Psaki caught flat-footed by question about
California students stranded
in Afghanistan
Fox News,
by
Kelly Laco
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
8/25/2021 10:32:22 PM
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was caught flat-footed during the daily press briefing when she was asked about a group of California students who are trapped in Afghanistan. Psaki was asked Wednesday if she knew about an LA Times report that a group of students and their parents from California's El Cajon Valley School District are currently stranded in Afghanistan. (Snip) The reporter noted that the students and their families are "apparently stranded in Afghanistan, having traveled there? I don't I don't know for certain." Psaki then replied, "I certainly don't have additional information on that. I know, as
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/25/2021 10:48:53 PM (No. 892977)
Students from Cajon Valley Union School District stranded in Afghanistan
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/students-from-cajon-valley-union-school-district-stranded-in-afghanistan-san-diego-county/509-52dfa3dd-b416-47a8-9fb0-b65ac3667159
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/25/2021 10:56:42 PM (No. 892982)
Re #1, immigrant students who went home to Afghanistan to visit relatives. I was wondering why anyone else would go. They may not get out. Taliban don’t want Afghans leaving.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Omen55 8/25/2021 10:57:42 PM (No. 892983)
No doubt the parents are worried.
Too stupid to have let them go, but worried.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
formerNYer 8/25/2021 11:26:16 PM (No. 893007)
It's not hard to get her flat-footed she is as dumb as a bag of hammers. If we didn't have a worthless WH press corps they would have caught her in her many lies and unanswerable questions many more times.
She make Xiden & knee pads look smart.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PChristopher 8/25/2021 11:27:29 PM (No. 893009)
What business did they have there, anyway? Why couldn't they go to Europe like everybody else?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Californian 8/26/2021 12:01:43 AM (No. 893034)
I admit to taking a certain unhealthy pleasure watching Jen struggle in every press conference even with the world's most friendly media.
"Jen, what is your favorite ice cream flavor?"
"I, uh, don't have that information immediately available but we all know that no ice cream is stranded in Kabul and to say so is irresponsible because we are still working very hard to get all the ice cream out before it melts!"
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/26/2021 12:19:25 AM (No. 893046)
Don't you love how Psaki put the responsibility for identifying stranded Americans on the reporters. Isn't that the State Departments job? The government has failed at every step in this disaster.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/26/2021 12:23:01 AM (No. 893048)
It looks like a very high percentage of the “Americans” said to be in Afghanistan today are actually duel-nationals and are native Afghans who hold both Afghan and naturalized US citizenship. Another group are Afghans who are resident aliens who are “green card” holders who the US characterizes as being “US persons” who went back to Afghanistan. Since Afghanistan has been listed by the State Department as a do not travel to country, you have to wonder who took it upon themselves to bring all those California students to Afghanistan?
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Yes, #7. State Dept. can't find their asses from a hole in the ground, but they would have been the ones to issue visas to all those Americans in the first place. Yet, we are supposed to believe that they don't even have a headcount.
And then, that putz Blinken pulls some ridiculously low figure out of his rectum today that totally contradicts everything said up to this point.
I am literally at a loss to wrap my mind around this anymore.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/26/2021 4:03:46 AM (No. 893102)
The Biden administration has no clue how many Americans are still in Afghanistan, nor where they are. They are on their own. Surrender Joe has abandoned them to the mercy of ISIS and Al Queda. ISIS and Al Queda are well known for their mercy (sarc.).
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 8/26/2021 5:41:04 AM (No. 893116)
Big Red answers a quest …AND IT’S A FUMBLE!!!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/26/2021 6:46:57 AM (No. 893155)
Psaki would have been wise to have left her job around the middle of August. But then she has never been wise, or even competent.
Visiting a war-torn muslim country after the military has already bugged out is about as wise as getting caught stealing something in North Korea or getting lost hiking in the mountains of Iran, or getting caught on the slopes while mountain climbing during a blizzard, you brought it on yourself.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/26/2021 7:16:57 AM (No. 893170)
Ya gotta like what she’s done with her hair.......I don’t believe that color can be found in nature.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/26/2021 8:01:05 AM (No. 893211)
Some kindergartners from my area are currently touring Zimbabwe.
I understand they're having a really good time. It's really great to have woke parents.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
adguy47 8/26/2021 8:51:01 AM (No. 893251)
"Let me put this narrative in context for you." That's her answer for everything.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
red1066 8/26/2021 10:16:28 AM (No. 893368)
You just know this was some left wing nut job parent( probably a woman) who suggested taking kids on a trip to Afghanistan. Let's go and help the girls. Never mind the country is a combat zone with the only REAL protection were 2500 U.S. troops in Kabul. Stupid doesn't even begin to describe these people.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/26/2021 11:09:07 AM (No. 893436)
Raggedy Ann can't think on her feet, she's a scripted/Lying Moron!
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Ask Old Joe. He'll chuckle and tell the reporter he'll be the first to know when somebody finds them.