September 20th, 2022

On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, a new poll shows the majority of Democrats do not believe that America is the greatest country, while 69% of Republicans did say that America is the greatest country. Democrats in the survey also favored socialism over capitalism. Then, Reagan Biographer Craig Shirley calls in to discuss faulty polling and similarities between Ronald Reagan’s landslide victory and current polls. Shirley also noted the weakness of Washington’s Republican leadership imploring them to go on permanent offense in order to win. Later, rhetoric can affect people. Political debates that become murders are ignored by Democrats who turn a blind eye to violence. When conservatives are the ones being hunted down and killed, the media is silent, and no one criticizes Biden, Liz Cheney, or any other Democrat. Afterward, discrimination against Jewish students at a Jewish University continues and Justices Sotomayor and Alito face off in the dissent. Even progressive Democrat New York City Councilman Ritchie Torres sees the rise in antisemitic hate crimes and New York City’s failure to protect Jews against such hate crimes and called for the DOJ to help.

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Rough transcript of Hour 1

Hour 1 Segment 1

New York Times Siena College National Poll. A majority of Democrats said they believe America is not the best country in the world. This poll was just released. Not the best country in the world. You think I’m kidding when I say the Democrat Party? Is un-American. The New York Times Siena College national poll finds that only 37 percent of Democrats. Agree with the statement. That America is the greatest country in the world. Said 55 percent of Democrats endorsed the statement that America is a great country, but not the greatest. Another seven percent said the U.S. is not a great country, with the remainder having no opinion. By comparison, 69 percent of Republicans said the U.S. was the greatest country in the world. Another 24 percent say it’s great, but not the greatest five percent. Said America is not a great country, with the remaining two percent having no opinion. Forty seven percent of registered independents said America is the greatest country. 45 percent said it’s great, but not the greatest. Guess that’s why they’re independents. They’re confused. Veteran pollster Doug Schoen, who worked for former President Bill Clinton and three term Mayor Mike Bloomberg, said he wasn’t surprised either. My. He said there used to be bipartisan consensus that America was unique, special, exceptional nation that’s gone. Republicans do believe in American exceptionalism. The Democrats do not accept American exceptionalism. Got that. There were disparities by race, region, age, education, 54 percent of white respondents overall said America is the greatest country. Thirty three percent of black voters who heavily identify with Democrats, a majority of Midwesterners, 56 percent and Southerners, 53 percent. America was the greatest. Thirty eight percent of Northeasterners, 47 percent of Westerner’s. Mm hmm. Two thirds of voters ages 65 and over were the most patriotic. Two thirds saying America was the greatest, compared to just 30 percent of voters aged 18 to 29. The least educated Americans were the most jingoistic, is they right, 59 percent with a high school degree or less said the US was the greatest compared to 42 percent of college graduates. More Democrats had a favorable view of socialism. Fifty three percent then capitalism. Forty four percent. Sixty six percent of Republicans had a favorable view of capitalism. Eighty six percent of them opposed socialism. And that poll says midterm elections are 46 percent support Democrats, 44 percent support Republicans. As for issues, voters are struggling with record inflation, eating at their pocketbooks favor Republicans over Democrats 52 to 38 percent, 52 to 38. Publican’s. May also be buoyed by voters saying forty nine to thirty one percent economic issues are more important in determining their vote for Congress. So economic issues by far the number one issue. And voters believe the Republicans would do a better job when the Democrats. A plurality of Democrats say social issues are more important. Majority Republicans and independents say economic issues. On the hot button issue of teaching about sex education and LGBTQ issues in Florida, Governor Rhonda Santurce is on to something. The survey found that. Seventy percent of voters oppose teaching sex ed and LGBTQ issues in elementary school. While 40 54 percent oppose teaching about sex and gender issues in middle school high school, 56 percent said teaching about sex in LGBT orientation was appropriate. Now the Senate is a Republican running for re-election, considered a potential White House aspirant in 2020 for. Obviously enraged those forces. But the vast majority of Americans support his position. Voters oppose the recent Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, 62 to 30, 62 percent say abortion should be always or mostly legal. Thirty one percent say mostly are always illegal. They never ask the question that needs to be asked. That’s fine. But what do you believe the Democrat Party’s official position on abortion at any time and what you would find? Of course. What you would find is the vast majority of Americans do not believe abortion in the last few weeks or few months or a few seconds before birth. Now, there is a little problem with this New York Times Siena College survey. Surveyed 13, 199 registered voters nationwide. The best polls are of likely voters, not registered voters. Because all registered voters don’t vote, and so likely voters are harder to find, it’s a tougher poll. But it tends to be more accurate, of course, but I don’t dispute that a majority of Democrats say the United States is not the world’s greatest country. And by the way, notice majority of elderly Democrats do. It is much younger Democrats and Democrats in the subsequent generation. And this is because of and they also noticed they talked about college graduates and this is because of the indoctrination that our colleges and universities, through these tenured Marxists and reprobates, are using these classrooms to brainwash our children. And now they’re doing it in elementary schools and middle schools to hate the country. To hate the country. So there is a huge difference between Democrats and Republicans in this country, huge. There is a huge difference. And. If you don’t believe America is the greatest country ever established, then which country is it? Which country is it? And so this gives them you see in their minds, the moral authority to destroy America. Because it’s not the greatest. It’s a great country among many great countries. I remember when. Barack Obama said something to that effect, you remember that. I remember that. I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 2

