September 3, 2026 • 17 mins
Willie talks with columnist Michael Levine about what the US would look like if Democrats were in control
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi, Billy Cunningham, The Great American. Of course, Michael Levine
has been the PR director of Michael Jackson through Charlton Heston,
author of the new book, Authentic PR. This guy who's
been around for a long time knows how PR should
work for companies, for nations, and for persons. He can
(00:23):
be found, of course, at michaellaveinconsulting.com. He's also the founder
of Boundless Media USA. And Michael Levine, welcome again to
the Bill Cunningham Show. I have your column up about
the status of food trucks in L.A., but before we
get there, I want to probe your mind in some
other area.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Would that be okay?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm honored to be with you, dear friend. Let's talk.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I'm reading this story, one story out of Germany, another
story out of Japan. And I'm reading these stories about
how great the American economy is.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And we don't get this from our media.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Everything that happens in America is a disaster because eggs
used to be about $ 12 a dozen. Now they're $ 1. 50.
And beef used to be inexpensive. Then it got expensive.
Now it's going to be inexpensive again because Trump has
changed the rules about ranchers processing their own beef. And
so the media angle on, for example, the hamburgers and
(01:19):
the beef is, They go to the ranchers who may
be affected by this negatively by getting lower prices for
their beef, and that's a disaster. Then they'll go to
consumers and talk about, Tony Bender, would you like to
spend less money if you're a double cheeseburger? The media
goes to the persons whose ox not being gored. And
so the German newspapers are saying the following about our economy.
Number one, 96% or more of the media reports on
(01:42):
Donald Trump Republicans are negative. But from the German perspective,
They are jealous of our economy. They call it the
greatest economy in the world right now, the American economy.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
They talk about job creation.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
They talk about the fact that we have 5 million
open jobs and 8 million people that refuse to work.
They talk about the fact the stock market is at
an all-time high. They're jealous of our inflation rate. Over
in Germany, it's about 8% here.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's about 3%.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
They're jealous about our manufacturing base. In Western Europe, you
can't put up a factory. It's impossible because of their
green energy demands. But America is an industrial powerhouse. The
Trumps are going to return to America over the next
one to three years. about $ 4 trillion of new manufacturing jobs.
(02:30):
We have data centers here that are not in Europe.
The data centers put to work about 6,000 construction workers,
and they pay high school kids $ 135, 000 a year to
work in and around these data centers. And they also
talk about the green energy that's not taken over America yet,
that they don't have coal-fired power plants, don't have much
(02:50):
nuclear plants. Energy costs are through the roof. There's little
job creation in Europe. And the same thing in Japan.
Japan's a basket case. Right now in China, they tell me,
have a terrible economy, as does most of Europe or India.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And so from the European.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Perspective, the GDP of America is about $ 31 trillion. I
want to share with you one fact, Michael Levine. In 2010,
America and the EU had about the same GDP. Here
we are 16 years later. And we have 30% more
GDP than Europe, and they have more people. The Indian
GDP is about a quarter of ours, and they have
(03:29):
four times the number of people. China is in economic trouble,
I'm being told. We don't get much reported out there,
of course, at all. So from the European and Asian perspective,
the American economy is the envy of the world. Why
don't we perceive that? Why can't we perceive reality in America?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Well, because people like bad news.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Say they like bad news.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
They buy bad news.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
We live in a world in which the media is
in the business of trying to attract clicks.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And attention. It's a dying business.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
And so the only way they can do it is
by trying to convince Americans that every single hour of
our life is a greater catastrophe than the last hour.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Breaking news, breaking news. Today, we are going to die.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
An hour later, breaking news, breaking news, the monster is
at the door. An hour later, breaking news, breaking news,
Godzilla is here.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Now, that does.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Not mean that there aren't challenges to the average American.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
There are.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Food prices are too high. You walk into a fast
food restaurant today, a McDonald's, right? It's a very common
American experience. And damn it, the food prices are too.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
High to buy a Big Mac and a soda and
fries today. is not uh.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
what it used to be a a very reasonably priced
endeavor it's expensive it's too high but that doesn't deny
the many many many things.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You said about the.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Strength of the american economy particularly when you compare it
to other parts of the world you know people who
complain about america uh... have their language and their little
stories and songs.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And some of the things are true and some are exaggerated.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
But then I say to them, really fascinating, where else
would you like to go or live?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, it's expensive here to live, but it's much more
expensive to live in other nations against we benchmark.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And much more expensive.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
And the quality of life that our power does not
go out in most American cities every month. Try living
in Europe, right? This summer, they had a great heat wave, right? 90%
of people in England, 90, 90, have no air conditioning.
(06:34):
That means even if you're an affluent person in England,
let's say you're living in London, you're an affluent person, 90%. Now,
how would you like to live through a summer heat
wave without air conditioning? No. I know lower middle class
people in America who live in apartments that have air conditioning. So,
(06:56):
you know, I think perspective is important. On the other hand,
there is some validity to hype. Gas prices are too
damn high in California. I'll tell you right now, we
got $ 6 gas prices. Now, why do we have $ 6
gas prices? Because our damn government in California puts on
(07:21):
massive taxes and regulations. There isn't $ 6 gas prices in
South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
No, not here.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There isn't $ 6. Right. What are your gas prices, son?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I filled up my Chevy Blazer. Last night, I got
to empty. The little buzzer came on. I pulled into
a UDF store, and it was $ 3.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
49 a gallon.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Now, $ 3.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
49.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Here is $ 6. 25 in California.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Is that the fault of Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. That's his fault. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
He did that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And by the way, that is another good point you're making. People,
for some sad, actually pathetic reason, love, become addicted to blaming,
belittle and blaming people for their lot.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
This is a terrible American problem.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It's a greater.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Problem that we belittle and blame people for our destiny
than it is that we pay too much at McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Michael, who do we benchmark against?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Whatever country you benchmark against, the poor in America live
about the level of middle-class Europeans against whom we might benchmark.
And the biggest health problem with poor Americans is obesity.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It's not hunger.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And so in California, when the average cost of gasoline
across the country is like four dollars a gallon or
four fifty, it's only because you put into the mix
the blue states that have five and six dollar and
eight dollar for diesel. But the media doesn't tell you
the policies of the Democrat Party is what's driving high
fuel prices. And if they completely take over, I'll be
(09:13):
paying six dollars a gallon in Ohio for gasoline.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We're right now I'm paying three forty nine. And they
want to get.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Rid of fracking, get rid of coal, get rid of nuclear.
And we live by windmills and by solar panels. And
we can't do that. But the media doesn't tell the truth.
And I fear that people base their vote upon lies
and perceptions instead of reality. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I wish I could disagree with one word you said. Now, look,
let's establish one thing very clearly.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
If you cannot figure out That most media in America, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
National Public Radio could be the worst. Associated Press, Reuters.
if you can't figure out that all of these people
Without exception, CNN, MSN Now, if you can't figure out
that every single one of them has an agenda to
help Democrats, to hurt Republicans, if you can't figure that out,
(10:19):
you're too stupid to vote, in my opinion. You're just
that dumb. Because it's true. You may say it's good.
You can say, well, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
And that's fine. If you take that position, it's fine.
But to say that the mainstream.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Media in America, and I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
The New York Times, the L.A.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Times, every single major newspaper, if you can't figure out 98%
of the people working in the New York Times, 98%
voted for Kamala Harris. Now, do you think that 98%
of people who voted for Kamala Harris can produce a fair,
(11:03):
independent newspaper? No.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Do you believe that?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No, it's impossible.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And I fear that objectively, this is the greatest economy
in the world, the greatest economy in the history of
the world. We don't recognize it. Garbage in, garbage out.
So if we get garbage in, garbage comes out. And
imagine Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in one. Imagine that.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Sir, excuse me. You can't imagine it.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Whatever your darkest fears would be right now about that scenario,
triple it. You can't.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
It is beyond imagining.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You have Kamala Harris in California. You have the same philosophy,
and I would assume, I guess, Bass is going to
win the uh, mayorship over the communist on her left.
And so no one in California recognizes reality or New
York city right now, Kathy Hochul, the governor of New
York's running around with a burka and a hijab. And
(12:07):
I'm thinking we're going to celebrate nine 11 with Kathy
Hochul and mom Donnie in charge of New York city,
the financial capital of the world and the governorship of
new york and and they're sympathizing with radical leftist let's
get on your column because i could spend all day
with michael of the sure that you have a line
in your column under the date of august thirty first
assess the following this is about uh... street food health
(12:29):
hazards the same the government in l a ignore you
say the following the allegations report report included dog eating
meat from a vendor's bag before it was served cockroaches
crawling from a food truck, mice near open salsa, raw
meat sitting unrefrigerated in the heat, and people urinating around
cooking equipment.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And there are hundreds of.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
These so-called vendors, these food truck vendors, serving food all
over California.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And you're saying, what world do I live in? Is
it Bangladesh? And the L.A.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
County officials say they walk by as health hazards and
they do nothing.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Why? Well, because we elect people like.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Karen Bass in blue cities.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
These are people, my friend, that most Fortune 500 CEOs,
and I know some of them, most Fortune 500 CEOs
wouldn't hire Karen Bass to manage a Wal-Mart.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
No.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
No.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
They wouldn't hire her to be a greeter at a Walmart.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
These are incompetent people. They are DEI hires, if you will. Sure. Right? Yeah.
Their primary attribute is the color of their skin and
the fragrance of their smile. They have no competence whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I literally wouldn't hire.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I wouldn't hire Karen Bass to manage a pizza parlor.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
She's incompetent.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And then she gets into power, and who does she hire? Well,
she hires all her cronies and her friends and her
other DEI hires, and they can't run a bath. They
can't run a bath.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
No less a city.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Brandon Johnson, Mom Donnie, I have to have pure and whole.
Just name them.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Completely incompetent, and I'm thinking you get the government you deserve.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And there was a guy, Spencer Pratt, was running. He
was somewhat competent.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And by the time they finished counting the ballots three
weeks later, guess what?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
He lost. Well, Michael Levine.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Isn't that fascinating?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
It is.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And I'm looking at this.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And last, about a minute remaining, I saw this mother
who was dropping her daughter off at USC, University of
Southern California, which is a private, expensive university. And she
drove through block after block after block on the streets
and on the sidewalks, homeless encampments with open fires, public defecation, urination.
(15:09):
And she says, right across the street from my private
university are thousands of drunks and derelicts and drug abusers
getting their drugs from the city government.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And she says, what is this?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
It's all accurate. It is all accurate, 100% accurate. I've
been there. I go downtown.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
And it goes on, not for a block or two
or three or four or ten. It goes on for miles.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You look at it. You can't believe it. You think, no,
this is not possible.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
No, not possible.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
But it's not only possible, it's happening in front of,
and the cops drive by in their marked cars watching
IV drug users, watching public fornication, urinating around the food trucks,
and they do nothing, and Karen Baskin is going to
get reelected.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
She gets the message, it's okay. This is what the
people want.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
By the way, Karen Baskin. And Karen Batch, as incompetent
as she is, and I told you I wouldn't hire
her to run a pizza parlor, is better, better than
the idiot running against her, this socialist, insane person who
wants to defund the police and abolish ICE. You cannot
(16:30):
make it up. It's as if we're living through a
Saturday Night Live skit.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Michael Levine, consulting.com. New book is Authentic PR. Michael, you're
great at this. All we can do is here in
the red states, I'm in a blue city in a
red state. At least when you have blue cities run
by incompetent fools, you have a red governor saying you
can't do that.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
When you're in a blue city in a blue state
like Brandon Johnson in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
It's suicidal. You're done. You're living on the Titanic.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Michael Levine, you're a great American. Once again, thanks for
coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. We're sounding the alarm,
and hopefully people will listen. And Michael Levine, you're great.
God bless you.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Thanks, Bill. Bye.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Let's continue.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
That is what's coming to America if this philosophy wins
nationally again. Look what the damage done by Joe Biden
in just four years. Imagine that philosophy for the next
eight to 12 years. Bill Cunningham, NewsRadio 700, WLW.
Hi, Billy Cunningham, The Great American. Of course, Michael Levine
has been the PR director of Michael Jackson through Charlton Heston,
author of the new book, Authentic PR. This guy who's
been around for a long time knows how PR should
work for companies, for nations, and for persons. He can
(00:23):
be found, of course, at michaellaveinconsulting.com. He's also the founder
of Boundless Media USA. And Michael Levine, welcome again to
the Bill Cunningham Show. I have your column up about
the status of food trucks in L.A., but before we
get there, I want to probe your mind in some
other area.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Would that be okay?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm honored to be with you, dear friend. Let's talk.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I'm reading this story, one story out of Germany, another
story out of Japan. And I'm reading these stories about
how great the American economy is.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And we don't get this from our media.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Everything that happens in America is a disaster because eggs
used to be about $ 12 a dozen. Now they're $ 1. 50.
And beef used to be inexpensive. Then it got expensive.
Now it's going to be inexpensive again because Trump has
changed the rules about ranchers processing their own beef. And
so the media angle on, for example, the hamburgers and
(01:19):
the beef is, They go to the ranchers who may
be affected by this negatively by getting lower prices for
their beef, and that's a disaster. Then they'll go to
consumers and talk about, Tony Bender, would you like to
spend less money if you're a double cheeseburger? The media
goes to the persons whose ox not being gored. And
so the German newspapers are saying the following about our economy.
Number one, 96% or more of the media reports on
(01:42):
Donald Trump Republicans are negative. But from the German perspective,
They are jealous of our economy. They call it the
greatest economy in the world right now, the American economy.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
They talk about job creation.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
They talk about the fact that we have 5 million
open jobs and 8 million people that refuse to work.
They talk about the fact the stock market is at
an all-time high. They're jealous of our inflation rate. Over
in Germany, it's about 8% here.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's about 3%.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
They're jealous about our manufacturing base. In Western Europe, you
can't put up a factory. It's impossible because of their
green energy demands. But America is an industrial powerhouse. The
Trumps are going to return to America over the next
one to three years. about $ 4 trillion of new manufacturing jobs.
(02:30):
We have data centers here that are not in Europe.
The data centers put to work about 6,000 construction workers,
and they pay high school kids $ 135, 000 a year to
work in and around these data centers. And they also
talk about the green energy that's not taken over America yet,
that they don't have coal-fired power plants, don't have much
(02:50):
nuclear plants. Energy costs are through the roof. There's little
job creation in Europe. And the same thing in Japan.
Japan's a basket case. Right now in China, they tell me,
have a terrible economy, as does most of Europe or India.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And so from the European.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Perspective, the GDP of America is about $ 31 trillion. I
want to share with you one fact, Michael Levine. In 2010,
America and the EU had about the same GDP. Here
we are 16 years later. And we have 30% more
GDP than Europe, and they have more people. The Indian
GDP is about a quarter of ours, and they have
(03:29):
four times the number of people. China is in economic trouble,
I'm being told. We don't get much reported out there,
of course, at all. So from the European and Asian perspective,
the American economy is the envy of the world. Why
don't we perceive that? Why can't we perceive reality in America?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Well, because people like bad news.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Say they like bad news.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
They buy bad news.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
We live in a world in which the media is
in the business of trying to attract clicks.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And attention. It's a dying business.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
And so the only way they can do it is
by trying to convince Americans that every single hour of
our life is a greater catastrophe than the last hour.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Breaking news, breaking news. Today, we are going to die.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
An hour later, breaking news, breaking news, the monster is
at the door. An hour later, breaking news, breaking news,
Godzilla is here.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Now, that does.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Not mean that there aren't challenges to the average American.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
There are.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Food prices are too high. You walk into a fast
food restaurant today, a McDonald's, right? It's a very common
American experience. And damn it, the food prices are too.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
High to buy a Big Mac and a soda and
fries today. is not uh.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
what it used to be a a very reasonably priced
endeavor it's expensive it's too high but that doesn't deny
the many many many things.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You said about the.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Strength of the american economy particularly when you compare it
to other parts of the world you know people who
complain about america uh... have their language and their little
stories and songs.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And some of the things are true and some are exaggerated.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
But then I say to them, really fascinating, where else
would you like to go or live?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, it's expensive here to live, but it's much more
expensive to live in other nations against we benchmark.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And much more expensive.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
And the quality of life that our power does not
go out in most American cities every month. Try living
in Europe, right? This summer, they had a great heat wave, right? 90%
of people in England, 90, 90, have no air conditioning.
(06:34):
That means even if you're an affluent person in England,
let's say you're living in London, you're an affluent person, 90%. Now,
how would you like to live through a summer heat
wave without air conditioning? No. I know lower middle class
people in America who live in apartments that have air conditioning. So,
(06:56):
you know, I think perspective is important. On the other hand,
there is some validity to hype. Gas prices are too
damn high in California. I'll tell you right now, we
got $ 6 gas prices. Now, why do we have $ 6
gas prices? Because our damn government in California puts on
(07:21):
massive taxes and regulations. There isn't $ 6 gas prices in
South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
No, not here.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There isn't $ 6. Right. What are your gas prices, son?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I filled up my Chevy Blazer. Last night, I got
to empty. The little buzzer came on. I pulled into
a UDF store, and it was $ 3.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
49 a gallon.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Now, $ 3.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
49.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Here is $ 6. 25 in California.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Is that the fault of Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. That's his fault. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
He did that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And by the way, that is another good point you're making. People,
for some sad, actually pathetic reason, love, become addicted to blaming,
belittle and blaming people for their lot.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
This is a terrible American problem.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It's a greater.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Problem that we belittle and blame people for our destiny
than it is that we pay too much at McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Michael, who do we benchmark against?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Whatever country you benchmark against, the poor in America live
about the level of middle-class Europeans against whom we might benchmark.
And the biggest health problem with poor Americans is obesity.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It's not hunger.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And so in California, when the average cost of gasoline
across the country is like four dollars a gallon or
four fifty, it's only because you put into the mix
the blue states that have five and six dollar and
eight dollar for diesel. But the media doesn't tell you
the policies of the Democrat Party is what's driving high
fuel prices. And if they completely take over, I'll be
(09:13):
paying six dollars a gallon in Ohio for gasoline.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We're right now I'm paying three forty nine. And they
want to get.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Rid of fracking, get rid of coal, get rid of nuclear.
And we live by windmills and by solar panels. And
we can't do that. But the media doesn't tell the truth.
And I fear that people base their vote upon lies
and perceptions instead of reality. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I wish I could disagree with one word you said. Now, look,
let's establish one thing very clearly.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
If you cannot figure out That most media in America, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
National Public Radio could be the worst. Associated Press, Reuters.
if you can't figure out that all of these people
Without exception, CNN, MSN Now, if you can't figure out
that every single one of them has an agenda to
help Democrats, to hurt Republicans, if you can't figure that out,
(10:19):
you're too stupid to vote, in my opinion. You're just
that dumb. Because it's true. You may say it's good.
You can say, well, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
And that's fine. If you take that position, it's fine.
But to say that the mainstream.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Media in America, and I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
The New York Times, the L.A.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Times, every single major newspaper, if you can't figure out 98%
of the people working in the New York Times, 98%
voted for Kamala Harris. Now, do you think that 98%
of people who voted for Kamala Harris can produce a fair,
(11:03):
independent newspaper? No.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Do you believe that?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No, it's impossible.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And I fear that objectively, this is the greatest economy
in the world, the greatest economy in the history of
the world. We don't recognize it. Garbage in, garbage out.
So if we get garbage in, garbage comes out. And
imagine Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in one. Imagine that.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Sir, excuse me. You can't imagine it.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Whatever your darkest fears would be right now about that scenario,
triple it. You can't.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
It is beyond imagining.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You have Kamala Harris in California. You have the same philosophy,
and I would assume, I guess, Bass is going to
win the uh, mayorship over the communist on her left.
And so no one in California recognizes reality or New
York city right now, Kathy Hochul, the governor of New
York's running around with a burka and a hijab. And
(12:07):
I'm thinking we're going to celebrate nine 11 with Kathy
Hochul and mom Donnie in charge of New York city,
the financial capital of the world and the governorship of
new york and and they're sympathizing with radical leftist let's
get on your column because i could spend all day
with michael of the sure that you have a line
in your column under the date of august thirty first
assess the following this is about uh... street food health
(12:29):
hazards the same the government in l a ignore you
say the following the allegations report report included dog eating
meat from a vendor's bag before it was served cockroaches
crawling from a food truck, mice near open salsa, raw
meat sitting unrefrigerated in the heat, and people urinating around
cooking equipment.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And there are hundreds of.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
These so-called vendors, these food truck vendors, serving food all
over California.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And you're saying, what world do I live in? Is
it Bangladesh? And the L.A.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
County officials say they walk by as health hazards and
they do nothing.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Why? Well, because we elect people like.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Karen Bass in blue cities.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
These are people, my friend, that most Fortune 500 CEOs,
and I know some of them, most Fortune 500 CEOs
wouldn't hire Karen Bass to manage a Wal-Mart.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
No.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
No.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
They wouldn't hire her to be a greeter at a Walmart.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
These are incompetent people. They are DEI hires, if you will. Sure. Right? Yeah.
Their primary attribute is the color of their skin and
the fragrance of their smile. They have no competence whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I literally wouldn't hire.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I wouldn't hire Karen Bass to manage a pizza parlor.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
She's incompetent.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And then she gets into power, and who does she hire? Well,
she hires all her cronies and her friends and her
other DEI hires, and they can't run a bath. They
can't run a bath.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
No less a city.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Brandon Johnson, Mom Donnie, I have to have pure and whole.
Just name them.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Completely incompetent, and I'm thinking you get the government you deserve.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And there was a guy, Spencer Pratt, was running. He
was somewhat competent.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And by the time they finished counting the ballots three
weeks later, guess what?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
He lost. Well, Michael Levine.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Isn't that fascinating?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
It is.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And I'm looking at this.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And last, about a minute remaining, I saw this mother
who was dropping her daughter off at USC, University of
Southern California, which is a private, expensive university. And she
drove through block after block after block on the streets
and on the sidewalks, homeless encampments with open fires, public defecation, urination.
(15:09):
And she says, right across the street from my private
university are thousands of drunks and derelicts and drug abusers
getting their drugs from the city government.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And she says, what is this?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
It's all accurate. It is all accurate, 100% accurate. I've
been there. I go downtown.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
And it goes on, not for a block or two
or three or four or ten. It goes on for miles.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You look at it. You can't believe it. You think, no,
this is not possible.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
No, not possible.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
But it's not only possible, it's happening in front of,
and the cops drive by in their marked cars watching
IV drug users, watching public fornication, urinating around the food trucks,
and they do nothing, and Karen Baskin is going to
get reelected.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
She gets the message, it's okay. This is what the
people want.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
By the way, Karen Baskin. And Karen Batch, as incompetent
as she is, and I told you I wouldn't hire
her to run a pizza parlor, is better, better than
the idiot running against her, this socialist, insane person who
wants to defund the police and abolish ICE. You cannot
(16:30):
make it up. It's as if we're living through a
Saturday Night Live skit.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Michael Levine, consulting.com. New book is Authentic PR. Michael, you're
great at this. All we can do is here in
the red states, I'm in a blue city in a
red state. At least when you have blue cities run
by incompetent fools, you have a red governor saying you
can't do that.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
When you're in a blue city in a blue state
like Brandon Johnson in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
It's suicidal. You're done. You're living on the Titanic.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Michael Levine, you're a great American. Once again, thanks for
coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. We're sounding the alarm,
and hopefully people will listen. And Michael Levine, you're great.
God bless you.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Thanks, Bill. Bye.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Let's continue.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
That is what's coming to America if this philosophy wins
nationally again. Look what the damage done by Joe Biden
in just four years. Imagine that philosophy for the next
eight to 12 years. Bill Cunningham, NewsRadio 700, WLW.
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