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Mark talks with NY Post Columnist Michael Goodwin · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Show. Live from the WOR LifeVac studios. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the best columnist in America without question, Michael Goodwin in
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  Speaker 1: the New York Post every Sunday, every Wednesday. All of
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  Speaker 1: his columns are up on the New York Post website.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Goodwin, how you doing? Do we have him there?
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  Speaker 1: Michael Goodwin?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I can hear you.
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  Speaker 1: Now we got you. Great column. So the left is
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  Speaker 1: now weaponizing 9-11? Is that really the case?
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty remarkable when you think about it. But the
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  Speaker 2: New York Times, of course, is very resourceful in pushing
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  Speaker 2: its agenda. And in this case, it argues that there
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  Speaker 2: is a wave of Islamophobia in New York City right now.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know that, Mark? No, I didn't. And apparently
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  Speaker 2: it's just as bad now, even though we have a
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  Speaker 2: Muslim mayor, the first in history, it's just as bad
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  Speaker 2: now as it was after 9-11. And surely you remember
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  Speaker 2: how New Yorkers marauded through Muslim neighborhoods, killing and burning.
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  Speaker 2: You remember that, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That same... Islamophobia hatred is now going on in New
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  Speaker 2: York City according to the New York Times. It did
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  Speaker 2: not have any statistics to back that up, but it
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  Speaker 2: had the feelings of Muslims who felt scared. And then
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  Speaker 2: it was almost such a pathetic story. The next day,
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  Speaker 2: the Times wrote how Incidents, anti-Semitic incidents against Jewish New
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  Speaker 2: Yorkers are soaring, and all kinds of statistics, without a
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  Speaker 2: mention of the Islamophobia. As I say in the column,
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  Speaker 2: it's like somebody at the time woke up, the Friday article,
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  Speaker 2: woke up Saturday morning and said, this is ridiculous, this
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  Speaker 2: is crazy. We have to do a better... The real
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  Speaker 2: problem is that Jews are being attacked, and synagogues have
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  Speaker 2: to hire extra security. There's no mention anywhere in their
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  Speaker 2: second story of mosque or Islamophobia. It's almost like they
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  Speaker 2: have two different views of what's happening. And the second
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  Speaker 2: view was closer to accurate. But I wonder who's really
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  Speaker 2: running this place if they think 9-11... It's a good
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  Speaker 2: day to run a false story about Islamophobia sweeping New York.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what's going on there? Is it the gremlins
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  Speaker 2: who have gotten to the keyboard and it's a raid
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  Speaker 2: on the computer system? Or are they just a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of lousy reporters who hate New York?
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  Speaker 1: Well, in their defense, they do run fake stories all
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  Speaker 1: year long. It's not just 9-11. They're always writing fake stories.
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  Speaker 2: But, hey, you used to work there. It's true that
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  Speaker 2: they discovered genocide in Gaza, right? So they're very good
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  Speaker 2: at finding things that don't exist. Not so good on
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  Speaker 2: the truth. I did work there, Mark, and it was
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  Speaker 2: a great experience in my life. I met many people
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  Speaker 2: who I held up as standards of journalism. I'd learned
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  Speaker 2: a lot from them. Unfortunately, the New York Times is
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  Speaker 2: not the same place. It is now run by advocates,
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  Speaker 2: by leftists, and the reporters, through their union, have exercised
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  Speaker 2: control over what gets published, what's in the news, who's
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  Speaker 2: running the newsroom. And if you don't agree with agree
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  Speaker 2: with their mob mentality, which is anti-white and anti-Jewish. It's
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  Speaker 2: progressives all the way. Then, of course, you are sick,
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  Speaker 2: you're no good, and you shouldn't work there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the problem is, as you say, back then,
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  Speaker 1: the New York Times was the finest newspaper. It's not anymore, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but most people don't follow this that closely, and for
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  Speaker 1: people that aren't following the news that They still look
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  Speaker 1: at the New York Times as if it's some sort
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  Speaker 1: of prestigious, great newspaper, but they don't know that it's
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  Speaker 1: a whole different paper. Maybe it should be Federal Trade Commission.
