If you were expecting anything but softballs during NBC’s Lester Holt’s Super Bowl interview with President Joe Biden on Sunday, you will be sorely disappointed. You shouldn’t be surprised though, there was no way Holt would allow the possibility of Biden embarrassing himself in front of a large audience of sports fans.
Holt wasted no time pulling out the favorite leftist hits, with his first question predictably being about how the Football stadium was expected to be packed with maskless fans: “You were interviewed a year ago about the Super Bowl, and you expressed hope that come this year they’d be able to fill the stands again with people. And that apparently is going to be the case.” Holt kvetched, “However, many of those people won't be wearing masks despite the local law in Los Angeles. What is your message to people who want desperately for this to be over and to be able to resume the lives that they remember?”
In response to this wailing from Holt, Biden made the jaw dropping sarcastic claim that “I love how people talk about personal freedom. If you're exercising personal freedom, put someone else in jeopardy, their health in jeopardy, I don't consider that being very – dealing with freedom. It's about moving in the direction you know is likely to diminish the prospects that this virus continues to spread.”
Not surprisingly, there was no pushback from Holt on that comment. Instead, he just moved onto the next leftist agenda item: pushing affirmative action in the NFL.
HOLT: Once again, the Super Bowl, another controversy over the NFL. This about alleged racial hiring practices. Do you think the NFL, because of its broad influence, should be held to a higher standard when it comes to issues like this?
Biden responded by saying he thinks the NFL “should be held to a reasonable standard.” Biden continued railing against the NFL for not being “diverse enough”, saying: “They haven't lived up to being open about hiring more minorities, to run teams, and whether or not, you know, Goodell says they're going to take a look at it, what–whether they can meet the standard. And the standard was set by you know someone who said this is something we should do. Think about it, I think it's the whole idea that a league that is made up of so many athletes of color as well as so diverse that there's not enough African American qualified coaches to manage these NFL teams?”
Holt ended the interview by asking Biden who he believes is going to win the Super Bowl to which Biden replied “Los Angeles gonna be hard to beat.” This is fantastic news for Bengals fan and NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck because Biden is almost always wrong in his predictions.
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NBC's Super Bowl LVI Pregame
2/13/2022
3:15:21 PMLESTER HOLT: You were interviewed a year ago about the Super Bowl, and you expressed hope that come this year they’d be able to fill the stands again with people. And that apparently is going to be the case. However, many of those people won't be wearing masks despite the local law in Los Angeles. What is your message to people who want desperately for this to be over and to be able to resume the lives that they remember?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Well, look, I love how people talk about personal freedom. If you're exercising personal freedom, put someone else in jeopardy, their health in jeopardy, I don't consider that being very – dealing with freedom. It's about moving in the direction you know is likely to diminish the prospects that this virus continues to spread. And so I think people should get the shots. We know the shots work. We know they work for the kind – the variants that are available that we are dealing with now. We know we have so many more tools at our disposal to prevent death and to prevent serious illness. And I just think they should be careful. And if they're not careful for themselves, at least think of their children, think of their families.
HOLT: Once again, the Super Bowl, another controversy over the NFL. This about alleged racial hiring practices. Do you think the NFL, because of its broad influence, should be held to a higher standard when it comes to issues like this?
BIDEN: Well, I think it should be held to a reasonable standard. And, you know, the commissioner pointed out, they haven't lived up to what they committed to. They haven't lived up to being open about hiring more minorities, to run teams, and whether or not, you know, Goodell says they're going to take a look at it, what–whether they can meet the standard. And the standard was set by you know someone who said this is something we should do. Think about it, I think it's the whole idea that a league that is made up of so many athletes of color as well as so diverse that there's not enough African American qualified coaches to manage these NFL teams? It just seems to me that it's a standard that they’d want to live up to. I don't, it's not a requirement of law but it's a requirement of I think of just generic decency.
HOLT: We can't wrap up an interview like this without asking, Cincinnati or Los Angeles?
BIDEN: Well, my teams are out, and I love this young quarterback from Cincinnati. He's an Ohio boy. Can make everybody happy. But we also have, I think, Los Angeles gonna be hard to beat.
HOLT: Mr. President, you've been generous with your time. Thank you so much for sitting down with us.
BIDEN: Thank you.
