Orrin Hatch: Palin ‘Being Set Up’; Ifill ‘In the Tank’

How is Palin being “set up?” LOL
The debate is going to be awesome!
http://www.congratstothewinners.com/2008/10/biden-vs-palin-debate.html

I think Palin will be able to hold here own—but it still still leaves a stench in the air that the moderator is so pro-Obama. Would the Democrats tolerate Ann Coulter as moderator even if she promised to be fair?

There is no way this debate can be fair with Ifill as the moderator. She has a clear conflict of interest – think how much more money her book will make on Inauguration Day if Obama is elected. I have never, ever seen an election where the media has thrown their support totally and unequivocably (and unabashedly) behind a candidate. It is shameful.

Palin has been playing victim every step of the way since day one, why stop now? on the surface the Ifill thing seems a little sketchy, but we’ll see how it actually plays out.. She might actually do her job professionally end even handed. No matter what though, Palin will never take responsibility for being ignorant, inexperienced, and uninformed.

I bet Biden has had a copy the questions for a week.

All the republicans need for a “money faucet” is for Klein to keep running blogs. I’m sure he’s not biased!!

ABC might as well be MSNBC – your bias and love for Obama and all things Obama makes the rest of us sick. We still don’t understand what the people of Michigan with their Democratic Governor, 2 Democratic senators and mostly democratic congressmen are thinking – definition of insanity – keep voting in Democrats and expect the things in Michigan to improve. Palin will do fine inspite of the member of the Obama campaign as the moderator. The MSM has become the biggest joke and american people the biggest losers in this election.

How is Palin not set up? Oh, let’s see. The mod didn’t reveal she was writing a book largely about African-Americans in politics and specifically an Obama environment. The book is set for release on inauguration day.
This goes beyond the typical “ref has a favorite team” that we typically see with these moderators. This ref has a bet on the game. She stands to make far more book money with an Obama victory than an Obama defeat. If that isn’t a conflict of interest, then nothing is.

Didn’t both campaigns agree on all of the debate terms? It was no secret that Ifill wrote this book and that the debate would be on PBS. Stop the whining and perform.

Regardless of your politics, you can not deny that Ifill has a financial stake in an Obama victory. Her book releases on the day of inauguration. Her book will make a ton of money if Obama wins and likely bomb if he doesn’t. For this reason alone she should be removed as the moderator.

Rick Klein, just how much deeper can you get into Obama’s tank, I can just imagine your outrage if they had asked Rush Limbaugh to moderate the debate.

‘wholly manufactured’? who are you trying to b.s.?
it would’ve helped if Ifill were honest and told the debate commission that she was writing this book when they met with her about this opportunity.
so if Obama wins, then Ifill profits in book sales. and for someone to say that this book isn’t about ‘Obama’, etc.. i remind you that the scheduled release date is Inauguration Day.
she should not moderate this debate. it’s flat out wrong.

Rick,
Maybe the fact that studies that show 60-70% of Americans believe that jouralists are in the tank for Obama is somehow wholly manufactured too. Here book title after all is about a “Breakthrough” in the “Age of Obama.” Yeah, no vested interest in the outcome of this election here. The only thing wholly manufactured is the journalistic hubris and phony outrage of articles like this one. Here’s a new’s flash for you: Jouralists are to report facts, not arbitrate truth. There’s a reason why the majority of Americans do not trust the MSM.

Media bias is still more of an issue than the moderator’s. Biden can make any number of gaffes (like he has already) and the media won’t run it. Palin can make only one, and it will be in three different cover stories on the NYT or CNN.

About Palin being set up, I BELIEVE IT, at least as far as the debate is concerned.
REMEMBER: When a referee is fixing a basketball game he doesn’t have to control the whole game, he just has to shave 4 or 5 points in the last 2 minutes.
All Ifill needs is one “gotcha” question, well placed, and it will be wallpapered on every liberal media outlet for the next 72 hours. IT’S NOT THAT HARD ESPECIALLY FOR SOMEONE WHO STANDS TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS ON AN OBAMA VICTORY IN NOVEMBER

Why is she being the moderator. She has a conflict of interest.

“Don’t think Republicans are trying to get some mileage out of this (wholly manufactured) Gwen Ifill thing?”
Wholly manufactured? Are you serious, you don’t see any conflict of interest!!!!
I’m sure if Sean Hannity or Laura Ingram were writing Pro McCain Books and they were the moderators there would be hell to pay from the Libs and the media.
Give me a break Rick Klein!!!!!

The dems have spent millions in an attempt to diminish Sarah, so this should surprise who?

This will all be forgotten when Barack Hussein Obama loses in a landslide.

Too bad the McCain camp agreed to the moderators months ago – weeks AFTER Ifill’s book went up for preorder. My how the mighty Republicans have fallen, already on damage control before the debate even begins.

Gee, you mean this isn’t shuffleboard??
When are the Repubs going to get fire in the belly and come out fighting instead of wussing around. There is plenty to slash and burn about the whole O. resume. Duh!

What do you mean wholly manufactured. Why did not she mention that she had book on the “Age of Obama” and her pie4ces for Essence magazine. I’m sure she will be impartial, Right.

Even the Columbia Journalism Review has – reluctantly – admitted that Ifill has a major conflict here. Let’s have some intellectual honesty. She is publishing a book with “the age of Obama” in the title set to be published on inauguration day. For heavens sake to say she has no financial stake in the election outcome is absurd. Perhaps that is why she did not bother to inform the McCain campaign or the CPD of the book. The left was SCREAMING about Armstrong Williams – this is much, much more serious and it is really sad that people are so determined to see him win that ethics, honesty or professionalism are throw away commodities.

The referee has bet on the game. Who does the Referee want to win?

There is something wrong with the media to set up a debate with Ifill releasing a book at the same time favoring Obama. This is an “OUTRAGE”, and they need to replace Ifill ASAP!!!!!!Where is fair and equal treatment of both parties, NOT JUST OBAMA’s lackies pushing the cart for him.
Get another person to fill Ifills position ASAP!!!!!!!

Dems don’t want a level playing field..
They wouldn’t even take part in a Fox moderated debate with other democrats.
They cried bias….
They took their toys and went home….
Now it’s obviously skewed and they don’t have a problem..figures.
Palin has guts knowing they are setting her up and taking them on anyway.
The headlines are already printed that Biden wins debate before it started.

Polmagoni: Both sides agreed to the terms of the debate, but Gwen Ifill chose not to tell anyone at the debate commission that she had a book coming out on Inauguration Day about Obama’s presidency. Since she wasn’t honest, you can’t say that McCain/Palin should have known.

Wholly manufactured??? Good grief. Gwen Ifill has a financial interest in the outcome of this election. What’s her book worth if Obama loses the election? She’s not just the ref in this case, she’s shown herself to be the cheerleader and now we learn she’s also the bookie; having a financial interest in the outcome of the game.

…so if Ifill donated any and all profits from the book to say the Cancer Society, then she might convince me she was not a partisan! Right!

Obama’s camp on Fox said that they have teams set up right after the debate to put out a tv ad against Palin. How do they know there will be a gaffe as they claim? I don’t trust Gwen. She could have given Biden the questions days ago. This whole entire election has been set up for Obama.

They’ve known Ifill was writing a book since July. Why are they objecting now? Ifill is a tough questioner no matter what party affiliation. This is an intimidation tactic so Ifill will go easy on Palin. It won’t work.

PBS or MSNBC can’t tell the difference anymore. They have a opposite vision of America then most citizens. Much more Castro like. Ifill is just another Olberman or Chris Matthews. We will not be taken over from without on by traitors from within.

It seems Obama runs his campaign just like any good thug runs a street corner.
What ever you do make the sale. The man aand the party are simply ego maniacs on a mission to destroy anything american. Disgusting riff raff.

“Wholly manufactured”?
I think not. This is nothing less than finding out that a referee for the next Super Bowl has a half million dollars riding on the outcome of the game. He may not make completely erroneous calls but you know which way he is leaning.
This stinks to high heavens. This is not journalism.

Ifill’s sister, a professor in VA has declared Palin as “offensive” to black women. Looks like the race card runs in the family.

Who, with the exception of several Fox News anchors, isn’t in the tank for Barack Hussein Obama?!?
Biden has already done so much damage there’s no where to go but up. So is it really possible for him to lose this debate?
Palin may be considered “inexperienced” by all the loons in the MSM. But anyone not in the “tank” (no pun intended, Gwen.) for Obama understands who is truly inexperienced. Obama has simply mastered the art of lying on demand. We all know he doesn’t mean or understand a word he says.

I am very disappointed in McCain.
He should have called foul and demanded another moderator. This debate is too important to let this go and he did.
Everything hinges on Palin tonight and to have a moderator in the tank for Obama is just plain stupid on McCains part. What is he thinking!!
I only hope that Palin performs like her convention speech and is not sabatoged by Ifill who is a black woman that stands to make a lot of $$ if Obama wins. Not only is the press in the tank for Obama but now even the moderator of a debate that could decide this election.

Ifill is unethical in this instance. She has a huge financial stake in the outcome of this election, and she failed to disclose this conflict of interest to the Presidential Commission and McCain campaign. Did she give the questions in advance to Senator Biden? Has she coached him? We do not know this information, but it would not be surprising in light of her potential financial windfall if democrats win the white house. Her cousin’s racist remarks about Governor Palin are disturbing, and she has made sexist comments about Governor Palin’s ability to raise a family and serve this country. The Commission could not have picked a more unqualified moderator for this debate.

It’s true–she’s being set up. Ifill is going to ask her questions. And that is JUST NOT FAIR! Everyone already knows she can’t handle that sort of thing! It’s a set up, pure and simple.

You play wwith the cards dealt you. If a crisis “rears” its head when Palin is filing in for McCain are you repubs going to say cut Palin some slack you hasn’t prepared for that particular unfair circumstance? Quit whining already, geez.

“Would the Democrats tolerate Ann Coulter as moderator even if she promised to be fair?”
That has to be the most specious and ridiculous arguments I have ever heard. Whether or not she is voting for Obama, anyone who has watched her over the years knows that she’s fairly moderate, regardless, and actually a journalist, while Ann Coulter is rabidly, insultingly right-wing, and an entertainment personality. There is no equivalence to that proposition whatsoever. That’s just ignorant.

Wouldn’t it be great to hear Gov. Palin look Biden in the eye with a pointed SCOLDING finger and say, “Lookie here, you pompous windbag … even lil ole me knew that FDR did not go on TV about a financial mess that happened BEFORE FDR got elected. You should be ashamed that in all your years, you did not know THAT. Furthermore, your party trashes my 12 years in elective office. You sir, claim 35 years of experience, but to anyone who pays attention it looks more like you have ONE YEAR’S EXPERIENCE 35 TIMES!

Palin scares liberals to death and I can’t wait to watch her be polite, professional and honest and show Biden for the major LOSER that he is. Its laughable.

whatever, for the last 4 months I have been putting my money in the 3 precious metals; gold, silver, and lead

Add my belly laugh to the chorus of derision Rick Klein earned with his silly assertion that Ifil-gate is “wholly manufactured.” What a tool.

Sarah is going to kick Joe’s ass.
But, of course, Joe is a beta male who gets manicures and hair implants and tries to pass himself off as one of the boys.

