Mark Levin Addresses Ted Cruz Eligibility Issue posed by Ridgewood, NJ Man at Book Signing

The Ridgewood Blog ^ | August 27, 2013 | PJBlogger

[one guy in new jersey]

Partial Transcript of the Mark Levin Show aired live on Monday, August 19, 2013

[start at 0:26 of the podcast recording]

Hello everybody, Mark Levin here, our number 877-381-3811, 877-381-3811.

Mark Levin: Before we jump in, all I can say is, Wow! You guys, open your microphones a second. Thousands of people at both booksignings. Wasn’t that unbelievable?

Staffer: There were a lot of people there, it was great.

Mark Levin: And the people were just spectacular, weren’t they? Except for one guy in New Jersey which I’ll talk about later.

Staffer: [chuckles]

Mark Levin: This… this birther stuff is way, way out of contr…”Now Ted Cruz” … I swear I almost hit this guy… “Ted Cruz is not a citizen!” No, he’s born to an American mother, no he’s born in Canada to an American mother. So all you pregnant ladies travelling overseas: According to certain birther, uh, groups, if you have a child while you are on vacation, they’re not Americans. They’re not natural-born Americans. I just thought you’d wanna know, if you were thinking of your kid as a potential presidential candidate, uh, because they say so. They have no historical background whatsoever… None! But it’s, it’s just amazing! Absolutely stunning! But we had so many wonderful people, and let me add, all races, both genders… I don’t know the sexual preferences, that wasn’t a requirement to say hello…young people, elderly, middle age people. A particularly young crowd, yeah, we had dogs come too, everybody so well behaved, and uh, it was a pleasure. In New York, we were there about four-and-a-half hours, in New Jersey about five, five-and-a-half hours, and I wanted to be respectful to everybody, so… I just want to thank you all, and this Saturday, Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, at Barnes and Noble. I should add, if you want to see the crowd that was at New York, Mr. Producer went down the line, and this was early on, this, this line kept growing and growing throughout the day…you can go look at uh MarkLevinShow.com on our website, as well as the social sites MarkLevinShow Facebook, MarkLevinShow Twitter. Um, Christians, Coptic Christians are being wiped out in Egypt. Their churches are being burned to the ground….

[stop at 3:01 of the podcast recording]

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[restart at 59:22 of the podcast recording]

Mark Levin: Alright, lets go to uh, Steve in New York, the great WABC, go!

Steve: Great one, it’s great to talk to you, what an honor.

Mark Levin: My honor, thank you, my friend.

Steve: Oh, I got a great story for you, I loved your uh, Hannity special, I enjoyed it very much, I listened to it three times over the weekend…

Mark Levin: Oh, thank you.

Steve: …I got my wife, I got my wife to tape for me, or TIVO it, and she watched it. And she really enjoyed it. She’s not big on politics or anything, and she gets sick of hearing me talk about it, but it was funny ‘cause she said “He is so calm, Steve.” He was, she was trying to do a little wifey/husband training? And…

Mark Levin: Uh huh.

Steve: she said “He is so calm, and he gets his point across. He didn’t raise his voice, or get upset…

Mark Levin: [chuckles]

Steve: …or anything!”

Mark Levin: [breaks out into laughter]

Steve: …and I laughed so hard. I said “How do you, uh, where do you think I learned how to yell?” [laughs] “I just listen to Mark.” And she knows you’re my hero, I go around quotin’ ya, and tellin’ everybody to listen to ya, and…

Mark Levin: Well, that’s great.

Steve: she just … to get me to calm down a little, and I said you just need to listen to Mark. [laughs]

Mark Levin: Well, thank you, uh…well listen, you know what, this is called passion, just remind her it’s passion, you know, and um…what was truly exceptional about the Hannity program, number one, the man has enormous class and decency, and number two, he was asking me questions because he wanted me to inform the public about what I’d written, and to engage the studio audience. And notice we didn’t have a bunch of left-wing bomb throwers just yelling and talking over people. There were conversations actually occurring, did you notice that?

Steve: Yes, there was no crazy, I mean a lot of times he’s got the left wingers on there, and it’s just, kind, it’s almost funny to watch, but that was so interesting and…and it didn’t get me upset, and it just, I just wanted to listen to it over and over and absorb every second of it, and every bit of information, it…it’s just brilliant, Mark, I, you know I hope when um…we’ve got President Cruz, he has the wisdom to make you his chief of staff or vice-president.

