Posted on 08/27/2013 10:44:47 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
Partial Transcript of the Mark Levin Show aired live on Monday, August 19, 2013
[start at 0:26 of the podcast recording]
Hello everybody, Mark Levin here, our number 877-381-3811, 877-381-3811.
Mark Levin: Before we jump in, all I can say is, Wow! You guys, open your microphones a second. Thousands of people at both booksignings. Wasn’t that unbelievable?
Staffer: There were a lot of people there, it was great.
Mark Levin: And the people were just spectacular, weren’t they? Except for one guy in New Jersey which I’ll talk about later.
Staffer: [chuckles]
Mark Levin: This… this birther stuff is way, way out of contr…”Now Ted Cruz” … I swear I almost hit this guy… “Ted Cruz is not a citizen!” No, he’s born to an American mother, no he’s born in Canada to an American mother. So all you pregnant ladies travelling overseas: According to certain birther, uh, groups, if you have a child while you are on vacation, they’re not Americans. They’re not natural-born Americans. I just thought you’d wanna know, if you were thinking of your kid as a potential presidential candidate, uh, because they say so. They have no historical background whatsoever… None! But it’s, it’s just amazing! Absolutely stunning! But we had so many wonderful people, and let me add, all races, both genders… I don’t know the sexual preferences, that wasn’t a requirement to say hello…young people, elderly, middle age people. A particularly young crowd, yeah, we had dogs come too, everybody so well behaved, and uh, it was a pleasure. In New York, we were there about four-and-a-half hours, in New Jersey about five, five-and-a-half hours, and I wanted to be respectful to everybody, so… I just want to thank you all, and this Saturday, Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, at Barnes and Noble. I should add, if you want to see the crowd that was at New York, Mr. Producer went down the line, and this was early on, this, this line kept growing and growing throughout the day…you can go look at uh MarkLevinShow.com on our website, as well as the social sites MarkLevinShow Facebook, MarkLevinShow Twitter. Um, Christians, Coptic Christians are being wiped out in Egypt. Their churches are being burned to the ground….
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Mark Levin: Alright, lets go to uh, Steve in New York, the great WABC, go!
Steve: Great one, it’s great to talk to you, what an honor.
Mark Levin: My honor, thank you, my friend.
Steve: Oh, I got a great story for you, I loved your uh, Hannity special, I enjoyed it very much, I listened to it three times over the weekend…
Mark Levin: Oh, thank you.
Steve: …I got my wife, I got my wife to tape for me, or TIVO it, and she watched it. And she really enjoyed it. She’s not big on politics or anything, and she gets sick of hearing me talk about it, but it was funny ‘cause she said “He is so calm, Steve.” He was, she was trying to do a little wifey/husband training? And…
Mark Levin: Uh huh.
Steve: she said “He is so calm, and he gets his point across. He didn’t raise his voice, or get upset…
Mark Levin: [chuckles]
Steve: …or anything!”
Mark Levin: [breaks out into laughter]
Steve: …and I laughed so hard. I said “How do you, uh, where do you think I learned how to yell?” [laughs] “I just listen to Mark.” And she knows you’re my hero, I go around quotin’ ya, and tellin’ everybody to listen to ya, and…
Mark Levin: Well, that’s great.
Steve: she just … to get me to calm down a little, and I said you just need to listen to Mark. [laughs]
Mark Levin: Well, thank you, uh…well listen, you know what, this is called passion, just remind her it’s passion, you know, and um…what was truly exceptional about the Hannity program, number one, the man has enormous class and decency, and number two, he was asking me questions because he wanted me to inform the public about what I’d written, and to engage the studio audience. And notice we didn’t have a bunch of left-wing bomb throwers just yelling and talking over people. There were conversations actually occurring, did you notice that?
Steve: Yes, there was no crazy, I mean a lot of times he’s got the left wingers on there, and it’s just, kind, it’s almost funny to watch, but that was so interesting and…and it didn’t get me upset, and it just, I just wanted to listen to it over and over and absorb every second of it, and every bit of information, it…it’s just brilliant, Mark, I, you know I hope when um…we’ve got President Cruz, he has the wisdom to make you his chief of staff or vice-president.
