Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. We've got 24 and a half more minutes of this show.
Steve: Happy hour for news.
Tim Wildmon: It's always happy.
Steve: The news is always happy. Well, this is good news because the passengers on this FlyDubai flight are starting to arrive back home in Israel, and we're starting to hear video from the flight and learn a little bit more about what happened.
There was a FlyDubai passenger plane involved in what is strongly suspected to have been a terror attack in the middle of the flight. The co-pilot is accused of stabbing the pilot and taking over the plane. I've never heard of this before.
I want to play you a couple of things. This is a video that one of the passengers sent from the plane in the middle of the incident. It's in Hebrew, but it has been translated. This is an Israeli passenger.
Passenger recording: We're here on the plane. We've just taken control from the terrorists. We're about to land. Anyone who hears me, we need help. We're landing in Tabuk, apparently in the area of Saudi Arabia. I'm not familiar with it. All aboard the flight are healthy and in one piece, aside from the pilot. We need help.
Tim Wildmon: So they landed in Saudi Arabia?
Steve: They did. Then the passengers, most of whom were Israeli, were taken back to Israel.
This is a reporter from i24 News who was just on Fox. He was noting what he called a miracle. I don't think he's necessarily a spiritual person attributing this to God, but we might. This is Amichai Stein, a reporter with i24 News.
Amichai Stein: The fact that this hijacking was stopped at the end is a miracle. The simple fact is that the plane fell about 4,000 meters in 29 seconds, and the tail was hurt. Other instruments inside the plane were damaged. Think about it: The two pilots couldn't fly the plane.
Luckily, inside, in addition to the Israelis who took control after the pilot was stabbed, there were two pilots on a regular FlyDubai training program who could go into the cockpit and manage to land the plane in Saudi Arabia. The miracle was not just taking out the pilots who tried to crash the plane. The fact that this plane landed safely on the ground is a huge miracle, really.
I'm reminded of Flight 93 on 9/11. The passengers, including Todd Beamer, took over, but they weren't able to fly or land the plane. Sadly, it crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. This could have very easily ended the same way.
Tim Wildmon: I think Flight 93 made everybody aware that you just don't sit in your seat if something is going on. You've got to get up and try something. You've got to try to intervene.
Is the cockpit only able to be opened from the inside, or can it also be opened from the outside? For some reason, I always thought that once the cockpit is locked, you can't get in.
Steve: Since 9/11, they fortified the cockpits, and typically you can't get in from the outside.
Tim Wildmon: That's American jets.
Steve: And probably others, too. Boeing and Airbus make many of the big planes commercial airlines use. I think you're not supposed to be able to penetrate the cockpit, but they did here.
I don't know whether this airline or this plane may have been made by people in Saudi Arabia. I don't know the fate of the pilot who was stabbed. The co-pilot stabbed the pilot, and the pilot might have opened the door and gotten out, allowing the passengers in.
Tim Wildmon: This is something we'll probably still have to find out as the information trickles out. Next story.
Steve: All right. There's a large weather system currently drenching the American Southwest and creating major flooding events today. It's driven largely by the remnants of Hurricane Priscilla, which was in the Pacific. It's converging with a weather system that was already in the West.
The moisture is coming up through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma and into the Panhandle.
Tim Wildmon: Do your hands like that?
Steve: Exactly.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Steve. I need a blue screen behind me if you're watching this on our stream. I'm like a weather person. I always wanted to be a weatherman.
Steve: Arizona and New Mexico are getting the brunt of it right now. It's a deep plume of tropical moisture moving north through Mexico and into Arizona and New Mexico and West Texas.
They're saying it may rain so much that a dam in New Mexico may burst. Did you see this?
Tim Wildmon: Yes, I have a story about that here somewhere. The West has been in a drought, which makes it hard to understand why the dam would burst. They're going to get so much rain so fast.
Steve: It's feast or famine. They need rain, but they're going to get it dumped on them, perhaps more than they can handle.
Tim Wildmon: We need rain where we live, too. A lot of the Southeast, oddly enough, has gone without rain over the last six weeks or so.
