All-Black Radio Station Fires Host Who Interviewed Biden With White House-Supplied Questions

The all-black Pennsylvania radio station WURD landed the first interview with Joe Biden after his rightfully maligned presidential debate performance last month. Afterward, host Andrea Lawful-Sanders fatuously admitted to CNN that she asked the president questions sent to her from the White House.

"The questions were sent to me for approval, I approved of them," Lawful-Sanders said Saturday of her July 4 interview with Biden. "I got several questions. Eight of them. And the four that were chosen were the ones that I approved."

The station – which says it was unaware of the host's agreement with the Biden campaign – parted ways with Lawful-Sanders on Sunday.

WURD Radion CEO Sara M. Lomax announced Lawful-Sanders' departure in a message titled "Accountability, Access and A Path Forward: Why Black Media Matters" on the station's website.

The statement reads as follows:

WURD Radio remains an independent voice that our audience can trust will hold elected officials accountable. As Pennsylvania’s only independent Black-owned talk radio station, WURD Radio has cultivated that trust with our audience over our 20-year history.

This is something we take very seriously. Agreeing to a pre-determined set of questions jeopardizes that trust and is not a practice that WURD Radio engages in or endorses as a matter of practice or official policy."

As Pennsylvania’s only independent Black-owned talk radio station, WURD Radio has cultivated that trust with our audience over our 20-year history. This is something we take very seriously.

Agreeing to a pre-determined set of questions jeopardizes that trust and is not a practice that WURD Radio engages in or endorses as a matter of practice or official policy." "WURD Radio is not a mouthpiece for the Biden or any other Administration.

The host deserved to be fired.  Agreeing to pre-determined questions for an interview with the president is unethical and severely undermines the credibility of an outlet. 

WURD could not genuinely ask its listeners to trust its political coverage while still employing an admitted asset of the White House, which  Lawful-Sanders admits she was.

And she's not the only one.

CNN host Victor Blackwell first noticed similarities between the WURD interview and Biden's interview a day later on a Wisconsin radio station. "The questions were essentially the same," said Blackwell on Saturday.

They were the same.

Wisconsin radio station host Earl Ingram confirmed in a statement to ABC News on Saturday that the White House also supplied him with questions to ask Biden during the weekend interview.

"Yes, I was given some questions for Biden," Ingram, a host for CivicMedia, told the outlet. He added that he "didn't get a chance to ask all the things [he] wanted to ask" because he first asked at the behest of Biden's campaign.

And yet, Ingram has no shame.

"To think that I was going to get an opportunity to ask any question to the president of the United States, I think, is a bit more than anybody should expect," he added. "Certainly the fact that they gave me this opportunity ... meant a lot to me."

Way to go, Earl.

CivicMedia has yet to address one of its hosts admitting to weaponizing the platform by asking the president questions that his campaign supplied.

ABC News cited a source familiar with the Biden booking claiming it will "refrain" from requesting interviewers ask specific questions in order to speak to the president.

We don't believe the outlet.

Americans saw during Biden's interview with George Stephanopoulos how he performs when he's unaware of the questions he is about to answer. He can't do it. Literally. His jaw drops as he searches for clues on the ceiling, trying his "goodest."

There's virtually no way the man in that interview is actually the one running the country.

Finally, OutKick compiled a list of suckers more than likely willing to interview the cognitively diminished commander-in-chief next, using only a set of pre-determined questions: Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert.