On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, CNN lost half of its viewers in one year in its struggle to maintain cable television viewership in key demographic areas. Why would anyone watch a political operation like CNN or MSNBC? Then, former President Donald Trump joined Governor Greg Abbott at the Texas-Mexico Border, the same border that Kamala Harris wouldn’t even get close to. Afterward, Kamala Harris never praises America but attacks it relentlessly as if it were an abstraction instead of our nation. Biden pushes an ideological agenda that destroys education, residential zoning, public safety, and how one identifies based on their biological genitalia. From the attack on capitalism to the redefinition of race radical Democrats are “re-imagining” everything they can get their hands on. Later, New York City’s Democratic primary election has been corrupted and the results were removed by the board of elections due to a discrepancy of 135,000 duplicate rank choice votes. Is the traditional media now promoting conspiracy theories?
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Hour 1 Segment 1
That there’s this guy we never liked, this guy, Jeremy Barr, did we, Mr. Producer? He used to be a gossip guy for The Hollywood Reporter and now he’s at The Washington Post covering the media industry, never been very nice to me. He wants to know why I criticized my colleagues at Fox. We’re going to have a lesson here once this article comes out, talk to the millions of you and explain it. How leaks and counter leaks occur. And now certain reporters in the back pockets of certain people, and that would include Jeremy Barr. But I don’t want to jump the gun. We will wait for him. I don’t trust these corrupt bastards. Oh, look at this, we have we have some information, some links. But we’ll deal with this when the time comes, but this is how it works. So they have certain go to sources and certain go to sources, strike back, this is how they protect their anonymous sources. So I’ll lay it all out. Once it happens, we’ll just wait. I’ll be patient. Patience isn’t my great hallmark, but I’ll be very, very patient. With Jeremy Barr, well, Donald Rumsfeld passed away, as you heard by now. Now, many people agreed with that, many people didn’t agree with them, but one thing he was was a patriot. And I kind of knew something was wrong, what was it, six or eight months ago, Mr. Producer, when we sought to have the secretary on the show to talk about some issue? And they said he was unable to. I didn’t know exactly what that meant. It doesn’t really matter, but he may well have been ill back then. But this is a man who spent a great deal of his career. In support of this country. His secretary of defense and other positions. And I didn’t know him personally, we had him on here a few years ago when he had written a book. He said he could have been cantankerous. Well, they say that to me, they said that about anybody who’s trying to make decisions. But hope he rests and peace and hope his family finds some solace because he was a great patriot. There’s no question about that. And. These days, it’s hard to find great patriots, this is an important story, and I’m going to tell you why in a moment. This is a story. At The Daily Caller, CNN loses nearly half its viewers and post Trump Network ratings bloodbath, writes Jordan Lancaster. CNN lost half of its viewers in just one year. As major cable news networks struggle in ratings, Nielsen Media Research ratings released the information the ratings Tuesday. In June of 2021, CNN had an average of 580,000 total daily viewers, a drop of 49 percent compared to June of 2020. The network also lost 59 percent of its viewers in the critical 25 to 54 age demographic, with an average of one hundred thirty three thousand total day viewers in the demographic for the month of June. CNN lost the most viewers out of all three major news networks, MSNBC, the second largest drop in viewership and loss of 37 percent. Well, that’s a hell of a lot to. Compared to June of last year. Now, in fairness, there was a lot going on in June of last year, but just pointing this out. Let’s see here, Fox News had the largest number of viewers and the least substantial drop since last year lost 35 percent of total viewers. So we go, CNN lost half of its viewers, MSNBC 37 percent, FOX 35 percent. Now, again, what was going on last June was really quite atrocious, but would draw your attention to television. Right, the riots and other issues that were going on. So you can expect the so you can expect the numbers to be lower. Now, that said. They’re very low, even if you compare them one network to the other. Now, why is that? Why is it? Well, of course, Donald Trump’s not around, but there’s more than that. CNN is a political operation. CNN’s ratings are down significantly, Nicolle Wallace, Jake Tapper. Way down. In freefall territory. Nicole Wallace, I mentioned her. Brian Stelter, that’s another one. Because if that’s the game, you’re going to play as a news outlet. If that’s the game you’re going to play. It’s a double edged sword. What’s left of CNN, why would anybody watch CNN? I mean, if you’re not going to just be all out honest about what you are and what you’re doing, you pretend to be a news operation. Even the kooks are eventually going to leave you. They have no interest in you anymore. If you want to get real news, you’re not going to go to CNN anymore, even though it started. As the cable news network. It started the whole. Industry. If