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MARK: HELLO, AMERICA.
I'M MARK LEVIN.
THIS IS "LIFE, LIBERTY &
LEVIN."
AND OUR SPECIAL ELECTION
EDITION.
I THINK IT'S APROPOS TO BEGIN
THIS PROGRAM WITH A QUOTE FROM
THOMAS PAYNE, ONE OF THE GREAT
PAMPHLET EARS, REPORTERS IF YOU
WILL.
HE WROTE COMMON SENSE READ BY
125,000 COLONISTS AND A
PAMPHLET CALLED THE AMERICAN
CRISIS, HE WROTE IT ON DECEMBER
23, 1776.
AND GEORGE WASHINGTON AND OTHER
FOUNDERS HAVE CREDITED THOMAS
PAYNE AMONG OTHERS BUT PAYNE IN
PARTICULAR.
WE'RE GIVING THE INTELLECTUAL
AND THE PATRIOTIC FOUNDING FOR
OUR MOVEMENT FOR INDEPENDENCE.
HERE'S WHAT HE SAID IN PART.
THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT TRY
MEN'S SOULS.
SUMMER SOLDIER AND THE SUNSHINE
PATRIOT WILL IN THIS CRISIS
SHRINK FROM THE SERVICE OF
THEIR COUNTRY.
HE THAT STAND BIAS IT NOW
DESERVES THE LOVE AND THANKS OF
MAN AND WOMAN.
TYRANNY, LIKE HELL, IS NOT
EASILY CONQUERED.
YET WE HAVE THIS CONSOLATION
WITH US, THAT THE HEART OF THE
CONFLICT, THE MORE GLORIOUS THE
TRIUMPH.
WHAT WE OBTAIN TOO CHEAP, WE
ESTEEM TOO LIGHTLY.
IT IS DEARNESS ONLY THAT GIVES
EVERYTHING ITS VALUE.
HEAVEN KNOWS HOW TO PUT A
PROPER PRICE UPON ITS GOODS AND
IT WOULD BE STRANGE INDEED IF
SO CELESTIAL AND ARTICLE AS
FREEDOM SHOULD NOT BE HIGHLY
RATED.
FREEDOM WAS HIS EMPHASIS.
BRITAIN WITH AN ARMY TO ENFORCE
HER TYRANNY DECLARED SHE HAS A
RIGHT NOT ONLY TO TAX BUT TO
BIND US ALL IN ALL CASES
WHATSOEVER, AND IF BEING BOUND
IN THAT MANNER IS NOT SLAVERY,
THEN IS THERE NO SUCH A THING
AS SLAVERY UPON EARTH.
EVEN THE EXPRESSION IS IMPIOUS
FOR SO UNLIMITED A POWER CAN BE
ONLY WITH GOD.
THAT'S THOMAS PAINE.
YOU DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT
THOMAS PAINE BY THE MEDIA.
WHY AM I READING THAT?
WHAT KIND OF SOLDIER ARE YOU?
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT ARMY,
MARINES.
WHAT KIND OF SOLDIER ARE YOU?
ARE YOU A SOLDIER FOR LIBERTY?
OR NOT?
BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THIS
ELECTION IS ALL ABOUT.
THE MEN WHO FOUNDED THIS
COUNTRY UNDERSTOOD LIBERTY.
THE MEN WHO FOUNDED THIS
COUNTRY UNDERSTOOD THE
LIMITATIONS OF GOVERNMENT.
AND MEN WHO FOUNDED THIS
COUNTRY ALSO UNDERSTOOD WHAT
WAS MEANT BY A FREE PRESS.
DO YOU KNOW BACK BEFORE THE
REVOLUTION AND DURING THE
REVOLUTION, THERE ARE ONLY A
COUPLE OF DOZEN NEWSPAPERS,
LITTLE OVER 30, LESS THAN 40.
EVEN BEFORE THAT, THERE ARE
RELATIVE HANDFUL OF PRINTERS
AND THE PRINTERS WERE THE GREAT
PATRIOTS.
HOW ELSE WOULD YOU GET THE WORD
OUT?
BUT THE PAMPHLETEERS WERE KEY.
MANY, MANY PAMPHLETEERS AND
THEY WOULD WRITE THEIR
PAMPHLETS WHICH INCLUDE SOME
NEWS OF THE DAY, TYPICALLY OLD
NEWS BECAUSE IT TOOK TIME FOR
NEWS TO TRAVEL, BUT THE VAST
MAJORITY OF THE PAMPHLETEERS
WERE PATRIOTS FOR LIBERTY, FOR
LIMITED GOVERNMENT, FOR
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, FOR
PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS.
THEY WERE PAMPHLETEERS AGAINST
TYRANNY AND PAMPHLETS WOULD BE
POSTED AT PUBS AND OTHER PUBLIC
PLACE.
