I was listening thinking "aren't you supposedly a brilliant legal mind, but you can't handle this simple accusation on the merits?" It was somewhat of a watershed moment for me, just as much as Mark claimed it was for him, but for obviously different reasons.
Levin has this thing he does when he is accused of anything. When he was outed for the senate group buying 400K dollars of his old books his response was you will never shut me up.
I don't believe that is what the guy was trying to do, nor was the guy who outed Levin's stepson being employed by Cruz. They weren't attacking the message, they probably agreed completely with the conservative message. They were asking for accountability. And Levin turned it into an attack on conservatism. This is how the man becomes the message. Cruz devolved into the same thing and it always ends in tragedy.
When you are considered a leader by yourself or others, with no structure to allow for accountability, what holds you accountable inside is the respect you have for those under your watch. Levin, Rush, the lot of them are totally unaccountable to us and have shown lately how little they think of us.
Once again you hit the nail on the head. I'm betting that as part of that book deal, which looks more and more like a scandal that actually happened, Levin believes that each book is a seed they will plant somewhere to keep his empire going, even if his current behavior costs him many of his long time loyal supporters in the process.
He's looking to gain those that can't think for themselves, such as the stragglers from Beck's empire which is falling apart at the same time. Time will tell, but they both have turned so many of us against him, I don't think either of them will ever come close to their previous numbers of followers. Even mighty Rush may have been mortally wounded. People now want to know what is going on behind the scenes, which is the object of discussion at growing shows such as Alex Jones and Michael Savage, not be spoken down to, or told that the details of the topics at hand must be considered off limits.