you want to get really hardcore kooks, you go to Moore, to MSNBC, right? Their hosts. A conga line of cukes. So there’s no niche, if you will, for what CNN does, because it does everything poorly. Meanwhile, the head of CNN. Jeff Zucker, he gets endless promotions and bonuses and so forth. This is part of the problem. In my view. Part of the problem when an AT&T owns a CNN, CNN is an. It’s not even relevant to what AT&T is, bottom line is. If CNN loses viewership, if it loses money, it’s just no big deal to AT&T. It doesn’t hurt its bottom line in any significant way because it’s such a huge. Conglomerate. An international corporation. It dwarfs what little CNN can and cannot do. And so this is why they feel that they can continue to do what they do even when they fail. But they undermine freedom of the press, they undermine the First Amendment. They did it all through the Trump years, and they’re doing it now with their failure to seriously cover. Joe Biden and Joe Biden’s policies. And even when it comes to issues like critical race theory, they’re propagandists. For radical views and views that used to be considered nutty views. Even in law schools, even in colleges and universities, not anymore, of course. So this is a bigger story than it seems. I think. It relates to freedom of the press, relates to the culture, it relates to the response of the American people, the American people don’t like CNN. I suspect the same thing’s going on at The New York Times and Washington Post, but their readership, however, that’s measured. They’re utterly predictable. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 2
Well, Donald Trump is on the border, as you know, with Governor Abbott. He’s made some some comments you might be interested in. It’s called Weslaco, Texas, and it’s part of the border that, of course, Kamala Harris wouldn’t be courting for life depended on it be a very bad optic. And the border is a disaster. What’s going down, down there is horrific. We’ve talked about it on many occasions, but here’s the president, President Trump, with Governor Greg Abbott, cut to go, but the border has never been this way. It went from the best border we’ve ever had in the history of our country, not 20 years. You know, they like to say over a twenty two year period. Now, it’s the best ever by far. Took two and a half years to start the wall because we were sued by everybody and then and largely by the Democrats in Congress, by the way. And now, by the way, they’re doing a disinformation campaign. They’re saying that the unsafe border is your fault. You believe this because they’re getting killed with the border. So now they’re saying, oh, we got a problem. So let’s blame the sheriffs, let’s blame the governors, let’s blame everybody else but them. They’re also saying it would defund the police. They came out with a term to fund the police. And they’re you know, it’s well documented, that’s for sure. Just look at AOC and look at Omar. How’s she doing? How’s our country doing, by the way? And they’re telling us how to run our country right now. How are they doing? And now they’re saying, no, no, it was them us that wanted to defund it. So it’s like Russia, Russia, Russia, everyone said Russia, Russia, Russia. I said, what’s that all about? Then they said, oh, you were very friendly. Well, that’s been proven to be false. Not only false, it was them that were associated with Russia. It was them, the Democrats and Hillary and the group that gave money to Russia. So it’s a Didst disinformation campaign and it’s a terrible campaign where they’re trying to say this is a disaster for them. Let’s blame the people that have really done something about it and can do something about it. But when your hands get tied because you no longer control the White House or Congress, it’s it’s a disgrace. Cut three go. I’m so glad that you mentioned the fentanyl because the fentanyl was almost a non factor. And now I hear it’s just pouring into our country and it’s the most dangerous of all, but just pouring into our country. And we stopped also human trafficking, mostly in women. The human trafficking was almost stopped. We built almost 500 miles of wall despite two and a half years of lawsuits, litigation started by Congress. Nancy Pelosi in the Congress, they sued us for everything and we won the suits and we started. And within a few months, you would have had the world totally complete and they would have painted this supposed to paint the wall. And they aren’t even doing that. They got to get a coat of paint on the wall. Believe it or not, it does rust. Maybe that’s what they like. Let it rest. Let it rot. But we built a wall that was not a wall that anybody could get through. We had very few breakthroughs. Unbelievably, just the only breakthrough is let them. Walk around to the few open areas where you have we had problems on land disputes, et cetera, et cetera, all of those problems were resolved. So we got them resolved. So you could have completed the wall in a couple of months and they decided not to. Now I hear rumors that they want to do it, but it’s only common sense. Mm hmm. Let’s jump the cut fired. Mr. Producer go. And a lot of people like to say to the media, well, we could immediately saw today we should immediately go back to the Trump policy. It’s not that easy now. It’s not that easy. But we have a sick country in many ways. It’s sick in elections and it’s secure the border. And if you don’t have good elections and if you don’t have a strong border, you don’t have a country. So with that, we’re going over to the border right now, but we’re going to the real part of the border where there’s real problems, not a part where you look around and you don’t see anybody. And we’re going to admire the wall and how it works, because wherever we have the wall, that’s what made the big difference. It made a tremendous difference. Elections. He’s bringing up elections. I didn’t think we’re allowed to talk about this past election, which does raise a question. Here’s the Associated Press, Karen Matthews and Deputy Haggler Error, Mars vote in New York City mayoral primary. What are you talking about? There can’t be any errors. The Democratic primary for mayor of New York City was thrown into a state of confusion Tuesday when election officials retracted their latest report on the vote count after realizing it had been corrupted by testator never cleared from the computer system. The bungle they write was a black mark on New York City’s first major foray into ranked choice voting and seemed to confirm worries that the city’s board of elections, which is jointly run by Democrats and Republicans, was unprepared to implement the new system notice jointly run by Democrats and Republicans. I wonder what the numbers are on that board, but let’s keep going. The disarray began as evening fell when the board abruptly withdrew data it had released earlier in the day, purporting to be a first round of results from the ranked choice system. That data had indicated that Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former police captain, will be the city’s second black mayor, had lost much of his lead, was ahead of former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by fewer than 16,000 votes. See how that works. Wow, that was quick, Hinrich. Then the board of elections tweeted that it was aware of a discrepancy in its report on rank choice voting results, didn’t initially explain what the discrepancy was, even as it pulled the data from the Web site. Sounds to me like the Associated Press is now promoting conspiracy theories. Just before ten thirty pm, it released a statement saying that one hundred and 35,000 ballot images it had put into its computer system for testing purposes had never been cleared. The board apologizes for the error and has taken immediate measures to ensure the most accurate up to date results reported, it said in a statement. Now, the results initially released on Tuesday and then withdrawn were incomplete to begin with because they didn’t include any of the nearly 25,000 absentee ballots cast in the Democrat primary. Adams campaign, which have publicly pointed out the vote discrepancy shortly after the 40 count was released, said in a statement that it remained confident he would ultimately prevail. But he’s questioning the system, where did all these votes come from, 100 and some thousand votes. What’s going on in New York City, Mr. Producer? Jim Crow? I don’t know. It’s a one party city. They have this system wide open voting and they have all these problems. I wonder what the issue is. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 3
Now, here’s more on voting questions out of New York City. Am I allowed to mention this? And I like to talk about this. I don’t know. This is from red state leader in New York City mayoral race questioning whether 100,000 votes just came where they came from to make the race much closer, writes Nick Arama. You may get some deja vu with the news about what just happened in the saga of the New York City mayoral election. The election was actually last Tuesday, but they’re still counting and don’t expect to be done until sometime in July. Brooklyn borough president, former police officer Eric Adams had been the surprise leader in the race when he came in first place last Tuesday with 82 percent of the results in. Now, that didn’t make some of the left happy, although he was still a Democrat. The election is ranked choice voting, and he was the first choice of thirty one point six percent of the people whose votes have been counted to that point with Maya Wiley, real nutjob, second with twenty two point three percent and Kathryn Garcia third with nineteen point seven percent. But woops, suddenly vote, show up and vaulted the third place person into second with just a narrow lead remaining for Adams with some one hundred twenty four thousand absentee votes yet the count. The difference now is only 16,000 votes, so it’s entirely conceivable now that Garcia could catch up. Eric Adams is clearly not happy at all. He’s raising questions about where the 100,000 votes suddenly came from. Oh. A conspiracy theories, why doesn’t he just be quiet, Mr. Producer, why is he raising questions about the system? Now, the vote total just released by the Board of Elections is 100,000 plus more than the total announced on election night raising questions. The Adams statement says, We’ve asked the board of Elections to explain such a massive increase in other irregularities before we comment on the ranked choice voting projection. And we remain confident that Eric Adams will be the next mayor of New York because he put together a historic five borough working class coalition of New Yorkers to make our city safer, fairer, more affordable place. Now, the 100,000 did not come from absentee ballots. They didn’t even start counting those yet. All they have is the day of and the early voting. So it seems like a pretty good question. The new airport of election is saying