headed. It was Martin Luther King’s right hand right hand guy. And obviously, he he became head of it after Martin Luther King was horribly assassinated. And you know how something was in that march. Walter Mondale. And Eugene McCarthy, all the leftists. They were talking about how it undermined the the American citizen or the naturalized citizen from Central and South America, how it undermined their their incomes and their. Their ability to unionize. So right now, they they switched about 15 years ago. Harry Reid was also among those who opposed illegal immigration. They flipped because they figured we’ve a better way. Well, bring in as many illegal aliens as we can. They’ll have children. Well, I have, quote unquote, birthright citizenship. We’ll have chain migration. We’ll do everything we can to eliminate voter ID. We’ll do everything we can to eliminate all the protections against fraudulent voting. And we’ll take over the party excuse me. The party will take over the country that way. And that’s. That’s the decision they took. And that’s why you find so many Hispanics all over the country, particularly in the border towns who voted for Trump. Overwhelmingly. You’re talking about towns with 80, 90, 95%, Hispanics that went majority and not small majorities on the border for Trump. Because of the consequences they feel as a result of illegal immigration. You know, I’ve said it before, people seem to think he used the word Hispanic or Latino. No, no. If you’re from Peru, you’re not from Chile. If you’re from Chile, you’re not from Honduras. If you’re from Honduras, you’re not from Bolivia. And I could go on and on and on. Most of these people like people from all the rest of the world. You call them, you call an Italian, you’re European. They already talking about I’m an Italian. Right. And we can go down the list so people don’t identify, per se, as Hispanics or Europeans or Africans. If you’re from Africa, you’re from a particular go. Wait a minute. What do you mean, Africans? I’m from Nigeria. I’m from many other countries there. Same with the Middle East. You’re from the Middle East? Excuse me. I’m from Lebanon or I’m from Israel or I’m from wherever near the Middle East. Obviously, it’s a region or a continent, depending on what you’re referring to. We got it. But that’s not how it works. People have ancestors. They have allegiance. They are blood in these countries, in these communities. I’ve talked about this before. Hispanic. Hispanic was a word that was created by the census at the direction of Richard Nixon. He wanted an ethnic group to counter blacks. And so he. And they created this this. Nomenclature, not the word itself, but nomenclature to represent all people from Central and South America. And parts of the Caribbean. But that’s not really how people react and respond. Anyway, I just wanted to mention that. So what Trump wants to do is what Eisenhower did, and so they’re going to want you to think it’s so horrific, it’s so extreme. It’s let me tell you what happens if he doesn’t have mass deportation. You can multiply the number of illegal aliens here by 20. Because by the time chain migration is over and you got to kill that chain migration. I talked about that on TV. I’ve talked about it behind this microphone on a blaze. What’s 20 times 20? If you have 20 million illegal aliens here. And each one brings to you have 40 million. Right, Mr. Producer, you’re good at math. If you bring 20. How many do you have? 40 million. No. If you have two times 20 or 40 million. Two times two is 42 times ten, you’re going to have 400 million. 20 million times 20 is 400 million. The country will cease to exist so that the deportation doesn’t take place in the next four years. It’s never going to take place. It’ll be too complicated. It’ll be too difficult. So of course this should be done. When you consider there’s half a million people in this country roaming the streets who have criminal backgrounds of one sort or another, some murder. Rape other violent crimes. Yes, deportations. And Tom Homan has said we’re going to start with them and work our way down. Now, you have Democrat governors and Democrat mayors who say we’re going to protect these people. They don’t even know who these people are. They have been vetted. They have worked with the federal government. They have worked with foreign governments. So that fat slob governor of Illinois or that creepy governor from from Massachusetts or that jerk from New Jersey, the rest of them, you know, we’re going to protect our people. They’re our residents. Hey, Jack. You don’t have the authority to do that. But they’re taking resources away from your citizens, the ones who are here illegally. They don’t care because they know eventually there will be a payoff for the Democrat Party and for them. Eventually, there will be a payoff. So President Trump is going to do. An emergency order. National emergency. The use of the military. Is exactly what Dwight Eisenhower did. The last time I checked, he wasn’t a fascist. He wasn’t Hitler, he wasn’t a racist. He wasn’t any of these thing. Fact, he killed a fascist, a racist