The World Is Discovering…

…what we in the Twin Cities have known for a while: that if you want something resembling detached reporting (there is no such thing as “objective” reporting) of Democrats, you need to go to the UK.

For the past several years, the only place in the mainstream, non-conservative media (with all due shouts out to Powerline, David Steinberg and Alphanews) has been the Daily Mail, and occasionally the Guardian. Literally no Twin Cities media outlet will report on Omar, barring being occasionally shamed into doing the bare minimum; the Mail is all the coverage there is.

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The world appears to have woken up to an important truth this week: which is that Joe Biden is a truly terrible president. It is a shame that it took America gifting Afghanistan back to the Taliban for so many people to realise this.

To be charitable, there were perhaps two reasons why this had not become more obvious before. The first is that Joe Biden is not Donald Trump and for a lot of the planet that seems to be recommendation enough to occupy the Oval Office. A break from the Trump show appealed to an awful lot of people.

But the second reason why too few realised what the world was going to get from a Biden presidency is that the US media simply didn’t ask the questions it needed to ask. Before the election a near entirety of the American media gave up covering it and simply campaigned for the Democrat nominee.

d on the national level? Same:

Democracy needs institutions – like the media – to survive.

Which means, at present, that we’re screwed blue.

35 thoughts on “The World Is Discovering…

  1. Not to diminish the content, but a column by Douglas Murray in one of the few non-communist UK dailies, the Telegraph, is not quite the same as finding out about Ilhan Omar in the Daily Mail. Moreover, the Telegraph has a paywall so I hope that anything that you found remarkable in that column was copy’n’pasted above.

  2. I would add “The NY Post” and “The Washington Examiner” to that list. The fact that TWITter shut down the Post’s account, should tell you all that you need to know.

    Today, there may be a temporary exception though, because the Slimes is showing Trump’s plan for withdrawal from Afghanistan. It is said to highlight all of the conditions that he put on it, including penalties from violations. On a side note, I have previously heard from two people who were actually involved with the Zoom meeting between Trump and the Taliban commanders, that Trump put an exclamation point on the talks by telling those commanders exactly where they were. Both people said that those commanders had a look of horror on their faces and they looked at each other and mumbled.

  3. Douglas Murray: It is what you get when you have spent a career with a court media asking you about your choice of ice cream and reached the highest office in the land because you weren’t the other guy.

  4. CNN is having second thoughts.

    Having a second thought requires first having a thought.

  5. The New York Times just turned on Grandpa Joe.

    Why?

    Well, after blaming Trump failed, he attacked the intelligence agencies.

    Bad move.

    Because the Harvard, Yale and Princeton legacies who populate the alphabet agencies, and whose daddies own America, were not going to take the fall for that.

    So they whispered to their Harvard, Yale and Princeton legacy classmates who staff the NYT and WAPO…..

    It is how things work (or don’t work) in America.

    They say family businesses rarely survive the third generation. Ain’t that the truth?

  6. They say family businesses rarely survive the third generation. Ain’t that the truth?
    The way you make a family business last forever is you convertit to cash and create a non-profit foundation. Your familiy inherits the foundation and is guaranted a lucrative position on the board. Your “job” is to hand out grant money to clients, who in turn hire the people you tell them to.
    This is almost identical to the aristocratic model of governance, but of course the US constition forbids titles of nobility.

  7. “Now, here is where you need to overlay the narrative engineers. Remember, the State Dept public relations outlet is CNN. The CIA use The Washington Post. The FBI use Politico and the New York Times. I have repeatedly outlined this synergy because it is times like this when that understanding brings clarity to the picture.”

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/21/the-eagles-stare-pentagon-unaware-of-state-department-security-alert-telling-americans-not-to-come-to-kabul-airport/#more-215691

  8. Greg, I’ve looked, but have not seen the NYT piece you’re referring to.

  9. The Biden administration is still talking as though it controls who will be evacuated from Kabul and when. The taliban is having none of that nonsense.
    When you hear the generals and diplomats and security advisers refusing to answer questions about who will be evacuated and when, it isn’t because they are waiting for intel or witing for some plan to be formulated, it is because the taliban controls who will be evacuated, and when.
    This is the kind unforced error that we had been told for years was certain to happen with Trump in office.
    Instead it is brought to you by highly credentialed, mainstream Washington operators. Biden was first elected senator in 1973. He was vice president for 8 years. Blinken has been a high level appointee in Democrat administrations going back to the early clinton years. Jake Sullivan is a Yale guy, an Oxford guy, and a rhoades scholar. He was US supreme court clerk. He started working for Hillary Clinton as an FP adviser in 2008.
    He is also dumb as a box of rocks.
    It won’t make you feel any better to learn that Sullivan was the guy who came up with Obama’s plan to create a nuclear Iran.

