[jws3sticks]

Get a new moderator!

[kabar]

These "debates" have become MSM events controlled by and for the MSM. They are symbols of who really has the power in this country. Why must they be the filters thru which we view the candidates. Why must they be the ones selecting the questions and framing the debates?

Let's have the candidates go after one another. Let them decide which questions to ask of their opponents. Let the MSM be relegated to being timekeepers to ensure that each candidate receives equal time.

[9YearLurker]

Oh, and good for Drudge for featuring this front and central.

[Condor51]

I'm Gwen Ifill

And Barack Obama
Approves My Book

[showme_the_Glory]

Clean, Articulate Black ping?

[polymuser]

July 21: http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/07/21/talk-show-host-tavis-smiley-tackles-obama-and-race/

Snip - “We have an awkward history about how to talk about race in the nation and in newsrooms,” says Gwen Ifill, senior correspondent for PBS’ “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” and author of “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” slated for publication early next year.

Not-so-new news.

[kanawa]

They knew that Martin Luther King did what he did so they can do what they’re doing, and they decided to follow through

No they did not...
if they were judging Obama by the content of his character
and not the color of his skin,
they would not be supporting him.

[Jonx6]

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/unreal-pro-obama-partisan-gwen-ifell.html

[murron]

Don’t you see? This puts Sarah in a win-win situation. If she does poorly, it will be because the moderator was definitely biased and asked questions to make her look bad. If she does good, which I strongly suspect she will, we can say it was despite Gwen Ifill, and infact, she would have done even better if it would have been a different moderator.