Late last week, President Joe Biden vowed that “there’s gonna be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a [sic] embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.”
Joe Biden: "There's gonna be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable." https://t.co/gYkxaHR6Ml pic.twitter.com/2cw7rO8bgq
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) August 12, 2021
Well, as we now know — indeed, as we knew at the time he said it — there has in fact been a circumstance in which people are being airlifted off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
Absolutely brutal pic.twitter.com/RvZXl3KqC2
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) August 15, 2021
This is not a good look for the Biden administration. It’s so bad, in fact, that no less than the torchbearers of liberal journalism, the New York Times, are calling Biden out for this:
“Rarely in modern presidential history have words come back to bite an American commander in chief as swiftly as these…: “There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the U.S. in Afghanistan.” https://t.co/p5YdLIeFcJ
— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) August 16, 2021
Wow.
Maybe he was thinking US media would oblige and not show it. https://t.co/XrHbF9tDn5
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 16, 2021
Looks like he may have miscalculated.
👇👇👇 (from the NYT, no less) https://t.co/0zE2P9zELR
— Dan Senor (@dansenor) August 16, 2021
oof, from the Times https://t.co/Zg8J3GPpd7
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) August 16, 2021
When you’ve lost the New York Times … well, you know the rest.
Biden’s “mission accomplished” moment. https://t.co/tDRHelPbTs
— Robert Kelner (@robkelner) August 16, 2021
Damnnnn https://t.co/34hcrpRtM5
— AJP (@Alex_John_7) August 16, 2021
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