President Joe Biden will once again only be taking questions from “pre-approved media” during his address and press conference on the disaster unfolding in Afghanistan.
Biden will be addressing the nation on his foreign policy blunder at 3:45 p.m. EST.
He’ll be taking questions only from pre-approved media, per White House. https://t.co/7p36c3flak
— Anders Hagstrom (@Hagstrom_Anders) August 16, 2021
It is unclear which media outlets have been “approved” and will make the cut.
President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki were all silent on Sunday as the Taliban took power, drawing harsh criticism from across the political spectrum.
On Monday, the White House announced that the president would be cutting his vacation at Camp David short to finally communicate with the American people.
Biden’s public schedule for Monday previously had only a closed briefing, nothing else.
Biden's public schedule for tomorrow ––> pic.twitter.com/sBimKVp9RY
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) August 16, 2021
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has been under fire after emails to her were returned with an auto generated response saying that she would be out of the office for the next week.
The Taliban took Afghanistan’s capital on Sunday as Afghan military forces gave up almost immediately.
“President Biden was not prepared to usher in a third decade of war and put U.S. troops in harm’s way, fighting and dying, to try to hold Afghanistan together when its own armed forces would not fight to hold it together,” White House National Security Advisor said during an interview with CBS on Monday, following near silence from the administration on Sunday.
.@JakeSullivan46: "President Biden was not prepared to usher in a third decade of war and put U.S. troops in harm’s way, fighting and dying, to try to hold Afghanistan together when its own armed forces would not fight to hold it together.” pic.twitter.com/4ChT6EvT8L
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 16, 2021
Sullivan also asserted that “we have a proven ability to fight terrorism effectively without having a large military footprint on the ground – and we will hold the Taliban accountable to not allowing Al Qaeda to have a safe haven in Afghanistan.”
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan: We have a proven ability to fight terrorism effectively without having a large military footprint on the ground – and we will hold the Taliban accountable to not allowing Al Qaeda to have a safe haven in Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/FTu3Qxla2A
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 16, 2021
The shocking images and videos from the war-torn nation have been eerily similar to those coming from Saigon in 1975.
Saigon 1975
Kabul today pic.twitter.com/JP7SNgq6Ra— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) August 15, 2021
6 responses to “Biden Will Only Take Questions From ‘Pre-Approved Media’ During Address on Afghanistan”
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Don’t be shocked that basement joe hid in his basement. Be shocked that people want him to leave his basement and make decisions for America.
”Biden Will Only Take Questions From ‘Pre-Approved Media’ During Address on Afghanistan”
No questions taken. Isn’t that interesting.
I’m not saying that the Afghani forces are completely blameless here, but the NSA Advisor basically putting all of the blame on them is too rich for my tastes.
The fact that The Biden Administration made themselves “unavailable” for comment throughout the incident, and are now claiming that there is a “pre-approved” media apparatus as compared to a free media apparatus has me completely convinced they are playing by the old rules: The rules where they can control the narrative simply by choosing which people to talk to. The internet is a thing now. The old rules don’t apply. If you really want to control the narrative, you better be prepared to fight a constant propaganda war.
I think we need to remove these people from power, but I also realize just how many people we’d have to “dethrone” just to get to sombody that might benefit us. We really screwed up this last election and now we get to live through the consequences.
Biden is not and has not been to camp David. I live up here we know when the president is in town. He’s not, their lying about where he is and had been.
Biden is evil and all you that enabled him are dumb. I blame you all and I demand an apology for how you all have treated us who’s have been screaming and warning you about him since before the election. I Don not forgive you, but that is where you must start. You are the bad guys and you are the ones destroying my country.
So basically, all the questions we have given to our favorite shills that we already have prepared responses for? Got it. Cathedral is gonna cathedral.