The Heroes of September

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1:00Just order a starter kit, fill the bags, send them back for free, and Ridwell takes care of the rest. Start today at Ridwell.com. We'll take it to the cockpit. The door won't open. 720 now on the great WRK-O Jeff Kuhner, Boston's bulldozer. That, of course, was the first flight that crashed flight 11, that crashed into the south tower, and just a horrible day. Yeah, that was this, Betty Young, the stewardess on that flight,

2:03saying we're in trouble. We're in serious trouble. Terrorists, Islamic terrorists have now hijacked the plane. Forgive us, I want to make my apologies to all of you. We had a power outage, and that's why we were off the air for about a good seven minutes. But obviously everything has been taken care of. Okay, very quickly. There is so much opposition now to Mamdani, being at the memorial today, ground zero, 25th anniversary of the September 11 Islamic terrorist attacks, that the families don't want them, the survivors don't want them, the first responders, and those, and the family members of those first responders who died of 9-11 related illnesses, they don't want him. Remember, this is a man who refuses to renounce the phrase globalize the intifada.

3:04He says it's a beautiful phrase. He loves the phrase, meaning globalized jihadism, globalized terrorist attacks all over the world. That's what intifada means. So bring it here and bring it everywhere. He's sick in the head. I want you to listen now. This is a New York City Councilwoman. Her last name is Paladino, and she's saying nobody wants him. Why is he coming? He is desecrating sacred, hollowed, ground, and spitting. And on the memory of everyone who lost their lives on that fateful day, roll cut 18 mic. You talked about Hassan Piker, and how we need,

4:05they need to get active. Well, you know what? We need to get active too. We need to be able to see through this total absolute fast that they're trying to pour it off on New Yorkers and across the country. I'm telling you, this was symbolism. It was cryptic, but it was a message. The same way it's a message when he goes down to 9-11. I ain't even say this Laura, but you know, it's a message to El Salvadoran that look. We conquered New York. That's how scary all of this really is. To each and every one of us. New Yorkers need to wake up. He won the selection, not with born and bred New Yorkers. He won this election with transplants, ages 18 to 30 years old, making promises he could never keep. So I am furious. And obviously, I mean, she knows what some have been laught in his dead. Her point is obviously he's saying, oh, in the end, we conquered you.

5:06You didn't conquer us. And that's why we're going to show up. And we're going to, we're going to add insult to injury. And I'm going to be there. And you mark my words already. He started yesterday that he gives his condolences to those who died on 9-11. They didn't die. My father died. My mother died. My mother-in-law died. Sandy went to a funeral recently, someone very dear to her and her family. That person died. They were murdered on 9-11. And they were murdered by Islamist terrorists, who by the way were globalizing the intifada. And that scumbag is going to show his face. Honestly, the country has changed in 25 years.

6:07Because had you told me this 25 years ago, I would have said, you got a screw. Honestly, I would have said, you're crazy. You're here nuts. Well, no. The one that's crazy is me. Because I honestly thought when we said never forget, we really meant never forget. But sadly for many of us, especially on the left and the Democrats, what forgotten? They have now openly siding with the enemy. For them, we had it coming and we deserved it. Jerry on the Cape. Thanks for holding Jerry and welcome. Morning, Jeff. Hi, Jerry. Saw him day. I'd like to share a 9-11 story with you. Yes, please. That day was so beautiful. Do you remember it? It was so beautiful.

7:07It was in the cloud in the sky. It was a beautiful, beautiful September day. Remember, Jeff? Yes. I would happen to be on the phone with a dear friend of mine who has since passed on. And we were talking. I had both TVs on. I had my computer on and everything. I was working as a consultant at that time and I was working from home. And we were talking. And he said to me, did you just see that? Do you have your TV on? Did you just see that? He said, a plane just hit the World Trade Center. I said, yeah, I'm watching it live right now. He went into a diet tribe of swearing about Saddam Hussein. He blamed Saddam Hussein for it. I said, I said, no, Bobby. That's not Saddam Hussein. That's not who did this. So time went by. We were on the phone together. And then the second... Jerry, can you please hang on or up against the hard break? There's an emergency 11 trying to call. Bobby, we have some claims.

