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Levin labels Obama's policies "Bernie Madoff times a thousand. He is taking a wrecking ball to this society"

July 02, 2009 8:23 am ET

From the July 1 edition of Fox News Channel's Hannity:

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    • Author by harley (July 02, 2009 8:32 am ET)
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      A third rate hack asking for opinions from a fifth rate hack.
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    • Author by canaanxing9025 (July 02, 2009 8:38 am ET)
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      Could either of these two be more tedious and self promoting?

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    • Author by Lane (July 02, 2009 8:44 am ET)
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      I love how he claims the American people love the way things are, when poll after poll from the NY Times show otherwise.

      72% in favor of the public health care option, with levels of satisfaction with the way the economy are being handled skyrocketing, just to name a few off the top of my head.

      I honestly feel pity for these talking heads and anybody who would believe their blatant propaganda.
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      • Author by alive (July 02, 2009 10:37 am ET)
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        Well if the New York Times says it then it must be true, right? I mean it is the New York Times. Who cares if they polled twice as many Obama Supporters then they did McCain Supporters.

        Lane, let me put it a way that even you can understand.
        New York Times is, for the most part, a liberal rag. They skewed this survery in favor of Healthcare takeover. Look at the polling data if you think I'm making it up.

        Don't be a tool! Besides, why in the world would you want the Government to be in charge of your health? Why can't you be responsible for you and responsible for anyone else whom you deem to need help. Why do you think Healthcare is so screwed up in the first place? It's called Government Regulation!! Again, stop being a tool for big government. If you want Government Healthcare, move somewhere that has it and let me know how it works out for you.
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        • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 02, 2009 11:04 am ET)
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          if less than 25% of the american people will admit to being republican or supporting the republican party,any number greater than 25% would be heavily scewed republican I am being very generous with 25%
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        • Author by TheDayV (July 02, 2009 11:10 am ET)
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          Back up your claims, or you're lying.
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          • Author by joe E C (July 02, 2009 11:21 am ET)
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            Nice try TheDayV
            "the Times/CBS poll said 48 percent of respondents had voted for Obama, versus 25 percent for McCain, a nearly two-to-one advantage for Obama supporters... In 2008, Obama won 53 percent of the vote, McCain won 46 percent."
            source:
            http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=49999
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            • Author by Brabantio (July 02, 2009 12:12 pm ET)
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              That's been debunked. It's widely known that people aren't likely to admit voting for someone after they lose, so that disparity is meaningless.
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            • Author by harley (July 02, 2009 12:38 pm ET)
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              CNS is your source??! LOL! And the teabaggers want to claim the NYT is a biased source. Jebus....teabaggers have no shame.


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          • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 02, 2009 11:55 am ET)
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            mabe i should rephrase what i said leaving the numbers off if more people support president obama than mccain on this matter,more people voter for obama than mccain how can you have a fair poll if you poll an even number of their supporters. And add to that a number of mccain voters supporting the president on this matter
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            • Author by joe E C (July 02, 2009 12:09 pm ET)
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              That's not what I'm suggesting. The sample should reflect the general population. According to recent polls (which may be biased as well in either direction). If Obama did carry twice as many votes as McCain, then this sample would have been legitimate.
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              • Author by neon desert (July 02, 2009 1:23 pm ET)
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                In case you missed it, the general population already voted on this issue back in November, and the majority voted in Obama knowing that if they did so, a health-care reform package would likely end up on the table.

                The polls have spoken.
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              • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 02, 2009 4:47 pm ET)
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                mabe half of mccain voters won't admit they voted for him which accounts for the additional obama supporters.i would not admit i voted for a potential sara palin president
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        • Author by pete592 (July 02, 2009 11:13 am ET)
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          "Who cares if they polled twice as many Obama Supporters then they did McCain Supporters. "

