Joe Biden’s ‘shrinkflation’ blame game
By
Byron York
February 12, 2024 8:20 am
JOE BIDEN’S ‘SHRINKFLATION’ BLAME GAME. By the time the Super Bowl started, it had been extensively reported that President Joe Biden had refused, for the second year in a row, to do the traditional Super Bowl interview. The conventional wisdom was that the 81-year-old president, who has granted relatively few interviews during his time in the White House and has been under intense scrutiny in the last few days for age-related cognitive problems, just could not risk a high-profile interview in his current condition. “It’s the biggest television audience — not even close — and you get a chance to do a 20, 25-minute interview on that day, and you don’t do it?” veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said. “That’s a kind of sign that the staff or yourself doesn’t have much confidence in you. There’s no other way to read this.”
Given that, most people who follow politics figured they wouldn’t see Biden on Super Bowl day. But Biden had other plans. If he would not, or could not, handle a Super Bowl interview, he would still get in on the Super Bowl story, creating an attention-getting, Super Bowl-themed video released a few hours before kickoff. No tough questions, no embarrassing pauses, just total White House control.
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