Mark Levin SHREDS pro-Putin, global warming alarmist Rex Tillerson (Pros, Cons??)

Conservative Review ^ | 12-13-2016 | Chris Pandolfo

[Freemeorkillme]

Tuesday evening on the radio, Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin addressed the announcement that Exxon-Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state.

Levin said that the choice of Rex Tillerson ranks among the “worst” of Trump’s Cabinet picks.

Rex Tillerson: Trump’s most disastrous pick – The Conservative Conscience Ep77 Listen:

Tillerson has close ties to members of the ruling class establishment. His nomination was praised by the likes of Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, and James Baker — luminaries of the Bush administration and, in the case of Rice and Gates, lobbyists for Exxon-Mobil. Additionally, his close relationship with Vladimir Putin is a major cause for concern.

Fundamentally, Tillerson is the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time. As Levin read from Conservative Review Senior Editor Daniel Horowitz’s piece today:

Trump should have appointed a secretary of State who regards the current State Department with as much disdain as Scott Pruitt regards the EPA. The problem we have at the State Department is not a management crisis. We have a moral and intellectual problem with the State Department that has persisted for decades. It stems from a deep-rooted culture of moral relativism and an “America-last” mindset. As such, we needed a man with a strong ideological rudder who understands the issues, is on the right side of them, and willing to bust up the entire State Department structure and the global foreign policy apparatus.

[bray]

You must be speaking of the guy who worked for GS 15 yrs ago and managed one of Soro’s capital funds there. Yeah, sounds exactly how you described it.

You probably had no problem w/Cruz’ wife making nearly a million a year with GS or them being one of his top donors. Can you say hypocrisy?

[xzins]

Glen Beck is another who has gone totally off the rails.

I imagine that even Ted Cruz is embarrassed by him now.

[McGavin999]

Levine and medved are both emotional children. they come on, I turn the radio off

This guy is not going to legislate he is going to negotiate and the parameters of the negotiations will be set by the administration with the immovable base of America first.

[LS]

During the primaries, when Levin went off on Trump, someone posted his latest ratings numbers showing he lost 1/3 of his audience.

Does someone still have a link to that?

[databoss]

Levin thought he could be head cheerleader of Reagan Revolution II through the unelectable Ted Cruz. Trump had and has a plan and it is new and different, like Reagan was new and different. Levin just can’t wrap his brain around it because he looks at everything through the prism of his Reagan experience. That worked then not going to work now.

[FreeReign]

...as kinda forced on Exxon if they were to survive under (gasp!) President Hillary.

Exxon and CEO Tillerson have been harassed for years about AGW. Tillerson first succumbed to the pressure in a 2009 speech when he said that he was for Carbon Credits. He has been for Carbon Credits since.

I guess the problem will arise when SoS Tillerson will be asked about Carbon Credits. He will of course have to flip on the issue and he will of course be beaten up by Big Media for doing that.

And that assumes that Trump will stay firm on the opinion that AGW is a hoax, or his latest opinion, that nobody really knows.

[lodi90]

... Heck ... During his tenure ... as with all heads of giant Multinational Corporations ... Of course he garnered ties with the business and political elites .... That’s how you get things accomplished in foreign Nations.

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Absolutely. Tillerson has vast experience bribing tin pot dictators while ignoring the misery they inflict on their people. Don’t delude yourself. He is a career crony globalist. It’s in his DNA at this point. You don’t teach old dogs new tricks.

[kabar]

Nobody in Trump’s inner circle does as far as I can tell. Tillerson, Flynn, Little Jared, etc. None experienced in the foreign policy jiu-jitsu that Putin specializes in. Putin is going to play Team Trump like a fiddle by keeping things on a low boil. And anybody who is not a Trump is always righter can see this train wreck coming.

LOL. We have an army of career bureaucrats in all 17 foreign affairs agencies that will be doing the heavy lifting in terms of foreign policy. Flynn as head of DIA has plenty of foreign policy experience. Only 20% of the Americans stationed at our diplomatic posts abroad work for the State Department.

