On this episode of Get Off My Lawn, host Alex Blumberg talks about the 9/11 attacks and how radical Islam was the most successful attack on U.S. soil ever carried out by Muslims, and how we forgot about it. He also asks the question, why is there so much attention paid to the West Side Highway, Heather Heyer, the Orlando shooting, the Pulse shooting, and the San Bernardino attack, but not to the attacks by radical Muslims? And why is it that we don t talk about radical Islam as much as we do about other terror attacks, like the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the attacks in London on 7/11/11? And how radicalized are radicalized terrorists? And what role did radical Islam play in those attacks, and why aren t we talking about them enough? Get off my lawn is a new show on the freespeechtv.tv channel. Get off My Lawn is a show about radical Muslims, radical Islam, and radical leftist ideas. Get On My Lawn is a podcast about radicalized Muslims and radicalism. and radicalized Americans. Subscribe to get a free copy of my new book, "Islamophobe" on Amazon Prime, wherever you get your bookshelf, your local bookstore, or your local library, or wherever else you can get a copy of the book, and get 20% off your copy of it for free! Get on My Lawn! Subscribe and Subscribe to my show on my show! Subscribe on Audible Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about me on my new show, Get On my Lawn on my Podcasts and subscribe on Podchaser, and listen to my podcast, and subscribe to my other social media platforms! I'm on Insta: . Learn more on my podcast on my other podcast, get my Freebie on Instapodcasts on my Insta on Instafed, Insta! and I'll be giving you a discount code: on my next episode on September 11th, September 11, 2019. I'll give you a chance to win a FREEbie on my upcoming episode on the next episode of the podcast Get Off The Lawn podcast! on September 15th, 2019, 2019! Thank you're getting a discount on my first episode on my second episode of my show, get it on the 31st, 2019 edition of the new podcast, Get My Lawn on the podcast
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00:00:06.000You know who did the most too soon joke on September 11th was Amy Sedaris.
00:00:12.000She was dating Philip Seymour Hoffman at the time, and they were standing on their roof, they were watching the carnage, and he's looking at the Twin Towers on fire,
00:00:28.000And, um, she's staring at him instead of watching.
00:01:24.000Pearl Harbor was about 2,000 people and September 11th was just under 3,000.
00:01:31.000Pearl Harbor was fascist, that was the Japanese teamed up with Hitler and 9-11 was a radical Islam.
00:01:40.000And we said never forget, and I would say we started forgetting on September 12th.
00:01:44.000I remember going to Union Square in New York the next day, and there was all these people with signs that said, we want justice, not revenge.
00:01:54.000Discouraging America from retaliating.
00:01:58.000Now, I'm an isolationist, I don't like all these infinite wars in the Middle East, but after 9-11, I wanted a few bombs to go off.
00:02:21.000I mean right now Islamophobia is a much bigger concern than radical Islam.
00:02:29.000You talk to your average American liberal and their concern is that you might not love Muslims enough.
00:02:35.000They don't talk about the West Side Highway, they talk about Charlottesville.
00:02:42.000Look how much media attention, and especially in college, how much attention Heather Heyer gets, and how little attention the eight victims of the West Side Highway get, or the 89 victims in Orlando at the Pulse shooting, or the, sorry if these numbers are not perfectly accurate, the 14 deaths at Fort Hood.
00:04:21.000See, I think we have a lot of culpability in all of this because we have such self-hatred that when Muslims come to our country, and their parents could be relatively moderate, but they go to class and they hear these fat Marxist bitches, these boomer angry woman liberals, tell them that America sucks and it was built on slavery and it was stolen from the Indians.
00:04:43.000Eventually they sort of go, yeah, fuck this place.
00:05:14.000So just put your phone away, and I'm talking about the terror attacks in London with the bus and the subway, and you look at those those killers, those terrorists, those radicalized terrorists.
00:05:25.000Actually, it's good that I have my computer because I'm better at your job than you are.
00:05:28.000So I'm showing the picture to the podcast audience?
00:05:31.000Yeah, that's why I asked you to look it up, because I want you to show pictures.
00:05:36.000And you see a lot of Jamaicans in these terror groups.
00:05:40.000Not a lot, but a fair smattering, and a lot of white dudes.
00:05:44.000And that's because they see, what was it, July 7th, 2005?
00:05:50.000Um, they see all this, the West sucks, it's evil, and they start going, yeah, he's right.
00:05:59.000And then I look up, I look up the guys responsible and it's, it's a lot of Pakistanis, but then it's also these guys that they'll have their Muslim name, but you look up their original names and you go, wait a minute, you're a Jamaican dude.
00:06:11.000You grew up playing soccer and your dad was going to get a Guinness at the pub.
00:06:16.000And you realize we are so anti ourselves that not only do we radicalize moderate Muslims in our own country, of all races, but we pull in non-Muslims, like Jamaicans and white guys.
00:08:18.000So, yes, there's plenty of conspiracy theories and globalists, but we would be remiss if we did not focus today on radical Islam and how we forgot.
00:08:31.000I was down there at World Trade by O'Hara's.
00:08:34.000It's a pub just off Liberty Street in lower Manhattan.
00:08:38.000And it's by the memorial and it just says in big letters on a big giant brass plaque, never forget.
00:08:45.000And I just thought, we forgot right after.
00:08:47.000We're so concerned with Islamophobia that we embrace radical Islam.
00:08:52.000That's really where we're at right now.
00:08:54.000And the media turns a blind eye to any... We had Linda Sarsour running the Women's March!
00:10:45.000We had the, we, so Triple 5 Soul was like this sort of hip-hop clothing line, and they were on North 4th and Wythe, which is beautiful now.
00:11:04.000They put all their clothes in the back.
00:11:06.000So they sort of gave us about 300 square feet, moved some boxes around, and there we were.
00:11:15.000And I could see out the window on the second floor, I could see these disgusting crackhead whores.
00:11:21.000Like one ski boot, one sock, lipstick on her face like a weird clown, her hair hand cut by herself, some other black dude named Jimmy, who was always shadowboxing.
00:12:22.000Is there a more meaningless gesture than writing with a sharpie to your beautiful children that you love, that you're coming back soon, like they're ever going to be in that hallway?
00:12:32.000And as I was looking out the window, I'd see Hasidic Jews roll up in minivans, and truckers too.
00:12:38.000A trucker would, I guess he'd be done a 12-hour shift, and he'd be like, I need a BJ, no frills.
00:12:45.000So truckers would pull up, and they'd jump in, and they would go down to one block, and then pull away no time at all later, five minutes later.
00:13:34.000And by the way, we saw the Bill Burr special last night and there's a big long thing about fucking robots, just like Whitney Cummings routine.
00:15:29.000So I feel like he's going to hear this and think I'm saying he's a joke and then be really pissed off and never speak to me again.
00:15:35.000Like one time I said, I made fun of Meatloaf and he didn't speak to me for like a year.
00:15:43.000Anyway, it was Derek Beckles, who's got a show on Adult Swim, Matt Sweeney, who plays guitar with Iggy Pop now, Andrew WK, and Melissa Oftermar.
00:15:58.000She's called Oftermar now, but she was in Hole for a while.
00:16:31.000And I got an interesting letter recently where they go, you used to hang out with celebrities and then in post Trump, you don't know any anymore.
00:16:37.000The fact that they were famous was totally irrelevant to me.
00:18:16.000And it was really fun in these booths.
00:18:18.000Another sort of a crew we would hang out with where it was a younger group that was not famous but much more fun was Ryan McGinley, Dash Snow, Dan Colon, Sam Sagalnick.
00:19:07.000We used to just totally trash these karaoke rooms.
00:19:11.000Because, you know, New York gets packed and you can't really talk to each other or hang out with each other because the bars get shoulder to shoulder.
00:19:20.000So we'd rent these karaoke rooms and just sing karaoke songs and get good at it.
00:20:36.000I believe it's exactly three miles from World Trade.
00:20:40.000and uh we get in there he falls asleep on the couch it was just really a tiny tiny tiny living room and a bedroom and then an unimaginably small kitchen it was like when you see those Tokyo apartments and you can't believe a human lives there it was that like you could almost if you stretch your arms out you could almost touch both sides of my living room and then my bedroom was just my small bed nothing else but
00:21:04.000Back then, being in Manhattan was the best possible way to get pussy.
00:25:08.000And we were slowly putting the pieces together and then we get up there and we have a kind of a flippant attitude about it.
00:25:15.000I had planned a photo shoot that day for Vice Magazine where I had rented a stand-up white limousine and all the clothes I got were white and then I bought a bunch of blonde wigs.
00:25:27.000So it's going to be kind of a cool aesthetic in this tall white limousine driving around with everyone wearing all white with blonde hair.
00:25:33.000It would look kind of freaky, like outer spacey.
00:26:07.000And that's when we realized, holy shit, this is real.
00:26:10.000And we went back downstairs and I remember when we first heard about, I'm jumping backwards now, Derek was sitting on the ground and I was sitting on the couch and he was leaning up with his back against the bottom of the couch and we're watching my little tiny TV.
