Radio Show Hosts: Team Biden Sent Us Questions To Ask Biden
“if the White House is trying now to prove the vim, vigor, acuity of the president. I don‘t know how they do that by sending questions first before the interview so that the president knows what‘s coming”
Biden’s recent radio interviews were complete trainwrecks in which he proclaimed himself the first black woman vice president and often rambled disjointedly and incomprehensibly.
Obviously, this was completely unsurprising given how degraded Biden’s mental acuity has become and the low bar for his “goodest” job, but what is surprising is that we are now learning that Biden had the questions in advance.
A radio host who interviewed President Biden Wednesday tells me the White House sent her the questions before the interview. pic.twitter.com/9L6PRaUvgG
— Victor Blackwell CNN (@VictorBlackwell) July 6, 2024
A second local radio host on Saturday told ABC News that he was provided a list of questions in advance of his interview with President Joe Biden this week.
Earl Ingram of CivicMedia said he was given five questions and ended up asking four of them. https://t.co/zfZXiatOxK pic.twitter.com/BZ0NbMK9An
— ABC News (@ABC) July 6, 2024
The questions asked of President Biden by two radio interviewers this week were provided in advance to the hosts by members of Mr. Biden’s team, one of the hosts said Saturday morning on CNN.
Andrea Lawful-Sanders, the host of “The Source” on WURD in Philadelphia, said Biden officials had provided her with a list of eight questions ahead of the interview on Wednesday.
“The questions were sent to me for approval; I approved of them,” she told Victor Blackwell, the host of “First of All” on CNN. Asked if it was the White House that had sent the questions to her in advance, she said it was.
“I got several questions — eight of them,” she said. “And the four that were chosen were the ones that I approved.”
Lauren Hitt, a spokeswoman for the Biden campaign, said it was actually campaign aides, not White House officials, who had sent the list of questions. She said it is “not uncommon” for the campaign to share preferred topics, but added that campaign officials “do not condition interviews on acceptance of these questions” by the interviewer.
. . . . During his appearance on “The Earl Ingram Show,” which broadcasts on WAUK in Waukesha, Wis., Mr. Biden responded to a question about why voting matters with a halting and sometimes confusing answer.
“That’s where we always — we gave Donald Trump executive — a power to, to use a system — and it’s just never contemplated by our founders because of the people he appointed to the court,” he said, appearing to stutter several times, a condition he has struggled with since he was a child. “It’s just presidential immunity. He can say that I did this in my capacity as an executive, it may have been wrong, but I did it. But that’s going to hold — because I — and this is the same guy who says that he wants to enact revenge.”
Mr. Blackwell, interviewing the two radio hosts Saturday morning, appeared surprised by the answer about the preapproved questions.
He had asked Ms. Lawful-Sanders about her four questions because he said he had noticed that they were almost identical to the four that Mr. Ingram had asked in his interview with Mr. Biden the same day.
Blackwell said Biden’s team was not helping prove the “vigor” of the president by sending questions ahead of time.
“And the reason I ask is not a criticism of either of you, it’s just that if the White House is trying now to prove the vim, vigor, acuity of the president. I don‘t know how they do that by sending questions first before the interview so that the president knows what‘s coming,” Blackwell said.
Indeed.
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the radio host got the questions from the WH, but instead of mentioning it at the start of the interview they played along with the ruse
The should have immediately started asking different questions. I know the Biden nannies would have cut it off but so what make them do it.
Bigger question is why the radio people went along with it. Has anyone gotten to the bottom of the rumor Biden was given the questions of the debate beforehand like Hillary?
“but added that campaign officials “do not condition interviews on acceptance of these questions” by the interviewer.”
However, it IS a damn nice studio you got here.
“…in fact, a whole lot nicer than that Sheetz gas station whose customers were… less than enthusiastic about the President’s visit.”
How very socialist of them to tell the company how to run its business. Lawfare once again.
Surprise.
And the fact that Lawful-Sanders lost her job over this is telling.
No one wants to point out that the Emperor has a cabbage for a brain. And it was set on fire.
Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison to oneself.
You should not be asked something you don’t know the answer to. Let’s say you’re the President of the United States. You should not be expected to know a lot of stuff about what is going on. It’s up to reporters to check with you ahead of time and only ask questions they’re sure you know the answers to—otherwise people might think you have dementia.
I think it’s pretty common for any politician who want’s to talk about a subject say, economic policy, to tell the potential interviewer what topic(s) the questions should be on to keep the interview tight. I think it’s a little unusual to have the actual questions handed to someone telling them to ask these verbatim.
What! Dementia! Who said that?? That’s crazy talk!
LOOK! OVER THERE! A SQUIRREL!
Nevermind: it was KJP looking for nuts…
Trump’s campaign routinely gave Fox news not only the questions they wanted Fox news hosts to ask Trump, but even the answers. I think this happens more than we want to admit, and it happens on both sides. Just shows how partisan our news media is today, whether it be on the left or on the right.
