Former ESPN Anchor Rips Sage Steele: ‘Dumbest Person I’ve Ever Worked With’

On Wednesday, former ESPN anchor Sage Steele dropped what she believed was a bombshell story when she revealed that her 2021 interview with President Joe Biden was scripted.

“I was told, ‘You will say every word that we write out, you will not deviate from the script and go,'” Steele told Fox News.

“To the word. Every single question was scripted, gone over dozens of times by many editors and executives. Absolutely. I was on script and was told not to deviate.

“It was very much ‘This is what you will ask. This is how you will say it. No follow-ups, no follow-ups.”

It turns out that perhaps there was a different reason for that than Sage Steele realized, at least according to one of her former ESPN colleagues.

“Of COURSE it was scripted. If it hadn’t have been Sage Steele – the dumbest person I’ve ever worked with in sports or news – couldn’t have gotten through it,” Keith Olbermann wrote on X (Twitter).

“I mean Jesus, if this happened to you, you’d just assume it WASN’T being done to protect the network from you humiliating it – and yourself?” he continued.

Olbermann and Steele’s ESPN careers overlapped from 2013 to 2015 and again in 2018.

Whether what Keith Olbermann is saying about Sage Steele is accurate or not, she certainly hasn’t helped her case in the past.

Just last week, Sage Steele embarrassed herself by spending 90 minutes interviewing UFC president Dana White only to find out that she thought he was Joe Rogan the entire time.

Steele, who once claimed the late Barbara Walters elbowed her and tried to beat her up backstage at The View. Walters worked full-time on The View from 1997 to 2014. Walters would have been between 68 and 86-years-old when Steele claimed this occurred. Steele would have been between the ages of 25 and 43.

Sage Steele left ESPN in 2023 so she could, as she claimed, “exercise [her] First Amendment rights more freely.”