Thu Nov 23, 2017, 10:05 AM

skip fox (19,102 posts)

Coming soon to the fever swamp of Fox Prime Time! Please CAPTION Mark Levin!!!

Mark (Limbo) Levin is saying: "I plan to maintain Fox's high standards for intelligent, in-depth political commentary as established by Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly."

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Above CAPTION based on the story in Media Matters about Levin's past and up-coming duties at Fox:

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/06/short-guide-mark-levin-trump-s-likely-source-his-wiretapping-lie/215573

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Coming soon to the fever swamp of Fox Prime Time! Please CAPTION Mark Levin!!! (Original post)	skip fox	Nov 2017	OP
I may not look like a raving lunatic from the right wing swamps of hate radio but wait for it.	Fred Sanders	Nov 2017	#1
Never heard of him?	pwb	Nov 2017	#2
I've never listened but he is touted by folks on that side as the next William F. Buckley.	stevenleser	Nov 2017	#3
Buckley?	skip fox	Nov 2017	#4
They've been searching for the illusive next Buckley for a decade now. Still haven't found him.	stevenleser	Nov 2017	#6
I was, of course, joking.	skip fox	Nov 2017	#7
Yes, look at what's happened to George Will.	KY_EnviroGuy	Nov 2017	#9
He has an irritating whiny voice	kimbutgar	Nov 2017	#5
So they dropped a grapple hook into the sewer of right wing talk radio	eleny	Nov 2017	#8
M.L. continues:	skip fox	Nov 2017	#10

Response to skip fox (Original post)

Thu Nov 23, 2017, 10:11 AM

Fred Sanders (23,946 posts)

1. I may not look like a raving lunatic from the right wing swamps of hate radio but wait for it.

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Response to skip fox (Original post)

Thu Nov 23, 2017, 10:50 AM

pwb (9,425 posts)

2. Never heard of him?

Never will. Don't watch fox fake news.

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Thu Nov 23, 2017, 10:59 AM

stevenleser (32,886 posts)

3. I've never listened but he is touted by folks on that side as the next William F. Buckley.

We'll see.

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #3)

Thu Nov 23, 2017, 11:25 AM

skip fox (19,102 posts)

4. Buckley?

More like a buttoned-down Alex Jones who knows how to read.

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Response to skip fox (Reply #4)

Thu Nov 23, 2017, 11:33 AM

stevenleser (32,886 posts)

6. They've been searching for the illusive next Buckley for a decade now. Still haven't found him.

I doubt Levin is it either.

The problem is, contemporaneous Republican/Conservative positions and talking points don't lend themselves well to an intelligent argument.

I've debated a few folks who I had previously debated on conservative media in an independent fair forum and it was a bloodbath. I ran all over them. Outside of controlled circumstances, the vast majority of those folks either cant handle a debate or their positions are so ludicrous they can't defend them.

Buckley could handle himself in a fair debate and had positions that didn't sound like they should put him in the looney bin. I dont agree with his positions but that's where he was.

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #6)

Thu Nov 23, 2017, 11:41 AM

skip fox (19,102 posts)

7. I was, of course, joking.

He's no where as stuffed with his own need to displace anything not resembling himself as Jones.

But he's also a far cry for Buckley. Maybe mid-way between these two poles.

He does has a pretended erudition, but Buckley's was based on actual learning and thinking.

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Thu Nov 23, 2017, 12:52 PM

KY_EnviroGuy (14,175 posts)