Every one of these Senate races where Mitch McConnell and his boys said we have terrible candidates are as tight as can be. Herschel Walker now has a slight lead over his communist opponent. Ron Johnson has a slight lead over his communist opponent. In Pennsylvania, it’s almost neck and neck, Dr. Oz has a slight slightly behind his communist opponent. In the case of the Republican. Nominee in Arizona, Blake Masters, very close now. So I wanted to call in the number one biographer, an expert on Ronald Reagan, my buddy Craig Shirley Craig. How are you, brother? Mark, how are you? I’m doing very well. I want you to remind us, I know there’s been misinformation about this, but still in 1980, I believe it was August 1980, it was it seemed right. Reagan wasn’t seen as a shoo in to slaughter Jimmy Carter, was he? Not at all. Not at all. It was not until very late in the campaign. It break open really after the debate did break open, open for Reagan for that one week. But up until up until the last week of the election, it was it was it was it was a coin toss between Carter and, in fact, the Washington Post criminal outlet that they are a poll of poll in the last couple of days of the campaign having Carter showing Carter ahead of Reagan. Of course, nobody believed it because it was a fraudulent poll. So but during September, I mean, seven weeks out or 49 days that seven weeks close enough, seven weeks, it is exactly seven weeks out. I mean, it wasn’t like, oh, Reagan’s going to have this landslide or it was the Democrats have a real shot at this thing. And yet nobody nobody thought Reagan was going to win in a landslide. Everybody was shocked. Everybody was shocked. Mm hmm. So tonight, when we hear people talking about the Democrats are tightening with the Republicans and so forth, and yet when I look at these individual races and these individual states, Georgia, Pennsylvania, I look at Ohio, I look at Arizona, these candidates are really tight knit up, these Republicans, many of whom were written off. No, I agree. I agree. This is going to be it’s not going to be a red wave. It’s going to be an Old Testament, you know, a pestilence going through the town and killing everybody who is not killing but destroying, destroying everyone who is a Democrat, who’s a Democrat in the town. If they don’t have lamb’s blood painted over the lintel, it’s going to be a snake. Could be a snake, could be a tsunami because tsunami suggests it wiped out everything. It’s going to be a selective dismemberment. But but, you know, while we’re talking about it bothers me, Mark, the Republican Party to me doesn’t seem to have their act together, which is no surprise. They always seem to be spending more on more more effort and more money and more time on personal PR than on than on organizing. A message like a Contract with America doesn’t have to be a contract or American call. It is something else. But, you know, why aren’t they all rallying around stopping spending, tax cuts, corruption, things like that? You mean for the border, parents rights, you know, things. They are making people mad, things that they want them address and they’re talking about themselves instead of talking about the rights of the voters and the rights of the parents. Stay tuned, my brother, to my Sunday show. You’re going to see something big, but I will tell you in the Senate. Whether one likes Rick Scott or not or thinks his list is good or not, Mitch McConnell does not run races where he runs races like he’s playing defense all the time, even though they should be on offense. This should be a complete offense. Footstar, he puts down his own candidates. Yeah, you know, that’s so mind boggling. Why would you attack your own party? Why would you attack your own candidates? You’re supposed to help them, not undermine them, not undercut them. We say, well, we have some bad candidates this year. You know, you say that you say they have bad candidates this year. And they do. They have this guy in Pennsylvania. Yeah, exactly. Yes. Well, how about the guy in charge who’s another left wing nut? And how about the guy in Arizona? He doesn’t even show up. You don’t even know his name. He was an astronaut. Okay, great. And how about the guy in in Ohio is a complete fraud, pretending he’s a moderate when he has his head so far up Pelosi’s. But it’s not even funny. I mean, what he should be out there, the concept of permanent offense. You know, remember, Newt was back in 94, back in 93 and 94. He talked about permanent offense. I don’t get that. The the the Republicans. I don’t get McConnell. I don’t get this woman who’s head of the RNC. You know, it’s all it seems to be more about personal PR than it is communicating a message, unifying a party so that it stands for one thing to all people. That’s what Reagan did. That’s what Reagan did in 1980 in which escapes everybody else. Mark, I know you know, you were there and I was there one day myself. But Reagan ran a campaign and ideological campaign in which he stood for one thing to all people. The party stood, you know, Bob Dole, God bless his soul, God bless us all. He did something rather brilliant. In 1980. He kept introducing legislation about tax cuts, about defense spending, about this, that the other thing now he knew they would lose in the Senate, but it would force the Democrats to go on record as being against tax cuts, to bring spending cuts, to being against defense spending, all these things. So he kept forcing it right in harmony with Reagan’s message. And it was it was a beautiful thing to do because it boxed in the Democrats in voting things that they didn’t want to vote for. Yes. Why is it why isn’t McConnell doing stuff like that? Why isn’t McCarthy doing stuff like that? Yeah, and and when it comes to McConnell, at least anybody who dares to take a strong position on a conservative position, he’s either silent or undermines them. And he’s always working behind the scenes with a special interest money, is he not? Yes. Yes, he is. I, I see nothing tactical or strategic in Mitch McConnell’s thinking at all. Nothing about unifying the party, nothing about organized and campaign, nothing about going on permanent offense. I mean, talk about, you know, a target rich environment. Look at this administration. This is one of the I just wrote an op ed. We’re going to have to run. We’re going to have to run Semih, the op that I’ll post. Pollster One of the greats there, folks. Craig, Shirley, keep your chin up.

