For the second year in a row, Joe Biden declined to do an interview before the Super Bowl.
The Super Bowl is scheduled to be held on Sunday, February 11, and will be broadcast on CBS. The match will be between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs.
After CBS recently discussed the matter with the White House, Biden decided not to do the interview. That would have given it a very large audience, considering it's the biggest television event of the year.
There has been a long-standing tradition of the president being interviewed by the station broadcasting the big game dating back to 2009 with Barack Obama.
A variety have been reported:
CBS News has confirmed that President Joe Biden will not participate in any dialogue during the pre-game festivities leading up to CBS' broadcast of Super Bowl LVIII on February 11. Paramount Global News has held discussions with the White House in recent weeks. Details cannot be known about which reporters might have been of interest for the assignment, but it is believed that CBS News' offer was for a 15-minute interview, three or four minutes of which would have been broadcast during the network's pre-game coverage.
This will be the second year in a row that President Biden has declined the opportunity, which typically draws an audience in the tens of millions, even in the hours before kickoff. President Biden also refused to speak to a Fox News reporter last year. Advertisements for the Super Bowl interview with the president are usually completed five or more days before the event.
Joe Biden evades reporters' questions and avoids the media as much as he can.
Last year, Biden canceled a Fox Soul Super Bowl interview after the network tensed for a week.
In 2021, Joe and Jill Biden made a creepy appearance at the Super Bowl to lecture Americans on “social distancing.”
It looked like people were booing Joe Biden as his video message played on the jumbotron.
No one was paying attention to Joe Biden talking about Covid.
A moment of silence before the Super Bowl in memory of those who lost their lives to the coronavirus last year, following a video message from President Biden. pic.twitter.com/84GA7UmPx7
– Greg Ohman (@gregoman) February 7, 2021
