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Mixed: ABC, NBC Journos Slam Biden While Others on CBS, NBC Go Soft
On Tuesday afternoon following President Biden’s address about the end of the war in Afghanistan, some broadcast network journalists slammed President Biden’s speech as an angry, defiant, and misleading while others fawned over his claims about the withdrawal as “largely a success” and said his firm deadline will be “reward[ed]” by voters.
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…
ABC’s Raddatz Calls Out Blinken Telling Americans to 'Trust' Taliban
As much as they claimed it wasn’t, the Biden administration’s “plan” to get trapped Americans and allies out of Afghanistan was to “trust” the Taliban with their lives. And during an interview on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, fill-in host Martha Raddatz went toe-to-toe with Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the fact that their only plan after August 31 was to tell those people to…
ABC Helps Rescue Afghan Interpreter, Family Before Biden Would Abandon
While the Biden administration was getting ready to abandon anywhere between 1,000 and 1,500 Americans along with thousands of Afghans that helped American troops over the course of the last 20 years, ABC reported on Wednesday that they had made moves behinds the scenes to help one Afghan interpreter and his family escape the country as the Taliban nipped at their heels.
ABC Slams Biden on Afghanistan—'Adrift From The Facts'
The roundtable on ABC's "This Week" was rather rough on President Biden regarding his Afghanistan fiasco. It was encapsulated by senior national correspondent Terry Moran describing Biden as "adrift from the facts." Even NPR's Michel Martin called the withdrawal a "botched operation."
ABC Presses Def. Sec. Austin on Lack of Action to Go Save Americans
A week after the fall of Afghanistan, the response from the Biden administration was floundering as thousands of Americans were still trapped in Kabul and other places in the country. With the State Department telling Americans they needed to brave the streets and the Taliban in order to get to the airport and home, ABC’s Martha Raddatz pressed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sunday’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…
Nets SLAM Biden as Failed Leader, Passed ‘Blame’ for Afghan ‘Disaster’
The major broadcast networks continued their welcome stance on Monday afternoon of holding President Biden accountable for the embarrassing collapse of Afghanistan and the peril Afghans and Americans have found themselves in. After Biden’s speech, ABC, CBS, and NBC lambasted it for having “missed the moment” in failing to “accept responsibility” for this “catastrophe” he’s caused and explain…
Fall of Kabul: Nets Praised Biden’s Order to Withdraw from Afghanistan
As of the writing of this piece, there were reports that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country, leaving the capital city of Kabul to advancing Taliban fighters with no military resistance and Americans still scrambling to get out. But back in April, the liberal broadcast networks were tripping over themselves to laud President Biden’s decision to do away with former President…
Column: Biden's Wild Murder and Jim Crow Accusations
Liberals boasted that the election of Joe Biden meant a return to sober, restrained presidential rhetoric and an end to unhinged mean tweets. Biden wouldn’t be a divider, he’d be a uniter to get things done. That’s nothing like current reality. But when Biden uncorks crazy hot talk, the media are supportive repeaters.
ABC Panel: Happy Fourth of July, America Sucks!
On Sunday, ABC’s This Week panel marked Independence Day by hyping how politically “divided” the nation was, hysterically warning of “anti-LGBTQ bills,” homelessness, and income inequality. Even when one of the pundits adopted a slightly more optimistic tone, she fretted that it might be “insane” and “naive” to speak positively about America.
ABC's Raddatz and Her Panelists Thump the DNC Tub on 'Voting Rights'
On Sunday, MRC’s Brent Baker noticed that ABC This Week host Martha Raddatz spent July 4 complaining about Republicans dealing a blow to “election rights.” The liberal pundit panel insisted Republican election laws are unpopular.
Siding with Terrorists: Nets Decry Israel Defending Itself from Hamas
Over the years, NewsBusters has extensively documented how the liberal broadcast networks had thrown their support behind terrorist groups that wanted to wipe Israel off the map. Well, they were back at it again Monday after Hamas had indiscriminately launched over 150 rockets at Israeli civilians and Israel justly responded by targeting their attacker. Between ABC, CBS, and, NBC they decried…
ABC Trumpets ‘Pragmatic’ Biden’s ‘Make America Feel Good Night’
ABC followed the lead on Wednesday night of fellow broadcast networks CBS and NBC with their largely supportive coverage of President Biden’s first speech to a joint session of Congress. In ABC’s case, they called it a “Make America Feel Good Night” and “Make America Feel Pride Night” by “talk[ing] direction to people” following “an incredibly bold first 99 days” amidst the GOP’s “endless…
