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From Fox News: A Milwaukee radio station admitted Thursday that it edited a taped interview with President Biden — at his campaign’s request — to remove references touting the number of “blacks” in his administration and incoherent commentary on the Central Park Five.
Civic Media, the radio network that broadcasted the 81-year-old president’s July 3 interview on “The Earl Ingram Show,” said the decision by the program to scrub the remarks prior to airing the interview on July 4, fell short of “journalistic interview standards.”
The first edit came about five minutes into the 18-minute-long interview, in which Biden claimed, “… and in addition to that, I have more blacks in my administration than any other president, all other presidents combined, and in major positions, cabinet positions.”
The second cut out, about 14 minutes in, was in reference to former President Donald Trump’s 1989 call for the death penalty for five since-exonerated New York teenagers convicted of raping and assaulting a Central Park jogger.
“I don’t know if they even call for their hanging or not, but he — but they said […] convicted of murder,” Biden said.
Here’s the audio the Biden team asked to be removed from the president’s interview.https://t.co/EAMjFgIGgJ https://t.co/9i0bRHdnjT pic.twitter.com/VK0d9RGUJL
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) July 11, 2024
Civic Media released a statement Thursday afternoon, along with the entire, unedited interview, saying they considered the two edits to be “non-substantive” and complied with the Biden campaign’s request to remove the two segments.
Statement regarding edits to the July 4th interview with President Bidenhttps://t.co/1zRu8D0wku
— Civic Media (@CivicMediaUS) July 11, 2024