This is why the Old guard media is tanking. Let it die. Let it die. I personally relish as ABC, NBC< CBS and the NYT die more and mroe each year. I savor it. And frankly, they slit their own wrists. Keep this up, the last 6 people watching might just turn off thechannel too!

My office will have a “pool” to bet on how long it will take Barry Hussein Obama to be impeached and removed from office, if elected.

Yes we can can can! Yes we can can! We love our Dear Leader, Chairman Obama. Oh, yes we can! Yes we can! (sip of Kool Aid) Yeswecanyeswecanyeswecanyeswecan! HopebeliefaudacitychangeprosperityChicagothugLarrySinclair’sloverBillAyersputhimthroughColumbiaBarrydidcokeYeswecanyeswecan!!!

Osama for Obama!
A vote for Obama/Biden is a vote for a return to the bleak 1977-1981 and 1993-1995 years, the last time the Dummycrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches. If only we had Reagan and Gingrich to save us from this nightmare now!

don’t forget the Republicans approved her- so the Republicans only now, hours before the debate decide use this known information to tilt the field in their favor.

The fact that you do not see a conflict of interest just goes to show how unreliable the mainstream media is. This is so obvious that virtually all moderates, all conservative, and some liberals see the inherent conflict and the appearance of impropriety. You no longer have any credibility as you have sold yourself out. What a shill.

20%

Like I tell my GOP friends, does it matter who’s asking the questions as long as each debater answers i.e. what’s your foreign policy, your views on the bail out, offshore drilling? I don’t see an issue here. Palin and Biden just need to answer some friggin questions, like debate class in high school. Damn, what is wrong with you nay-sayers? This country is insane with a fear of each other ethinically and unfortunately always will be. Sad, we can cheer for athletes for NFL & MLB teams comprised of different ethnicities but when it comes to leading our nation…….

Gentlefolk
What is disturnbing about Gwen Ifill is that when she was vented to moderate she neglected to mention her book. Had she done so she would not have been selected. She is not a fool so she knew that. Apparently it was very important to her to be selcted. Can she be fair? Certainly — as the mainstream media defines fair. In fact that she was fair is already typeset ready for tomorrows papers. But the public will judge her on her behavior.
Eugene WR Gallun

This is an outrage, how could they pick a person who is an Obama supporter to be the moderator? I mean everyone knows that basically 95% of the media is completely fanatical-leftwing crazy but this should be illegal. The media is going to win that idiot the election and it is going to be ugly for this country for the next 4 years or until he’s impeached. Wake up people, he’s never ran anything, ANYTHING!!!!!!

Ifill”s niece is for Obama!!!!OMG this has got to stop. She’s writing a book about black politicians and a chapter on Obama…will this bias never stop. OMG she’s a women and black…this is too much. Cancel Palin Save yourself!!!How can she ask any question of you ? The Audacity of it all!Run Sarah Run!

Ifill is a typical PBS/Far Left drone. Her sister’s comments speak for themselves.
White people who vote for Obama=Useful idiots.

Ifill has already written a propaganda piece on Obama’s family for a black magazine.
Ifill’s cousin is a college professor and has spoken out against Palin, saying she is “offensive to black women”.
Ifill has publicly answered questions about her cousin and refers to her as ‘brilliant’.
Ifill represented PBS at the conventions, and was GLOWING about Michelle Obama, but was not happy about Palin after her speech, saying she ‘belittled’ Obama.
and now the book, written by Ifill, which features Obama, and is to be released on Inauguration Day.
we have ONE VP debate, and guess who the impartial arbiter is?
you can’t make this stuff up.

Gee clicking my name does not seem to get you to 4freedoms dot org … Maybe the ABC censors are working.

Maybe Rush Limbaugh can be a moderator next time.

Hi, I’m a condescending elitist who likes to belittle people for having conservative views. I also am supporting Barack Hussein Obama, the least qualified candidate to ever run for President, because he is “smart” and because Bill Ayers and Tony Rezko handpicked him to be our Chairman.
I implore the join the children of Burbank in singing with me: Yes we can! Yes we can! Our dear leader Obama, oh yes we can!
Come on over to my place to watch the debate, Larry Sinclair, Barry Hussein Obama and I will be snorting some good coke and showing each other just how we can.

Whatever, I urge white people to start breeding like rabbits, may be the only hope for a future.

Nothing new here. Just dimocrats being dimocrats. ACORN, voter fraud, radical & islamofascist affiliations. Stuffing their pockets with Fannie and Freddie kickbacks. Dodd, the house Barney and Obama got the most $$$.
Biden will need all the help he can get tonight even if it means using a prodimocrat moderator who stands to make much $$ if Obama wins.
FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!!!!!

Obviously the Republicans will try to get some mileage out of this the same way Democrats would if Bill O”reily was running the debate.
However, You missed the big picture.
Everything in the solicitation is true.

Pee Wee Herman!

The “Ifill Tower” better play it straight tonight or she is going to be completely discredited in the Media…..what am I talking about, she will probably get an award & a lead anchor chair Next to that Rachel Maddow guy. Or maybe she will the the Obama press secretary??????

Just remember when all the left wing media has control of all of the info for the public and you come back to ask for help, there will be none. You libs caused this. You libs are destroying free speech right before our eyes. The results are being shown as integrity in journalism has declined.. just so you can advance your views.

>>>Kitty; I couldn’t resist … Just because DrudgeReport has a photo of Gwen on a wheelchair … You are a MORON!
I saw her on the news. She’s in a wheelchair. So, name calling got you no where.

Rick,
Maybe the fact that studies that show 60-70% of Americans believe that jouralists are in the tank for Obama is somehow wholly manufactured too. Her book title after all is about “Break throughs” in the “Age of Obama.” Yeah, no vested interest in the outcome of this election there. The only thing wholly manufactured is the journalistic hubris and phony outrage of articles like this one. Here’s a new’s flash for you: Jouralists are to report facts, not arbitrate truth. There’s a reason why the majority of Americans do not trust the MSM and this is Exhibit A.

Obama has a nice voice, might even be a decent singer, but he can’t debate.
Palin should ask Gwen Ifill how her pro-Obama book is coming along, during the debate tonight!

Tony Q, Lincoln had less experience than Obama and he was one of the greatest presidents our country has seen thus far.
The Ifill thing is a non-issue. The Republicans are crying foul, like the Democrats used to years ago (when they were in the Minority). It’s all politics and Ifill is actually a good journalist (it’s why she’s been on Meet the Press so much).
I really wish Tim Russert were around to moderate…he was great.

Maybe Joe will call on Ifill to stand up during the debate. The libs are scared to death of any conservative but especially Sarah. They are still stinging from Reagan’s two landslides and W’s two victories. They know Perot gave us Clinton. Tonite Biden will show the country how he convinced 99% of Democrats in Iowa NOT to vote for him in the caucus.

This is just another distraction technique cooked up by the Republicans. If Palin loses, they will blame it on Ifill.

This is not about a moderator nor even the debators. This about being the country’s selection of vice-president. A president or their stand-in does not get to cry foul when a crisis arrives in front of them.
For those favoring Palin and believing the playing field is not-level watch if she actually performs under those circumstances. If she fails to [even in a debate setting] how can she be expected to perform in a crisis?

Tony Q, Lincoln had less experience than Obama and he was one of the greatest presidents our country has seen thus far.
The Ifill thing is a non-issue. The Republicans are crying foul, like the Democrats used to years ago (when they were in the Minority). It’s all politics and Ifill is actually a good journalist (it’s why she’s been on Meet the Press so much).
I really wish Tim Russert were around to moderate…he was great.

“If Sarah Palin knew what she was talking about none of this would matter. I am sure she will show us her lack of experience tonight.”
Good thing we don’t get to hear what you think of Biden’s comments on the campaign trail??!
“C’mon Chuck! Stand up Chuck! Everyone Stand up for Chuck!

I think Palin is intelligent, but the McCain camp has been destroying her. She is so afraid to screw up McCain she bumbles. I think we’ll see Palin tonight. Why would the NeoLibs & Media be SO vindictive of this woman if they weren’t deathly afraid of her? If she didn’t matter, they would just ignore her. But I guess the weak minded attack that which they cannot Understand…A decent Human being that hasn’t been bought & paid for by Washington Slime. My advice tonight? Talk over the Media Sarah, Talk to the people…ignore the “Media King makers” and respect the electorate. Good Luck, I’ll be prayin’ & rootin’ for you.

Gwen Awful has much to gain if Obama wins. Her book sales soar and at about $3.50 a book she stands to gain into the 7 figures. If Obama loses, her book becomes a doorstop. Is there any thinking person out there that thinks this is FAIR and UNBIASED.

NEANDERTHAL!

Scott E
Biden:Rosevelt getting on tv to calm the nation…lol… next it will be Abraham Lincoln flying down to give the Gettysburg address….

“Its a case of pot calling kettle black. Hysterical and cackling ranting by conservatives is quite embarrassing to watch and read.”
But are we as embarrassing as your VP candidate?
Be honest…

Posted by: dee | Oct 2, 2008 6:47:00 PM
Maybe they will ask her what she thinks of moose. That’s right up her alley. She can see Russia from her back yard too…lol

morons!
Gwens book has been common knowledge for months. Advertised on Amazon before the McCain campaign agreed to her debate moderation.
Ifill is recognized to be scrupulously unbiased in her reporting.
Will Sarah be able to answer the same questions Joe does in a satisfactory manner? Only time will tell, but I’d guess she’s gonna Rope-A-Dope. Let’s see!

Typical McCain stupidity. Leap before you look mentality. Him and his campaign idiots had plenty of time to vet Ifill before they agreed months ago that she would be an acceptable moderator. All they had to do was “google” ‘Gwen Ifill’ to read about her upcoming book.
This is a dam good reason to vote for Barack Obama. McCain doesn’t have any judgment left. He should have done his due diligence BEFORE he said, in writing, that Ifill was acceptable. Instead here he is the day of the debate crying foul. What an idiot. Who wants this brain dead, over-the-hill, LIAR, as prez? He’s such a fool he makes Bush look smart. The thought of his hand on “the button” is enough to scare brave men to death. We have enough on our hands to clean up the mess Bush made. After McCain/Palin there wouldn’t be anything left of our planet worth saving.
Why don’t you REDNECKS get an education and figure out why you let the Republicans scare the crap out of you every four years so they can stay in power and plunder whats left of our treasury?

Ifill is probably the most even-keeled journalist out there. She is not a liberal; at least not in her job. She is not comparable to Anne Coulter. Republicans are just trying to poison the well in preparation for Palin’s poor performance. This information about Ifill was available long before the selection and scheduling of the debates. Say what you will; it was the McCain camp that put itself in this position.

Gwen is a liberal. Obama supporter. Watch her on PBS. I am so sick of this.

I think Palin will do just fine against Mr. Superlib, Senator Joe Biden, but I still think she should ask Gwen Ifill how her pro-Obama book is coming along, during the debate; it is the polite thing to do!

Hey people,
her book is about the black experience in America – are you afraid of that? She is not in the tank for Obama – that is just your typical GOP smear campaign trying to stir the ashes and create a fire. You people are so funny – small minded, one-track – laughable to say the least. Your alot like the rednecks I know who support the KKK but can;t ‘tell you why they do. Orrin Hatch – Memogate – need I say more?

