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On Friday, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered a blatantly anti-American speech from City Hall, supposedly to mark America’s 250th Birthday, accusing America of being full of racism and bigotry, where “not all are created equal”. You would think this would be newsworthy, but on Friday, the Big Three evening newscasts and PBS NewsHour, all passed on it, while Fox News shows expressed their outrage.

On The Five, Dana Perino kicked off the segment, by calling the speech what it was, and playing a clip from it.

PERINO: It was like a Socialist state of the union, did you see this? New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani giving an America 250 address this morning, as his influence within the Democratic party continues to grow. The Socialist Mayor spent much of his speech focusing on what he says are America’s failures.

MAMDANI CLIP: We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see mass agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors, before  spiriting them away in unmarked vans.

After some short clips from Democrats, expressing concern over the party’s move towards Socialism, Perino gave the floor to Jesse Watters.

WATTERS: This speech did not live up to the hype. This guy built this thing up like this was the state of the union on July fourth. And he bombed. This thing was so boring. So tedious…. You could have been so much better. Because the guy is talented, he has a decent personality. But this thing did not deliver. I felt nothing. But at least when other politicians talk, I feel hate, I feel happiness. I felt emptiness inside.

The panel spent a full 10 minutes, pointing out just how outrageous the speech was. Two hours later, it was Laura Ingraham’s turn, on The Ingraham Angle, who focused on Mamdani’s true history.

INGRAHAM: Considering Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda to Indian parents, emigrated here, became an American citizen, was from an upper-class family, went to the prestigious Bowdoin College, dabbled in rap music, did a stint in state government, then was elected mayor at 33 of the largest city of the United States, and yet he still thinks given all of that, that America at 250 is rigged against people like him, rigged by people with power and influence. 

MAMDANI CLIP: America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom. Where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or right shade of skin. The rest of us they insist should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.

INGRAHAM:  It’s crazy…. But this is who New Yorkers voted for….Now, trust me, every year under Mamdani is going to get a little bit worse.

Next, on Hannity, it’s was Sean’s turn.

HANNITY: Sadly tonight, there is one bit of bad news. There is a stream of radicalism that in many ways is now threatening America’s way of life…At the core of this corrosive political movement, is of course, I guess its leader, the Marxist Mayor of New York, who now has become a U.S. Citizen as of 2018. Despite choosing to live in America, climbing to the pinnacle of New York politics in such a short period of time, you have Zohran Marxist, you know, Commie Mamdani, he likes to criticize America.

Hannity then played the clips played earlier by The Five and Laura Ingraham, and then weighed in with, “In order to create a more perfect union, it is imperative, it is critical, that you actually love the country. Unfortunately with the rise of this new radical Democratic Socialist movement led by people like Mamdani and AOC and Bernie Sanders and Pocahontas, and many others, they want to take this system and turn it upside down, and replace it with a system that is similar to the Soviet Union.” 

Fox is alarmed, and the liberals are pretending this didn’t happen. Not only did the Network Newscasts pass, but as we have previously noted, Friday on CNN’s News Central, they seemed to think this speech was a political plus.

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