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The Super Bowl without a political interview? Super

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When the news broke that President Joe Biden was skipping the pre-Super Bowl interview for the second straight year, the immediate reaction was mostly folks doing the political math. That figures. The idea of a president doing a sit-down in advance of the NFL’s biggest game of the year is, after all, inherently a political calculation.

But setting aside for a moment the election-year implications of Biden turning down CBS’s offer of free air-time, let’s take a moment to celebrate.

This is a victory for the rest of us.