And why is it so many of us have stopped watching ABC news? Ever think of putting 2 + 2 together?

Having Gwen Ifill as debate moderator is the equivalent of hiring a referee who is betting heavy stakes on the outcome of the game. Greg Neubeck

I used to believe the whole Liberal Media Bias Thing – but you know – with All of the Lying that Fox News, Republicans & President Retard give us daily & “Our Savior-War Hero-America First-Senator Confused” & his Governor Stepford Wife V.P. candidate – we NEED a Liberal Bias to catch all of the Crap that these RepubliNazis keep spewing. The Republican Party is through in America & Reagan is looking down at the Fools who ruined it & wishing he was a Democrat again! Vote McCain – ARE YOU INSANE? Respect your Momma VOTE OBAMA!

A fixed debate. What does anyone expect? But there is something that Dems always expect. That someone will be there to pay all the tax money they have already spent. Someday the Dems will be dividing up crumbs to try to please their dependents. That is when liberty will return to the world.

Palin is hopefully going to pounce on both these two liberals.
neither one of those two slime buckets hold a candle to Palin.
West Coast !

awwww how cute rick.
the press defending obama and obama’s guys defending the press….again
nothing changes, the democrats and the media are one and the same and continue to lie about and deny it

Jim Nasium, you are an idiot. The information regarding Ifill’s book was easily available long before the selection process. The McCain camp spent as much time vetting the moderators as they did their choice of VP- NONE. Go to your de-witching ceremonies you freaks.

Palin is completely incompetent and the GOP is just trying to pre-emptively find an excuse for the fool that she will make of herself. Ms. Ifill is a professional and will do her job. What’s the big deal that she is writing a book about black civil rights leaders and politicians? Don’t we white people write about white people all the time? Please people, the truth is the truth. Palin is the most incompetent VP candidate ever, even George Will, Kathleen Parker et al agree. I feel sorry that any journalist has to endure Palin’s ignorance.

Hey, do you think Biden will ask Ifill to stand up and take a bow? ;-)

To all of you uninformed McCain fans, Ifill is NOT the one who leaked that she was writing this book. It would have been in her interest to do so but I expect it was done by Palin apologists to lower expectations and prepare a “blame the media” defense. The fact is the book is not finished yet (even thought Amazon is advance- selling it) and there is only one chapter discussing Obama. And, by the way, that chapter hasn’t even been written yet! Ifill has no say-so on release dates either. Anyone who has seen her on PBS would certainly agree that she is dispassionate if not boring. I expect no less this evening.

It doesn’t t really matter. The Election is already over. Just take a look the Lou Dobbs report on what is going on in Ohio. http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=187013
Acorn is already shipping in the out of state illegal voters. Too bad the Republicans don’t have the balls to take the Ohio Supreme Court ruling to the Supreme Court. Can you imagine if an Ohio Republican Secretary of State had unilaterally dictated that there would be no same day registration/voting in Ohio. The Democrats would be at the Supreme Court right now. This country really has turned into a Communist Regime. A roll of toilet paper has more value than the Constitution and Bill of Rights sitting in the National Archives. Welcome to the United Socialist States of America boys and girls. All hail Dear Leader Chairman Obama. Can’t wait for the Obama Little Red Book.

Yeah, yeah… we know all about it. MSM this, liberal bias that. Everyone is out to get you!
It’s only a matter of time before the GOP starts demanding textbooks and scientific facts be fitted with a disclaimer about “liberal bias.”
Oh wait… they already have.

why is anyone in the media moderating anything. This should be done by a blocklayer in georgia, steel worker in michigan, or truckdrive from wherever. Those people could ask questions and demand answers not ghetto talk and irrational idealisms. The media is not trustworthy and blocklayers truck drivers want to feed families not grind axes. The working person is at least smart enough ignore the political correctness forced down our throat by “legends in their own mind” academics. The election in ohio is already thrown. We will have a marxist, racist, racketeer as president. The wealth redistribution has already begun, coicidence I think not.

Kristin Powers, a democratic advisor just said to Bret Hume that the main stream media is doing their best to elect Barack Obama and added that she has never seen anything like this right in your face.

Wholly manufactured? Mr. Klein – you are a true credit to ABC News. Keep up the crazy crap….it’s bound to bite the Democrats in the butt. AGAIN!!!

Obama wins…she makes $300,000 minimum!
Obama loses…she makes $-0-!
Think she might be, at the very least, unconsciously biased? Uh…hello!

Hondo. Hey you make a good line of rv’s.
Jerk-off, did you know about Ifill’s book? Easily available? The group putting on the debate did not know about the book, f-head. Know your facts, Mondo.

Wow, Rick Klein – how astute. You probably have a college degree too

johanness1889…I guess the truth hurts, huh. Just look at her face!!! Darwinism is proved with her!

Hoping for the best; preparing for the worst, and before the worst happens blame someone…someone in the “liberal media” ( always an easy target for “great Americans” ).
It’s almost a personality disorder, but the republicans are never able to take responsibility or admit their failures ( see Palin under unqualified, and unprepared to be president ).
So tonight will we hear Sarah answer a question by asking a question of her own: In what respect, Gwen?

Someone please pass the Kool-Aid…

Yes Mary,we can say ignorance as that is what you are. The republicans did not know about the book. No one did except maybe her democrat pals. This woman kept it secret and when it finally was found out, she says she doesn’t understand what the deal is? Please, if it wasn’t a big deal, why didn’t she say something before? Or when she applied to be the moderator? She has an agenda. Its simple as that. That is why she didn’t say anything and is trying to down play the book.
We will see tonight. So, stay tuned!

Yes Mary,we can say ignorance as that is what you are. The republicans did not know about the book. No one did except maybe her democrat pals. This woman kept it secret and when it finally was found out, she says she doesn’t understand what the deal is? Please, if it wasn’t a big deal, why didn’t she say something before? Or when she applied to be the moderator? She has an agenda. Its simple as that. That is why she didn’t say anything and is trying to down play the book.
We will see tonight. So, stay tuned!

Liberalism is a mental disorder…just read some of the crap above that passes for “logic”. The only rule in the Dem playbook is win at any cost!
Posted by: Ad rem | Oct 2, 2008 7:02:53 PM
Wasn’t that why McCain picked Palin? Obviously it wasn’t for the good of the country. He thought picking her would send Clinton voters over to him in droves. It backfired.

OK liberal idiots. Claiming that Ifil is a journalist while Hannity, Coulter, and Limbaugh are not proves exactly what? Ifil is just as biased, she just pretends otherwise, ie she lies to the public. Yes, she and the other MSM liberals lie and claim to be objective journalists. Coulter, Hannity, and Limbaugh admit the truth, they are conservatives. Why then are the liars qualified to moderate debates? No democrat would agree to debate with Limbaugh as host, so why should a republican agree to debate with a lying leftist as a host? Two moderators, one picked by each side. That’s the only fair way.

We’re being hit by the black scourge from every angle. Even Kieth Obermann and Chirs Matthews are painting their faces black these days (symbolically). It’s in vogue to be black.
I’m ready to move to a location away from these “folks”…if there is such a place.

Yes, Ifill is in madly love with Obama, but who in the mainstream media isn’t? At least Ifill will pretend to unbiased.
McCain should take what he’s got.

How fair do you people think ABC is in its reporting? Wise up people. ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN are all in the tank for Obama. Just read their online sites. There is no such thing as journalism in this country anymore, which explains why most of the network news shows and most newspapers are bleeding viewers/readers and money. As an old journalist it is something to behold.

Back in 1985, Lou Cannon published a laudatory biography of Reagan on the eve of his second inauguration. Imagine if Cannon had been asked to moderate the1984 VP debate between Ferraro and Bush. All hell would have broken loose, even though Canno was a popular guy.

Quote> “How fair do you people think ABC is in its reporting? Wise up people. ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN are all in the tank for Obama. Just read their online sites.”
Everyone is crazy except for me!

Gwen in this case is incompetent,a competent person would see the possibility no probability of conflict of interest real or imagined. Not recusing herself is nothing less than incompetence and or an attempt to steer the election. Sorry that is the only choices.

I am really sad at what the DNC has become. I was a democrat before Obama hijacked the party and forced all the level headed dems to the back of the party. They treat us like an Old shoe, but demand that we stay loyal to the “New ONC (Obama National Committee)Party”. We have to wave the Obama banner or be called racist. I say NO MORE. Until the democrats can nominate someone who doesn’t ride rough shot over middle class dems I’ll be voting McCain-Palin.

Figure it out people. This book was announced in June and the McCain camp agreed to her being the moderator. Either the McCain camp is incompetent or they knew exactly what they were doing in order to lower expectations for their candidate.
BTW, Comparing Ifill to Coulter might be one of the most absurd things I have ever read. Congrats!

Tony Q
You can’t be serious. CNN? PBS? NBC? They are all liberal hacks. There is nothing resembling journalism anymore in the MSM.

Ifill knew she wouldn’t be the moderator had she been truthful, but then when has the media branch of the Democratic Party been truthful?
Where are the scores of reporters searching Obama’s associations with the terrorist Ayers? Where are the reporters scouring Obama’s association and land deals with the convicted felon Rezko?
Where are the reporters asking about Obama & Biden voting against labelling Hezbollah a terrorist organization? Where are the scores of reporters talking about Obama’s comments regarding “57 States,” and “My Muslim Faith?”
Didn’t Dan Quayle get excoriated for his “potatoe” error, and aren’t the ramifications behind Obama’s two “misstatement” significantly more serious? Where are the in-depth reports?
Oh yeah, the media is taking its marching orders from the DNC.
Maybe that’s why Associated Press staffers in the Miami Bureau have Obama’s photo hanging, but not John McCain’s…this is true, I have witnessed it.

What’s interesting is last week McCain wanted to pospone the debate and switch it with tonights debate and push Palin/Binden debate down the line. What are you Repugs afraid of? If she was a great debater, what difference does it make who is asking the questions. Unless, you get flashbacks of the Katie Couric interviews and wake up screaming.

I never thought it would come to the point that the US media is more dangerous to our Democracy than Al Qaeda. They are no longer concealing the fact that they are trying to manipulate this election to the candidate they feel should win in order to promote their leftist ideology.

Orrin Hatch is right, but he missed an opportunity to mention that Rick Kline is also in the tank for the eared mahout. GO SARAH, WIPE SOME OBAMA!

The issue with Liberals is they never admit mistakes. They are arrogant and too proud. The Bible refers to individuals such as this like Pharoe. When Pharoe was up against God [and Moses] He hardended his heart. Eventually God won but Pharoe had to lose everything to get there.
When they can’t get a job and NY lies in waste from a Terroist attack…then…maybe then….they just might sell the US to the highest bidder. China can then put us all in Chains as they’ve done the brothers in the Sudan!

BIDEN WAS PROBABLY ALLOWED TO SELECT THE QUESTIONS.
WHAT A SET UP.
PALIN SHOULD SAY FORGET ABOUT IT

I thought the same as tap, then I realized they were all in Alaska trying to manufacture dirt on the lady mountain man. Seems they failed.

