Sen. Ted Cruz Intentionally Misrepresents CNN Reporter’s Observations From Kabul To Score Political Points
[guest post by Dana]
CNN’s Clarissa Ward reported from the streets of Kabul yesterday. Despite the fact that the Taliban were nearby (and later approached Ward and told her to move aside because she was a woman), Ward, who wisely adapted her clothing in order to blend in, nonetheless gave us the opportunity to see what the city looked like as the Taliban moved into power. She considered the absolute surrealness of the situation, including Kabul falling to the Taliban, the lack of women on the streets, and the people’s fear of what was to come:
CNN's @clarissaward reports on what Afghanistan looks like as the Taliban take over.https://t.co/pJuaHC3iBC pic.twitter.com/zx9shFE8Lj
— New Day (@NewDay) August 16, 2021
It’s obvious that any female news reporter in Kabul who is doing her job while in the midst of the Taliban is bravely determined to let the world see for itself what is happening. From her report in the video, Ward offered this observation of the Taliban:
“They were just chanting “Death to America,” but they seem friendly at the same time. It’s utterly bizarre.”
Now, Sen. Ted Cruz, who doesn’t lack for intelligence and clearly understood the fuller context of Ward’s obersvation, nonetheless chose to score cheap political points by insulting Ward’s (and our) intelligence by cherry picking this particular sound byte to present CNN and their reporter as un-American:
Is there an enemy of America for whom @CNN WON’T cheerlead?
(In mandatory burkas, no less.) https://t.co/9O6pe8yROM
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 16, 2021
Unfortunately, other right-leaning sites chose to play Sen. Cruz’s game as well:
Cruz retweeted Benny Johnson, a right-wing activist, who shared abbreviated clips of Ward reporting from Kabul in an effort to paint her as praising the Taliban. The clip made the rounds online in right-wing circles on Monday. The Daily Wire, a right-wing outlet, and the Republicans’ House Judiciary Committee Twitter accounts also shared the clip. Other Republican lawmakers, including Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Georgia Rep. Jody Hice, also shared the clip criticizing CNN.
CNN wasn’t having any of it and pointed out the obvious:
“Rather than running off to Cancun in tough times, @clarissaward is risking her life to tell the world what’s happening. That’s called bravery. Instead of RTing a conspiracy theorist’s misleading soundbite, perhaps your time would be better spent helping Americans in harm’s way.”
Rather than running off to Cancun in tough times, @clarissaward is risking her life to tell the world what's happening. That’s called bravery. Instead of RTing a conspiracy theorist’s misleading soundbite, perhaps your time would be better spent helping Americans in harm’s way.
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) August 16, 2021
What is absurd about Cruz and his fellow Republicans using out-of-context statements to reassure their constituents that CNN is still the enemy but Republicans are on it, is that one only has to watch the entirety of Ward’s report to know that they are intentionally misrepresenting her. And I suspect that these same politicians and pundits are likely watching CNN themselves just to see what is taking place in Kabul right now. Moreover, there is great irony here, as Erik Wemple points out:
And now for the irony: People like Cruz are wise to watch CNN’s well-funded, on-the-ground coverage of crises such as the one now unfolding in Kabul. It helps them sharpen their critiques of President Biden. They might consider how informed they would be if people like Ward weren’t risking their hides for the story. But they won’t.
So if I were playing Sen. Ted Cruz’s game, I’d ask him why he hates women so much.
–Dana
Kabul has fallen to the Taliban, and this is what Cruz chooses to make a stink about??
Dana (174549) — 8/17/2021 @ 11:28 amWalter Cronkite doffed a helmet and flak jacket in Vietnam, too.
The nerve! =sarcasm=
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 11:33 amAs Dana alludes, Cruz is smarter than this. His major problem is that his party only values loyalty to their King, which he is not. He should really look at past Republicans who tried to ride this bull. You can trace the movement of positions the party has cast off over time in their rightward lurch by looking at once-popular pols now branded RINOs only a couple years after the ideology-front passed them by.
john (cd2753) — 8/17/2021 @ 11:35 amGuess Canadian Ted forgets the time Americans ‘dressed up’ as Canadians to escape Iran, eh?