Mark Levin: No, no no no no no. And he’s got a great chief of staff, by the way. No, I…I do what I do, and uh, and he will do a great job should he be president. Thank you for your call my friend. And uh, I’m so sick of these birthers. I was going to tell you about this, uh, incident. Just a wonderful group of people, uh, we were in Bookends, Ridgewood, New Jersey, and everyone was respectful until…and it was hot outside, it got hot, hotter than uh originally forecast and it was a very long line, and you know we try to go through it quickly out of respect for everybody in line, but I also try to be respectful to everybody in line. Um…but this fella [breathes out] gets in my face and first of all he points to some obscure note on page I don’t know whatever and he said [cough] excuse me folks, and he says “You were wrong about this, you were wrong about”, and honestly I, I, I didn’t have time to read it, and I’ll go back and check it, if I’m wrong about it I’ll fix it, and that happens sometimes in these books when you’re going into the notes, you might put a word when you mean another word, or a state when you mean another state, so I’m going to check it out, I just haven’t had time. And then he goes, he says uh “And Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president. He’s not a natural-born Citizen.” And I thought to myself, you know I, this is not a subject that I have studied so thoroughly, but he’s born of a mother who is an American citizen. Doesn’t that make him a natural-born Ci… “No, but he was in Canada when he was born!” Okay, but she wasn’t Canadian, she was an American citizen! She was an American citizen. And so, the issue isn’t what the Constitution says in that regard, the issue is how do we interpret that. And the way I interpret it is, his mother’s an American citizen, so he’s an American citizen! That’s not a constitutional issue, that’s an interpretive issue… or, a statutory issue if Congress has passed some law subsequent to that to enforce that provision of the Constitution. So, the face of the Constitution isn’t terribly helpful. If he was born of non-citizens in a foreign country that would be easy, and there’s a lot of easy cases. So the guy gets in my face, and he starts pointing and pointing, and I looked at him and I pointed back, and I cursed, unfortunately, but the, because, uh you know, he was…he was a nutjob. And I thought to myself: Why do you come here and do that? Is this, is this sort of the way you…you excite yourself or something? No. So, I just want you folks to know who like Ted Cruz. I…I assume they’re going to do this to Rubio, or some of these other people too, whether you like ‘em or not for president I’m just making a point, but now this has become an entire industry. And of course [chuckles] Ted Cruz [laughs], he immediately issued today or yesterday his long form birth certificate. Now, some of this is probably coming from the left. So now they’re the birthers. But some of it’s coming from others, too. People just get obsessed, or conspiratorial, and there’s no end to it, on a matter like this, and there’s nothing I can say or point to that’s going to change their mind. But in my view there’s no doubt about it that he’s eligible for president, should he choose to run, just as I believe McCain was eligible for president, when he ran. So…that’s my opinion! You may not like it… But what particularly bothered me about this guy…he was disrespectful in his conduct to everybody else standing there. They were pleasant, talking to each other, you know…listening, watching and so forth. I’m a big boy; I’ve seen this and a thousand times worse. But he was quite obnoxious. He’s the only one…oh no there was another guy, had a prob, wha wha, he what…he had a problem, he was screaming upstairs, I don’t know what he was screamin’ about. It was kind of eventful there in New Jersey. No, there wasn’t anything like that in New York, was there boys? [Staff: No. Peaceful in ji…you know in Long Island] It was peaceful on Long Island! [chuckles] But is was peaceful in New Jersey, too. It really, really was. It was just terrific. If you could have seen that line, well, actually you can. We have the uh video, and this is just the start of the day with the line. It got longer and longer at uh… at Book Review in Long Island if you want to take a look on MarkLevinShow.com or MarkLevi…oh there is now? The…the New Jersey line? Okay. Both lines. On MarkLevinShow.com, are they both on the social sites too? Or…just the Long Island. But we’ll put the other one up later so some of you can see yourselves, too. Alright. GoldLine!
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(further information and videos at: http://queenofliberty.com/2013/08/14/mark-levin-rolls-out-his-new-book/)
Then maybe you should stick to the Boehner threads and stay the hell off the Cruz threads.
Ted Cruz for Governor of Texas sounds better.
Whoever told you that was an idiot.
No one has ever made a credible argument that he is not eligible.
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and No one has ever made a credible argument that he is ...
Let’s face it...
we just dont know for sure...
If McCain wasnt with 2 US citizen parents and a father in the military under orders from the US government..Feb 2008
then how can Cruz be with only 1 US citizen parent and a private citizen parent at that voluntry in another country ???
I agree. Let Cruz run for TX Gov. Governors are valued more highly by the electorate and it would give him a leg up to the White House some day.
Leading up to the 2008 election, I remember a news piece in which the Obama campaign specifically recruited (and paid some) website advocates who would counter in any online debate any detractor of Obama. They viciously defended Obama and the personal attacks on any non-Obama supporter went way over the top. I’m sure they did the same in the 2012 election.
So, main newspaper discussion board, website discussion boards, and the like were monitored by the opposition at all hours.
