Gwen Ifill of PBS is slated to moderate the only Vice Presidential debate scheduled for Thursday, October 2nd at Washington University (St. Louis). Apparently, Gwen has a book she penned recently, scheduled to be release on January 20, 2009 – to coincide with the Presidential inauguration. How convenient!
Oh, the title of the book – THE BREAKTHROUGH: Politics and Race in the Age of OBAMA. um…yeah, no. 
Michelle Malkin is all over this.
Ifill and her publisher are banking on an Obama/Biden win to buoy her book sales. The moderator expected to treat both sides fairly has grandiosely declared this the “Age of Obama.” Can you imagine a right-leaning journalist writing a book about the “stunning” McCain campaign and its “bold” path to reform timed for release on Inauguration Day – and then expecting a slot as a moderator for the nation’s sole vice presidential debate?
ka-ching!!!
Like Obama, Ifill, who is black, is quick to play the race card at the first sign of criticism. In an interview with the Washington Post a few weeks ago, she carped: “[N]o one’s ever assumed a white reporter can’t cover a white candidate.”
It’s not the color of your skin, sweetie. It’s the color of your politics. Perhaps Ifill will be able to conceal it this week. But if the “stunning” “Breakthrough” she’s rooting for comes to pass on January 20, 2009, nobody will be fooled.
Watch this video of Gwen’s reaction at the RNC after Gov. Palin’s speech – noo, she’s not biased… 
Greta Van Susteren reports that McCain didn’t know about Ifill’s book. “[T]he campaign (actually both) should have been told before the campaign agreed to have her moderate. It simply is not fair – in law, this would create a mistrial.”
Gwen Ifill should recuse herself from moderating this debate – or at the very least make a full disclosure statement at the beginning of the debate regarding her book.
More GREAT article from Michelle Malkin: CLICK HERE (must read)
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