Ethics

Mark Levin Shows His Character and Intellect

By Ed Brayton

Or his total lack of either of those things, to be more precise. Here's the transcript of a conversation Levin had with a caller on his show last week. It starts out fairly pointlessly, but not obnoxiously:

CALLER: I just wanna say, Obama is a lot smarter than you folks give him credit for. You guys were on a roll, I have to admit, with all those tea parties. Everything was rolling along, the Republicans were gaining momentum. And he managed to change your entire conversational focus. And you let those three hundred thousand people --

HOST: My God. He's so smart. His own party voted against him on Guantanamo Bay. How stupid was that, Cindy? His own party refused to fund the closing of Guantanamo Bay.

CALLER. Yeah but you know he can just move those people over here anyway. He's already doing it with the one guy.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).