Our RW friends are already preparing their post-Debate excuses

[brooklynite]

from Red State:

Gwen Ifill: VP Debate Moderator, Obama Shill.

She has a book coming out, in fact. One that kind of needs an Obama win to avoid automatic remandering.

Posted by: xxxxxx
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 11:56PM

You know, Michelle Malkin and I don't actually agree on all that much, but we do agree on this: it is perhaps not the most objective thing in the world to have as one's VP debate moderator a woman who has written a book entitled "Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.". Particularly when it's scheduled to come out on 01/20/2009. (Via Hot Air Headlines)

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As Ms. Malkin goes on to suggest:

Ask the Commission on Presidential Debates if she will acknowledge her conflict of interest: 202-872-1020.

And here’s the e-mail address of Janet H. Brown, Executive Director of the Debates Commission: [email protected]

Note that neither Ms. Malkin nor I am suggesting that Ms. Ifill stop moderating the debate; merely that she let the viewing public know right from the start that it's in Ms. Ifill's long-term financial interest that Senator Obama win the Presidency. They call it "transparency:" it's quite the coming thing. The media should try it sometime.

I understand Hugh Hewitt may be available to substitute...

[Enrique]

1. that looks like a potentially legitimate conflict of interest

I wonder if there are standards in the journalism profession about something like this. :shrug:

[lamp_shade]

2. Yannow what Gwen should do?

Ask Joe all the really tough important questions... questions he will answer with ease and reassurance.
Ask Sarah really (and obviously) easy questions.
I'm having fun here, but I think the reaction would be INTERESTING. Yathink?

[Ganja Ninja]

3. To listen to them you'd think Gwen Ifill was going to debate Sara Palin.

When you start working the refs 2 or 3 days before the game you must not have much confidence in your candidate.