Hey, Gwen got her job because she’s black….affirmative action. I live with that every day while working with incompetant people. She’s a loser. Palin will blow her off.
Posted by: Dwain | Oct 2, 2008 7:10:20 PM
With comments like that, it sounds like you are the incompetent one. Palin doesn’t have a clue.

Wow – All you Racists on this blog are making your Ubermasters in Zee RepubliNazi Party proud. Heil McCain! It’s going to be fun watching All you mental midgets squirm when – just like Jesse Owens did in Berlin – Obama makes all you in-bred, uneducated, scared, sissy-boys feel even more inferior than you already are. The days of just getting by as a Stupid Redneck whose only advantage in life comes from the lack of pigmentation in your skin are over. What was that song – Oh yeah – The night they drove ole’ dixie down the toilet.

“Unless, you get flashbacks of the Katie Couric interviews and wake up screaming.”
Has anyone seen the full interview or only pieces. I keep seeing clips but never the whole. I guess tonight we get to see the unedited Sarah! What Joy this will be!
McCain/Palin 08

My mom has an old saying and I think it applies to those crying about this(Republicans).
“The more you cry the less you’ll pee”.

Sarah should say right up front how pxxxed she is. Challenge Obama to take Bidens place. Now we would see who should actually be on a ticket. My guess is Obama wouldn’t debate Sarah on anything. He isn’t nearly as sharp as she is.

Cruising these comments reveals a disturbing truth. The Obama worshipers will endorse anything, no matter how unfair or illegal, to see their Messiah prevail. Soon after his inauguration look for massive growing of his “Truth Squads” and permanent silencing of dissent, criticism, or questioning. America will turn the corner, and become a Marxist state enforced by Stalinist methodology. This is the “Change We can Believe In” indeed.

one negro helping another negro….that is the way it goes…

Ifill is a Democrat and thus by definition an unethical, lying piece of trash. Her and Biden ought to get along swell.

one scoob helping another scoob….that is the way it goes…

I pray to God eevry day that McCain/Palin wins so all of these Liberal asswipes will go back to tree-hugging and leave running the country to adults.
Posted by: The Shadow | Oct 2, 2008 7:18:17 PM
LOL…you Republicans have done such a bang up job the last 8 years. If that is what “adults” do, count me out.

“Wow – All you Racists on this blog are making your Ubermasters in Zee RepubliNazi Party proud. Heil McCain!”
Uh, did you see the kids singing to the “dear leader” yesterday. That’s what they did for Hitler and still do for Kim Jong Ill. He created his own Presidential seal and wants to spend
$80,000,000,000 of OUR tax dollars to fight Global Poverty. I thought he was for the Main street people. This is your children’s money….our future…you think you will get a piece of it! Not a chance, there won’t be any left when he finishes with it…so much for universal health care and free college. The UN and the Oil rich nations will get our future…just like Clinton giving $50,000,000 when their economy collaposed….where’s our friends now when ours collaposed. Pull all foreign aid and take care of our own first

So ABC thinks the Ifill thing is “wholly manufactured”? Well then, ABC and all of the others who thinks the same way should have no problem if Ann Coulter moderates the next presidential debate. Right? Of course they believe that Ann will be as “objective” as Ifill. After all, Coulter is a professional journalist, attorney, et al.
Let me know your feed-back on that one, O.K.?

I have to agree with the sentiments expressed by others here that there is a conflict of interest and Ifill should remove herself as moderator, manufactured or not.
This AbceNews blog is another fine example of “journalism” in America. At least people like Rush Limbaugh and Al Franken don’t bill themselves as unbiased journalists, you know what you are getting with them.

You are a scum sucking ahole. Watch out your will be one of the first we come for. No use crying over lack of ethics from “journalists”. Hope your boyfriend is safe and sound and faithful.

To an earlier comment. There are many democrats in Michigan voting for McCain/Palin this election. Maybe the media doesn’t talk about Wright,Rezko Ayers,Pflger,and ACORN but we do. If this were anyone else running for president, he wouldn’t have made it past the first primary.

White people are afraid – afraid that a black man may win and be president. Oh wo is me – the south has fallen so far – hell white people have fallen so far!
Racism is alive and well in this country – on the surface it is okay – but beneath that it is not.
A black journalist is moderating the debate between a white guy (with experience according the Palin) and a white woman (with no freaking sense what-so-ever) and she is slanted towards Obama (because she is writing a book about black leaders and one chapter on Obama – which this was knowledge on her website back in June. Boo-who I need to distract everyone from the real issue – McCain picked a moron who uses private email for state business – (she is hiding something or else she would doing what she is supposed to!)and he can’t believe that his gamble backfired on him (he isn’t getting all of the HRC supporters he thought he would!)
Boo_whoooooooooooo!

And this doesn’t prove a liberal media bias? Democrats always tout themselves as “open minded”…your open mind can’t see this inequity for what it is? It’s like a judge playing golf with the prosecuting attorney: conflict of interest. If the moderator were Ann Coulter, Democrats would complain and they’d have a right. But they’re loving this, anything to help their boy. Yeah, I said it, their boy.

Isn’t it interesting that in 1999 the Clinton Administration put pressure on Freddie/Fannie to increase it’s subprime loans, in 2004 (during cooking the book investigations) dems like Maxine Waters and Barney Frank were saying there were no problems with Freddie/Fannie and it’s CEO Raines(see Baghdad Bob’s no tanks in Iraq comment), and that Obama’s chief economic adviser is one Franklin Raines…
AND Obama and the dems want to paint this current crisis as a product of Bush/McCain.
I don’t know what’s worse. Those particular lies or the R’s letting them get away with it.

Time to put ABC and its scumsucking aholes out of business. You will be among the first to receive justice.

Palin has choked in every interview, regardless of the interviewees political leanings. Regrettably, Ifill will serve as an excuse for Palin’s ineptitude, and will give those refusing to see the truth about Palin more fodder. The level of polarization in this country is scary, it blinds people from making good decisions and handicaps their ability to think for themselves. We could have the most intelligent and qualified candidate ever in the history of the world, still the opposing parties will attempt to destroy them because they know we the people cant think for ourselves and will blindly follow anyone with with a good tongue and twinkle in their eye, wether over the radio or on TV. We dont deserve to be leaders of the free world anymore, because we can’t even lead our own minds to what’s best for us.

you guys are ridiculous. ifill has talked about the book openly before, she hosted the VP debate in 04 and no on was complaining. Have any of you ever watched PBS? Anytime they have a liberal on theres a conservative right next to them and they ‘re arguing. stop whining. The book is about the new generation of black leadership and it wont even come out until after we vote. Its going to talk about Colin Powell too.

I think Palin is going to hand Biden a swift kick in the butt, which he and the leftist empty suit called Hussein Obama is going to be awfully sorry he picked Biden.

“Wholly Manufactured”???? You have got to be kidding!!! If the moderator was releasing a Pro-McCain book on Inauguration Day, the Democrats and their Obamabot minions in the mainstream media would be have a rabid freaking fit! Give me a break!!!!

Democrat swine will not prevail. God will punish all of you. Obama will be shining my shoes.

Barry is going down boyzzzz….

a black woman in a wheel chair !!
a black person wearing a suit will always be black person ….thus a muslim will always be a muslim.
shame on america for voting for a muslim.

Ms. Ifill should have let the Commission know she was working on this Obama book, but she did not disclose that.
For this, I now see her as partial. Too bad.

I think I just read a comment that compared Ann Coulter to Gwen Ifill.
That is just ridiculous. Obviously this person is retarded and should stop banging the keys.

Barry and his muslim buddies are going down to defeat!!!!!

Jozy, you’re a garden-variety liberal who loves to preach “celebrating diversity” & “tolerance”…yet you live in the white suburbs far from any real diversity, I’d bet my dog on it. You’re so “tolerant & open minded”…except to conservatives, christians, or people who worked hard for what they have & don’t think you have a right to make us feel guilty for success.

Eric Jones and Dwain,
You two racist folks need to get your robes out – you know the ones with the pointy hats!
You are examples of why this country can’t move forward – Bush and McCain votes for less deregualtion and this has caused the problems that we face today – not Obama!
Maybe the reason that the media is behind Obama is because he will break the cycle of retards in Washington and actually change something – atr least he can’t screw it up any worse than the morons already have!

Gwen is a pig. Check out her nostrils.

What’s so surprising about Biased, Biggoted, Liar Liberals doing their normal LIE, CHEAT, AND STEAL to win ? Just business as usual ! We’ll hear them all crying and moaning if Nobama No Makeit!

I’m so very tired of John McCain and Sarah Palin whining. They yell gotcha journalism, which is another way of saying, it was reported that they screwed up. Isn’t accepting responsibility part of a President’s job responsibilities?
If John McCain feels that he is being victimized by Gwen Ifell because she is writing a book about African-Americans as political leaders, then sprout a spine and ask that she not serve as moderator. No, he doesn’t do that, he whines that people are unfair.
Is this the way he is going to govern?

Jozy needs a brain transplant.

This is a Q&A session, an infomercial, not a debate. In a debate, speakers pick a topic and argue it out. That will not happen here. Each candidate will trot out their well-rehearsed responses to expected questions. Any bias in questions will be noticable by audiences. It’s just a show, folks.

I lived thru the Carter years, and am sad to say I voted for the malcontent. If Obama wins this thing, he will make Carter look like Ronald Regan. Didn’t we learn anything by having one Hussein in leadership of a County, now we want one here? This lady should have the civility to step down as moderator. But that word no longer lives in the world of my former party.

Come on repugnicans…. Have you worked the referee enough now.
Let’s play ball
Ready to see the hockey mom get pounded.

Only the new, viscous Democratzi would regard a woman with a vested interest in an Obama victory as an impartial, and “professional” moderator. The incredible level of hypocritical double speak out of the left never ceases to amaze. Just read some of their absurd comments here to see how evilly insane that bunch has become. They will stop at nothing to see their Master prevail. God save America.

Black has nothing to do with it.
There are many fine black politicians who don’t have the baggage that Obama does. If the Dems wanted a black candidate, they should have researched his background a little better.

I don’t read books. I only read the comics.
Who really cares?

It seems that whenever I follow a link from Drudge that link will have more than its fair share of witheringly racialist diatribe from willfully ignorant kneejerk reactionaries.
Ifill is black and a female. It is a fragrantly prejudicial to suggest that just because she is black her book she is going to write anything remotely sycophantic about Barak Obama. In fact, I have been watching her for years and get the notion that she is not particularly impressed with Senator Obama just as she was underwhelmed with Senator Edwards. She seemed to gravitate towards substance over flash and if this is true, then she may just prove to be less than enthusiastic about Palin who has so far, proven to be a beautiful, charismatic, empty suit.
But really, this is not about the moderator but rather the debaters themselves. It is also incredible that a few of you are suggesting that Ifill would present questions to Biden in advance. In fact, both candidates are given the questions in advance. It is racist of you to assert that the only reason Ifill has a job is affirmative action. It is racist to assume that just because she is black she would cheat to help Biden’s standing. He has nothing to lose. No one voting for the Obama/Biden ticket are going to jump ship over any mistakes that senior statesmen might make this evening. This debate is intended to educate those of us on the fence who to vote for. I would have voted for Ron Paul but he is out. So who do I vote for? The more racist crap I read on these blogs and blind adulation of Palin, the less I am inclined to support that ticket simply because we already have dimwit president with blind loyalists leading us into ruin. What is our country coming to that people would post such sickening tripe on a forum where kids can read it?