and Hitler. So don’t be persuaded by these people. Don’t allow all this static. All this propaganda from the left, from these NGOs, from their dying media and the rest of them to persuade you that there’s something inhumane about this. It is absolutely humane to remove these people. Absolutely. Or the country won’t survive and they have to be removed thanks to Biden and Harris. And now we have to try and find these women who’ve been sold into sex slavery. That’s a very arduous task. We have to try and find hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors again under Biden, Harris and the Democrats. I don’t remember these these Democrat governors. I don’t remember this conga line of reprobates speaking out against slavery on the border or demanding to find out where all these kids went. I don’t remember that. They certainly had protected the women and the children, have they? Oh, they talk tough. They talk tough. But they’re on the wrong side of this. They’re not righteous. They’re not humane. They’re quite the opposite. These are the Democrats, these governors. Who give life and death and sustain the cartels that have made billions of dollars off of this. These are the Democratic governors. Who tolerate the flow of deadly chemicals into this country like fentanyl. And by the way, weapons to. Weapons to these Democratic governors, these Democrat mayors who say they’re going to protect these people aren’t protecting a damn person. Than protecting anybody. And they’re not going to let alone the people in their own cities and towns. This must be done. Thanks to Biden and Harris and the Democrat Party, the border was wide open. Now we have to deal with the results or the country will never be the same again. It simply won’t. And I mean that in an extremely negative way. Everybody hasn’t been touched. But the consequences of this open border. But more and more Americans are being touched in America. But we put our foot down when we voted. We want people to party. We want that border secure like any normal country. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Well, your folks there knows something as these Democrats and their media trying to line up and pick off some of these cabinet officers. That’s why I said I’m not going to support picking off any of them, whether I like one or not. This is the team that President Trump has chosen. This is the team, as he keeps calling it, that he believes will help him govern and get across. The results from the promises he made Can’t rely on old Washington. We can’t rely on two thirds of the Senate. There wasn’t even one up for the voters. You know, the incumbents had a very, very bad night. On November 5th. Very bad night from San Francisco, right across the country. Right across the country. So if they do whatever they have to do to break the blockades. But we have a job to do here to. This is why we’re different on this show are different from some podcasters, different from some radio host, different from TV host. We’re going to monitor this and we will have our live in surges as necessary to push them across. He’s just decided he wants Sean Duffy to head the Department of Transportation if that’s what he wants. It’s fine by me. Well, does he have any expertise in the Department of Transportation? You know, unless you’ve been around Washington for 50 years of work to do, Department of Transportation, I don’t even know what that means. Does he drive a car? Does he take a train? Does he take a plane? Has he been to an airport? That’s pretty good expertise, don’t you think Mr. Producer? But a judge exactly had absolutely zero nothing. Blinken had all this background on the Hill and all this Ivy League school stuff. He was the biggest disaster secretary of state that I can think of ever. So we can go through all this and we may have to. But that’s my view. Come on, Mark. We could have done better than this. But what? What do you mean, we? He’s the president. This is who he wants. What I was going to say is, when you look at any Republican president who gets elected, they face this. Believe it or not, I don’t care how noxious they are. Like the Bushes. Reagan was tough. He couldn’t you know, he had a fight for all of his two and he had some recess appointments. And the recess appointment is perfectly constitutional, by the way. The court placed a limit on I think it’s two years, but nonetheless, it does happen. It is in the Constitution. It’s right. It’s not constitutional. It is. It’s in the Constitution. Because they knew that everybody wouldn’t get along and so forth and so on. So it’s in the Constitution. By the way. We’ve expanded our podcast in addition to this program, which we have on our podcast, in addition to the wonderful international fellowship of Christians and Jews, we’ve now added Hillsdale College, my brother of over 40 years, Dr. Larry Arn, the president of Hillsdale. We’ll be doing a podcast with him to these partnerships that we’ve developed to expand their reach, to expand our network. It’s an idea that I had that I wanted to put in place, and here we are. It’s absolutely fantastic. I’ll be right back.