WATCH Mark Levin: Obama's Policies Are "Bernie Madoff Times A Thousand"

Right-wing talk radio firebrand Mark Levin was a guest on Sean Hannity's self-titled Fox News show and unleashed a diatribe against President Obama.

Responding to Hannity's question of why his book "Liberty and Tyranny" is doing so well, Levin lit into Obama, calling his policies "Bernie Madoff times a thousand;" Obama "is taking a wrecking ball to this;" and that Obama's ultimate goal is to "destroy the middle class."

Hannity cheers him on the whole way through (his favorite way of referring to Levin is as "The Great One"), although it's questionable if the Republican party wants Levin out there as the face of their ideology considering the man has a history of embarrassing himself and conservatism.

WATCH

Mark Levin to Hannity:

Because I think the American people are fundamentally liberty-loving people. And what's going on in this country is really anti-liberty. The President, you know, they just put Bernie Madoff away for life; the President's policies are Bernie Madoff times a thousand. He is taking a wrecking ball to this society. The American people love this country. They love its institutions; they revere the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. What the President is peddling is something utterly foreign. He's dragging us into what de Toqueville called a 'soft tyranny.' And really I don't know what the limits are on the power of the presidency anymore. They used to call Bush an imperial president, which was ridiculous, this is a real, live imperial president, who wants to dictate light bulbs to what medicines you get, to student loans and credit card interest rates. He doesn't have the constitutional authority to be doing all these things.

[...]

He lied. Matter of fact he's taken his page right out of Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals. Saul Alinsky essentially said, look, you gotta sound like you're for the middle class. You gotta sound like you're from the middle class. And then you destroy the middle class.

Comments

[ozzmdj]

05:37 AM on 07/06/2009

Mark is correct this is a left-wing kook blog.

[conservasteve]

02:18 PM on 07/04/2009

Will one of you lefties (or more) give me a RATIONAL explanation WHY this is an inaccurate comparison? The federal government is bankrupt, the social programs you lefties love SOOOOO much have unfunded liabilities approaching $100 trillion, Bush and Obama (mostly Obama) have added $12-$14 trillion on top of that (thanks Messiah, for accumulating more debt in six months that the previous 43 presidents COMBINED) NOW on top of it all Obama wants to wreck a health care system that 80% of us are happy with to the tune of $1.6 trillion over ten years and he tells us everything is going to be just fine if only we spend more and more money. Meanwhile, the economy continues to go down the crapper. What do you call this if not the biggest swindle ever perpetrated on any society anywhere? Madoff was a piker in comparison.

[SteveStephens]

03:50 AM on 07/05/2009

I'm so sorry, but nothing you say is true.

[conservasteve]

12:14 PM on 07/05/2009

I said tell me WHY this is inaccurate. Your assertion that "nothing I say is true" is bogus without facts. My facts come from the CBO and other sources.

[Rlouizjr]

09:34 PM on 07/03/2009

Obama has been in office all of six months and he has done all this to destroy the great shape and surplusus President Bush left us......At lest we not forget the wars that we had accomplished the mission goals,so we hung out in these places to share freedom across the Middle East too.....LOL...

[OtisGates]

08:59 PM on 07/03/2009

SEAN HANNITY IS INSANITY

[betty22]

08:23 PM on 07/03/2009

anyone know how much these czars make ?????? someone said 176,000.00 a year

[pissedmichael]

10:16 AM on 07/03/2009

Enough with the blame games already. If we, the American people, were truly honest with ourselves we would admit that to a large degree--we are to blame.
We are to blame first and foremost by electing the government we had that put us squarely into this debacle. We are to blame second for allowing ourselves to degenerate into a culture of credit--fostered by our need to have anything and everything now.
I count myself among you--my garage is full of 'things' I just had to have, and are now just dust collectors and spider habitats. Knowing this, I find it difficult at times to even look at myself in the mirror. I am appalled at my own stupidity. My only comfort is that I am definitely not alone in my transgressions.
As far as I can tell, our ready acceptance of ARM's is a glaring indictment of our inability to reason--by allowing ourselves to be 'convinced' by the lenders and real estate agents that ARM's was the perfect solution to our financial inability to afford a home. ARM's are just another wormhole that allows lenders to engage in usury. The really sad thing is that, deep down, we knew all this and knew it was too good to be true. Yet, we chose to deliberately ignore that cautionary voice we all have within.

