Mark Levin Gives Fareed Zakaria a Much-Needed Lesson on the U.S. Constitution
Fareed Zakaria on the CNN show bearing his name Sunday actually recommended we use social media to create "a set of amendments to modernize the Constitution for the 21st Century."
On his radio program Monday, conservative talk show host Mark Levin gave Zakaria a much-needed lesson about this document the liberal commentator so badly wants to change (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):
MARK LEVIN: Fareed Zakaria yesterday on the Constitution. Hat-tip Media Research Center. You’re going to want to listen to this. Cut ten, go.
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)
FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN: And let me be very clear here, the U.S. constitution is an extraordinary work, one of the greatest expressions of liberty and law in human history. One amazing testament to it is the mere fact that it has survived as the law of the land for 222 years.
But our constitution has been revised 27 times, some of these revisions being enormous and important, such as the abolition of slavery. Then there are areas that have evolved. For example, the power of the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court, is barely mentioned in the document. This grew as a fact over history.
But there are surely some issues that still need to be debated and fixed. The electoral college, for example, is highly undemocratic, allowing for the possibility that someone could get elected as president even if he or she had a smaller share of the total national vote than his opponent.
The structure of the Senate is even more undemocratic, with Wisconsin's six million inhabitants getting the same representation in the Senate as California's 36 million people. That's not exactly one man, one vote.
And we are surely the only modern nation that could be paralyzed as we were in 2000 over an election dispute because we lack a simple national electoral system.
So we could use the ideas of social media that were actually invented in this country to suggest a set of amendments to modernize the Constitution for the 21st Century. Such a plan is not unheard of in American history. After all, the delegates in Philadelphia in 1787 initially meant not to create the constitution as we now know it, but instead to revise the existing document, the Articles of Confederation. But the delegates saw a disconnect between the document that currently governed them and the needs of the nation, so their solution was to start anew. I'm just suggesting we talk about a few revisions.
(END AUDIO CLIP)
LEVIN: No you’re not. The Constitution has already been shredded almost beyond recognition, and you want to finish the job.
For the rest of Levin's marvelous lesson, you're going to have to play the video above. It will be well worth your time.
Bravo, Mark! Bravo!
(Grateful hat-tip to our friends at The Right Scoop.)
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shredded almost beyond recognition?
Submitted by markinirvine on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 9:58pm.
" ...shredded almost beyond recognition"? What the heck is Levin talking about?
Wow
Submitted by bkeyser on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:02pm.
New lurker record?
→ No kidding, Bob
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:11pm.
Over 3 years without a post?
CA,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:26pm.
He waited three long years in silence and this is the devastating comment with which he made his glorious debut? Huh.
A lib sleeper agent
Submitted by lsudolemite on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:20am.
:)
I have a theory why he hasn't
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:18am.
I have a theory why he hasn't posted...
does it involve barbed wire?
Submitted by wizardjr on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:47am.
Perhaps bars on the windows?
No, it involves the nature of
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:02pm.
No, it involves the nature of the responses he's received. Hardly encouraging, courteous, or civil.
Oh, I'm guesing this one has posted plenty here in 3+ years
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 5:50pm.
But it was most likely using accounts that have had their plugs pulled.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Most of us would ask you
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:12pm.
The same question, but that would assume your familiar with the Constitution. Which you obviously are not
Under what bridge have you been living, recycled troll?
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:06pm.
The freedom-haters started chipping away at the Constitution almost before the ink was even dry, to the point where it isn't even enforced in many - some would say most, areas in today's America.
Just look at the size and scope of the federal government as it now exists - do you really think our nation's founding document authorized the existence of all the freedom-destroying BS said government is now engaged in?
Not even close.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
→ mark
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:02pm.
He threw in the "almost" as an act of kindness.
zakaria like so many libs
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:13pm.
zakaria like so many libs backs down..changes the subject...to hide his being confronted..
to me libs are today's Tories, and like yester years will need to be handed a severe lesson.
the one the Tories got suits me the best.
this is the first time I've
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:19pm.
this is the first time I've heard Zakaria's voice...he sounds like the guy who sells gas,
a convenient store operator.
And what does that have to do
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:09pm.
And what does that have to do with anything at all? What a stupid observation.
And telling us to free cop killers on your say so...
Submitted by The Vet on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:31pm.
What exactly do you classify that as crypto-dummy?
Fareed Zakaria would be better employed selling gas.
Submitted by Avitar on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 2:01am.
