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Gwen Ifill Wrote Adulatory Magazine Article About Obama Family
NewsBusters ^ | October 2, 2008 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 10/02/2008 9:00:07 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

It is still a ways to go until Christmas but the lyrics certain song from that season will ring through your head while reading this Essence magazine article authored by Gwen Ifill: "Oh Come Let Us Adore Him!" The "Him" in this case being Barack Obama. You have probably heard how the PBS moderator of tonight's vice-presidential debate, Ifill, appears to have a big conflict of interest due to her book, with the publication date of January 20, 2009, titled "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama." An obvious conflict of interest since her interest here is an Obama victory to boost her book sales. However you probably don't know about her adulatory Essence magazine article which serves to reinforce just how much she is in the tank for Obama. Here is the introduction to that saccharine laced story:

Soon we will vote for our next president, and for the first time in history, one of the two candidates is a Black man. For a year, Essence pursued an interview with the entire Obama family‹to no avail. Finally, this summer ESSENCE became the only Black media outlet allowed a glimpse into the lives of Barack, Michelle and their two girls, Malia and Sasha, when we were invited to their South Side Chicago home. Weeks later, veteran political journalist Gwen Ifill was with the family as they campaigned in a small mostly White western town, and she flew with them to a Black church in the urban Midwest.

And now Ifill's article which could properly be titled, The Adoration:


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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; gwenifill
Gwen Ifill writes "The Adoration" for her Obamassiah.
1 posted on 10/02/2008 9:00:07 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: Paul Heinzman; IMissPresidentReagan; AlexW; Cletus.D.Yokel; ConservativeOrBust; tropical; ...

PING!


2 posted on 10/02/2008 9:01:02 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
Ifill is Offal.
3 posted on 10/02/2008 9:02:21 AM PDT by Oldexpat (Drill Here, Drill There..we must drill everywhere.)
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To: PJ-Comix

When is SOMEONE going to write an ADULTERY article on the gay marxist?

Larry Sinclair is ready to be interviewed.


4 posted on 10/02/2008 9:06:07 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: PJ-Comix

Worshipping false gods. She’ll bear close watching tonight. How and to whom can we complain about bias?


5 posted on 10/02/2008 9:09:23 AM PDT by ArmyTeach (speak true, right wrong, follow the King)
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To: PJ-Comix
The Obama campaign is doing a fantastic job getting their man elected. They have high schools and colleges organized to work the phones and neighborhoods, they are saturating the polling places with registrations, they have control of the Internet for funds and spinning purposes, they have the media trained and organized to infiltrate all areas of private and public discourses, they have their immediate action teams to counter any adverse comment or action taken against their guru, etc. I don't believe there has ever been such a complete smothering of everyday life by a political campaign.

They are writing the book that will required reading for future campaigns

6 posted on 10/02/2008 9:10:59 AM PDT by elpadre (nation)
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To: PJ-Comix

This could work to our favor.

Frank Luntz was on Fox the AM. He did his user group thing showing them both Obama and McCain on “The View”. The results were incredibly negative FROM BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS.

Not only were they negative when they highjacked McCain, but it was just a negative when they cooed over Obama.

Now that the cat is out of the bag about the moderator’s bias, it is likely to make Palin a sympathetic figure.


7 posted on 10/02/2008 9:11:34 AM PDT by Brookhaven
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At the debate tonight, Gwen Ifill should be forced by the Debate Commission to begin with a disclaimer: My name is Gwen Ifill and in the interest of full disclosure, I am writing a book titled, “blah, blah...” which examines, “blah....” My book will be released on inauguration day, 2009.

Can we petition/email the debate commission to force this?


8 posted on 10/02/2008 9:14:52 AM PDT by rpage3
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To: PJ-Comix
From the bottom of your article:

after directing staff members to turn off the television, which was tuned to Fox News Channel. "I'm always marveling at everything that she can do."

And then he sings.

"I'm every woman," he croons. She cringes. He laughs. "That's Michelle. It's like, Chaka Khan! Chaka Khan!"

Did he actually dress for the part?

Good article, thanks.

9 posted on 10/02/2008 9:15:06 AM PDT by Syncro (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: elpadre
The Obama campaign is doing a fantastic job getting their man elected

Lots of help from some of his biggest fans too:

4 Weathermen terrorists declare support for Obama

Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:00:35 AM · 31 of 31
Syncro to Interesting Times

The group was founded by four individuals with ties to extremist groups:

  • Tom Hayden, a former state senator who was a founder and principal organizer of the SDS. Discover the Networks notes Hayden, previously married to actress Jane Fonda, traveled many times to North Vietnam, Czechoslovakia and Paris to strategize with communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong leaders on how to defeat America's anti-communist efforts.

  • Bill Fletcher, a former Maoist and current leader of Democratic Socialists of America or DSA. The New Zeal blog notes Fletcher was also a founder of the Black Radical Congress, closely linked to the Communist Party USA, which advocated for "progressive social justice, racial equality and economic justice goals within the U.S.

  • Barbara Ehenreich, an honorary chairman of DSA who was formerly active in antiwar movements in which some notorious radicals took part.

  • Actor Danny Glover, a member of the Black Students Union, who has visited Venezuela, making guest appearances on President Hugo Chavez's television and radio talk show. He reportedly has accepted loans of about $20 million from the Venezuelan government to make a movie about a Haitian revolutionary leader.

The Progressives for Obama webmaster is Carl Davidson, a former vice president of the Students for a Democratic Society, who has traveled to Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro.

The signatories and endorsers of the Obama activist group, listed on the Progressives website, include scores of well known communist, socialist and anarchist activists and former SDS members.

Nice little playgroup from the sixties' Traitor Preschool

10 posted on 10/02/2008 9:19:33 AM PDT by Syncro (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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Gwen Ifill also didn't tell the debate commission about her pro-Obama book:

> "The host of PBS' "Washington Week" and senior correspondent on "The NewsHour" said she did not tell the Commission on Presidential Debates about the book. The commission had no immediate comment when contacted by The Associated Press. A spokeswoman for John McCain's campaign did not immediately return phone and e-mail messages."

http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_10609855

Gwen Ifill is the face of today's journalism: Lie and deceive if you think you can help your guy. I don't recognize anything American in these people. These are the tactics and the ethics of Leninism.

11 posted on 10/02/2008 9:24:22 AM PDT by mojito
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To: PJ-Comix

I can feel the warmth! I can positively feel it. I love Big Brother!


12 posted on 10/02/2008 9:44:23 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: pissant

LARRY SINCLAIR CRUSHED OBAMBA TODAY IN GRAND RAPIDS
HIGH TRUE WITH TOMAS | 2 OCT 08 | TOMASUSMC

he just got interviewed for 3 hours during obama’s speech lol.!!!!


13 posted on 10/02/2008 10:39:56 AM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: PJ-Comix
BIDEN-IFILL
vs.
PALIN


that's how a real-world playbill would advertize tonight's
debate
14 posted on 10/02/2008 10:41:52 AM PDT by VOA
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To: PJ-Comix

bttt


15 posted on 10/02/2008 11:11:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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