See ‘Argo’ for details, Tedtoo.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 11:37 amCruz is smarter than this
All evidence to the contrary.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 11:38 amSo if I were playing Sen. Ted Cruz’s game, I’d ask him why he hates women so much.
I’d ask him how much his father helped Lee Oswald and what discount a U.S. senator gets for a hotel room in Cancun. 😉
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 11:40 amIt’s about what I’d expect from Cruze. As time goes on he’s really shown himself to be a garbage person.
Time123 (9f42ee) — 8/17/2021 @ 11:41 amNo time for this distraction, we have another Biden-made crisis to deal with…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/17/2021 @ 11:43 amI would stick with the British coverage.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:03 pmcabal tv
mg (8cbc69) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:06 pmIf Cruz wanted to excoriate someone for cheerleading the Taliban enemy, a better target would be Lauren Boebert (R-CO).
Paul Montagu (bf189f) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:09 pmSome of you may not remember, but then CNN’s Amanpour was clinging to a roof of a Russian hotel reporting live as the tanks rolled and guns fired during the Russian Revolution, too. Unlike the leg-lit-lip-glossed teleprompter readers in the NY studios of Fox News, these courageous women field reporters- like Ward- are actually real journalists and doing one helluva job at great personal risk.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:11 pm9.I would stick with the British coverage
They do have some experience with losing in Afghanistan. Don’t they. 😉
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:14 pmYou could say Ted Cruz actually plagiarized this line of attack (except he gave credit)
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:14 pmSorry, but Ward sounded foolish saying the Taliban “seemed friendly.”
But that’s par for CNN’s course – like saying a BLM demonstration was peaceful as an arson fire burned a building in the background.
CNN chryons are hilarious. Almost bests their reporters.
Hoi Polloi (ade50d) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:27 pmTo wear a costume for an agenda driven trainwreck is not heroic.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:36 pmshe is no Nellie Bly
mg (8cbc69) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:38 pm@1 kabul has fallen to the taliban and this is what you choose to post about?
JF (e1156d) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:42 pmNow they will post orange man bad content, thanks JF.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:48 pmthe reporter knew the taliban were beheading and raping allies, women and girls at the very moment she was noting their friendly nature
but oh what cruz tweeted
sick
JF (e1156d) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:53 pm@15
Exactly this, because of the absurdity.
I took Cruz’s tweet as following the same absurdity. Now, should a sitting Senator being engaging in this sort of thing? No, it’s unbecoming.
whembly (3bda0a) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:57 pmFurthermore, we seem to forget that the Taliban, as a whole, are a disgusting culture. Particularly the rapings, pedophiles and forced wedding aspect of that culture.
It’s mindboggling that so many simply handwaves this.
whembly (3bda0a) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:59 pmThis is one heck of a spin on another “fiery, but mostly peaceful” propaganda piece by CNN.
She was being a useful idiot while people were climbing onto moving airplanes and plummeting to their doom to avoid the Taliban.
But CNN is always good for providing context for terrorists and murderers.
NJRob (df2112) — 8/17/2021 @ 1:16 pmSee here:
BuDuh (fdd65e) — 8/17/2021 @ 1:21 pmhttps://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2021/08/17/cnn-militants-chant-death-america-seem-friendly-same-time
Ted Cruz’s career, to date, reminds me of a line from GWB’s acceptance speech in 2000. In speaking of Bill Clinton, Bush said something like: “All that talent — wasted.”
Cruz is brilliant and has done much that I admire, but he has wasted all that talent after Trump became president. And this crack is just the latest example of that waste.
Jim Miller (edcec1) — 8/17/2021 @ 1:21 pmCruz is brilliant …
All evidence to the contrary.
____
With apologies to the great Tom Lehrer:
‘Gather round while I sing you of Canadian Cruz,
A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience;
Call him unprincipled for changing his views,
“Principles, schminzables” coos Canadian Cruz.
