Tucker Carlson slams Mark Levin: “If you listen to enough Mark Levin, you yourself can become hateful”
Carlson: “By staring at Mark Levin too much we become him. ... The fight is not against Mark Levin and the many Mark Levins out there, the screamers, the slanderers, the impugners of character, the liars. The real fight is within ourselves.”
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From the November 12, 2025, edition of The Tucker Carlson Show, posted on YouTube
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): You're members of the Third Reich. You're Nazis. You're evil. You're an Islamist. You hate Jews. You're an antisemite. You hate America. Okay. None of, I mean, that's ad hominem. There's no even attempt to address the argument that anyone Mark Levin doesn't agree with is making. Instead, it's just attacking them as people. And the third thing you notice is what animates this, which is hate. Mark Levin is filled with hate, obviously, and hate is one of those words that is thrown around a lot as a weapon. You're filled with hate. That's hate.
It's hate speech. Therefore, you can't say it, etcetera. But that doesn't mean just because the word itself is used cynically that the term doesn't describe anything or that hate isn't real. Hate is absolutely real. Hate is absolutely real. And if you listen to enough Mark Levin, you yourself can become hateful. Reacting against it can turn you into what he claims you are. And that's just a fact of human nature. You stick your face right up against this. After a while, you will become hateful.
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Mark Levin is almost 70 years old. You know? I mean, no one's going to eat the dog food here, okay? That is not a message anyone's going to buy. So, the fear is not that Mark Levin will take over American politics. That's not going to happen. The fear is that we become Mark Levin.
By staring at Mark Levin too much we become him. Another way of putting it is, the fight is not against Mark Levin and the many Mark Levins out there, the screamers, the slanderers, the impugners of character, the liars. The real fight is within ourselves. The real fight is against our own nature, our own natural inclination to, in the face of Mark Levin, become Mark Levin. And the cost is to us.
You hurt yourself. Don't become evil, because what's the point? What is the point? And the only way to prevent yourself from becoming that person is by admitting that you've acted like that person and apologizing for it sincerely, not in a fake way.