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Is this more evidence that the White House knows Joe Biden can’t think or express himself extemporaneously? Or is it, as the White House claims, business as usual?
As a part-time radio host for the last 20-plus years and podcaster for the past 17, I have some experience with this issue. But it seems far more interesting to see the New York Times making this an issue now:
The questions asked of President Biden by two radio interviewers this week were provided in advance to the hosts by Mr. Biden’s aides at the White House, one of the hosts said Saturday morning on CNN.
Andrea Lawful-Sanders, the host of “The Source” on WURD in Philadelphia, said White House officials 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 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.”
First off, let’s marvel at Biden’s poor performance in light of knowing which questions would come to him. The New York Times also covered that on Thursday, as Biden garbled his WURD interview by seeming to claim that he was « the first Black woman to serve with a Black president.” Biden also called Trump a « colleague », started then aborted a story involving Trump, and then claimed to be the first president elected statewide in Delaware.
And all that was with preparation for presubmitted questions, according to the Gray Lady.
A Team Biden spokesperson shrugged it off, calling the practice « not uncommon » and that the interviewers were not required to use the questions. « In addition to these interviews, the president also participated in a press gaggle yesterday as well as an interview with ABC », Lauren Hitt told the NYT.
