Levin on the radical authoritarianism of Pelosi and the sycophantic yellow press
"For all their talk against Vladimir Putin, they are collectively Vladimir Putin."
Spot on daily...
...it is the House that is responsible for appropriating funds, not President Trump. Therefore, it is the Democrats in the House who are responsible for keeping the government shut down.
“Nancy Pelosi effectively controls the appropriation process in the House of Representatives. It falls to the House. She rules the House like Kim Jong Un,” Levin started.
“So she controls whether or not the government will be funded fully. She controls whether or not we’ll get a measly 5.7 billion dollars to build barriers, among other things, in some of these gap areas on the … border. So she’s blocking the spending. She’s blocking the wall. She is blocking everything.”
[Mark] lit into the American media for their lack of standards and the blurred line between fact and opinion rampant in journalism today.
“Freedom of speech and freedom of the press go hand in hand. And when you have almost a monopolistic, pack mentality — groupthink — in the mass media and the major media, it undermines a republic. Look at it as free speech: If speech pretty much only went one way, you wouldn’t have a free society, now would you?” Levin said.
Levin pointed out that unlike lawyers, doctors, or other professionals, journalists are not held to rules of professional conduct.
“They’re the ones destroying freedom of the press. The mass media are committed, in this country, to sabotaging this presidency, and that undermines this republic. I’m not talking about tough, aggressive reporting, I’m talking about advocacy. ... And so you have the BuzzFeed situation. You have the Covington situation. You have the Kavanaugh situation. You have endless false reporting about the president and Russia; about his children and Russia. And so they issue their apologies and their corrections — if they issue their apologies and corrections — and they move on.”
“These people will self-servingly tell you that ‘we can still be objective.’ But as they say, the proof is in the pudding, and they’re not. ... And so we get what we get, and in my view, we’re back to yellow journalism.”
Put another way, as Levin finalized:
"The fourth estate (the media) has become the fifth column, undermining the country from within. That, in a thumbnail sketch, is what's taking place in the country."
[Mark] tore into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for disinviting President Trump from giving a State of the Union address in Congress during the government shutdown.
“Nancy Pelosi has hijacked the federal government; that’s why part of it is closed. She has unilaterally decided that our borders will be open, and now she has undermined this tradition of a president speaking before both Houses of Congress,” Levin said.
“The speaker of the House is an American fascist.”
CR: Although Pelosi was elected as one of 435 members of the House, representing only San Francisco, she climbed her way to the top of leadership only to hijack the government appropriations process and shut down part of the government; block the president from delivering the State of the Union address in the House for the first time ever; and obstruct border security to protect the American citizenry and immigrants alike and uphold national sovereignty. It is Pelosi, not Trump, who is the authoritarian.
