Contriversy brews up around VP debate moderator Ifill

[eppur_se_muova]

From Ed Hornick and Rebecca Sinderbrand
CNN


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Controversy swirled over vice presidential debate moderator Gwen Ifill one day before the face-off between Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Joe Biden, after new scrutiny was drawn to her upcoming book featuring Barack Obama.

In stories published Wednesday on NationalReview.com and WorldNetDaily's Web site, conservative commentators noted that "Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama" -- first announced several months ago -- is slated to be released around the inauguration of the next president in January 2009.

"...as if we needed any further evidence of a jaw-dropping double standard, we have to contemplate the sheer impossibility that someone who wrote a positive biography of McCain being chosen to moderate a debate," wrote National Review.com's Jim Geraghty on Wednesday.

The book, published by Doubleday, has not yet been released to critics or the public.

In the book, Ifill takes a look at the black political movement's beginnings during the Civil Rights movement that gave way "to a generation of men and women who are the direct beneficiaries of the struggles of the 1960s," according to Amazon.com.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/01/gwen.ifill/index.html

WAAAAAHHHHH!! WAAAAHHHH!! The media is showing its nasty liberal bias again!

Obviously, a book about blacks in politics MUST be biased in favor of the black candidate! It couldn't possibly be otherwise! :sarcasm:

PS: "Contriversy" is not a typo; it refers to a contrived controversy. (Freepers will never notice, of course.)

[babylonsister]

1. That's a fabricated story we should all ignore. Even McBush

has already said he has no problem with Ifill, and he agreed to her as a moderator when they knew about the book.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/01/mccain-ifill/

McCain responds: ‘I have confidence that Gwen Ifill will do a professional job.’»

[louis-t]

2. Not "about" Obama, "featuring"

Doesn't matter, the screaming will be deafening.

[StopTheNeoCons]

3. non-story

"I think that Gwen Ifill is a professional and I think she will do a totally objective job," said McCain, "because she is a highly respected professional. Does this help that if she has written a book that's favorable to Sen. Obama? Probably not. But I have confidence that Gwen Ifill will do a professional job."