Could Mark Levin Please Form An Opinion About Something?

Though Imus billed him as “insane,” nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin is also something else: “He’s brilliant,” Imus admitted, and then asked one of the more long-winded questions in interview history.

Talking about Senator John McCain, whom Levin is not supporting for reelection in Arizona, choosing instead to endorse the “fat, undisciplined, lobbyist-licking goon” J.D. Hayworth, Imus wondered whether his staunchly conservative guest ever considers the making of the man, rather than “adhering blindly, like a Nazi,” to his ideologies.

“I consider everything,” said Levin. “Do you support free speech? I do. Do you support access to energy in this nation? I do. Do you support lower taxes in this nation? I do. And McCain has voted against all of these things.”

While he admires McCain’s loyalty to Imus and his service to this country, Levin does not think McCain has accomplished much. “A couple of years ago he was spending an enormous amount of time figuring out how to give due process rights to terrorists in Guantanamo Bay,” said Levin, who spends an enormous amount of time in his bunker preparing for the apocalypse, it seems.

As for whether he has any ammunition in that bunker, Levin would only say, “My hands are weapons.” He was more verbose, however, in discussing whether President Obama is worse than former President Jimmy Carter.

“They’re both disasters,” said Levin, who remembers well the Carter days of double-digit inflation and unemployment, and of the Soviets “rolling us” in every part of the world. But on fouling up domestic policy, he said, “Nobody comes close to Barack Obama.”

As for the Obama administration claiming that last year’s stimulus package kept the country from sliding into a depression, Levin called that move “desperate.” He brushed off any notion that the U.S. was ever in that deep of a well.

“This is a very vicious recession, and we’d be out of it by now if [Obama] wasn’t smothering the private sector, threatening to tax them, nationalizing major industries,” he said. “The government doesn’t spread wealth, it destroys wealth, and it spreads misery.”

Levin was less harsh on Obama’s decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, though he made sure to point out that the top generals had asked for more. But being strong on national security involves more than Afghanistan.

“It involves the homeland, too,” Levin said. “What’s he done there? Miranda rights for the enemy, lawyers for the enemy, civilian trials for the enemy, trying to close Guantanamo Bay. I don’t get it.”

As Levin finished his rant, Imus had just one final question: for how long could his guest survive in his “bunker,” should the end times actually arrive?

“I could last about eight hours,” an ill-prepared Levin admitted. 

-Julie Kanfer