Posted on 11/21/2017 12:23:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Fox News announced on Tuesday that it was hiring conservative commentator Mark Levin to host a new show on Sundays at 10 pm, drawing the network ever closer to its pro-Trump base and further protecting it from future competition on the right.
“It’s clearly another step in Fox News channel’s evolution to a more Trump-friendly series of programming,” said Dan Shelley, the executive director of the Radio Television Digital News Association. “It’s right in their current wheelhouse.”
Levin, who arguably ranks just behind Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity for influence in the world of conservative talk radio hosts, has been critical of Trump in the past. He supported Senator Ted Cruz in the 2016 Republican presidential primary and even identified himself as a member of the “Never Trump” movement—until he decided to support Trump.
He has seldom looked back since. Levin helped popularize the conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama was wiretapping Trump Tower—an idea ultimately picked up by Trump himself—and is known for promoting ideas in line with the president. Just recently, he has bashed the Mueller investigation, backed Trump on “extreme vetting,” and complained about the “liberal media” ignoring various Clinton-related issues....
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HAR!
I’ll wager Geraldo is fuming mad about this!
Huh ... pro-Trump. You gotta’ be kidding me. Nobody listens to Levin anymore because he’s always bashing Trump.
While Fox still has too many hard-left wienies, they have actually been pretty good all the way up until "Schlep that Butt over Here" Smith comes on.
I listen to Matk nightly and was ripping him a new one here on FR all through the election cycle. The turning point for him was not until February, when Trump gave that long press conference excoriating the media. It was that day that a Mark seemed to finally realize where the true battle lines were drawn, and jump back fully into the fight on the side of the right.
I’ll have to give Mark Levin another listen then. Thanks.
Yeah, he looks pretty grim in that pic, but I must admit I posted the most unflattering image of him I could find on Google.
I don't know quite what to think about Shep.
Considering the decimating purge of familiar faces on Fox News over the past year, it's hard to understand why he's still on the air.
I figure he must have some really damaging homosex scandal info on somebody near the top of the network, but that's just me speculating.
Excellent! One of the best in the business.
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