He came from Bombay to go to school at Yale and now works fifty miles away in New York. Widely traveled or educated he is not. Very limited in his back ground it escapes him that the Constitution was written to protect liberty and democracy was a distrusted procedure that was put in place because there was no other choice. Some of the concepts that Franklin played with like the one vote for each dollar of taxes paid might have been better but were things nobody had ever tried.
But when Time could not find an American sufficiently ignorant to be a newsman on CNN they dipped into the Foreign Exchange Students and came up with an Indian son of an "Islamic Scholar." An Islamic Scholar is usually a well-educated man who can tell you why Allah really wants Muslims to enslave all other people..
Time would be much better off hiring a Hindi from the Seven Eleven then keeping this guy on the payroll. Of course the Saudi are probably paying several times his pay to keep him on air. We really must prosecute the Congressmen who ignore these little acts of subversion from outside of the country.
Is his middle initial
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:01pm.
E? That would officially make him FEZ, a la "That '70s Show". CNN's token Foreign Exchange Student.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
"he sounds like the guy who
Submitted by okie-pastor on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:19pm.
"he sounds like the guy who sells gas"
Is this Joe Biden?
I think it is.
And you wonder why sometimes
Submitted by bsny on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:46am.
conservatives are labeled racists....
Conservatives are labeled racists ...
Submitted by NL207 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:07pm.
by morons who cannot make any other cogent arguments. Not to put too fine a point on it, but folks like YOU!
Hey putz
Submitted by bsny on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 2:24pm.
The former argument was "he sounds like the guy who sells gas, a convenient store operator." This doesn't help you cons at all. (If we can call liberals "libs", it is natural to call you guys 'cons' - which is more than appropriate, don't you think).
So where did you derive ....
Submitted by NL207 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:13pm.
original remark about race from? Anal extraction? Or is it the product of your own racial stereotyping?
Let's see .... Conservatives, that's right! unlike you liberal morons, we can actually spell the whole word! Conservatives disagree in principle with Barack Obama on matters of public policy. In particular Conservatives criticize Obama's squandering of wealth and his socialist medical plans and liberal morons like Jim Clyburn brand this opposition as racism. Clyburn says Obama's problems are due to 'the color of his skin'. I think they are due to Obama's poor judgment and inferior ideology.
What kind of person do you
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:35pm.
What kind of person do you think the original poster was talking about? Someone named Dan Jones from Provo, Utah?
What kind of moral projection are you making?
Submitted by NL207 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:42pm.
Are you another closet bigot with his own collection of racial stereotypes to impugn conservatives with??
Answer the question: Who do
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:49pm.
Answer the question: Who do you think the original poster was talking about?
Once again ...
Submitted by NL207 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 4:12pm.
project your own prejudices some more. Show us who you really are.
Who I really am is someone
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 5:42pm.
Who I really am is someone noticing you're not answering the question.
This from someone
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:33pm.
who won't answer to the questions about his thoughts on Asata and Mumia?
Because your question is based upon your
Submitted by NL207 on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 11:12am.
own bigoted stereotypes.
The original statement: "[Zakaria] sounds like the guy who sells gas, a convenient store operator."
This presupposes an expectation that some large number of convenience store operators / clerks are immigrants of the Zakaria flavor. You clearly share this stereotype otherwise you would not be belaboring the question. I reject this stereotype and anyone who promotes it including closet bigots like you, who spend inordinate amounts of effort congratulating themselves on their open minds.
This stereotype is in fact not the case an many if not most areas of the US. In my area a disproportionate number of convenience store employees and operators are ordinary Americans, often young entry level workers, poorly educated adults, or retired elders.
bsny,
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:25pm.
The first statement was stereotyping if not actually racist unless we are going to say working in a convenient store is an insult. Still not a good comment, IMHO.
cons? depends on what you mean by that.
Cons - prisoners - both parties have adequate supply of criminals both in and out of jail but I have to give the nod to the Liberal Democrats for the number of should be criminals not in jail.
Cons - 'party of no' - good tag line but the liberal Democrats in the Senate right now are the very definition of the party of no. They have effectively stopped nearly all legislation since losing the house in the 2010 elections. This has been true of Democrats every time they have been out of power and is often true of Republicans but to be honest the insider Republicans are used to being out of power so don't really put up much of a fight.
For a Muslim the Constitution is toilet paper
Submitted by apodoca on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:38pm.