Hour 1 Segment 3

So my point and Craig, Shirleys point is Reagan had a massive landslide in 1980. It was massive. Only to be outdone in 1984. But Carter only won 49 Electoral College votes. That was it, Reagan won the rest. 49 for Carter. Nobody saw it coming until about three or four days before the election and as Craig points out, subsequent to their debate. The Senate races which were written off. About four weeks ago by the Republican leader in a Senate which is so outrageous, so pathetic. Whether it’s ours and Pennsylvania. Look, I don’t know ultimately how they’ll turn out, I’m just making a point. I was in Pennsylvania, by the way. Abortion in Pennsylvania is not a really hot to trot issue. Pennsylvania is very split over this. I grew up in Pennsylvania. It’s three or four different states in one, but there’s a lot of European ethnic people. That’s their ancestry. Irish, German, Italian. Polish. As well as others, obviously, but in that particular group of ancestress who are not all hot to trot on abortion. There’s a very significant Catholic presence in that state, traditional Catholic presence, particularly in the central part of the state, as well as parts of the western part of the state and areas of the eastern. But the eastern and southeastern in particular, it’s much more liberal. But the whole state is not Philadelphia. Well, the Philadelphia suburbs. And so that issue is not as hot. As it might be in some other states, it sort of cuts both ways, but all that aside, I can assure you if we had honest polling and honest media. And if has had the money that Fetterman has, it would become abundantly clear. That Pennsylvania’s by a huge majority oppose partial birth abortion on demand. Most Americans do. So you see the race in Pennsylvania getting tight. The race in Georgia as of now. As of now, Herschel Walker has a slight lead, obviously could dissipate, I’m just making a point. Remember, he was written off. Marsters. Blake Masters in Arizona, neck and neck now. Jaidev, Vance, Ohio, slight lead over the fraud Tim Ryan, and we can go on and on. But my point to you is this keep your chin up, keep fighting, don’t give up. Think about those issues that are most important to you. Inflation’s going to get worse. Food prices are going to get worse. Food availability is going to get worse under this president. Your classroom, she got to take them back. The teachers union are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party and vice versa. These things are not going to change. They’re going to get worse under the Democrats. You heard that poll. Where a majority of Democrats don’t think America is the greatest country in the face of the Earth. And I bet you if you polled the teachers union minus the Republicans in that union, the Democrats, it’d be 90, 95 percent. That is, if you pulled the Democrat Party base and just the base. If you polled the Democrat Party base. The 90 95 percent who don’t think America is the greatest country on the earth, in fact, a significant percentage would hate America. Put Hate America. Now, we invited Mr. Newsome on to debate, did we not, Mr. Producer? We never heard back because he’s a gutless wonder. Who else did we invite on this show, I forget. The sheriff from Bear County spelled Bexar County, but Bear County, Texas, he never got back all these tough guys. What’s wrong, Sheriff, all of a sudden you’re a weasel. What’s wrong, Gavin? But that girlie figure, all of a sudden you’re a weasel. But as a media whore, I’m more than happy to debate him. Give him a platform they not otherwise going to get with millions of millions of people, including Californians. Here we have from hot air Gavin Newsom, kidnapper and human trafficker, I go by David Strong. Democrats have gone head banging, Leon, saying over Rhonda Santurce is brilliant and compassionate plan to relocate undocumented migrants to locations yearning to help them breathe free. Turns out that we believe that no human being is illegal. Crowd also believes that these non illegal human beings should sleep under bridges in El Paso rather than in hotel rooms of Martha’s Vineyard. And again, I ask, where are the Obamas? I’m quite serious about this, they have a huge mansion, I have like 15 bathrooms in there and two bedrooms. Where the hell are they? Busy building walls. To keep the ocean out of their property. Oh, yeah, and as soon as they showed up, a state of emergency was called in. The military mobilized to round up the inconvenient brown people. They were shipped off to a military base where no doubt AOC will be photographed crying for their plight. You’d think that they would rally around him for his offering free transportation to sanctuaries for migrants. But apparently they don’t see it quite like I do. He writes to say that this has been compared to Adolf