The Kabul airport in Afghanistan has essentially become the collective Alamo; the only area in Afghanistan under U.S and allied military control since the Taliban took over. In the past several days The White House, National Security Advisor, U.S. State Department, Pentagon and even Joe Biden himself, have been caught telling lies about the security status of the situation on the ground in/around the Kabul airport.
One of the key media figures who has accidentally exposed the transparent Biden lies, by simply reporting on the events as she sees them, is Clarissa Ward of CNN. As long as Ms. Ward was reporting live, broadcasting in real time on the ground just outside the airport, it was almost impossible for the Biden administration to maintain their false stories about security and safety that were different from reality.
Ward’s reporting has been catching the Biden administration in lies for the past three days. Other media outlets were relying on Ms. Ward’s reports in their own questions to the Biden regime. Well, guess what? A few hours ago that dynamic changed. Clarissa Ward is no longer there:
Chose to leave, forced to leave, or told to leave?
You decide.
Ms Ward did not kill herself
leave that to the clintons – killery in particular!!
Truly, she might be safer back in Kabul! The MAObamaites and the Clintonistas do not like the Truth, whether told intentionally or unwittingly!
Speaking Truth or Power!
But wait, I thought they seemed “friendly”, Clarissa? Maybe she looked up what happened to Lara Logan and decided to get out while she could? Or maybe, as Sundance so correctly points out, she was making things difficult for the Joebama spin team in the US?
I think it’s unfair to continue to stick that report to her. Yes, it was nuts. But, big picture, that woman is brave and has been doing incredible reporting in the belly of the beast. I am grateful to her.
I absolutely agree with you, Sarah. She may be with CNN but she was in the belly of the beast and gave great reports. She has two small children. While I’m sorry we won’t get more deleting from her, I’m happy she is getting out safely and can see her husband and kids. I do want to know how many Americans are on her flight.
Any more reporting, not deleting.
She now has 2 choices, go out and continue to speak the truth or go back and become a puppet again at CNN. The problem with becoming a puppet again is that people saw the truth from her own mouth and to go back to lying again will be hard, plus the fact the issues over there are only going to get worse. Who is going to stop the Taliban from broadcasting what evil they are going to inflict on the people.
Watch, (not literally), cnn stop reporting altogether from Afghanistan. I wouldn’t be surprised to see something happen, just to get it out of the MSM altogether.
CNN may, but their lies by omission may come back to haunt them.
For anyone interested click on to the Daily Mail U.K.
Quite extraordinary scenes with British Paratroopers.
Followed by a humiliating piece on Biden and Kirby.
CNN really are no longer that important.
The Daily Mail UK actually does some good reporting. Far better than our hacks.
Agreed. They often write detailed pieces with summaries at the top and include photos and/or videos. I don’t usually feel a political agenda and was thinking recently how odd that is. When I read the work at that publication, more often then not, it seems like reporting without all the other layers and baggage. Good resource, I think.
Weird take.
When is a story worth your life?
Well…I wonder what CNN will report on this unexpected event?
Or was it planned all along by the imposter’s regime?
I know my Professor Sundance ,taught us that cnn ,was a spokesman for a different 3 ledder agenC.
No reporters means nobody to count if there are any body bags.
Convenient!
Yes, it means no reports, no words, no photos or videos of what is about to unfold. But should a reported remain behind indefinitely and wind up in one of those body bags?
This is terror.
Great photos on the Daily Mail U.K.
Many forget, this is not just about the U.S.A.
This embarrassing episode is having Geopolitical ramifications
Likely told, ” you can go now or not at all”
Whether it be basic economics, climate change, illegal immigration, tax cuts, voting integrity, race relations, Russian collusion, energy production, sexual identity disorders, the stolen election or the evolving debacle in Afghanistan – were it not for the false narrative, the media & the rest of the democrat party would have no narrative at all.
Relatively honest reporting on CNN, knew that couldn’t last.
The reporting on cnn Sunday was amazing. While fox was doing barbeque recipes, cnn was reporting from the streets. It was the first time, I had watched that channel in at least 15 years. msnbc wasn’t bad either.
The world has really turned upside down.
Hillary sends her condolences for Ms. Ward’s death next week….
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Are all those women with head coverings American workers being rescued?
