CLAY: CNN has a reporter on the ground, and we’ll play this audio for you. Now, to her credit, she is reporting on the ground surrounded by the Taliban. But this has a “mostly peaceful protest” feel to it. Here’s what CNN was reporting earlier today.

CLARISSA WARD: They’re just chanting, “Death to America!” but they seem friendly at the same time. It’s utterly bizarre.

CLAY: Oh, “Death to America,” and also friendly at the same time. Sounds like just the people you’d like to have over for Thanksgiving.

BUCK: I guess I’m glad that she at least admits that’s a bizarre dichotomy she is setting up there for us.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: And that’s a reporter from CNN, who’s still on the ground in Kabul as all this is unfolding. Clay, I do think we’ve also seen really one of the first times here that the usual pro-Biden partisans in the media, they tried —

CLAY: That’s a good point. They disappeared.

BUCK: Well, they tried a lot of things in the beginning. They tried, oh, the Trump thing, and everyone’s looking at them like, “This is a serious issue, and you are being unserious with your talking points bull crap.”

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: The usual spin doesn’t work when you have video of the actual airport and people running out onto the tarmac desperately fleeing for their lives. They can’t spin this, is what I’m saying. This is a first. They’ve ignored the border. They can’t really spin it, but they’ve tried. They’ve been able to ignore it. You can’t ignore what’s happening now in this country.

CLAY: That’s a good point. After seven months of defending anything, basically, that Joe Biden would do, and it’s also not only all of the surrogates that would usually be out there defending Joe Biden, Buck. I think it’s also they’re not gonna defend Biden when the White House goes silent, when everybody’s on vacation. There’s a lot of times where you have to be your own advocate.

And that’s what Biden’s gonna try to do at 3:45. We’ll see if he’s capable of it. I have severe reservations about that. But that’s a really good point that basically they have abandoned the field in the same way that we are abandoning Afghanistan. There’s nobody really trying to defend the Biden administration at all right now.

BUCK: It’s indefensible —

CLAY: That’s the answer. That’s the answer.

BUCK: — truly indefensible, what’s happening here. If you think the corporate media’s learned any lessons about foisting Biden on us despite all the common sense and history that you could bring to bear to show that he’s an incompetent mediocrity, I gotta tell you, think again. They will… Just give it a number of days, Clay, and CNN, the top story will be something about the January 6 insurrection and Fauci demanding masks.

They’ve gotta cover this now because it’s the biggest story in the world by far, but there’s no lessons learned from this. Anything is better, in their mind — in the corporate Democrat media’s mind, anything, including the abject collapse of Afghanistan, this calamity, better — than having Trump as president, in their mind. That’s how deranged they are with Trump Derangement Syndrome.

CLAY: I got a friend who worked in the Trump White House texted me this, this morning. He said (I’m reading directly from what he said), “I couldn’t help but imagine if we were still in the White House. My phone would probably have been ringing nonstop starting Saturday and Sunday.

“My inbox would be full of statements from woke companies and trade associations condemning our decision and administration while Afghan women and children are left to suffer. Where are those companies now? They’re silent. I guess it’s okay when it’s Afghanistan human rights abuses. But my God. Imagine what happens if Trump is still in office.” It’s well said.