Are you a homo Omentum?

If this shoe was on the other foot the left would be screaming bloody murder over conflicts of interest, and rightfully so. When it favors them, they claim not to, or can’t, even see the problem.
The media in this election cycle has proved so incredibly biased my frayed trust in the big three, and especially MSN, is now completely gone.
You have their reporters admitting to fawning over Obama. You have them piling on Hillary using tactics they previously reserved for R’s. Now candidates not liked by the press have to not only run against their opponents, but against a biased and actively opposition press. It’s really sad. Their partisanship is destroying what is left of journalisms reputation. No longer will they do hard investigation of their favored candidates.
The ties to Ayers close friendship with Obama have been deep sixed.
We never see any of his radical associates in ACORN mentioned. They’ll prowl an entire state dumpster diving for stuff on Palin but somehow can’t manage to go to that depth on someone groomed in the machine politics of Chicago.
I watched a local report about this on journalism school, and the interviews given by students on why they went to school were chilling. No longer are they going to report and dig, the answers were all ‘to change the world’ and ‘to support a progressive society’…every student but one had an activists answer, not an unbiased journalists one.
They’re stupidly poisoning their own well with this stuff. The less they are trusted the more of us go elsewhere.

Hey Rick Klein: Are you actually ON the Obama payroll, or just auditioning?
Your blog’s a joke. (Ask around.)

I sure hope all the Obamaites like Marxism because that’s where we’re heading with BO. Maybe there are alot of Marxist followers in the good ol USA now. Just remember, a good Marxist hates capitalism and the free market and loves to spread class envy amongst the collective workers. Sounds kinda like Democrats doesn’t it?

She shouldn’t be moderating as it has the appearance of bias, even if she is a very experienced, competant journalist who will probably do a good job tonight. Of course the republicans are making a big deal out of this to try and get her to overcompensate and show bias in favor of Palin. They have effectively been doing this for years with claims about the liberal media. The media goes easy on Republicans for fear they appear pro-liberal in their coverage. Its why Bush went into Iraq unchecked and why the media was willing to go along with depicting Bush as more patirotic than John Kerry (a war hero).
Tonight probably won’t have any bias, but now Republicans can get all the mileage they can out of claiming liberal bias.
Maybe McCain should try winning on the issues.

Can you image the hubris that would have ensued if someone conservatively biased was chosen as moderator? I say let Gwen have half the questions and get Ann Coulter to ask the other half. I’d like to hear some questions that will make a difference, questions on the economy and foreign policy, not domestic AIDS in black women.

shawn -
I suggest that you look up Crane Hill. Al and find out where I live – it is not in the white suburbs as you say – I live amongst the racist country people who subscribe the KKK mindset and try to change their minds. I have had my ass whipped more than once but it does not change my attitude!
As far as Christains – you can believe what you want as long as your don’t try to force me to believe it – I like fiction too!
I am smart enough to know that “work” is a game that I can play too – I make a respectible living and get paid damn good – but I know that the company I work for doesn’t give a crap about me and should I die they would send a flower to my wife and go and do business as ususal. Conservatives can believe as they wish – I just think they haven’t figured it out yet….

You might say that the McCain camp complains about the gotcha questions but at least they don’t send out cease and desist orders to the media of different states that they believe don’t support Obama.

Kitty, what does Gwen being black have to do with anything? Those were very ignorant comments. The book she wrote is not only about Obama but other positive Blacks! GO PUT YOUR WHITE SHEET BACK ON!!!!!!!

context 101:
FRAGRANTLY prejudicial???
Where did you go to school?

maurice ….are you another idiot who thinks racism is a one-way street
what ya want now Mo…reparations? The Demacratic Party has kept African Americans on the plantation for the last 40 years…and what has it gotten them. I contend the center of a donut…
Be well

All I can say to those who think the presidential election is a popularity contest to elect the coolest person ever and NOT a serious issue: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU VOTE FOR!!!!
Socialism, so·cial·ism, noun:
1. any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2. a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3. a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
State socialism, noun:
an economic system with limited socialist characteristics that is effected by gradual state action and typically includes public ownership of major industries and remedial measures to benefit the working class
Listed above is the government we will be left with if Obama, the Pelosi Squad, Hollywood elite, Moveon.org, the Daily Kos, and the mainstream media (CNN, ABC, CBS, MNSBC, NBC, NY TIMES, WASH POST, LA TIME, ETC) get their way in November. Mark my words!!!

Ken wrote:
“Well at least we know the Republican Party stands for the low-life white trash uneducated in-breeds of America – somebody has to.”
Hmmmmm…. I thought the Repubs were the rich, white guys! Nice name-calling there, Kenny Boy. No substance, as usual.

Brent -
Acutally Karl Marx pointed out that capitalist would “hang themselves” – “give them enough rope and they will hang themselves” referring to how greed would be the capitalist society would do itself in…..

At 65, isn’t he a little old to be one heartbeat away from the Oval Office? As for Ifill, she’s a waste of oxygen just like PBS is a waste of electric.
Posted by: The Gnome | Oct 2, 2008 7:42:57 PM
That sounds really stupid. McCain is 72 and if elected will be POTUS. Isn’t he a little old to be President?

context101
Nice try.
When I see ‘racist’ comments, I recognize the dirty tricks dept of the Obama campaign at work.
Especially when they are followed by the idiotic accusations of racism you made.
Noone in the entire thread praised Palin– “blind adulation” wtf?!
So much for you “fragrantly prejudicial” nonsense, lol. You stink, even as a liar.

At 65, isn’t he a little old to be one heartbeat away from the Oval Office? As for Ifill, she’s a waste of oxygen just like PBS is a waste of electric.
Posted by: The Gnome | Oct 2, 2008 7:42:57 PM
That sounds really stupid. McCain is 72 and if elected will be POTUS. Isn’t he a little old to be President?
Hey J; my point exactly. Age doesn’t matter now, does it.

I’m not afraid to call a spade a spade..pardon the pun. Blacks are the ruination of this country. If I could, I would dig Abraham Lincoln up and let him know what a mess he created.

Here is what I see on this board.
Wahhh wahhh wahhh. Do some of you need a bottle or does your diaper need changed. Grow up and act like adults and quit yer whining!

Of course it’s a set-up. Couric, Gibson, and now Gwen Awful. When the “moderator” works for one of the candidates (indirectly) it’s a set-up.
Notice how the media is trying so hard to defend itself? Because they know they’ve been caught once again!

Wholly manufactured? Is Klein an idiot? Ifill is a typical liberal hack and they have decided to throw away all common decency and rules of journalistic etiquette to push a candidate – Obama – who is terribly unqualified to be President.

Jozy, you said:
Acutally Karl Marx pointed out that capitalist would “hang themselves” – “give them enough rope and they will hang themselves” referring to how greed would be the capitalist society would do itself in…..
And ol Karl maybe right, but I don’t think it a good idea for Americans to speed up the process.
As for capitalism, it certainly isn’t perfect but there sure are alot of folks trying to get here to live the American Dream. Around the world, the Marxists have had to put fences up the keep the collective workers from leaving to freedom.

All I can say is, May God have mercy on America if Obama wins. I truly can’t believe this is such a close race. McCain should win in a landslide. It just shows how far we as a country have fallen. Pro Obama people have been so blinded to the truth and seemingly intellegent people can not get a grip on how bad he would be for the country.

Hey J; my point exactly. Age doesn’t matter now, does it.
Posted by: The Gnome | Oct 2, 2008 7:47:35 PM
It does when your second in command is Moose Hunter Palin…lol.

I had lunch with someone today who is actually from Canada. He has bought into the America..who does she think she is…IMPERIALISM crap. The mentality is such that it doesn’t matter if things are biased, unfair, stacked, whatever. They hate America so much..they’ll knock her down at any cost.
ABC is stupid. They are enjoying their freedom to be biased for NOW. Wait, until they get underneath Obama control.

Vote No to Pork.
that 150 billion added to the Bill, could have been added to morgages, child care, schooling, new energy forms. But for golden safty nets for Politicans who caused this. Why?
Congress should not have gone home. Or did they ‘Truely Know’ their Scare Tactics, would work?
America and the World deserve, to be happy.
Nuclear Power for Mangos? No. Sounds like something more, in that.
We could have sent Hydro, Solar, or Wind power plans to help a foreign country.
Vote Independant, and watch CNN and MSNBC, for ALL sides and Points of View.
Vote No to Pork add ons.
Thank you

you radical republicans are insane. so christian reporters can’t report on science? male reporters can’t do stories on women or family issues?
your politics of ‘us vs. them’ requires a ‘them’ where none exists. it has gotten old and tired, and it has let you get led for 8 years by one of the most failed, most obtuse and destructive administrations in memory.
stop fighting your fellow citizens, and join together to solve our differences.

Of course, IF being biased mattered, Ifill would step down because the debate is NEVER supposed to be about the moderator, but now she has great press for her book and it has become a debate centered on HER. I’ve never seen anything like this in debate history. But, in this race, is anything a surprise?

Stand Up Gwen!!

Amazing that the only one that reformed their government, stuck it to the oil companys, and broke the good ol boy system is the “idiot” according to the media. I guess accomplishments aren’t important to the lower 48. We like our pols incompetent and corrupt!!!
Meanwhile the Senators have oversaw the bankrupcy of our federal government and destruction of the American economy.
Last time I checked Alaska’s got a surplus and lower taxes.
McCain, Obama, and Biden eeeehhhhh….not so much on the balanced budget and likely to raise taxes. Boy I sure hope government takes over more of the health care in this country!!!!! I bet it will be as awesome as government run banking!!!!

Allen, the Commission on Presidential Debates are made up of Republicans and Democrats.

So, tell me why, exactly, couldn’t a moderator be found who hasn’t been writing a pro-Obama book???

This has a stench of clear media bias and also wrapped like a stinking fish in a conflict of interest. Ifill has much to financially gain from an Obama victory because of her new book.THIS CAMPAIGN IS SINKING IN THE SWAMP OF THE BIASED MEDIA. POOR US.

both republicans and democrats approved Ifill for the debate knowing full well she was writing this book since 2007… this is obviously just a smear tactic folks.
http://politicalinquirer.com/2008/10/02/mccain-approved-ifill-more-bad-judgement/
this is a great sign for obama when repubs are THIS desperate to find a fallguy for Palin before the debate.

Nothing to worry about here. If Barry loses, Gwen will sell about 4 copies of her Barry Romance Novel. If Barry wins, she will make over $300,000 in PROFIT. Knowing the strong ethics and moral Liberal Democracts have concerning money (see Franklin Raines, Jaime Gorelick, Barney Frank, TAX CHEAT CHARLIE RANGEL, etc…)why should a Republican worry about getting a FAIR and BALANCED shake by a Liberal PUPPET?

