You know there are many, many talk radio personalities out there. Many. Most of them aren't any good as talkers. But there is a small group that are very compelling to listen to. Those who know how to use a turn of the phrase and put things into such succinct perspective that you can't help but listen. You look forward to listening to them. But even this elite group of talkers have their drawbacks.
I have found over my many years of on again and off again listening to talk radio that one rule will ALWAYS be true. That one rule is that it is their mic, their phones, their choice. They can do whatever they want with callers. Callers are much like treats you give to a performing animal. If you want the animal to perform well he must be trained properly and rewarded appropriately. This is the talk radio personality.
I used to be in the vast majority of "drones" (a favorite Levin term) that didn't know any better and would call in to try and make their point (not knowing at the time that their point did not matter). With age and wisdom I have come to learn that if you listen carefully to all these people you will see that one thing remains true with all of them. They are on the air for one reason first and foremost - they have egos that must be fed. And fed they will be on the meat (or should I say the nectar) of the callers.
I don't care what genre of talk radio you listen to, the format is the same. The host gives his opinion and the callers try and give theirs only to find out that they are nothing more than fodder for the host to continue to spout his views. You come before the call screener who asks two things: "What's your name" and "What do you want to talk about". That information is plugged into a computer and it shows up on a monitor in front of the host. The host will determine (based on what he is preaching at that moment) what caller he will take next. Yes, it is staged. There is a script of sorts. Very little is "off the cuff".
Mark is probably in my estimate one of the very few that actually cares. Genuinely cares about what he is talking about. But there is still that showman, that ego, that persona that tells us each and every night that he is smarter than you are and he knows more than you and he will decide who says what on HIS show. The ego that must always be fed. The beast.
Yes, Mark is a lawyer. I am well acquainted with lawyers, have many in my family as well as a judge or two. I know the mentality quite well. They are quite full of themselves. It goes with the territory. I have never met a humble lawyer. I think that is a contradiction in terms actually.
Yes, Mark is a true blue conservative. Okay, and....... In this day and time you hear two terms constantly used in the world. Liberal and Conservative. To me there is not a dimes worth of difference between the two. But if I were to call Levin and TRY to explain that to him I would either get one of two things: 1) the 20 second Liberal clock or 2) hung up on. Probably both. Because Mark does not want to hear that the two are the same. It angers him. The reason that it angers him is because he knows deep down that they are only labels and are in no real way different.
I think I have lived long enough to be able to make that determination for myself as to whether there is any difference between a Liberal and a Conservative. When you get right down to it at the end of the day they are both the same with some minor differences. But at the end of the day they are all human and all fallible and all inherently evil. Man is inclined towards evil behavior. This is a proven point. He has to be TAUGHT to do good. The type of personality that is required to be a politician is one that requires that person to do things that are not nice. It's the nature of the beast so to speak. Politics is an ugly business. Good people don't last long. They either become corrupt or they get destroyed. But a politician is a politician is a politician at the end of the day when everything is stripped away. Like Carly Fiorina without her wig.
A conservative supposedly is for conservative things and a liberal is for liberal things. Conservative saves money and a liberal spends money. A conservative respects the constitution and a liberal detests the constitution. A conservative believes in God and country and a liberal wants to destroy God and country. But when you take both those types and place them in a room together long enough they will both come down to the very same types of behavior. The rhetoric sounds good, the politics sounds good, but you can't get past the most important problem - flesh and blood. At the end of the day you have a man who is fallible, corruptible, evil and basically incapable of saving anyone including himself.
Yes, Mark cares about his country. So what? That means nothing in this day and time. He should have been caring years and years ago. But then that wouldn't have mattered because the whole thing started coming apart the day is was established. Man inherently is bent on destroying himself. It's his nature to tear down what he builds. No amount of lawyer speak can change that FACT.
On being Jewish (from a Gentile's Perspective)
The Jews have always had issue with God and his son. The priests were teaching and upholding corrupt laws. They refused to follow the laws that God had given them. They were staunch proponents of idol worship. God had a very good reason for calling his people "stiff necked". They earned that title. And they continue to be that way today. There is a reason that the Jews crucified Christ and blamed it on Rome. They needed the Son of God out of the way because he was messing things up. Thank God that the Jews aren't in ultimate control.
What Mark fails to understand is that God is in ultimate control and if this country is slated to fail according to HIS PLAN, then fail it will and there is nothing anyone can do about it. It is prophesy.
This is proving itself out everyday. Everyday that I listen to Mark I hear him confirming it. It is getting worse not better and there is less and less that can be done about it. No matter how much Mark yells and curses - he can change nothing. Destiny must play itself out. I don't doubt that Mark is doing exactly what he is supposed to do. But the majority of what he is saying is falling on deaf ears. The people don't understand it and don't know what to do and for very good reason.
