Popular talk-radio and TV host and author Mark Levin appeared on Hannity on Thursday night to ask an urgent question: "Why do the press hate the American people?" Especially the tens of millions of people who put Donald Trump in the White House. First, Levin and Hannity discussed the 30th anniversary of Rush Limbaugh's national radio show, and how much different America would be without it. Then the talk shifted back to the liberal media:
SEAN HANNITY: Honestly, let's talk about Acosta and how corrupt this news media is and they're a bunch of cry babies "they're calling us fake news." It's like -- it's not violence! That's called freedom of speech. It's like I guess they have freedom of the press to lie like they do.
MARK LEVIN: I would say this. You know, a lot has been said about the president calling fake news the enemy of the people. I have a different take on this. Why do the press hate the American people? Over 65 million people give or take voted for Donald Trump for president of the United States.
I wrote this down. Various press outlets and reporters and hosts or their guests called millions and millions of Americans "Nazis," "racists," "deranged," "cultists," "deplorables" and even worse. How do the press in this country justify calling tens of millions of people such outrageous names? And we conservatives have watched as the press have destroyed, they're seeking to destroy Trump, Palin, Bork, Clarence Thomas, Ronald Reagan, the list goes on and on and on.
The D.C. press corps today is the least professional press corps in my lifetime. They think that their job is to make it impossible for the president to function, to sabotage him, and to advance the cause of the ideologues, to advance the cause of a rogue prosecutor by the name of Mueller.
And so, the press really needs to be circumspect, to take a look at itself. It won't. As long as they keep putting clowns like Jim Acosta out there, who is a drama queen of sorts, and who like to report on themselves and talk about themselves.
Levin also appeared on Fox & Friends with Brian Kilmeade on Friday and laid down the marker: "If the press were respectul, but tough; if the press weren't obnoxious, but aggressive; if the press were objective rather than partisan, they would be treated with respect. Their problem is not Donald Trump. Their problem is the American people, over 60 million of us who voted for Donald Trump. They know what they're doing. We know what they're doing." He suggested there was a "coup" attempt going on .
James Woods tweeted about Acosta after his Wednesday outbursts: "Trump has turned Jim Acosta into the national piñata of #FakeNews. Absolutely hilarious."
