MARK LEVIN (HOST): I've come to the conclusion that we have a very weak ruling class when you watch the Democrats and listen to them, when you watch some of the Republicans and listen to them. The media is included in the ruling class as I just mentioned how they're pathetically stupid and, of course, the vast majority are left-wing. But the podcaster class do — I have come to the conclusion these are not all — of course, there's some very smart and good and smart podcasters, but they're the exception. There's a lot of really stupid people who talk behind a microphone.
A podcast is easy to set up. Easy. And the way you draw attention to yourself from the thousands if not tens of thousands of people who are trying to be podcasters is to be as obnoxious, as vile, as poisonous, as cancerous, as racist, as bigoted, as antisemitic, as anti-Christian as humanly possible. And hence you have little [Nick] Fuentes, and hence you have Candace Owens, and hence you have [Megyn] Kelly, who will do anything and is anything. She's a chameleon. And hence you have Tucker Carlson going off again on demons and satanic beliefs. The guy is mentally ill. I really believe that. That's just my opinion.
And they're not alone, though. There's all kinds of second tier podcasters. Same thing. Same — just stupid. And if you look at their backgrounds — who's that guy, Benny? What is his name, Rich? Benny Johnson. Never heard of this guy before. He's been a grifter. He's been a drifter. He's got serious questions raised about plagiarism in the past and things of that sort.
I never — I don't even know the guy. I don't even know the guy. But he's not alone. There's a whole bunch like that. And you start digging into their backgrounds, you go, what kind of crackpots are these that people are listening to them? And the truth is people are not. Americans, I should say, are not. They're mostly foreigners, or they're mostly very young people who have no perspective, or they like the drama. They like the gossip. They like the f-bomb. They like things like that. And I'm going to predict to you right now this won't last because there's too many of them that sound the same way. Too many. And you notice the worst of the politicians and the worst of the podcasters feed on each other.
They got this guy, Thomas Massie. Who is this guy? He was a gadfly. He was a backbencher. I had him on once or twice because he was good on the spending on the budget, then he kind of flipped out. Now every other sentence out of his mouth is about the Epstein class and the Israeli lobby. He didn't lose because of the Epstein class and the Israeli lobby. He lost because he’s sabotaging his own party, he’s sabotaging the president of the United States. You and I voted for the president of the United States. We voted for the majority of the Republican Party. And here you have this outlier, this rogue who keeps sabotaging the agenda. It's that simple. Has nothing to do with Jews, nothing to do with Epstein. The guy says I'm going to name everybody. Well, name them. Name them. One person online, she said make sure you name them on the street, not when you're in Congress protected by the speech and debate clause. Just make sure you go outside and read their names, and read the names. He won't. He's a coward. I guarantee. But who's stopping him?
Who's stopping bloated Bannon from releasing his hours and hours of video with Epstein? How come none of the podcaster class points to that? When is Tucker Carlson going to release his texts with the enemy, the Iranian government. He's got — he was texting back and forth. He said so. He said so. When will he release them? Never. Never. No.
And then I thought to myself, it's one thing to have a substantive real disagreement, say, with the president on a major issue or at least to voice different differing views and, you know, spitball them, see how they work or don't work, and so it's quite another to trash him, try to sabotage him, and stab him in the back. I've talked about this for years now. For years. To try and ruin his presidency, to try and undermine his support base is quite different, quite different than what Ted Cruz said over the weekend, what Lindsey Graham said over the weekend, what Mike Pompeo said over the weekend, or what I'm saying. I say it my way. They all say it their own way, and we don't say the same thing either.
My position from day one has been no deal. Now that's known to everybody, including the president, including millions of you here, including on Fox, including everywhere. And I've given the reasons, I've written them, I've posted them because this enemy is a terrorist regime. They've never honored any agreement. Their word is not their bond, and they have no intention of honoring anything after Donald Trump leaves. They may not even honor it while Donald Trump's in office.
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The question is, what do we do from here? And we need to have a healthy debate. We, the American people. But then you go online and you see BJ. That's right. BJ Benny Johnson, who I know nothing about other than what I just studied. I researched his background. He's a real sleazeball. And the war guys, they want war. They want war. You know, this is this and he's not alone in the — it's a mind of a nobody, of a dummy.
We want war? Who wants war? We want to end the war. We want to end forever wars. We want to end terrorists who've been attacking us for 47 years. These morons don't even understand or don't want to understand are playing to the peanut gallery with slogans. This is why they so easily move hard left. This is why they so easily move towards neo-fascism and neo-Nazism. This is why they have so much in common with the Marxists, Islamists, and their ilk because their principles are negotiable.
Even worse, their principles are dependent on who's paying the bills. We have congressman — Congresswoman [Anna Paulina] Luna from Florida says we need to be transparent about podcasters and everything. Well, what's stopping her? If she's got, quote, unquote, the receipts, put it out. Who's paying what whom? I'd love to know. Who's stopping her? Who's stopping anyone from Congress from revealing it? Certainly not me. I want to know who's funding whom. Let's get it out there. If you got texts with Iran, I want to see them. If you got video with Epstein, I want to see them. Let's do it. Get it out. But they won't put it out. Why not? Why won't they do it? I'll be right back.