Hard to say. No doubt many wear head scarves under normal circumstances to navigate in that country, and now more than ever, trying to cross through Taliban check points, was thinking that it’s quite likely they would not want to draw additional attention to themselves by not wearing a scarf.
American women would likely shed the scarves and exhale.
Yep, they would sense the plane rolling along the taxiway, shed the stupid scarves, and say ‘God Bless USA’
None of us has any idea what they would sense or do because we are here on our computers while they were there under unthinkable uncertainty. Extreme trauma and duress impacts the psyche in powerful ways. One’s thoughts and priorities reorganize in the midst of and in the aftermath of such life altering events. Priorities shift, one’s focus changes, etc. Emotions continue to roll through trying to catch up with what’s happening. We can only imagine the kinds of thoughts and fear these women have been experiencing over these past few days. You don’t shake that off quickly. And you’d be amazed at how the way we imagine someone (including ourselves) might think or behave in a dire situation is often very different from an unthinable kind of reality when it slams into a human being.
This is Obama’s Revenge for the Iran Hostage Crisis. Day 5.
She was caught practicing journalism.
How did she slip past CNN’s lack of professional standards personnel?
Just pointing the camera was enough to catch the Biden Occupation Government in their unceasing pathological lies.
They were born in a lie, they live in a lie and they will end in lies.
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”–George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946)
Mr. Orwell had some “knowing” eyes.
Ms. Ward was not able to spin anything as the camera did not lie.
I hate our pathetic excuse for a news media with a white hot passion! This Afghanistan disaster is just as much their fault as it is Biden’s fault. That goes for the inflation disaster and the border disaster too. It’s all their fault.
You left out COVID malpractice.
Yeah, I left out a lot of things, actually. You get the point though.
In my view, what she was doing wasn’t traditional war reporting, which, yes, in and of itself means placing one’s life in grave danger. But she was watching terrorists take over and should one really expect her to remain there and wait to be stuck and then killed or held for ransom?
The situation appears quite out of control and escalating rapidly. And while less press on the ground means not having first hand reports, I guess the question is, do we expect the press to remain in such situations no matter what?
I remember when Lara Logan was gang raped in Egypt and throngs of armchair warriors proclaimed she never should have been there, she should have known the risk as a woman in that setting, etc, etc, etc.
I don’t expect any journalist to be willing to become a hostage or to give up their life.
Watching some of her recent reports, I was thinking how brave she was and wondered if it was become too dangerous, wondered how journalists were going to get out safely. It felt like the clock started ticking very quickly.
That said, if she was pulled against her will, then that’s another story. I doubt we’ll ever know the truth.
I thank her for her work. She has been a brave truth-teller in the midst of a rapidly devolving nightmare.
Spot on, Sarah. The US government has satellites which can see what is happening on the ground in real time — albeit only from above, so the satellite-generated picture isn’t totally complete. But if intelligence from other sources is combined with the satellite pictures, the IC will know well enough what is actually happening on the ground in Afghanistan.
Not that any of us will ever be told the truth of it by those now in power, or by the MSM, which if it wanted to could use reports from foreign press resources to build a similarly detailed picture of the situation on the ground. What is the MSM going to say if the British and German press reports that 10,000 Americans are being held hostage?
Lara Logan should have never have been there. Typical western woman that thinks that ME Muslim men are bound to the same rules of behavior as westerners.
Nah. I don’t trust reporters who play dress-up to hang with the locals.
So a war correspondent wearing a helmet and body armor would be dress-up, too, I guess by your twisted logic. Maybe you’ve never traveled overseas, much less to places where being an American or perceived as a Christian can get you kidnapped, robbed, raped, injured, or killed. You do what’s prudent and safe….especially if you’re a woman in a Muslim country. SMH.
John: A reporter dressed like a war correspondent would be easily identifiable as a war correspondent, not as a local, and not as combatant.
This reporter inserted herself into the story, rather than remaining an objective observer. This is an all to common phenomenon in today’s media, and yet another reason I don’t trust the media.
Why wouldn’t Ms Ward be on a flight out of Kabul asap? Her life was in as much danger as anyone else’s, reporter or not.
