According to CNN, Radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders resigned from WURD Radio after confessing that the questions she had asked President Joe Biden in her post-debate interview were pre-selected by his campaign team. “The interview featured pre-determined questions provided by the White House, which violates our practice of remaining an independent media outlet accountable to our listeners,” Sara Lomax said in a statement released on behalf of Philadelphia-based station, WURD Radio. “As a result, Ms. Lawful-Sanders and WURD Radio have mutually agreed to part ways, effective immediately.” The only talk radio station owned by Blacks in Pennsylvania is WURD. In her online remarks Mrs.Lomax noted that it prides itself as an independent credible voice for black Philadelphians and using written questions like these makes us “vulnerable”and not acting according to how we operate daily or even what we write down somewhere as procedure or policy. “WURD Radio is not a mouthpiece for the Joe Biden or any other Administration,” she added.
Lawful-Sanders hosts “The Source” where she interacted with Joe Biden recently asking him about four things including the stakes in that election, his accomplishments so far, his debate performance and finally his message to undecided voters. Speaking during an interview with CNN’s Victor Blackwell yesterday afternoon, she admitted that these were among eight of them forwarded to her by Biden aides prior to the session. “The questions were sent to me for approval. I approved them,” she revealed.“It has become an ongoing concern about Biden’s fitness since he flopped during CNN’s first presidential debate.” This has led senior Democrats who are now questioning whether he should accept nomination from their party because they are dissatisfied with how he performed in this contest. “If the White House is trying now to prove the vim, vigor … of the president, I don’t know how they do that by sending questions first before the interview so that the president knows what’s coming,” said Blackwell.
Blackwell pointed out that both Lawful-Sanders and Earl Ingram, host of “The Earl Ingram Show” in Milwaukee who also interviewed the president this week, asked Biden “essentially the same questions.” Although a Joe Biden campaign spokesperson did not dispute suggestions that the campaign supplied him with questions to ask, they said, “We do not condition interviews on acceptance of these questions.” “It’s not at all an uncommon practice for interviewees to share topics they would prefer. These questions were relevant to the news of the day — the president was asked about this debate performance as well as what he’d delivered for black Americans,” spokesperson Lauren Hitt said in a statement. Later on however, Biden’s campaign announced it would no longer provide lists of possible queries to journalists. “While interview hosts have always been free to ask whatever questions they please, moving forward we will refrain from offering suggested questions,” a source familiar with the Biden booking operation told CNN.