Fareed Zakaria is speaking true to type. Had he, like Obama, had any respect for the U.S. Constitution, he'd never have said what he did. But that is how it is for Muslims. They have no regard for the laws of men and are fools to think that man can keep the laws of God. Levin is right. Zakaria's intent is to destroy, not to amend.
Fareed is trying to gain some
Submitted by okie-pastor on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:03pm.
Fareed is trying to gain some credibility it seems to me, by making himself sound reasonable. The left would amend the constitutions own power and original intent completely away if they could.
What really gets on my nerves is when NBC omits "under God" from the pledge. It seems that the only time the name of "God" can be used on t.v. is when some one says "god d***" this or god d***". that but you better not say it in the pledge THAT is crossing the line!! Grrrrrrrr!!!!!!
If Someone would have told NBC that leaving out "under god" might offend Muslims, buddhists, Hindus or Christian democrats then they wouldn't have made that "mistake"
Nothing compared to the
Submitted by Satchmo on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:59pm.
Nothing compared to the much-needed lecture Tom Woods gave Mark Levin on the War Powers Act and the intent of the Founders. Levin is in no position whatsoever to lecture anyone on the Constitution.
http://www.tomwoods.com/levin/
Tom Woods?
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:41pm.
Seriously, you reference Tom Woods? The same Tom Woods associated with Liberty-Candidates.org? He'll lend his name to Adam Kokesh, an IVAW asshat, who used to store his urine in the fridge in the IVAW "house" in D.C., and Manny Padillo, a 9-11 troofer.
You really ought to just stick with defending incest.
I don't know, he might be
Submitted by Satchmo on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 7:51am.
I don't know, he might be associated with liberty-candidates, but from what I see, this is a plus, not a minus as you seem to think. Regardless, that does nothing to address his arguments. Same for Kokesh, I don't know if Woods does, but Woods, like any sane person, is opposed to the Iraq War and US interventionism in general. So another plus. Still, it doesn't address his arguments, which are firmly grounded in fact, history, ans Constitutional principles. Perhaps you could identify something in his position you disagree with?
Ignore the Satchmo troll.
Submitted by The Vet on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 9:03am.
This is a troll that advocates abortions right up to the moment of birth by claiming the fetus is property.
I've already explained that
Submitted by Satchmo on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 11:04am.
I've already explained that the context of the discussion was about individual rights versus an intrusive government and that there was no advocacy for abortion by me, but I'm curious why you ignored this post in the thread? And just to be clear, I'm not asking you to answer that question, since I already know the answer. It's just one tiny example of your trolling, your misrepresentations, and lies.
http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2011/02/14/cnns-chetry-tell...
I had not heard these comments from Obama's advisor
Submitted by krendler on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:14pm.
But there are surely some issues that still need to be debated and fixed.
The electoral college, for example, is highly undemocratic, allowing for the possibility that someone could get elected as president even if he or she had a smaller share of the total national vote than his opponent.
The structure of the Senate is even more undemocratic, with Wisconsin's six million inhabitants getting the same representation in the Senate as California's 36 million people. That's not exactly one man, one vote.
Simply staggering. Did this imbecile attend high school?
And this is who Obama turns to for advice, along with Never-been-proud-of my-country Michelle.
Yes. CNN. Right down the middle. Got it.
He is just regurgitating Ezra
Submitted by Satchmo on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:19pm.
He is just regurgitating Ezra Klein's blog entry from a month or so ago, and Klein was just regurgitating an old leftist critique.
And what is your regurgitation?
Submitted by The Vet on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:33pm.
You advocate abortions right up to the moment of birth by claiming the fetus is property.
More lies from the biggest
Submitted by Satchmo on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:44pm.
More lies from the biggest troll on this site.
Really?
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:36am.
Satchmo: ...fetuses are the property of the mother.
Satchmo again: ...the fetus is the property of the mother.
Satchmo: ...government does not own your body, and therefore has no right to tell a person that they must terminate a fetus, carry it to full term, or to its birth.
Hear that? The fetus is the property of the mother and the government cannot interfere should she want to abort in the 8th month.
Mike Bratton: ...do developing children shed the status of "property" and become sovereign individuals? Third trimester? Birth canal? Birth? A month after being born?
Satchmo's answer: Birth.
So only birth ends the mother's right to throw away the property inside her.
Mike Bratton: If a child is eight-and-a-half months into gestation, able to live outside the womb if necessity required it? Still property?