What this DOES say is that a CNN reporter’s safety was placed far higher in priority than many other Americans. Or maybe, because of her position inside the airport, it was merely an opportunity for her to get out of Dodge before the situation deteriorated any further.
Just MHO.
We don’t know how it unfolded. She described an insane scene trying to get into the airport. What’s disgusting is that it’s like a catch as catch can scenario. No organization, no plan, nothing. Just good luck. There are no words to describe what our government is doing. Simply no words.
Sarah, that sounds closer to reality. That also largely aligns with my “opportunity to get out” conjecture. And yes it is all due to the collapse of any organized evacuation into a dangerous chaotic free-for-all.
If she knew up-close what was going on there, and she chose to leave rather than get 10x more notoriety and respect for her reporting…well then you have to assume that things are looking bleak.
I think she simply knew that Taliban have zero respect for women and worse – hatred for Americans. She is both so…..
IMHO she made a risk vs reward calculation and made the “self-preservation” decision…..
She became a conservative today.
Hah. In a sane and logical world, maybe.
But don’t bet any serious money on it.
To all you 10,000+ Americans still behind enemy lines – this is how to get the US government to ensure you’re on one of those outbound planes pronto.
Bingo.
I’ll take door #2……no door #3 Monty
Taliban starting to parade US weapons in the street.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/20/video-taliban-parade-u-s-weapons/
Ha, why do any of us watch and American based news, whether the broadcast networks, CNN, our even Fox? There are outlets from elsewhere on the globe that have more objectivity and journalistic integrity than we have here.
Sky News Australia
Does Australia still let people speak on air? It seems the leaders in charge over there on getting close to telling people to stop breathing in order to stop covid.
Sky News does
Been watching Sky News UK from the US on Fire Stick since the start of this crisis.
Biden has been constantly criticized since I started watching last Saturday.
“Ha, why do any of us watch and American based news, whether the broadcast networks, CNN, our even Fox.”
You are assuming that “any of us” do. I watch the opening 2 minutes of fox news out of Portland 2-3 times a week just to stay aware of what restricctions and demands our dominatrix governor is projecting on us today. I can’t remember the last time I watched an alphabet “in order to be informed” regarding national or world issues. That’s been pointless for a decade or more.
Her Twitter link, first thing some woman is screaming, MASKS! What about the masks and social distancing?
Jeez Louez.
The situation is devolving rapidly.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/08/20/report-americans-beaten-one-year-old-tear-gassed-in-kabul-chaos/
As I write this, the Afghanistan situation is 4/5 of the way down on drudge, near the bottom. Not much, and surrounded by the usual pedestrian “news”.
It’s not just CNN playing the downplaying game.
Pray for the Americans trapped there, and for the Americans trapped here in an apparent frog boil of plandemic and harmful shots tyranny.
You still go to drudge?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/20/cnns-ward-extremely-difficult-and-dangerous-for-americans-to-get-into-airport-in-afghanistan/
Soon whatever relief these Afghans may feel to get flown out of the country will turn into rage that this unfolded the way it did. How do you think that’s going to work once they’re here?
Slow Jo plans 65,000 brought here.
And if that’s the number they’re giving out, it’s probably safe to assume the actual number if way more. Then there’s chain migration and high birthrate, so that base number grows exponentially, and very quickly.
We coopt the useful ones to take down the tyrants.
They pulled her.
Because the slaughter is about to commence.
Like the media ( even Katie Couric types) showing up for the Charlottesville “incident”.
Someone gave the Media talking heads a heads up.
Since what happened on November third I have cut my cable and cancelled my WSJ subscription. I know longer watch any news propaganda. I would rather be uninformed than disinformed. Fortunately we have sources like CTH that shed sunshine on what’s really going on.
Pardon me, you are kidding all of us. So where do you rate this on your truth meter, on mine it is zero, right alone with Pravada.
Will the FBI and DOJ charge these Taliban with [actual] insurrection?
This isn’t some brave hero, it’s a CNN apparatchik, and we should all know that anything CNN broadcasts has full Uniparty approval.
We have to assume then that the Uniparty wants to undermine Biden.