LOL.
Can’t you even try to be a little convincing?? Just try, please.
Trump takes open questions all the time, for hours. From the most hostile people around.
In fact, he did that daily for weeks on end at the beginning of the pandemic. Also, at oher times throughout his term he was a walking press conference. You could not find a bigger contrast with Biden.
“Trump’s campaign routinely gave Fox news not only the questions they wanted Fox news hosts to ask Trump, but even the answers.”
It’s not a big deal to me, one way or the other. But I’d really like a cite for this one, because it’s the first I’ve heard of it.
It’s just more of JR’s patented trollet paper.
If it were true, it would be have been blasted all over MSNBC and CNN.
CNN’s Jim Acosta was a Trump WH plant.
Who watered him?
You are correct; this is standard practice, as noted in the NYT piece I cite. It’s not done all the time and depends on polls and the political winds, which makes it being done here by Team Biden even more tone-deaf. They are trying to prove him fit not only for office but to campaign and to then last another four years. Feeding questions in advance is not the way to prove that to the people who matter most to them: Democrat voters and donors.
Remove your cranium from your anal orifice Junior, and attempt to stick to the post’s topic, which is Biden’s radio show interview.
I mean… I know your TDS has completely taken over your life, but at least try.
Give it up JR; you are pathetic.
I can find no evidence that Trump’s team gives the questions and answers to anyone but I wouldn’t be surprised if his team gave the interviewer a list of topics to be covered. Most politicians as you say do this but with Trump considering his rather wandering style and ability to riff on any subject I don’t think that is likely.
To be fair to JR this accusation is a common one, and it has appeared in the press:
Here is one such article from NY Magazine in 2022.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/04/fox-news-gave-very-cogent-donald-trump-questions-in-advance.html
I leave it to your opinion as to the validity of the article’s talking points.
Interestingly the same search terms on the Startpage search engine
Trump given questions before interview
came up with this article from the Washing Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/28/sean-hannitys-attempt-coach-trump-backfires-again/
Despite the Fox host’s prompts, Trump declined to give him the answers he sought. And they pertain to some central questions in a key legal fight.
Again I leave it to you to judge the article.
In my opinion, it might be argued that you can give questions to the Interviewer but Trump will say what he damn well pleases.
However, it’s a fun game to play and you should all try it yourselves to see what opinion you form of the difference or similarity between Trump’s and Biden’s approach to interview questions.
Watch the Dr. Phil interview. One hour, no notes. RFK did it too. No sign of Biden though….
But, but Trump!!!111!!!
vigor and nimble are two words that should never be in a sentence describing Biden.
Instead of “vigor and nimble”, would rigor and mumble be better?
Or rigor and mortis.
you owe me a monitor … 😀
bwahaha!
Honestly!
(That’s a third.)
Unless they are talking about Pres. Trump…
The media wants to pretend this hasn’t always been the case with Democrats
That’s the real story here. Can you imagine CNN, NYT, Axios dropping these stories two weeks ago? It’’s now time for MSM to “Throw Biden Under the Bus”. They are trying to expedite his decision to drop out of the race so the Evil Orange Man isn’t re-elected.
I think recent appearances have pulled the rug out from under the “evil orange man” meme.
Barky was the one who started with the fake press conferences, where he would not have many, but when he did he had all of the reporters who were scheduled to ask him questions on a cue card. Barky used to call out a reporter’s name for a question and then have to look around the room for him. A few times he even called reporters who weren’t there. It was the first time I had seen anything so pathetic. It was funny. Barky sucked at press conferences (as he sucked at pretty much everything) but people have been convinced that he wasn’t the walking disaster that we all experienced at the time (all the time).
I don’t think he was the first, I think he was the first to be so bad at it but the msm was so in love with him that they put up with it. Who can forget that airplane scene and the woman in the press corp about orgasming over Obama in a pair of jeans.
Are we now going to pretend that this is something new? The legacy Media has been cooperating in this manner for at least fifty years. Biden has NEVER had a spontaneous interview.
Obviously this is something every political campaign does. They send out topics and mock questions or at least info that implicitly invites a particular question (s). Their job as campaign staff is put their guy into position to give their stump speech ‘answers’ and help frame their guy in the most positive light possible.
With the current frenzy surrounding Biden’s mental acuity (cue the shocked faces of legacy media) it was tone deaf to go so far as to submit sample questions in such an explicit way. It reflects the arrogant hubris of their candidate while simultaneously drawing more attention to the very thing they are trying to bury. Political malpractice.
Rehearsals won’t help Biden. Anyone who’s had to deal with someone in senility knows that no matter what you tell them, they’ll forget it in no time at all.
You misunderstood. They’re not trying to prove it, they’re trying to fake it, and you do that by making sure the President knows what’s coming while making the audience think that he doesn’t.
Now, supposedly she was let go by the station because pre-scripted questions go against their journalistic standards. But I wouldn’t be surprised if the real reason was that she spilled the beans and embarrassed Biden.