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
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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….
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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!
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(further information and videos at: http://queenofliberty.com/2013/08/14/mark-levin-rolls-out-his-new-book/)
Chill out P-Marlowe.
Can you tell me why the Founding States made the federal Constitution?
No, you are not zotbait! And that’s very good. Welcome to FR!
Does this mean that you intend to ban those that continue to uphold their sworn oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America?
Cruz has already said he will renounce his Canadian citizenship so no one can say he has allegiance to another country besides America. I expect that process is ongoing now.
He was in our county last week and tickets sold out.
Ted Cruz would make a great president...
I would be first in line to vote for him...
but Jim you know he would have trouble from the Democrats all the way through his campaign for his Canadian birth etc...
they will get all phony serious about the need for NBC and adhering to the law as only they can do...
Oh they might let him manage to win the GOP nomination...
But what type of October surprize will they cook up against him ???
Bear with me...
Obama suddenly coming out and “realizing” at last he himself was never eligible ???
He remorsefully steps down as president right then..
President Biden forgives him...pardons him...
remember its been done before ...President Ford pardoned Nixon..
and Ted is left seemingly without an eligible leg to stand on..
thus Hilary walks to the White House..
and life as we now know it goes on...
The Democrats could use this situation of Ted’s birth to the hilt...
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!!
Right on, Jim! If Cruz is in the primaries, I think this will be the first presidential primary in my memory of FR where there won't be huge divisions and arguing factions. I believe there will be 95% FReeper support for a Cruz candidacy right out of the box. This bodes very well.
I’m upholding my oath. Cruz is a natural born citizen despite any claims to the contrary from the legions of internet “sea lawyers!”
No, a triple citizen of Canada, Cuba & the US.
Do you intend to ban those Conservatives that disagree with you on this matter?
It's why it's important to persuade on this issue now. We have to make that degree of difference as small as possible.
Depends on the degree of nastiness. Don’t get nasty against our freepers or our conservative candidates.
And what of those who get nasty with so called 'Birthers'. A free pass for them?
“Cruz has already said he will renounce his Canadian citizenship so no one can say he has allegiance to another country besides America.”
That’s the problem what people are overlooking. You can’t be born a Dual Citizen with split allegiances and then revert to a natural born Citizen just because you renounce the foreign allegiance. It doesn’t work that way. It was never meant to work that way.
“Even McCain with his overseas birth to TWO American citizen parents and his father stationed overseas in the US military had to prove his eligibility through the Senate to be POTUS...”
NO! NO! NO! McCain is not eligible. McCain was born in a foreign country on foreign soil and (even though this doesn’t matter) in a city that was not under U.S. control.
The Senate resolution was NON-BINDING. A vote by the Senate can not overturn the Constitution.
Obama, McCain, Rubio, & Cruz are all ineligible to the office of president or vice president. They do not qualify under Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution, to wit the “Natural Born Citizen” requirement.
This is NOT that complicated, but the problem is that almost everyone THINKS they know about this. Even Levin! Mr. Constitution. Even Mr. Conservative Sean Hannity.
Born on U.S. soil by two citizen parents. This is what the framers intended. This is what the framers said by using the phrase “Natural Born Citizen”. The trouble is, today no one has been taught the constitutional requirements to be president. Myself, 63 years old, remember knowing my whole life that the requirements to be president are that you need to be at least 35 years old and been a resident at least 14 years, and be a citizen born in the USA. I don’t recall ever being taught what a “Natural Born Citizen” was.
The problem is that the public is completely IGNORANT on this issue. People don’t like being told that they are ignorant, especially when they actually are.
I’m not going to worry about the democrats. They’re going to condemn any candidate we put up. It’s up to us to turn out the vote. We need that grassroots tea party tsunami we’ve been talking about.
Rebellion is on!!
Damn the naysayers and RINOS, full speed ahead!!
I’d be more concerned right now that the conservatives split their votes 3 or 4 ways and allow Krispy Kreme or Jeb “open borders” Bush to waltz in. Then it’s president Hillary for sure. RINO = LOSER.
GO, TED, GO!!
Well, we’ll see. FR is a pro-life, pro-family, pro-America grassroots conservative site. We support the strongest conservatives possible. If you wish to pass, go ahead and pass. FR is not for everyone.
Actually you are correct. Just like Obama’s birth was governed by the British Act of 1948 which made him a British subject. He also was able to have Kenyan citizenship when they went independent. But the kicker is we don’t know if he actually holds U.S. Citizenship since his birth certificate is a 100% forgery. If he was actually born in Hawaii, he would be just a Citizen of the U.S. but in all a triple Citizen of 3 sovereignties.
He never claimed double allegiance. His parents moved back here when he was two or four (forget which he said), and America is all he has known. That piece of paper has nothing to do with his allegiance, but he is renouncing it for the benefit of those fussing about it. Officials in Canada said it hasn’t been done much, but can be done.
“The Constitution wasn’t written as a dictionary,...You must look “elsewhere” to find their intent.”
That’s true. But where shall we look?
We can take the advice of Alexander Hamilton.
“What is the distinction between direct and indirect taxes? It is a matter of regret that terms so uncertain and vague in so important a point are to be found in the Constitution. We shall seek in vain for any antecedent settled legal meaning to the respective terms—there is none.”
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“...where so important a distinction in the Constitution is to be realized, it is fair to seek the meaning of terms in the statutory language of that country from which our jurisprudence is derived.” February, 1795
So what was the law in “that country from which our jurisprudence is derived.”?
Under the Common Law of England anyone born in the country with few exceptions was considered natural born. And under English statutory law children born outside the realm to British subjects were natural born.”
Under Hamilton’s guidance, Senator Cruz is natural born.
I have no intention of 'passing' on defending the Constitution.
If you have a problem with that, then of course you can ban me from your forum.
Your call.
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