The one thing that Mark's audience can be counted on to say is one thing: "You are GREAT". The amount of drooling and worship that goes on with his audience is nothing short of idol worship. What man who is humble and true to God wants that? The ego that must be fed. A beast that is never full. Your listeners Mark, are all blind and deaf. They cannot hear what you are trying to impart because they are blinded by the wonder of you. You should listen to any one of your shows and count up the times that you are told how great you are. When in all honesty you aren't great and you don't have any answers. Because if you in fact did have answers the problem would already have been solved, wouldn't it?
But I digress, back to the medicated society.....
When you have medded the people up so much, dumbed them down so much and encouraged complacency to the point of ridiculousness what do you honestly expect from them? It's like the old Army Drill Sergeant yelling at his recruits: SHUT UP!!! .......ANSWER ME!!!!!! And what you get at the end of that is the "Deer In the Headlights" look. What else can you expect? Nothing. This is what has been created.
People have been conditioned to the point that whatever pain or ache they have there is a pill for it.
What? You Feel Pain? Take this pill.
You're sad, take this pill
You're too active, take this pill
You think too much, take this pill
You believe you should be able to have sex whenever you want it? Here, take this pill.
You don't want to eat anymore? Take this pill,
You don't want any more periods? Here, take this pill.
You want your children to be quiet & not make any noise? Here give them this pill.
Can't sleep? Take this pill
Need to wake up? Take this pill
Need to slow down? Take this pill
Need to speed up? Take this pill
Blood pressure too high? Take this pill
Blood pressure too low? Take this pill
Cholesterol too high? Take this pill
Cholesterol too low? Take this pill
And on and on and on it goes. We live in a medicated society not expected to be normal. Normal is a disease now.
Let's move on to the problem of complacency shall we?
People have been told that if you are going to do something do it the easy way. Things have been made so easy that people are required to do next to nothing at all. When they are called upon to do anything at all they whine and cry about how hard it is. Effort is a negative word with very negative connotations. People don't want to do anything anymore. They haven't lost their ability to whine and to complain if something causes them the least amount of effort. This makes them incapable of doing anything constructive.
People on the whole are stupid. They have forgotten how to think. They have forgotten how to reason and they have lost their ability to know the difference between a lie and the truth. They are quite literally STUPID.
All these things have been DECADES in the making. This didn't just happen yesterday or last month or last year. This has been decades in the making. The frog is in fact boiled Mark. Take the pot off the stove, he's done.
You can scream all you want and call people fecal heads and drones all you want but that changes nothing. You were asleep just like the rest. You were too close to what was going on to see it for what it was. You cannot work inside the machine and not become a part of the machine. It's the same thing with vice cops Mark. They have to be able to penetrate the seamy underworld of drugs and prostitution WITHOUT becoming part of that very culture. It is impossible to do that. That is why they have not perfected a way of doing it. Because it cannot be done. Same with politics. You cannot dance with the devil without being consumed by the devil.
Yes, you worked in the White House and you worshipped at the Reagan alter. You yourself know (whether you elaborate on it or not) how the White House operates. You know the politics involved. It hasn't changed it has just "evolved". The Lee Atwaters, Dick Morris' & James Carvilles are all still there doing what they have always done. It's still business as usual. You know better.
Yes, Mark you can recite the Constitution word for word probably and can give discourses on each section. But that means nothing in the grand scheme of things. Anyone who would take a paper document such as the Constitution and hold it far above the laws that God has given us deserves what he gets. To put God's laws beneath a man made document is probably the worst insult to God that I can imagine.
You might not know this but in scripture there is a place in 2nd Samuel (of the gentiles bible) that talks about God wanting to lead his people and the people telling him that they wanted to be like everyone else and have a king. God warned them what a king would do to them and it has proven itself out century after century and is still true today. Man is in no way capable of leading man. Heroes is a facade. There are no HEROES. There are in fact people that God works through but it is not the people that deserve the praise, it's God.
Man spends more time robbing God of what GOD truly deserves and we wonder why our society is failing? Note: I am speaking and referring to the God of Heaven not the god of this world - just to clarify for those who know that there are in fact two.
You have a great mind and you are an engaging speaker and you make some great points and you are a joy to listen to - but you have no clue. You are, like every other talk show host, part of the problem. You are actually helping the very people that you say you are trying to stop. But you would never believe me.
If you ever see this blog there is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that you would rip this to shreds on your show. That is to be expected because you, like everyone else do not want to see what is right there in front of you. You will continue to fight and resist until you are completely eliminated. That is sad.
The only thing that any of us can do is to try and see things for what they really are and to come to terms with the truth and live it. Share with others who are put across our paths and try to help them see it as well. Fighting does no good against an enemy that is bigger and stronger than you are. An enemy that cannot be destroyed by human power. What we are dealing with is not of this world. But don't believe me. Continue on with your campaign.
Call me a drone, a nut case, a moron, a liberal if you will but I prefer to be called a FECAL HEAD. That is the most endearing term you could use. Because then I know you really hate me. But I can't help liking you.
