Raddatz & Sasse tag teamed to blast Biden, joined by Jon Karl

[UTUSN]

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First she fiercely interrupted BLINKEN about getting more out after August, not acknowledging the 100K already out. Then SASSE used the word "disgusting" several times. And Karl said the Administration was out of touch with reality. Then she went on with her trademark "anecdotal reporting" about "Marines have told me... "

She never showed outrage in the Drumpf years.


*** ON EDIT, am adding Post #12 here:

Her plan of attack was to *BURST* in on BLINKEN before he barely opened his mouth

When she posed the question as a cold open about getting more out after August, he had to go back to do what should have been the intro about the hundred thousand. Then he picked up on the question with what was to be his series of numbered points, but after his first point about how the Taliban had committed to certain things she stopped him cold and YELLED, "I know you say you don't trust the Taliban but what you're saying is that you trust the Taliban!" He rebutted that and went on with 4 or 5 points detailing further U.S. and international actions.

That was a recorded interview (or rather, hostile attack), while she followed it up with SASSE's own spitfire, without BLINKEN being there to rebut.

She closed with an actual ONE of those anecdotal people, a former Ranger, who went on his own (we'll see) back there to get some Afghans he knew out of there, somehow going in a privately chartered flight and being surprised to get into the airport, and "figuring it out" how to get his people out. Never said how many - was it 5, was it 50? - he never said and RADDITZ never asked. So her eyes went all wet and she said, just about melting in his arms, "It's been TOUGH..."

Am looking for a phone number, will probably have to settle for an e-mail.

[Hugin]

1. Which Marines? Specifically?

Speaking about a current operation can get someone in big trouble. Rightly so.

[UTUSN]

4. Those non-specific, anecdotal ones

[Moebym]

5. No better than

"People were saying"

The BS can be detected from miles away.

[Moebym]

2. I thought I was finally over getting mad about this

Do they actually believe that the administration hasn't been monitoring the situation closely since it had begun? Do they actually believe that they know more about what's been going on on the ground than the people actually receiving intelligence briefings?

What's disgusting here isn't anything the Biden Administration has done, but the complete lack of journalistic integrity on the part of Raddatz.

[Lovie777]

3. That is the GOP's unified talking point right now ...

see if it sticks . . . .

and it won't.

[agingdem]

21. you're right..

Afghanistan has been more or less a forgotten war and once this evacuation ends it will again recede from our collective consciousness.....the shrieking GOP and their media whores have a problem..they're the only ones who give a damn...if only they didn't have to compete with this covid delta variant and sick and dying children...priorities and all that, ya know...

[Walleye]

6. Not watching. Just got my blood pressure down to normal

Next week they’ll move to bashing him about hurricane response or something. Or Biden will start to be blamed for the high rate of Covid in Florida. It’s best to ignore these clamoring critics. Anybody can say what you should’ve done once something is over.

[Moebym]

9. Agreed - all it is

Is self-important talking heads engaging in Monday morning quarterbacking.

My fear is that the bulls--t "Biden's incompetence has cost the lives of dozens" framing will stick somehow and damage the reputation of the Biden Administration going forward.

[Walleye]

13. True, and political capital is important. But Biden will keep his head down, do his job competently

My observation is that his power of concentration has been impressive

[JohnSJ]

7. What the media did to Hillary in 2016 was a disgrace, and from reading various posts here it

seems they are going out of their way to have a preponderance of republicans parading across their screens doing the same thing to the Biden Administration.

To refresh everyone's memory, one week before the 2016 election our illustrious media reported that the email investigation was reopened. That was a LIE. They then paraded every right wing and republican pundit across our television propagating that lie for the entire week.

Then late Friday night, Comey quietly came out and said there was no new evidence presented to reopen the email investigation, but by that time, no one cared anymore.

Hillary was ahead in every poll number before that LIE was propagated, by 4 to points, and by Tuesday in that week, the polls were dead even.

They gave free advertising to the swift puke liars against Kerry, and the vile comments and sexist asides they made about Hillary were outrageous. I recall Anderson Cooper making one of those snide remarks about how "shrill" Hillary sounded, then stopping himself, and saying I better not say anything more because some will accuse me of being sexist.

I will fight and vote Democratic to defeat a republican party that has become the party of trump, a racist, sexist, bigoted cult, but I have very little hope for the country after what happened in 2016

[badhair77]

8. I'm so done with ABC news.

Their breathless teasers at the beginning of their programs are ridiculous. Raddatz may have been to Afghanistan many times so she has some cred there. But she seems upset no one in the administration is letting her in on the strategies for dealing with the current crisis. This morning I heard her say “There is no plan.” Hmmm . . . and she knows this how? Surely there are multiple plans depending on each possible scenario.

As for Sasse, his words are strictly politically-based. The rest are side line commentators whose words mean the same as many others’ words.

[GoCubsGo]

11. Raddatz is full of shit.

She had the gall to claim that she has been reporting on Afghanistan "every night for a year." Bullfuckingshit. I was watching every night for a year, and rarely saw her ass.

I expect nothing less from Sasse than what has been described. He's a GOP hack, who isn't fit to pick up after Major Biden, let alone comment on this matter.

[badhair77]

17. Correct. None of the major networks

were reporting on Afghanistan every night for a year. She likes to portray herself as more important than she is.

[Walleye]

14. Agree, both their reporting and format have become annoying and irritating

[GoCubsGo]

10. Exhibit A of why I don't watch that shit.

Raddatz has been lying her ass off from Day One. Fuck her. The same goes for Yamiche Alcindor on PBS. The first sentence out of her mouth on this week's "Washington Week" was all "CATASTROPHE!!!! CATASTROPHE!!!! ERMEGHERRRDDDDD!!! CATASTROPHE!!!!!'' I changed the channel immediately. Got ZERO time or patience for that kind of complete, unmitigated bullshit.
!

[UTUSN]

12. Her plan of attack was to *BURST* in on BLINKEN before he barely opened his mouth

When she posed the question as a cold open about getting more out after August, he had to go back to do what should have been the intro about the hundred thousand. Then he picked up on the question with what was to be his series of numbered points, but after his first point about how the Taliban had committed to certain things she stopped him cold and YELLED, "I know you say you don't trust the Taliban but what you're saying is that you trust the Taliban!" He rebutted that and went on with 4 or 5 points detailing further U.S. and international actions.

That was a recorded interview (or rather, hostile attack), while she followed it up with SASSE's own spitfire, without BLINKEN being there to rebut.

She closed with an actual ONE of those anecdotal people, a former Ranger, who went on his own (we'll see) back there to get some Afghans he knew out of there, somehow going in a privately chartered flight and being surprised to get into the airport, and "figuring it out" how to get his people out. Never said how many - was it 5, was it 50? - he never said and RADDITZ never asked. So her eyes went all wet and she said, just about melting in his arms, "It's been TOUGH..."

Am looking for a phone number, will probably have to settle for an e-mail.

[Walleye]

15. I switched to the 50s westerns. Lots of horses and the violence was make-believe

[UTUSN]

16. ABC's automated answer to my Complaint in their e-form format

I said I was looking for a phone # because years ago I had success in getting through to a producer on NBC to complain about how LAUER had played BUSH defender and the next day the problem was fixed.

No such luck with ABC. Their e-form has a limit of 500 *CHARACTERS* - no room for gory details.

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[blueinredohio]

18. I hate it when Martha is hosting the show and

I can't stand to listen to Jonathan Karl. They always show their true colors.

[UTUSN]

19. Been saying for years that KARL inherited Brit HUME's wingnut slot on ABC

from all the years that HUME was a consigliere of the BUSH Family Evil Empire, with his smug sneer on all Dem stories, until he finally went to his perfect home the Faux Propaganda Network. And David BRINKLEY came out as total wingnut.

KARL was pushing his book a few months ago and did some lip service criticizing Drumpf for a few weeks for sales. Today he was blatant about who he really is.

RADDATZ has had years of barely walking a line, but with flashes of wingnuttiness, but in the Afghan exit has let it out. Plus she has that Diane SAWYER cloying gushing.

[2naSalit]

20. Take note of the bashers...

Those are the ones who have been profiting off this war machine cash cow, and they are screaming because they thought they were set for life with endless wars.

[UTUSN]

22. *** She's at it again: "criticism he's been receiving" - from YOU, Martha!

At BIDEN honoring dead arrival.