February Was a Picnic Compared to How Things Are Now: Mark Levin, ‘Liberty and Tyranny,’ & Obama’s Socialism
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on June 4, 2009
Mark Levin’s brilliant book, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, has been at the top of the New York Times bestsellers list since it debuted in March. The week Elizabeth Edwards’ book was released, Levin’s book dropped to Number 2, but the following week, Edwards’ fell to Number 5 and Levin’s jumped back again to the Number 1 slot. Top spot for nine out of ten weeks. As of this writing today, it is still Number 1 for hardcover nonfiction at NYT, and is approaching 1 million copies sold.
This has all been accomplished with NO support from the major news sources (print or on television), no cutesy or snooty book reviews, no showcase on Oprah or Ellen, nor any schlepping during any Letterman or O’Brien late night interviews (schlepping nada, interviews nada). Liberty and Tyranny has been primarily advertised through radio ads, radio talk shows, and conservative word-of-mouth forums and blogs, like here at Frugal Café American Spectator, Riehl World View, and Michelle Malkin. A huge percentage of the book’s success has been accomplished through simple, cheap, conservative grassroots efforts. The book has also been a runaway success because—have I already said this?—it’s BRILLIANT.
Levin’s revolutionary book is a masterstroke, thoroughly explaining conservative values and the principles upon which our nation was created. The motivations of statists are exposed and Levin arms readers with valuable information to fight back to keep or restore our nation’s Constitutional roots.
If you’ve not yet read the book, I implore you to. In it, Levin eloquently and intelligently argues for a return to “the Founders’ idea of the dignity of the individual, who can flourish through ordered liberty.”
Update: Brian Maloney, The Radio Equalizer (June 3, 2009): State-Controlled Media Shun Mark Levin’s Best Selling Book, Levin Book Set To Sell One Million Copies
“Revolution of the Heart, the Mind, and of Politics…Don’t Pick a Fight, Educate Them” — Mark Levin Book Signing, March 2009
So, because of the continued success of Levin’s book, I am surprised that there are still so many conservatives who don’t know who Mark Levin is. They all know who Rush Limbaugh is (because liberals attack him all the time in the media), but Levin (fondly called “The Great One” by Sean Hannity) has escaped their detection.
Crazy world… I’m confident that many of these conservatives would enjoy listening to Levin, but they can’t. They’re working too hard, are too busy working longer hours or holding down two jobs to keep their families above water during this sham of the “Golden Age of Obama.” But they don’t have the luxury of listening to talk radio during the day. So, to spread the knowledge, a segment from one of Levin’s radio show is embedded below. An Obama-supporting liberal caller who works for the government is the centerpiece of the segment.
Bear in mind this next video is of a radio program that was broadcast in February. Compared to now in June, February was a picnic.
The caller, a government employee in the Department of Energy, believes that Obama’s socialist plan will soon turn the country around and the “disaster” of the greedy free market will soon be behind us. Prosperity is coming soon for all.
Nope, it hasn’t. It’s now four months later, June 4, 2009.
Where is the turnaround? Where is the economic improvement? Where is the government transparency and promised tax cuts? Where is the hope and change? Things are much worse now… free speech is threatened, taxes and government meddling and unemployment are growing, just as millions of conservatives feared. The warnings of Levin, Limbaugh, Hannity, and others are proving prophetic.
Bush is long gone and cannot be blamed anymore. This is all Obama’s doing.
Enjoy the radio segment… Levin pulls no punches and has no tolerance for statist morons.
Mark Levin Radio Show: Levin & a Liberal Caller Who Works for the Government
About Mark Levin, from Amazon.com: He’s a nationally syndicated talk radio host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation. He has also worked as an attorney in the private sector and as a top adviser and administrator to several members of President Reagan’s cabinet. The author of the New York Times bestselling books Rescuing Sprite and Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America, Mark holds a B.A. from Temple University and a J.D. from Temple University School of Law.
Good conservative reading:
Mark Levin Fan: Economic Disaster: How did we get here?
Adam Baldwin, Big Hollywood: ‘Global Citizenship’: An Unsustainable Social Injustice
MSNBC: Obama blocks access to White House visitor list
Hot Air, The Greenroom: Antonin Scalia: The United States Constitution is “Dead”
American Thinker: Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Obama’s “Cone of Silence” for Conservative Radio & Internet: Media Diversity Not for Diversity of Ideas, but for Diversity of Skin Color and Wealthy Democrat Supporters Dumbfounded… Realize Obama Will Take Their Money and “You, Sir, Are a Serial Liar!” Mark Levin Rips on Congressman Barney Frank… Again & Again and Embarrassment – Dems Have Lovely Chat with Fidel Castro… Blame America for Cuba’s Poverty Because of Embargo and The Sham of Socialism: Save America While There’s Still Time and Nightmare: Heritage Foundation Exposes Universal Health Care Myths & Destruction of Free Market
Tim Slagle, Big Hollywood: Democrats — Why so Unhappy?
Free Republic: Socialism Coming Back To Haunt U.S.
Andrew Breitbart, Big Hollywood: Rush to judgment: A media hopelessly divided and Know Thy Enemy: This Is Not Your Mother’s Democratic Party
RedState: Whoops… Entitlement Programs Collapsing Faster than Expected
Charles Winecoff, Big Hollywood: A-holes and Insects – or Mother Nature Doesn’t Care If You’re a Good Liberal
Mark Levin Show: Update
Jeffrey Lord, The American Spectator: Review of Liberty and Tyranny, June 4, 2009
Michelle Malkin: “He talks endlessly of moderation yet does not appear to live in the real world.” and Bad medicine: Obamacare poster art, Round 3 and The biggest, most magical makework program ever! and Audio clip of the day and The U.S. Department of Injustice and CBC: Congressional boot-lickers and Diana West speaks the truth and Bush the pre-socializer: “I readily concede I chucked aside my free-market principles” and Will an MSM reporter ask this question? and Stupid business model of the day
Hot Air: Congress presses to license tax preparers and Unemployment up to 9.4% and Red, Red Meat: Mark Levin on Statism and Limbaugh as Conservative Leader and Criticism is also free speech
ScoopThis.Org: Mark Levin is Number 1!
Mark R. Levin, NRO: The Obama Temptation
Mofo Politics | Hoping Obama Fails: Video: Mark Levin on “Hannity”, discusses new book “Liberty and Tyranny” – 3/23/09
GayPatriot: Confronting the Leftist Idea of “Equality”
Latest Technology News: NBC’s Vieira Refuses to Challenge Barney Frank on Wasteful Earmarks
The American Pundit: The Hypocritical Incompetence of Congress
Clinging to G & G: Andrew Breitbart
Riehl World View: Media: We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Liberty
Cuban-American Pundits: National Review on The Man Who Invented Fidel
The Christian Science Monitor: White House laughs at GOP idea to call Democrats “Socialists”
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