PAMPHLETS WOULD BE CIRCULATED
AND BY MOUTH DISCUSSED AT THE
DINNER TABLE AND AMONG
COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND SO
FORTH.
THESE WERE TRUE PATRIOTS AND
THEY HAD A BIG CAUSE, THE CAUSE
OF FOUNDING AN INDEPENDENT
UNITED STATES.
CONTRAST THAT WITH THE MEDIA
TODAY WHICH IS CRUCIALLY
IMPORTANT IN THIS UPCOMING
ELECTION.
CONTRAST IT WITH THE MEDIA OF
TODAY.
DO THE MEDIA EVER TALK ABOUT
INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY?
PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS?
NATURAL LAW?
UNALIENABLE RIGHTS?
DO THEY EVER TALK ABOUT THAT?
NO.
WHAT DO THE MEDIA TALK ABOUT?
TYPICALLY ONE OF TWO THINGS,
PUSHING THE PROGRESSIVE LEFT
AGENDA OR TRASHING THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT.
THEY ARE JOHNNY AND JANIE TWO
NOTES.
AND IT'S A BIG PROBLEM IN THIS
COUNTRY.
SO THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT NOT
ONLY DEFEATING MANY, MANY
RADICALS THAT THE DEMOCRATS
HAVE NOMINATED.
SOME OF THEM ARE OUTRIGHT
BIGOTS, BUT IT'S ALSO ABOUT
PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE MEDIA.
THAT HAS NO COMPREHENSION
WHATSOEVER WHAT FREEDOM OF THE
PRESS MEANS, HISTORY OF THE
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND WHY
IT'S SO IMPORTANT.
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS EXISTS TO
UNDERGIRD FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IS A
PERSON OR GROUP OF PEOPLE,
TODAY BUSINESSES, COMMUNICATING
WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
SHARING INFORMATION WITH THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE.
BUT, FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS THE
BASIS FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS,
BUT WHEN THE PRESS BECOMES
MYOPIC, MALIGNANT.
WHEN SO-CALLED REPORTERS ARE
REALLY PRACTICING GROUP THINK,
BECAUSE THE VAST MAJORITY OF
THEM ARE LOCATED IN AND AROUND
WASHINGTON, D.C., IN AND AROUND
NEW YORK CITY.
IN AND AROUND LOS ANGELES.
NOT KANSAS, NOT MISSOURI, NOT
ARKANSAS, YOU NAME IT, ALL THE
STATES IN BETWEEN.
WELL, THEN THEY HAVE A PRETTY
MUCH AGGREGATE MIND-SET, AND
THAT AGGREGATE MIND-SET IS TO
ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF
CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT.
UBIQUITOUS GOVERNMENT.
AND NOW EVEN WORSE, THEY ARE
ATTACKING, ATTACKING THOSE OF
US WHO DISAGREE WITH THAT ALIEN
IDEOLOGY, PROGRESSIVISM, THAT
WAS IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED
STATES.
PROGRESSIVISM WHICH IS THE
PROGNY OF, YES, MARXISM, KARL
MARX, FREDERICK ENGELS,
HAGELISM.
GERMAN PHILOSOPHERS WHO WROTE
ABOUT FUNDAMENTALLY
TRANSFORMING AND ALTERING THE
KIND OF SOCIETY THAT WE HAVE.
ATTACKING CAPITALISM.
ATTACKING THE INDIVIDUAL,
INSISTING THAT THE ONLY WAY THE
INDIVIDUAL CAN BE FULLY
REALIZED IS THROUGH THE STATE.
WE ALL MUST BE A PART OF THE
STATE.
WORK FOR THE STATE.
PUSHING THIS NOTION OF RADICAL
EGALITARIANISM.
LET ME ASK YOU SOMETHING, IN
ARIZONA, THE DEMOCRAT SENATE
CANDIDATE, IS THAT NOT HER?
IN FLORIDA, THE DEMOCRAT
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, IS
THAT NOT HIM?
IN GEORGIA, THE DEMOCRAT
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, IS
THAT NOT HER?
IS IT NOT BERNIE SANDERS AND
KAMALA HARRIS?
IS IT NOT BARACK OBAMA AND ALL
THE REST?
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY NOW IS NOT
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF EVEN 30,
40 YEARS AGO, THE DEMOCRAT
PARTY IS AN EXTREMELY RADICAL
EUROPEAN-TYPE LEFT-WING PARTY.
AND IN ORDER FOR THEIR AGENDA
TO ADVANCE, THEY MUST, THEY
MUST UNDERMINE OUR
CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER AND OUR
REPUBLICAN ORDER.
BUT IT'S NOT JUST THEM, THEY
HAVE A MOUTHPIECE, THEY HAVE A
VOICE, AND THAT IS THE MODERN
DAY AMERICAN MEDIA, THE PRESS.
