Fox won't give Obama a break for even one day. While he was celebrating the start of his second term as President, Fox Nation was displaying this as its lead post: “Mark Levin’s Inaugural Day Message… FIGHT!” The post linked to an interminable interview, re-posted from breitbart.com, in which right-wing rantmeister Levin invoked a future America bowing under the yoke of tyranny, slammed Obama for dragging us toward this doomsday, and slammed moderate Republicans for letting him do it.
Levin shrank with horror at the Obama agenda of “gun control; attacks on the First Amendment such as religious liberty; amnesty for illegal aliens; union expansion; institutionalizing Obamacare; institutionalizing voter corruption; de-industrialization via the EPA; destroying the capitalist-based economy via tax increases, smothering regulations, massive deficit spending, and endless borrowing; and hollowing out our military; etc.” (Did he leave anything out? Replacing the Bible with the Quran, maybe?)
How to fight that agenda? Not with the current Republican Party leadership, which Levin calls “tired, old, almost decrepit, full of cowardice and vision-less... Conservatives, constitutionalists, and tea party activists” he says, “…are the only people left standing for liberty against tyranny in this country." Levin wants the conservatives to retake the GOP, clean out the old guard and “install.. fresh, bold, articulate, knowledgeable, confident, courageous conservatives.” (Like Reagan.)
The country rests on the blade of a knife right now, says Levin. “We have a government with so much power, a government so ubiquitous, a government so cancerous in its growth and so exponential in its expanse, that I cannot conceal my great fear for the future of this country (does he get paid by the word? We wonders, yes we wonders.) … The question is whether we will be a free and prosperous people or just another miserable place where rights are denied and needs are scarce and distributed by the government. I believe knowing the perilous state of the nation, and not pretending otherwise, and knowing that only we conservatives have any hope of stemming this tide and gradually reversing course, we will fight this in every legitimate way we can. And hopefully our already significant ranks will grow. We have no choice but to stand and fight. Everything is at stake."
His call to arms sure resonated with some Nation readers:
BTW, Levin's been around Fox and Fox Nation quite a lot lately. I wonder if many Fox readers feel as this reader of the original breitbart.com article does.
Mark Levin an intellectual beacon!? I need an aperitif!