Posted on 10/03/2008 4:20:07 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Gwen Ifill was a true journalist: fair
Critics had feared she would favor Biden because she's written a book that spotlights Obama. Those fears were unjustified.
At least one figure on the stage for Thursday night's vice presidential debate reached a high standard for reason, fairness and class.
Gwen Ifill of PBS demonstrated abundant dignity as referee of the much-anticipated debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.
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AANNNDD Sarah went right over the heads of the vermin media. Just like Reagan. I hope McClame never sends her back in to that snakepit.
Gov. S. Palin - 1
Ethics at PBS - 0
Gwen was as good as she was ONLY because she had been called out for what she is: SHE IS AN OBAMA SHILL!
Now, all they want to chirp is how "fair" Ifill was and how this debate is "meaningless now."
What a bunch of lies.
Moreover, it was disgraceful (and is disgraceful) how the MSM is in the tank for Obama, and they are getting nervous about it.
P.S. Did anyone else notice that Biden seemed ready to answer Ifill's questions as if he had them in advance?
I agree. I am glad that business came out because it certainly put her on good behavior.
That being said, Sarah owned that debate. Not the other way around.
I didn’t think she was bad either, but I still think writing a book endorsing a candidate, not only disqualifies you from moderating a debate, but also recuses you as a reporter period. But we’re living in a time in which you don’t need money to have a mortgage and you don’t need to be married to have children.
As noted last night, Biden was selected by Ifill to begin
the first statement AND the last statement AND was given
extra rebuttal time.
Also, Biden responded instantly to some complicated questions
suggesting the questions were DNC-PBS tested and run by
Biden ahead of the debate. No wonder the MSM wrote their
headlines to yesterday’s debate three days ago.
Where were the questions on energy, abortion and guns? Ifill is filled with something alright, and it stinks.
I thought that Ifill should have stepped down because she was biased. But then there would be no one to replace her who was not part of the vast left-wing conspiracy. I suspect that she had ample warning to attempt to be unbiased, that is, to minimize her bias. I was not impressed with her.
I wonder if Biden had the questions beforehand because he started to provide a detailed answer even before Ifill completed asking a question.
The democratic thought process seems robotic - whatever the MSM tells them the ‘thought for the day’ is or the ‘decision for the week’ is - they repeat it over and over - on television, radio, in the printed word and in neighborhoods (especially schools).
People are individuals and we are losing responsibility of thought and decision-making because it is just easier for lazy people to blend in with the crowd and think like everyone else says we should. Even worse: we seem to believe it is wrong to be ‘different’ than the majority.
Perhaps in hundreds of years we will not have a thinking brain left - only reactive synapses to orders from above (the media and the government).
I agree that Ifill should have been disqualified, but there were a few times when she looked frustrated while Sarah Palin was making a point that empahased how much of a poser Biden is.
Which is why she told Biden, when shaking his hand after the debate, "you did great!"
Yes I noted that to my wife at the time.
Frightening that Ifill doing what she was supposed to do rates a headline. The publishing of the unflattering pic of Palin only makes them look like the adolescents they are. Good thing the old media is increasingly irrelevant. I’m sure they’ll blame their next round of layoffs on Bush/McCain anyway.
I believe that a lot of the questions were very good ones, but it seemed that they were slanted towards more of what Biden would be stronger on.
This woman has a financial stake in this election, with the direct amounts of hundreds of thousands of dollars in book sales if Baraq wins or next to nothing if he loses.
How they let her do this with such a financial conflict of interest involved is beyond me, she should have been asked to step down for appearance sake if nothing else.
What about her “lame attempt at a joke that no one got anyway”?
Yep. A journalist who put journalism first would have waited until summer of 09 to publish that book.
But journalists put their political agendas first, the same way openly homosexual military personnel and scout leaders put their sexual agenda before their military or scout service by letting it be known that they are homosexual. They want the world to know and fall down and worship not that they are military or scout leader, but “homosexual” military or scout leader.
These journalists want to know that they are ‘liberal’ journalists. They are open about because they believe that being liberal is a qualification of intelligence and objectivity. Yes, that’s how self-deluded they are. They believe that announcing a leftist ideology indicates their objectivity.
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