Quote from OPTIONAL777:
NO WONDER PEOPLE HATE US
Friday, May 22, 2009 2:39 PM
Conor Friedersdorf at the American Scene transcribes the following exchange from Mark Levin's radio program yesterday afternoon:
CALLER: I just wanna say, Obama is a lot smarter than you folks give him credit for. You guys were on a roll, I have to admit, with all those tea parties. Everything was rolling along, the Republicans were gaining momentum. And he managed to change your entire conversational focus. And you let those three hundred thousand people â
LEVIN: My God. Heâs so smart. His own party voted against him on Guantanamo Bay. How stupid was that, Cindy? His own party refused to fund the closing of Guantanamo Bay.
CALLER. Yeah but you know he can just move those people over here anyway. Heâs already doing it with the one guy.
LEVIN: Yeah, sure, he can do whatever he wants. Let me ask you a question. Why do you hate this country?
CALLER: No, I love this country.
LEVIN: (angrily shouting) I SAID WHY DO YOU HATE MY COUNTRY?WHY DO YOU HATE MY CONSTITUTION? WHY DO YOU HATE MY DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE? You just said it. He can blow off Congress. He can do whatever he wants, right?
CALLER: Well, he seems to, he just moved (inaudible).
LEVIN: Answer me this, are you a married woman? Yes or no?
CALLER: Yes.
LEVIN: Well I donât know why your husband doesnât put a gun to his temple. Get the hell out of here.
Conor gamely offers an intellectual rebuttal to Levin:
The host is weirdly blind to the irony that he himself thinks a wartime president possesses the power to house detainees where he sees fit, at least if the President asserts that his chosen policy is needed to keep America safe. As we all know, President Obama thinks that Gitmo is a PR disaster that helps Al Qaeda recruit more terrorists, and therefore makes us less safe. So by the hostâs own standard of executive powerânot to mention Dick Cheneyâs standard â President Obama possesses the inherent power to close Gitmo, what Congress says be damned.
I'd offer a less sophisticated comment:
Imagine some commuter - a nonpolitical person, a family man or woman, a taxpayer and billpayer - who happens to flip the dial on the radio on the way home and hears that exchange. What would such a person think? Wouldn't it be something like, "I dont know what's wrong with that horrible man, but I do know this: whatever side he's on, any decent person would have to be on the opposite"?
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Quote from maxpi:
Levin's little rants are offputting. Michael Savage is one continuous living rant, I can't figure out where he's coming from most of the time and I never give him more than about ten seconds of my time anymore... Limbaugh seems to equate constitutional freedoms with cigar smoking and SUV's..
The liberals are worse though. They can't get an audience and keep it because they are such petty little assholes.. I heard that stupid Monica Crowley crowing about how Cheney is obsessed with defending himself in regard to the torture issues.. first the left threatens to jail the guy then they call him obsessed for defending himself...
Soooo.. when are these trials of Bush Cheney Scheduled to start??? And what set of laws are going to be used, because the American ones won't get a conviction. LOL
All the op can do is this repetitive motion posting thing which amounts to just continuous accusations, which is what the left does. They don't have to ever prove anything, by the time it's time for proof, they can just go on to the next accusation...
I recommend that everybody not feed the trolls here, just, when you find one, recommend that everybody simply put them on ignore and get on with their lives, you will be performing a service to the people new to these forums..
I'm not going to do that because I love calling them pieces of shit after showing up their lack of brain power but hey, that's just me and I have time here...
Quote from Cutten:
Radio is even less relevant than television and print media nowadays.
Quote from OPTIONAL777:
Weren't you one of the klannish who made a public display of claiming to put me on ignore?
Oh wait, that could be another of the Goobers, I lose track there are so many around here...
LOL!!!