The real power in formulation our foreign policy lies in the NSC, which is staffed primarily by career personnel. And then we have Mattis as SecDef, which is a major player in formulating foreign policy.

The players at the top change with administrations, but our national interests don't nor do the vast majority of career personnel in government involved in foreign policy change. NSA and the other intelligence agencies will still be feeding information to the political hierarchy. The thin veneer of political appointees at the top of the bureaucracy can affect emphasis on certain areas, but our basic foreign policy will not change. The importance/danger of the Tillerson appointment is way overblown.

[bray]

Is it ok to say Levin’s books are some of the most boring ever written? Getting through the first chapter takes 2 Redbulls.

[Mr. K]

When Levin is not ‘mad’ he is FUNNY!
And I love hearning him take down a liberal moron who dares to call the show.
I would rather he was doing that, than listen to him be angry over Trump every day.
I WANT him to hold Trump accountable... but not this way.

[Ikemeister]

Levin just another #nevertrump fool. He is dead to me.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Levin is just another “never Trumper” siding with McNuts and Grahamnesty. He’s still feeling the butt hurt.

[Uncle Miltie]

Yeah, sure.

[bert]

Levin is not fit to carry the man’s brief case

[hotsteppa]

All you do is shoot off hyperbole(just like the left). You know nothing of which you speak.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Yep, Trump said 8 years at his rally in Wisconsin last night.

[HamiltonJay]

Don’t know much about the guy, but I now all about Levin....

Levin has his schtick of just being a gripefest about everything...

It is beyond amazing he has a syndicated show... I guess there are enough folks out there that just like to hear someone who gripes about everything.

DOesn’t mean he doesn’t find a nut once in a while, but largely he’s just bad radio on every level.

[stratboy]

Be careful. Mark doesn’t like to be questioned or criticized and if he gets too upset, he will start whining and wailing on his show about us again. But then again, who still listens?

[TomGuy]

[Note:  these shares are for online streaming programs only and not over-air broadcasts.]

 

Comparison of streaming shares by quarter

	2015 Q4	2016 Q1	2016 Q2	2016 Q3
Michael Savage	27.0	27.0	24.6 -	23.7 -
Rush Limbaugh	14.1	15.6 +	11.2 -	15.1 +
Laura Ingraham	7.2	6.9 -	8.5 +	8.7 +
Mark Levin	6.1	5.7 -	4.2 -	4.0 -
Glen Beck	4.7	4.7	3.9 -	3.2 -
Sean Hannity	3.6	4.0+	5.1 +	5.6 +

Source:  https://blog.talkstreamlive.com/

 

The TSL Top 25 Streaming Talk Shows

October 4, 2016 by talkstreamlive

Third Quarter 2016

Rank / Show / Share
1 Michael Savage 23.7
2 Rush Limbaugh 15.1
3 Laura Ingraham 8.7
4 Sean Hannity 5.6
5 Mark Levin 4.0
6 Glenn Beck 3.2
7 Hugh Hewitt 2.5
8 Alex Jones 2.0
9 Mike Gallagher 1.7
10 George Noory 1.6
11 Tammy Bruce 1.5
12 Howie Carr 1.5
13 Dennis Prager 1.5
14 Herman Cain 1.4
15 Clyde Lewis 1.4
16 Red Eye Radio 1.1
17 John Batchelor 1.1
18 The Dana Show 0.8
19 Michael Medved 0.7
20 Chris Plante 0.7
21 IMUS 0.7
22 Larry Elder 0.6
23 Sam Sorbo 0.6
24 Larry Kudlow 0.5
25 Richard C Hoagland 0.5

I am surprised that Levin only dropped 0.2 shares from the 2nd Quarter.

 

[ScottfromNJ]

“then there should be no problem if he appoints Hillary as secretary of state”

I’m pretty sure Tillerson’s views are closer to Trump’s on most issues compared to Hillary. Trump has many appointees and no one person will be 100% perfect in matching his views. Things like gay boy scouts will not be on Tillerson’s agenda as secretary of state. I’m more interested in Tillerson and Trump being on the same page as far as Tillerson’s scope of work is concerned. Regarding that, there doesn’t seem to be any problems.