Satchmo: ...ask youself if your hypothetical is in utero or not, and you'll have your answer.
Satchmo: Birth is birth.The condition is in utero versus not in utero.
An eight and a half month old fetus is still property as long as it is in utero. And property can be sold or thrown in the trash.
Satchmo: No, a fetus does not have property rights. I said our bodies are our property, and by extension fetuses are property of the mother.
Now. Who is lying? Asshat.
What is it like King Beclowner? Calling someone a liar only to have it bounce right back in your face when they prove they are telling the truth about you?
Yes, really. I do not
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:33am.
Yes, really. I do not advocate abortion at all and never have.
When did you have this change of heart?
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:41am.
Ten minutes ago? What you said above, is certainly advocating abortion
No, it isn't. It's an
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 10:39am.
No, it isn't. It's an argument regarding personal rights versus an intrusive government. Again, this is like recognizing that people should be free to gamble if they wish, but being personally morally opposed to gambling.
Wow,
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:36pm.
That was some tumble you took there Satch,,,,, you all right?
Yes. Really. You DO. You so very very very do.
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:56am.
advocate ---
1: one that pleads the cause of another; specifically: one that pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court
2: one that defends or maintains a cause or proposal
You go King Beclowner. Pleads the cause of another.
Satchmo again: ...the fetus is the property of the mother.
Satchmo: ...government does not own your body, and therefore has no right to tell a person that they must terminate a fetus, carry it to full term, or to its birth.
Mike Bratton: ...do developing children shed the status of "property" and become sovereign individuals? Third trimester? Birth canal? Birth? A month after being born?
Satchmo's answer: Birth.
Time for you to take another break. LIAR.
Satchmo advocates late term abortion right through the breaking of the mother's water, the labor pains, and right up until the baby starts process of birth through the birth canal.
What is it like? Tell us what it is like Satchmo.
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:03am.
Tell us what it is like to get so cold busted in a lie that it is physically painful.
You call me a liar. I show I am telling the truth.
You again deny what is right in front of your face. I show you again are lying.
Ouch. Man. That has to smart.
Not once in that discussion
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 10:48am.
Not once in that discussion was there any statement in which I advocated abortion at any time in a pregnancy including up to the moment of birth. Not a one. You resort to lies, misrepresentations, and deliberate distortions because you are unable to think.
Seriously, you thought you could call someone a lair.
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:10am.
The Linkless wonder thinks no one can go back and find his posts.
Satchmo: I do not advocate abortion at all and never have.
advocate --- one that defends or maintains a cause or proposal
DEFENDS a cause or proposal.
>>>>DEFENDS A CAUSE <<<<<
Satchmo again: ...the fetus is the property of the mother.
Satchmo: ...government does not own your body, and therefore has no right to tell a person that they must terminate a fetus, carry it to full term, or to its birth.
Mike Bratton: ...do developing children shed the status of "property" and become sovereign individuals? Third trimester? Birth canal? Birth? A month after being born?
Satchmo's answer: Birth.
>>>>>DEFENDS A CAUSE <<<<<<
Now. Call me a liar again you simpleton.
You are a liar and the
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 10:51am.
You are a liar and the biggest troll and biggest liar on this site. Ironic since you call everyone else a liar (and it's clear you don't know what constitutes a lie), but then you are a paranoid delusional who lacks an intellectual capacity for reason. This will be lost on you, but it isn't a defense of the cause for abortion; it's a defense for personal liberty.
~Talking to yourself like that is a bad habit
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:40pm.
Oh yes, fear the WRATH OF PERVMO.
defense for personal liberty.
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:47pm.
Not everyone's. One person benefits at the expense of another. Sorry, but that isnt what being an American is all about.
Nicely Done!
Submitted by packman on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 9:06am.
Damn! Good job on that. I love it when you confront these liberal twitheads with actual facts and truth. I have this image of him reading your post and jumping up and down crying waahhh.....
"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson
The birth of Insestmo is the biggest troll ever event
Submitted by upcountrywater on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:26am.
Single handily side tracked threads to South Gomorrah, a new low 4 sur.
You Didn't Build That.
Satchmo, the Creepy Incest Apologist
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:29am.
Satchmo, the Creepy Incest Apologist
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Great way to celebrate your reinstatement, Incestmo.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:17am.
I guess management decided an important, powerful voice such as yours should not be permanently silenced.
After all, what staff writer wouldn't want a psycho troll disparaging every post they pen?
Reinstatement? I wasn't
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 10:53am.
