On Friday’s “Hannity,” Mark Levin defended the U.S. strikes on Iran and slammed critics as “neofascist podcaster isolationists” and Benedict Arnolds undermining the country. “We have scores of Benedict Arnolds out there trying to undermine our troops, trying to sabotage our effort, do all these things that are going on that we hear about our media,” Levin told Hannity. “Can you imagine a media like this during the Revolutionary War? Seven-and- a-half-year war, we lost most of the battles we fought, almost all of them. Can you imagine what the media would be saying today?”

SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS HOST: You know, Mark, I want to ask you this. There have been a lot of lies. First of all, we’re now we haven’t even as of this hour this Friday night, we haven’t entered the third week of this conflict. In terms of intelligence, military display of power, there’s never been anything like this in the history of warfare ever. Um, and yet people making proclamations, oh, Donald Trump, listen to Israel and to Bibi and to people like you and to people like me, they don’t know Donald Trump if they’re making idiotic statements like that. But here’s fundamentally what it came down to for me. Steve Witkoff meets the president wants a deal. The president wants peace. They rejected it. They’re clinging to their nuclear ambition. And here is the option. Either we learn the lessons of history in the last hundred years where over 100 million human souls died and we preempt a raging Islamic fascist regime now before potentially millions can get killed or we hand that off to our children and grandchildren. Not an option for me. I don’t think it’s an option for you. I know it’s not and it certainly wasn’t an option for Donald Trump. And he made that calculation after Steve Witkoff told them that in days they’d have enough weapons grade enriched uranium for bombs. MARK LEVIN: Here’s the bottom line for me. For 47 years, these bastards have been killing Americans, threatening us. And finally, we have a president who’s done something about it. You had appeasers and Obama. Actually worse, they were funding the enemy. Same with Biden. You have scores and scores of violations of these phony agreements. They’re within a whisker of having uh nuclear weapons. Yet again, they certainly have the nuclear material. I don’t understand the opposition. They’re ideological or they’re grifters or they’re Democrats or whatever they are. If we’re not going to preemptively because of an imminent threat that’s quite obvious take out an enemy like this, then when would we? When would we? You know, 9/11 happens. Everybody, they go, “Well, what happened?” We have a whole commission because people weren’t awake. They were asleep at the wheel. All these events happen. Pearl Harbor, we talk about Pearl Harbor. How did that happen? Because everybody’s asleep at the wheel and they’re not paying attention. Well, you have a president who’s not asleep at the wheel and now we’re talking about nuclear weapons. And I ask you this, Mr. and Mrs. America, what if the other side is wrong? What if they would use nuclear missiles against us? What if this regime is evil? What if it is a seventh century throwback? What if they really believe in death? What if they really do believe in everything they’ve said over and over and over again? Should we risk the existence of the United States? Should we risk the lives of 350 million people? What’s the Democrat plan? We’ve already seen what they’ve done. Or these neofascist podcaster isolationists, what’s their plan? They have no plan because they have no mind. Let me tell you something. During the Revolutionary War, we had — we had, of course, Benedict Arnold. You know what we have now? We have scores of Benedict Arnolds out there trying to undermine our troops, trying to sabotage our effort, do all these things that are going on that we hear about our media. Can you imagine a media like this during the Revolutionary War? Seven-and- a-half-year war, we lost most of the battles we fought, almost all of them. Can you imagine what the media would be saying today?

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