[factotem]

03:49 PM on 07/03/2009

Leave it to a liberal to declare that "the culprit is us," over and over, regardless of the problem, in resistance to thinking up some other answer,

[pissedmichael]

10:04 AM on 07/04/2009

Aside from my comment, I don't see any others by liberals or otherwise making the declaration. You might want to avoid labeling in your own statements, because I notice you haven't offered an alternative argument.
My only point is that this 'blame game' tends to be a pointless exercise in futility. Please tell me where it has solved anything in this situation? I feel that if we want to change things, we have to start with ourselves. First, by making more informed choices in elections. Second, by supporting oversight into our representatives choices and how they vote. Finally, we are in large part responsible by closing our eyes and accepting without protest legislation allowing us to cultivate the 'culture of credit' so ruinous to our country. I'm suggesting, at least, a place to begin. What is your 'answer?'

[pghperson]

10:50 PM on 07/02/2009

Obama "wants to destroy the middle class?" Already done. By Bush & Co.

[Mister RiGHT]

05:52 AM on 07/03/2009

YOU BEEN SOLD A "LIE"

YOU WAS NEVER IN A RECESSION, UNTIL THE MEDIA DRUMMED IT UP AND PUT IT INTO YOUR HEADS (TO GET THEIR FASCIST CORPORATE-SOCIALIST MESSIAH ELECTED )

IT BECAME A SELF FULLFILLING PROPHECY!

AND SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE (CREDIT CRISIS) I GUESS? AFTER PUSHING LEGISTATION THROUGH "FANNIE MAE" TO USE "YOUR" TAX DOLLAR & REDISTRIBUTE THEM THROUGH BANKS IN THE NAME OF FAIRNESS IN BANK LOANS TO THOSE THEY KNEW WHO COULDNT PAY THEM BACK

--------------------------
DONT BE A SLAVE TO THE CORPORATE SLAVERY STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL-DEMOCRAT PARTY
~FREE YOUR MIND~
FIGHT BIG BROTHERISM
BE "NEO-MATRIX!
-------------------------

"DEMOCRATS = EXPLOIT & RALLY THE POOR @ SMALL BUSINESS EXPENSE AND MID CLASS EXPENSE..........ONLY TO SUPPORT BIG CORPORATIONS WHO ARE RECIEPANTS OF TAX KICK BACKS WHILE THE POOR GET CRUMBS"

[sammyscout]

04:02 PM on 07/06/2009

Is that why W. and Reagan drastically cut taxes for the haves and have-mores

[JohnDylan]

08:17 AM on 07/03/2009

I'm sorry but the middle class has been destroyed under Clinton, Bush didn't help of course. I think what Obama is doing is a step in the right direction but it doesn't go far enough. I live in the Netherlands and here it is by law obligitory to have healthcare and if you can't afford it the governement pays it for you. We are reletive to our sice of only 16 miljoen one of the richest countries in the world with the biggest harbour (Rotterdam) and one of the biggest airporst of Europe (Schiphol). We are what you would call a socialist country because the schools are payed for by the state, the healthcare, the universities but because of that we have only a few (less than a 100) people below the poverty line, if we get sick or lose our job the state takes care of us by paying us money and nobody has to sleep without a roof over his head or no food in his body. Is what you call a socialistic country so bad? We here in Holland don't say we are a socialistic coutry since we have the open market and it would be redicul to call us that but in the States they would say we are.

