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September 19, 2009

Mark Levin On 'Liberty and Tyranny' (Must-watch Video)

I found this video over at Robby Moeller's blog, "A Voice In The Wilderness," posted on September 15. In this must-watch video, Rush Limbaugh interviews conservative talk radio host, constitutional lawyer, and frequent National Review contributor Mark Levin on his important and must-read book, "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto," which Jeffery Lord, former Reagan White House political director and author, refers to as "the necessary book of the Obama era."

Robby writes in his introduction to the video:

Syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin wrote one of the most important political books in decades earlier this year. Liberty and Tyranny has remained at the top of the New York Times Best Seller's List for six months, and no major newspaper or mainstream media outlet has even reviewed the book. Levin's conservative manifesto has now sold more than 1 million copies.

Where's the love? Imagine Chris Matthews. Anderson Cooper or Keith Olbermann being ignored by the Times or the Washington Post if they wrote a book that sold a million copies. And these publications wonder why their numbers are dwindling...

From the Publishers Weekly review of Levin's book:

[...] Author and conservative talk radio host Levin (Rescuing Sprite, Men in Black) takes on the Statist, a liberal straw man, in this collection of polemics against left-wing tenets (like "economic and social justice"), touchstones (like the New Deal) and institutions (strongholds of liberal thought like academia and the mainstream media). With "an insatiable appetite for control" and a veil of "moral indignation," Levin finds the Statist not only in congressional Democrats and President Obama's White House, but in "neo-Statists" like compassionate conservative Michael Gerson, and the Fed and Treasury under G.W. Bush. Many of Levin's arguments reiterate familiar tropes, including a "strict constructionist" view of the Constitution that sees Social Security as patently un-American. Predictably, Levin opposes the extension of health benefits, derides global warming (implicating Obama's "global warming czar" as a leader in "the Socialist International's Commission for a Sustainable World Society"), and fights back against immigrants, whom the Statist portrays "as universally more virtuous than the citizen."

As Jeffrey Lord notes in his article at The American Spectator, Levn points out that the classical definition of "liberal" is directly opposite to today's authoritarian liberals, and prefers the term "Statist." The word is a cogent description of the American left's "insatiable appetite for control." Says Levin of the Statist: "His sights are set on his next meal before he has fully digested his last. He is constantly agitating for government action...concocting one pretext and grievance after another to manipulate public perceptions and build momentum for the divestiture of liberty and property from its rightful possessors." That constant agitation, he notes, is wrapped always in tones of moral indignation.

And as Robby notes in his post, do yourself a favor; buy "and read" Levin's book. It is indeed well worth your time and dollars. Then be sure to tell your friends.

Posted by Richard at September 19, 2009 8:46 AM

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