{"id":329796,"date":"2021-08-24T03:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T00:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/even-a-biased-press-is-calling-biden-out-on-his-afghan-debacle\/"},"modified":"2021-08-24T03:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T00:20:19","slug":"even-a-biased-press-is-calling-biden-out-on-his-afghan-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/even-a-biased-press-is-calling-biden-out-on-his-afghan-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"#Even a biased press is calling Biden out on his Afghan debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Even a biased press is calling Biden out on his Afghan debacle<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Rich Lowry\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Poor Ron Klain.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a good sign when a White House chief of staff to a Democratic president wants to retweet favorable <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> coverage and all he can find is the least credible and most slavishly loyal commentators on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan fiasco has created that most disorienting and discomfiting experience for a progressive administration \u2014 a serious bout of critical <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> coverage immune to White House spin and determined to tell the unvarnished story of an ongoing debacle.<\/p>\n<p>The White House and its allies have lashed out at what they are portraying as an insular, pro-war media ignoring its many successes in the Afghan evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>This, like Klain\u2019s tweeting, is a sign of desperation and of a feeling of outraged betrayal that usually dependable allies have, on this story, switched sides. Say it\u2019s not so, CNN.<\/p>\n<p>This White House is unfamiliar with what it\u2019s like to be on the receiving end of the kind of media feeding frenzy that Florida Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis experiences every other day (almost always involving spurious storylines).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/ron-klain.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"White House chief of staff Ron Klain has struggled to find positive coverage of the debacle.\" class=\"wp-image-19222079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/ron-klain.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/ron-klain.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/ron-klain.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>White House chief of staff Ron Klain has struggled to find positive coverage of the debacle.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">EPA\/Al Drago \/ POOL<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But on Afghanistan, President Biden in effect set out to test how much shameless incompetence and dishonesty the media would accept. The answer? Not nearly enough.<\/p>\n<p>The press is blatantly biased and has become even more so over time, repeatedly propagating false narratives that have shredded its credibility. Still, there are limits beyond which even it can\u2019t be pushed.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said the Afghan withdrawal wouldn\u2019t be another Saigon within weeks of Saigon-like scenes of a hasty evacuation of the US Embassy, of terrified Afghans clinging to a US transport plane, of desperate Afghans passing their infants over the barbed wire to Western soldiers guarding the Kabul airport.<\/p>\n<p>There is no amount of look-on-the-bright-side briefings that are going to overcome these indelible images, and even a journalist who tilted heavily toward Biden in 2020 and supports his agenda was going to be hard-pressed to look away.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/taliban-fighter-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Taliban fighters patrolling the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan on August 23, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19222081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/taliban-fighter-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/taliban-fighter-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/taliban-fighter-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Taliban fighters patrolling the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 23, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The contradiction in Biden\u2019s case for withdrawal was also too stark to ignore. He originally justified his pullout because the Afghan government and military were capable of defending the country without us, then he justified his exit because the government and military collapsed so quickly. Which was it?<\/p>\n<p>Much of what Biden has said in his remarks and press conferences has been vulnerable to instant fact checks. When he said Americans were having no trouble getting through to the airport, reporters could immediately attest that it wasn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n<p>Whom was everyone supposed to believe? Biden\u2019s misleading assurance, or CNN reporter Clarissa Ward\u2019s compelling report from outside the Kabul airport that she was threatened with a whip for not covering her face and her producer nearly pistol-whipped? Ward said it was \u201cmayhem\u201d and \u201ca miracle that more people haven\u2019t been very, very seriously hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plaints from the administration and its most committed journalistic supporters that the coverage has been unfair and the product of an interventionist press bias ring hollow.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/afghan-evacuation.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Afghan citizens boarding a US Air Force plane to evacuate the country on August 23, 2021. \" class=\"wp-image-19222089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/afghan-evacuation.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/afghan-evacuation.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/afghan-evacuation.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Afghan citizens boarding a US Air Force plane to evacuate the country on August 23, 2021. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Sgt. Samuel Ruiz\/U.S. Marine Corps via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is certainly true that the East Coast media has more cosmopolitan attitudes than the rest of the country, but it\u2019s hardly full of committed foreign-policy hawks. The press didn\u2019t notably dissent from President Barack Obama\u2019s pullout from Iraq in 2011 or his nuclear deal with Iran. It has steadfastly favored the so-called peace process in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not as though only the American media has noticed Biden\u2019s ineptitude, either. If anything, our foreign allies have been harsher about the humiliating mess Biden has stumbled into (former British Prime Minister Tony Blair called it \u201cimbecilic\u201d) than the press here at home.<\/p>\n<p>Since he won the Democratic nomination last year, Biden has been the subject of relentless favorable press coverage, forgiving about his lapses, enthusiastic about his alleged accomplishments. It was hard to see what he could do to lose media support, even for a time, and then he botched his withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter: @RichLowry<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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It\u2019s not a good sign when a White House chief of staff to a Democratic president wants to retweet favorable news coverage and all he can find is the least credible and most slavishly loyal commentators on the internet. 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