          Was this by design? How do you know?
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        • Author by Leftym0m79 (July 02, 2009 11:38 am ET)
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          It isn't a matter of personal responsibility when 60% of bankruptcies are caused by a catastrophic health issue. People with insurance are denied lifesaving treatment everyday because some insurance company wants to maintain their bottom line. You need to stop being the tool with your misguided "big government" hysteria. Why is it that Canada's government pays a third of America's pays to cover all of their citizens and yet there are 45 million people here without coverage? Ask any person from Canada which system they would want to be in, but I think we know the answer to that.
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          • Author by alive (July 02, 2009 12:35 pm ET)
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            It isn't a matter of personal responsibility? Wow! Actually that doesn't surprise me when coming from a liberal. Do you know why certain claims are denied under an insurance policy? Most of the denials, and there aren't a lot of denails based on the percentage of people insured, are based on false information given to the insurance company by the person wanting insurance. Perfect example is when people lie about smoking to get a cheaper rate. There are; however, insurance companies that have denied someone based on the cost of thier care, and that is wrong and those companies are sued and they lose. Who's going to save you when the Government denies life saving treatment to someone based on whatever reason. Who's going to be your big brother then. Again, do your homework, read a contract, be responsible for yourself. Why is that so hard for a liberal to understand? Is it because liberals are truly, wholeheartedly, selfish. I understand you think it's a great thing this Universal Healthcare. It sounds great to me, It makes me feel good too, but I know it's not my feelings, that matter most, when making important choices. Hell, not every decision is going to make you feel good. If it does then something is wrong. By the way when people say they love the Canadian Healthcare system it's because they aren't sick. Ask someone who's actually had to wait 6 months for a simple MRI, or radiation therapy, or an operation to remove cancerous growth. It's all in the way the polls are taken. Again, you're being a tool for Big Government.
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              • Author by foghornleghorn (July 02, 2009 1:14 pm ET)
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                I guess Alive doesn't care than 18,000 people die every year due to lack of adequate health care.

                That's at least 5 9-11's (hopefully a reference the neo-nuts can grasp) EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
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                • Author by mikehuck1976 (July 02, 2009 6:12 pm ET)
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                  I guess he doesn't care about writing style either. End one paragraph and start another, already! Reading your post gave me a headache.
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            • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 02, 2009 1:05 pm ET)
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              of corse it so easy for an individual to sue an insurance company using laws the insurance company paid someone to write. Ahhem......you are in court today against abc insurance for messing over you using laws written by abc insurance company lawers and our good paid republican legislator for messing over you but we gonna be fair and you win HA!
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            • Author by Leftym0m79 (July 02, 2009 1:17 pm ET)
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              I am responsible, but when my husband had a procedure done for his back that was approved at first and then later denied because somebody at the company wrote down the wrong date that our coverage began (he had the procedure done a day too soon!) we got saddled with a $3000 bill. Don't tell me that I haven't done research or don't know what I'm talking about. Everyday I see the people around me denied care, not because they lie, but because it's more cost effective for insurance companies to deny the coverage.
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              • Author by alive (July 02, 2009 1:30 pm ET)
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                Wait, Wait, Wait, You just said that the reason you were saddled with $3000.00 is because someone made a clerical mistake not because the "EVIL" insurance company didn't want to pay. And you don't see people denied care, everyday. That's such an over exaggeration on your part. Don't become unhinged to the point you just start making stuff up. WOW!
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                • Author by Leftym0m79 (July 02, 2009 5:34 pm ET)
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                  Oh forget it. That's right I'm unhinged because you have no argument.
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            • Author by Lane (July 03, 2009 1:54 am ET)
                 
              There are; however, insurance companies that have denied someone based on the cost of thier care, and that is wrong and those companies are sued and they lose.


              Because people in dire need of life-saving treatment have the time to sue a company hiding behind a slew of lawyers.
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        • Author by harley (July 02, 2009 12:37 pm ET)
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          New York Times is, for the most part, a liberal rag.


          According ti the reich-wing, everyone and anyone is "liberal" if they contradict their teabagging terrorist talking-points.
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        • Author by foghornleghorn (July 02, 2009 1:11 pm ET)
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          Alive wrote:

          Why do you think Healthcare is so screwed up in the first place? It's called Government Regulation!!

          Wrong again. It's called administrative overhead and profit motive.
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        • Author by Lane (July 03, 2009 1:47 am ET)
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          Who cares if they polled twice as many Obama Supporters then they did McCain Supporters.