I do not know if it is sad or just plain funny…
the left has to go way out of their way to prop up their candidate, lie and steal votes for him, set up events like this with Ifill, threaten those that tell the truth about his friends and dealings.
They must not believe in their candidate very much, I thought he was the Messiah.
obvioulsy Obama cannot win on his own, they have to go tho such great lengths to make sure he wins.
I see it from the other side, obviously
the left does not have much confidence in their own cadidate

What frightens me is not the controversy over Ifill’s perceived impartiality, it’s the conspiracy nuts claiming that she is somehow going to feed questions to Biden to give him an edge. Has any of you seen Palin in front of the cameras lately? Are you kidding me? This is someone you will believe is anywhere close to being President…the bar is set pretty low these days.

Has anyone noticed that ABC’s web site is seriously sluggish? This is a 21st century media company?
“Obama is the Democratic George Bush, arrogant, flip, and removed. Also prone to stumbling in his speaking, but we haven’t been allowed to see this. Take heart, the next four years are going to be entertaining if nothing else.”

Yeah that was a stupid typo but it rings true anyhow. These racist comments don’t smell right. Your character assassination of Ifill is so prejudicial and based on her colour that it stinks. Here we are American citizens, educated all over the world with many different perspectives and obviously varying comprehension levels of the topic at hand- not to mention grammar and spelling aptitude – regardless, I am a Ron Paul supporter. The more banal and mean-spirited – the more racist you knee jerk reactionaries expose yourselves to be, the less inclined I am to see things your way. Our country is great because of its diversity. Don’t attack Gwenn Ifill’s credibility or her professionalism based on the colour of her skin. It’s distasteful and its wrong.

2008 – the year objective media died.

Open and shut case of black dishonesty and failure to disclose. Then again what do you expect… liberal bill moyer’s network and blacky in control. Maybe we should “ax” oprah and see what she think.

Dwain, God will judge your judgemental mind and hateful prejudice.

My nipples are as hard as raisins!

Ifill has a personal financial stake in Obama succeeding.
I don’t care what your party is, that qualifies as a conflict of interest.
Period.

let’s see how many books did Pelosi sell? most Americans do not think the way the left does in this country

She gets you nervous, right?
Posted by: The Gnome | Oct 2, 2008 8:00:14 PM
Ummm…no. She’s a complete and total idiot. Most of her answers haven’t made too much sense. Sort of the Dan Quayle type.

Palin won’t be able to get a word in edgewise because Biden will be telling us all about how, while being a coal miner his helocopter was forced down by a Taliban drunk driver who had an Indian accent. This draft dodger will then remind us that he is a leader like Roosevelt who got on TV in 1933 and inspired the nation during hard times.
And at the end, Palin should ask Joe, “Can I quote you on that?”

The sarcastic tone… the blatant anti-Republican attacks… have I accidentally stumbled upon DailyKos? This is ABC News right?
I guess since the secret is out and everyone knows ABC is liberal there’s no point in you guys pretending any more. Congratulations on coming out of the closet.

What’s REALLY disturbing is Rick (wholly manufactured) Klein, him supposedly a “journalist”, is DEFENDING Ifill. It’s hard for me to believe that so many like him have lost their soul.
There used to be a time in America when journalists actually had ethics. I guess those days are over.
The truth is Ifill should have revealed her conflict. She clearly has a financial stake in Obama winning, whether the book is about him or not. If Rick Klein & Ifill cannot see that, how can we continue to call them journalists? Or trust in our media? The seem more like political hacks to me.

I will be calling on my representatives to stop all funding for PBS and I’ll try to convince everyone I know to never send PBS another cent.

It’s fine.
IT does not matter who moderates.
It WILL be obvious when the BIAS surfaces with Oprah after all of 6 seconds.
Sarah has to state true American values and call a spade a spade. America is now unbalanced with the gain of bad people, freeloaders, The Emeror’s New Cloths Liberal Way, RAP, Mapplethorpe Art Types, System Suckers, Monorities gaining hold, Muslims, Barney Frank, Pelosi, Dodd, Hollywood, etc., etc.
It’s gonna be the RIGHT and American values of hard work and ethics. OR the LEFT with Liberal, Socialism, Hollywood, Equal Opportunity, FUN for all, FREE mortagages, RAP, WHY work, Muslim sympathy, terrorist sympathy (Oh, I said that already), free rides, etc.
IT’s UP TO AMERICA and Her Balance.
It’s in the votes.

Typical McCain stupidity. Leap before you look mentality. Him and his campaign idiots had plenty of time to vet Ifill before they agreed months ago that she would be an acceptable moderator. All they had to do was “google” ‘Gwen Ifill’ to read about her upcoming book.
This is a dam good reason to vote for Barack Obama. McCain doesn’t have any judgment left. He should have done his due diligence BEFORE he said, in writing, that Ifill was acceptable. Instead here he is the day of the debate crying foul. What an idiot. Who wants this brain dead, over-the-hill, LIAR, as prez? He’s such a fool he makes Bush look smart. The thought of his hand on “the button” is enough to scare brave men to death. We have enough on our hands to clean up the mess Bush made. After McCain/Palin there wouldn’t be anything left of our planet worth saving.
Why don’t you REDNECKS get an education and figure out why you let the Republicans scare the crap out of you every four years so they can stay in power and plunder whats left of our treasury?

Ifill can’t compare to Coulter, Coulter is intelligent and got where she was on her on, not b/c of AFf action.

I’m truely curious what it would take for republicans who still think Palin is somehow qualified for this job to realize she isn’t. You can’t keep blaming the media. She came out of nowhere, she needs to be questioned like anyone! this isn’t a kingdom where the rulers get to hide. It’s gotten pathetic. I feel sorry for people who’s emotions are so tied up into this woman because of what they hope she would be. McCain agreed to Ifill as the moderator BTW. The knowledge of her book as been out for months now.. before debates were agreed upon. Just google Gwen Ifill! any excuse to excuse Palin’s incompetence.

I would love to see the debate moderated by Hean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh. The Dems would be a-crappin’ their panties!

Has anyone noticed that ABC’s web site is seriously sluggish? This is a 21st century media company?
“Obama is the Democratic George Bush, arrogant, flip, and removed. Also prone to stumbling in his speaking, but we haven’t been allowed to see this. Take heart, the next four years are going to be entertaining if nothing else.”

Actually, the moderator has a conflict of interest and failed to notify the debate board that she stood to gain financially if Obama wins. Withholding that information is the same as lying and that makes me inclined to think she is up to no good.

The Commission on Presidential Debates is one of the most bipartisan entites around.
Check their website regarding who has been on and who sits on the Commission now. Current board members include Jack Danforth and Alan Simpson, hardly Democrats.

Ok, this is pathetic. Karl Rove’s candidacy should be in question but instead we are hearing about how much ignorant knee jerk reactionaries hate anyone that isn’t just like them.

Ifill stands to gain tons of money if Obama wins and her book release is ‘just in time’…wonder how she’ll feed Biden his debate questions beforehand?

Well, after an 8 year break it’s time for conservatives to reclaim our hallowed ground of socially acceptable, marginalized, constructive discourse…conspiracy theories. Chapter 1: Tag Team: Iffal, Biden

Claiming liberal bias on the part of the moderator or media in general does not make your candidate any less stupid.

look people. the obama supporters have blinders on, have tunnel vision. Its all that they can do to only see ahead and not to the sides because they are not as smart as your average person. it doesnt matter how well palin does tonight and it doesnt matter if mccain was ahead everywhere by 10 percentage points, the obamakins refuse to believe anyone other than obama, they refuse to see that there are many other sides to a story. they hear and see one thing while the rest of are smart enough torealize that obama will turn this country into a socialist nation. its always been his dream and it is what he promised all poor folks here and abroad. obama with a dem congress means goodbye to democracy and freedom.

More biased comments by ABC? WOW, I’m surprised! ABC is just another irrelevant TV network living its last few years.

ABC might as well be MSNBC – your bias and love for Obama and all things Obama makes the rest of us sick.
Stephanopolous has gone crazy – no journalism from him. He is a BIG joke like Obama.

Here are more signs Sarah Palin could face an uphill battle with PBS host Gwen Ifill. Professor Sherrilyn Ifill of the University of Maryland Law School, who Gwen Ifill has lauded as “my brilliant baby cousin,” has written that black women are not buying Sarah Palin’s “false claims to feminism” and is portrayed as too perfect: “when women who are privileged present as though they have it all together, it’s offensive to black women.”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gra…ve-black-women

OH CRAP–WHAT CAN I SAY
THE NOGOODNICKS WILL LOSE THIS ONE —BORIS AND NATASHA—-HIS SOUL MATE–EGADS

Brokaw a Republican? ROTFLMAO! you left-wing nut jobs

Brenda from Charleston, please show me any national poll that has ever, at any time, had McCain 10 points ahead.

kim, brokaw has been working FOR the McCain campaign. Actually campaigning for him, you right wing idiot.

If this was common knowledge in July, why are they crying about it now? They agreed to the debate rules,etc now deal with it.

yes! PLEASE put Palin at the top of your ticket in ’12!

so tired of dems controlling the flow of info. Even when drudge links its to a lefty blog or news org. breaking throught the info barrier is tiresome.
I wonder how much obama support is due to media. For kerry it was 15%. 25% for obama?

is Obama the kind of leader this country needs??
he changes his mind every 2 seconds, what ever way the wind is blowing, just to make sure he covers all of his bases…
now he says he is PRO LIFE on his website?? and yet attacks a abortion survivor??
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13984
Obama will become the first president elected because of Affirmative action.
again cannot do it yourself, but have to helped along because you are different

I’m not sure what’s more ridiculous – the comments comparing Gwen Ifill, an actual journalist with a well-deserved reputation for impartiality, with right-wing hacks like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh; or the fact that both campaigns agreed to the terms of the debates (including who the moderators would be) weeks ago, AFTER Ifill’s book was announced, and you guys are acting like this was sprung on the McCain campaign at the last minute. If they had a problem with Ifill, they shouldn’t have agreed to allow her to moderate the debate in the first place. And Ifill certainly hasn’t shown any more bias than Tom Brokaw, NBC’s self-appointed liaison to the McCain campaign, who has a demonstrated history of being in the tank for the Republicans.
Stop whining and crying about the moderator. When Failin’ Palin loses the debate tonight, it will be because she has no grasp whatsoever of the issues and because she’s not fit to be vice-president.

“wholly manufactured”? are you in the same tank with Gwen (not Stefani) Ifill? Maybe you should offer Joe Biden a pillow.

Palin is HOTT

What is funny about the Ann Coulter moderating comments is that Ann said she would vote for Hillary Clinton over John McCain!

Chris,
Pull you head out of your moosehole, your coming in dumb and stupid.

When will you American people learn that blacks like Gwen Ifil or Congo Lisa Rice or “Colon” Powell cannot be trusted to be ethical? They will lie in service to their race and do whatever it takes to elect one of their own kind. Look at how they live. They kill each other every day like flies, then blame all other races for their problems for their problems. They are too stupid to realize they are too stupid.
They are also too stupid to realize Barack is not one of them, he is a half-caste of foreign origin. In my country, he would be one of the untouchables. Yet here, you fools all want to kiss his tan ass.
He’ll show you what he thinks of middle class white Americans when he turns the Whitehouse into a barbecue pit after hours joint with Oprrrrrraaaaaah as his hostess and appoints all his terrorist friends to his cabinet.

