A Tale of Three Points on a List
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First step, orientation and identification. Think of you and a map in hand, along with a remembered direction. You are in America, where opinions flow fast and hot. Mark Levin is a radio-jock, a talk-guy, an author. Go look him up on Google. We can pause the tape.
Okay, we are back. Now you know about Mark Levin. Or so we thought. There isn't a single Mark Levin. There are three.
4 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:The Tale of Three Mark Levins:
Let's start with Mark Levin No. 1:
Mark Levin has been harsh on Drumpf, but at least he's not silly enough to think suicide is the best approach. If Drumpf is the candidate, after this video, does anyone have any doubt who he will actively support?
Okay, this is for You People.
4 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:Now on to Mark Levin No. 2:
GOP Establishment Money Funding Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Erick Erickson To Attack Drumpf
by Roger Stone
The headline says it all. Roger accuses Levin and two other Hate Club folks of being paid off. If you go deeper into the article, the warrants for the accusation against Levin are slim if not mere muck-spinning.
Winnowed down, the Levin accusation is that money from Levin books is chunder. But here is is, excised from a Daily Caller article. In that article, bear in mind, the quotes are from Daily Beast and a blog-commenter at Conservative Treehouse. Chunder?
“The Senate Conservatives Fund (PAC) purchasing massive quantities ($400,000) of Mark Levin’s books in exchange for favorable candidacy political opinion. Conveniently hidden by the radio host who avoids mentioning the financial conflict created,” the blog pointed out.
On Jan. 13, Ben Jacobs in an article published by the Daily Beast headlined “Pay to Play?” noted that Politico, in an article that now appears to have been scrubbed from Politico’s website, reported on how the GOP establishment seeks to buy Levin.
The Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), a “conservative” fund founded by former Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina that backed Cruz in his Senate fight against Obamacare, spent $427,000 to buy copies of radio talk show host Mark Levin’s four-year-old book “Liberty or Tyranny” to distribute to donors – a purchase that should have earned Levin approximately $1 million in royalties.
Despite his many diatribes against Drumpf broadcast to his national radio audience, Levin hid the fact the son of his fiancé is a full-time staffer for Cruz.
4 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:He's really pissed at Roger Stone. And he should be.
But which Mark Levin is the real one? The Mark Levin who claims that putting Hillary in office is the worst thing that could ever happen to America and whoever does this is not a conservative but a fraud (his term), the Mark Levin who makes gobs of money from pro-Cruz connections, including a job in the family (see here in case you missed the link above), which is sleazy but not treason to use a term he likes, or the Mark Levin who is now fine with Hillary over Drumpf? He said openly he is disposed to tell his audience not to vote for Drumpf if he gets the nomination. But he is fully aware this would elect Hillary.
Levin calls Stone Nixonian, which he is, but Stone's article is not. I'm not a fan of a lot of Stone's sleaze. I admit to the entertainment factor as I like gossip just as much as the next person (us primates love to stare at our celebrity monkeys ). But I always take Stone's stuff with a heaping helping of salt.
In this article, I just don't see much here. Stone merely posted information on the Internet that he got from the Internet and commented about it. There was no wiretapping or made-up false rumors or anything like that.
Stone thinks the Cruz money connections taint Levin's integrity. Well Levin has been blasting Drumpf's integrity for quite some time now. There's nothing Nixonian about any of that. It's normal campaign bickering.
But more to the point. I don't think Levin understands yet what he just did to himself. He had a pristine image of someone who can't be bought because he holds his commitment to principles above everything else, especially his love of America. I don't think the article by Stone would have made any impact on that image. It didn't shake mine, although that thing about Levin's son-in-law being a Cruz staffer--and his posture of keeping this hidden until exposed--did a little. But he's human, I thought. He's not his family. Let it go.
Now, because of feeling personally insulted because his money got exposed to the light of day by a smear merchant, Mark Levin wants to trash America in exactly the same terms he cautioned against before. Principles be damned.
He also called Ann Coulter a pretty nasty name while he was at it, and started slinging crap against a bunch of conservative commentators and making veiled threats...
I'm not the only one who is looking at this and shaking my head...
The Mark Levin I used to look up to just lost his luster. It looks like his integrity does have a price after all...
Michael
Oh, my. I will truncquoat a few pellets from this wreath. The biggest boldest bold claim is this:
4 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:Mark Levin wants to trash America
But, having said that, I must do a bit of recursion:
4 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:Now we come to Mark Levin No. 3:
Are there three Mark Levins? Are there really? Does making a list end the analytic moment?
Here is the truncquoated poetry from the above:
4 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:He's really pissed at Roger Stone. And he should be.
But which Mark Levin is the real one?
The Mark Levin who claims that putting Hillary in office is the worst thing that could ever happen to America and whoever does this is not a conservative but a fraud (his term),
the Mark Levin who makes gobs of money from pro-Cruz connections, including a job in the family (see here in case you missed the link above),
which is sleazy but not treason to use a term he likes,
or the Mark Levin who is now fine with Hillary over Drumpf?
He said openly he is disposed to tell his audience not to vote for Drumpf if he gets the nomination. But he is fully aware this would elect Hillary.
Levin calls Stone Nixonian, which he is, but Stone's article is not.
I'm not a fan of a lot of Stone's sleaze.
I admit to the entertainment factor as
I like gossip just as much as the next person (us primates love to stare at our celebrity monkeys ).
But I always take Stone's stuff with a heaping helping of salt.
In this article, I just don't see much here. Stone merely posted information on the Internet that he got from the Internet and commented about it.
There was no wiretapping or made-up false rumors or anything like that.
Stone thinks the Cruz money connections taint Levin's integrity.
Well Levin has been blasting Drumpf's integrity for quite some time now. There's nothing Nixonian about any of that. It's normal campaign bickering.
But more to the point. I don't think Levin understands yet what he just did to himself.
He had a pristine image of someone who can't be bought because he holds his commitment to principles above everything else, especially his love of America.
I don't think the article by Stone would have made any impact on that image. It didn't shake mine, although that thing about Levin's son-in-law being a Cruz staffer--and his posture of keeping this hidden until exposed--did a little.
But he's human, I thought. He's not his family. Let it go.
Now, because of feeling personally insulted because his money got exposed to the light of day by a smear merchant,
Mark Levin wants to trash America in exactly the same terms he cautioned against before. Principles be damned.
He also called Ann Coulter a pretty nasty name while he was at it, and started slinging crap against a bunch of conservative commentators and making veiled threats...
I'm not the only one who is looking at this and shaking my head...
The Mark Levin I used to look up to just lost his luster. It looks like his integrity does have a price after all...
Michael
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