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Afghanistan
Networks ABANDON 'Completely Wrong' Biden's 'Saigon on Steroids'
2021-08-16
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] The shocking fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
is such a failure that even the liberal networks on Monday have abandoned Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name...
's decision making (at least for now), hammering the President as "completely wrong" and executing a Vietnam-esque Saigon "debacle."

On NBC’s Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie opened the show by blasting, "A catastrophe for its people and a debacle for the Biden crime family administration
...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know...
. A triumphant Taliban storming the presidential palace in Kabul, seizing total control of the country."

Guthrie piled on: "And the President at Camp David standing by his decision but under fire for a botched withdrawal." All three networks eagerly and repeatedly compared Biden’s disaster to the fall of Vietnam. NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel linked, "The Taliban had been taking potshots at the U.S. transport planes as they leave and many are drawing comparisons to the U.S. evacuation from Saigon."

Good Morning America hosts repeatedly used the Vietnam language that Biden hates the most. Co-host Robin Roberts opened the show by comparing: "The Taliban take over with terrifying speed, described as Saigon on steroids." Later, she echoed, "The capital officially under Taliban control this morning. The quick takeover described as, ’Saigon on steroids.’"

Talking to global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz, George Stephanopoulos declared, "This appears to be the Saigon moment in Afghanistan." Raddatz agreed, "It certainly does."

Continuing the trend of putting the harsh response up front, CBS This Morning opened the show with a clip of Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA): "President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter......
saying you wouldn't see helicopters evacuating the embassy like Saigon, and yet here we are. This is President Biden's Saigon moment."

Even Democrat donor and co-host Gayle King made the Vietnam comparison: "At least five people have been killed in the chaos, and we just learned there's now a temporary halt on flights at the airport. Many observers compare the scene to the fall of South Vietnam back in 1975."
Posted by:Fred

#5  They were expecting a red wave. Now they are hoping to at least hold the seat in Minniapolis.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2021-08-16 17:29  

#4  I'm not holding my breath until Schumer and Pelosi blast Biden.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2021-08-16 17:04  

#3  ^^--- As Designed.

Meanwhile, At the Whitehouse, Kamala is taking measurements in the residential wing...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-08-16 15:33  

#2  They're panicking. They put so much effort to oust Gorbachev Trump they couldn't think beyond that. Now things are really running out of hand. In the history doesn't repeat itself but rhymes category they're whistling past the graveyard. Our monetary system is the only thing keeping it together, but with the Left's uncontrolled spending and the Fed's cowardice, they're going to kill that.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-08-16 15:24  

#1  Boy, their handlers are pissed at losing their war. Criticizing the president! The media are government lapdogs these days, but this? Unprecedented.
Posted by: Slomorong Thraiger7030   2021-08-16 14:27  

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