SURVEY AFTER SURVEY HAVE SHOWN
THOUGHTS VAST MAJORITY OF
SO-CALLED REPORTERS ARE
LIBERALS AND/OR DEMOCRATS.
THE VAST MAJORITY OF SO-CALLED
JOURNALISTS OR REPORTERS LIVE
AT THE EDGES OF THE COUNTRY,
NOT IN THE CENTER OF THE
COUNTRY.
THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE MAJOR
MEDIA LIVE IN THE EDGES OF THE
COUNTRY, NOT IN THE CENTER OF
THE COUNTRY.
WE HAVE THIS CULTURAL BATTLE
GOING ON BETWEEN THOSE OF US
WHO WISH TO UPHOLD OUR
TRADITIONS.
THOSE OF US WHO BELIEVE IN
CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLICANISM,
AND THOSE WHO DO NOT.
AND THE REASON WHY THE
KAVANAUGH HEARINGS WERE SO
IMPORTANT, BECAUSE IT ALL CAME
TO A HEAD RIGHT THERE.
BASIC ISSUES!
OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND THE
ENLIGHTENMENT.
BASIC ISSUES OF THE AMERICAN
FOUNDING.
DUE PROCESS.
PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE, WE'RE
ON TRIAL.
WE'RE ON DISPLAY AT THAT HEARS
OVER A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE!
AND THE DEMOCRATS TO A MAN AND
WOMAN REJECTED THE
ENLIGHTENMENT!
REJECTED WESTERN CIVILIZATION!
REJECTED THE BILL OF RIGHTS!
IT'S JUST AN INTERVIEW.
IT'S NOT JUST AN INTERVIEW.
IF SOMEBODY IS ACCUSED OF
CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, WHETHER IT
IS IN A CONGRESSIONAL FORM OR
SOME OTHER FORM, THEY HAVE
BASIC RIGHTS.
THEY'RE NOT GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN
INNOCENT.
THEY ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN
GUILTY.
IN KAVANAUGH'S CASE, THERE
WASN'T A SHRED OF EVIDENCE,
WASN'T A SCINTILLA OF EVIDENCE.
NONE!
LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO THIS MAN.
THIS IS ILLUSTRATIVE BECAUSE
THEY'RE DOING IT TO YOU.
THROUGHOUT THE MEDIA AS I
SPEAK, WHEN YOU LOOK AT CNN OR
MSNBC, WHEN YOU READ THE
"WASHINGTON POST" OR THE "NEW
YORK TIMES," AND THAT ILK,
THEY'RE TRASHING YOU, THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE.
THEY'RE COMPARING YOU TO NAZIS.
THEY'RE CALLING YOU RACISTS.
THEY'RE CALLING YOU WHITE
SUPREMACISTS.
WE REJECT THIS.
WE ABHOR THIS.
WE EMBRACE INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY
AND CONSTITUTIONALISM AND
UNALIENABLE RIGHTS FOR ALL
PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF COLORS,
REGARDLESS OF GENDER,
REGARDLESS OF RELIGION.
WE BELIEVE IN THE INDIVIDUAL.
THAT IS OUR PHILOSOPHY.
THAT IS OUR PHILOSOPHY AS
CONSERVATIVES.
THEY DO NOT!
THEY IDENTIFY US AS GROUPS.
THEY PUT US INTO GROUPS!
AND YOU CAN SEE IT ON CNN AND
MSNBC IN PARTICULAR.
IT'S TRULY OUTRAGEOUS, AND
THESE ARE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS.
AND THEY ARE SO FURIOUS THAT
THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO DETERMINE
WHO WOULD BE PRESIDENT IN THE
LAST PRESIDENTIAL CYCLE.
THEY HAVE SPENT EVERY HOUR AND
EVERY DAY SINCE DONALD TRUMP
WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT ACTUALLY
BEFORE, EVERY HOUR AND EVERY
DAY TRYING TO DESTROY HIS
CHARACTER, TRYING TO UPROOT HIS
ADMINISTRATION.
TRYING TO CREATE CONTROVERSY IN
ORDER TO DIMINISH HIM AND
DIMINISH YOU, AND TO CHANGE THE
COURSE OF THE 2016 ELECTION AND
TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF
HISTORY.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE
DOING RIGHT NOW.
IT'S TIME TO STAND UP!
THAT'S WHAT TUESDAY'S ABOUT!
FOR OURSELVES, FOR OUR
FAMILIES, FOR OUR FAITH, FOR
OUR COUNTRY, FOR OUR PARTY AND
FOR OUR PRESIDENT!
IT'S TIME TO STAND UP.
I KNOW THE VAST MAJORITY OF
YOU, IF THERE'S EARLY VOTING
HAVE ALREADY VOTED OR PREPARED
TO VOTE ON TUESDAY.
IT'S NOT ENOUGH!
