This time right-winger radio host Sid Rosenberg, who intentionally foments anger, apologized for his hateful, insulting and demeaning words (aimed at Mayor Mamdani), but he’s done it before and he’ll likely do it again and public officials and other people of good conscience shouldn’t be aiding and abiding his rancid game. They should stay away rather than boost Rosenberg’s profile.

Rosenberg and others of his ilk like Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones and Hasan Piker and Bob Grant from decades ago, play to their audience’s fears, getting their listeners riled up. It’s good for ratings and bad for discourse.

Rosenberg, on the air on WABC-AM 770 weekday mornings, has a First Amendment right to spew whatever garbage he wants and station owner John Catsimatidis has a right to broadcast him. But Catsimatidis should exercise some level of taste and civil decorum on his airwaves

Taste and decorum aren’t words associated with Rosenberg.

The latest episode started at 5:28 Monday morning with a Rosenberg tweet on what everyone still calls Twitter that used some really nasty language about the mayor.

By yesterday, Rosenberg had apologized and deleted the tweet, but this is the full text:

“Today I make a heartfelt plea to my friend and the best President in the 250 year history of our country @realDonaldTrump. I know I speak on behalf of the majority of New Yorkers and Americans when I say stop complimenting and giving credibility to our Jihadist America hating mayor @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani. How many times does this terrorist sympathizer have to spit in your face Mr. President before you say enough is enough. His over the top criticism of the Maduro capture. ICE, Bibi and now this great operation in Iran is too much for most of us. Bottom line is he’s an America hating, Jew hating, Radical Islam cockroach running our once beautiful city. Mr. President please put this little antisemite in his place! God Bless you @realDonaldTrump. God Bless America and God Bless Israel.”

We have made it clear that we are dismayed by Mamdani’s doctrinaire position on Israel, his refusal to accept the existence of a Jewish state, his support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel and his calling Israel a genocidal state. Many New Yorkers share those concerns.

But Rosenberg isn’t debating issues. He is wrapping himself in an issue to foment anger, to foment hate. Like the man who has driven political discourse in the United States off a cliff, Donald Trump, the goal here is to win support and listeners by appealing to the worst in people.

This time, the blowback was even too strong for Rosenberg, who apologized and wiped away the tweet. That contrition, be it genuine or forced, is probably only temporary, as Rosenberg has a long record of being outlandish and outrageous. Council Speaker Julie Menin was a recent guest on his show. She should stay away.

The same for Police Commissioner Jessie Tisch, who had dinner with Rosenberg a few weeks ago. The last time that Rosenberg was so in the public conversation was during last fall’s mayoral election, when Andrew Cuomo was on the show and Rosenberg said Mamdani would “be cheering” if there was another 9/11.

The focus point of the vile tweet, Trump, isn’t listening to Rosenberg, as late Tuesday afternoon in the midst of the Iran war and everything else, the president put out a photo from last Thursday of Mamdani’s Oval Office visit looking at the Declaration of Independence on the wall.

Rosenberg, ignored by his pal, had to retreat.

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