In Fox News Snub, White House Pulls Biden Out Of Traditional Pregame Super Bowl Interview

President Joe Biden has trouble with sit-down interviews. The White House pulled out the executive on Friday gaffe machine out of the traditional pre-Super Bowl sit-down with the network airing the game — which, this year, is Fox News.

Biden’s aides tried to bypass the primary network by scheduling an interview at Fox Soul, a streaming platform that focuses on black Americans and is owned by the same parent company of Fox News.

“The President was looking forward to an interview with Fox Soul to discuss the Super Bowl, the State of the Union, and critical issues impacting the everyday lives of Black Americans,” Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary, wrote this morning Tweet. “We’ve been informed that Fox Corp has asked for the interview to be cancelled.”

The president is expected to give an interview to the network that broadcasts the Super Bowl before the championship football game. Last year, President Biden sat down with NBC’s Lester Holt. The president has not yet offered a sit-down to Fox News during his first term. Obama even had a successful 2014 campaign. sat down with Bill O’Reilly.

Variety Magazine was the first to publish. Report this year’s Super Bowl interview was likely off.

“With just three days to go before the Kansas City Chiefs square off against the Philadelphia Eagles at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, the White House has yet to commit to the traditional interview between the President of the United States and the news division of the media company broadcasting the gridiron classic,” Variety reported Thursday afternoon. “Fox News attached no conditions to the exchange according to a person familiar with the matter, which has been a staple of the event (more or less) since President Barack Obama started doing it in 2009.”

Biden has struggled with interviews since his time in the vice presidency. Contrary The White House platform on same-sex married in 2012. Biden, the then-candidate for the White House platform on same-sex marriage in 2012, struggled to complete interviews while on campaign tour.

In 2021, a stumbling sit-down conversation with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos was so unnerving to lawmakers on Capitol Hill that Tennessee Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty Requirements The raw tape was released. A year later, Biden made comments about militarily defending Taiwan on CBS’s “60 Minutes” That the White House immediately I walked back.

According to Variety, Fox News 6 p.m. anchor Bret Baier was a top contender for this year’s coveted Super Bowl assignment.

The interview would have been conducted days after Tuesday’s third address to the joint Congress. The error-riddled The commander-in chief accused the Republicans of rabid fanaticism in their speech claimed credit for the return of jobs eliminated by the Democrats’ coronavirus lockdowns.

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