8:09That's from St. Louis and he's guilty. Why is that in today's part? And who's trying to call me here? American 11, are you trying to call? Nobody knows. Everything was okay. I'm just trying to make any noise. We're going to do it yourself. I'm the F-8. That's a big fight. 732 on the Great W-R-K-O. Jeff Kuhner, Boston's Bulldozer 617-266-68-68-68. Okay, what you're hearing now, this is one of the hijackers, Mohammed Atah, on flight 11. This is one of the planes that crashed into the Twin Towers. He thinks he's talking to the airline passengers, saying, you know, basically, we've taken over the plane, we're hijacking it, you know, you make a move, you're going to die. But he doesn't realize he's actually accidentally not speaking to the passengers. He's actually calling air traffic control.

9:10And, you know, talking to air traffic control. So air traffic control, and you're right away, that flight 11 had now been hijacked, because Mohammed Atah had just announced it. So just a little bit more of some of the color and the events of that day that, to me, I'll never forget. And I hope our nation will never forget. I want to go back to Jerry on Cape Cod. It was a beautiful day. It was. I remember there wasn't a cloud in the sky. You were talking to your friend, Bobby. You had the TV on. He says, did you see this? The Twin Towers have been hit. Your friend says this was Saddam Hussein. You said, no, Bobby, it was not Saddam. And then we got cut off. Please pick up where you left off, Jerry. We stayed on the phone with each other for a while longer. And then we got off the phone with one another.

10:10And then about quarter of 12, my mother called me, God rest her soul. And she said to me, your brother-in-law is missing. And I said, oh, boy. I said, how do you know that, mom? She said, you're sister called me. She said, she can't get in touch with him. He, at the time, was working for NFL properties down in New York City. And he ended up being okay. But for like three hours, we didn't know anything. But then, Bob, Jeff, around 230 in the afternoon, my friend, Bob called me. And he said, he's sitting down. And I said, yeah, why? He said, one of the planes that crashed into the towers, he said, Mark Davis and Ace Bailey were on the plane. They were going out to LA. And I just, he said, you just spoke with them last week. He said they had called, they had both, I had spoke to both of them in a conference call. They wanted some evaluations of players that were both collegiate and amateur.

11:11So that's my 9-11 story, Jeff. Let me ask you, Jerry, the, our country 25 years later, when it comes to Islam, 9-11, the war on terror. Have things gotten better? Have things gotten worse? Are we more united? Are we more divided? How do you look at our country now 25 years after the fact? I think we've forgotten a lot of things, Jeff. I think we have willful ebnesia. I think, Jeff, I know I know I'm going to be called a big it and everything. And I've said this to you many, many times. Europe is starting to expel all the Islamists, you know. All the countries, all of them, they're all starting to do it very quietly. They're deporting all of them. It's begun. Because Europe's, I mean, it's getting destroyed.

12:13But Jeff, we do need to not allow Islam to be in this country because it's not a true, they're using it as a guise for religion. We all know it's a political, aocratic ideology. We can't allow it in our country. I know that sounds terrible that, you know, that I'm saying this, but we cannot allow these people in our country. We need to deport them all. And we can't allow them into this country anymore. Because they have proven we should take them at their word, that they want to take over the world. Period. Jerry, thank you very much for the call, for your honesty and courage, and for sharing that story. 617-266-6868, agree, disagree. Mark, in New Hampshire, thanks for holding Mark and welcome. Oh, hey, everybody.

13:14Hi, Mark. Quite, quite the day. You know, we can sit here and then I'm sharing what has stories about what was going on that day. And you know, you touched on Monday, you know, the whole thing with him handing the ceremonial pen to an alkydler. I mean, that's, it is. It's a slap in the face that everyone that lost someone on that day. You know, that alone should just qualify him to ever show in his face. But, you know, he is without a doubt across the Islamic world, a symbol, you know, much like that woman said, he is a symbol of them conquering, you know, the site of one of the worst Islamic terrorist attacks we've ever had. You know, and that's what they view him as. They even said it publicly that he is a symbol for Muslims.

