ABC’s Jonathan Karl embarrasses Marco Rubio with some inconvenient truths about Chinese balloons

Sen. Marco Rubio appeared on ABC’s This Week. Jonathan Karl did not leave Rubio’s bloviating about the Chinese balloon unchallenged.

Marco Rubio bloviated but failed.

Republicans are used to going on the Sunday Morning News Shows and getting softballs. Worse, their dependable misinformation and disinformation usually go unchallenged more often than not. The mainstream media has been doing somewhat better recently, as shown when Chuck Todd annihilated Jim Jordan. Of course, it is something MSNBC’s Ali Velshi has been doing for some time. 

In this interview, Jonathan Karl either asked Marco Rubio probing questions or sarcastically challenged him on his attacks on Biden’s handling of the Chinese balloon. Rubio spent a lot of time blaming the administration for something the president had little control over in the beginning and took care to resolve in the most responsible manner.

After Rubio bloviated for some time, Jonathan Karl got to the meat of the issue.

“He shot it down,” Jonathan Karl said indignantly. “When he shot it down, based on the advice of the military. You don’t think he should have ordered it to be shot down earlier against the advice of the Joint Chiefs? There?”

Rubio went into his long-winded statement stating the president should have gone public to explain what he was doing. He also implied erroneously that it was not tracked from the time it got into our continental airspace.

What the willfully ignorant Senator failed to acknowledge is that there are reasons not to be too obvious about the measures the country is taking. One can learn a lot from the Chinese, or for that matter, any country, when they are not quite sure what we are doing. Republicans, with their hyperventilation, likely affected our national security.

Jonathan Karl ended the interview by embarrassing Marco Rubio.

”And we’re also told, by the way,” Karl said appropriately, “ That this happened three times under the previous president. Obviously, there were no public notifications there.”

Enough said.

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