Eichmann and Gavin Newsom has called on the Justice Department to investigate him for human trafficking. Newsome thinks he can go toe to toe with the Santas and political warfare, but he’s proving himself to be more Gomer Pyle than Navy SEAL. Surprise, surprise. Do some thought, he dropped a political bombshell to Santos with his human trafficking attack and to be sure, it resonated with the radical left base to whom he’s appealing, they’d been floundering around looking for an angle that hurts the Santos but allowed them to cry. Crocodile tears of compassion for the poor illegal aliens. Human trafficking accusations seem perfect, but oops, I said oops. Turns out that if the comparison is a noose and engaged in a bit of human trafficking while mayor of San Francisco, hello. Maggie Haberman. Where are you? Filey Bumpe. Sarah from. The whole gaggle of corrupt media types, where are you, media, a.k.a. sleazy. Which is just another Media Matters to the Media Matters, I’d be concerned about that Newsom instituted a program that shipped homeless San Franciscans around the country. To get them out of the city. He got that he didn’t rent buses or charter flights as evil to Santurce and Abbott, have he compassionately bought bus tickets before giving homeless folks a swift kick in the butt? I’m reading this. If passing people out of your state is kidnapping, when are you going to be charged? It’s been 14 years since then Mayor Gavin Newsom initiated a program called Homeward Bound. A flattering and uplifting name for a program that gives unsheltered San Franciscans a one way Greyhound bus ticket out of town and ask them to please never come back. Hmm. Homeward Bound was a Newsom initiative that was discontinued just this year in San Francisco, though it appears to have been folded into other programs. Its goal is supposedly to help people get out of homelessness by reconnecting them with families and friends somewhere far, far away from the city of San Francisco. Sometimes it works just as office. Just as often it dumps the homeless elsewhere. The data highlight a conundrum for San Francisco. As rents rise and the homeless population swells, it’s much cheaper to give someone a bus ticket rather than try to house them here. But when they leave, how responsible is the city for making sure they find stability at the other end of their journey in the city’s biennial homeless count? San Francisco officials categorize all homeward bound clients as having exited homelessness, regardless of whether they did. City officials, including the mayor. That would be Newsom at the time and head of the homelessness department also also often told Homeless Man as a success on par with other programs that place people into housing, such as permanent supportive housing and rental assistance from twenty thirteen to twenty eighteen. San Francisco says it helped over 11000 people, quote, exit homelessness, unquote. According to the city data, a little more than half of those people were connected with permanent supportive housing, a rapid rehousing, a Fed. All rental assistance program, the other half. Well. They were boarded on a Greyhound bus and sent out of the city. And by any serious measure, homeward bound has been a total failure, like any Gavin Newsom project appears to be a new, shiny, progressive, compassionate program that promises sunshine and daisies and children running free in the meadows. Reality that is all show and no don’t. That goes on. In the 14 years since the city created the homeward bound program under then Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco’s homeless crisis has indisputably worsened. San Francisco’s homeless population grew by an estimated 17 percent over the past two years, despite the city building supportive housing and spending more than two hundred eighty five million dollars annually on the Department of Homelessness and one point two million of that funding is spent on homeward bound each year. Of course, Homeward Bound is in the home ward at all. It’s let’s get rid of these people. The average bus ticket, ten dollars per diem, give it to someone for the journey. Cost the city about two hundred and seventy per person. But that’s far less than it would cost a shelter or a house them. Clearly, this program isn’t about helping homeless people, it’s about assuaging the consciousness of the lefties who feel bad about stepping over sleeping addicts and stepping around piles of human excrement. It harsh is their buzz, man, it stepped in poop while drinking my latte. Newsome isn’t alone in shipping, there are homeless U.S. citizens somewhere else. Mayor Bill de Blasio did exactly the same thing more recently. And I want to cover that when I come up. Lock him up, lock Newsome up, and next, New York. De Blasio, a.k.a. the cameo. I’ll be right back

