Posted on 10/08/2023 4:44:47 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
On today's State of the Union show on CNN, host Dana Bash treated Secretary of State Antony Blinken to a softball interview regarding Biden admin failures on the attack on Israel, and the release of $6 billion to Iran.
Bash began by playing a clip of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan recently saying:
"The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades. Now, challenges remain, Iran's nuclear weapons program, tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. But the amount of time that I have to spend on crisis and conflict in the Middle East compared today to my predecessors going back to 9/11 is significantly reduced."
Sullivan's statement is an admission of negligence. Contrary to his boast that the Middle East "is quieter today than it has been in two decades," as he spoke, Hamas was on the verge of unleashing its attack on Israel. And Sullivan saying that he has spent significantly less time on the Middle East than his predecessors is a further admission of his incompetence.
So, how did Bash react? Did she try to press Blinken on Sullivan's catastrophic misreading of the situation? Of course not. To the contrary, Bash explicitly let Sullivan off the hook, saying:
"It does seem like this very coordinated attack came out of nowhere. This isn't about specifically anything that Jake missed, but more broadly about the intelligence failure, not just about the Israelis but about the U.S."
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Bona fide journalists don’t apologize to officials for asking questions about their administration’s failures, do they?
Trick question: we said “bona fide” journalists.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
“Why the long face, Dana?”
State Media gonna State Media.
Blinken keeps moving up on my list of scumbags!
Everything CNN says about anything is always wrong and idiots like Dana Bash are the main reason.
Boggles the mind that this Dana Bash is relevant. Another of the know nothing media whom the Inside the Beltway Republicans treat like a disapproving schoolmarm they need to please.
Wow, a preemptive apology for Jake. Amazing. It was never this bad.
I’ve heard that thermobaric prevents those dangerous Mudslime outbreaks...
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