Is Ifill still employed? Is she still employable? I wouldn’t hire her.

It is truly amazing that a moderator who hasn’t written a pro-Obama book could not be found to ask questions tonight!!!

How could Ifill fathom that she can be unbiased when Ifill has an article appearing in Essence black women’s magazine on Obama and his family this month, and is in the process of writing a book, which includes a focus on Obama. If Ifills was upfront about these political activities, there is no way that the GOP would have approved her as a moderator. After seeing her make faces when she spoke about Palin after the GOP convention, it’s obvious where her loyalties lie. She has proven herself unethical for not being upfront about her political slant. For Ifils to imply that any protests to her moderating is somehow racially-based is blatantly a stupid politically motivated ploy on her part. Perhaps on the next debate, Obama would agree to Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh as the moderator – sure that would be entirely fair and balanced- do you think?!?! One more reason to vote GOP – the GOP supporters seem smarter and at least more ethical than the average DNC supporter.

face it!! mccain/failin lost!!
mccain’s already conceded Michigan…and it only gets worse for him. it’s looking better for obama each minute. people are realizing the farce that has been representing the GOP for the last 8 years and now the mcshame ticket.

I would love to kick Klein’s sorry ass and rearrange his face to look like road-kill; which would be an improvement…

Notice how sexist all the lefties are. Yeah, the communist, racist, terrorist is bringing America together…change you can believe in. The truth…they can handle the truth.

If a black man becomes president, then we have to hols Bush responsible!
After Bush, we would elect anybody, however Obama is a great choice!
Lets just hope he does not let us down.
I know he will have a rough time with the way Bush has left this country….broken military and empty treasury.

We have a pretty good idea of how much money the DNC funneled into the Clinton’s bank account with bulk book buys.
No one seriously doubts how much money Obama has made with his book deals and connections in Chicago and no I will not bring up his terrorist friend that funded his first job or the felon that gave him his house (was that mortgage insured by Fannie/Freddie – ABC get right on that will you?).
What I am asking is how many pre-sales of Gwen’s book have been ordered by the DNC and MoveOn.org – or dare I say it – the Obama campaign ????

“when women who are privileged present as though they have it all together, it’s offensive to black women.”
its offensive that a white woman WOREKD her way through life to get where she is today? Priveleged? sounds like jealousy to me. Have it all together? Gov. Palin has what SHE WORKED for. If you want what she has then WORK for it, marry the father of your children and have your priorities straight. Obviously black women are offended by women who work and work hard, offended by whoites, offended by a woman who knows who she is and what she wants out of life, offended by a woman who had her priorities straight and fell in love, got married, THEN had children. offended? Glad Im not you.

This whole election is a setup by the media. Obama will win.
He will need to pray to his god Allah to get him thru the next 4 years.
The average American can trust no one.
Not the media
Not the government
Not Wall street
WE have to trust ourselves since we are left with nothing else. God help every American. We are gonna need it.

Buster, LOL on the handle. Gwen Ifill if a respected journalist. Do your homework….and you do know that George Stephanopoulos moderated the Clinton/Obama debates even though he worked for Bill Clinton. We Obama supporters didn’t like that either but Obama didn’t whine about it or use it as an excuse.

I am undecided independent and today will have great influence on my decision and I say….
END THE EXCUSES!!!!!
SHE NEEDS TO SHOW US WHAT SHE IS ABOUT!!!
IF YOU CANNOT DEAL WITH BIAS AND MEDIA THEN HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DEAL WITH REAL DEADLY BIAS OF ENEMIES OR REAL THREATS…
THE MEDIA IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE WORLD AND U.S. CHALLENGES…
STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR HER, SHE NEEDS TO OWN UP NOW….THIS IS REAL LIFE NOT A GAME, A REAL JOB, NOT A GAME.

Voting for Obama is an act of treason. If you help elect him you will be condemning your family and grandkids to a much diminished and less free nation.
Obama represents the culmination of a five decade effort to install a stealth radical in the White House. Combine that with a far-left congress controlled by the most extreme elements of the Democratic party which has moved drastically to the left itself and the result will be disastrous.
You will have aided in the downfall of the greatest nation on earth if you vote for Obama.

With the exception of the misspelling of “flagrantly”, that was a beautiful post, Context101.
I am pleased to see that issues of racial disparity are being brought to the forefront once again. It saddens me that there are so many racists on both sides. I liked the comment above that we have more in common than not.
Re-uniting the USA will be a very daunting task for the next POTUS. God Bless whomever is elected.

I am an independent leaning Obama and I know this stinks. Ifill needed to step aside. This is not a conservative vs the world issue. It’s a fairness “thing.” Now is Biden comes out ahead it will be tainted. Ifill’s own comments about a conservatie blog points to her beltway BS mentality. Big mistake.

All kin say to you chillun’s dat’s pimpin’ fo’ dat turkey wid da white trash mutha is “Do da name Ruby Begonia meen anythin’ tooya?”

Oh, its always fun to read comments after Drudge links to an article…
Keep up the comedy, people!
Thanks!

Chris, the Muslim thing is getting old. It’s been debunked a million times….sheesh. Not that there’s anything wrong with being Muslim.

Listen guys, I’ve been waiting to watch a debate like this on my television since 1929 when Roosevelt was President.
GO SARAH!

let us pray.
Oh Heavenly Father, please let McCain and Palin win the white house and please let the repoublicans beome the majority in the house so that they can immediately begin congressional hearings into the freddie and fannie fiasco. Please let barney and nanacy and dodd and others go to prison, or at the very least, resign from office. Please give them the courage to come forweard and admit that they were wrong and because of this, the economy is in a crisis. Thank you Lord and bless us all and have mercy on our souls if Obama should win the white house (with help from the main stream media, acorn, voter fraud, empty promices etc etc etc).

Here are more signs Sarah Palin could face an uphill battle with PBS host Gwen Ifill. Professor Sherrilyn Ifill of the University of Maryland Law School, who Gwen Ifill has lauded as “my brilliant baby cousin,” has written that black women are not buying Sarah Palin’s “false claims to feminism” and is portrayed as too perfect: “when women who are privileged present as though they have it all together, it’s offensive to black women.”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gra…ve-black-women

Children please calm down.
Go watch the debate and have some milk and cookies.
It is getting late and everyone sounds a little cranky.
Love one another and realize you are all different for a reason.
You all have been blessed to live in the greatest nation on earth. Now be happy.
Think how terrified you would feel posting these things in Iraq before you liberated those poor souls from Sadam.
Play nice.

The Obama Creed:
Nothing is true.
All is allowed.
Ends justify means.
The solution to the Muslim social termites slowly destroying America as we know it who he is fronting for:
Kill them all. God knows his own.

Lol at blogger.

So, now we have to listen to a Black, liberal, woman, who has written a pro-Obama book(Ifill), ask questions at tonight’s 2008 Vice-Presidential Debate!!!

Just another black radical dishonest Obama supporter. Obama has surrounded himself by corrupt people. Wake up America Obama is a danger to our country!

Given the rate of return on top ten selling books in the NY Times, Gwenn Ifil already has an investment in this charade….
If Obama wins, she stands to gain more and more money, hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.
Where she an NFL ref, she would be kicked out of the league and prosecuted for betting on games she refereed. Where she a judge, she would have to recuse herself or risk blowing the case or might even be required to give up her license.
Never mind, it’s just a debate that may hold the fate of our nation, yet Gwenn Ifil thinks of it as a career opportunity and a referendum on her objectiveness.
I would be very, very surprised if it isn’t a set-up and Klien, the puke, is a typical neo-marxist.
ADK

Washington Times broke a story that Obama is not a US Citizen, Ex-Attorney General of PA has filed
a FEDERAL suit saying that Obama is not elligible for Presidency.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/28/lawsuit-questions-obamas-eligibility-for-office/
…. and the question is what will happen if Obama is removed as candidate …. see: http://www.obamacrimes.com/

someone posted: Didn’t both campaigns agree on all of the debate terms? It was no secret that Ifill wrote this book and that the debate would be on PBS. Stop the whining and perform.
Actually, the fact that she was writing a book was not disclosed to the GOP team negotiating the terms. The debate organizers SAY they didn’t know either. If they didn’t then AWFUL should have been dq’d for failure to disclose this material fact. Had the repub’s known this fact and agreed to it, then I would agree, “shut up and debate”, but this wreaks!

Greg, that’s the problem with Palin, she can’t be smart and stay on the issues because she doesn’t know enough about the issues. She does everything but answer the questions or stick to the issue.

None of us have seen the the book, could be a critique of Obama. It’s pretty hard for a moderator to screw up a debate. People will listen to Palin and Biden, we aren’t stupid, except for those who think moderator does anything other than referee the debate. That said she probably shouldn’t be moderating the debate. Finally how would you all feel if everyone said your political affiliation effected the quality of job you do. Reporters are people who try their best to remain neutral because this is their job. Vast majority of people try to do their job in an ethical fashion. Why do y’all assume reporters are different and wholly corrupt, except for those on Fox. Pathetic!

Chris, Rev. Wright was speaking out against the government of America, which is very much American.

If Obama wins the election he will never live down the perception of being the first black affirmative action president awarded the office.
The media will see their integrity quotient drop to lows rivaled only by Congress’ approval rating.
The viewer’s and reader’s flight from biased journalism will make the ruin of financial institutions a fair comparison with the future bankrupted media outlets.
Those in the news media who survive the blood letting and retain their positions will work to see their paychecks confiscated by new tax laws passed by a Democrat led Congress’ and signed into law by the affirmative action President Obama.
Cities around the nation are currently reeling from the financial crisis and cutting costs under the weight of staggering deficits. One large piece of the pie chart for government expenditures is the criminal justice system. From the cops on the beat, the investigators, the court system and the cost of incarceration every portion of the system will suffer budget cuts.
Criminals understanding the situation will become embolden to commit more crime knowing that the system can no manage the onslaught of illegal activity. Theft, armed robbery, assaults, organized crime, murder, will turn the finances of honest citizens red as they bear the cost of vandalism and theft. The streets will turn red with the blood of those victims for whom personal property will not have been the only thing they lost.
The Democratic Party has never demonstrated the tendency to be hard on criminals. Obama is more likely to be sympathetic to the plight of the criminal element than to those of us who have something to loose.
Think things can’t get worse than the current crisis we are seeing right now?
Wait till the enemies outside our boarders view the weakened nation we call home.

This book is not just about Obama. It speaks on many civil rights leaders of our generation. Plus, she started writing this book YEARS ago before the public even knew the name Obama. Get a grip!

This will be the first election when the “Will of the Media” won the race.
They don’t even try to hide it, 24/7 rants about Palin and McCain, and nothing but fond words and unreported or edited Obama and Biden. WoW. Amazing.
Does the MSM want a Socialist America?
Is it that if he is elected they wilo never be bored as the US collapses into a 3rd world status.
Is it that they truly believe as Bill Maher, that we are all just so stupid we should no longer be allowed to guide our own lives and country?
What is it?
We have a new Bay of Pigs brewing and Pirates running the African waters, is Obama the guy you want dealing with this?
Or are the “Entitlement” wanters really only careing more about what they can put in thier pockets and no the good of the world an the Nation?
thank you MSM, for the downfall of America, and the end of even our Representative government. Good work. if Obama wins, I am quiting my job and living off the State.