Mark Levin: No, no no no no no. And he’s got a great chief of staff, by the way. No, I…I do what I do, and uh, and he will do a great job should he be president. Thank you for your call my friend. And uh, I’m so sick of these birthers. I was going to tell you about this, uh, incident. Just a wonderful group of people, uh, we were in Bookends, Ridgewood, New Jersey, and everyone was respectful until…and it was hot outside, it got hot, hotter than uh originally forecast and it was a very long line, and you know we try to go through it quickly out of respect for everybody in line, but I also try to be respectful to everybody in line. Um…but this fella [breathes out] gets in my face and first of all he points to some obscure note on page I don’t know whatever and he said [cough] excuse me folks, and he says “You were wrong about this, you were wrong about”, and honestly I, I, I didn’t have time to read it, and I’ll go back and check it, if I’m wrong about it I’ll fix it, and that happens sometimes in these books when you’re going into the notes, you might put a word when you mean another word, or a state when you mean another state, so I’m going to check it out, I just haven’t had time. And then he goes, he says uh “And Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president. He’s not a natural-born Citizen.” And I thought to myself, you know I, this is not a subject that I have studied so thoroughly, but he’s born of a mother who is an American citizen. Doesn’t that make him a natural-born Ci… “No, but he was in Canada when he was born!” Okay, but she wasn’t Canadian, she was an American citizen! She was an American citizen. And so, the issue isn’t what the Constitution says in that regard, the issue is how do we interpret that. And the way I interpret it is, his mother’s an American citizen, so he’s an American citizen! That’s not a constitutional issue, that’s an interpretive issue… or, a statutory issue if Congress has passed some law subsequent to that to enforce that provision of the Constitution. So, the face of the Constitution isn’t terribly helpful. If he was born of non-citizens in a foreign country that would be easy, and there’s a lot of easy cases. So the guy gets in my face, and he starts pointing and pointing, and I looked at him and I pointed back, and I cursed, unfortunately, but the, because, uh you know, he was…he was a nutjob. And I thought to myself: Why do you come here and do that? Is this, is this sort of the way you…you excite yourself or something? No. So, I just want you folks to know who like Ted Cruz. I…I assume they’re going to do this to Rubio, or some of these other people too, whether you like ‘em or not for president I’m just making a point, but now this has become an entire industry. And of course [chuckles] Ted Cruz [laughs], he immediately issued today or yesterday his long form birth certificate. Now, some of this is probably coming from the left. So now they’re the birthers. But some of it’s coming from others, too. People just get obsessed, or conspiratorial, and there’s no end to it, on a matter like this, and there’s nothing I can say or point to that’s going to change their mind. But in my view there’s no doubt about it that he’s eligible for president, should he choose to run, just as I believe McCain was eligible for president, when he ran. So…that’s my opinion! You may not like it… But what particularly bothered me about this guy…he was disrespectful in his conduct to everybody else standing there. They were pleasant, talking to each other, you know…listening, watching and so forth. I’m a big boy; I’ve seen this and a thousand times worse. But he was quite obnoxious. He’s the only one…oh no there was another guy, had a prob, wha wha, he what…he had a problem, he was screaming upstairs, I don’t know what he was screamin’ about. It was kind of eventful there in New Jersey. No, there wasn’t anything like that in New York, was there boys? [Staff: No. Peaceful in ji…you know in Long Island] It was peaceful on Long Island! [chuckles] But is was peaceful in New Jersey, too. It really, really was. It was just terrific. If you could have seen that line, well, actually you can. We have the uh video, and this is just the start of the day with the line. It got longer and longer at uh… at Book Review in Long Island if you want to take a look on MarkLevinShow.com or MarkLevi…oh there is now? The…the New Jersey line? Okay. Both lines. On MarkLevinShow.com, are they both on the social sites too? Or…just the Long Island. But we’ll put the other one up later so some of you can see yourselves, too. Alright. GoldLine!

[stop at 67:00 of the podcast recording]

(further information and videos at: http://queenofliberty.com/2013/08/14/mark-levin-rolls-out-his-new-book/)

[Tennessee Nana]

OK Jim

then lets say

Palin/Cruz 2016

or

Cruz/Palin 2016

:)

[Jim Robinson]

Fine by me.

[P-Marlowe]

Conclusory arguments do not win legal cases.

There is no way in Hell that any Federal Court will rule that Ted Cruz is not eligible. So no argument that you make to the contrary is going to do anything but undermine the potential candidacy of Cruz by dividing the conservatives on this wholly irrelevant issue.

Ted Cruz is eligible. Get over it.

[xzins]

Naturalized means “made by decree to be natural.”

If you’re made to be “natural”, then you already were “natural.”

So, then, natural means “by RIGHT.”

You could be a citizen “by right” based on location of birth (jus soli)

OR

You could be a citizen “by right” based on blood (jus sanquinis)

There are only 2 types of citizens:

(1) those made to be citizens

(2) those born already citizens

[P-Marlowe]

We go Cruz/Palin 2016 and then when the election is over and Cruz is president, do you think that the libs are going to challenge his eligibility?

[xzins]

His opinion is based on the law. He has it exact. Summed, but nonetheless right on the money

7 FAM 1131.6-3 Not Citizens by “Naturalization”
(CT:CON-349; 12-13-2010)
Section 201(g) NA and section 301(g) INA (8 U.S.C. 1401(g)) (formerly section 301(a)(7) INA) both specify that naturalization is “the conferring of nationality of a state upon a person after birth.” Clearly, then, Americans who acquired their citizenship by birth abroad to U.S. citizens are not considered naturalized citizens under either act.