Steve: The National Weather Service is saying that the McLeod Dam in New Mexico is in immediate danger of failure due to the intense storm being fueled by Hurricane Priscilla. They're telling people in its path and in low-lying areas to get to higher ground. The alert is in effect until 6:45 p.m. Eastern time today.
This hurricane is hitting Baja California and is going to cross over the northwest of Mexico. Then it looks like it's going to hit New Mexico and cross over the western part of Texas on its way into the Midwest.
Tim Wildmon: I see the Dallas-Fort Worth area, like a sliver from Kansas City down to Abilene or somewhere, could get four to eight inches. It's showing seven inches or more in places. This is like a strip through San Antonio and on our way. It says four to six inches. That's not what my app is showing, but you never know how these things change.
Steve: Forty-six inches in northern Mississippi?
Tim Wildmon: That seems like a little much.
Steve: That's over the next five days, so we'll wait and see. This is a hurricane that is going to cross transitively through the country. I don't remember the last time that happened. Almost always, hurricanes that affect the United States hit somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico or along the Atlantic seaboard.
Tim Wildmon: They have the whole weather system in the Pacific.
Steve: They do, and it's not at all uncommon for hurricanes to hit the western coast of Mexico.
Tim Wildmon: Well, I stand corrected.
Steve: They're talking about this weather system, and I don't know if this is technically an El Niño weather system, but colder weather is predicted during the winter.
Tim Wildmon: There were two back-to-back hurricanes that, as you said, hit the west coast of Baja and the coast of Mexico. That's what's moving through the United States now and for the next few days. A lot of these places could use rain. You just don't want six inches in 24 hours, because we're going to float away if that happens.
All right, next story, Steve.
Steve: After the weather, now over to you, Steve, for sports.
Tim Wildmon: I wish we could get caught up this weekend.
Steve: We do. While you're talking about that, I'm going to look and see what's interesting.
Tim Wildmon: I know it's interesting, but go ahead and toss that out first, and we'll go to the Lindsay Clancy trial.
Steve: The drama continues apace in the case. It looks like they're heading for a retrial. Yesterday, there was a hearing where Lindsay Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, stunned the courtroom by saying this.
Kevin Reddington: I asked the court to hark back to the evidence that was presented and ask yourself, where's the evidence that she did this? Where is the evidence that she did this?
When you consider the evidence that the government has, you have the exercise bands. You have the woefully deficient DNA. You have the woefully deficient fingerprinting. You have the horrific, ridiculous investigation, using the term loosely, by the police. There was no investigation. It wasn't even a horrendous investigation. There was no investigation.
Tim Wildmon: Part of the reason, Mr. Reddington, that there was no investigation into your client is because you stipulated in the first trial that she did it.
Steve: That might be. She confessed.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, she said, "I did it, but I was crazy. I was having these visions and hearing voices, and I couldn't help myself."
So that's where the evidence he's looking for is. If this turns out to be a situation where Lindsay Clancy confessed to doing it, but because of this mental or emotional syndrome she does not spend time in prison for this and essentially gets away with it, I'm afraid that in a lot of blue states, including Massachusetts, it's going to open the floodgates.
People are going to commit crimes and say, "I was under tremendous stress." We all have seen headlines and read articles about how many people have a mental illness in America and how many people are on medication for those mental illnesses. You open the spigot on that as an explanation for why I did this or why I did that.
Steve: I think this is in blue states. This kind of thing is not going to fly in red states. If this had happened in a red state, it may have been a hung jury, but it would have been 11 to one the other way to convict.
I'm not going to say this is going to set a precedent, but it is a case that is being watched by the nation. If you can use the excuse that you had a psychotic moment or moments that caused you to strangle your three children to death and therefore you should be able to go to Denny's that afternoon with everybody else, then what is to stop that?
Tim Wildmon: I do sympathize with the fact that she may have had a psychotic moment, but she still did the crime.
Steve: Let me ask you this. If you had a man in Massachusetts who said he came back from Afghanistan with PTSD and killed his three kids because he thought they were the Taliban, do you think he would have been acquitted?
Tim Wildmon: No.
Steve: First of all, because he's a man, and this seems to be driven by something else.
Tim Wildmon: So it's a sexist thing?
