Obama groupie 'moderates' Palin-Biden debate
Michelle Malkin:
That Ifill was picked as a moderator for this debate is a scandal. Her hostility toward Palin will be hard to disguise.
Greta van Susteren says that the McCain campaign was not told of Ifil's conflict of interest prior to the debate.
Jim Geraghty has an interesting suggestion:
Quoted material removed. You may read the original at the link above.Malkin raises some good points. I think Ifill should withdraw from the debate and let a more independent journalist do it. I suspect that reporters from Biden's local paper would be more objective. At least they would not have such a direct financial interest in the success of the Obama-Biden ticket.
That Ifill was picked as a moderator for this debate is a scandal. Her hostility toward Palin will be hard to disguise.
Greta van Susteren says that the McCain campaign was not told of Ifil's conflict of interest prior to the debate.
Jim Geraghty has an interesting suggestion:
One of his readers suggest a clever dig at Biden's plagiarism problems.It's a little late to replace Gwen Ifill as moderator of the vice-presidential debate, and McCain partisans might prefer to have a moderator with a glaring conflict-of-interest to provide a handy objection to any question Palin deems out of bounds.
"Gwen, that sounds like the kind of question one would ask if one had a financial stake in the election of Barack Obama — like a book about him coming out early next year or something."
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