Don’t say that he’s hypocritical,
Say rather that he’s quite political;
“So I chastised Miss Ward, by next week it’s old news!
Memories are short,” coos Canadian Cruz.
Some have harsh words for his bait-and-switch ruse,
But some say their attitude should be one of gratitude;
Like the wife and the father; their honor abused,
So easily betrayed by Canadian Cruz.
You become a conservative hero,
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 1:38 pmFleeing Texas when the temperature’s at zero;
“In Calgary ‘oder’ Cancun, I keep changing my views,
And I’ll change ’em again,” coos Canadian Cruz.
15. Hoi Polloi (ade50d) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:27 pm
Absolutely correct, and she called it bizarre.
We should try to understand what this means. They are the front line. They’ve been told not to aggravate anyone unnecessarily. They will not do anything that they have not been given orders to do.
The thing to do is to keep the top Taliban leaders bottled up in Doha as long as possible, so they cannot issue any secret orders.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/17/2021 @ 1:39 pm22. whembly (3bda0a) — 8/17/2021 @ 12:59 pm
No, no, The pedophiles were in the opposition and they stayed that way because they knew they could never be accepted by the Taliban. The homosexual ones anyway. As for rapes, the Taliban believe in marriage. So it’s forced marriages. And checking to see that men and women who are together are married.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/17/2021 @ 1:42 pm.
Whembly and BuDuh – That odd combination of “Death to America!” and friendliness has happened before, perhaps often before. For example, years ago a journalist described watching one of those “Death to America” marches in Tehran, when one of the marchers stopped to talk to him. The marcher told him that he was glad to meet the journalist, and would like to visit Disneyland some time — and then picked up his sign, rejoined the crowd, and began chanting “Death to America!” again.
Similar happenings were described over at Political Betting, when the subject came up there.
I’ll leave it to the experts to try to explain that combination — but it does happen.
(Sorry, I can’t remember the name of the journalist.)
Jim Miller (edcec1) — 8/17/2021 @ 1:43 pm@28 Sammy… there are oodles of stories of forced child marriages for their fighters. How could you handwave that away is something other than a Taliban sanctioned rape.
Not to mention a culture that allows men to rape young boys…
whembly (0ae2ca) — 8/17/2021 @ 1:45 pm@29 Jim, it’s absurd. Sometimes absurdity need to be responded with sarcastic absurdity (ie, mostly peaceful protest in front of a burning building). It’s simply beneath Cruz’s stature to engage in this muck.
whembly (0ae2ca) — 8/17/2021 @ 1:46 pm#26 “All evidence to the contrary.” All?
Well, maybe not quite all.
Jim Miller (edcec1) — 8/17/2021 @ 1:53 pm30. whembly (0ae2ca) — 8/17/2021 @ 1:45 pm
That’s what it amounts to, probably even in Islam. But it’s not open rape. It’s, as you said, “sanctioned.” Now they want to force families to agree to make girls available.
The Taliban do not even like prostitution or drinking alcohol. That kept some independent Afghan warlords from defecting to the Taliban.
Strictly forbidden by the Taliban. It was some people who were on our side who were doing that. Of course the military was in as much denial as possible about that.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/17/2021 @ 1:54 pm#31 Whembly – Absolutely. (And I don’t think this kind of behavior helps him, politically, in the long run.)
Jim Miller (edcec1) — 8/17/2021 @ 1:56 pmWasn’t turd crud in the dc madam’s black book who likes under age black trannys.
asset (2e0370) — 8/17/2021 @ 2:00 pmHere’s a journalist describing dissidents in Iran, and another example of that odd combination I mentioned in #29.
Jim Miller (edcec1) — 8/17/2021 @ 2:03 pmShe wasn’t cheer-leading or making excuses. Claims by lairs to the contrary she was pointing out that their behavior was bizarre and weird. Which makes sense. The Taliban is comprised of terrible people whose actions can barely be described as ‘sane’. Showing what’s happening on the street is what street reporters do. Misrepresenting that because your base hates the press and it’s a way to score cheap points is what liars like Cruz do.
