Pat and Stu discuss the release of John Walker Lynn, and how he should be released from prison. They also discuss NPR's new abortion guidelines and how biased they are in their coverage of abortion. Also, Mark Levin joins the show to talk about his new book, Unfreedom of the Press.
00:04:18.72020 years doesn't seem appropriate to me.
00:04:21.800And the fact that he's only served 17 is kind of a big deal.
00:04:26.640And then going on, going past that, it doesn't seem like he's reformed at all.
00:04:31.140And you get these stories every once in a while.
00:04:32.600And we've had people on the show in past years who used to be terrorists and seemingly had reformed and were now speaking out against terrorism.
00:04:41.360Like, there's a few people who have actually been on the show that have kind of meet that profile.
00:04:46.000But that's not what John Walker-Lind is doing here.
00:05:59.140I mean, it's one of those things that, like, this is a difficult, like, thing to figure out how to deal with a terrorist in these situations.
00:06:09.060Like, we're talking about the ISIS wives, right?
00:06:12.780These women, they go over, they get married off into ISIS.
00:06:15.160God only knows what happens to them for multiple years.
00:06:17.740Then they all feel kind of bad about it.
00:06:19.600Like, you know, hey, like, I was young.
00:06:27.320And, like, some of them, like, they're like, well, I was shocked to see in person them burning these people alive in these cages because it felt so much different than when I watched the video on YouTube of them burning them alive in these cages.
00:06:40.900And you're like, I can't give you that one.
00:06:52.460Yeah, they should stand trial for treason.
00:06:54.760And I feel like most shows that I've heard on the conservative sort of side or people writing about it have said, no, like, these people are, it's a war and they're on the other side of this war and they should be treated like anybody else is on the other side of the war, which I think is a legitimate position.
00:07:10.600And, like, it's hard to envision a more clear example of treason than going over and assisting ISIS in the middle of a war against us.
00:07:39.280We've just basically, we've all decided, you know what, that part of our history, you know what, it's like Halloween 3 season of The Witch, just not part of the series.
00:07:49.200We're just going to ignore that it happened.
00:19:52.020And part of the reason they're doing it is to convince people, hey, this thing that you think you're, quote, unquote, aborting is just life that you're ending.
00:20:00.020You know, I mean, that is part of the reason they're targeting the heartbeat.
00:20:04.640But it's like, it's, in a way, a moment of coming together.
00:21:32.200I think there should be no abortion at all.
00:21:33.820But, like, in a sensible world with debate, it wouldn't be nine months or right after birth you could still abort the kid.
00:21:40.500It would be, all right, look, if you made a mistake, before we even know that you're pregnant, you have a chance to stop whatever's going on.
00:21:46.980And we won't even know if anything even happened.
00:24:41.840If you're going to say, hey, they're talking about late term abortions.
00:24:44.340Instead, say, as an alternative, they're talking about a certain procedure performed after the first trimester of pregnancy and subsequently the procedure.
00:26:21.900Incorrectly calling a fetus a baby or the unborn is part of the strategy used by anti-abortion groups to shift the language, legality, and public opinion.
00:27:43.240More Pat and Stu for Glenn coming up in 60 seconds.
00:27:50.860You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:27:53.920Joining us now is Mark Levin from the, of course, Nationally Syndicated Radio Show, from Blaze TV, from Levin TV, and his new book is Unfreedom of the Press.
00:28:30.240Well, basically what I've tried to do with this book, I wasn't going to write about the press, but it's kind of in your face every day.
00:28:36.120So they keep claiming they represent freedom of the press, so I decided to take a look.
00:28:40.440And so I looked at the history of the press, and I looked at how it's cycled through throughout the decades and the various transitions it's gone through.
00:28:50.940And I just want the public to know you feel this, but when you look at the history of the press, this is the lowest point the media's ever been in.
00:29:59.200And survey after survey, poll after poll of them will tell you they're not, there's nobody, no newsroom really, major newsroom that's right of center or center.
00:30:31.680That's new in the last 20 or 30 years.
00:30:34.400So you have these younger and younger so-called journalists who come in, and they're being taught this.
00:30:38.020There's a number of journalism schools and professors who have pushed this philosophy.
00:30:41.720They say, hey, look, the civil rights movement, the right to vote, Obamacare, all these things would not have happened but for the progressive ideology.
00:30:51.780So you wash the news through the progressive ideology, you interpret it, you analyze it, you promote it.
00:32:43.400There have been presidents who have literally abused power, who've shut down newspapers, who've locked up journalists, who've used the IRS against their political opponents, FBI, CIA, recent presidents, like Kennedy, like Lyndon Johnson among them.
00:34:02.580The New York Times was going broke until this billionaire from Mexico, telecommunications bank, that bought 17 or 20 percent of their stock.
00:34:11.580Bezos bought the Washington Post, which was going bankrupt, for the core of a billion dollars.
00:34:15.480It's not just technology, although that's crucial, that's changing the landscape.
00:34:20.580They're changing the landscape because people are turning them off.
00:34:34.440There are, you know, there are perverts and reprobates and evil people everywhere, including on the Internet.
00:34:39.960You've got to be careful about what you're probably in your community, you know.
00:34:42.880So you've got to be careful of who you hang out with and careful of what you look at.
00:34:46.560But I view a lot of this as the new pamphleteers, the competition that's coming.
00:34:51.660And I think there's going to be future technologies, platforms we haven't even thought of yet, that will, again, create new and better competition.
00:35:01.340So I have a strong belief in freedom of the press, and I have a very negative view of the modern media today.
00:35:08.520Talking to Mark Levin, the book is Unfreedom of the Press.
00:35:10.640Mark, I know you're short on time here, but before you go, you have this kind of transformation from journalist to activist you talked about.
00:35:17.900You talk about how it's sort of falling apart for the mainstream media.
00:35:21.980Is that why it's getting so much worse?
00:36:28.720And so if you want to throw in with a political party, that's fine.
00:36:31.660The dishonesty of this is, you know, about 1780 to about 1860, we had the political party press where the press lined up with one party or candidate or viewpoint or another.
00:36:43.260And they were very transparent about it.
00:36:45.100It was brutal, but they were transparent.
00:36:47.080Today, we have the party press, the Democrat Party press, a one-party press.
00:36:52.000And that's why they keep looping through, you know, Adam Schiff or Nadler.
00:36:58.080They bring guests on, politicians on, professors on, so-called experts on, who really mimic their own viewpoints.
00:37:08.180Mark, we know you're pressed for time.
00:37:10.420Congratulations on the success of this book.
00:37:44.940And we should also remind you, of course, Mark Levin TV is part of Blaze TV, and you can get that as part of your subscription when you go to blazetv.com slash Glenn.
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