She got away from the echo chamber so they had to get her back.
those numbers are not a “starter kit” for an army.
this is PRO KIT that no other radical islamic sect has ever acquired FOR FREE!!
the most likely outcome here is the sophisticated items will be sold to Pakistan, or china or Russia…they require maintenance and tooling and training that a force like Taliban does not possess or even desire.
in return the exchange will be for reliable simple stupid weapons, comms gear, drones, and.some.help from Google to build.in a backdoor to their telecom/internet backbone.
you know it’s going to happen
in five years, afghans will be noticing the Taliban leadership no longer run the show.
sound familiar,?
The Biden clan will make up anything you can’t see.
In this day and age with a phone in every pocket (sometimes two) I don’t expect things to stop just because we lose people from CNN. While it sounds like she did some good reporting, it was only a matter of time before the lies began or cuts if she didn’t stop. Truth be told we get more facts from the common person then we do from news media.
Suspicious cat is, well, suspicious.
Ward called the baby ugly. Greenwald has got this figured out and Tucker let him loose.
The corporate media wants war for clicks and eneriching the consultants who go into the countries we deal with militarily. Greenwald posits because the intel community /CIA is largely left wing but no progressive in the traditional sense of democrats and their positions on war.
I suggest that it’s the remaining and still strong Clinton arm at work in the last two weeks to gain control of DoS and Pentagon via the CIA and they are doing their best to grab Kamala while they can and give her a new line of talking and telling her to leave the progs and the squad out of it for now.
The Clinton signs are Sullivan, ABC, Stephanopoulos, a quiet Obama, Trudeau outing he talked with HRC.
She got her gold ticket and used it. I have no doubt her brush witht he Taliban for not wearing a face covering was the final straw for her.
Self preservation is strong in the leftist.
No masks? Oh the horror. Sarc.
was it ward reporting that triggered the.line of questions toward Biden today…that led to a significant chop of the video ??
hmm?
see other thread Sundance published today…
is this the reason ward was scooted out ?
just idea juggling here
I’m sure she wanted to leave. But I also think Bahama called CNN and told them to pull her.
She was going to get raped and murdered by Biden’s turbaned friends.
…. A Clarissa whatshername was never heard from again.
I just went to her Twatter page. I scrolled down a bit, and lo! I find a video that was broadcasted a few days ago….with a comment from the big guys at CNN….who said that it was ” edited”.
CNN’s
@ClarissaWard
reports on the hurdles Americans and Afghans have been facing trying to get to Kabul’s airport as Taliban fighters attempt to block access with gunfire and violence. (This video has been updated to correct an editing issue.) https://cnn.it/3swke7j
Those on Twitter need to tweet her:
“We know you were forced to leave because your reporting was exposing lies. We support you regardless if we don’t agree on everything. The truth shall set you free and we stand behind you”.
Huh. All those people in close proximity and I only see about three masks.
Let’s play “count the masks”.
This informative NP article is a 7 min read:
“EXCLUSIVE: Inside Afghanistan — the first seven days of life under the Taliban.” It is written by Sayed Ahmad Sadat as a Special to National Post. He’s an Afghan freelance journalist with the Khaama Press News Agency and Subh-e-Kabul News Daily and is presently living and reporting in Afghanistan’s 4th largest city Mazar-e-Sharif and describes the immediate economic effects, the fear that the Taliban takeover has caused and so on.
“The almost unspeakable fear is for girls and women. We simply do not know what to expect. Uncertainty fuels dread like nothing else.”
https://nationalpost.com/news/exclusive-inside-afghanistan-the-first-seven-days-of-life-under-the-taliban
understand this picture was taken in 2008 now that is funny! do your research people!!
How long do you think it will be before the Russians or the Chinese train Taliban pilots to fly some of our own helicopters over the Southern border and start a little mayhem?
Remember that Afghanistan is landlocked.
Helicopters don’t have transatlantic or transpacific flight capability yet.
Now get China involved with cargo ships, container ships, etc. Then that becomes another issue.
China’s already involved. Big League.
Speaking of the media, hard to stomach these goons who’ve been all in for “Biden” now realizing, at least on this front, that he’s incapable. Chris Wallace and Megan McCain, chief among them.
https://therightscoop.com/when-youve-lost-chris-wallace-fox-news-anchor-says-biden-has-a-reality-problem/
Some hard-core leftists finally realizing that they can’t hide the truth on this fiasco . . .
I must say, that if I was in her position in that situation I would have left even sooner!