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?
Not so sure of that...the dimms in general, are not big Harris supporters...they have pretty much concluded that she as dumb or likely dumber than the idiot Joe, and putting her in charge will assure no dimm will have a chance at the presidency in 2024.
If she weaseled her way into the Oval office, she would not be capable of changing the morons who are actually running the joint. Nuttin would change.
My guess is the media and the dimms, (same thing) will prop old Joe up right to the next election...they made it this far.
Wow.. When you’ve lost ABC....
hope springs eternal but my spring is sprung
C’mon, MSM. You cover up for Biden for years, including recently. Why wouldn’t he expect you to keep doing it?
Who has less credibility- Baghdad Bob or Kabul Joe?
President Harris soon?
ABC accused of cutting unflattering portions of Biden’s interview
https://nypost.com/2021/08/20/did-abc-cut-unflattering-portions-of-joe-bidens-interview/
Your boy George had an exclusive press conference with Joe, didn’t hear one tough question.
The commie media wants Heels Harris as President its so beyond obvious
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Yup
Contingency plan.
The tell was camel la’s eyeroll
and looking up when Joe mentioned
” agreement with the taliban”..
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The mil leadership are not ignorant or naive..
They are complicit.
Jmho.
"Somebody" did - but not the 80 million the pimp news crows about and Twitter bans people who deny it. It was maybe 50 million if he got lucky and all his stupid chumps showed up (unlikely).
“Critical Race Theory”.
“Mein Kampf” translated into Ebonics.
OK. Thanks. I kind of thought that might be it, but honestly it seemed like a weak joke, so I was hoping it meant something else.
These people ran interference for basement Joe. They wrote glowing reports of his brilliance and foreign policy expertise. They were all wrong and now they are trying to cover their own asses because they were all WRONG!!! Just to get Trump.
Well...at least we don't have any more mean tweets...
No such luck.
It’s not so much that the demonrats are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so. And they know you’re wrong.
And here we are. Maybe Psaki can explain it to us.
ABC dumping Bidet?!?!?!?
you win the thread
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