Reinstatement? I wasn't suspended or banned, and how would you know if I were?
~That's right, Pervmo
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:21pm.
If you cover your eyes, we can't see you.
We ain't never seen nobody get banned 'round here, we don't know whut it looks like. It's not like we could click on your sn and see the "Talk to the hand, troll" page.
SoL, Does Bru know he's back?
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:21pm.
LOL - That's going to be real interesting.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
~I've been paying out line
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:25pm.
'Bout time to set the hook.
Good God, how did you back in here?
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:15pm.
Hey, somebody needs to go out to replace the bolts in the sanitary sewer manhole lid in the parking lot.
Or better yet, just weld it shut.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I was neither banned nor
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:03pm.
I was neither banned nor suspended.
~Horsehockey
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:11pm.
Your account page was "Access Denied". This pathetic denial only makes you look like an even bigger loser than you already did.
And that's quite a job.
LOL - Well, I guess that answers my above question
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:16pm.
Bru, I seem to recall somebody posting that his plug was pulled, and I clicked on his account and saw Access denied as well.
In fact, I am positive I did.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
~It's called an "Involuntary Sabbatical" now
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:17pm.
.
Bru, That reeks of a little too much political correctness
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:28pm.
LOL - I think I'll stick to Troll Hell.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
~Pampers.com
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:29pm.
was too hot for comfort, apparently. Poor Pervmo.
Well, I received no notice
Submitted by Satchmo on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:32pm.
Well, I received no notice that I was banned or suspended. I don't know why you wouldn't be able to access my account page, but it's kind of creepy that you would want to.
~Oh, I'm locking this one in
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:38pm.
Yeah, Pervmo. WE are creepy.
ROFLMAO
Here's Pervmo assuring us he wasn't banned.
Incestmo: "Derr, I didn't know I was banned."
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 8:41am.
Really, Incestmo? Really? Well let me refresh your memory:
You were banned on 5-27-11 along with three other trolls: Dead Zippers v. 24, Troglodyt and Syrius... a NB one-day record.
There were at least 10 of us who were aware this happened.
Now a fun little example:
Here's you on May 26, the day before your were banned.
Now here's you almost A MONTH LATER on June 20 after being reinstated, coming back to the same thread. Why amazingly, you just pick up the conservation like you never left. And you did this on at least three other threads.
But you didn't know you were banned. You just fell asleep like Rip Van Winkle.
Yeah, and we're all stupid and you're not a pathetic liar.
Yes, really. I received no
Submitted by Satchmo on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 8:59am.
Yes, really. I received no notice stating I was suspended or banned. If you have something that states otherwise, then tell me.
~Oh, I'm sorry
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 9:09am.
Was your registered letter misdirected? What a shame; after all the effort that MRC intern had to go to, writing you that nice little note on embossed stationary about how you would no longer be able to log in to Newsbusters.
Levin is right! We need more
Submitted by okie-pastor on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:23pm.
Levin is right!
We need more guardians of the constitution like Levin!
Good job Mark! Keep it up!
Listening to Levin's
Submitted by 4eyes50 on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:36pm.
passion about the Constitution, I began to imagine what it must have been like at the first convention. These men, meeting day after day, discussing and arguing, sometimes passioniately, about the sensibilities of a Constitution. And what a document!
I'm just trying to imagine what that convention would look like today. Would our "men of Strength, men of Action" be able to come up with anything similar?
"There is a time for everything..."
Well done Mr Levin.
Submitted by Biscuiteater on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:43pm.
Well done Mr Levin.
Isaiah 54:17 "No weapon
Submitted by poseA on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:59pm.
Isaiah 54:17
"No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
And their righteousness is from Me,”
Says the LORD."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJdtXOFL5wM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1-_k6mKSxk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6azuBzNh9II
They'll have to grind me to dust under their boots... and I welcome them to try. I would happily water the tree of liberty with my blood, for it would be their undoing.
"I stand firm in my belief that the government ought not mandate virtue in any form but should rather condemn villainy in all forms. Anyone who believes otherwise is either an aspiring tyrant or a complaisant slave."
-- I. M. Kable
I don't think that there is a
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:32am.
I don't think that there is a lib out there................even one with supposed 'gravitas', who could compete with Levin in the arena of ideas, facts, and truth on these types of subjects. Especially lightweights like this Turkish Mooooooooooooooooslem anti-USA creep.
killa...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:00am.