that they’re aware the discrepancy. That’s a pretty big discrepancy, if that’s what they’re talking about. But the New York Board of Elections probably one of the worst in the country. The election was last Tuesday, and we probably won’t know the winner until sometime in July. That’s insane. And they always have issues every election. But the huge swing now makes it more likely that Garcia will pull it out despite the huge lead that Adams had on election night. Sound familiar? As they write over Red State. No, no, no, no. You can’t talk about this. You can’t talk about this, it may result in an insurrection, you’re undermining the electoral system. You don’t have evidence of anything. No proof. That’s just the way the cookie crumbles, as they used to say, Mr. Producer, isn’t it? So they can’t even run an election in a city. And remember that New York state had a disastrous time dealing with elections. And so they want to, you know, embrace aspects of this and nationalize it so every part of the country can’t run elections. But the Democrats always win, that’s the issue, that’s the problem. But I’m not surprised. Remember that congressional race and rural New York, even with a judge, they were doing everything they could, everything they could. To prevent the Republican from winning and then finally the judge had to say, boy, I’m looking like a schmuck here, maybe I should stop. Maybe maybe that’s enough. By the way, Mr. Producer, who is Roy Wood Jr.? Yeah, yeah, he’s one of the Comedy Central people. Does anybody even listen to this guy? Now, I thought Comedy Central’s ratings had taken a dive. I know they’ve taken a dive. He’s a contributor, I guess, to that I don’t know who Roy Wood Jr. is, but Mr. Producer found this and I’m told this segment was actually quite monotonous. Did you watch the whole segment, five minutes of stupidity? Well, they’re very upset if you now raise questions about critical race theory. If you actually track it down and find out who and what’s behind it and where it came from and what’s happening to it now, in other words, just take it. Don’t challenge it. I told you, these times are coming, the attacks, and so they’re coming and we’ll deal with them one by one. Roy Wood Jr. on The Daily Show last night cotinine go. We’re not getting any closer to solving this mystery. Basically, the only thing we know about critical race theory is that it has something to do with race but doesn’t. It’s not even about race, it’s about destroying the existing society, using race, using gender, using the climate, using immigrant youth music come from. I don’t even like that because whatever the music came from, oh, it’s spooky music produced by the Delicia. Wow, go ahead. There isn’t even about race. Is it a theory? Is it critical? Is it real at all? Is it possible? Critical. This is supposed to be funny. Sounds like a moron. He has no idea what he’s talking about. Well, of course, it’s about race in that sense, but that’s not the point of it. It was never the point of it. The point of it is to find fissures or to create fissures in society. This isn’t me. This is them who wrote it, who talked about it, who promoted it and raises important one. But it’s just one. And so we never talk about what really is behind all of this. And that’s what they want you to do. That’s what’s expected. Is he done? Yeah, go ahead. Mass hallucination, we’re all having the result of 15 months spent locked in our apartment and spraying Windex on all of our groceries. I don’t let people say I’m not that funny. Doesn’t sound funny to me, as a matter of fact, it sounds ignorant to me. Let’s go to Kamala Harris at the Generation Equality Forum today. I didn’t know there was a generation equality form today, but apparently there was a generation equality forum today. Had someone go and as we move forward, I believe that if we want to strengthen democracy, we must fight for gender equality because here is the truth. And now I’m really puzzled. What does that mean, Mr.. What does gender mean, America? According to Facebook, there’s 48 flavors, if you will, 58, sorry. What does gender equality mean? Is she trying to say equality between birthing people and non birthing people? As the OMB director would say, what exactly is she saying? Why is it that sometimes words and. Phrases can be used and other times they’re to be banned. What does that mean? We need gender equality. We know that’s not binary. We don’t know what else that means, but we know that much, right? Go ahead. Christie is strongest when everyone participates and it is weaker when people are left out and we’ve seen this here in the United States when women, you know, this constant roe against the United States, endless. This fantastic. Nation. That’s been through so much. Such a diverse population that really prior to the last several years, really was quite united in so many ways. After 9/11 and so much more, the Democrats have ripped us to shreds here. Is there nothing good about America? Can we ever hear? A seminar or an event? With the president or the vice president, the United States says this is a fantastic country where people have opportunity. Where individuals are free to pursue whatever they wish to pursue, to make something of themselves and a lot of countries, that’s not possible. But why don’t we ever hear this from a Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, why the constant attack on America? And when you’re attacking America, you’re attacking the people of America, you’re not attacking