But the Taliban taking over Afghanistan is exactly what Trump, Biden, and their supporters were totally okay with. Not saying. They wanted it, but they didn’t care if it happened.
We held the Taliban at bay for 20 years with an increasingly small force. The previous administration tried to pull out in Dec of last year, and then pushed it out to May of this year. The current administration delayed until now to put together a plan that appears to have failed completely.
Time123 (9f42ee) — 8/17/2021 @ 2:03 pm@32. “It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”
[ ] Ted Cruz
[ } Charlie Chaplin
Choose.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 2:07 pmTo the good Dana: I think comment #35 is sufficient cause, by itself, for banning.
Jim Miller (edcec1) — 8/17/2021 @ 2:09 pm@29, interesting. Thank you.
Time123 (9f42ee) — 8/17/2021 @ 2:09 pmOff topic, but Texas-related:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has sought to ban mask mandates in schools, tests positive for the coronavirus
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/17/2021 @ 2:16 pmDon’t give up hope! Help is on the way!
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Screenshot%20(427).png
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/17/2021 @ 2:26 pmWhoops… https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1427283548499763201?s=20
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/17/2021 @ 2:31 pmJim @34, I think this will only help Cruz with the MAGA base. They don’t care much about policy or competence but they’re really keen on displays of loyalty to the team and publicly attacking their ‘enemies’. They’re also determinative in a lot of key primaries.
Time123 (9f42ee) — 8/17/2021 @ 2:40 pm@41.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has sought to ban mask mandates in schools, tests positive for the coronavirus
Pfft. He’s fully vaccinated, too. Dr. Joe has plans to roll out more booster shots.
$$$$$$ ‘Pig’ Pharma $$$$$$$$ keeps cashing in.
Wait. For. The. Pill.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 2:45 pm@41
And?
Your point?
whembly (3bda0a) — 8/17/2021 @ 2:47 pmI agree, Time123, a s that’s precisely why Cruz made a stink about. It was a calculated move, and one that he knew would garner him applause from his followers. It’s political theater, nothing more.
Dana (174549) — 8/17/2021 @ 3:04 pm@41
Off topic, but Texas-related:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has sought to ban mask mandates in schools, tests positive for the coronavirus
And?
Your point?
Just that is is breaking news.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/17/2021 @ 3:05 pmI watched Mitch McConnell’s statement last night, along with the short Q&A that followed and could not help but think “We would be so much better off with this man as president.” And that would be true at any time since about 2004.
But Cruz has taken the Trump Lesson to heart: The average IQ of American voters is 100, which means a lot of them are open to transparently stupid arguments. It’s probably a corollary to Menkin’s Law.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/17/2021 @ 3:10 pmTexas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has sought to ban mask mandates in schools, tests positive for the coronavirus
People who are around a lot of people a lot of the time will tend to get exposed. Especially if the people they are around are anti-vaxx idiots. Vaccines are not perfect. He is asymptomatic, which is a benefit of being vaccinated. I suspect that he gets tested fairly frequently, as per policy in his office.
Again, new rule: No vaccine, no ICU.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/17/2021 @ 3:14 pm#44 Time123 – I agree, but it is also true that Cruz has to win general elections — and he had a close call in 2018, winning by just a little over 2.5 percentage points (50.89-48.33 percent).
(Governor Greg Abbot was winning that year by more than 13 points, against, granted, a weaker opponent.)
Jim Miller (edcec1) — 8/17/2021 @ 3:16 pmI think the strong focus on people getting covid after opposing mitigation methods is ghoulish. When the people took silly risks themselves it may be Karma. But AFAIK abbot has been advocating what he feels is good policy and not running around licking doorknobs because be believes some silly conspiracy theory.
Time123 (9f42ee) — 8/17/2021 @ 3:17 pm@50
Not possible under the PPACA.
whembly (ae0eb5) — 8/17/2021 @ 3:26 pmAlso a horrible precedent
Time123 (9f42ee) — 8/17/2021 @ 3:31 pmI simply cannot relate to this comment in any way. Her costume was worn to blend in and not draw attention to herself given the surrounding company. Should she have gone with her head uncovered and in Western garb instead?
