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?
He thought, as always, the media would protect him.
I was away most of the day and couldn’t wait to see how the presser went. If ABC is critical of Biden it, it must have been a doozy. Thanks for posting.
It’s the Pentagon guys who need to be asked …. Why did we depart Bagram airbase leaving everything there for the Taliban to take over before evacuating civilians? Does not seem that anyone in the propaganda media wants to ask this question
Everyone is missing the point.......at least the world loves us now, and there aren’t anymore mean tweets. #OMB
As much as I try to be charitable to this guy, I just cannot. So disgusted with his mess.
I was thinking about Dan Quale and his gaffs. This is not even close to Quale’s mistakes.
“The countdown is on until they start calling for “Heels Up” Harris to take over”
There will be open calls for the 25th, by media and powerful Democrats over the weekend.
Likely a chorus by Monday.
Impeach them both and you have President Pelosi.
At least she’s a competent ring leader and manager.
I like to think I know the answer. It was forced on them from some intern with a spreadsheet and set of long finger nails. As much as I dislike woke general, they are not completely stupid. Closing Bagram created a single point of failure. If they didn't see that, then I really need to reassess my opinion of those at the Pentagon. That opinion is basically they have no principles and are not willing to resign in protest when forced to compromise those principles.
I think he is that far gone. Every picture I see of him he has that dull lost look in his eyes.
ABC News? I'm so used to ABC News lying FOR democrats this is breathtaking... Maybe someone in their newsroom has a loved one caught behind enemy lines. I hope David Muir understands he could be viewed as a 'domestic terrorist' now... Democrats are NOT kind to people off the 'plantation'....
Now let’s hear CNN & MSNBC do this.
We all knew he was senile at best during the election Both the democrap party and the people who voted for this old coot are to blame. Could the party not find anyone better to run or anyone better than a candidate who could only pull 2% of the primary vote?
Talk about losers. They had to cheat to win. Just no other way to do it. Of coure there is that brain dead electorate and the mindless gimmedats and the illegals. Dims really are a high class and bright group aren’t they?
I wonder how many of these have US passports but are Afgam or have dual citizenship and therefore just asking for it so to speak?
And then comes nutty nancy. Maybe even more crap brained then plugs.
We did our best to tell you about Biden’s cognitive issues. You would not listen and now we have a BIG problem, ABC World News Tonight.
They are calling him a liar but he is senile and doesn’t really know or not know anything. I don’t feel the least bit sorry for him but if it was anybody else I would be saying how cruel they are being to a poor senile old man.
Besides, all the name calling and accusation of ineptitude is a cover for the fact that the Afghanistan debacle is a smoje screen for giving China a couple billion dollars worth of our military hardware. They are very very good at reverse engagement and duplication. I doubt if China has anything like a Apache helicopter yet but you can be absolutely certain that they will soon. They will tear down a couple and build a couple thousand which will be used against Taiwan and India. Hopefully they won’t use them against us.
have pelosi or schumer said a word?
IMO the powers that be want these refugee crises - they’re manufacturing them by arming/training Islamists and then leaving a power vacuum for them. Same with ISIS/Iraq/Syria.
This time they just used Joe to do it. It was always part of the plan to get rid of him. He probably didn’t see it coming. It was always about Kamala.
We’re about to have 3+ yrs of a radical.
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