PF1 Minisode: NYC Mayor's Strange Response to Near Miss Terror Attack

Hello, it's Miranda. I'm back with a new mini episode of Pod Force 1 and a little laryngeitis

that is making my voice sound huskier than usual. This feature is a little more topical

and relevant to my job as a columnist for the New York Post. Today's topic is The Bazaar

and frankly alarming response of New York City's hapless Mayor Zoran Mamdani to an attempted

Islamist bomb attack in Manhattan on the weekend. Mayor Zoran Mamdani showed his true colors

on the weekend when he responded to the attempted ISIS-inspired bombing of an anti-Muslim protest

by first condemning white supremacy before getting around to in the second paragraph of

his statement, saying violence at a protest is never acceptable. While that's one way of putting

it, it took NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish to issue her own statement for the full gravity

of the attack to be officially acknowledged. This is what happened on Saturday. Two suspected

ISIS sympathizers threw improvised explosive devices into a group of police and protesters

outside Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side. One of them was yelling al-Aqba. The homemade

bombs were packed with the lethal chemical known as Mother of Satan that has been used

in multiple high-profile terror attacks around the world over the past decade. The bombs

were also filled with shrapnel, screws and bolts to tear into human flesh for maximum

carnage. Luckily, both bombs malfunctioned before they could kill and may, many one and

two suspects were arrested. Commissioner Tish said Sunday that the NYPD bomb squad had

examined one of the devices and determined it is, quote, not a hoax device or a smoke bomb.

It is, in fact, an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death.

Mamdani made no mention of the suspect's ideology in his pathetic statement, while railing

against the right-wing activist Jake Lang as a white supremacist who organized a protest,

quote, rooted in bigotry and racism. Such hate has no place in New York City. He said,

it is in a front to our cities' values and the unity that defines who we are, end quote.

During a moral equivalence between Lang's hate speech and literal islamist bomb throwers

is not who we are either. It's only the radical left to believe speech is violence, but violence

is something to tolerate for the right cause. Don't forget to come back on Wednesday for the

next episode of Pod Force One with one of the Trump Cabinet's secret weapons to fire up

the economy. Kelly Leffler, the billionaire fortune 500 executive who now heads the small business

administration. I hope you can tune in and have a wonderful week.