{"id":700466,"date":"2021-08-30T16:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=700466"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:50:53","slug":"5-times-the-legacy-media-defended-bidens-afghanistan-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-times-the-legacy-media-defended-bidens-afghanistan-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Times The Legacy Media Defended Biden\u2019s Afghanistan Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5-times-the-legacy-media-defended-bidens-afghanistan-debacle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=700466&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234931598-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-explosion-near-kabul-airport-in-final-days-of-evacuation-pentagon-confirms\">Multiple explosions<\/a> punctuated by torrents of gunfire ripped through Kabul\u2019s Hamid Karzai International Airport last Thursday morning, killing dozens of people, including 13 U.S. servicemen. \u201cAmericans are dying at the hands of President Biden\u2019s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/american-lawmakers-react-to-explosion-at-kabul-airport-as-bloody-photos-emerge\">said<\/a> Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI).<\/p>\n<p>Across the political spectrum, the media have largely reported President Joe Biden\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan as a geopolitical and humanitarian disaster. But a few intrepid figures on CNN and MSNBC have pulled out all the stops in their efforts to diminish, deny, or deflect blame from the president. Here are five examples:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joy Reid: Republicans Must Stop Criticizing Biden\u2019s Afghanistan Exit Because Of Covid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of all cable TV hosts, MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid has perhaps most consistently defended President Biden\u2019s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, spending much of last week giving the president political cover. Last Monday, she blamed the debacle on President Donald Trump\u2019s withdrawal agreement. Then, on last &nbsp;Tuesday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe ReidOut,\u201d she engaged in a perplexing fit of <em>whataboutism<\/em>, claiming Republicans have no right to criticize the humanitarian disaster because of last year\u2019s global COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Republican Party has seized on these moments to score political points,\u201d she said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20\">\n<p><em>Take, for example, Texas Representative Michael McCaul, who told CNN that Biden will, quote, have blood on his hands for what they did. This is the same man who represents a state where more than 54,000 people have died from COVID.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tell me, Congressman, does Governor Abbott have blood on his hands for his abandonment of the people of the Lone Star State? What about the 626,000 Americans who died of COVID because of Donald Trump?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She concluded that the GOP\u2019s \u201cnewfound outrage\u201d over the unfolding international humanitarian crisis \u201cjust stinks of political opportunism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Cuomo: Biden\u2019s Debacle Caused by \u2018The Trump Deal\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On \u201cCuomo Prime Time,\u201d Chris Cuomo expanded the context of Biden\u2019s debacle wide enough to cast blame on President Donald Trump. \u201cDon\u2019t judge this exit in a vacuum. That would be a mistake. It\u2019s not as simple as Biden botching the exit, or Trump pandering to you, the public, by foolishly making a deal with the Taliban, to exit,\u201d he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p><em>Now, you want to deal with the instant situation? Fine. We are here right now, because Biden carried forward with the Trump deal made with the Taliban, to exit, and didn\u2019t do it well. \u2026 Mike Pompeo wound up cutting the deal with the Taliban, to leave, so no talk from him, about Biden cozying up to the bad guys. You made a deal with them. You met with the lead Taliban negotiator last year, after the Trump Administration had released him from prison. So, again, enough with the noise, and the politics, and the blame. You made the deal, because the American people were in favor of getting out. \u2026 The bigger question is whether or not this was inevitable.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cuomo did not explain why President Biden did not renegotiate such a calamitous deal, nor how the deal forced him to execute the evacuation in a way that will likely leave U.S. citizens stranded inside an Islamic theocracy during the August 16 episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lawrence O\u2019Donnell: Well, Vietnam Was \u2018Much, Much Worse\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lawrence O\u2019Donnell worried that comparing President Biden\u2019s flawed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-administration-this-is-not-saigon-cnn-its-worse-than-saigon\">evacuation of Kabul to the fall of Saigon<\/a> \u201ccould become one of America\u2019s enduring lies to itself about Afghanistan.\u201d He minimized the intensity of the international crisis on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe Last Word\u201d by saying, in effect, that at least it isn\u2019t as bad as Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard-educated O\u2019Donnell, who never served in the military, asserted that he knew more about geostrategic issues than military brass and an elected U.S. senator, because he is likely older than they are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn unnamed American military source in Afghanistan was quoted as saying what we are seeing now in the American evacuation of Afghanistan is worse, much worse, than what we saw in 1975 in the American evacuation from Vietnam after we lost the war there,\u201d he complained. \u201cThe problem with that kind of quote is that any unnamed military source in Afghanistan tonight is too young to remember the Vietnam War and was probably not born yet when we evacuated Vietnam in 1975, and so that source literally does not know what he or she is talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also argued that Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) could not comment intelligently on the fall of Saigon, since \u201cSasse was three years old in 1975.