How it started. Glenn Beck appearing in an interview with Katie Couric, said John McCain would have been a worse president for this country than President Obama generating and angry response from fellow wingnut Mark Levin.
Beck responded to Levin's criticism on his show saying
"I’m getting all kinds of heat from conservatives," he said. "No, I shouldn’t say conservatives. I think I’m getting heat from Republicans."
If John McCain were in office, you might hear some complaints about cap-and-trade here and there, but a march on Washington? I don’t think so. Fat chance! ... At least now we’ve been tossed into the boiling water and we’re awake
Watch video if you have the stomach for it
Levin fires back at Becks answer
Right-wing radio host Mark Levin immediately fired back with another attack on Beck, whom Levin calls "the 5 pm’er" (because Beck’s Fox show airs at 5 pm). "I’m told the 5 pm’er said today that if John McCain were president, would there be marching in the street?," Levin began. "I thought to myself, are you not aware of even recent history that the entire Reagan revolution rose up against the RINOs [Republicans in name only]?"
Levin quickly escalated the tone of his criticism against Beck. "Have you no sense of your own history?" he said, addressing Beck. "This is why you refuse to consider yourself a conservative! Still searching around in the dark, in the shadows, trying to figure out who you are and who we should be. Some of us know who we are and what we must be! And we also know where we must go!" Then Levin took a personal jab at Beck:
And then the money quote
LEVIN: If you’re not going to be politically sensible and have a strategy and have an end-game, you’ll keep winding up on weekly magazines, you’ll keep making a lot of money, but in the end you won’t make a difference.
Audio here: