Sage Steele, a former anchor with ESPN, recently admitted that her interview with President Joe Biden, which was done back in March 2021, was completely scripted by executives who work for the Disney-owned network. Makes perfect sense. The man can barely put two coherent sentences together and read them off a teleprompter, let alone do an off-the-cuff interview where he’s expected to think on his feet.
The big take away here though is that if he isn’t cognitively able to do an interview, how in the world is he passing tests to be considered fit to discharge the duties of the office of the president? The right answer, of course, is he’s not.
Check out the details from The New York Post:
Steele — who was “sidelined” by ESPN later that year after she criticized the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and made controversial comments about former President Barack Obama — told Fox News that she was beholden to a “structured” interview.
“It was very much ‘This is what you will ask. This is how you will say it. No follow-ups, no follow-ups. Next,’” Steele went on to say during the interview with Fox, stating that each question was “gone over dozens of times by many editors and executives.”
The former ESPN anchor then went on to say that she wasn’t sure if ESPN had sent the list of questions over to the White House for pre-approval before the interview or not. She did say she was fairly confident “that is what happened” since her superiors were very adamant that she stick to the script they gave her.
“I was told, ‘You will say every word that we write out, you will not deviate from the script,’” she explained during the conversation on Fox News.
Most of the questions Steele asked Biden pertained to sports leagues restoring normalcy in the wake of strict pandemic-era rules.
One of Biden’s responses during the 11-minute interview, where he said he would “strongly support” moving the Major League Baseball All-Star Game out of Atlanta because of Georgia’s then-new voting law, made headlines at the time.
The GOP-backed law in question added photo ID requirements for voting absentee by mail and barred people from handing out food and water to voters in line — a move Biden characterized as “Jim Crow on steroids.”
The All-Star Game was played in Denver of that year.
Steele, who is 51, filed a lawsuit against ESPN and Disney after she was pulled off the air, claiming they did this to her as retaliation for the comments she made. The matter was settled in 2023 and the two parties involved “mutually agreed to part ways,” which brought their 16-year relationship to an end.
“Life update. Having successfully settled my case with ESPN/Disney, I have decided to leave so I can exercise my first amendment rights more freely,” she said in a post published on X last year.
Steele, who last week launched her new podcast “The Sage Steele Show,” said her brief chat with the Biden was “heartbreaking,” a reference to the oldest-sitting president’s mental acuity — which has drawn even more scrutiny three years later as he readies for a rematch with Donald Trump in November.
“I think it’s really heartbreaking that the people who love Joe Biden and say they truly care about him have allowed it to get to this point,” Steele told Fox.
“So I’m not even looking at this from a political angle or my beliefs in anything. This is the human side of it. And when someone is struggling, we allow them to continue to be in the spotlight and put them out there in the first place when they knew there were issues? “Of course, they had to know. So it’s a humanity thing with me where I don’t care where anyone stands and what they vote for or who they believe in. Do you really care about that person? As a father, as a husband, as an everything.”
Again, if Joe Biden is unfit to conduct an interview off-the-cuff, or to stand trial for mishandling classified documents, then he is not fit to be the President of the United States. When are we finally going to hear some serious talk about exercising the 25th Amendment and removing him from his position? His cognitive decline is a matter of national security and isn’t something to be taken lightly.
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