Meet the Biased VP Debate Moderator
Meet PBS anchor Gwen Ifill. She will be “moderating” Thursday night’s vice presidential debates. She is also the author of the book titled, “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.” The book is set to come out on January 20, 2009, coinciding with the presidential inauguration.
“In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential campaign and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power…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.”
I wonder how much better this book will sell if Obama happens to win this election? I guarantee you that she isn’t wondering, she is hoping.
Despite the protestations of her colleagues that she will be fair, Ifill has appeared on numerous radio and TV talk shows over the past several months to cash in on her access to the Obama campaign. She recently penned a fawning cover story on the Obamas for Essence magazine that earned much buzz.
During the Democrat National Convention, Ifill fawned over Michelle Obama’s speech.
“A lot of people have never seen anything that looks like a Michelle Obama before. She’s educated, she’s beautiful, she’s tall, she tells you what she thinks and they hope that she can tell a story about Barack Obama and about herself…”
Her coverage of Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention was not so fawning:
“I was appalled by Gwen Ifill’s commentary directly following Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech. Her attitude was dismissive and the look on her face was one of disgust. Clearly, she was agitated by what most critics view as a well-delivered speech. It is quite obvious that Ms. Ifill supports Obama as she struggled to say anything redemptive about Gov. Palin’s performance. I am disappointed in Ms. Ifill’s complete disregard for journalistic objectivity.”
Be careful in your criticisms, she is quick to play the race card.
Ifill declined to return a WND telephone message asking for a comment about her book project and whether its success would be expected should Obama lose. But she has faced criticism previously for not treating candidates of both major parties the same.
During a vice-presidential candidate debate she moderated in 2004 – when Democrat John Edwards attacked Republican Dick Cheney’s former employer, Halliburton – the vice president said, “I can respond, Gwen, but it’s going to take more than 30 seconds.”
“Well, that’s all you’ve got,” she told Cheney.
Ifill told the Associated Press Democrats were delighted with her answer, because they “thought I was being snippy to Cheney.” She explained that wasn’t her intent.
This is how the MSM defines “moderator”?
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Posted by Jay on October 1, 2008 8:04 am
» Filed Under 1st Amendment, Debate, Democrats, Elections, Joe Biden, Liberal Media/Bias, News, Obama/Biden, Sarah Palin, Video
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Syndicate Me
How do we complain about this moderator being so in the tank for Obama? Who do we write to? What an obvious conflict of interest! This entire election has been so overwrought with the media pulling for Obama since day one, and now this!? Disgusting!
Perhaps they could ask Katie Couric to be moderator instead . . . or Charlie Gibson . . . or maybe Michel Obama herself would like to step in. Ugh!
Email address to contact Janet Brown, Executive Director Debates Commission
jb@debates.org
or call the Commission at 202-872-1020
To request the dismissal of Gwen Ifill as VP Moderator. Her new book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, sheds ‘new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential campaign’. It is set to release on Inauguration Day.
Gwen Ifill biased? I’m shocked !
http://edwardcropper.blogspot.com/
OBAMA MEDIA BIAS … NOW, OBAMA DEBATE BIAS !!!
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 … especially since her book sales would increase if Obama/Biden win? 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. FURTHERMORE … Everyone knows that Roland Martin is in the tank for Obama … and regarding his call for Palin to either ‘put up, or shut up’ … for millions of Americans, we still feel that Obama never adequately explained why he chose to spend TWENTY YEARS, yes TWENTY YEARS, in Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American, racist, black liberation church, which gave a life time achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, and Obama only quit the church due to public outrage and personal ambition.
Having Gwen Ifill as moderator of the Vice-Presidential debate on October 2, 2008 is a severe conflict of interest.
Considering that her book, “Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” is due to make it’s debut on Inauguration Day, I don’t see how can she can possibly remain impartial.
It is a well known fact that Gwen doesn’t have a very good opinion of Governor Palin, which is backed up by a video of her commenting on the Governor after Governor Palin’s acceptance speech at the convention.
As a citizen, I am outraged at the way the media has slanted this entire campaign towards Senator Obama, and Ms. Ifill should decline from being the moderator in this debate.
Margot Chenault
Get real. This is not news to anyone in either campaign. Debate formats/moderators/locations are heavily negotiated by the campaigns. If tonight’s debate has a biased moderator, it’s because the McCain campaign got something in return. Either that or they’re very stupid, in which case they deserve what they get.
Looks like McCain dropped the ball again.
They failed to vet Palin.
They _accidentally_ killed a bailout plan.
Now, they don’t even read a moderator’s bio.
McCain and his staff are clearly just not competent enough to run a campaign let alone a country.
That the moderator is writing a book on Obama is OLD NEWS. Glad that you folks found the time to get outraged… NOW.
Please spare us the hypocrisy. It gets old. Very old.
Hey- here’s something you haven’t tried:
complain that Palin is at a disadvantage because SHE
had to stand the whole time in HIGH HEELS and
Biden didn’t.
It makes just about as much sense.