14:16You know, and I think Jeff, we do a disservice when we call it radical. Because Jeff, I got up, I got a believe this is not radical. This is pretty mainstream. I think that the overwhelming majority of Muslims around the world believe in conquering. I mean, that's what the religion is based on. You have a guy, Muhammad goes to a city that is controlled by mainly by Jews in Medina. And what does he do? He promises peace. He promises coexistence until he has the power. And then what does he do? He slaughters conquer and expels anyone that doesn't follow his quote unquote faith. That's what they do Jeff. They promise you peace. They promise that they just want to code this. They just want to practice their faith in peace until they have the majority.

15:16And then you're all done by that time. It's too late and you can't fight back because they control the banks. They control the law enforcement. They control the government. And you're left out. You either submit. Die or you have to you have to pay to the right to actually live. This is what they believe Jeff, you know, and it's not me. Okay. Scholars are teaching this. E-Longs are teaching this. These are the people that teach Islam to their followers. It's such just some radical friends. It is mainstream. And it's not just a record. I mean, just to reinforce what you're saying Mark, it's it's in the. right there in the Quran. You know, and Mark, I want to ask you a point blank and I want to ask everybody because it's the elephant in the room. Ultimately, look, Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, Islam,

16:16Islamic terrorism, clearly 1000% to blame. And I believe Saudi Arabia, I know Saudi Arabia was behind it. Okay. So please, I don't want people to think I'm deflecting from the real culprits. I am not. But I have to ask on from our side, on our end, George W Bush, the president at the time, almost immediately. And he was essentially a puppet of Saudi Arabia. The whole Bush family has made their fortune from the Saudis. And so they were doing the bidding of Saudi Arabia. And the Bush administration did everything in its power to cover up Saudi Arabia's role and complicity in 911. And so much else in fostering Islamic fundamentalism and Islamic terrorism and jihadism all over the world, including into Europe and into North America. He came out and he said the line that the Saudis wanted him to say, which is, quote, Islam is a religion of peace. It was George W Bush.

17:25I know the left appropriated it immediately. And the Democrats and the media, they pounced on it and they ran with it. But it was a Republican president who first uttered it. And he said, Islam is a great religion. Islam is a great faith. It's what he said. I'm giving you verbatim. Islam is a religion of peace. In fact, just yesterday, he and Condi Rice were interviewed at a presidential center. And both Bush and Condi said that they believe one of their great successes is that they got the point across that Islam is a religion of peace and Islam is a religion of tolerance. And that America should tolerate Islam and Muslims. And so let me ask you, because to me, that statement is not just a lie. It's the exact opposite is the truth. It's not a religion of peace. As you

18:32rightly say, it's a religion of war, conquest, and submission. So in the end, does not president George or then president George W Bush? Does he not bear so much of the blame for our failure to confront this clash of civilizations that 9-11 triggered, sparked, unleashed, however you want to say it? Mark, I'm up against a break. I love to get your answer. We are told time and time again by the Pentagon and by the State Department that they know something's going on. They seem to have the North problem with the North Tower. Let's look at the North Tower quickly. Quickly coming down. Oh my god. The second tower. It's hard to put it into words and maybe one doesn't need to.

19:40Both trade towers. Where thousands of people work. On this day, Tuesday, have now been attacked and destroyed. With thousands of people, either in them or in the immediate area adjacent to them. That was Peter Jennings from maybe C-News. The audio doesn't quite do justice because you even use white as a sheet and the people around them, they're white, they're shocked. They're like a gas. I can't believe this is happening. I want to go right back to Mark, but I can just tell you I was in a newsroom at the time and we, I'll never forget it. I mean, we were at war, we were under siege. We can't believe they had pulled it off. They had rung our bell. We were

20:43reeling. We were stunned. We were shocked and we knew more was to come. We were bracing ourselves that this was not the end. We knew there was more and of course more came. Two more flights. Anyway, all right, I want to go back to Mark 9750 by the way on the great WRKO. Today is the 25th anniversary of the September 11 Islamic terrorist attacks. There are going to be very special memorials that are going to be held today, not just in New York City but around the entire country. And I want to ask all of you, it is the Kuna country poll question of the day, sponsored by Mario's, Mario's quality, roofing, sighting and windows. And I would appreciate it very much if as many of you voted as possible. 25 years after the 9-11 Islamic terror attacks