Hour 1 Segment 4

Well, it’s time to round up, round them up. Bill de Blasio, while we’re rounding up Democrat mayors and governors who apparently have been kidnapping. Alliums New York Post a couple of years ago, New York City generously shares its homeless crises with every other corner of America from the tropical shores of Honolulu and Puerto Rico to the badlands of Utah and backwaters of Louisiana. The Big Apple has sent local homeless families to three hundred and seventy three cities across the country with a full year of rent in their pockets as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio special one time assistance program. Usually the receiving city knows nothing about it. Well, I’m sure all the sleazeballs on CNN and MSNBC, all the racists and bigots. Yes, I’m talking about you. Joe. Sunny. I’m sure you’ll get on top of this tomorrow, now that you’ve heard me say it. Short version of a Republican does it, then he’s a Nazi. If a Democrat does it, then we must marvel at his compassion. Blasio, Newsom. Blasio new. They need to be rounded up. They need to be invested by local Republicans, investigated charge. We don’t know what the law is yet to quote that genius sheriff in Bear County, Texas. We don’t know. But we we’re looking for something. We take our cue from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and meritless Garland and those creeps. Yes, Gavin Newsom. The cameo kidnappers and human traffickers. Kidnappers and human traffickers. As the great Paul Harvey would say, now you know the rest of the story and we’ll be sure. To post this article from Hot Air from David Strahm, September 18, 20, 22, a Mark Levin Show Dotcom, in fact, let us put it on our website. Excuse me. Let us put on all our social sites. Mr. Producer, under the heading, Gavin Newsom. And see de Blasio. Kidnappers and human traffickers. Is that all right? We don’t want to forget them and and again, Newsom does not want to debate me. And this is why, of course. This is why, of course. The painting him, are you kidding, ladies in general? I used to debate the greatest minds in the country. Being one myself, of course, but I used to. And we can’t get him anymore. Years and years ago, I debated Dershowitz, and he wouldn’t debate me anymore. Johnnie Cochran, I debated and unfortunately, he passed away. Not because of the debate, he had some kind of whatever happened. I used to debate them all, all of them. Newsom, it’s going back to middle school to debate him. Come on, I’ll be even nice to you. I won’t mock you, Gavin. I won’t mock you at all. Come on the program. Let’s debate, please. I’ll be right back.