Clearly doing her best to avoid any appearance of impropriety or bias while moderating Thursday night’s Vice Presidential debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin, Gwen Ifill is set to release a laudatory Obama-focused book entitled “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” on the next President’s Inauguration Day: January 20, 2009.
Drawing on interviews with power brokers like Senator Obama, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and many others, as well as her own razor-sharp observations and analysis of such issues as generational conflict and the “black enough” conundrum, Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history.
Why on earth do conservatives keep insisting that the media is wildly biased in favor of Obama? OF COURSE Ifill is going to be equally hard on Biden and Palin during the debate, even if it risks the result of this “pivotal moment in American history,” just to be seen as fair. After all, the media has been nothing if not fair, especially toward Governor Palin. There’s no reason to believe the debate would be conducted in a biased way.
Right.
Besides any liberal bias toward the Obama campaign implicit in publishing a book with his name in the title, Ifill clearly has financial reasons to be pulling for an Obama win and should recuse herself from moderating Thursday’s debate.
Public Service Announcement: Ifill is not “disabled” (I see some people arriving here searching that on Google). She broke her ankle last week falling down the stairs, and that’s why she’s tooling around St. Louis in a wheelchair.
The video below is your impartial debate moderator reacting with contempt and disgust to Governor Palin’s Convention speech.
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1goalkeepr on Sep 30, 2008 at 11:43 pm:
Contact the Debate Commision and demand she recuse herself! (202) 872-1020
(Found the number at http://www.debates.org/pages/education.html)
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2VSK on Oct 1, 2008 at 6:43 am:
This is going to be a wild ride, folks. Could be more viral response than the bailout blogosphere outrage.
Shut this probama down. The gall of it all. How could we have missed it until now?
Vicktorya
PS: Thanks for the link!!
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3edit35 on Oct 1, 2008 at 8:12 am:
Obama wins… Ifill’s book sells, Ifill makes big $$$$
Obama loses….Ifill’s book tanks, Ifill cries in her liberal corn flakes..
Gee, no financial incentive here, is there????
On a side note, I met Ifill at a McCain event for Mike Fitzpatrick the Sunday before the 2006 election…. at a farmhouse in Upper Makefield.
Ifill, a PBS shill for the Democrats, was covering McCain… who at the time was endorsing Fitzpatrick.
The event was part of Fitzpatrick attempt to tout the fact that he in cooperation with the Bush Administration had essentially secured support for the new National veterans cemetery in Upper Makefield —- which Murphy now smarmily takes credit for. (Murphy is such a phoney, which is redundant of course)
Anyway, Ifill went up to three of my buddies who happen to be Vietnam battlefield hero’s all (real ones, not the John effin’ Kerry manufactured type) who were there talking to McCain…. and she tried …. I mean she tried hard to screw with these veterans over the Iraq war and the Bush WOT, which she obviously thought was illegal.
These guys held their own against Ifill, who was polite I must admit, but sounded like a parrot for every discredited left wing phrase or idea under the sun.
end of story….
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4Howard on Oct 1, 2008 at 11:51 am:
The nation already is skeptical about the fairness and objectivity of the mainstream media regarding election coverage … so, why in the world is Gwen Ifill the debate moderator, when she is writing a book about Obama? The moderator in a debate … especially one of this importance and magnitude … should be seen as completely fair, objective and above reproach. This is a terrible choice, and could easily have been remedied by choosing from hundreds of other more objective potential moderators. I can imagine the outcry if Michelle Malkin, or Ann Coulter was chosen as the moderator for the first Vice Presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.
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Steven Reply:
October 1st, 2008 at 11:56 am
They should let Ifill question Palin and Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin question Biden to make it even.
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