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  Speaker 1: You have to, like, relabel it or something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean, it's a remarkably successful business. And
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  Speaker 2: if you ever take a few minutes and go online
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  Speaker 2: and read their comments from readers, it's extraordinary how the readers...
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  Speaker 2: are often complaining that the paper isn't progressive enough. So
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  Speaker 2: they have the most progressive readers in the world, apparently,
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  Speaker 2: who want even more, who hate Donald Trump even more
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  Speaker 2: than the New York Times does. So it's a very
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  Speaker 2: strange situation. And the editors seem either uncaring about it
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  Speaker 2: or their power is deficit because it just marches on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, wasn't there a time when the New York
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  Speaker 1: Times was dying and they needed a bailout from the
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  Speaker 1: Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim? And then they got this Trump
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  Speaker 1: thing going and they saw that it was an incredible
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  Speaker 1: business model. The money just came flowing in. They're up
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  Speaker 1: to like 5 million readers. So is that why they
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  Speaker 1: do it? It's just profiteering off Trump hatred?
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  Speaker 2: I think, Mark, that's a very large part of the
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  Speaker 2: reason because it's not journalism that It's an agenda. It's
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  Speaker 2: a narrative. As I say in the column, when they
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  Speaker 2: have a narrative they're trying to sell, they stack the deck.
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  Speaker 2: They don't report it fairly. There's nobody ever quoted who
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  Speaker 2: says you're wrong. They're always, if you just look at
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  Speaker 2: the headlines, if somebody's always concerned, who's concerned, who's worried,
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  Speaker 2: who's nervous, it's always the left. the left is nervous
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  Speaker 2: that the economy is too strong, it's overheating, right? It's
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  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. And it just now seems to
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  Speaker 2: be an unbreakable power within the newsroom, and it's apparently
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  Speaker 2: making enough money that there's no way to assail the
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  Speaker 2: content of the paper, because as a business, unfortunately, it
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  Speaker 2: is succeeding.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's That's terrible. But hey, Mayor Mamdani is with
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  Speaker 1: AOC at the 9-11 ceremony. They're caught laughing there. What
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  Speaker 1: was that all about?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very, very poor taste. And I think they
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  Speaker 2: should have been smarter to realize if they had a
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  Speaker 2: joke to share, they should have held off. But that
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  Speaker 2: was a very ugly moment. And I'm sure that they
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  Speaker 2: would say, oh, you know, blah, blah, blah. But Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 2: it looked terrible. And you have to be smarter than that.
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  Speaker 2: You know the cameras are there. You know the eyes
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  Speaker 2: of the world are there. And so even a 10-second
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  Speaker 2: break to do that, it's almost like a giggle on
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  Speaker 2: both sides. It looked horrible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I still think it was deliberate, though. You know,
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  Speaker 1: whenever he has to do something right, Mamdani always sends
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  Speaker 1: a signal to his base that, don't worry, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really believe this. You know, like handing the pen to
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  Speaker 1: the terrorist lawyer. or laughing at the 9-11 ceremony. You
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  Speaker 1: notice he hasn't tried to explain it or apologize. He's
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  Speaker 1: letting it stand.
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  Speaker 2: No, no. Look, I agree with you, General Mark, about him,
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  Speaker 2: that he's always talking to his base. Anytime he gives
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  Speaker 2: a speech, it's never about reaching those who don't agree
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  Speaker 2: with him. It's about comforting the base. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that's his one concern, is as long as he has
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  Speaker 2: that base intact, he'll have support for enough of his
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  Speaker 2: initiatives and for his place as the mayor, as a
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  Speaker 2: strong political figure. That gives him credibility in his world.
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  Speaker 2: If he starts to talk to people who don't like him,
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  Speaker 2: even though it's better for New York, then he loses
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  Speaker 2: the base. I think that's his calculation. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Michael Goodwin, great column. Everybody go read Michael Goodwin's
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  Speaker 1: column from yesterday. It's up on the New York Post website,
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  Speaker 1: and you can read him every Sunday and Wednesday in
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  Speaker 1: the New York Post. Michael Goodwin, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: My pleasure. Thank you, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Take care. Hey, don't forget, I'm here three
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