Steve: I think what's driven the support for Lindsay Clancy is that a lot of women who have been pregnant or who have felt overwhelmed are sympathetic to that feeling of being overwhelmed. I don't think the same thing applies to men. If you're overwhelmed, just rub some dirt on it and move on.
Tim Wildmon: PTSD from warfare is a real thing, too.
Steve: I know.
Tim Wildmon: So why couldn't you just say, "I had PTSD, so I'll kill these three people in the mall"?
If she gets off, and when I say gets off, she confessed. Her lawyers, like Steve said, stipulated that she did it. If she gets off, I think you're going to have what you're saying.
Steve: That's right.
Tim Wildmon: Let me give you another example. This is going to sound even more extreme or ridiculous to a lot of people, but I'm not asking whether you think it's extreme or ridiculous. I'm asking you to apply the same logic that Lindsay Clancy and her lawyers, along with many people in the country, are asking us to apply.
They're saying she needs to be able to go free or go to a psychiatric ward for a couple of months and then be let go. Why wouldn't you apply that to a drunk-driving situation?
You could say, "I'm sorry that I killed somebody by drunk driving, but it wasn't me who did it. It was the alcohol. I'm an alcoholic, and I can't help myself. It's a disease. Therefore, I should be able to go to Alcoholics Anonymous and then go back to my life."
People may say that's ridiculous and not the same thing. My question is, why isn't it? Logically, it is. What's wrong with that logic being applied in the same way that logic is being applied to her?
Steve: I think it will be. I think this kind of thing will open the floodgates. You will have more and more people grasping at that as a defense, and you'll have more and more attorneys doing what this attorney is doing.
Tim Wildmon: This is going to be a field day for trial lawyers. They're going to see a whole new area and say, "We can do this. We can apply this."
Steve: There is a lot of data about young African American men who have no father figure and who are in and out of prison. They have a long history of brokenness in their lives. That's why they commit so many crimes.
But we've never said, "Because of all these circumstances, you're not responsible for robbery, theft, or murder." There are already people on the left who are making that argument.
If this happens the way we think it's going to happen, you're going to have people in prison saying, "I'd like to retry this. I want to retry it because I had a mental episode."
Tim Wildmon: Use whatever you want to say: "I had a mental episode that caused me to commit these crimes."
Steve, you wanted to say something.
Steve: I've been measuring culture over the last couple of years, and this is where we've gone. We've reached the point where we are now allowing feelings to dominate over logic.
This is the woke mindset, where narrative is more important than facts, and association and story are more important than anything else. We're no longer able to apply a right-and-wrong standard to much of life.
We're seeing this in other cases that we haven't necessarily talked about but that are going on right now, where the left doesn't have the language to criticize bad behavior because it's considered acceptable. There's no bad behavior. It's always somebody else's fault.
Tim Wildmon: What's strange is that I agree with what you're saying about how the left explains things, but you know what the left does not explain? It's just the opposite when it comes to white people.
The DEI people have been saying whiteness is the problem and nothing you do can change that. It's the opposite.
We should get into what's going on in Arkansas with Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She put out an ad about a welfare-to-work program that she's requiring, and she used a white man as the typical welfare recipient, a lazy white guy whom she says she's going to require to work.
A lot of people are asking why she used a white man as the typical welfare recipient. If you look at the statistics, a Black woman, particularly a single mother, is more likely to receive welfare assistance. Why not use a Black woman as the model? People say it's because she would be accused of racism.
Well, that's the point. It's okay to accuse a white man of being lazy and not being willing to work, but you can't do that to anybody else in society.
Steve: I think Governor Huckabee Sanders is simply trying to be shrewd, and not in a bad way. She's trying to deflect that argument in order to get the policy in play.
Tim Wildmon: There are a lot of people who are tired of sitting back and saying, "I'm a white man, and I'm okay being a punching bag. I'm not taking it anymore."
I'm not saying I want to be a punching bag. I was a punching bag one time back in here. It was not great football. I was a punching bag, and I said, "You know what, Tim? The smart thing to do is play basketball."
Ed: All I could do was get an elbow in the ribs down low, and I could live to survive that.
Tim Wildmon: All right, we'll see you tomorrow, everybody. Take care. Thanks for listening.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. We've got 24 and a half more minutes of this show.
