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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMark Levin: the talkshow host behind the baseless Obama wiretap rumor
One of the most energetic and successful rightwing talk radio hosts has been on the attack despite the slim basis for his claims and Donald Trump is listening
The ultimate source of Donald Trumps wiretapping allegations which he has presented without evidence is one of the most prominent conservative broadcasters in the country. Yet compared with such colleagues as Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, few liberals have heard of him.
On Friday, Breitbart News reprinted and amplified allegations of an attempted silent coup by the Obama administration, which were reportedly the basis of Trumps tweets about wiretapping on Saturday. But Breitbart acknowledged in its reporting that the case was first made on Mark Levins radio show on Thursday night.
Levin stitched together material including from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Guardian on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa) court warrants sought during the election. In some cases, the reports he cited were simply mentioning unconfirmed information from sources such as the rightwing tabloid site Heat Street. But Levin went on to claim that the Obama administration had used police state surveillance tactics against the Trump team.
Despite the slim basis for his claims, Levin has been on the attack in the first part of this week, writing open letters to reporters who have questioned his stories, and lambasting others on air.
The ultimate source of Donald Trumps wiretapping allegations which he has presented without evidence is one of the most prominent conservative broadcasters in the country. Yet compared with such colleagues as Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, few liberals have heard of him.
On Friday, Breitbart News reprinted and amplified allegations of an attempted silent coup by the Obama administration, which were reportedly the basis of Trumps tweets about wiretapping on Saturday. But Breitbart acknowledged in its reporting that the case was first made on Mark Levins radio show on Thursday night.
Levin stitched together material including from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Guardian on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa) court warrants sought during the election. In some cases, the reports he cited were simply mentioning unconfirmed information from sources such as the rightwing tabloid site Heat Street. But Levin went on to claim that the Obama administration had used police state surveillance tactics against the Trump team.
Despite the slim basis for his claims, Levin has been on the attack in the first part of this week, writing open letters to reporters who have questioned his stories, and lambasting others on air.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/07/mark-levin-trump-wiretap-tweets-obama?CMP=share_btn_tw
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Mark Levin: the talkshow host behind the baseless Obama wiretap rumor (Original Post)
CousinIT
Mar 2017
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dchill
(38,506 posts)1. "Slim basis." How about "No basis?"
Or "Baseless." Or "False." Yeah, that's the ticket!
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)2. I heard a bit of his voice. Sounds like a cartoon character.
underpants
(182,843 posts)3. Levin. He's considered smart in RW circles.
In her review of Men in Black, Slate magazine's legal correspondent and journalist Dahlia Lithwick wrote that "no serious scholar of the court or the Constitution, on the ideological left or right, is going to waste their time engaging Levin's arguments once they've read this book."[23]
On the other hand, The Atlantic's review criticized the book's argument that statism is based on utopianism,[37] and a review by Professor Carlin Romano in the Chronicle of Higher Education called the book "disastrously bad from beginning to end."[38]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Levin