21:49is America more united or more divided than we were then. So 25 years on, are we more united or more divided than we were on September 11, 2001? A united, B divided, you know where I stand, I think we are deeply, badly divided and polarized. But that's me, I want to hear from you. You can vote on our webpage, www.wrko.com slash Kuna, www.wrko.com slash Kuna, KUH and as a national ER. You can also vote via X, my handle there, all one word at the Kuna report, at the Kuna report, KUH and as a national ER. George Bush addressed the country, the president, and said that Islam was a

22:55religion of peace. A is that true and B was that the fatal flaw in the entire war on terror strategy that essentially Bush from the outset was deflecting and appeasing the nature of this clash of civilizations that was unleashed on that fateful day. Mark in New Hampshire, I got to ask you, do you think George Bush lied to the country? I'm not talking about the Iraq war. I'm talking about him within 24 hours saying do not blame Islam, Islam is a religion of tolerance, Islam is a religion of peace. What say you? Yeah, I think just that any politician that helped to cover up complicity or

23:59push this notion that it's all about peace, anyone that aided in the cover up of who's responsible or gave comfort to that side of the world, I think they are treasonous and it should be treated as a spudge for them to come out and say that right after it's about peace. No, yeah, the only peace that Islam is peace of crap, Jeff. Sorry for that language, but I'd like to say something else. No, and I'd also one last point, Jeff, everyone complains about ICE, right? They're deporting people who overstay visas. Well, guess what? Half the hijackers will hear on overstayed visas. Where would our world be Jeff? If we had deported those guys, where would we be? 9-11 wouldn't have happened? Maybe the Iraq war wouldn't have happened? Maybe Afghanistan wouldn't have happened? Think about

25:00that when you complain about people who are just being deported for overstayed visas. We should have gotten rid of those guys. We should have thrown them out of the country, but that's the problem, Jeff. Too many people are complacent. Too many people have bought into this Islamophobia crap. You know, you have a religion that hates everyone, hates Jews, hates Christians, hates pork, hates music, hates dogs. Yet, yet when we say one thing, it's Islamophobia. What do you call them? I mean, they have everything, phobia. They hate everyone that doesn't agree with them, and they want to conquer the world. It's what they teach. There's no way around it. They are an imminent threat to the rest of the world. Mark, brilliant call as usual. And thank you for your courage. 617-266-6868, best audience in the business. Now, I want to ask all of you,

26:05and I'm being very sincere now. You think you're going to get analysis like this? Reaction like this on Fox News? I forget CNN, MS now, the local networks. You just forget that. Okay, because there are a bunch of woke idiots. Okay, they're they're pushing the liberal woke Marxist agenda. I'm talking about so-called conservative, you know, media. Where are you going to get this kind of honest, raw, truthful reaction? Very few places. 617, that's why I admire and love this audience so much. 617-266-6868, Jimmy indoor chester. Thanks for holding Jimmy and welcome. Morning, Jeff. It's me and B. Who do you call it? What I wanted to say is that previous call, he was right, what he was saying, Jeff, because what do you think they were doing on marble street

27:07and Quincy, where these guys, half of them took off. They were part of Hatties Group that went on the planes. You know what they were doing? The people standing there all in the days. These guys were packing up their cars, the remainder of the guys that didn't go on the planes. They were sharing. They were screaming, playing music. They were happy to see people Americans dead. They don't care if you're black American, Spanish American, a white American. You're an American. They hate God's, these young people that right now that went around 25 years ago, if they don't wake up, they're going to see it because history repeats itself and what we're doing is allowing these people, like he said, to come in through the border. If the Democrats come to power, they said they're going to open the borders. And what do you think is going to happen? The same thing to us. We're going to be destroyed from within. And guess what, Jeff? I was calling on Mike. Okay, one of the guys

