MSNBC's Brian Williams on Biden's speech: "He didn’t run from it, he owned it. He owned this decision. He owned the fact that, as he put it, the buck stops with him."
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) August 16, 2021
Afghan vet @mattczeller: "I feel like I watched a different speech than the rest of you guys. I was appalled!" pic.twitter.com/AMSulYnNrp
August 17, 2021
"I feel like I watched a different speech than the rest of you guys. I was appalled!"
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This was a brutal takedown. I guess Williams isn't a lawyer (never ask a question to which you don't already know the answer).
"He owned this decision."
????
He NEVER Mentioned the decision. The decision was, to RUN AWAY like little skirt boys
The decision was, to burn the american flags, so the taliban wouldn't be able to get them (and burn them)
They're Right though; Jo Biden Does own it
MSNBC's hacks drool over all democrats. That's what they do.
Crook Biden blamed Trump then frosted his crap sandwich with "The buck stops with me"
lame.
What do you all think? Brian sounds insane and Matt makes perfect sense. That Brian is still employed by a “news” channel is shocking. His lame slobbery kiss to Biden is not.
What a terrible video clip! The speaker is literally cut off when making his most important point. The optics are that MSNBC (or the maker of the clip) said fuck you to his ideas. This makes me hate Biden and MSNBC even more.
Do Afghan Lives Matter?
Democrats say ... Naaahhh.
I feel like every news article I read about Biden's speech should start "Refuting an argument that no one is making about the decision to leave Afghanistan..."
News people: No one is saying the USA should be in Afghanistan People are justifiably horrified at how allies are left twisting in the wind, and how mismanaged the evacuation was. That is what Biden owns.
Did you notice that Williams had orange skin? How come he gets away with it?
It was inevitable that the side by side Biden vs Biden videos would begin to appear alongside these spot on critiques of every LLR's hero, Dementia Joe.
There is one video out that proves Biden was a strong advocate for nation building so thsts just another fundamental lie biden vomited up in his lie filled drug addled reading exercise yesterday.
Joe Biden yesterday: “Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation-building. It was never supposed to be creating a unified, centralized democracy,”
Joe Biden in 2002 (arguing for a Marshall Plan for Afghanistan):
“Perhaps the most important question, however, is one of commitment. Will we stay the course and build security in Afghanistan, or will we permit this country to relapse into chaos?”
Biden continues; "After World War II, America used its soldiers as peacekeepers and its dollars as peacebuilders. This may have been the wisest investment of the past century: We turned our most bitter foes into our staunchest allies. But if we're going to talk about a new Marshall Plan, we should be willing to back up our words with deeds. The original Marshall Plan cost $90 billion in today's dollars. Our total pledge for Afghan reconstruction is less than 1 percent of that, and we've only delivered a fraction of this pledge.”
And here's Biden in 2003 (advocating for nation building): "“Just two months ago, the President signed the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002, and Senator Hagel and Senator Lugar and I cosponsored that,” Biden crowed at a February 2003 Senate hearing. ”It was pushed forward by this committee, and we finally got it passed. But the act authorizes $3.3 billion for reconstruction and security of Afghanistan over and above the funds the President might see fit to allocate from other sources.”
Biden, then-the-ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, directly endorsed nation building during the hearing, recounting what local Afghans told him was necessary for success during a trip to the war-torn country.
“In some parts of this administration, ‘nation-building' is a dirty phrase, But the alternative to nation-building is chaos--a chaos that churns out bloodthirsty warlords, drug-traffickers, and terrorists. We've seen it happen in Afghanistan before--and we're watching it happen in Afghanistan today.”
Joe Biden: Mr Nation Builder who now pretends he said no such thing.
Fat!
What do we talk about when we talk about Biden? Do we talk about the actual Joe Biden or do we talk about the shadowy organization which he fronts? Exercising the 25th Amendment would get rid of the former but not the latter. It might be handy for the latter group to scapegoat the former.
I think there are many people who were just happy to be gone. A couple of people I didn't expect thought it was a good speech.
I was done with Afghanistan too, but leaving should have been done competently. He didn't address the incompetence at all.
Brian Williams - does he care about women? NO.
After the Taliban entered Kabul, business owners removed or painted over images of women from salons, clothing stores & other businesses. Fundamentalist Muslims believe women's bodies must not be seen in public.
