Posted on 08/20/2021 4:49:23 PM PDT by Hojczyk
ABC is being called out for editing out portions of President Biden’s interview on the deadly chaos in Afghanistan where he made gaffes about his son Beau — the network included the lines in the transcript, but did not put them on air.
A day after Biden’s interview with George Stephanopoulos aired on Wednesday, ABC published the full transcript online.
Sections of the interview revealed in the full transcript, including a part where Biden mistakenly said his late son Beau served in Iraq with the Navy instead of the Army, and in Afghanistan, where he wasn’t deployed, were omitted from airing.
Asked to respond to a veteran saying he wished the US could have left Afghanistan with honor, Biden said: “Look, that’s like askin’ my deceased son Beau, who spent six months in Kosovo and a year in Iraq as a Navy captain and then major – I mean, as an Army major. And, you know, I’m sure he had regrets comin’ out of Afghanistan– I mean, out of Iraq.
“He had regrets to what’s– how– how it’s going. But the idea– what’s the alternative? The alternative is why are we staying in Afghanistan? Why are we there? Don’t you think that the one– you know who’s most disappointed in us getting out? Russia and China.”
Beau was deployed to Iraq for a year in 2009 with the US Army Delaware Army National Guard.
Rep. Jim Banks, who is an Afghanistan veteran, tweeted: “@abc should release the tape now! American lives are at stake. America deserves to know if their Commander in Chief is up for the job.”
Fox News Tucker Carlson led the criticism against the ABC and Biden, accusing the outlet of editing the interview to avoid making the president seem “incoherent and confused.”
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> ABC published the full transcript online. <
Oops! Somebody’s gonna get their knuckles whacked with a ruler.
And what they left was “flattering?” Talk about turd polishing.
What? One of our fine, fair, and objective news sources, also known as a member of the Democrat Ministry of Propaganda, is guilty of slanting the news? Say it ain’t so.
That’s not the worst of it. All those bovine “reporters” went right along with the fiction that Biden was answering questions spontaneously, when they were clearly scripted and teleprompter delivered. It was choreographed as his pressers are, with a set order to call on specific reporters who themselves carefully read a preapproved question.
I kinda don’t blame them as it’s getting so painful to watch him stammer and blather on.
Not just ABC:
Fox and PBS as well (at a minimum).
See https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3987257/posts
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