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We once again made contact with our leader, Mike. Love that.

Hello, America. Mark Levin here our number 877-381381-877-381381-11.

I have prepared you for this day all week long, laying out the facts, laying out the history.

Both as to the press as the Democrat Party as to propaganda.

And I hope most of you tuned it out today.

I hope most of you tuned it out.

One day in history, maybe it'll be 20 years from now, 50 years from now, 100 years from now, God knows.

There will be sober, circumspection and reflection on what's taking place in this country and what's taking place the last five years.

And what it's like not to have a free press.

What it's like to have a party that is totalitarian in the Democrat Party.

This is very, very important to keep in mind. When we have a corrupt media that is demonstrated it's thought to be corrupt in many instances and for a long time.

And a Democrat Party that is anti-American from slavery on.

He wrote a book not that long ago was called on Freedom of the Press. And I talked about party journalism.

And I pointed out in part that historian Harold Holzer describes the impact of party journalism.

And it's powered influence politics and the electric in the years before the Civil War.

They wrote by the 1850s almost no independent voters were left in America only Democrats and Wigs, most of whom would later become Republicans.

Nearly all them avid readers of newspapers kept in a perpetual state of political arousal by journalism and further stimulated by election cycles that drew voters to poll several times a year, not just on the first Tuesdays of November.

The overwhelming majority regarded politics with a favor that approach religious awakening evoking interest characteristic of modern sports or entertainment with only a few notable exceptions few unaligned newspapers prospering.

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