A debate between Zakaria and Levin might be interesting. But, for the record, Zakaria is neither anti-American nor Turkish. And he definitely is no lightweight:
[From wiki]
Zakaria was born in Mumbai (then Bombay), Maharashtra, India, to a Konkani Muslim family.[3] His father, Rafiq Zakaria, was a politician associated with the Indian National Congress and an Islamic scholar. His mother, Fatima Zakaria, was for a time the editor of the Sunday Times of India.
Zakaria attended The Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai. He received a B.A. degree from Yale University where he was President of the Yale Political Union, editor-in-chief of the Yale Political Monthly, and a member of the Scroll and Key society and the Party of the Right (Yale). He later earned a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Harvard University in 1993,[1] where he studied under Samuel P. Huntington and Stanley Hoffmann.
After directing a research project on American foreign policy at Harvard, Zakaria became managing editor of Foreign Affairs magazine in 1992. In October 2000, he was named editor of Newsweek International,[1] and wrote a weekly foreign affairs column. In August 2010 it was announced that he was moving from Newsweek to Time magazine, to serve as a contributing editor and columnist.[4]
He has written on a variety of subjects for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and as a wine columnist for the web magazine Slate.[5][6]
Zakaria is the author of From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role (Princeton, 1998), The Future of Freedom (Norton, 2003), and The Post-American World (2008); he has also co-edited The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World (Basic Books).
In 2007, Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines named him one of the 100 leading public intellectuals in the world.[7]
Jer
OK Jer..................I
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:21am.
OK Jer..................I stand corrected............he's an Indian Mooooooooooooooooslem. What's the difference - he' STILL a Moooooooooooooslem, and I'm of the belief that the world has a Mooooooooooslem problem.
As for his resume.........it looks impressive, but I know a lot of people with impressive resumes that I wouldn't trust OR believe.............and I think this guy is one of them . I've seen and heard enough of his political agenda and philosophies to say what I said - although, as you know, it's just my opinion.
Maybe you dont' think Barack Hussein Obama is 'anti-American', either...........but I do!!! And have you listened to Van Jones (one of Boy Barry's 'ex-czars') lately??? Yeah...........that's REAL Americanism!!!!
Oh yeah...............being one of the'100 leading intellectuals', or whatever the hell it said, REALLY impresses me!!! I know people around here who make more sense than this 'intellectual'......
and, to tell you the truth........I've found a VAST difference between 'intellect' and 'sense' in my life.....andI I'll ALWAYS stand on the side of 'sense'..........................sort of like FUBO writing that he would 'always stand on the side of Islam'.
One more thing, Jer, ol' buddy..............can he compete with Levin?? Honestly??? Levin eats guys like this for snacks in subjects like this.
Aloha from an outer island of Hawaii.
Killa
As I said, killa...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 1:24am.
I think it would be interesting. Levin is very bright.
Good night, and Aloha...
Jer
No lightweight?
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:36am.
Did you read what he said above Jer? In case you didnt, those are the words of a lightweight
You left out the one important fact that
Submitted by djwolf12 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:03pm.
Mr. Zakaria was the Emcee for a party given in NYC on 12/7/2010, and the party was for George Soros, a close friend.
Wow.............that's as
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:00am.
Wow.............that's as good of a resume enhancer as any of the other ones on his list. Of course, I'm sure that Soros has something to do with is employment???? I'm sure he did a very good job of hyping his wonderful and all-caring friend, mentor, and master.
Have to disagree
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:11pm.
Zakaria has lots of evidence of the benefits of the American system for foreign (minority) students, and of the influence afforded Ivy League degrees. His work, however, does not reflect the thinking of anything other than a lightweight. His patent ignorance of the Senate in a bicameral Congress is very telling.
Admittedly, he is supposedly an expert on foreign affairs. He should stick to it--American domestic affairs certainly isn't his strong suit.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
It doesn't matter to me what degrees he has......
Submitted by djwolf12 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:21pm.
You can spray a pile of dog crap with lysol, but it is still a pile of dog crap. Remember, Rachel Maddow is a so-called "Rhodes Scholar". With her twisted logic, she could have gotten that scholarship from saving the box tops from Kelloggs Cereal boxes and mailed it in.
Unless someone has the same
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:23pm.
Unless someone has the same degree but shares your point of view, of course.
No,bal
Submitted by ant on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 1:25am.
The varying viewpoint is an aside, it's her disregard for facts and truth and her lack of will to take the time to look for any that make her an ass. Point of views shouldn't really be sold as information, especially when it can't be backed up by the real facts.