Steve: Happy hour for news.
Tim Wildmon: It's always happy.
Steve: The news is always happy. Well, this is good news because the passengers on this FlyDubai flight are starting to arrive back home in Israel, and we're starting to hear video from the flight and learn a little bit more about what happened.
There was a FlyDubai passenger plane involved in what is strongly suspected to have been a terror attack in the middle of the flight. The co-pilot is accused of stabbing the pilot and taking over the plane. I've never heard of this before.
I want to play you a couple of things. This is a video that one of the passengers sent from the plane in the middle of the incident. It's in Hebrew, but it has been translated. This is an Israeli passenger.
Passenger recording: We're here on the plane. We've just taken control from the terrorists. We're about to land. Anyone who hears me, we need help. We're landing in Tabuk, apparently in the area of Saudi Arabia. I'm not familiar with it. All aboard the flight are healthy and in one piece, aside from the pilot. We need help.
Tim Wildmon: So they landed in Saudi Arabia?
Steve: They did. Then the passengers, most of whom were Israeli, were taken back to Israel.
This is a reporter from i24 News who was just on Fox. He was noting what he called a miracle. I don't think he's necessarily a spiritual person attributing this to God, but we might. This is Amichai Stein, a reporter with i24 News.
Amichai Stein: The fact that this hijacking was stopped at the end is a miracle. The simple fact is that the plane fell about 4,000 meters in 29 seconds, and the tail was hurt. Other instruments inside the plane were damaged. Think about it: The two pilots couldn't fly the plane.
Luckily, inside, in addition to the Israelis who took control after the pilot was stabbed, there were two pilots on a regular FlyDubai training program who could go into the cockpit and manage to land the plane in Saudi Arabia. The miracle was not just taking out the pilots who tried to crash the plane. The fact that this plane landed safely on the ground is a huge miracle, really.
I'm reminded of Flight 93 on 9/11. The passengers, including Todd Beamer, took over, but they weren't able to fly or land the plane. Sadly, it crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. This could have very easily ended the same way.
Tim Wildmon: I think Flight 93 made everybody aware that you just don't sit in your seat if something is going on. You've got to get up and try something. You've got to try to intervene.
Is the cockpit only able to be opened from the inside, or can it also be opened from the outside? For some reason, I always thought that once the cockpit is locked, you can't get in.
Steve: Since 9/11, they fortified the cockpits, and typically you can't get in from the outside.
Tim Wildmon: That's American jets.
Steve: And probably others, too. Boeing and Airbus make many of the big planes commercial airlines use. I think you're not supposed to be able to penetrate the cockpit, but they did here.
I don't know whether this airline or this plane may have been made by people in Saudi Arabia. I don't know the fate of the pilot who was stabbed. The co-pilot stabbed the pilot, and the pilot might have opened the door and gotten out, allowing the passengers in.
Tim Wildmon: This is something we'll probably still have to find out as the information trickles out. Next story.
Steve: All right. There's a large weather system currently drenching the American Southwest and creating major flooding events today. It's driven largely by the remnants of Hurricane Priscilla, which was in the Pacific. It's converging with a weather system that was already in the West.
The moisture is coming up through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma and into the Panhandle.
Tim Wildmon: Do your hands like that?
Steve: Exactly.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Steve. I need a blue screen behind me if you're watching this on our stream. I'm like a weather person. I always wanted to be a weatherman.
Steve: Arizona and New Mexico are getting the brunt of it right now. It's a deep plume of tropical moisture moving north through Mexico and into Arizona and New Mexico and West Texas.
They're saying it may rain so much that a dam in New Mexico may burst. Did you see this?
Tim Wildmon: Yes, I have a story about that here somewhere. The West has been in a drought, which makes it hard to understand why the dam would burst. They're going to get so much rain so fast.
Steve: It's feast or famine. They need rain, but they're going to get it dumped on them, perhaps more than they can handle.
Tim Wildmon: We need rain where we live, too. A lot of the Southeast, oddly enough, has gone without rain over the last six weeks or so.
