Top Podcasts on Media Bias in NYC Terror Attack
Updated: Mar 10, 2026 – 18 episodes
Recent podcast discussions highlight a troubling trend in media coverage of terrorism, particularly following a radical Islamic attack in New York City. Critics argue that outlets like The New York Times have manipulated facts and delayed labeling incidents as terrorism, raising concerns about political bias and the media's responsibility to report the truth accurately.
The Mark Levin Podcast argues that media outlets are intentionally obscuring the truth about terrorism to protect political interests, particularly those of the Democratic Party. For a deep dive into this perspective, start with his episode on the Gracie Mansion incident. The Rob Carson Show echoes this sentiment, highlighting the media's role in downplaying radical Islamic threats. Meanwhile, The Megyn Kelly Show critiques how media narratives mislead the public about terrorism's true nature. Each of these podcasts offers a compelling critique of media bias in the context of the NYC attack.
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“Now, why am I getting into this? I want to go back to the truth about this Gracie Manchin bomb attempt because this is illustrative of exactly what I'm talking about an attempt to cover it up by the media by the first Muslim mayor of New York... The mainstream media, that is the Democrat left-wing crooked media, have consistently used to explain.”
Ridealong summary
The media is deliberately covering up the truth about terrorist attacks to protect political interests, particularly those aligned with the Democratic Party.
“This country, this city cannot be, in this country, cannot be governed by a sick ideology known as radical Islamic terrorism... This should be not only a wake call but the wake call for America. These two terrorists who attempted to kill some protesters protesting radical Islam in New York City. And a mayor who is a radical Islamist. 65% of those foreign-born voters voted for him.”
Ridealong summary
The media is complicit in manipulating narratives around terrorism, often downplaying radical Islamic threats and misrepresenting facts to fit political biases.
“"The FBI is investigating two men after an explosive device with bolts and screws was thrown into a crowd. It happened in New York City on Saturday during a protest that turned violent outside the mayor's official residence... The reality is that's just a distortion of numbers. It's a distortion of what they choose to count as terrorism. And it's fundamentally a lie."”
Ridealong summary
Media outlets are deliberately misrepresenting facts about terrorism to fit a political narrative, misleading the public about the true nature of threats.
“Here's NBC. quote, breaking a device ignited outside Zoram Amdani's mayoral residence yesterday during an anti-Islam protest and counter protest was confirmed to be an improvised explosive, New York City police say. Of course, the goal of that headline is to make you think that the anti-Islam protesters, quote unquote, place the explosive device outside the home of the Muslim mayor, which is not at all what happened. The headline is vague on purpose to avoid describing what happened. They want readers to believe a lie.”
Ridealong summary
Media outlets are deliberately misleading the public by obscuring the facts of the NYC terror attack to fit a political narrative.
“But as bad as CBS's coverage was, my statement turns out wasn't entirely accurate. Because the truth is that no single outlet was more committed to lying about the terrorist attack than actually CNN, which aired the following analysis from CNN's Abby Phillips last night. This is one of those clips that seems like it can't possibly be real, but it is. Watch. Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here.”
Ridealong summary
Media outlets like CNN are deliberately misleading the public about the NYC terror attack by framing it as an anti-Muslim incident rather than acknowledging it as a radical Islamic attack.
“You have apparently the side that hates Jews and is being violent is to stop the Nazi movement. that's right we're supposed to believe the people throwing bombs into the crowds of the stop the nazi movement it makes you really like what side am i on like very confusing... There's no question he is surrounded by anti-Semites. There's just – there's no question. Long proven anti-Semites.”
Ridealong summary
The media's reluctance to accurately label and report on terrorism incidents in NYC reflects a troubling bias that undermines public trust.
“It's almost criminal because... the absurdity of them trying to downplay that this was an IED as confirmed now by like the FBI... The story is about the people who are trying to kill people... it's beyond absurd that that could even be a part of the story... it's just lying... if the terrorists had a press secretary and they put out a rapid response press release, I'm not sure it would say anything different from that headline.”
Ridealong summary
Media outlets like The New York Times are deliberately downplaying the severity of a terror attack in NYC by misrepresenting facts and shifting focus away from the perpetrators.
“And immediately, news agencies from CNN and others and other outlets, they lied and basically phrased the report trying to make it seem like the bomb was thrown to hurt Mamdani. That the right-wing protesters who were against Mamdani's being Muslim, a Muslim mayor of New York, were the same as the Islamists who were throwing the bombs. they were not the islamists were throwing the bombs at the right-wing protesters because of course the left is far more violent than the right.”
