VP Debate RIGGED!
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The moderator for Thursday's VP debate is an unabashed Obama supporter who has written a book promoting him:
VP debate moderator Ifill releasing pro-Obama book
Focuses on blacks who are 'forging a bold new path to political power'
Posted: September 30, 2008
8:35 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Gwen Ifill
The moderator of Thursday's vice-presidential debate is writing a book to come out about the time the next president takes the oath of office that aims to "shed new light" on Democratic candidate Barack Obama and other "emerging young African American politicians" who are "forging a bold new path to political power."
Gwen Ifill of the Public Broadcasting Service program "Washington Week" is promoting "The Breakthrough," in which she argues the "black political structure" of the civil rights movement is giving way to men and women who have benefited from the struggles over racial equality.
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."
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"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.
But she also was cited in complaints PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler said he received after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivered her nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., earlier this month.
Some viewers complained of a "dismissive" look by Ifill during her report on Palin's speech. According to Getler, some also said she wore a look of "disgust" while reporting on the Republican candidate.
At that time she said, "I assume there will always be critics and just shut out the noise. It is surprisingly easy."
Ifill, who also works with her network's "NewsHour," is making preparations to moderate this week's debate between the two candidates for vice president, Palin and Democratic Sen. Joe Biden.. She told BlackAmericaWeb.com she thinks debates "are the best opportunity most voters have to see the candidates speaking to issues."
She said she is concerned only about getting straight answers from candidates.
"You do your best to get candidates to answer your question. But I also trust the viewers to understand when questions are not answered and reach their own conclusions," Ifill told BlackAmericaWeb.
"Four years ago, when neither John Edwards nor Dick Cheney proved capable of answering a question about the domestic epidemic of AIDS among African-American women, viewers flooded me with reaction," she said.
She said she will make her own decisions about what questions to ask, adding "the big questions matter."
In the Amazon.com promotion for her book, Ifill is described as "drawing on interviews with power brokers," such as Obama and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
In an online video promoting her book, she is enthusiastic about "taking the story of Barack Obama and extending it."
It focuses on four people, "one of them Barack Obama of course," she said.
"They are changing our politics and changing our nation," she said.
On Amazon.com, Ifill is praised for her "incisive, detailed profiles of such prominent leaders as Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and U.S. Congressman Artur Davis of Alabama."
"Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history," the review says.
She told AP her view of Obama: "I still don't know if he'll be a good president."
She also describes how she met him at the 2004 Democratic convention and since then has interviewed the Illinois senator and his family.
She also boasted that by the time of the debate, "I'll be a complete expert on both" Palin and Biden.
The debate will be held at Washington University in St. Louis, which has posted information about the evening's events online.
Ifill's profile there describes her as a longtime correspondent and moderator for national news programs and includes her service as moderator of the 2004 debate between Edwards and Cheney.
However, there's no mention of her upcoming book. Nor does the website for the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is organizing the meetings of the candidates, mention her book.

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Wow, McCain sounded pretty dumbfounded, and blinked a helluva lot during those 20 seconds, but if he says it's a go, then GO, SARAH, GO!
(As others have said, with the format of the debate, it doesn't matter who the moderator is.)
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I find Biden attractive, a whole lot more attractive than ____, no matter how godly ____ think(s) ____ are (is)!
More importantly, Biden has brains!
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>>> More importantly, Biden has brains!
Sure is, he's praktickly a jeen--yus...
“Chuck, stand up, let the people see you...Oh, God,...What am I talking about?”
“you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed."
...I think the hairplugs are tickling his brain.
BTW...didn't get that other thing.
Rose
>>she's a supporter
Ethically speaking, that's a very serious accusation there. (Journalists lose their jobs and careers because of things like that.) Are you inferring that support or has Ifill said that she supports Obama?
Laura
>>> Ethically speaking, that's a very serious accusation there. (Journalists lose their jobs and careers because of things like that.) Are you inferring that support or has Ifill said that she supports Obama?
A pro-Obama book is probably an indication that she supports Obama. But even if you want to put her support (or leanings) for a particular candidate aside...she now has a financial stake in seeing Obama get elected. In either case...or both cases...she's hardly impartial and it's improper that she moderate a VP debate.
>>A pro-Obama book is probably an indication that she supports Obama.
The book is not pro-Obama. Neither is it anti-Obama. Here is the Amazon editorial description of the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Politics-Race-Age-Obama/dp/038552501X
"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.
Ifill argues that the Black political structure formed during the Civil Rights movement is giving way to a generation of men and women who are the direct beneficiaries of the struggles of the 1960s. She offers incisive, detailed profiles of such prominent leaders as Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and U.S. Congressman Artur Davis of Alabama, and also covers up-and-coming figures from across the nation. 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.
THE BREAKTHROUGH is a remarkable look at contemporary politics and an essential foundation for understanding the future of American democracy."
The problem is not that she's an Obama supporter. It's that she interviewed him for the book and did not disclose that information to the debate commission.
>>she now has a financial stake in seeing Obama get elected.
Why? If the book is good, it will sell regardless. The book is about history. History has already been made; Obama is on the ticket. If he loses, the information in this book will be just as relevant and/or interesting.
Laura
>>>The book is not pro-Obama. Neither is it anti-Obama. Here is the Amazon editorial description of the book:
"Barack Obama’s stunning presidential campaign"..."introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power."
Why that sounds absolutely middling.
>>> The problem is not that she's an Obama supporter.
Yes it is.
>>> It's that she interviewed him for the book and did not disclose that information to the debate commission.
And she's unethical.
>>she now has a financial stake in seeing Obama get elected.
>>> Why? If the book is good, it will sell regardless. The book is about history. History has already been made; Obama is on the ticket. If he loses, the information in this book will be just as relevant and/or interesting.
Um...no...book sales aren't like that. If Obama tanks she loses BIG money. If he wins, she wins BIG money.
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