[Bush-Rolled]

04:07 PM on 07/02/2009

I note that neither talking head presents a single fact, just opinions. The closest they come to a fact is when they pull something they've made up out of their (three letter word, and it isn't hat).

[Lasnoe]

03:00 PM on 07/02/2009

I actually think the Madoff analogy is actually a good one...

Look at medicare Medicaid and social security.... they are all broke..... we pay for all these and yet the government has squandered the funds..... the funds don't get allocated to a trust or an account specifically for medical care or social security..... they go into the general fund where they get spend on whatever the government wants.....

Tax everyone in the name of social security and than spend the excess funds so the whole thing goes bankrupt and can no longer fund itself...... what you have is people paying into social security for 20 30 40 years who are not going to get a dime until we all get taxed more!!!!

it is a maddodd scheme...

[amistad]

04:08 PM on 07/02/2009

You watch too much Fox news.

[Lasnoe]

06:13 PM on 07/02/2009

if medicare and medicaid do not work properly now....... how can you support a program that broadens these programs to a national level with out explaining how they are going to solve the current problems.....

If I had someone remodel my kitchen, and he did a horrible job. went over budget and didn't make his deadlines to the point where it cost me more money than needed..... How can you expect me to let him remodel the rest of my house.....

Prove to me medicare and medicaid can fix the kitchen on time and under budget and than maybe we'll consider a national program.... but don't leave the kitchen in shambles and than hold it against me for not letting you tear down my house!!!!

[Deli]

02:47 PM on 07/02/2009

Hannity makes me ashamed to be Irish. It is hard to comprehend his ignorance.

[flydoghead]

12:41 PM on 07/02/2009

I am starting to get it. The nut jobbers call themselves conservative when they are anything but...

It was the totally reckless policies of the right that drove the car into the ditch and set it on fire.
Is that what you call conservative ?

Well the "crazy socialists" are in charge now and it turns out that we are more "conservative" than
they ever were, if you mean acting like grownups.... fiscally responsible etc., different meaning of the word.

It's kinda like the same folks preaching "family values and morality " while cheating on their wives and lying left and right.

Yeah, that's it . Preach to me some more.

[take10]

12:26 PM on 07/02/2009

Anyone who pays too much attention to what comes from the mouth of a cone head alien must really need a lift! This little human impersonator has been solidly refuted and is known to be a psy chotic who is a perverse ha ter of all things that unify Americans. He has the mark of Cain written all over him and rightly so! Then too, you have to consider who he is hanging around with and where! Hannity and Fox Noise!

[flydoghead]

12:44 PM on 07/02/2009

I like how you think !

[ThermoChemist]

12:12 PM on 07/02/2009

TIMES A THOUSAND..!?!

Mark Levin: "Because I think the American people are fundamentally liberty-loving people.
And what's going on in this country is really anti-liberty. The President, you know, they just
put Bernie Madoff away for life; the President's policies are Bernie Madoff TIMES A THOUSAND..!"

+++++

Spottswoode: From what I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.N.C.E has gathered, it would be 9/11 times 100.
Gary Johnston: 9/11 times a hundred? Jesus, that's...
Spottswoode: Yes, 91,100.
Chris: Basically, all the worst parts of the bible.

Kim Jong Il: It will be 911 times 2356.
Chris: My God, that's... I don't even know what that is!
Kim Jong Il: Nobody does!

-- Team America: World Police

[bogues]

12:10 PM on 07/02/2009

Can Levin or Hannity give one legitimate reason why President Obama or any other Democrat would want to destroy middle class America!! President Obama SUGGESTS ways that people can save on electricity and other things and these two turn it into Imperialism. I simply cannot take much more of this. It seems like a nightmare.

[StillIRise]

12:52 PM on 07/02/2009

How can President Obama destroy what Bush and Reagan already destroyed?

[LargeJ]

12:00 PM on 07/02/2009

Mark, the middle class was almost rendered nil by your Jesus, W. They were almost destroyed before when God errrrrrr Reagan was Prez.