Never underestimate the Democrat-media complex’s ability to tag-team and instantly spin a narrative about a news incident that is literally the opposite of reality.
An attempted terrorist attack by two “ISIS-inspired” radicals in New York City Saturday could have been a mass casualty event. But if you listened to the media and some of the most powerful politicians in the city, you would think that the real criminals were peaceful protesters.
In case you missed it—and it was easy to miss if you weren’t on social media—two Muslim radical men, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, showed up at a protest in New York and allegedly tried to use improvised explosive devices on a crowd of people near the mayor’s mansion in the Upper East Side.
The original protest was by Jake Lang, a seemingly far-Right “influencer” whose message was focused on stopping the “Islamic Takeover of New York City.” Whatever Lang’s motivations, he was entirely peaceful while exercising his First Amendment right to free speech.
That speech was met with bombs.
As the dust cleared on the incident, the legacy media ran with stories that were just one weaselly headline after another. They deployed some clever linguistics to first obscure the religion and ideology of the men who showed up with bombs, then made it seem like it was Lang who was violent and that the target was New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Just look at this nonsense from CBS, NBC, and The New York Times, respectively.
Videos of the incident pretty clearly show what actually took place.
In one video, you can hear the would-be bomber yelling what sounded like “Allahu Akbar.” What makes the video even more incredible is that Balat can be seen throwing what appeared to be a bomb over the head of a liberal “comedian” giving a cliche “in this house we believe/all are welcome” speech.
Fortunately, nobody was hurt as that bomb got chucked, so I’ll say that may be the most unintentionally hilarious thing that this comedian has ever uttered.
Also, thank God for the NYPD officers who jumped into action to apprehend the two attempted terrorists. Maybe, Mayor, don’t dismantle one of the most effective police forces in the world?
According to ABC 7 Eyewitness News, the two men, who came to the event from Pennsylvania, are being “charged in a five-count federal complaint with attempting to provide support to ISIS, use of a weapon of mass destruction, and other charges.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the charges on X, saying that the Department of Justice will not allow ISIS’s poisonous, anti-American ideology to threaten this nation.”
We should also be quite thankful this is being charged as a federal crime.
Given the attitude of the powers that be in the city, and the record of the Manhattan district attorney, it’s easy to see the two suspects getting light charges or even having the charges dropped if it were left up to them.
Here’s the leftist former comptroller, Brad Lander, responding to the NBC X post.
Lander later “apologized” for his initial post, but notice he still didn’t mention that the bombing suspects were Muslim radicals and stuck with his “Islamophobia” line.
And even worse was Mamdani, the communist mayor who hobnobs with Islamists and those who celebrated the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, including his oh so private wife.
Mamdani’s initial X post primarily focused on the “white supremacist” whose protest was about “bigotry and racism.” He then said, “What followed was even more disturbing. Violence at a protest is never acceptable.” Of course, he made no mention of the motivation of the actual terrorists.
The way the post was phrased, it would be easy to think it was Lang and his fellow protesters who committed the violence.
Mamdani kept going with this on Monday as he began his news conference with ritualistic denunciation of white supremacy instead of the terrorist attack.
This whole mess is instructive in several ways.
First, the legacy media has learned nothing about what’s led to their disintegrating reputation among Americans. Two Islamic extremists tried to commit a repeat of the Boston Marathon bombing, but the initial reporting made it seem like Mamdani was the real victim and not the peaceful protesters.
Second, New York City is in real trouble under Mamdani’s “leadership.” He tried to spin an act of terrorism by Muslim extremists as somehow being about Islamophobia and bigotry. Is the message here supposed to be that criticizing Muslims should be illegal? Shameful.
The only way to unspin this story is to make it a national one, to refuse the absurd narrative that Mamdani and the media initially tried to force-feed the American people.
That’s already happening, and it just might work. Here was Mamdani, finally, on Monday afternoon after being called out relentlessly all day on X.