YOU NEED TO BE THOMAS PAINE.
YOU NEED TO TELL YOUR FAMILY,
FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES AND
NEIGHBORS, THAT THEY MUST VOTE.
IF THEY'RE GOING TO VOTE THE
RIGHT WAY.
YOU NEED TO BE IN CHARGE, YOU
NEED TO BE FOLLOWING UP WITH
THEM.
YOU NEED TO BE YOUR PRECINCT
CAPTAIN.
IF THOSE OF YOU WATCHING ME NOW
CONTACT FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN
PEOPLE, TAKE IT UPON YOURSELF
IN THE POLITICAL PARTY AND THE
RNC, YOU, THE MODERN-DAY THOMAS
PAINE, TO GET THE VOTE OUT IN
YOUR OWN LITTLE FAMILIAL OR
SOCIAL CIRCLE.
YOU WILL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.
IN CLOSE ELECTIONS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY, FOR THE SENATE,
FOR GOVERNORSHIPS AND
CONGRESSIONAL RACES.
YOU WILL PUSH BACK AGAINST THIS
FORCE IN THE MEDIA, AGAINST
THIS FORCE IN THE DEMOCRAT
PARTY.
AGAINST THIS FORCE IN
HOLLYWOOD.
YOU WILL PUSH BACK AGAINST THE
FAR EAST COAST AND THE FAR WEST
COAST, THAT'S TRYING TO DEVOUR
AND CONTROL THE REST OF THE
COUNTRY.
IT IS TIME TO PUSH BACK.
PRESS HAS INTERPOSED ITSELF IN
THIS ELECTIONS IN A WAY I'VE
NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
IN A WAY I'VE NEVER SEEN
BEFORE.
THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
IS A RACIST BECAUSE OF HIS
IMMIGRATION POLICIES.
THE PRESIDENT IS NOT A RACIST.
THE PRESIDENT'S IMMIGRATION
POLICIES ARE IDENTICAL TO WHAT
BARACK OBAMA, BILL CLINTON,
HILLARY CLINTON, HARRY REID,
JOE BIDEN'S IMMIGRATION
POLICIES WERE A DECADE AGO.
A DECADE AGO.
THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE THAT
THIS PRESIDENT IS DESTROYING
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
HOW SO?
BY CALLING THEM OUT?
BY CALLING THEM OUT AND
EXPOSING WHAT THEY'RE DOING?
UNLIKE JOHN ADAMS IN THE
SEDITION ACT BACK WHEN HE WAS
PRESIDENT OR ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN
HIS EXECUTIVE ORDER OR WOODROW
WILSON AND THE SEDITION ACT OF
1918.
WE DON'T HAVE A SEDITION ACT
THAT THE PRESIDENT IS
ENFORCING.
HE'S NOT PUTTING JOURNALISTS
AND REPORTERS IN PRISON.
HE'S NOT SHUTTING DOWN
NEWSPAPERS AS THOSE PRESIDENTS
DID.
THE ONLY THREAT HE POSES TO THE
MEDIA IS HE FIGHTS BACK.
PRESIDENT'S NOT ATTACKING ANY
PART OF THE CONSTITUTION.
HE'S TRYING TO DEFEND THE
CONSTITUTION.
BUT IT'S UP TO US NOW, IT'S UP
TO YOU AND ME.
THE QUESTION IS THIS: WE HAVE
YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO
VOLUNTEER TO FIGHT THROUGH THIS
COUNTRY.
THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY AND WE
HAVE MEN AND WOMEN TODAY IN ONE
HELL HOLE AFTER ANOTHER.
WHAT ARE THEY FIGHTING FOR?
THE FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION
OF AMERICA?
ARE THEY FIGHTING FOR THIS
GOVERNMENT PROGRAM OR THAT
GOVERNMENT PROGRAM?
ARE THEY FIGHTING FOR SOME
BIGOTS WHO ARE RUNNING FOR
OFFICE AS DEMOCRATS.
ARE THEY FIGHTING FOR A
SO-CALLED FREE PRESS THAT
CONTINUES TO TRASH THIS
COUNTRY?
NO!
THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR YOU AND
YOUR PRINCIPLES AND THE LEAST
WE CAN DO HERE AT HOME IS NOT
ONLY VOTE BUT MAKE SURE FAMILY,
FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES AND
NEIGHBORS VOTE, TOO.
IT'S NOT ASKING TOO MUCH.
IT'S UP TO US.
IF MORE OF US VOTE THAN THEM,
WE WIN AND THEY LOSE.
THIS IS A TRULY, TRULY CRUCIAL
ELECTION FOR YOU.
FOR YOUR FAMILY.
WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY DO YOU
WANT TO HAVE?
THAT'S WHAT'S ON THE BALLOT.
YOU GOING TO VOTE OR YOU GOING