Why would you assume this was an “agenda driven” report? Nobody knew ahead of time what would happen during her report, nor did they know what the Taliban would say or do. Not even CNN. Further, misrepresenting Ward’s observation that the Taliban seemed friendly while chanting death to America as “cheerleading” is preposterous. She is clearly relaying to viewers the bizarreness of the situation: Two diametrically opposed behaviors on display by the Taliban.
It’s like looking for a boogeyman under ever rock.
Dana (174549) — 8/17/2021 @ 3:42 pm(Governor Greg Abbot was winning that year by more than 13 points, against, granted, a weaker opponent.)
Weaker than Vato O’Rourke!?!? Wow… that IS weak.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/17/2021 @ 3:45 pmCnn has an anti mg agenda. I view her and cnn as anti mg. As I posted she’s no Nellie Bly.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/17/2021 @ 3:54 pmPerhaps Fredo should costume up and perform the cnn agenda.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/17/2021 @ 4:05 pm@55. She’s damn good at her job– which is more than can be said for Ted Cruz:
‘On 21 September 2015, CNN announced that Ward was joining the network and reporting for all of CNN’s platforms. She will remain based in London. On August 8, 2016, she spoke at a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the civil war-torn Aleppo, based on her 10+ years’ experience of being a war correspondent.
‘In July 2018, CNN named Ward its chief international correspondent, succeeding Christiane Amanpour in the role. In 2019, she became one of the first Western reporters to report on the life in the Taliban controlled areas of Afghanistan. In August 2020, reports emerged that Ward and her team were under surveillance while in the Central African Republic in May 2019. In December 2020, in a joint investigation by The Insider and Bellingcat in co-operation with CNN and Der Spiegel, she reported how Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) members stalked Alexei Navalny for years, including just before his poisoning in August 2020. The investigation detailed a special unit of the FSB specializing in chemical substances and investigators tracked members of the unit using telecom and travel data.
In 2021, Ward’s reporting in Myanmar was criticized by local journalists for “parachute journalism that serves no purpose other than chasing higher ratings” and for endangering the lives and families of 11 of her interview subjects. In August, 2021, Ward reported on the Taliban surge in Afghanistan, including interviews with Taliban leaders and people behind the battle lines.’- source, wikiclassact.newsgal
She’s knows how to do her job w/o cracks from Cruz. How such a big, bearded, lard-azzed, cowardly Cuban-by-way-Canada keeps projecting the persona of such an intellectually challenged pork chop is mindboggling. Oh. Right. Texas.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 4:09 pm3.As Dana alludes, Cruz is smarter than this.
He craves his name in the press cycle every 10 days; ‘any press is good publicity’… just like former president you-know-who.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 5:15 pmTed Cruz has been waiting to pick up all those Trump voters since February of 2016. In the end, he will loyally toil at Trump’s feet, only to have Trump dis him at the end, like he did Pence.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/17/2021 @ 5:22 pmNot possible under the PPACA.
Why not? “Here’s a form. You do not have to answer it — PPACA — but that will result in us not considering you.”
Insurance companies used to do this all the time, and still do with Medicare supplements. And have you ever seen what they ask for a liver transplant? Telling them you’re history of drug addiction will not get you anywhere near the front of the line.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/17/2021 @ 5:25 pmAlso a horrible precedent
The precedent is already there. Again, see what happens with transplants. Triage is triage.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/17/2021 @ 5:27 pmAlmost all marriages in the Indian sub-continent and its environs are “forced”. On the groom as well as on the bride. They are arranged by the respective families. Elopements without the families’ consent are synonymous with “abduction” and “rape”.
Sammy has it all correct in his comment 33. And I’ll add that the Taliban does not even allow the smoking of tobacco. So don’t believe the lies and propaganda from people who practice those things they accuse the Taliban of and the Taliban would whip them, jail them, or execute them for.
nk (1d9030) — 8/17/2021 @ 5:36 pmAs for Ted Cruz, he’s been the wife of the marriage for too long, I think, that’s his problem, and he’s doing the cattiness against other women, too. Meow back at you, Ted!
nk (1d9030) — 8/17/2021 @ 5:42 pmI’ll add that the Taliban does not even allow the smoking of tobacco
Try and get a scotch and soda in Saudi Arabia.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 6:18 pmNot possible under the PPACA.