00:28:02.000And in my audio book, which I guess I recorded 2010, so 10 years ago, I start crying recalling the time that we went to Doc Holliday's, I'll get there in a second.
00:28:11.000He got to a payphone, spoke to his brother, found out she was alive.
00:28:14.000He came back into the bar and he said, she's alive!
00:28:16.000And everyone cheered and hugged him and it was a beautiful moment.
00:28:19.000Anyway, we had a falling out around 2015.
00:29:13.000And then I bet when he said, Doc, holidays and people were crying and holding him, I bet he thought, all right, this is getting kind of out of hand.
00:29:19.000And so he ran to a quote unquote pay phone and made the call and then everything was fine and everyone cheered and then he was off the hook.
00:29:30.000This is unlike, of course, what's that guy's name?
00:29:36.000Steve Rannazzisi of the show The League, where he moved to LA and people would go, he just entered the comedy scene and he wanted to meet people and they go, oh my god, you're from New York?
00:31:19.000He can't really see it from Greenpoint, but he's watching it on... You could see the sky from Brooklyn, but you couldn't really see what we could see in the Lower East Side.
00:31:30.000So he's just sleeping, and Andrew's freaking out watching it, and he wakes up Jimmy.
00:33:25.000I wasn't really political before then.
00:33:27.000I hated the government, but it was from an anarchist punk perspective, whatever.
00:33:31.000I wasn't paying attention to world affairs.
00:33:34.000I liked things about the right and the left, whatever.
00:33:37.000That day, and around that time too, I can't remember if it was right before or right after, I read Pat Buchanan's Death of the West.
00:33:43.000And those two things combined changed me forever.
00:33:47.000Same with Pamela Geller, same with Anthony Cumia, of Opie and Anthony.
00:33:50.000They weren't really political before that.
00:33:53.000I'm traumatized from that and I've since looked into Islam and though moderate Muslims tend to be pretty good folks, there is a disproportionate number of Muslims who are prone to radical politics.
00:34:07.000This is what people don't seem to understand.
00:34:53.000That's, like, you talk about these Nazis that are everywhere, there's probably 500 neo-Nazis in America out of 360 million people.
00:35:01.000One in four of them does not believe suicide bombing is sometimes or often justified.
00:35:05.000And you don't think, you don't have a rational, you lefties don't have a rational view of white nationalists, you think it's like 40% of the country?
00:35:46.000We're looking at like tens of thousands of people in America think suicide bombing is sometimes often justified.
00:35:52.000And, as Ben Shapiro pointed out in his video, The Myth of the Radical Muslim Minority, when you leave America, you get much higher numbers than 1 in 4.
00:36:03.000Especially like Palestine, and Jordan, and Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia.
00:36:13.000So, you know, you listen to Howard Stern and he hates Germany because of the Nazis.
00:36:19.000And he goes every time you'll notice when a German is calling in or when Germany as a subject comes up, it could be about wiener schnitzels.
00:36:26.000He just gets kind of tight lipped and you can tell he's pissed off and he's being prejudiced.
00:36:59.000Anyway, so Sprague was rocking around that area and people started to jump off and you can find this if you look up body parts 9-11.
00:37:08.000By the way, buildings in the area were finding body parts, hands, cufflinks, jewelry.
00:37:17.000They were finding parts of people's personal belongings on their roofs for weeks afterwards.
00:37:25.000But but when people decided what I think what happened was that the the heat became so intense right that They were standing sort of by the opening they took you can see them.
00:37:36.000We couldn't see this on TV And we couldn't obviously see this from where we were three miles away So that we learned about this later, but Sprague saw it live these people were jumping off the buildings when I think it got to the point where
00:37:49.000You saw people dying of smoke inhalation.
00:37:56.000To walk into the smoke was just guaranteed smoke annihilation and it wasn't like the smoke was high up and you could crawl on your hands and knees.
00:38:03.000It was just a mountain of billowing smoke coming stronger and stronger and stronger.
00:38:07.000You stand on the edge of the building by the hole.
00:38:10.000You're holding on to fragmented steel.
00:39:00.000Okay, well then you won't mind if we open up, remember Greg Gutfeld was going to open up a Muslim gay bar near World Trade and he had a lot of people excited to invest.
00:39:49.000And they grab him, a bunch of volunteers, firemen are there, cops.
00:39:53.000They grab him and they say, start grabbing parts!
00:39:57.000I don't understand why there was such a rush.
00:39:59.000And by the way, when I say I was walking down the street and I just started thinking Derek's story was a lie, when I was walking down the street, a thing of Sprague's story is not a lie.