          Mmm. You're not very bright, are you?

          There -ARE- twice as many Obama supporters than there are McCain. It's a RANDOM poll, the results are legitimate.

          If I were to hand out 50 green coins and 20 blue coins to a crowd of people, then collected them, would you be surprised to find out there more than double the amount of green coins? Apparently so.
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        • Author by teabaggers ♥ [wing]NUTS (July 04, 2009 7:00 pm ET)
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          New York Times is, for the most part, a liberal rag. They skewed this survery in favor of Healthcare takeover. Look at the polling data if you think I'm making it up.


          if the poll was in favor the other way around, no doubt that you, or anyone like you, would cite it. and many times, the NYT has reported on things that back up conservative claims.
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    • Author by princeofwheels (July 02, 2009 9:41 am ET)
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      Look for the term WRECKING BALL be used by the lower level, the minor league, pundits today and tomorrow. Wonder how long it took a research team to develop that one?
      Mr. Levin, my only suggestion is to stay out of the path of the Wrecking Ball or it will crush you. Just hide behind your falsehoods.
      Let us drill down to the bottom of the issues. Let us cement all deals. Let us jackhammer concrete road blocks (Repubs). Lets us demolish all myths of Reagan the TaxRaiser.

      In other words, keep bitching like the little man you are. And, write more books, the Ditto-types need reinforcement like rebar.
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      • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 02, 2009 10:39 am ET)
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        mark levin is a lead propaganda writer for all these so called love america foundations,and the republican party. and one of their leading hide the money in the foundation go to people.
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        • Author by TheDayV (July 02, 2009 11:13 am ET)
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          When you listen to his radio show, he treats his listeners the same way Savage does. I think it's evidence of self-esteem problems within the conservative wing of the country.
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          • Author by neon desert (July 02, 2009 1:28 pm ET)
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            You may have noticed that during elections, conservatives are always looking for "a leader", while liberals are looking for "a representative".

            There's transparency in that.
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    • Author by nerzog (July 02, 2009 9:43 am ET)
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      Apparently the Republitoads have adopted the strategy of Chicken Little... i.e. the "Democrats are going to destroy the country." That way, they don't have to formulate any rational rebuttals or meaningful policy alternatives. They can just run about shrieking and wetting their pants... much more fun, I'm sure.
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      • Author by joe E C (July 02, 2009 11:31 am ET)
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        These guys, or at least Levin, are not Republitoads, but conservatives. The policy alternatives involve letting people live their lives without twisting their arms to comply with so many government regulations. Oh, you say lack of regulation got us into this mess? How come all these guys who were de-regulated are still either being bailed out by your boy or working for him? Yes Bush is to blame too. But remember Barney Frank supporting this whole subprime garbage and refusing investigations?
        How can you save money by building a massive bureaucracy for public health care - by denying care to those you don't think worthy? It's a lie. If they are trying to save money then how come they don't know how to fund it? Try passing laws against ambulance chasers. Oh, wait those guys are huge contributors to the Party.
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        • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 02, 2009 12:12 pm ET)
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          they only say they are conservative to skirt campainge finance laws for the continous republican party commercial they run,who do they tell people to vote for i don't see them supporting conservative democrats but i see a whole lot of truthtiness
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        • Author by nerzog (July 02, 2009 1:28 pm ET)
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          Try passing laws against ambulance chasers.



          So it's the fault of lawyers that I can't buy Insurance in the "free market"? Care to explain that?

          Thanks for correcting me on "Republitoads". From now on, I'll just refer to them as Troglodytes.
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        • Author by robyn20094113 (July 05, 2009 4:30 am ET)
             
          letting people live their lives without twisting their arms to comply with so many government regulations.
          except when it comes to the very most personal parts of their lives. Their bedrooms and their bodies.

