President Biden was willing to sit down with Mike Hill and Vivica Fox from Fox Soul, but wasn’t willing to reward propagandists Bret Baier or Martha MacCallum with an interview prior to this year’s Super Bowl:
Joe Biden’s planned interview ahead of the Super Bowl appears scuttled after Fox Corp. aggressively volleyed with the White House over an agreement to have the president sit down with Fox Soul, an obscure streaming service operated by a subsidiary.
Fox News originally appeared in line to land an interview with Biden out of a tradition between presidents and the network hosting the Super Bowl.
But brinkmanship between the president’s team and the media giant stretched for days and then hours heading into the weekend of the big game. It started Friday morning when the White House announced that an interview with Fox Soul — which came as a surprise to many — had been scrapped for good.
“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,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a tweet. “We’ve been informed that Fox Corp. has asked for the interview to be cancelled.”
Fox claimed the interview was still on after “some initial confusion” but the White House refuted that statement:
Which of course had the talking heads on Fox & Friends whining about how the President was supposedly depriving the American people of… something… during yet another segment attacking him of his handling of the Chinese spy balloon. They didn’t bother to get into any of the pesky details of the back and forth with the network and who he was willing to sit down with, of course.
I’m glad he’s not doing the interview. It would be nice to see every single Democrat freeze the network out as well.
