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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Batya Ungar-Sargon | Journalist & Author | 09-15-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2826 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Journalist & Author Batya Ungar-Sargon calls in to discuss the narrative of political violence in the U.S. following the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week. Batya argues against the portrayal of equal violence from both political sides, citing examples like the assassination attempt on Governor Shapiro and the January 6th Capitol riot. She also touches upon media bias, specifically the persistent labeling of certain events as insurrections. Gun control is addressed, stressing that the responsible gun owners are often on one side of the political spectrum. Towards the end, Batya delve into the implications of a potential victory for Zohran Mamdani in New York, reflecting on local and national security concerns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's your buddy, Sid Rosenberg, and yeah, I'm famous. But guess what? So is my guy Mike. I love him and his son, Michael, at Genesis of Brooklyn. This is not your typical dealership. Trust me, I've been there. It's a gorgeous place. The service, legendary. Brooklyn Family Values, Baby, that's what I'm talking about. Free valet pickup up to 25 miles. Current year Genesis loaners, three years of maintenance included, transparent,

0:23.2

efficient, respectful, the best luxury service around. Genesis of Brooklyn, these are my guys.

0:29.6

Mike and Mike, more luxury, less money. Charlie sat there with people that didn't agree.

0:35.7

And sometimes in the end they would, sometimes they wouldn't. But he sat with people who didn't agree. And sometimes, in the end, they would.

0:38.1

Sometimes they wouldn't.

0:39.6

But he sat with people who agreed and disagreed.

0:42.1

I'm basically talking to people who agree.

0:44.7

I'd love an opportunity to talk to some that don't, but then never listen.

0:50.0

Bacha Ungassargon wrote this on Twitter.

0:52.4

I got to read this.

0:53.2

I'll bring it around.

0:54.9

You can ask people to choose turning down the temperature over revenge.

0:59.8

You cannot ask them to choose turning down the temperature over truth.

1:05.7

But that's what the left is doing.

1:07.8

They want the right in its moment of grief to assume equal responsibility for the

1:13.3

violence coming from their side via the absolute lie that both sides are equally violent. I just did

1:21.1

that, right? I just listed what, 10 different shootings in the last couple of months,

1:26.0

and they keep going back to Gabby Giffridge.

1:28.2

Anyway, exactly right here.

1:30.7

You cannot build unity on a lie because you cannot build anything, anything on a lie.

1:37.3

That is a great tweet, Bacha, and it's exactly right.

1:41.5

And that's why when Whoopi Goldberg comes on TV on Friday, or even Tom Swazi, the Democrat politician, and they seem pretty sincere being upset about Charlie Kirk. I don't care because in the past, it's been their rhetoric that have gotten people like Charlie killed that's the

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