MSNBC Military Expert Goes Defeatist: 'Nothing' We Can Do
MSNBC military analyst, Ret. Gen. Barry McCaffrey obliterated the admittedly fine line between being realistic and being defeatist on Friday's Stephanie Ruhle Reports where he asserted there is "nothing" we can do for those who fought beside us for 20 years.
Jimmy Carter Is Redeemed
Looking back on the contradictory pronunciamentos uttered by President Joe Biden so solemnly over the last few months on the subject of Afghanistan, what has struck me is how inane they show him to be. When he was affirming that everything in Kabul, Afghanistan, was hunky-dory or when he was sounding the alarm, he was inane. His statements were vacuous. How did this man become president of the…
ABC Blasts Biden’s ‘Breathtaking’ Lies on Afghanistan Catastrophe
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…
Pent-Up Press Unleash on Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster, Growing Chaos
After dodging journalists and ping-ponging from the White House to vacation, back to the White House, Joe Biden finally faced the music and talked to pent-up journalists about his Afghanistan disaster. Although the President called on just five reporters, they hammered Biden for badly botching the situation.
CNN Holds Biden Flack's Feet to the Fire on Evacuating Afghan Allies
CNN New Day co-host Brianna Keilar interviews Biden communications director Kate Bendingfield, and holds her feet to the fire on the issue of Biden's commitment to evacuating all the Afghan translators and other allies. At the end, after all of Bedingfield's evasions, Keilar told Bedingfield "this is not horseshoes," and continued: "I'm hearing in there that you are prepared to leave…
Column: Cowardly Biden Hides From the Press on Afghanistan
The very supportive media environment around President Biden has turned suddenly sour over this administration’s shoddy handling of Afghanistan. This debacle shouldn’t be buried and ignored by the press, like they’ve tried to do with the border crisis. But Biden’s gone back to hiding as a strategy, as he did in the 2020 campaign.
Jalalabad Joy Slams the Media for Attacking Biden's Afghanistan Policy
Jockeying with MSNBC colleagues to be the Biden administration’s Baghdad Bob on Afghanistan, ReidOut host Joy Reid spent Thursday’s show bolstering her resume by chastising the media for having a “gaze...fixed on Afghanistan” and being “pissed off” that the deadly and chaotic withdraw hasn’t “go[ne] smoothly” instead of spending more time focusing on the January 6 riot or Thursday’s…
CBS, NBC Ignore Evidence Biden Was Warned This Would Happen By Embassy
According to a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal Thursday, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul had sent an urgent cable to the Biden administration in July warning that the chaos we’re now seeing would occur. It’s a shocking revelation that proved the administration was aware of the dangers of their reckless actions but proceeded away. But neither the CBS Evening News nor…
On Not Just Afghanistan, Biden Chooses Decline
In November 2009, the late Charles Krauthammer gave a seminal speech, titled “Decline Is a Choice.” In it, Krauthammer stated, “The question of whether America is in decline cannot be answered yes or no. There is no yes or no ... Nothing is inevitable. Nothing is written. For America today, decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice.” This week, President Joe Biden chose decline.
Ignatius: Afghanistan ‘Really Difficult’ for White House Self-Esteem
Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Thursday, Washington Post columnist and associate editor David Ignatius sympathized with “shell-shocked” White House staffers for which the catastrophe in Afghanistan has “been really, really difficult.” The concern for the emotional well being of top Biden aides came amid discussion of the President’s disastrous ABC interview in which he…
Peak Irony! Krugman Accuses Fossil Fuel Defenders of ‘Bad Economics’
It is peak irony when New York Times economist Paul Krugman accuses fossil fuel defenders of “bad economics.”
CNN on Biden's Afghanistan Nightmare: If This Isn't Failure, What Is?
CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward, reporting from Kabul on the chaos at the airport where Afghans are trying to flee the country, in response to Biden's denial of failure asks, "if this isn’t failure, what does failure look like exactly?"
Stephanopoulos Hounds Biden on Afghanistan, But Lets Lies Stand
In a lengthy interview this morning, the Good Morning America anchor repeatedly pressed the president on his administration’s “failure” in Afghanistan. However, despite some misleading statements, Biden was saved from the eager media fact-checks his predecessor was frequently exposed to.
Bozell: Even ‘Compliant’ Press Can’t Save Biden From Afghanistan Mess
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell on Thursday described the unfolding tragedy in Afghanistan as a “worldwide disaster” that even “compliant” liberal allies of Joe Biden are having trouble spinning. Appearing on Varney and Co., he declared, “The world has seen this President fail as commander-in-chief.”