There is this little “commission” of 3 people who set the terms for these debates. As usual, the people don’t get a say ,even in the debates. Soon we may have more elites in the White House, the Obamas,heaven forbid.

God is Judge Not You, you tell ‘em! Rightwingers call themselves Christian yet they are a most hateful group of people. They are the antithesis of Jesus.

No Fogarty, she said she hasn’t even started yet, but it is not just the book, it is magazine articles, her reation when Palin was nominated, all point very clearly to that she is biased, as a black, as a black woman, and as a Liberal. Black people, the new “Top Racist” in America.

I guess this means the debate is N-Rigged

Obama is a mack daddy! He pimps white women and black women!

Maren, the Commission is made up of Republicans and Democrats. In fact, the McCain campaign negotiated for a special format for the VP debates so to insinuate anything is unfair is disingenious.

Wow Rodney-
You brought up Gov. Palin’s pastor. Stupid point.
Either Barry is the most ignorant person on the Earth (and not qualified, to boot) because he sat in a hate-spewing church for 20 years, or he is HIDING something.
Take your pick. Funny – how you advertise your ignorance. Welcome, Barry fan.

Yes and I agree.
Only one problem. With the economic disaster/recession/depression no elected national official will be able to deliver ANY promises made during the campaign.
Hope you don’t live in a large city in a state that is vulnerable… If so, luck to you over the next 4 years

Beachy, Obama did not sit in a hate-spewing church for 20 years. Their church is not anymore hate-spewing than Palin’s church is hate-spewing.

ive giot the debate on but i am afraid to listen. i did hear when palin asked if she could call joe by his forst name. that was cool. guess he wasnt expecting that she would want to debate him as equals.

From the sound of the “article” by Rick Klein, the objective news media is apparently stone cold dead. RIP. We look forward to your return after socialism is defeated.

Ignore Kline, he’s an idiot like the rest of the lib media types.

Obama will solve it all!!!!
MArkets uP!
Money for all that don’t work!!
Taxes on the evil rich
And Health care for everyone paid by the working people!
Go obama!

I’m waiting with bated breath for the end of the debate, where Joe Biden, face red like the country club drunk he is, generously thanks Gwen I-phone and asks her to “stand up and let the people see ya”.
I’m surprised, in the name of “norming” the setting of the debate, that Biden and Palin weren’t required to debate each other in wheel chairs so as not to be on a “higher level” than Ifil was. American’s with Disabilities Act, you know. Drag everyone down to the same level. That’s the new American mantra across the board.

Maren, to argue over who moderates is silly if the same questions are asked of both. That was the problem us Obama supporters had with George Stephanapolous because he kept asking Obama ridiculous questions regarding flag pins and such.

Ifill is a rascist slob. She failed in her ethical obligation to disclose or recuse herself. It’s not a matter of whether she says she can be fair. The book, and her prior puff piece on the obama family in ebony (essence?), and her attack on Palin after her acceptance speech, and most importantly her playing the race card in an attempt to deflect from her own failure. She actually said all this is about a black reporter writing about a black and claimed she hadnt made up her mind on Obama yet. Right. Nothing worse than a dumb, racist liar.

Obama is going to carry all 57 states!

“Lez”–
YOU are “null and void” between the ears.
Enjoy the arrogance of your last days as a social phenomenon. Soon you progency of stinking Earth Mothers and drunken IRA bartenders in hiding will be running for the mountains, pursued by the followers of Barry Soetero, aka B. Hussein Obama. Unless, of course, you have the right skin color. Then you’ll only have to worry about being zapped in a driveby.

Hey, I give the Republicans credit for going into these debates at all.
McCain wanted ten TOWNHALL meetings, where regular Americans could ask questions of both nominees…Obama ran away from that. Obama and all Democrats are more comfortable with questions from the liberal media.
Heck, the Democrat party is afraid to even go on FOX NEWS, for fear of getting a fair and balanced set of questions. Remember how the whole Democrat slate went out of the debate on Fox news?
So Palin and McCain get points for walking into this den of lions.

Liz said: Elaine, Obama is not Arab, period. His father is from Kenya, Africa….and his mother is from the Unites States. Where in there is Arab?
That would make him Halfrican American!
His brother (from a different mother) also lives in Africa (on $12 a year).
Can Barry spare some change?

Hopefully the “Age of Obama” as the title of Ms. Ifill’s book calls this will end on November 4th.

Libtard, his half-brother that he met once is irrelevant. What about Cindy McCain that doesn’t even acknowledge that she has two half sisters?

Look at Biden and Obama, would you trust your baby with these jokers? I wouldn’t loan Biden $50 because he would deny ever receiving it ten minutes later. I wouldn’t hire Obama because he can’t submit a true copy of his birth certificate. Obama = Alcopone, Biden = Bloomberg ALL CROOKS!!
Biden JUST SAID he wants Iran to get nukes.

I guess Obama was setup when they had a debate on foreign policy (Republican Strength) in Missippi (KKK). Rediculous, she only asks the questions. GO OBAMA!

Ifil??? What is she fampos of?? I never hear of her. Is she on TV because of affirmative action for minority cleaning ladies? Isn’t her picture on my Maple Syrup and Pancake box?

Ifill’s partiality is clear….Biden gets the last word on every topic!!!

Biden’s face, was he a burn victim?

Biden looks like Nixon in the 1960 debates. Nixon blew it because Kennedy was better looking on TV.

It’s funny. A couple of years ago, people voted in the democrat congress as they wanted “change”. Look at what 2 years has brought.
- A global Financial Meltdown
- Lies from the party that created the mess.
So the question is – Can Congress just walk away from a problem it helped create?
Already, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to keep the subprime crisis from crashing the world economy. The collapse of twin mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with the failures of Lehman Bros., Bear Stearns and insurer AIG, expose taxpayers to more than $1 trillion in liabilities.
Until now, Congress has been surprisingly passive. As Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid put it, “no one knows what to do” right now.
Funny, since it was a Democrat-led Congress that helped cause the problems in the first place.
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently barked “no” at reporters for daring to ask if Democrats deserved any blame for the meltdown, you saw denial in action.
Pelosi and her followers would have you believe this all happened because of President Bush and his loyal Senate lapdog, John McCain. Or that big, bad predatory Wall Street banks deserve all the blame.
“The American people are not protected from the risk-taking and the greed of these financial institutions,” Pelosi said recently, as she vowed congressional hearings.
Only one problem: It’s untrue.
Yes, banks did overleverage and take risks they shouldn’t have.
But the fact is, President Bush in 2003 tried desperately to stop Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from metastasizing into the problem they have since become.
Here’s the lead of a New York Times story on Sept. 11, 2003: “The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.”
Bush tried to act. Who stopped him? Congress, especially Democrats with their deep financial and patronage ties to the two government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie and Freddie.
“These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Rep. Barney Frank, then ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. “The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
It’s pretty clear who was on the right side of that debate.
As for presidential contender John McCain, just two years after Bush’s plan, McCain also called for badly needed reforms to prevent a crisis like the one we’re now in.
“If Congress does not act,” McCain said in 2005, “American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system and the economy as a whole.”
Sounds like McCain was spot on.
But his warnings, too, were ignored by Congress.
To hear today’s Democrats, you’d think all this started in the last couple years. But the crisis began much earlier. The Carter-era Community Reinvestment Act forced banks to lend to uncreditworthy borrowers, mostly in minority areas.

Brock,
you are 100% correct. All that you have said is fact and can not be denied by anyone who has a brain in their head. So if anyone is gonna get called to the floor for this it will be the dems BUT NOT IF THEY RETAIN THE HOUSE and IF OBAMA BECOMES PRESIDENT. If we dont vote the dems out , and dont vote one in, then we will be on the raod to recovery and people will pay for their inaction.

“Tune into ABC” ??
Hahahahahahaha……why in the hell would I want to do that to myself?

Sarah Palin is a curious women…why would someone, who says she thinks government should stay out of people’s lives, want to be such a part of it???

Did you hear how Sarah’s voice wavered and trembled after Joe slammed her 30 minutes into the debate with his rant about windfalls?

Why is it that Repoublicans are constantly making up names for those they don’t like. Eyeful, Klinton, the “One”, Shrillary, Obummer, yet I rarely if ever see the liberals posting using nickames for the repulican candidates. Have long wondered about this.

Marx always said that to control a society, you had to have control over the media, and the schools. Where do we find the vast majority of our leftists? The media, and the schools. Anyone who wonders why our media, and our academia are so biased towards leftism/socialism/marxism, need look no further than Uncle Karl’s book.

Just catching up with the posts after watching the debate.
The second thing I said to my wife, after saying I thought Governor Palin did a great job, was to tell her that the moderator did a great job too and I thought she was very professional.
I enjoyed this debate a great deal more than the last one between the Senators. Furthermore my confidence has been restored in the McCain ticket. I have absolutely no fear about Palin having to step in as president.
She exhibited more confidence and ability than Obama was able to muster in his debate. Frankly I think he is in over his head.
When Bidin explained what his duties would be as VP I had to wonder what was going to be left for Obama to do.
Then it dawned on me, he will be watching Biden to see how it is done.

Ok- so the debate is over and Orinn Hatch as channeled by Matt Drudge and reported by Rick Klein was absolutely and categorically WRONG about Gwen Ifill.
Where are the acknowledgments and apologies? Are you so unpatriotic and racist that you can’t admit that your assertions were wrong?

I’m still trying to figure out exactly what every one is saying was debunked about Ifill. She most definitely has already written a fluff(er) piece on the Obama family for some magazine, and her publisher is releasing marketing notes on her upcoming book.
Spin, spin, spin.

“What? You mean Ifill didn’t write a book in praise of Obama,–”
I havent’t read the book and neither has anyone else. judging from what I know of Ifill, it does not seem likely that she will praise anybody. She is a very objective, academically charged writer not a political pundit. She will write facts and some of these facts will likely be far from the glowing endorsement that Orinn Hatch has imagined. It seems that very few of the kneejerk reactionaries commenting here are capable of self-assessment. Many if not most of the comments about this issue were anti-American and racist to the core. Just because Ifill is black does not mean that she is an Obama sycophant. To make that assertion or claim denies the intellectual and moral integrity of a respected journalist. What is more, the only reason that the claim was made that Ifill would be less than objective is that she is black and is writing a book on the evolution of the black political landscape. Who did you expect to write the book Karl Rove? Shawn Hannity? I was more worried that Ifill’s gender might stack against Biden. Funny that no on here suggested that the fact that the moderator was female might suggest that Ifill was in the tank for Palin. As I’ve repeated several times now, I am a Ron Paul supporter. I am still on the fence as to who I will vote for. Last night’s debate proved that Palin can hold her own against a senior statesman like Biden.
Still a bit of an empty suit and she did spin voting records and tax plans like a Washington liar. I note that not a single one of the Drudges has come back here to apologize for their statemets about Ifill in spite of the fact that Palin did so well and Ifill was one hundred percent objective to both.
Drudge by the way took down the link to this story and even erased it from the archives.
So you bigots have been bamboozeled and this has indeed proved to be yet another manufactured smear campaign created by and for the lying cheating Karl Rove campaign.

what does this have to do with tanks