I think that the GOPe has picked up on that in 2011-12 cycle, and they attempted it here on FR early on with Romney, but JR wouldn’t put up with it. He got famous for zotting Romney supporters.
In any case, I can see that the entire liberal establishment, both democrat and GOP-e, want to destroy Cruz early due to his crusade in favor of defunding ObamaCare.
My personal experience with volunteer discussion board agitators says that we must expect some of them to be official agitators who are trying even here on Free Republic to cripple Cruz as this ObamaCare defunding debate goes forward.
How do you distinguish between an overwrought birther and a covert agitator working for the GOP-e?
I think it will be their unwillingness to relent until AFTER the defunding/immigration debate is settled.
So, I encourage birthers to continue their investigation of Obama, but I have been asking that they finish that case before they begin one against Ted Cruz. You are right to be concerned about what we are seeing. I won't be surprised to be reading soon that the Canadian birth records are suspect and that we don't really know enough about the real identity of Cruz's parents. Things can get real crazy real fast.
I am convinced that the American people will conclude that anyone born a citizen of the United States is a natural born citizen. And that, under our Constitution, is what matters.
I'm not sure anyone else can put on the kind of presidential campaign that I expect from Ted Cruz. I believe he has some unique talents that come naturally to him. I'd hate it if we lost him to baloney like this.
Ted Cruz - 2016
Any of them. The most current is the 1952.
Section 301 of that law says Cruz is an automatic citizen at birth:
***(a)SEC. 301. (a) The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:
(7) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who,
prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States ‘ or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less ‘ than ten years, at least five of which were after attaining the age “ of fourteen years: Provided^ That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States by such citizen parent may be included in computing the physical presence requirements “ of this paragraph.
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Oh I hope Cruz is successful in defunding Obamacare but one thing is for sure, I will be relentless on doing my best to prove he is not eligible for Article 2 Section 1 of the Constitution and I am a staunch Conservative. Article 2 Section 1 must not be subverted at any level no matter how popular and Conservative any of our candidates are in 2016. Upholding the Constitution must be first and foremost without any hesitance.
If anyone in the medical or legal system told you to have your babies back home, then not only were they idiots and wrong, but they could have been reprimanded for encouraging great costs on our overseas dependent families.
In addition to the above, my views are the same for Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio.
You can’t say your a supporter of Cruz’s efforts to defund ObamaCare and prevent illegal amnest and at the same time tie up him and his supporters with distraction upon distraction on issues that are not germane to that fight.
It means you are distracting him and his supporters and aiding in trying to cripple him.
Continuing that distraction 3 years before it’s even relevant would make one wonder if there weren’t another agenda.
How is citing a law “a bunch of esoteric nonsense”, specifically?
Prove?
Forget prove. After 5 years of intensive investigation of Obama, have you yet come up with any tentative conclusions about:
1) The identity of Obama's father?
2) The identity of Obama's mother?
3) The location of Obama's birth?
I've asked you this before, and I believe you told me that you have "no idea" what the answers to any of those questions might be. Five years and "no idea."
And, now you want to start in on Ted Cruz?
Please, finish your investigation of Obama before you take on any new assignments. Please! Your investigations have never proved any important fact other than that none of you can make a decision about anything.
Keep working on Obama. American does not need your help with Ted Cruz. Thanks for offering.
Look..........when you try to subvert Article 2 Section 1.....you’re right it is a distraction due to a ineligible candidate. It is a distraction that should not be taking place in the first place. Cruz is Constitutionally eligible to be a Senator due to that he is a Citizen (not a natural born Citizen). I will support his efforts as he is Constitutionally eligible to do as a Senator.
This addresses ‘citizen’ without reference to ‘natural born’. The Constitution makes the same distinction in Articles I and II.
Neither the Jindals nor the Rubios were American citizens when the boys were born...
Bobby was born in the US but his parents were citizens of India...
Mario was born in the US but his parents were citizens of Cuba...
so can either be POTUS ???
I say no!
Ted Cruz was never naturalized. He was never naturalized because he didn't need to be. He is an American Citizen who's citizenship never required naturalization - therefore...come TN, you can do it. Think!
OK now lets look at the Castro brothers..twins, over 35
one is the mayor of San Antonio
the other in the US House of Re4presentatives...
yet their parents are illegal aliens living in the US...
and they both work full time to get AMNESTY for their parents and other illegal aliens...
not much loyalty to US law there...
are they eligible ???
how far can they legally go in politics in the US ???
Whats to stop one of them running for POTUS in 2016 ???
Whats to stop any illegal alien anchor baby born in the US from being POTUS ???
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