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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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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rush has taken him places on his private jet.

That photo warms my heart.

41 posted on 10/19/2013 10:17:56 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You Never Heard Of

Can you hear me now you smuck?

42 posted on 10/19/2013 10:22:03 AM PDT by McGruff (Mitch McConnell sold his soul for a Dam project.)
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To: vbmoneyspender

This would be a good time to post the Obams mom jeans picture!


43 posted on 10/19/2013 10:33:30 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So now they get ready to attack Levin. Now that will be a popcorn worthy bit of entertainment.


44 posted on 10/19/2013 10:33:49 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: vbmoneyspender

self evident question


45 posted on 10/19/2013 10:34:30 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: bandleader

The week before his appearance with Sarah in New Jersey, on air, TLevin plugged freerepublic... refering to FR as, “our good old friends at freerepublic... it’s an excellent website”.

If that is not a worthwhile testimonial, I really can’t say one exists.


46 posted on 10/19/2013 10:35:53 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: jimbo807

except of course the overall snarky tone....

This writer is seriously looking down his nose at the ‘lower class’ and asking his readers to join him. The truth is he is not writing to inform but rather to provide drawing room amusement to his compatriots.

He and his buddies will learn nothing from these articles or additional exposure (kind of like pickles....)


47 posted on 10/19/2013 10:38:01 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Mine too! I love them both!
They should have their own show on Fox.


48 posted on 10/19/2013 10:45:55 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Cruz/Levin '16.
Can you imagine; the "debate" between, $HRILL@ry / Moo$e '16 w/ them...
I really don't think a "pairing" ($/M) is possible; their egos won't permit it.

49 posted on 10/19/2013 10:46:48 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: vbmoneyspender

A well-coiffed metro/bi/homosexual “man” in black skinny jeans.


50 posted on 10/19/2013 10:47:22 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: vbmoneyspender

A well-coiffed metro/bi/homosexual “man” in black skinny jeans.


51 posted on 10/19/2013 10:47:36 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hail to the Chief!

Mark I


52 posted on 10/19/2013 10:48:10 AM PDT by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: Nifster

“So now they get ready to attack Levin.”

Those poor bastards.


53 posted on 10/19/2013 10:50:04 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: KarlInOhio

Fly-over Country
thanks, for the pic. 8^)

54 posted on 10/19/2013 10:50:11 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: vbmoneyspender
The crowd . . . in ill-fitting jeans and sweatshirts

"What kind of guy notices this crap?"

A faggot.

55 posted on 10/19/2013 10:51:51 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: VanDeKoik
“So now they get ready to attack Levin.” // Those poor bastards.
reminds me of the 101st fav. remark, "The poor B@$@$d$, they've got US surrounded"...

56 posted on 10/19/2013 10:53:57 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Liberals tend to be non-judgemental...

I respectfully disagree... I mean, if there is one thing liberals can't stand, it's your intolerance.

57 posted on 10/19/2013 10:55:49 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Which is why it makes a nice dig against whites.

I wonder how many Demonrat whites, you know working class union whites, will one day get sick of the racial attacks.


58 posted on 10/19/2013 11:05:22 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mark Levin's radio show is never missed in my home. There isn't a single liberal who could win against him in a debate.....and they all know it. Mark would skewer him on any topic. Best entertainment ever.
59 posted on 10/19/2013 11:19:37 AM PDT by Swede Girl
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To: Dilbert San Diego
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.

Having never watched MSNBC, I only know about the talking heads on that network from what I read here. I suppose I can't be surprised that lefties haven't heard of one of our premier voices either.

We've become two nations, living within the same political boundary.

60 posted on 10/19/2013 11:55:25 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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