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Tune in to The Main Event this Saturday morning at 9:30 on AM590 with host Ed Hoffman as he discusses national current events and politics, with a few mortgage tips along the way. Ed delivers intelligent, entertaining radio that makes hard news easy to understand!
This week, the Inland Empire was the focus of the entire nation when 14 people were killed and 21 injured at a county employee Christmas party being held at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. The two mass murderers, identified as Syed Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik, lived in a condo on Center St. in Redlands where they stockpiled 12 pipe bombs and 3,000 rounds of ammunition. Farook was a graduate of Cal State San Bernardino and a San Bernardino County Health Department employee.
Ed provides insight and analysis on the tragedy from both a local and national perspective; if you knew from day one that the attack was terrorism and people were telling you to wait until “the facts come out,” tune in to The Main Event to hear from someone who agreed with you all along. Unlike the President, Attorney General and other Democrats, many of us in the Inland Empire understood this war a terror attack as soon as the two names were released and Ed is one of them.
You’ll also hear a recap of the many attempts to turn this tragedy into a push for gun control, and the ridiculous media attacks on Republicans offering “thoughts and prayers” – things that were fine when they were said by President Obama. After that, Ed says, “Are you starting to see now what we mean when we say the media is in the tank for Obama?”
And because details have been so fluid all week, you’ll want to tune in for a refresh of the facts. “In one show,” Ed says, “you’ll be able to hear just about everything we know as of Friday morning.” That includes the FBI finally pronouncing the attack an act of terrorism Friday, and the emerging detail that Malik had pledged her allegiance to ISIS on Facebook.
As the show nears the end of the first half, Ed points out that the Department of Homeland Security was created by President Bush to bolster the existing efforts of FBI, CIA and NSA to keep Americans safe, and to help all the agencies work together more seamlessly. “It was all working pretty well after 9/11,” Ed says – but after Obama took office, “For some reason the breakdown in communication has gotten worse.”
In the second half, Ed discusses the truth about the weapons that were used in the attack and surmises that if the IEDs Farook and Malik had tried to use had not malfunctioned, “We would have had another Paris on our hands. We would have had 129 deaths instead of 14.” He also plays an outrageous soundbite of a CNN guest speculating that Farook might have been a victim of anti-Muslim bigotry at work. Although there is no evidence of that, the Times of Israel reported Friday that deceased victim Nicholas Thalasinos was a Messianic Jew who had debated religion with Farook. Ed addresses that – and other emerging details, such as the suspicious activity at Regal Cinemas in San Bernardino – on this week’s The Main Event. “This happened right here in our community,” Ed says. “Right in the center of the Inland Empire. This is here.”
Catch Ed Hoffman, host of The Main Event, on air this Saturday at 9:30 a.m. with encore presentations at 9 p.m., and Sunday at 4 p.m. Follow him on Twitter @EdHoffman, and like him on Facebook by searching The Main Event 590.