OK, Hockey - this Indian
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:08am.
OK, Hockey - this Indian Moooooooooooooooooslem is 'supposedly an expert on foreign affairs'. Allright - i'll bite on that one. And he is an unofficial Obama advisor on foreign affairs, as well as being an un-biased and straight-forward news commentator,right??? And, of course, he's in Soros' pocket, as is Boy Barry and a host of these other MSM and government types.
So, with all of this foreign affair 'expertise'.............why the hell is their 'foreign policy' (if you can call it that) so friggin' messed up, useless, wrong, misguided, and suicidal???
Unless, of course. that's the plan.........................
killa...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:38am.
He reportedly gave Condi Rice advice, too. So he has now botched the foreign policy of two successive administrations.
Somebody stop this man!!
Aloha.
Jer
Well Jer, as you
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 1:17am.
Well Jer, as you know...........GWB's foreign policy wasn't anything to brag about either,although if the rest of the world 'hated' us then..............nowadays they just laugh at us and disrespect us, so take your pick!!!
Do you happen to know how this guy 'advised' Rice???
It's 'blackcherry/vodka' hour over here, buddy boy!!!
delicious alohas,
Killa
Thanks for the reminder Noel
Submitted by Boil It Down on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:35am.
I don't listen to Levin nearly enough. Thank God there are the Levins out there to smack down the America bashers like Zakaria.
Mark (his) words
Submitted by MacWell on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:41am.
As usual Mark hits it out of the park. As much as the libs try to explain away the intentions of our founders, there's always people like Mark who can untangle the liberal gibberish and set the records straight. Mark is one of the few I can still listen to. He has a way of clearing the BS out of the way before answering.
Folks? Let's get serious here for a minute.
Next year will be the most important election in our history, I believe that with all my heart.
We the people have lost control of our country.
Very bad men have weaseled their way into our Government and are trying to destroy us from within. These bad men know that they cannot beat Americans on any battlefield, so they have taken a very long time and spent a lot of money to get to where we are today. They have control of the United States.
We the people have one chance to get it right.
We, who have spent the last hundred years working, raising families, building America, were pretty busy with OUR jobs, we stood by believing that those we sent in our stead were actually interested in our welfare,
WE WERE WRONG!
Next year you must get out and vote, all of you.
There is no more time for armchair quarterbacks, we need you on the field of battle.
I'm convinced that America cannot survive 4 more years of liberal ideology.
If we don't start to clean house next year, I'm afraid America's rein on planet earth is over.
We MUST elect a president who understands how grave the situation is and is willing to put it on
the line to fix things.
We MUST have a big change in the Senate. A 60 seat supermajority would be great.
Then we go to work on some revisions, like term limits for ALL elected officials. To rid DC of at least half of the workforce. How bout Tort reform? Pass a law that we can't import oil until we've exhausted the entire supply here. Drill and build, drill and build baby. Nuclear times 100. A gaggle of new refineries if you please. Pipelines from here to there, the more the better. How about revising, updating, and modernizing the electrical grids? All that has to be done for America to begin to rebuild herself is for us to elect people who'll "lead, follow, or get out of the way."
I believe if government would just get out of the way, the private sector will figure out a way to accomplish all that I've stated and much much more.
thanks for listenin
Rush Limbaugh had it correct
Submitted by Less1leg on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 10:46am.
Until such time as the liberals have abolished the vote, then liberals will be crying out for constitutional change until they have rewritten all laws disenfranchising the public from voting. Liberals, hate votes. Why, because they view voters as an impediment to the wishes of liberalism. Liberals are smarter than common people. Therefore common people shouldn't be awarded the right to vote because they vote wrong. Get rid of the road block stopping liberals from doing what's best for you, because only through liberals are you going to be protected from yourselves. You are too dumb to take care of yourself, only through a intellectually superior group like liberals will you be protected.
how many times have we been told this. Climate Change regulations are created to protect us on the planet from ourselves. you don't even have to be correct because it was the intent, not the results that were incorrect. The liberal intentions were more important to save us from ourselves. And if you question a liberal on Climate Change, well the indignation of the intellectual liberal is to shrug, and then blame you. How dare you question us liberals, we were only doing it to protect you from yourselves.
That's the story in Limbaugh-land
Submitted by classicliberal2 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:42am.