[P-Marlowe]

For those who argue that life begins at conception, I do believe that Ted Cruz was conceived in Austin Texas.

So all true pro life conservatives would have to concede that Ted Cruz became a US Citizen at conception.

[xzins]

Family vacation is so much fun!

[xzins]

Correction in second line: Left out a “not”

Naturalized means “made by decree to be natural.”

If you’re “NOT” made to be “natural”, then you already were “natural.”

So, then, natural means “by RIGHT.”

You could be a citizen “by right” based on location of birth (jus soli)

OR

You could be a citizen “by right” based on blood (jus sanquinis)

There are only 2 types of citizens:

(1) those made to be citizens

(2) those born already citizens

[Godebert]

The Nationality act of 1790 was repealed by the Nationality act of 1795.

Nowhere does the Nationality act of 1795 use the term natural born Citizen.

In fact, Sec. 3 of the Nationality Act of 1795 expressly states in no uncertain terms that:

the children of citizens of the United States, born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, shall be considered as citizens of the United States: Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons, whose fathers have never been resident of the United States: Provided also, That no person heretofore proscribed by any state, or who has been legally convicted of having joined the army of Great Britain during the late war, shall be admitted a citizen as foresaid, without the consent of the legislature of the state, in which such person was proscribed.

Nowhere in the Nationality Act of 1795 does it declare that those children of citizens of the United States, born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens of the United States

[WildHighlander57]

Now THAT’S a good one!

:D

“To: xzins; Tennessee Nana; Jim Robinson; Lakeshark

For those who argue that life begins at conception,I do believe that Ted Cruz was conceived in Austin Texas.

So all true pro life conservatives would have to concede that Ted Cruz became a US Citizen at conception.

307 posted on Tue Aug 27 2013 21:36:33 GMT-0500 (CDT) by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 304 | View Replies | Report Abuse]”

[SoConPubbie]

You are exactly right on this. I've decided that the Constitution comes first and anyone who refuses to obey it will not get my vote. Levin can kiss my behind. He is a coward for ignoring the truth and a traitor for misrepresenting it.

So, please show us from the Constitution, relevant US Law, or Supreme Court ruling where your definition has been proven to be legal and constitutional?

[Triple]

I like the guy. I like his politics.

He just does not qualify.

He has a Canadian birth certificate. His father was Cuban.

I just don’t see how he meets the natural born constitutional requirement.

The original intent was to not have a president with potential for divided loyalties.

[SoConPubbie]

I just don’t see how he meets the natural born constitutional requirement.

Once again, you are calling your opinion of "Natural Born" constitutional base on what?

The constitution very clearly lays out the processes involved by which something can be called constitutional.

1. Amendment.
2. US Law passed by Congress and signed by the President.
3. Supreme Court Ruling.

Nowhere does it state that because someone applies the concept of "original intent" to an opinion, outside of these three constitutionally defined processes that that opinion can be considered constitutional.

This is simply your opinion as to the original intent of the founders on this issue.

So stating your opinion declaratively and as if a fact does noting to prove your position, and after having been pointed out to you several times, borders on deceit.

[xzins]

Repealing a law because of a new law is not unusual at all. They updated the original law ever written in which Congress first exercised its power to rule on naturalization issues. The 1795 law was repealed eventually and replaced with something different, and that applies all the way down to our current law.

So, the 1790 law DEFINES "blood right citizenship" as "natural born citizenship." Then, along comes the 1795 law that says about these same babies born overseas regarding their citizenship: "the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons, whose fathers have never been resident of the United States"

First, it says their citizenship is a matter of RIGHT and not naturalization.

Second, it says that their citizenship DESCENDS FROM THEIR PARENT, so it is not a matter of naturalization.

So, they are citizens at birth. It is their birthRIGHT, and it is a matter of DESCENDING from an already citizen.

1. They are not "made to be natural citizens" by a naturalization process.

2. That means they already were natural citizens BY RIGHT.

So BIRTHRIGHT and NATURAL are the same thing.

[P-Marlowe]

If a woman from Buffalo went to Toronto to have an abortion, did she abort a American or a Canadian?

[Alamo-Girl]

Buuuump!

[Uncle Sham]

" So, please show us from the Constitution, relevant US Law, or Supreme Court ruling where your definition has been proven to be legal and constitutional?"

Minor versus Happersat for the definition of natural born citizen.

I also refer you to the Twentieth Amendment, Section Three for determining whether or not a President Elect failed to prove his/her eligibility to Congress. This was ignored by our present and previous congressional representation. There has been a PROVEN "failure to qualify" resulting in a usurpation of the office of President.

[Triple]

Does the Congress have the power to pass laws?

Is there a supreme court case affirming that power?

Did the congress have the power to pass laws before that supreme court case?

If the congress did have that power, before any amendment or case, then it was conferred by original intent of the framers through the constitution.

[P-Marlowe]

So Triple, when Cruz wins the nomination are you going to vote for Hillary or just sit out the election?