Ridealong summary
Media outlets like CNN are misleading the public by framing Islamist attacks in a way that obscures the perpetrators' motives and downplays the violence.
“What angers me most about the image and the post that we just put up on the screen is it's going to put my friend Seth Dillon at the Babylon Bee out of business. Because mainstream media has turned so satirical that we don't need the Babylon Bee anymore. I'm sorry, Seth. I love it. And, of course, I'm sure you guys covered it as well. we covered the fact that CNN put up a story about how they were just two young guys on a nice spring day.”
Ridealong summary
The media's portrayal of the NYC terror attack is dangerously misleading, prioritizing political narratives over factual reporting.
“The media in New York covered it up, except for the New York Post. And so when we have issues like zoning and the effort to build basically segregated conclaves or enclaves, where Sharia law rules, where imams are talking about overthrowing the country violently, and we've played a number of those clips, people are not going to hear the truth.”
Ridealong summary
The media and political elites are complicit in covering up the truth about terrorism and supporting radical enclaves in the US.
“I see I just got an alert on my phone that the New York Times has now done a story saying the federal government, the feds are investigating this as an act of terror inspired by ISIS. But that took 48 hours, 96 hours before they reported that or made it a central feature of the coverage. I want to talk about the Times. We always talk about the Times.”
Ridealong summary
Media outlets like The New York Times are failing to report terrorism accurately due to a cultural bias that prioritizes avoiding Islamophobia over confronting Islamist violence.
“Now, this should be the biggest story in the country. Yet another attempted terror attack by a radical Islamist shouting Allahu Akbar. I say another because in the past 10 years or so, there have been a wide variety of such attacks. The Austin nightclub shooting just last week where the terrorist wore a sweatshirt reading Property of Allah.”
Ridealong summary
The media is downplaying the severity of radical Islamic terror attacks in New York City, failing to accurately report the facts and the threat level.
“Not saying while he is condemning the white supremacy, of the 20 protesters who were outnumbered by 150 protesters and saying nothing about the ideological motivations of the bombers, which were notable since the kid who jumped over the head of the guy saying hate has no place here in New York shouted al-Hallahu Akbar as he was throwing the projectile. That happens.”
Ridealong summary
The media's reluctance to label Islamic terrorism and focus on ideological motivations is leading to a dangerous underestimation of threats.
“"I definitely think, you know, Mamdani has been, one could uncharitably say, intentionally misleading about this, but it's also a failure of the press, which, you know, you saw headlines in various news reports over the weekend that sort of obscured what authorities did know about the suspects and made it seem like it was the anti-Islam or white supremacist protesters that were involved."”
Ridealong summary
Media outlets are misleading the public by obscuring facts about the NYC terror attack and misrepresenting the perpetrators' identities, contributing to a false narrative.
“I go back to the media when they were obsessed with the price of eggs, remember? And they were trying to say that it was somehow Donald Trump's fault that the egg prices were high. They went like 24-7 coverage on that over eggs. But on this issue, they're completely gone from covering it and holding accountable the Democratic leadership. Like, how are you guys holding this up? There are dead Americans, and that's not sensationalizing. That is a fact.”
Ridealong summary
The media is failing to hold Democratic leadership accountable for defunding the Department of Homeland Security amidst terrorist threats, prioritizing political narratives over public safety.
“"The bombings, the attempted bombing by these two radical Islamists were to kill Jake and his followers, not to kill Zohan Ramadhani, who is an Islamist. But Abby Phillips said it was. Republicans say Muslims don't belong here. After an attempted terror attack against New York's mayor..."”
Ridealong summary
Media outlets are accused of manipulating narratives to downplay terrorism and shift blame, particularly against Israel, while failing to accurately report on radical Islamic attacks.
“Journalism, news reporting, is for telling you the truth about current events. It's for conveying the reality of what's going on to you. These people, NBC local, ABC local, they are doing the exact opposite. Their entire reporting is designed to hide the truth. Their entire reporting is designed to give you an image of what happened that is contrary to what actually happened.”
Ridealong summary
Media outlets are deliberately distorting facts to mislead the public about terrorism, portraying incidents in a way that contradicts reality.
“Now in that statement at that time he never mentioned that these were two Muslim individuals who had been radicalized by ISIS. The NYPD and the FBI are working the case with search warrants being executed at Pennsylvania homes of these two hoodlums. Meanwhile, the NYPD Bob Squad was back at the scene on Sunday afternoon after a bottle wrapped in tape was spotted inside a Hyundai linked to one of the suspects.”
Ridealong summary
The media's failure to accurately label the NYC incident as terrorism and identify the attackers' radical Islamic ties reflects a concerning bias and neglect of journalistic duty.