You just can’t make this stuff up. The “moderator” of the Vice Presidential debate will be a partisan hack who loves herself some Obama. Ms. Gwen Ifill:
My dictionary defines “moderator” as “the nonpartisan presiding officer of a town meeting.” On Thursday, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill will serve as moderator for the first and only vice presidential debate. The stakes are high. The Commission on Presidential Debates, with the assent of the two campaigns, decided not to impose any guidelines on her duties or questions.
But there is nothing “moderate” about where Ifill stands on Barack Obama. She’s so far in the tank for the Democratic presidential candidate, her oxygen delivery line is running out.
In an imaginary world where liberal journalists are held to the same standards as everyone else, Ifill would be required to make a full disclosure at the start of the debate. She would be required to turn to the cameras and tell the national audience that she has a book coming out on Jan. 20, 2009 — a date that just happens to coincide with the inauguration of the next president of the United States.
The title of Ifill’s book? The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. Nonpartisan my foot.
Random House, her publisher, is already busy hyping the book with YouTube clips of Ifill heaping praise on her subjects, including Obama and Obama-endorsing Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick. The official promo for the book gushes: “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.
She gushes about Obama, she writes a book to be released on inauguration day (in a blatant attempt to boost sales IF, and only if Obama is elected), and she is supposed to be impartial? The success of her book and the Age of Obama hinges on him winning and if Biden doesn’t do so well then it doesn’t help her man.
Impartial my ass.
They might as well let Oprah moderate the thing, pretty much the same outcome would result.
UPDATE
Aye provides the needed links to contact the Debate Commission:
Here is the info that you needed.
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: jb@debates.org
Here is the contact info for the sponsors of tomorrow night’s debate:
EDS – Contact Christine Krumbholz – 972-605-4658
Anheuser-Busch, Inc. – 800-342-5283
BHH New York – (212) 242-9242
Name: Howard G Buffett Foundation
Contact: ALLEN D GREENBERG DIR – SEC
Address: PO BOX 4508
DECATUR, IL 62525-4508
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Type: Private non-operating foundation
Sheldon S. Cohen, Esq., CPA (202) 530-5600
(800) 390-3277
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