Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin (Flickr Photo/Gage Skidmore)

On his nationally syndicated radio talk show Monday, host Mark Levin called out NFL players and their media surrogates for their anthem protests, and explained, whether choreographed or not, Vice President Pence leaving the NFL game on Sunday ‘was a good thing to do.”

“And I thought what the Vice President did this weekend was outstanding,” stated Mark Levin. “I don’t care if it was choreographed or not. These players getting down on the knee, that’s all choreographed. They talk in advance. They decide what they’re going to do.”

Levin, later in the program, explained, “What the Vice President has done, as the President did before him, is exposed it. It matters not one whit to me whether it was planned in advance or not. It was a good thing to do, to leave.”

Levin’s comments came after it was widely reported that Vice President Pence left an NFL game between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers, in which players were seen kneeling in protest during the U.S. National Anthem.

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

“These protests by the NFL players, they’ve lost all substance. In other words, because of the diversity of arguments by players, or the non-statements by players, verbal statements, and the surrogates in the media, mostly sports broadcasters projecting on top of them what they want to project on top of these kneelers. The entire purpose of the NFL protests are ambiguous. At best they’re ambiguous. They may even be nonexistent. “Looks like now it’s just a fight over the power of wills, right? “And to me, and I think to millions of you, the players are looking dumber and dumber. “They did the very best they could early on, first to trash the cops, like Kaepernick, then the pullback from that. Then when patriots, concerned about what they were doing was demeaning not just the police but also the military and veterans and so forth, then the players and their surrogates reversed course and were trying to explain it as a social justice issue.