In early July and as the drumbeat for him to withdraw from the presidential race was getting louder, President Joe Biden did two post-debate radio interviews by phone to try and prove his disastrous debate performance against GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in June was a one-off.
Neither interview quelled concerns about his cognitive health. As we previously reported, both segments – done with Biden/Democrat-friendly stations – were pre-recorded. Further, both radio hosts, WURD’s Andrea Lawful-Sanders and Civic Media’s Earl Ingram, admitted after the fact on CNN that the Biden campaign submitted questions in advance, most of which were used in the back-and-forth exchanges.
The fallout from those revelations was news from Philadelphia-based WURD that they had “parted ways” with Lawful-Sanders, adding that “WURD Radio is not a mouthpiece for the Biden or any other Administration.”
While Civic Media stood behind Ingram, they later revealed they had agreed with the Biden campaign’s request to edit two parts out of their interview with him before it aired.
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By the same token, Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris has also been agreeing recently to do interviews, but they’ve also been pre-taped and with Democrat-friendly outlets to boot. The first one was with CNN alongside her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and was exactly what one would have expected to come from the left-wing cheerleaders at Kamala News Network.
Here we are a week later, and Harris has pre-taped two more interviews, one with Alabama-based comedian/radio personality Rickey Smiley, and the other with TelevisaUnivision’s Uforia, which “is the top Spanish-language audio platform in the United States, with 18 million listeners,” according to The Hill.
The Uforia interview, which was taped Thursday, aired Friday afternoon. But the Smiley interview with Kamala Harris, taped Wednesday, did not fire off as scheduled Friday morning, though Smiley was on the air.
When a Twitter/X user inquired as to why we didn’t get to hear the Kamala segment, Bloomberg reporter Akayla Gardner provided the following update:
“There were technical difficulties that prevented Rickey Smiley from airing this interview this morning, per the campaign. It’s now expected for Monday.”
“Technical difficulties … per the Harris-Walz campaign”? Hmm. Understandably, folks – including the Trump campaign – are suspicious:
TAPED interview with Democrat nominee (just the second one ever) mysteriously suffers “technical difficulties” that prevents it from airing — GO FIGURE! https://t.co/e8A5xyGPU9
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 6, 2024
“Technical difficulties” with a taped Kamala Harris radio interview that delays its broadcast to Monday.
Remember that Biden’s campaign demanded that radio interviews be edited before air.
Is that what’s happening here? pic.twitter.com/U4eeyKW1z0
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) September 6, 2024
The American people absolutely deserve to know (just as we did with Biden) what is being left on the cutting room floor and what the campaign is demanding stations not let the American people hear from Harris.
— Brittany (@bccover) September 6, 2024
Smiley, I should note, is a huge fan of Kamala Harris, having her on his program several times since 2020. In August, he landed himself in hot water with other prominent black commentators and activists after he denigrated black people who said they were going to vote for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump instead of Harris.
“Y’all need to block every last one of their ***es on Facebook and on Instagram and social media — and stop. That’s just garbage,” Smiley said at the time.
In any event, inquiring minds want to know the backstory of why the airing of this pre-taped radio interview had to be delayed. If we find out, we’ll let you know.
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