Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin hit for pair of pieces boosting Biden amid Afghanistan fallout: ‘Sycophant’

Readers ripped Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin for publishing a pair of columns full of excuses for President Joe Biden within the midst of the chaotic U.S. troop withdrawal in Afghanistan.

Republicans, Democrats and media pundits have largely agreed Biden bungled final week’s exit. Almost as quickly as U.S. troops left Afghanistan, the Taliban regained management of the nation with a pace that caught the administration off-guard. Cameras captured Afghans trying to flee the nation to flee the Islamist extremist group. Biden has been defensive about his administration’s actions, arguing there was no good time to depart Afghanistan and suggesting his crew couldn’t have prevented the ensuing chaos, and has supplied quite a few misstatements concerning the scenario.

But Rubin, one of probably the most sycophantic Biden supporters amongst liberal media members, lamented he had grow to be the “obvious target” within the international coverage debacle and the sufferer of a “pile-on.” Afghanistan could also be in disaster mode in the mean time, Rubin allowed, however she argued that doesn’t imply Biden’s insurance policies failed. She advised reporters give Biden the profit of the doubt, as a result of to anticipate “a flawless exit” is “unfair” and “cowardly.”

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“But ‘chaotic’ does not equal ‘failed,’ and just because our intelligence community blew it big time — again — does not mean the United States has abandoned its Afghan partners,” she wrote in a Monday column. 

In a separate piece, revealed Sunday, Rubin additionally defended Biden’s press convention efficiency from final week, together with one of his most controversial solutions. When requested about American allies who had voiced considerations about U.S. management within the wake of the Afghanistan disaster, Biden insisted he had heard the “actual reverse” and that U.S. allies had reiterated their confidence within the authorities. Many had been fast to level to a number of cases of world leaders expressing their disapproval, together with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. But Rubin advised these leaders had been full of bluster.

“Biden went to great lengths to rebut the accusation that allies were dismayed, if not furious, about the United States’ pullout,” Rubin wrote. “Certainly, loud voices of disapproval popped up around the globe. (The United States is not the only democracy with grandstanding backbenchers who crave attention.)”

Along together with her columns, she tweeted, “Biden is projecting confidence in the rescue operation, elevating the work of military and civilian officials.”

Rubin’s critics concluded she was out of contact with actuality. The fanatically anti-Trump author is infamous for her boosting of Democratic politicians, and he or she’s been rewarded for her loyalty to Biden with quite a few retweets from chief of workers Ron Klain, who usually promotes writers who help his boss.

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Others mentioned she’d let her infatuation with Biden blind her to the fact on the bottom.

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Rubin’s minority standing was confirmed over the weekend as a number of retailers added to criticism of the White House. A CNN panel, for occasion, blasted Biden’s “bizarre” messaging on Afghanistan.

“There’s a serious disconnect between the messaging from the Biden administration, which is essentially, ‘We’ve got this, we have a plan, we’re getting this under control. If you want to get out of Afghanistan, you can,'” the Associated Press’ Julie Pace mentioned on Sunday’s “Inside Politics.” “And then what we’re seeing on the ground from really brave reporters who are there, from a lot of Afghan civilians who are sharing pictures of images of the scene outside the airport where, no, you cannot get out if you want to get out.”