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?
8/20/2021
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He looks like the freaking Joker. BTW, very nice. Where’d you find it?
CRT : Critical Race Theory that all white me are evil and racist.
You do know who’s lurking in the wings if Biden AND Harris gets the heave ho?
They MUST think Trump is still in the White House and is in charge!!!
Willie Brown’s Ho taking charge. Everything she ever accomplished she accomplished it being flat on her back or on her hands and knees!! Sometimes just being on her knees! Sorry ladies. Something overcame me.
She won't be in charge for long, Hillary is warming up in the bullpen. The Clintons are back!
Will the Ho choose her?? Oh wait, the Obammy administration will CHOOSE her. This is in fact, Obammy’s failures as he is the one advising BrainDead on what to do. Sadly, BrainDead cannot remember from the time he hangs up the phone with his master and walking into the Press Room to answer the softball tosses.
The LAST thing the Obammies want is Hillary, but it may not be their call now.
My theory is that right now the Clinton Faction is pissed off about what is going on and sees this as their opportunity to take back the reins of the Party from the Obama side. There is no love lost between Hillary and Obama, she's been wanting revenge for 2008 for a long time.
This foul-up is the opportunity.
“Henh! Well, Hunner, m’boy, ya owe yer ol’ man. I finally found a way t’get yer face outta th’ funny papers!”
That’s what I don’t get. How did the Joint Chiefs come up with and approve this fiasco? And if it was handed to them, why didn’t they hand it back?
Oh, I know. The Afghan National Army was supposed to be going at it hammer and tongs with the Taliban while all the civilians took their time getting out? Well even the Joint Chiefs had to know that the ANA would collapse like a house of cards.
Half the scandal in this is how the exit was planned and rubber-stamped.
The United States just suffered the GREATEST military defeat of our LIFETIMES, far worse than in Vietnam, because North Vietnam just wanted us out, but had no intention of carrying the war to our shores, in a messianic crusade. And we did not leave THOUSANDS of Americans behind in Vietnam, as Benedict Biden has done in Afghanistan. Benedict will not be able to stop their infiltration amongst the refugees, or across our open southern border.
1. Marxists lie... Always.
2. Joe Biden has surrounded himself with Marxists.
3. Failure in every possible way are coming.
Joe Biden doesn’t know it yet but his illegitimate presidency is basically over.
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