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Title: 'There's no way you can tell the Afghan people the US is with them': CBS reporter tears into State D
Post by: PeteS in CA on August 13, 2021, 10:39:37 pm

'There's no way you can tell the Afghan people the US is with them': CBS reporter tears into State Department spokesman for trying to spin Biden's Afghan pullout and bragging about 'diplomacy' during Taliban rampage

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9891103/CBS-reporter-tears-State-Department-spokesman-trying-spin-Bidens-Afghan-pullout.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9891103/CBS-reporter-tears-State-Department-spokesman-trying-spin-Bidens-Afghan-pullout.html)

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State Department spokesman Ned Price was hounded by reporters on Thursday as he tried to explain the Biden administration's decision to evacuate much of its embassy personnel, at the same time touting 'diplomacy' advances with the Taliban.

'This is not abandonment. This is not an evacuation,' Price assured reporters numerous times throughout his briefing. 'What this is is a reduction in the size of our civilian footprint.' 

'It appears to be a preparation for a full evacuation,' one reporter said. 'That's not true,' the spokesman responded.

'I respect you and we all know you have a job to do,' CBS reporter Christina Ruffini said to Price.

 'But there is no way you can sit there and say that the people of Afghanistan watching the Taliban take over provinces, watching their country crumble are now going to watch American diplomats get on military planes and leave the country that that sends a signal that the U.S. is with them in the long haul diplomatically.'

Title: Re: 'There's no way you can tell the Afghan people the US is with them': CBS reporter tears into Sta
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on August 14, 2021, 05:06:22 pm

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1426587780835168257

Title: Re: 'There's no way you can tell the Afghan people the US is with them': CBS reporter tears into Sta
Post by: Hoodat on August 14, 2021, 08:07:12 pm

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State Department spokesman Ned Price was hounded by reporters on Thursday as he tried to explain the Biden administration's decision to evacuate much of its embassy personnel, at the same time touting 'diplomacy' advances with the Taliban.

The press begins to stir from their nap.  It is a beauty to see them challenge Biden coup officials for the first time ever, but I don't expect it to lsast.

Title: Re: 'There's no way you can tell the Afghan people the US is with them': CBS reporter tears into Sta
Post by: dfwgator on August 14, 2021, 08:31:13 pm

Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on August 14, 2021, 05:06:22 pm

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1426587780835168257

And of course they'll all wind up in red states, until there aren't any red states anymore. Never let a crisis go to waste.

Title: Re: 'There's no way you can tell the Afghan people the US is with them': CBS reporter tears into Sta
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 14, 2021, 08:55:09 pm

Would I be wrong if I said I don't GAF?