joining me now guy benson townhall.com
political editor and a fox contributor
great to see you guys you think about
the hypocrisy here they took president
trump off twitter but yet the supreme
leader of iran and the spokesperson for
the taliban they're allowed to stay on
this is clear the social media companies
know how much power they have and it's
clear controlling of the messaging well
i think that what they would say is as
long as they aren't violating the terms
of service that they say president trump
did
then they're in the clear but i think at
some point you have to take a breath and
a step back if you're running twitter
and say okay who are these people the
taliban is an organization that is
actively currently
getting people searching for people door
to door who helped the united states
dragging them into the street and
murdering them they are kidnapping girls
as young as 15 14 and forcing them to
become child brides raping them this is
what that organization is doing
literally right now
and to say well you know as long as they
aren't engaged in targeted harassment or
whatever if they abide by the fine print
it's
i i am very curious to hear how some of
the internal conversations about this
must be going at a place like twitter
because
it seems awfully hard for i think
average people to understand yeah and
it's interesting for me because i spent
some time in the middle east and i was
there during the arab spring so i knew
the power that twitter had to help
people on the ground civilians
organize and and you know be more active
and so it's a tool it can be a tool in
some ways in these countries on the
ground but you don't necessarily want
the leaders having that power at the
same time do you think this becomes an
issue of regulation as we see more of
that in this country when it comes to
social media platforms it seemed like
the taliban was talking about regulating
yeah social media at one of the press
conferences that they had where they
actually took questions from the media
which seems like a novel concept a
little bit these days
given what the president here has been
up to
i don't know where this is headed but
look social media is messy i think we're
all sort of figuring it out in real time
but i don't think it's unreasonable for
americans to say
the former president of the united
states is not allowed to tweet the
spokesman for the taliban is allowed to
tweet what the hell yeah no there is
some hypocrisy there even if it doesn't
you know um
violate the fine print let's say let's
transition for a moment and talk about
the broader afghanistan story because
you and i were talking about it during
the break um clips of president biden
sitting down with george stephanopoulos
coming out and you just you know you
were shrugging your shoulders yeah i
just i am still sort of a little bit
shell-shocked watching these clips
a few minutes ago because of course the
president gave a speech a few days ago
took no questions on this historic
meltdown over which he's presiding that
he ordered this is his policy
then he gave this in some respects very
partisan speech about kovid today turned
his back again and walked out of the
room no questions finally there are
questions being put to this president
from abc news and the one that really i
mean there were a few things that
shocked me one they asked him and
stephanopoulos is their anchor said
could this have been done better
and his answer was no the president's
answer was no
i don't i cannot fathom how that could
be his answer to say this what we're all
watching what the world is watching the
chaos he essentially said no matter what
you did there would be chaos
he he is arguing effectively that this
is the best that the united states of
america could do
that is garbage that is obviously not
true of course we could do better it
wouldn't be perfect it may not be great
the idea that it couldn't be better than
this
is an absolute
insult it's difficult it's difficult
when you botch something up to then be
able to you know explain what's gone on
i mean he is legitimately he also he
told us just a few weeks ago that this
is not what would be happening right
remember he and the secretary of state
were assuring us oh no the afghanistan
troops they've got this the government's
got this the the likelihood that they
threw them under the bus
right but you can't say last month it's
not going to be hell in a hand basket
and then helena handbasket arrives and
you say we always knew this was going to
happen and it's the only way no it's not
guy benson thank you so much for joining
me great to see you tonight good to see
you