Clarissa Ward reported from the airport in Kabul on Friday that the planes weren’t coming, the ones that were there weren’t leaving, and as many as ten thousand people were waiting for an evacuation that Biden couldn’t (or wouldn’t) get the hell underway.
But now, FINALLY, some folks are being rescued from the tightening grasp of the fundamentalist authoritarian insurrectionist terrorist government.
On our flight and getting ready for takeoff pic.twitter.com/bGaYREsbxT
— Clarissa Ward (@clarissaward) August 20, 2021
As Newsbusters’ Curtis Houck said: “Praise God!”
#BREAKING: After spending an entire day at the Kabul airport with flight take offs largely non-existent, CNN's @ClarissaWard is NOW on a flight out of Afghanistan.
Praise God! https://t.co/uADsYJzjDc
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 20, 2021
A lot of people have been very impressed. Her reporting was brave in two ways. One: facing the Taliban. Two: facing the libs when she gets back here after not doing propaganda for Biden.
You are a brave woman. I salute and thank you! https://t.co/KdmoU4e4m7
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) August 20, 2021
Excellent news. You and your team did a great job, @clarissaward, and we are all thrilled that you're getting out of there now. Safe travels to your next assignment (and hopefully home in the meantime). https://t.co/ufLOWPz9cG
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) August 20, 2021
I’m glad of anyone getting out of there. Living under the Taliban’s harsh Islamic law is a terrible fate.