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Sucha NastyWoman

(2,721 posts)
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 01:52 PM Aug 2021

Josh Lederman just reported a lie on Alex Witt's MSNBC show

He said that former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s called the Biden administration’s response to this (the re-emergence of the Taliban) “IMBECILIC”.

When I heard it, it did not ring true to me that our ally would say that, so I looked up exactly what he said.

Here is what he really said:

In his online article, his first statement since Kabul fell to the Taliban last week, Mr Blair said the decision to withdraw was made "in obedience to an imbecilic political slogan about ending 'the forever wars'".


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58295384

So he thought the political slogan “forever wars” was imbecilic, not the Biden administration’s response.

Why is MSNBC doing this?
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Josh Lederman just reported a lie on Alex Witt's MSNBC show (Original Post) Sucha NastyWoman Aug 2021 OP
Whatever they say Turbineguy Aug 2021 #1
Ameliorates it a lot jimmy the one Aug 2021 #2
Come on, they spent last year hold Trumps feet to the fire for 500k dead Americans due to his lies uponit7771 Aug 2021 #3

jimmy the one

(2,708 posts)
2. Ameliorates it a lot
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 02:11 PM
Aug 2021

Yeah I saw that this morning, was kind of disappointed to read/hear Tony Blair calling Joe Biden imbecilic, Blair a labourite.
Thanks for clearing it up, I feel a bit better with it. Ameliorates it a lot.

uponit7771

(90,193 posts)
3. Come on, they spent last year hold Trumps feet to the fire for 500k dead Americans due to his lies
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 02:22 PM
Aug 2021

... o wait, no they didn't.

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