          It is interesting that the majority of posters that support your point of view all seem to have the same IQ and education as you.
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    • Author by MiGDesign (July 02, 2009 9:53 am ET)
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      levin sounds like a girl and looks like a corpse.
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    • Author by neon desert (July 02, 2009 10:10 am ET)
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      I can't help but admire these two. To be able to completely ignore their own shortcomings in judgement for the last 8 years like it never happened and begin the cycle all over again in a new world of fantasy is really a marvel of the human spirit.
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    • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 02, 2009 10:27 am ET)
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      these tow clowns spout the heritage foundation lines continously.they are obligated. they buy their books,and with their drop in ad revenue,the foundation contributes a big part of their pay check. it would seem the would take notice that what they are selling (most) people are not buying. i don't know what general motors was thinking when they paid for ads on their garbage shows,however i haven't heard any GM commercials lately along with many other advertisers. these two genius would have a GM commercial then devote their show to boycotting GM .DUH
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    • Author by jlmincey (July 02, 2009 10:48 am ET)
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      Right Obama is the empirial president by giving the American People what they want, and Bush was not even near that. No he just authorized torture, ignored the constitution with warrantless wiretaping, poilitisized the justice department, sank the economy, raised unemployment, and massivly increased national debt. 4 MORE YEARS!!!
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      • Author by joe E C (July 02, 2009 11:33 am ET)
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        Giving people what they want? Nobody knows what this guy is doing because it's all behind closed doors.
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        • Author by mescal (July 03, 2009 1:48 am ET)
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          How shocking, after the transparency of the last eight years.

          Jeez, you must have been taking more central nervous system depressants during the Dubya' era than Michael Jackson, 'cause you appear to have been about as comatose as a human being can get and still manage to breathe on his own.
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    • Author by seeryer (July 02, 2009 10:58 am ET)
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      Mark and Sean,
      The American people like the guy in the White House a whole hell of alot more than the guy he replaced. That is what really pain you. Much more so than Obama's policies. The fact that the American people reject overwhelmingly the conservatism you two espouse makes each of you "bitter little dikks". Ironically, the same nickname your wives have for each of you.
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      • Author by blueline99 (July 02, 2009 11:39 am ET)
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        That is so true and I believe it gets to the basic core of all these talking point pinheads.

        They cannot face the reality that their ideology is not the mainstream... they are like the "Green Party" and soon to be Whig Party.

        They don't understand why a majority of Americans approve of President Obama and instead of trying to understand it they attack it.

        Well, I say to the Republicans... "let them eat cake", you'll be fine.. just keep doing what you're doing.

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      • Author by alive (July 02, 2009 12:38 pm ET)
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        The guy he replaced was a lame duck. What you should have said is that they liked Obama a whole hell of alot more than McCain.
        You dumb liberal

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        • Author by neon desert (July 02, 2009 1:45 pm ET)
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          Yeah, dumb liberal. That dumb liberal probably attributes the election results in 2006 and 2008 to some wildly imagined unpopularity of the Bush administration. Geez, some liberals are morons...
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          • Author by foghornleghorn (July 02, 2009 3:34 pm ET)
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            I guess Alive doesn't remember that the election WAS about Bush, how McCain refused to distance himself from Bush and made just as stupid a decision to nominate Palin as Bush did to nonimate his girlfriend to the Supreme Court.

            To me, that comes close but its not as bad as sitting in that classroom wondering how someone related to his family friends (the Bin Ladens) could fly planes into buildings.
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        • Author by robyn20094113 (July 05, 2009 4:44 am ET)
             
          You dumb liberal

          You poor soul, you suffer from projection, so typical of Republicans & Conservatives
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    • Author by NdlovukaziThor (July 02, 2009 11:15 am ET)
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      Oh, Dr. Levin. Methinks you do not understand "imperial". Obama is a Fascist Dictator. Get it right!
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    • Author by seroquel (July 02, 2009 12:38 pm ET)
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      Who is this guy?
      He writes books?
      Sean Hannity "reads" books?
      Since when?
      What a joke these two are.
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    • Author by pam95650 (July 02, 2009 5:36 pm ET)
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      If you think Levin & his BFF Haniity are wack jobs, you should read their individual forum boards. Holy moly gertrude!
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    • Author by nader raider (July 04, 2009 11:53 am ET)
         
      this clown levin, he thinks Obama is telling you what medicine to take, what student loans to get. no, silly, he just wants to make sure that you can get medicine and student loans. That's the government working for the people.
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