  10. Biden last Friday, on why the US did not go out of the airport to rescue Americans in Kabul:
    The reason why we have not gone out—it’s likely to draw a lot of unintended consequences.
    Yep, if there is anything ol’ Bombardier Joe is good at, it is unintended consequences.

  11. I do not subscribe to the idea that Afghanistan is currently in chaos as described by MBerg and the MSM. Zero US casualties in the Afghanistan withdrawal. Zero.

    The place is not in complete disorder. Much of the infrastructure is still working and most of the fighting has stopped. I have seen Afghanistan in chaos and it does not look like this. We must not confuse difficult scenes at the airport, similar to what I have seen before at border crossing points with chaos, The country may descend into chaos but it has not happened yet.

  12. Mainstream media showing scenes of chaos. The Garden Administration says it’s not so. Who you gonna believe, Truck Driving Joe or your lying eyes?

    Not one US “military” casualty in the bug-out.

    15,000 US non-military people, fate unknown.

    SUCCESS!

  13. The Taliban says there will be consequences if pedo Joe delays his cut and run. Joe will wait until US soldiers start getting shot at to do anything, and it will be a real shit show, because he’s an idiot.

    A competent leader would take matters into hand, right now.

    Drop the 82nd Airborn, all of them, into Bagram. Then land their heavy equipment. Once they are set up, regain control of the city. Once control is regained, prepare the base for continued US use.

  14. do not subscribe to the idea that Afghanistan is currently in chaos as described by MBerg and the MSM. Zero US casualties in the Afghanistan withdrawal. Zero.

    Ah, I see the email arrived. “No, no, the whole Afghanistan thing is going just great!” You really gonna go with that?

  15. Just a thought experiment. Pretend that the current withdrawal, and the policy decisions about handling Afghan refugees, were happening under Trump. Would your reaction be different? If so, why?

  16. If everything’s going great doesn’t work, make it Trump’s fault. Again. Was that in the email, or are you just ad-libbing?

  17. A competent leader would take matters into hand, right now.

    BPCT, but Bidon is a strong and competent leader! With situation in Afganistan clearly under full control, the brave soul is really sticking it to Putin and the Russians now! Haven’t you heard, Putin is quaking in his boots and asking for mercy. Yes, the Bidon banned all russian ammo imports into the US. Hurray! Best… president… ever!

  18. Biden is and will take the heat, some deservedly and some as a scapegoat.

    Americans voted for four sequential administrations who campaigned on getting out of this operation. Biden just fast forwarded the inevitable.

    This simply reminds us how awful war is. And the consequences of having no exit strategy from the beginning.

  19. Question. If you’re too senile and irresponsible to know or even care when your reputation is being demolished, are you really taking the heat?

  20. ” I have seen Afghanistan in chaos and it does not look like this. We must not confuse difficult scenes at the airport, similar to what I have seen before at border crossing points with chaos…”

    Excerpted from “My tours of Afghanistan: A liars Chronicle.

  21. “I remember landing under sniper fire” “There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

    “If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where (Usama) bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me. Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are.”

    ” I have seen Afghanistan in chaos and it does not look like this. We must not confuse difficult scenes at the airport, similar to what I have seen before at border crossing points with chaos…”

  22. Every time Uncle Joe from Scranton speaks, he defends himself against criticisms by stating how he made the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, a decision that has majority support among Americans. I’ve noticed that the foreign media are more likely to call him on the fact that few are challenging his decision to withdraw and more on the amateurish approach in which it has been conducted. Yet Uncle Joe continues to body-slam that straw man…

  23. You know there seems to be an argument going around that is something like “ it is inevitable that we are all going to die one day. So let’s just kill ourselves now. “

  24. When Trump wanted to leave, the Deep State slow-walked his directive as Democrats distracted him with falsehoods and irrelevencies.

    When Biden wants to leave, we drop everything and bug out, leaving enough equipment to put the Taliban in the top 10 best equipped armies in the world.

    Here’s a puzzle – the Russians spent a few years in Afghanistan but when they left, no personnel and no equipment got left behind. Why was that, do you suppose? What do the Ruskies know that nobody in The Garden Administration knows?

  25. JD, unlike the Garden Administration, Russians actually can add 2 and 2 to come up with the right answer.

  26. The position of Jake Sullivan is interesting. He is Biden’s National Security Adviser.
    Presidents have their own NSA’s because the military and the intelligence services have their own interests that may be at odds with the interests of the president, who will, after all, be gone in 8 years, max. So Sullivan is completely Biden’s guy, as he is intended to be.
    When Biden came up with his cockamamie plan, Sullivan had to sign off on it. That is, he had to try and give Biden the best advice about it. He had to either sign off on it, or resign, because what good is a National Security Adviser whose advice is ignored? Or whose advice is followed & disaster follows?

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