Williams was just looking for the right words in the speech so he could say "see, see! Biden *is* good!" He could care less about the content or context, or what *wasn't said*, just so he could put his narrative stamp on the first draft of history.
Well, if experience tells us anything, it's that if Brian Williams tells us something, it's the gospel truth.
Good evening. I'm Brian Williams, and I'm about to demonstrate why my career ended up at MSNBC...
Here is what you don't do if you are serious about accepting responsibility for a fuck up- you don't say, "The buck stops with me, but all these other people made it impossible for me to not fuck it up." That is what Biden did yesterday- he took responsibility in words and then proceded to blame everyone else. The only thing he really owned yesterday was the decision of withdrawing itself, and he defended that pretty well which was the easy part since that decision was the same as the previous administration.
The US needs to stop this overthrowing and occupying other countries. We aren't the world's policeman, and we no longer even do a good job of it. It has bled the country's strength away year by year.
People who are appalled by the incompetence and mendacity of Joe Biden and his enablers like Brian Williams haven't been paying attention. Those of us who have are grown weary of the monotony of the Biden ineptitude and the feeble lies promulgated by the MSM's excuse factory.
It won't be before Joseph Göbbels isn't the star attraction in the Tenth Bolgia. Tis an ill wind that blows no one any good.
"the danger here is that America risks being seen as harmless as an enemy, and treacherous as a friend… It’s a very dangerous lesson to teach the planet"Bernard Lewis.
Biden owns this. as do both sides of the aisle that kept this debacle going for 20 years.
What Trump would or wouldn't have done is meaningless. Biden is our President. What he has accomplished here is to show the world that we are a profoundly unserious nation, riddled by graft and corruption.
We are viewed, rightly so, by the world as weak, and incompetent. "build back better", yeah, lots of words that are meaningless.
The men and women who fought for this nation, and the Afghans who supported them end up being cannon fodder for political, and economic, gain.
We sacrificed thousands of our best men and women, and trillions of dollars, so that a few elites could continue to exist. It is shameful.
Where’s Corn Pop now?
I commented on this yesterday; this one exchange was not rare. Most of the afternoon and evening on MSNBC featured lots of voices expressing tremendous doubt about the withdrawal and enormous criticism of Biden.
I agree that this instance is a terrible look for Brian Williams. But as usual, the Althouse commentariat, which appears to rarely watch MSNBC, presumes that this is network policy. The network's producers had far different ideas. Some of the best Biden-criticism I have seen (God knows, Biden deserves a whole lot) has been on MSNBC. THE BEST Biden-criticism I have heard anywhere, has been the British military officers who were Afghan veterans, one of whom is now a Tory MP, and one of whom is now the Minister of Defence, tearing into the Biden decision.
The Tories had nothing good to say about the Trump precipitated all of it. But they mostly set Trump aside as nothing more than a bad memory. They focused on Biden. I thought it was wonderful.
Isn’t this getting close to 25th amendment?
In other news, a box with 50 rounds of 9mm is up 25%!
Chuck spends "most of the afternoon and evening" watching MSNBC.
Let that sink in…
Well, after Hong Kong, the British certainly have room to be critical!
Chuck writes, "Some of the best Biden-criticism I have seen (God knows, Biden deserves a whole lot) has been on MSNBC."
Biden is far beneath the horizon of criticism. What he deserves is condemnation followed by immediate removal from office. Unfortunately, that would entail the succession of the Vice-Resident Harris -- the replacement of a senile grafter with a congenital idiot, the devil's alternative if ever there was one.
We seem to have reached a point in the political history of this country wholly unanticipated by the Founders -- disastrously incompetent administration compounded with shameless mendacity probably do not rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. So how do we lawfully rid ourselves of this millstone round the the neck of the body politic dragging it to destruction? Apparently the minds of Jefferson, Madison, and the others could not conceive of a person like Biden ever attaining high office, but then they all assumed elections would be free and fair, did they not?
"Isn’t this getting close to 25th amendment?"
If the Democrats pull the trigger on the 25th Amendment, then Kamala stops being VP, and loses her tie-breaking vote in the Senate.
Which, among other things, means the GOP can keep the Democrats from appointing a new VP (it takes a majority vote), and so continue to block everything the Democrats want to do.
So no, the Democrats aren't going to pull Joe
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