Re: Howard Stern Loses It Over Claims WH Planted Questions In His Biden Interview

April fools joke, or uncredited Babylon bee article?



Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
> Radio shock jock Howard Stern lashed out at critics who suggested the White 
> House had fed him questions ahead of his sit-down interview with President 
> Joe Biden.
> 
> Stern called out YouTuber David Pakman, who said that Stern’s interview had 
> been a good one but wondered whether the White House had prompted him to ask 
> specific policy questions, and denied that Biden’s staff had any influence 
> over what he’d chosen to discuss.
> 
> Pakman had suggested Biden’s team was behind him asking about a new policy 
> regarding airline cancellations — namely that the airlines would have to 
> immediately refund ticket prices for canceled flights — but Stern said that 
> the question had actually been prompted by a conversation he had with someone 
> on his show staff.
> 
> “Here’s what happened. When Joe Biden came in, the day before [producer] John 
> Hein and I were talking about some of the accomplishments that we admire that 
> have gone on in the past four years, and John says to me, ‘Hey, Howard, did 
> you hear what Joe Biden did with the airlines?'” he said.
> 
> “Cut the conspiracies,” Stern said in response to rumors that Biden had been 
> wearing an earpiece during their conversation. “You’ve gotta f***ing be 
> kidding me! First of all, we controlled all the audio.”
> 
> Stern went on to say that when he requested the interview, he had not wanted 
> it to turn into a long back-and-forth on political issues and policies.
> 
> “My whole goal was not to sit there and talk politics. I’m not into that. I 
> don’t want to debate policy,” he explained. “My only agenda [was] I would 
> like to get to know the president because I suspect he’s a very meaningful, 
> very thoughtful guy.”
> 
> Stern’s interview netted a series of wild claims from Biden, ranging from his 
> time as a lifeguard — when he said that he saved half a dozen lives — to his 
> assertion that he had been sent “salacious” photos from women shortly after 
> his first wife died.
> 
> [How was Stern able to reply with his pants on fire?]
> 
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> Let's go Brandon!
> 
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