28:10that lost the loved one, he lives in Quincy, where my brother has a house. And down the streets, he still got the flag for 25 years. He lost a brother in that plane that crashed in the Towers. And here's the bad part. The guy that orchestrated it, the FBI went to his office and what he called it a squandering. He has an odd, there's all kinds of fans. He built it in offices there. He was the money man. When they came one day, they were going through the houses asking about this guy because he was cheering with his friends when 9-11 happened. He's an Arab. And this guy has the flag. He has to see the scumbag right across from him. He's got a house right across from him. The FBI asked questions. When they asked me questions, they recognized what was one of the FBI agents. He said, what, what, what, what not with that guy? I said, I don't know, nothing. But the later on, I found out they went to a storage unit where he has in Quincy, the money man for these guys that

29:18did all of this terrorism. And Jeff, it's going to happen again. It's going to repeat. History will repeat itself. If these people don't vote Republican, they vote Democrat, they bring these guys. They put them in office, which they're laughing at us. They're using us as suckies. And when all of this happened, all he would do was laugh and then they were happy. Look at what they did when we had the marathon Obama, when we had injured people taking to the hospitals, who do you go to see first the Prince with his wife in mass general, the Prince from Arabia? Remember that? Yeah. No, I look you're right. Look, I look, people don't understand, I mean, you understand Jimmy. And this audience understands that I'm saying others, right? They don't understand how much of our poll so much of our political leaders, how many political leaders, how much of our political class is bought and paid for by Gulf money. Saudi Arabia,

30:20Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait. Okay, it's, you know, different countries, they fund different causes. But the point is they buy them off. And that's why the truth about 9 11 has never come out, which is that Saudi Arabia was fundamentally behind it. There's no question. And you know, the other thing they're covering up, and I remember I saw this, I was in the newsroom. And so we had multiple TV screens on. And I was just curious, I said, you know what? These are all American channels, which is great. I said, but let's get some other non-American channels. And I saw I said, put on the CBC. I said, put on the BBC, put on Sky News in Britain. You know, other stations you can't because it's French, German, most, you know, I speak a little bit of French, but most in the newsroom, they don't speak French or German or Italian or, you know, Arabic or whatever. But so we got the CBC on. Now I saw it with my own eyes, the newsroom. I told everybody, come here, come here, come here.

31:26The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's version of the BBC had a reporter and camera people in the West Bank and Gaza, okay, in the so-called, quote, Palestinian territories. They were dancing on the streets. And I don't mean 10, 20, 30, it was thousands upon thousands. I mean, the streets were flooded. You know, they don't like music. They loved music then. They had the Arabic music on men, women, dancing in circles, looking up like Delirious, Delirious, Allah, Allah, Allah, with their hands extended upward, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, like as if the joy that 3000 Americans had been killed, they were the only word is ecstasy. They were in ecstasy. And I said, look at this, we got to get

32:30this into the paper. I said, they're dancing on the freaking streets in the Palestinian territories. I go, I want to know what the reaction is in other Muslim countries. Get the, try to get as much a TV coverage or satellite coverage as you can, because I'll bet you dollars to donuts. They're not just dancing in the palace. They're not just dancing in the West Bank and Gaza. And they were dancing in New Jersey, they were dancing in Toronto, they were dancing in London, they were dancing in Paris, they were dancing in Egypt, they were dancing in Saudi Arabia, they were dancing in Qatar, they were dancing in Afghanistan, they were dancing in Pakistan, they were denouncing, they were dancing everywhere across the Muslim world or Muslim enclaves. So where's the peace? And I'm sorry, but they declared war on us, a civilizational war.

33:35And the response of our president at the time was, no, no, it's peace, it's all peace. It's peace, the Quran, peace, Islam, peace. The Muslim world, peace. It's just a few whack jobs. You know, these guys in the mountains there in Afghanistan, so we'll just take care of them and the problem is solved. Well, Al-Qaeda is wiped out for the most part. Al-Qaeda is gone. No. Has the G-Hod stopped? No. Has the terrorist attack stopped? No. Has Sharia law stops spreading? No. In fact, I'm telling you, they're in a much stronger position now, factually. Now than they were 25 years ago. So where's the peace? Show me the peace. They keep telling me it's a religion of peace. Where is the freaking peace?