00:40:26.000He told me this haunting story, and when I got it out of him, by the way, this is not at a bar, this is at his house, I think he was high, and he was slowly eked out this fucking horrible story.
00:40:38.000About grabbing body parts, hands, torsos, legs, and putting them on pallets.
00:40:53.000I guess they wanted to get them out of the way before they were buried by dust or something, or that's just what you do.
00:40:59.000There's probably FDNY protocol for when you see body parts, immediately start collecting them and getting them somewhere where they can be sorted.
00:41:11.000So, we're back up on the roof, and when the buildings collapse,
00:41:21.000There's a part of your brain that goes, meh, it's just fires, and oh, it was a plane accident.
00:41:25.000The first one was a fire, the second one was a plane accident.
00:41:28.000They'll put this out, and then they'll fix the hole, and there'll be a death toll of 57, and people will go, it was the great fires of world trade, 2001.
00:41:38.000And then you'll, we'll move on, and that would be terrible.
00:41:43.000When they collapsed, Tower One collapsed first and then you went, holy shit, all the lies I was telling myself about this not being a big deal are lies.
00:41:55.000This is as consequential as my worst nightmare.
00:41:59.000And then the second one went down and everyone was on the roof crying.
00:42:11.000I mean, there was, my whole building was on the roof, but it was like a old school Dutch 1800s tenement type of building.
00:42:17.000So there was only about 15 of us on the roof, but there was, most of the women were crying, but a lot of us were just gobsmacked, just staring and looking at each other and shaking our heads.
00:42:28.000Everyone was giving up trying to make phone calls.
00:42:33.000And then we stared for a while and we watched the plumes of smoke and uh,
00:43:52.000We went to Doc Holidays and there was a, I mean, it was obviously very macabre and sad and there was a pallor of sadness, but there was also a great sort of coming together.
00:44:07.000I saw this later in 2004 at the Blackout, but there was some real sort of like camaraderie and are you okay?
00:44:21.000Um, we just sat there watching the news and, uh, people were, were roaming the streets like zombies covered in dust, walking away from the site.
00:44:33.000And so we started, uh, we, we drank there for a while.
00:44:37.000And then there was the incident with Derek where everyone was happy.
00:45:12.000In our defense, as far as going down there to volunteer, you went near there and all the cops and firemen were saying, get back, get back, go away!
00:45:19.000It wasn't until the next day there was people volunteering.
00:45:23.000They were just trying to get you the hell out of there.
00:46:24.000Sometimes they used those sort of things you get in a folder where you can put it in a little window envelope thing, those clear envelope things.
00:46:31.000And they were taped and wired and zip tied to the fences all over the churches and the hospitals and it was missing posters.
00:47:13.000Like it was the most powerfully naive and sad gesture imaginable that you would put up these flyers thinking this is all just a big misunderstanding.
00:47:24.000And I gotta admit, I'll get more into the details of the truthers on my show, but a lot of this truther mentality, I blame on people's brains just going, I can't handle this.
00:47:35.000There must be, it's not real, it's a conspiracy.
00:48:57.000And I was told that Vampire Weekend were sort of of that gang.
00:49:00.000And the reason their music was so optimistic and cheery was it was their way of saying to their fellow Westchester friends, guys, stop dying.
00:50:02.000So we sat and talked about, you know, the tension between Christianity and Islam, the tension between Israel, Judaism and Islam, and their side of the story, the Islam side, which I don't support, and our side, which I clearly do.
00:50:27.000And the internet had to show us the jumpers and the dead bodies.
00:50:31.000The news just sort of kept replaying that and pontificating.
00:50:33.000And some of the news was fucking annoying.
00:50:35.000I'll never forget this one newscaster woman saying, you know, it's sort of like New York lost its two front teeth.
00:50:43.000I just remember thinking, fuck you, bitch.
00:50:46.000Some other guy said, you know, I used to use, it's kind of hard sometimes when you're in the city to situate what's north and south.
00:50:52.000And I used to use the world trade to, to ground me and I don't have that anymore.
00:50:57.000Oh, that was another annoying news take.
00:51:00.000It's amazing how many people, too, weren't even there and say they have PTSD.
00:51:04.000I remember some chick, I was walking around lower Manhattan like five years later, and she said, I have to sit down, I'm traumatized, because this is where World Trade was.
00:57:25.000Where he says there's a pattern with all these horrible events in history, and it's people giving up their own personal liberty to someone else.
00:59:31.000When I see Ilhan Omar say, somebody did something, and I see Linda Sarsour running the Women's March, and men wearing America flag burkas at the Women's March, I think, how soon we forget.