Steve: The National Weather Service is saying that the McLeod Dam in New Mexico is in immediate danger of failure due to the intense storm being fueled by Hurricane Priscilla. They're telling people in its path and in low-lying areas to get to higher ground. The alert is in effect until 6:45 p.m. Eastern time today.
This hurricane is hitting Baja California and is going to cross over the northwest of Mexico. Then it looks like it's going to hit New Mexico and cross over the western part of Texas on its way into the Midwest.
Tim Wildmon: I see the Dallas-Fort Worth area, like a sliver from Kansas City down to Abilene or somewhere, could get four to eight inches. It's showing seven inches or more in places. This is like a strip through San Antonio and on our way. It says four to six inches. That's not what my app is showing, but you never know how these things change.
Steve: Forty-six inches in northern Mississippi?
Tim Wildmon: That seems like a little much.
Steve: That's over the next five days, so we'll wait and see. This is a hurricane that is going to cross transitively through the country. I don't remember the last time that happened. Almost always, hurricanes that affect the United States hit somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico or along the Atlantic seaboard.
Tim Wildmon: They have the whole weather system in the Pacific.
Steve: They do, and it's not at all uncommon for hurricanes to hit the western coast of Mexico.
Tim Wildmon: Well, I stand corrected.
Steve: They're talking about this weather system, and I don't know if this is technically an El Niño weather system, but colder weather is predicted during the winter.
Tim Wildmon: There were two back-to-back hurricanes that, as you said, hit the west coast of Baja and the coast of Mexico. That's what's moving through the United States now and for the next few days. A lot of these places could use rain. You just don't want six inches in 24 hours, because we're going to float away if that happens.
All right, next story, Steve.
Steve: After the weather, now over to you, Steve, for sports.
Tim Wildmon: I wish we could get caught up this weekend.
Steve: We do. While you're talking about that, I'm going to look and see what's interesting.
Tim Wildmon: I know it's interesting, but go ahead and toss that out first, and we'll go to the Lindsay Clancy trial.
Steve: The drama continues apace in the case. It looks like they're heading for a retrial. Yesterday, there was a hearing where Lindsay Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, stunned the courtroom by saying this.
Kevin Reddington: I asked the court to hark back to the evidence that was presented and ask yourself, where's the evidence that she did this? Where is the evidence that she did this?
When you consider the evidence that the government has, you have the exercise bands. You have the woefully deficient DNA. You have the woefully deficient fingerprinting. You have the horrific, ridiculous investigation, using the term loosely, by the police. There was no investigation. It wasn't even a horrendous investigation. There was no investigation.
Tim Wildmon: Part of the reason, Mr. Reddington, that there was no investigation into your client is because you stipulated in the first trial that she did it.
Steve: That might be. She confessed.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, she said, "I did it, but I was crazy. I was having these visions and hearing voices, and I couldn't help myself."
So that's where the evidence he's looking for is. If this turns out to be a situation where Lindsay Clancy confessed to doing it, but because of this mental or emotional syndrome she does not spend time in prison for this and essentially gets away with it, I'm afraid that in a lot of blue states, including Massachusetts, it's going to open the floodgates.
People are going to commit crimes and say, "I was under tremendous stress." We all have seen headlines and read articles about how many people have a mental illness in America and how many people are on medication for those mental illnesses. You open the spigot on that as an explanation for why I did this or why I did that.
Steve: I think this is in blue states. This kind of thing is not going to fly in red states. If this had happened in a red state, it may have been a hung jury, but it would have been 11 to one the other way to convict.
I'm not going to say this is going to set a precedent, but it is a case that is being watched by the nation. If you can use the excuse that you had a psychotic moment or moments that caused you to strangle your three children to death and therefore you should be able to go to Denny's that afternoon with everybody else, then what is to stop that?
Tim Wildmon: I do sympathize with the fact that she may have had a psychotic moment, but she still did the crime.
Steve: Let me ask you this. If you had a man in Massachusetts who said he came back from Afghanistan with PTSD and killed his three kids because he thought they were the Taliban, do you think he would have been acquitted?
Tim Wildmon: No.
Steve: First of all, because he's a man, and this seems to be driven by something else.
Tim Wildmon: So it's a sexist thing?