"Until such time as the liberals have abolished the vote, then liberals will be crying out for constitutional change until they have rewritten all laws disenfranchising the public from voting. Liberals, hate votes."
Meanwhile, in the real world, liberals have, for over 100 years, compiled a consistent record of of extending (or attempting to extend) the franchise and further democratize government. Conservatives have always fought those efforts, and, at present, are working, in 32 states, to impose onerous regulations aimed at restricting the franchise.
You're absolutely right, CL,
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 3:56pm.
liberals have compiled a consistent record, of registering dead people, football players who are already registered, and illegal aliens(no, they aren't immigrants). Oh, and I forgot convicted felons. But, they do expend every effort to deny the right to vote to members of the military whenever they get the chance.
Extend the franchise? To who, illegals, and letting students vote several times, just by showing a student ID? It's so "onerous" to expect someone to actually show an ID, such as a driver's license or state ID to vote, yeah that just drives voters away by the boatload.
CL2
Submitted by Model850 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 5:39pm.
Conservatives have always fought those efforts, and, at present, are working, in 32 states, to impose onerous regulations aimed at restricting the franchise.
Please, for my apparently much needed edification, do delineate for me -- indeed, for all of us here at NB -- just exactly what are these "onerous regulations" that are being contemplated to "restrict the franchise."
Note that the request is to delineate (def. 2) these proposed regulations, not just list them and tell us they're "bad."
Thank you so much.
Hey, where'd CLdouChe
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:47pm.
go? We ask a simple question of him, and he runs off? Maybe he's off in the corner with Incestmo?
Oh well...
Submitted by Rukus on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:12am.
This must have been the last thing he saw.
CL2, in the real world, it
Submitted by MikeB on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 9:39pm.
CL2, in the real world, it was Democrats who started the Ku Klux Klan, who passed and enforced Jim Crow Laws, who filibustered against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, who lynched civil rights workers in the South who were registering blacks to vote. The only recent member of Congress who was a KKKer was a democrat.
In the real world, it is conservatives who are trying to make sure that only those who are qualified to vote are allowed to vote. How is it onerous to require a photo ID to vote and not onerous to require a photo ID to cash a check? Why would it be onerous to require the Dept of Health to notify the Election Board when someone has died so their name can be purged from the voter registration? Why is it considered onerous to make certain that a voter can vote only one time? "Vote eary and often" is a cynical slogan of Chicago Democrats.
You are either ignorant of the history of civil rights in this country or a lying agent provacateur.
once again-the mere fact 222+yrs-
Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 10:46am.
of guiding us through many difficult times-its a gem-like no other.
follow the rules smooth sailing-cut corners-disaster.
BHO and his minions are Radical Liberals-by design-set to destroy America-all the while-saying nothing doing nothing to take responsibility-for the mess each day gets worse.
Liberals vs. the Constitution:
Submitted by djwolf12 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:04pm.
Liberals want to change it for their own Political gain so they can infringe on the rights of the individual.
Zakaria = A MEMBER OF THE 5TH COLUMN
Submitted by tinydancer on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:11pm.
BEWARE OF LEFTIES TALKING ABOUT THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE!
http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/government/elections/president/timel... and scroll all the way down to the links provided, which direct 'interested people' to links about presidential elections and in particular THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. Marxists have been working HARD to undermine our political system. Ever wonder how so many LEFTISTS seem to be popping up in the most unlikely places? Wake up America. We have been INVADED, UNDERMINED, DUPED into allowing the most un-American people to infiltrate our educational system, our media, our judiciary, and our government up the the highest office in the land.
WAKE UP AMERICA! THE COMMUNISTS ARE ABOUT TO WIN THE GAME.
Conservatism alone cannot defeat them. We need A COUNTER-REVOLUTION!
Hey look! The voice of
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:21pm.
Hey look! The voice of "reason"!
As if you would
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:59pm.
Know the difference
What, youre with the Great
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:18pm.
What, youre with the Great Marxist Alarmist here?
DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH:
Submitted by tinydancer on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:19pm.
http://onceuponatimeinthewest1.wordpress.com/45-goals-of-communism/
http://onceuponatimeinthewest1.wordpress.com/the-communist-manifesto/
http://onceuponatimeinthewest1.wordpress.com/about/
Yesterday, I suggested Zakaria board a flight back to Mumbai...
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:10pm.
...with a one-way ticket.
But I have had a change of heart.
I think he should board the flight with half a ticket. :-)
-Dave
Vote for the American in November