Mayor Mamdani Laughs at 9/11 Memorial

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From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starnes.

Todd Starnes (2:18)

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how we are kicking off our 25th anniversary edition of this program, remembering the Muslim terrorist attacks that were waged on this country on September 11, 2001 Hello, everybody, I'm Todd Starnes. Welcome to all of our great affiliate stations down the line. We certainly appreciate you joining us today. The voices you heard, the Brooklyn Youth Choir singing just an incredibly moving rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner there in lower Manhattan at the Memorial Service. You know, it's interesting and we've got we're going to be taking your calls today, reflecting back on that day. Do you remember what you were doing when you learned that the attacks were underway? And also, what lessons have we learned and what lessons do we still need to learn as we go through this 25th anniversary of the attacks? I will tell you, one of the more despicable things that we just saw play out on national television, the people are, it's an emotional time. People lost loved ones, and they are weeping at the location of where the towers once stood, weeping at the memorial site for family members who have been taken from them. And while all that was happening, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were seen laughing and giggling. Now, ladies and gentlemen, over 100,000 people signed a petition telling Mayor Mamdani to stay away from the memorial service today. And I told you on this program, the only reason why the mayor wanted to go to Ground Zero was to gloat.

And I just can't tell you what a despicable image that was as the camera transition for a man who was weeping and tears, to all of a sudden see Zohran Mamdani and AOC laughing and giggling like they're at some sort of a party. It's just absolutely reprehensible. So look, we're gonna get into all of this, but every year that we have commemorated the 9-11 Muslim terrorist attacks, we've been honored to have one of the very first journalists on the scene who reported on the events of that day. She is featured in a number of documentaries.

Let's go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line. Robin Walensky joining us. Robin, 25 years, and you were there to witness it all, and you were the voice on the radio that brought this news to the American people.

Robin Walensky (5:04)

God, it is incredible to me that it has been 25 years. There are moments where it seems like a really long time ago, and then it's moments that I live it every day of my life. I'm sitting in my office and I'm looking to the left at some pictures of me interviewing a survivor from 9-11, and I look at these pictures every day when I work. You know this, you and I worked together at Fox News Radio. I had those same pictures on my desk. To never forget, you and I have known each other the entire 25 years, and it's kind of like when someone you love dies. It just never goes away.

But there are a lot of lessons to be learned.

When we say never forget, I've spent the whole week thinking about our interview today. My biggest nugget going forward is that people like myself who were there, who were eyewitnesses to history, who saw people that I thought at the time was furniture going out the window, plain in, furniture and desks out. Your eye can only see so far, the Twin Towers stood tall at 1,000 feet. But it was really people crossing themselves, holding hands, jumping to their desks, because the fire was raging inside. Think about that decision, Todd. You and I as coworkers deciding whether to jump out the window or burn to death.

This is the horror that radical Islam, Al-Qaeda terrorists, who are very much alive and well in this country, because the last administration opened the floodgates and the door to 25 million people who we have no accounting of who they are.

And we're fighting an ideology. And this was the scene that they wanted to create complete chaos and havoc and take down the number one symbol in this country that stood for American might. What building can you name in the United States where you potentially could have taken out north of 25,000 people in one hit? You can't name it because it doesn't exist. So we need to get 9-11 back in the schools, back in the textbooks. It was removed during the Common Core agenda.

In the last 15 to 20 years, it was taken out. They call it Patriot's Day. There's all this nonsense. You can't in Virginia today, Todd, there's news that you can't associate and teach 9-11 and talk about radical Islam. Right. Well, who caused it? Who's behind it? If you're an alcoholic and you can't sit in a meeting and say, Hi, my name is John Anaman, alcoholic, you're never going to get better and cured for your alcoholism. And I maintain, I want to make this point, Todd, I don't know how much time we have, but my overarch of the 25 years, looking back, I was also in the 93 World Trade Center bombing, and it was the same crowd of radical Islamic thugs that went to topple the towers in February of 1993, in the snow that Friday. And I sat on that snow and filed my reports, and six people were killed when they drove the bomb into the B-2 garage in 93 And I maintain, Todd, you are a political program here. There would be no 9-11. It never would have happened had Bill Clinton and then Attorney General Janet Reno come to New York City and said, this is a terrorist attack on America, and we are going to get you, and we are going to exterminate you. Like that one roach you see in your kitchen, you know that there's 20 hiding behind the cabinet. Bill Clinton and Janet Reno never did that. And it makes me angry because there would be no 9-11, period.