\u201d By that logic, O\u2019Donnell couldn\u2019t possibly comment on the evils of slavery.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell stated that the Vietnam Conflict caused more deaths than Afghanistan and that \u201cwe left behind all sorts of people who helped us in Vietnam\u201d \u2014 something that increasingly appears likely to take place in Afghanistan, as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN: Joe Biden Has Done \u2018An Extremely Good Job\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Bush-Cheney strategist Matthew Dowd, who has since aligned himself with the Democratic Party, has repeatedly extolled President Joe Biden\u2019s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. \u201cI actually applauded the president from the very beginning about Afghanistan,\u201d he told CNN\u2019s Erin Burnett. \u201cHe was dealt a horrible situation. And as of today, he\u2019s done an extremely good job in this situation.\u201d To bolster his argument, he said that many people believed there was \u201cno possible way\u201d the president could evacuate 50,000 people; it is unclear who made this assertion.<\/p>\n<p>Dowd did not address the fact that removing U.S. citizens and our allies from the nation became far more difficult thanks to the president\u2019s decision to remove all military forces from Afghanistan&nbsp;<em>before&nbsp;<\/em>flying out civilians from the Taliban-dominated regions of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the president\u2019s done unbelievable yeoman\u2019s work,\u201d he added on Tuesday, August 24.<\/p>\n<p>Dowd and Brian Stelter joined forces to bash the media\u2019s depiction of the collapse of Kabul on the August 22 episode of \u201cReliable Sources.\u201d Stelter called the media\u2019s coverage of the Biden administration \u201cscathing,\u201d adding \u201cI heard complaints from Biden\u2019s aides about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHas the coverage been out of proportion, out of step with the American public?\u201d he asked Dowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWay over the top and unconnected to a perspective on the issue,\u201d Dowd replied. \u201cThe press has a tendency to judge things by anecdotes and not the data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN: \u2018This is not Saigon 1975\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CNN also downplayed the severity of the ill-planned U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan by saying that it would not likely harm the odds of President Biden being reelected, unlike Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. \u201cIn contrast to Vietnam, Afghanistan was not a debate that raged on the streets of America. As a result, the odds that this weekend\u2019s events will make or break Biden\u2019s administration seem small,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/17\/opinions\/saigon-afghanistan-biden-withdrawal-zelizer\/index.html\">wrote<\/a> CNN political analyst Julian Zelizer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Biden can\u2019t do is to allow the challenges with Afghanistan to take his energy and attention away from real wartime test that he continues to face \u2014 the need to rapidly expand the nation\u2019s rate of vaccination, develop better treatments for Covid-19, and guide the nation back to the normal we all tasted earlier this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable Mention:&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Nicolle Wallace Says That \u201895% Of The American People\u2019 Back Joe Biden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The day after the first heart-rending images of chaos amid the withdrawal aired, President Biden told the nation that he had no regrets about his decision and that the military had planned for every contingency. Minutes after he concluded his remarks, former Republican strategist Nicolle Wallace enthusiastically defended him on \u201cDeadline: White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNinety-five percent of the American people will agree with everything he just said. Ninety-five percent of the press covering this White House will disagree,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1427367860507226115\">said<\/a> Wallace. \u201cFor an American president to finally be aligned with what such an overwhelming majority of Americans think about Afghanistan is probably a&nbsp;tremendous relief to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, Biden\u2019s speech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/friday-august-20-2021\">conflated<\/a> leaving Afghanistan \u2014 which is politically popular \u2014 with the fall of Kabul and the Biden administration\u2019s failure to secure Americans\u2019 exit from the country before withdrawing all U.S. troops.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.8888888888889\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MSNBC host <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NicolleDWallace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NicolleDWallace<\/a>: &#8220;95% of the American people will agree with everything [President Biden] just said. 95% of the press covering this White House will disagree.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UzLr6DPyPz\">pic.twitter.com\/UzLr6DPyPz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1427367860507226115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple explosions punctuated by torrents of gunfire ripped through Kabul\u2019s Hamid Karzai International Airport last Thursday morning, killing dozens of people, including 13 U.S. servicemen. \u201cAmericans are dying at the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}