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Radio’s Mark Levin Might Be the Most Powerful Conservative You Never Heard Of
The Daily Beast ^ | October 19, 2013 | David Freedlander

Posted on 10/19/2013 7:58:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Last weekend, at a dusty race car track in that part of New Jersey where lacrosse fields slowly give way to farmland before the landscape seems to stop altogether, Sarah Palin rallied a couple of thousand partisans on behalf of Steve Lonegan, a longshot, Tea Party-fueled candidate for the U.S. Senate.

“I just told Todd,” she said to the crowd a moment after they stopped chanting her name. “‘Ooh,’ I said. ‘I can die and go to heaven now: I just shook Mark Levin’s hand.’”

Levin had been out earlier, warming them up. He cuts a figure that is the exact opposite of the Grizzly Mama, with her low cut red shirt and stemwinders about a Revolutionary War fightress “swabbin and loadin, swabbin and loadin” a cannon even as the red coats knocked her bonnet off. Hunched over the podium wearing a blue baseball hat, he is more like the uncle you are reminded not to talk politics with at Thanksgiving.

“Mr. President, open our damn memorials! Mr. President, this country doesn’t belong to you—it belongs to us! Mr. President, this government doesn’t belong to you—it belongs to us!”

The crowd, almost entirely white, in ill-fitting jeans and sweatshirts, and in some cases wearing literal hard hats, as if to culled from a central casting call for “blue collar,” chant Levin’s name and wave copies of his book like holy rollers at a tent revival....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: classwarfare; levinarticle; levinphoto; lonegan; marklevin; palin; rushlimbaugh; shutdown; snobbery; talkradio; teaparty
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1 posted on 10/19/2013 7:58:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

” Get out of my Whitehouse ya dumb schmuck”


2 posted on 10/19/2013 8:02:37 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The latte Libtards could never understand Liberty.


3 posted on 10/19/2013 8:03:10 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The crowd . . . in ill-fitting jeans and sweatshirts

What kind of guy notices this crap?

4 posted on 10/19/2013 8:06:46 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: holdonnow
Ping.

5.56mm

5 posted on 10/19/2013 8:08:12 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: vbmoneyspender

An elitist snob? First time he probably ever got close to working people.


6 posted on 10/19/2013 8:10:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Last weekend, at a dusty race car track in that part of New Jersey where lacrosse fields slowly give way to farmland before the landscape seems to stop altogether, Sarah Palin rallied a couple of thousand partisans on behalf of Steve Lonegan, a longshot, Tea Party-fueled candidate for the U.S. Senate.

Using terms like "dusty race car track" and " that part of NJ where lacrosse fields slowly give way to farmland before the landscape seems to stop altogether", author David Freelander tries to minimize the appeal of Levin, Palin and Lonegan.

Meanwhile the reality is that unabashed conservative Seve Lonegan, without the help of his own party, who spent very little money on his campaign and who was trashed incessantly by the media, received 44.5% of the vote in what has been deep blue NJ.

Author David Freelander is scared.

7 posted on 10/19/2013 8:19:58 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Might as well hang a sign around his neck that says “Kick my ass, please.”


8 posted on 10/19/2013 8:20:15 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Interesting, that leftist types regard Rachel Maddow, Ed Schulz, Lawrence O’Donnell, Chris Mathews, etc. as household words. Yet they have no idea who Mark Levin is??? Really??? These leftists would probably be shocked if we said we don’t know who Rachel Maddow is.

Even if you don’t care for his style or his views, it does seem odd that people don’t know who he is. He has written a few New York Times best selling books. Yet these liberals honestly have no clue who he is???


9 posted on 10/19/2013 8:20:58 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"The crowd, almost entirely white, in ill-fitting jeans and sweatshirts,"

Kinda like all of the O-bots you see at most coffee shops.


10 posted on 10/19/2013 8:22:59 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Very good article. This guy doesn’t doubt his sincerity or his influence.

Maybe the left will wake up and start noticing these ideas. I know more than a few people who, once they started looking into things, realized a thing or two.

More articles like this will help.


11 posted on 10/19/2013 8:25:01 AM PDT by jimbo807
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ah, yes. Rural New Jersey. So close to Manhattan and yet so far. And oh, those disgusting peasants that inhabit that place. /sarc


12 posted on 10/19/2013 8:25:15 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Levin is the best-kept secret on talk radio. Smart as heck, not flashy, and doesn’t hold back. He has real appeal to blue-collar Reagan Dems who now see how much O has really screwed them.

In the next year he will likely be a household name everywhere.


13 posted on 10/19/2013 8:26:03 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: FreeReign
Funny that she's “washed-up, a has-been, quitter, Caribou Barbie, chillbilly, nonsensical, spouting gibberish” yet here they are, five years on, covering her every move and utterance as if she were a president, prime minister or some other lofty government functionary, yet she's held no office of any kind for nearly half a decade. Yes, she has a contract with Fox News, but so do Mike Huckabee and a lot of other people that nobody follows around and report on.
14 posted on 10/19/2013 8:29:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: VanDeKoik

It cracks me up when he says to a caller, “Sir, are you a lib?”


15 posted on 10/19/2013 8:29:30 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Plus, Sarah is one of the few people in the world who can make a post on her Facebook page...and make the Earth move.

Hardly the stuff of "irrelevance"...

16 posted on 10/19/2013 8:32:39 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: Fresh Wind
My Uncle and his family: Oscar-nominated In Our Water http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084127/
17 posted on 10/19/2013 8:32:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

El Rushbo used to refer to him as:”F.Lee Levin;Chief Legal-Counsel For The EIB”!Anyone who hasn’t heard of him(or HEARD him)Can Get The Hell Out Of MY COUNTRY Sometime YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


18 posted on 10/19/2013 8:33:27 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Boy, the left certainly gets all puritanical when the beauteous babe, the Divine Sarah, shows up in her low cut red blouse or tight-fitting tee. Take it to ‘em, Sarah, those metrosexuals are so afraid of a sexy conservative!


19 posted on 10/19/2013 8:35:18 AM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: bandleader

Rush has taken him places on his private jet.

20 posted on 10/19/2013 8:38:33 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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