Steve: I think what's driven the support for Lindsay Clancy is that a lot of women who have been pregnant or who have felt overwhelmed are sympathetic to that feeling of being overwhelmed. I don't think the same thing applies to men. If you're overwhelmed, just rub some dirt on it and move on.
Tim Wildmon: PTSD from warfare is a real thing, too.
Steve: I know.
Tim Wildmon: So why couldn't you just say, "I had PTSD, so I'll kill these three people in the mall"?
If she gets off, and when I say gets off, she confessed. Her lawyers, like Steve said, stipulated that she did it. If she gets off, I think you're going to have what you're saying.
Steve: That's right.
Tim Wildmon: Let me give you another example. This is going to sound even more extreme or ridiculous to a lot of people, but I'm not asking whether you think it's extreme or ridiculous. I'm asking you to apply the same logic that Lindsay Clancy and her lawyers, along with many people in the country, are asking us to apply.
They're saying she needs to be able to go free or go to a psychiatric ward for a couple of months and then be let go. Why wouldn't you apply that to a drunk-driving situation?
You could say, "I'm sorry that I killed somebody by drunk driving, but it wasn't me who did it. It was the alcohol. I'm an alcoholic, and I can't help myself. It's a disease. Therefore, I should be able to go to Alcoholics Anonymous and then go back to my life."
People may say that's ridiculous and not the same thing. My question is, why isn't it? Logically, it is. What's wrong with that logic being applied in the same way that logic is being applied to her?
Steve: I think it will be. I think this kind of thing will open the floodgates. You will have more and more people grasping at that as a defense, and you'll have more and more attorneys doing what this attorney is doing.
Tim Wildmon: This is going to be a field day for trial lawyers. They're going to see a whole new area and say, "We can do this. We can apply this."
Steve: There is a lot of data about young African American men who have no father figure and who are in and out of prison. They have a long history of brokenness in their lives. That's why they commit so many crimes.
But we've never said, "Because of all these circumstances, you're not responsible for robbery, theft, or murder." There are already people on the left who are making that argument.
If this happens the way we think it's going to happen, you're going to have people in prison saying, "I'd like to retry this. I want to retry it because I had a mental episode."
Tim Wildmon: Use whatever you want to say: "I had a mental episode that caused me to commit these crimes."
Steve, you wanted to say something.
Steve: I've been measuring culture over the last couple of years, and this is where we've gone. We've reached the point where we are now allowing feelings to dominate over logic.
This is the woke mindset, where narrative is more important than facts, and association and story are more important than anything else. We're no longer able to apply a right-and-wrong standard to much of life.
We're seeing this in other cases that we haven't necessarily talked about but that are going on right now, where the left doesn't have the language to criticize bad behavior because it's considered acceptable. There's no bad behavior. It's always somebody else's fault.
Tim Wildmon: What's strange is that I agree with what you're saying about how the left explains things, but you know what the left does not explain? It's just the opposite when it comes to white people.
The DEI people have been saying whiteness is the problem and nothing you do can change that. It's the opposite.
We should get into what's going on in Arkansas with Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She put out an ad about a welfare-to-work program that she's requiring, and she used a white man as the typical welfare recipient, a lazy white guy whom she says she's going to require to work.
A lot of people are asking why she used a white man as the typical welfare recipient. If you look at the statistics, a Black woman, particularly a single mother, is more likely to receive welfare assistance. Why not use a Black woman as the model? People say it's because she would be accused of racism.
Well, that's the point. It's okay to accuse a white man of being lazy and not being willing to work, but you can't do that to anybody else in society.
Steve: I think Governor Huckabee Sanders is simply trying to be shrewd, and not in a bad way. She's trying to deflect that argument in order to get the policy in play.
Tim Wildmon: There are a lot of people who are tired of sitting back and saying, "I'm a white man, and I'm okay being a punching bag. I'm not taking it anymore."
I'm not saying I want to be a punching bag. I was a punching bag one time back in here. It was not great football. I was a punching bag, and I said, "You know what, Tim? The smart thing to do is play basketball."
Ed: All I could do was get an elbow in the ribs down low, and I could live to survive that.
Tim Wildmon: All right, we'll see you tomorrow, everybody. Take care. Thanks for listening.