34:39Okay, I'm a little bit over eight o'clock Friday. You know what that means. Kuners call log, caller of the week. Take it away, a mic. It's time for Kuners call log. Where we showcase our favorite caller from the week. I can hear you. Can you hear me? Thanks for holding. I just want to say that I haven't actually like consumed media watch news or anything for a long time, but I just happened to turn on the radio and I'm just shocked that this is where conservatives are. Back in the day, I just remember Rush Limbaugh used to educate people on conservatism. The Republican Party used to run on fiscal conservatism and this is just kind of like the silliest thing I've ever heard come from this party. And you think it's a good thing to have everybody get $5,000. I just don't, I just think that it's kind of like maybe the 5,000 gets diluted a little bit, but we should be getting $5,000 by, you know,

35:43fiscally conservative policies making the economy so that, you know, we don't need to be handing out $5,000. I just remember way back like 11, 12 years ago, we used to put sand to hats on the Democrat whenever they would be bribing their voters. And sorry, I think Donald Trump is just the biggest f&s Santa Claus that this country has ever seen now. Zavikaz is coming. Be here every weekday on the Kooner Report between 6 and 10 AM. And next week, it could be you on Kooner's call log. Please don't be a stranger call again. 806 now on the great WRKO. That was Mike in Marshfield. You know, Mike, you know, let's just say

36:46the Republicans win, which I hope they do, and retain control of both majorities in the House in the Senate. And President Trump delivers on his $5,000 dividend is checked for every adult American citizen. If you don't want the check, Mike, please, you can sign it over to me. Mike, Mike in my ear is saying, I want that check, Jeff. That's why I played the song Santa's coming to town. So Mike is like, no, no, no, I like Trump as Santa that that's exactly what I could use a $5,000 check. Anyway, look, agree, disagree. We always welcome everyone from Kooner Country. 617-266-6868. Okay. Are we more united or more divided than we were 25 years ago? What do you think the key lesson of 9-11 is? Many of you are saying, you must not allow Muslim

37:54immigration into the United States and to awaken to the fact that we are in a clash between Western civilization and Islam that this has been going on for really since the inception of Islam, a thousand, 500 years. And we are just continuing this and we need to be alert and to be honest about it. And I want to ask all of you that it's going to be a very emotional day. It's already a very emotional day for me and for many of you should Zoran Mamdani be presiding over the memorial at ground zero later this morning. Or do you agree with the victims, the families, the first responders who say he has no business being there, skip the event, leave town, whatever, but they say don't show up. Agree, disagree, Ned in Danvers. Thanks for holding Ned and welcome.

39:05Yeah, hey, Jeff, I am a high school teacher in Cambridge and I was actually in my classroom on 9-11 and I have a TV by classroom and I watched the second plane hit the tower and it was a day I'll never forget. However, I have been teaching the events of 9-11 since 2002 to this day. I'm sitting in my classroom right now preparing to teach 9-11 and you're talking about some vast left-wing conspiracy that is pumping the schools with information far left information about 9-11 and in all the years I've been teaching never has anyone ever come to me or my department and said you need to teach this about 9-11. I certainly do not give a left-wing

40:19lean to anything I teach, but certainly not about 9-11. I give the facts about what happened who was responsible and what the results were that came from it and I think it's really interesting. You had talked about the relationship with Saudi Arabia and if you look, the first meeting that Trump had once he became president for a second term with Mohammed bin Salman and that says quite a bit and you certainly defend Trump and his policies and I think the Republican Party in general supports Trump and his policies and so where is the hypocrisy in that? Well, you know Ned, look, I'll be very honest. To me, I just find it incredible.

41:22We have 3,000 Americans who were killed by 19 Islamic terrorists and we're getting into Trump ashing. Every president kisses the ring of the Saudis. Joe Biden did. Barack Obama certainly did. In fact, Barack Obama went on a world apology tour for Islam and for the crimes of Islam. And yet you call this show and I appreciate that you call. I really do. But we can't talk about that day and the meaning of that day without you injecting Trump. And you know and you say you don't teach with a left-wing bias. I don't believe you.