Nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin blasted the left’s newest tool to destroy right-leaning media outlets.
In a fiery segment of The Mark Levin Show on Sept. 22, host Levin highlighted an MRC Free Speech America exposé that detailed how Ad Fontes — a media ratings company and self-proclaimed arbiter of truth and facts — is working behind the scenes to redirect Americans from conservative media to leftist outlets through dubious ratings of reliability and bias.
“This is how totalitarian regimes conduct themselves,” Levin said of Ad Fontes’s reach, which extends to major educational institutions and government-tied entities.
The MRC report found that Ad Fontes gave 64 percent of media the rating firm deemed to be on the left as reliable, while only rating 32 percent of media it labeled on the right as reliable. Ad Fontes’s tirade against Levin was among the most disturbing in MRC Free Speech America’s findings. Levin’s flagship shows — The Mark Levin Show, The Blaze’s LevinTV and Fox News’s Life, Liberty and Levin — were all slapped down as “unreliable,” “misleading” and “problematic.”
In response, Levin did not mince his words. “Of course,” said Levin of Ad Fontes’s slap down of his popular shows. “I am considered ‘unreliable.’ … Who else is considered unreliable? The Federalist, Jesse Watters Primetime, Hannity, The Ingraham Angle, The Epoch Time, PragerU, The Daily Signal, RedState, Turning Point USA, Newsmax [and] OAN.”
Ad Fontes, through its self-proclaimed leftist executives, has partnered with some of the largest Big Tech platforms like Meta and advertising agencies to target right-leaning outlets, including Levin’s own radio show. Ad Fontes was the subject of a months-long MRC Free Speech America study that ultimately revealed that the media ratings firm skews its analysis to treat media critical of the Biden regime more harshly than legacy outlets, such as NBC, CBS, ABC, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Later in the segment, Levin issued a dire warning. “We’re way beyond the world liberal and progressive,” Levin said after citing the damning findings in the 12-page report. “We’re way, way beyond that America.”
Reading verbatim from the report, Levin warned that the findings “should send chills down every American’s spine.” The syndicated radio host drew attention to the testimony of individuals who have survived various types of totalitarian regimes before alleging that America is facing a similar crisis. “The characteristics of the Democrat Party and this Biden regime are characteristics of a growing police state and totalitarian regime,” the legal scholar concluded. “That's exactly what's taking place.”
Watch Levin's full episode here and the MRC Free Speech America report on Ad Fontes here.
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