Foreign Policy
‘Five for Fighting’ Skewers Biden Afghan Pullout in New Song
Biden’s blunder in Afghanistan was so disastrous that it has already inspired musicians to write songs about it.
CNN Uses Trump Foe 'Anonymous' To Defend Milley's Alleged Behavior
Of all the people CNN could have chosen to comment on General Milley's calls to the ChiCom military leader in which he promised to give him advance warning of any attack ordered by President Trump, CNN chose one with perhaps the least credibility: Miles Taylor, aka Anonymous, who under that pen name wrote the infamous NYT op-ed, "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration." …
Scarborough Uses Heroes of 9/11 to Boost Biden's Afghanistan Fiasco
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough uses the great work of the American military, invokes the spirit of 9/11, and the generosity of Americans welcoming Afghan refugees, to deflect criticism from President Biden over his Afghanistan fiasco. Scarborough says he is "really proud" of America, and offers not a word of blame for Biden.
NBC and CBS DROP Afghanistan, ABC Warns of U.S.-Equipped Taliban
After Thursday’s CBS Evening News decided it was time to abandon coverage of President Biden’s Afghanistan debacle, on Thursday, CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today show both made the same decision to ignore the ongoing foreign policy disaster. Only ABC’s Good Morning America managed to provide any Afghanistan coverage, warning viewers that the Taliban had…
'WE WILL HONOR HIM': Telemundo Anchor Mourns Fallen Marine
While the horrors of the past two weeks in Afghanistan unfolded, the media coverage of America's catastrophic withdrawal from Kabul took a toll not only on their viewers, but also on those reporting the stories- as was the case with Telemundo anchor Aranxta Loizaga.
Even CNN Blasts Biden for Abandoning Americans With 'Broken Promise'
On the occasion of the last US troops leaving Afghanistan—and in a marked departure from its traditional pro-Biden bias—CNN blasted President Biden today for abandoning American citizens trapped in the country. New Day co-host John Berman opened today's show by speaking of Biden's "broken promise—he said the US would stay to get them out. The US did not stay."
DELUDED MSNBC on Withdrawal: 'People Will Say, Yep, Biden Got Us Out'
Former Time magazine managing editor, former Obama State Department official, and current MSNBC analyst Rick Stengel joined Deadline: White House on Tuesday to react to President Biden's latest speech on Afghanistan. Stengel predicted that when the history books are written, "people will say, yep, he got us out of there."
Biden Went Back on ‘Pledge’: Tapper Grills WH on Abandoned Americans
The day after he pulled all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, abandoning some 200 Americans in a terrorist safe haven, President Biden delivered an address to the nation where he literally shouted at the majority of Americans who knew he was responsible for the evacuation disaster. And CNN’s Jake Tapper wasn’t going to let the issue of Americans getting left behind stand during Tuesday’s edition…
MSNBC Grills Kirby: You Left People Behind to Taliban ‘Medieval Cult'
Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Tuesday, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby actually faced a grilling over the Biden administration’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan that abandoned as many as 200 Americans and tens of thousands of Afghan allies. The usually friendly broadcast for Democrats hammered the Defense Department spokesman over how so many could have left behind to…
Nets Skip Biden Checking Watch at Dignified Transfer, Families Speak
On Sunday, President Biden spat in the faces of the grieving families whose loved ones, service members were killed by a suicide bomb at the Kabul airport last week. As their bodies were being tended to during the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base, Biden repeatedly looked down at his watch as if he was counting the minutes until the inconvenient photo op was over. Meanwhile, the…
ABC Warns Americans Abandoned in Safe Haven for Islamic Terrorists
Americans were left outraged Monday after the Biden administration completely pulled out of Afghanistan and left behind some 250 American citizens to be hostages and targets of the Taliban. And in their infinite wisdom, officials anticipated that the Taliban would be kept busy fighting ISIS-K. But in a Special Report and on World News Tonight, ABC News warned viewers that Americans…
What About the Abandoned? CBS Rips Biden Admin Spinning Afghan Crisis
With the final military planes off the tarmac and out of Afghan airspace, the Biden administration was desperate to try to paint their deadly disaster as some sort of success. Each of the press secretaries and top officials at the White House, State Department, and Pentagon parroted the same talking point that it was the largest airlift in U.S. history. But CBS News popped their bubble Monday…
Engel on Afghanistan Debacle: ‘Worst Capitulation of Western Values’
At the conclusion of MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel reflected on the impact of the Biden administration’s “chaotic withdrawal” from Afghanistan. He warned that “the next Osama bin Laden” may be emboldened by the disastrous surrender and that it represented “the worst capitulation of western values in our lifetimes.”
Stelter: Shouldn’t Press Cover Climate Change More Than Afghanistan?
On Sunday, desperate to deflect media criticism of President Biden’s catastrophic Afghanistan failures, CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter suggested other topics like climate change really needed to take priority in the press. His panel of liberal pundits predictably agreed and argued that coverage of the foreign policy debacle was overblown.
