A WOW article just posted at TPM - from Mark Levin of the National Review. Delusions!

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTI1NmUxYjA4ODczZjgxOWJhMzQ3ODI0MDRkOWFlMDQ=

A few lowlights -

"...but I sense what's occurring in this election is a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places."

snip

"There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign has carefully and successfully fabricated, which concerns me. The messiah complex. Fainting audience members at rallies..."

snip some more -

"Even the media are drawn to the allure that is Obama. Yes, the media are liberal. Even so, it is obvious that this election is different. The media are open and brazen in their attempts to influence the outcome of this election. I've never seen anything like it. Virtually all evidence of Obama's past influences and radicalism — from Jeremiah Wright to William Ayers — have been raised by non-traditional news sources."

one last snip for the punchline -

"The question is whether enough Americans understand what's at stake in this election and, if they do, whether they care. Is the allure of a charismatic demagogue so strong that the usually sober American people are willing to risk an Obama presidency? After all, it ensnared Adelman, Kmiec, Powell, Fried, and numerous others. And while America will certainly survive, it will do so, in many respects, as a different place"

Who IS this dude and what's wrong with him?

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Yep, _Someone_ is being brazen and a demogogue, Mark.

:eyes:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Hard-core right-wing nutbag.

Hate radio talker, pal of Limpballs and Hannity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Levin

[beachmom]

3. George Packer explains what the RW blogs remind him of:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/10/end-of-an-era-4.html

Wading for a few minutes through the sewage of these Web sites reminds me uncannily of the time I’ve spent having political discussions in certain living rooms and coffee shops in Baghdad. The mental atmosphere is exactly the same—the wild fantasies presented as obvious truth, the patterns seen by those few with the courage and wisdom to see, the amused pity for anyone weak-minded enough to be skeptical, the logic that turns counter-evidence into evidence and every random piece of information into a worldwide conspiracy. Above all, the seething resentment, the mix of arrogance and impotent rage that burns at the heart of the paranoid style in politics.

The problem isn’t lack of education—it’s that of a self-isolating political subculture gone rancid. I heard an Iraqi engineer claim that American soldiers allowed Kuwaitis to steal hundreds of Iraqi cars as revenge for the first Gulf War. I heard a Shiite cleric argue that the Kerry campaign was behind suicide bombings. Bloggers like Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who peddled the Ayers theory, and Ann Althouse, a law professor who pushed the plastic-device story, hold diametrically opposed views to those of Islamists and Arab nationalists. But their habits of mind are just the same.

It will only get worse if Obama wins.

Yup. The conspiracy theories present in post-Saddam Iraq.

[la la]

4. is he that guy who screams responses during interviews? n/t

[ck4829]

Obama has people so whipped that they are cutting their faces... Oh wait, that's McCain's people

[AlCzervik]

5. it's not cult it's hope and i for one am glad to have that feeling again.

the past 8 yeas have been hell and i've gotten more cynical than i thought was possible but i can finally see a little light and i'm going to hold on to that so to you Mark Levin i say a heart felt fuck you for trying to run against hope and cheapen what millions of us have worked for.

[pdxmom]

6. He's another one of the RW hatefest on AM talk radio. He falls somewhere

on the spectrum between Hannity and Savage. He is really full of venom and hate on his radio show. It's not as over the top as Savage, but he's more hate-filled and offensive than Hannity.

[Chango]

7. This dude is Hannity's brain

Honest.

[Essene]

8. "the allure of a charismatic demagogue" LOL

yea, obama is the demagogue!

[RagAss]

9. Kiss my ass Levin, fucktard !

[cosmicone]

10. He is writing to the 2004 electorate ...

... today's electorate knows what it is dealing with and has open eyes.

Fewer sheeple = a Republican loss. Almost always.

The failure of the right wing this time was preaching to the sheeple when fewer existed this time around.

[MarjorieG]

11. Someone who made me scream at the TV during Clinton's impeachment.

Just hateful...

[geckosfeet]

12. What the hell is wrong,

with someone being like-able? And I think that being like-able is one of O's very positive personality traits.

I think that he has many other very positive qualities of course, but the crazed RW hater that is Mark Levin is seemingly saying that being like-able is somehow dangerous. That we should be afraid because someone is actually,,, drum roll please - nice.

The RW crazies are marching like lemmings off the deep end.

[The Wielding Truth]

13. The National Review is far right. They will defend republicans

no matter what. It doesn't matter what happens under a republican administration.

Deaths, war, economic collapse, deteriorating infrastructure, poor disaster relief, poor oversight in any government department, embezzlement of the war budget, billions of missing dollars, the conditions and lack of support to soldiers coming home and poorly equipped and trained soldiers in battle, with mandatory returns to battle, the loss of civil rights...

There is so much more yet it is excused, blamed on a new democratic majority in congress, which had to work to pass bills to change everything in 1 year and 10 months send them to a 51/50 Senate- Lieberman being the 1- then send it to * who would change it to whatever he wanted with his interpretation of signing statements,or they would lie it out of memory.

Barack is a saving change in the way that he is a reversal form all their corruption!

He is not Bush. He is not perfect, but from all I have seen, he will probably tide us over good and help us balance the awful turn this country took under Republican Corporate rule.With our help he may actually advance us into a better future. We must stop losing our Democracy.