Posted on 08/20/2021 2:18:10 PM PDT by Conserv
Immediately following President Biden’s contentious Friday press conference about the ongoing disaster he created in Afghanistan, ABC News special coverage slammed him for saying things about the crisis that were just blatantly false. Correspondents described his lies as “breathtaking” and completely out of touch with the dire reality facing U.S. citizens and Afghan allies still trapped in the Taliban-controlled country.
World News Tonight anchor David Muir turned to senior foreign correspondent Ian Pannell, still reporting from Kabul, and skeptically asked about Biden’s assertion that Americans and Afghans could get to the capital city’s surrounded airport: “The President said he has no intelligence that Americans have been unable to get there. The question, obviously, does that square with reporting on ground?” Pannell scoffed: “I mean, just totally not. I mean, the reaction was pretty much one of – I mean, it was breathtaking.”
“I mean, last night on World News, we had American citizens who had exactly that experience,” the exasperated reporter explained. He recalled how people were being assaulted by the Taliban:
They tried to get to the airport. They had waved their American passports – the President talked about all they had to do was present their passports and they’d be allowed through – they were beaten by the Taliban with the rubber fan belt from a vehicle. Multiple examples of Americans and Afghans, SIV applicants, who have now tried repeatedly. There’s one woman we’re tracking, she’s back at the airport tonight, this is her third night in a row, the gates haven’t opened, the Taliban haven’t let her through.
Pannell concluded: “It just seems the reality and the rhetoric are miles apart. I’m not quite sure what advice the President is receiving, but the truth on the ground is that these people who are in fear of their lives can’t get through.”
Moments later, after Pannell reiterated that “There is no organization, there’s just chaos,” Muir observed: “Yeah, it would seem the President has just simply invited more questions for both him and the White House...”
Minutes after that, White House correspondent Jon Karl directly blamed Biden for fueling the “disaster” by repeatedly being dishonest:
But David, this remains very much a disaster and one of the contributing factors here is when you listen to the President, he is saying things that simply do not comport with the reality that we are seeing with our own eyes, that you hear Ian Pannell describing for instance. When he says that “Every American can get to that airport, there hasn’t been an issue with that,” that doesn’t comport with the reality that you heard Ian describe. It also doesn’t comport with the reality that the State Department has been issuing, in guidance that we have seen from the State Department to Americans in Afghanistan, encouraging people to make the trip to the airport to be evacuated. But even in the State Department’s guidance, this is a cable that went out just on Wednesday, “The United States government can not ensure safe passage to the Hamid Karzai International Airport.” So the State Department is telling Americans that they cannot guarantee their safe passage to the airport. And you heard from the President today that we don’t even know how many Americans are in Afghanistan right now. So how can the President say that there isn’t an issue getting Americans safely to the airport?
ABC, now you know how we feel about YOU guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bagdad joe
Man, ABC and now I want to go full paranoia and ask, what is the angle here?
Is it really cyo or is it something more?
This is going well.
Somebody supported this stupid son of a bitch Biden.
The countdown is on until they start calling for “Heels Up” Harris to take over
No cable here, but I was in a place that had cable. (Please remind me not to do that again. Ignorance is bliss.) The entire afternoon was a disaster for Biden, State Department and Pentagon. Ned Price at State has no problem carrying Biden’s water. The Pentagon guys were dancing, you could tell they were very uncomfortable and the less they knew the better. Biden has zero credibility, so his presser was, well, simply unbelievable. He was lying his ass off.
Dear ABC, This is what you get with a stolen election. Take a good look in the mirror when you get home.
Is this from the Bee?
ABC shares some of the blame for the Afghan debacle. They helped to elect Biden in no small way.
Joe Biden & Kamala Harris should be impeached immediately...period!!! What an embarrassment of top USA leadership!!! Silence from Harris and BS lies from Biden!!! Only God can save the USA from these Democrat Party buffoons, idiots and morons!!! And that includes the military brass...too!!!
“ “It just seems the reality and the rhetoric are miles apart. I”
Welcome to reality and libtardism
You helped create it, ABC
LOL!!! Thanks for posting that. I needed a good laugh.
The angle is simple. The useful idiot POTUS’s expiration date has expired and if they don’t scuttle BiteMe now he will drag them all down in 2022.
The commie media wants Heels Harris as President its so beyond obvious
I feel nothing but contempt and hatred for Biden and all those who helped put him in office. If that's how the ABC bunch feel about Biden now, well...I supposed it's better late than never. Small comfort, though, to all the people Biden betrayed.
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