Cheating, Cheating, Cheating!

From The UK Telegraph 7/7/24:

Biden campaign team ‘gave journalists specific questions to ask president’

Radio hosts say they were handed eight to choose from sparking accusations he is unwilling to give unscripted answers 

"Joe Biden’s team gave radio hosts a pre-selected list of questions to use when interviewing him, as the president’s campaign scrambled to control concerns about his age.

"Two interviewers in Philadelphia who spoke with Mr Biden on Wednesday said they were prompted by his team to ask specific questions, sparking accusations that the president is unwilling to give unscripted answers.

"The Biden campaign team is struggling to control a media narrative that he is too old to seek re-election, following his disastrous television debate performance on June 27 and a series of gaffes since.

"Andrea Lawful-Sanders, a host on WURD Radio, said the Biden campaign told her which questions she could ask before she spoke with Mr Biden on Wednesday, for an interview to be aired on Thursday.

"She told CNN the local station had been given eight questions to choose from, and that she had selected four for the interview.

“The questions were sent to me for approval [and] I approved them,” she said, while a second host who spoke to Mr Biden that day told ABC that he “didn’t get a chance to ask him all the things I wanted to ask”.

"The Biden campaign said the questions were only suggestions, and that the hosts were free to ask whatever questions they liked. A spokesman said the campaign would not suggest questions for future interviews."

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Well, I should hope not! This is quite a scandal, and you can just imagine the 24-hour-a-day news coverage if this had been Trump rather than Biden.  Remember "Russia! Russia! Russia!"?

This is nothing more than cheating, cheating, cheating!  Boy, what a week!