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Mark Reed Levin /lə.ˈvɪn/, born September 21, 1957, is a conservative radio talk show host. He currently can be heard on News Talk Radio 77 WABC from 6 to 8 PM every weekday. He is Jewish.

Levin has served as a top adviser to several members of President Ronald Reagan's Cabinet —including as Chief of Staff to then United States Attorney General Edwin Meese. In 2001, the American Conservative Union named Levin the recipient of their Ronald Reagan Award. He currently practices law in the private sector, heading up the Landmark Legal Foundation in Leesburg, Virginia.

Levin is also a contributing editor for National Review Online, and writes frequently for other publications. In 2006 he began his own blog at National Review Online.

Mark Levin holds a 1977 Phi Beta Kappa and magna-cum-laude B.A. from Temple University and a J.D. from Temple University School of Law. He is author of a bestselling book, Men In Black: How The Supreme Court Is Destroying America (ISBN 0895260506), about the perils of judicial activism; Levin advocates a strict originalism as a judicial philosophy. He is also a strong advocate of the unitary executive theory, and generally holds Congress in low regard.

Levin follows a similar political line to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, talk show hosts whose programs precede him on the air, although Levin's style is more heated than theirs. For many years he was a frequent contributor of legal opinions to Rush Limbaugh, who referred to him on-air as "F. Lee Levin", a tongue-in-cheek reference to the famous defense attorney F. Lee Bailey. He and Sean Hannity, who both have talk shows originating from the WABC studios, often call-in to each others' radio programs, referring to each other playfully as "Doctor Hannity" or "Doctor Levin". Levin mainly calls Hannity's program to debate or insult a liberal caller, most often calling to deliver a one-line insult or off-color joke only to then quickly hang up.

Levin is known for using the catchphrases "Are you a lib?", "You're annoying!", and "Get off the phone, you big dope!" on the air. He is also known for using two ranges of voice pitch on the air, and switches between them to indicate anger or for effect. For comic relief he occasionally does a show as an alter ego, the effete "Maurice", who is a "lib". He also makes fun of the names of politicians and others whom he disagrees with; a particular target of his toilet humor has been the last name of New York Representative Anthony D. Weiner.

Mark also frequently plays the song "Walking Around in Women's Underwear" Lyrics Here, a parody of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland". The song was first played on the show in December 2004 and was only intended to be played during the holiday season. However, when many people started calling up to request the song, Mark decided to continue playing the song throughout the year.

By 2006 his show was carried by three other stations besides WABC-AM: WBAP-AM (Arlington, Texas), WMAL-AM (Washington, District of Columbia) and WJR-AM (Detroit, Michigan). As announced on a press release, Levin's show will be syndicated by ABC Radio.

Famous on-air jargon

• "The dumbest man in the Senate" - Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-DE)
• "The Cape Cod Orca" - Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)
• "Hillary Rotten Clinton" - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)
• "Little Dick Durban" - Senator Richard Durban
• "Chucky Schmucky Schumer" - Senator Charles Schumer
• "Senator Frankenstein" - Senator Dianne Feinstein
• "John 'D Student' Kerry" - Senator John Kerry
• "The man with the worst comb-over in the Senate" - Senator Byron Dorgan, (D-ND)
• "The shortest politiican on earth" or "The dwarf senator" - Senator Barbara Boxer
• "Lincoln Chafing" - Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI)
• "John McLame" or "The Despicable John McCain"- Senator John McCain (R-AZ)
• "Nancy 'Stretch' Pelosi" - Nancy Pelosi
• "Madeleine Half-Bright" - Madeleine Albright
• "B.J." Clinton - Former President William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton
• "Screwball with Screwball" - Hardball with Chris Matthews
• "Countdown to No Ratings, with Keith Overbite" - Countdown with Keith Olbermann
• "Meet the Depressed" Meet the Press
• "MSLSD" - MSNBC
• "The New York Slimes" - The New York Times
• "The Washington Compost" - The Washington Post
• "The Atlanta Urinal Constipation" - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• "Left Angeles Slimes" - Los Angeles Times
• "Hollyweirdos" - Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
• "Katrina vanden Heuvel" - Hurricane Katrina
• "People for the Un-American Way" - People for the American Way
• "Center for No Constitutional Rights" - Center for Constitutional Rights
• "American Criminal Liberties Union" - American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Radio Stations

WABC in New York, NY WMAL Washington, D.C. WBAP Dallas, TX WJR Detroit, MI

And many more to come!

External links

• MarkLevin.us
• News Talk Radio 770 WABC-AM
• WABC-AM Windows Media Audio stream
• And Another Thing . . . on National Review Online
• Book Details - Men in Black, book description from Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, the publisher of the book
• Mark Levin Fan, unofficial fan site (with show clips and Levin bio info)
• Landmark Legal Foundation
• Bejamin Hackett's Review of Men in Black on The Tartan website.

• 1957 births
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• American lawyers
• American radio personalities
• Broadcast news analysts
• Jewish Americans
• People from Pennsylvania
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