Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin (Wikimedia Commons Photo)

On his radio program Friday, nationally syndicated host Mark Levin slammed the media, saying that they are destroying the first amendment’s “freedom of the press” provision by abusing it.

“The media are destroying the first amendment,” stated Mark Levin. “The media are destroying freedom of the press by abusing it, by abusing it. These leftists have abandoned their journalistic fig leaves. That’s what they’ve done.”

Below is a transcript of Levin’s comments from his show on Friday:

“All three branches of the federal government are aligned against this President – all three. And then there's the fourth branch: the media – the media – the fifth column. “They’re in an all-out war against this President in a way in which I’ve never seen before. I mean, I lived through Watergate and Iran Contra and all the rest of it, and the media went nuts then too but not this nuts. “We have a lot of younger so-called journalists now, who are hardcore leftists, and many of them were hardcore leftists before they went into journalism. Jake Tapper, I believe, worked for Salon or Slate. He was a lib. Don Lemon, same. Stelter worked for the New York Times. These are hardcore leftists. Many of them were Democrats within the Obama or prior administrations.