According to former ESPN host Sage Steele, her 2021 interview with President Joe Biden was “scripted” by network executives.
As much? “Every single question,” she says.
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Nothing is real with Biden
In an interview with Fox News, Sage Steele talks about the “structured” nature of the pre-recorded interview and emphatically stated that her ESPN bosses handed her a “script” to use.
“It was an interesting experience in itself because it was so structured,” he said. “And I was told, ‘You will say every word we write, you will not deviate from the script and you will not go.’”
The story continued:
Many of the questions Steele asked Biden in the March 2021 interview were about sports leagues trying to restore normalcy during the COVID pandemic and vaccine hesitancy among athletes and fans. His interview made headlines as Biden supported MLB’s boycott of the All-Star Game in Atlanta following the passage of Georgia’s election reform law.
But everything Steele told the president ultimately came from the top brass at ESPN.
“At the word. Every single question was written, reviewed dozens of times by many editors and managers. Absolutely. I was following the script and I was told not to deviate,” Steele told Fox News Digital. “It was very ‘This is what you’re going to ask.’ This is how you’re going to say it. No follow-up, no follow-up. Next. ‘ … This went up to the fourth floor, as we said, where all the bosses are, the top executives, the decision makers, the president of our company, the CEO, where they all worked.”
Steele said she didn’t know for sure whether ESPN sent the questions to the White House before the interview, but she seemed confident that was “what happened.”
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Sage Steele: ‘Tightening’
Steele said on his new podcast, “The Sage Steele Show,” that his exchange with Biden was undoubtedly “heartbreaking,” referring to his mental abilities.
“I think it’s really heartbreaking that people who love Joe Biden and say they really care about him have allowed it to get to this point,” Steele said. “So I don’t even look at it from a political point of view or my beliefs in anything. This is the human side of it. And when someone is in trouble, do we allow them to continue to be in the spotlight and put them out there in the first place when they knew there were problems? Of course they had to know.”
“So for me it’s a question of humanity where I don’t care where other people are and what they vote for or who they believe,” he added. “Do you really care about that person? As a father, as a husband, as everything.”
No one knows whether Joe Biden will be re-elected president or not.
But his handlers certainly don’t seem to want him to go off script.
