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?
Prepping for a resignation or “tragic” health crisis and the 25th. Exactly according to The Plan. Wonder how long Kamala will be permitted to suck air before Nancy gets her turn at bat?
You broke it, you pay for it ABC.
This is YOUR Frankenstein monster, guys.
She’s got friends in the media don’t think for one second they aren’t planning on the right time to start the campaign to her President, praising Dementia Joe as they shove the shiv into his back
To quote Bruce Willis: “welcome to the party pal”.
If the ABC Presstitutes would have done thier JOB last year, we wouldn’t be here. When does the Impeachment Begin??
FU ABC Prersstitutes
“ The President said he has no intelligence..”
So he didn’t lie.
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Please, please, please do not give him that excuse. He is not as far gone as many assume.
Let us hope they get a taste for real journalism and keep it up.
I wonder if Joe is being sent out to repeat lies to set him up to be pushed out.
As others have pointed out here, they may have decided it's Harris time.
Well,it’s only a matter of time. The forces behind all of this will decide it is time for Biden to go.
Obama fantasy dream come true... A mental illness which excuses the Marxist advance of humiliation of America and Americans... Obama doing his racist petty envious deed without the look of it.
ABC is complicit in putting this fool in the White House in the first place!
He won’t realize it but that could be happening
I’m sure they were mostly peaceful beatings.
LMAO!! That’s epic!!
I keep seeing the CRT joke. I don’t get it. Can you explain?
White House correspondent Jon Karl directly blamed Biden for fueling the “disaster” by repeatedly being dishonest.......
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He àpparently believes he’s still in Delaware.
He duped dumb Delaware Democrats into voting for him.
Same line of bullcrap.
ABC is concerned because there Liberals and fake Commie “journalists” like them trapped over there with sprinkled Obama DOD/Deep State/State Department types that are Democrats. If it were Ashlii Babbitt or a Conservative being attacked or raped, they do not care. Libtard in peril makes Disney employees get angry, even at Pudding Sniffer Joe.
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