Cliff’s Note:
On the 3rd anniversary of October 7, the Mayor of New York gave its victims 49 words, then spent about 4x as many on antisemitism. I tried to like Mamdani. I’m done.
David Shuster and Cliff Schecter, with Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney, get into rabid antisemitism, & its connection to Gulf money, entertainment deals, Trump allies.
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—Cliff
On the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks, Cliff Schecter and David Shuster are joined by Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney to talk about the statement from New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani that set off a firestorm. Cliff reads it in full and breaks down the math: 49 words for the victims of October 7, and far more on Gaza.
From there the panel widens out: why the anniversary keeps getting turned into something else, what that does to Democrats in swing seats weeks before the midterms, and who benefits when the world’s attention is steered in one direction. Julie and David, both veterans of corporate newsrooms, explain what the Skydance–Warner Bros. Discovery deal means for what Americans will and won’t see.
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• The statement: Cliff reads Mamdani’s anniversary statement and explains why it lost him for good.
• “Just one day”: Julie and Michelle, both New Yorkers who say they once backed parts of his agenda, on why the timing mattered.
• The 9/11 test: David asks how New York would have reacted if its mayor had marked 9/11 the same way.
• The double standard: Cliff compares the partition that created Pakistan, and asks why one country gets all the scrutiny.
• Who’s buying the news: Julie on the Gulf money behind the Skydance deal after California settled its lawsuit, and David on what Al Jazeera wouldn’t let him cover.
