I'm surprised that McCain was able to slam Gwen Ifill without mentioning the fact that he was a POW

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Yesterday, John McCain responded to right-wing attacks on debate moderator Gwen Ifill (over a book she's writing about politics and race) reasonably, saying he thought the PBS correspondent would be "totally objective." But today on "Fox and Friends" he turned that endorsement into something more like a warning. The Politico reports:

McCain also went further than he had yesterday in responding to a question about Gwen Ifill serving as the moderator of tonight's veep debate, saying he preferred somebody else.

"Frankly, I wish they had picked a moderator that isn't writing a book favorable to Barack Obama," McCain said of Ifill, who is examining the rise of the Illinois Democrat and other post-civil rights Let's face it. But I have to have to have confidence that Gwen Ifill will handle this as the professional journalist that she is."

:cry:

"Life isn't fair, as I mentioned earlier in the program."

:cry:

McCain agreed to Ifill as moderator on August 6th, and her book had been public for weeks at the time.

Ifill herself has responded to the controversy:

"Do you think they made the same assumptions about Lou Cannon (who is white) when he wrote his book about Reagan?" said Ifill, who is black. Asked if there were racial motives at play, she said, "I don't know what it is. I find it curious."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/02/mccain-on-ifill-i-wish-th_n_131162.html

[InvisibleTouch]

1. My worry, actually, is that she will be harder on Biden...

...just to remove any perception of bias, and go overboard in the other direction. I might be totally wrong (hope so!), but that seems to be a common overcompensation. We shall see by tonight, I guess!

[julialnyc]

4. I was thing the same thing

They tend to do that

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Biden will be fine IMHO

WTF could Ifill (or Palin *chuckle*) say that would reduce Biden to a "deer in headlights" (or just headlights)?! I can't think of anything.

:shrug:

OTOH according to McCain, Palin DOES have more experience than Obama/Biden combined, so.............????

:sarcasm:

[BOSSHOG]

2. Wow, the gop must be really sweating it out as the debate gets closer

Maybe by news time tonight mccain will have to suspend his campaign again.

[and-justice-for-all]

3. Fuck him!

He is just pisst because she likes Obama, if she liked him, it would be a non issue.

[PermanentRevolution]

5. "For five and a half years, I didn't have a moderator..."

[Demit]

6. I assume he's just as concerned about the moderator of the third Prez debate?

Bob Schieffer?

Schieffer is the older brother of Tom Schieffer, a friend and former business partner of President George W. Bush, who was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Australia 2001-2005 by President Bush and as of November, 2005 is currently the U.S. Ambassador to Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Schieffer


Life seems to be pretty fair in this regard, McGrumpy.

[Schema Thing]

8. "For 5 1/2 yrs, my unfair moderaters were of an ethnic minority...."