(The alleged assailant has since been charged with a hate crime, and both victims are expected to survive.) While doubling down on calling Mamdani a “goddamn terrorist,” Rosenberg later claimed that Jenkins personally confessed that the network “made him” deliver the on-air “apology.” Even though the story was bupkis, it allowed Fox and the rest of Murdoch media to continue to dip their toes in Islamophobic waters. “I spoke to the [editorial] page editor of the @WSJ, Paul Gigot, about the incredibly Islamophobic image printed alongside this opinion piece,” Mamdani communications director Anna Bahr tweeted. And over on Newsmax, “America’s most racist congressman” Randy Fine called Mamdani a “terrorist: with “blood on his hands” while hosts just nodded along.