an abstraction. Go ahead. Capital to start a small business, they can participate more fully in our democracy grows stronger when women have access to reproductive health care to stay healthy. Women not have access to reproductive health care. Where is this? Do they not have access to. We have Medicaid, we Medicare, we have Obamacare. We have free health. Institutions, we have free emergency care. I mean, I didn’t know this was a problem. Is it a problem still and if it’s a problem, so I don’t get it. We’ve had Democrat presidents, we’ve had Democrat Congresses, what’s the problem? What does she mean, more access to abortion, is that what she’s trying to say? Is that what they mean by reproductive health, which isn’t reproductive health for the baby? That’s for sure. And so you’re not supposed to be talking about gender is if there’s women and men, and yet she mentions women constantly. So they move in and out of their own perverse ideological world, depending on. Where they need to stop to make their assertion. And she never presents herself for questions, people have said she hasn’t had a press conference. God knows how long. Maybe she did. Maybe she did. I don’t much care. There’s a reason why the Democrats rejected her early, very early as a potential president. She’s been a disaster. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
OK, Terry in South Carolina, how are you? I’m fine, how are you, Mark? All right. Thank you. Thank you. My question to you is, I’m wondering when Biden finally can articulate himself, which is just about now or last month, and Kamala Harris steps up into the plate as president. By the way, let me slow you down. I’m not sure the Democrats really want that. And I’ll tell you why they’re getting everything they could possibly want out of Biden, and I think they now realize that Kamala Harris is not ready for the major leagues. I really believe that. There’s no yeah, there’s no question about it. But I mean, Biden is thinking fast and, you know, there’s. Yeah, but you can sink as fast as you want. There’s only so many ways to remove a president. One is by impeachment and conviction. That won’t happen given the makeup of the Senate and the other is by the 25th Amendment. That won’t happen given the makeup of the Cabinet and Congress. So neither way is he going to be removed. Right, but what happens when God Almighty takes you wherever he needs to go? All right. I don’t know if God Almighty is going to do that or not, but I’m just saying it’s virtually impossible under our system, given the nature of the Democrat Party and their abandonment of any notion of of rationality or even constitutionalism that they would do that they’re power hungry. Right, but my hope is that he is somehow dismissed and the clay pot bobblehead that Kamala Harris is will expose the whole nation to as far as the whole nation has been exposed to this. And no help by the media, the whole nation is well aware, at least much of it, that Joe Biden is, you know, we have to make a decision. Is he so incompetent that he’s a buffoon or is he a mastermind behind the most radical agenda in American history? And I hear people say both at the same time, we’re both at the same time is not possible unless he’s not in charge and there’s people behind him working it. And I think there’s both. And that is in this sense, he wants to be the most radical president in history because he met with historians who said, go Big Joe and and, you know, told him how he could be a legend among presidents. And then I think he leaves it pretty much to the staff to figure out everything because he’s incapable of it, and I think that’s exactly what’s going on. And if anybody thinks I would change under Kamala Harris, that won’t. Or suddenly the American people will say, wait, Joe Biden was okay, but Kamala Harris is a disaster. I don’t I just don’t buy that. I think Kamala Harris is devoid of any sort of knowledge, and I do think that Obama and Susan Rice are running the show and and I think that if she ever. Now, where did Susan Rice come from? Why do you think she’s running the show? Well, I’m involved in state government and I’ve heard that from people in Washington. Oh, really? And yes. And and I think if she if Kamala Harris steps in the shoes of Biden, Biden should not. I mean, she’s already taken. I really don’t like doing all this hypothetical stuff. I know other hosts do it. And so I just I’m just not into it. It doesn’t get really get us anywhere. I just think I just think if Kamala Harris ever. All right. Thanks for your call. I don’t think this gets us anywhere, do you, Mr. Producer? They’re not going to replace Biden, not during his first four years. There’s no way to do it that they will agree to, period. He could be walking around the White House, bouncing off the walls, but they’re getting what they want. They’re getting what they want. I don’t think they’re salivating for Kamala Harris to replace Joe Biden. I really don’t. To what end, exactly? To what end? And if she becomes president and somehow he’s not, then the nation or really see how vapid they are. I don’t think that’s true either. If you don’t see what a disaster they are already in your own schools with gasoline prices, with the borders, with inflation kicking in and they’ve only just begun, then you’re never going to see it then there are already a lot. So it’s not a matter of them having an open mind and say, wow, look at that, look what’s going on. Now they’re cheering it on. I’ll be right back.