More to the point, the law does not preclude states from requiring reporting of vaccines given and keeping a file, presumably to use. New Mexico has one on me, and this in a state where guns do not need to be registered.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/17/2021 @ 6:46 pmI’ll add that the Taliban does not even allow the smoking of tobacco
But wife-beating is OK.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/17/2021 @ 6:48 pmThere is a possibility that all this killing has led to a “peaceable Taliban.” The hotheads all ran out and got shot. The survivors showed moderation.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/17/2021 @ 7:01 pmThere is a possibility that all this killing has led to a “peaceable Taliban.” The hotheads all ran out and got shot. The survivors showed moderation.
That’s more possible than you think… they’ve learned. How many times does a bunch of towelheads ‘hit the jackpot’ and win a country virtually w/o firing a shot, w/a free, fully stocked modern military, loaded w/munitions, tanks, trucks, humvees, airfields, aircraft and assorted goodies courtesy of the losers. Helluva win for them– something the Confederate Army could envy.
A little reform, some babes in government, teaching and in hospitals-maybe a little eyeliner… next thing you know the Taliban will be welcomed and seated at the UN then dining at the WH a la Arafat.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 7:39 pmBiden was right in one thing. They rely on foreign funding. Pakistan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia primarily, and others as well. They cannot be too much of an international embarrassment to their international sponsors.
Honestly, in terms of societal strictures, I don’t see them any more “primitive” than they were in 1945; and in terms of government administration much less corrupt, their judges and courts especially.
nk (1d9030) — 8/17/2021 @ 7:55 pm70. DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/17/2021 @ 7:39 pm
That’s what Biden is, or was, trying to do – in exchange for not too much, They’re still hoping the Taliban want that.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/17/2021 @ 8:14 pmcnn and the lincoln projectile updates here
mg (8cbc69) — 8/18/2021 @ 3:13 amcnn was a cheerleader for Saddam, now they are cheerleading for the talibans peaceful way of killing people.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/18/2021 @ 3:37 amWe all suffer under their constant nagging, constant putting themselves in harm’s way for personal attention, and constant deference to dubious medical, state, and religious ‘authorities’, this question is not only lazy but probably approaching counterproductive at this point. It’s well known that women seek not ‘happiness’ as such but mainly to fit in with society, and will choose shared misery as much or more readily as they’ll choose a situation that’s actually conducive to happy, peaceful and harmonious living.
They had a good run, but it’s time to pull the plug. Banish them to the Peloton mines till they learn to be civilized again.
Fashion Leader (a38025) — 8/18/2021 @ 7:52 amSame lady who said it seemed ‘friendly’:
“It got worse after this, Clarissa reports.
“Two Taliban fighters just came up with their pistols, and they were ready to pistol whip [our producer]. We had to intervene and scream… I’ve covered all sorts of crazy situations. This was mayhem. This was nuts.”
https://twitter.com/brikeilarcnn/status/1427966659965423625?s=21
harkin (cef237) — 8/18/2021 @ 9:24 amI agree she is brave, scratch that- EXTREMELY BRAVE. She’s from the home of the brave and my expectations are for some at least, but this is special
steveg (ebe7c1) — 8/18/2021 @ 11:45 amEverything else about her is outside my knowledge base.
She is braver than at least 85% of Congress and close to 100% of the WH
steveg (ebe7c1) — 8/18/2021 @ 11:48 amCruz was likely ripping on all the morons in the media who cheerfully reported all the mostly peaceful rioting that burned down federal courts and destroyed neighborhoods and gutted city centers as “mostly peaceful” rioters burned cars, buildings, beat innocent bystanders and otherwise behaved, “mostly peaceful.”
Curtis (86aa49) — 8/19/2021 @ 7:54 pm