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Mark Levin Addresses Ted Cruz Eligibility Issue posed by Ridgewood, NJ Man at Book Signing
The Ridgewood Blog ^ | August 27, 2013 | PJBlogger

Posted on 08/27/2013 10:44:47 AM PDT by 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]

[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/)


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; citizenship; congress; cruz; cruzmissle; electionfraud; eligibility; fraud; govtabuse; jr4cruz; levin; libertyamendments; marklevin; mediabias; naturalborncitizen; randsconcerntrolls; talkradio; teaparty; tedcruz; texas
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To: SoConPubbie

Obanma was raised in Indonesia as a devoted Moslem and indoctrinated in a Moslem public school...

his father and he had to be Moslems for him to be accepted in the boys only school..

after years of that unAmertican brainwashing is it any wonder that Obama acting as that-guy-in-my-White-house TM does not have the best interests of the United States at heart but the advancement ofr hisd Moslem brethern ???
He is about to get us into a war with Syria against Christians and moderate Moslems to give aid and comfort to our enemies the Islamic terrorists, the rebels who just murdered 1,00 of their fellow Syrians...

his sworn loyalty and alleigence is with the ideology of Islam and not with the United States...

no problem of divided loyalty there at all...

this is the kind of thing the Founders wanted to protect us from...

During the 1600s and 1700s in the early American colonies there were several wars with the Indians, the French and finally with the English...

they were friends or enemies at different times of that history...

The governors of the colonies were usually some lord born in England put there by the English with loyalty to the English crown...

They had no alleigence to the colonies which they considered ignorant and less than trailor trash ...

the real world was back in London...

during the American revolution they sided with England against the American colonists ...

To avoid having a president who had divided loyalties like those governors but would be faithful to the United States alone and consider the American people before all others, there is a need for a true Natural born American to be the leader of our country...

Born in the US of TWO American citizen parents “under the jurisdiction of” the Constitution...

there are millions of people who fit that requirement whats so hard ???

or we continue to get what we have now...

about to get in a war with Syria a country that has not proven to be a threat to us and to aid and arm the Moslem Brotherhood against innocent Syrian Christians and friendly Moslems......


41 posted on 08/27/2013 12:06:26 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: nesnah
The Cliff Notes version very clearly indicates that a “natural born citizen” is one born in a country whose parents are both citizens of that country.

Well, that's the problem with Cliff Notes. A superficial review can lead to poor conclusions. As in this case.

Please provide a citation for that assertion, either from the Constitution itself or from relevant federal law.
42 posted on 08/27/2013 12:07:35 PM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: Triple; holdonnow; onyx; trisham; TheOldLady; DJ MacWoW; RedMDer; musicman; Lady Jag; Alamo-Girl; ..

Ted Cruz was born to an American mother. He’s a natural born citizen and patriot in every sense of the word and I will support him to the hilt if he decides to run and is the strongest conservative running!! In fact, if that happens, FR will be Cruz Country!!

Go, TED, GO!!

FU Tokyo Rove, Chris Cristy, Jeb Bush, McCain, McBoehner, McGrahammesty, McFlake, McConnell and ALL GOP-e RINOS!!

The tea party rebellion is on!!

Anyone can’t live with that (as the say in Russia) tough shitski!!


43 posted on 08/27/2013 12:08:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Yaelle; one guy in new jersey
"Tomorrow Jamaica could make a candidate a citizen and poof, his candidacy is over. "

That's a straw man argument.

Heck, if you play that game, the U.S. could then turn around and make all Jamaican citizens, U.S. citizens. If such a thing were viable, it would have been done long ago, and the actions would have stood the test of time (See War of 1812).

Such a move would not be internationally recognized and therefore would be unenforceable, even inside Jamaica, which would find itself internationally isolated (in the very least) if it did try to enforce such action.

44 posted on 08/27/2013 12:09:24 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: nesnah
http://birthers.org/USC/Vattel.html

Just read it and understand better than ever, the issue.

Interpretted literaly, neither Obama nor Cruz should be POTUS.

Who could imagine this conundrum?

Enforcement or lack of enforcement of the law should be consistant.

If Cruz does nothing else, he forces the media to face the issue.

Of course, neither should be POTUS is the preferred solution.

45 posted on 08/27/2013 12:10:12 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: All

So what does Levin think about obama’s eligibility?


46 posted on 08/27/2013 12:10:35 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: highball

Maybe we can have a discussion on the “Intent” and “True Meaning” of the Commerce Clause?

We here all know how that’s been bastardized. Are we to do the same thing again?


47 posted on 08/27/2013 12:11:10 PM PDT by nesnah
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To: one guy in new jersey

So what’s your opinion of the issue? We haven’t heard back from you.


48 posted on 08/27/2013 12:13:59 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Not much. He used to hang up on people who tried to discuss the issue on his radio talk show.


49 posted on 08/27/2013 12:18:44 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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To: Jim Robinson

Bump that.


50 posted on 08/27/2013 12:19:18 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Triple

So do you think Cruz has split allegiances between Canada and the US?

And does Mark Levin think you’re an idiot?

Two easy questions:
A: No
B;.....just sayin....


51 posted on 08/27/2013 12:24:17 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: CatherineofAragon
Drive-by troll poster. This post is the only thing in his history.

/johnny

52 posted on 08/27/2013 12:24:50 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Nero Germanicus

Levin seems very close-minded on the subject. He admits he hasn’t studied it but abuses anyone who mentions it.


53 posted on 08/27/2013 12:26:42 PM PDT by Ray76 (Common sense immigration reform: Enforce Existing Law)
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To: nesnah

If you’re consistent, go to the undisputed intent and please tell me where the problem is...


54 posted on 08/27/2013 12:27:34 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: mason-dixon

I disagree with you, but you are the very first Cruz birther to present a reasonable statement and I respect that.


55 posted on 08/27/2013 12:31:23 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Ray76

That’s because he is intimately familiar with the Constitution, the Founders, and their intent and vision for the country. He knows that over 200 plus years, the meaning of words change. The intent of the Founders does not. The Founders never intended for anyone like Cruz to be ineligible. Any ninkumpoop can see that without “studying” it.


56 posted on 08/27/2013 12:32:42 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: nesnah
Lacking all three, go back to English common law for the definition of "natural born citizen" in use at the time that term was included in the Constitution. Did Madison and the rest include that just to exclude naturalized citizens from the presidency, or did they intend to create a third class of citizenship beyond naturalized and at birth?
57 posted on 08/27/2013 12:32:46 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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To: cicero2k; Jeff Winston
You may want to read up more on Emerich de Vattel. As to his ranking as being influential on the Founders, he might get around 30th place.
58 posted on 08/27/2013 12:33:47 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

He behaves the same when questioned about Obama.


59 posted on 08/27/2013 12:34:15 PM PDT by Ray76 (Common sense immigration reform: Enforce Existing Law)
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To: Jim Robinson

I’m totally with you on this choice!


60 posted on 08/27/2013 12:36:08 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
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