Gwen Ifill, the moderator of the sole vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, is “in the tank” for Biden’s running mate, said Michelle Malkin in RealClearPolitics. She has a book coming out on Inauguration Day about black politicians in “the Age of Obama.” It will sell much better if Obama wins, so how can debate viewers expect her to “treat both sides fairly”?
The “conservative blogosphere” is raising a stink over Ifill’s book, said Elyas Bakhtiari in The Moderate Voice, so they can blame her if Palin flubs the debate. This isn’t about the book, which is a historical look at changes in the black political structure, but just a move to “intimidate Ifill (and others) into taking it easy on Palin.”
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