Vice Presidential debate
Sarah Palin's spokeswoman Meg Stapleton hints that the McCain campaign has given Sarah Palin the freedom to be herself during tonights debate. Many people have been concerned that her handlers were smothering her best attributes and thereby causing her to become unrecognizable compared to the original Palin.
I love the "original Palin" that I heard on the Sean Hannity radio show yesterday. That interview may also have given us a hint to the campaign's change of stategy regarding Palin.
Meg Stapleton's comment about the real Sarah comes in around the 2:07 mark of the video.
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John McCain discusses a number of issues with Fox News' Carl cameron in this interview.
"...Carl Cameron sat down with John McCain and talked about a wide range of issues including the financial bailout, Gov. Sarah Palin and PBS journalist and Vice Presidential Debate moderator, Gwen Ifil….
On Gov. Palin qualifications for the second highest position in the land, John McCain was unequivocal and utterly confident in her capabilities and dismissed the “press attacks” as not worth responding to..."
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Thursday night, Gwen Ifill is scheduled to be the moderator at the VP debate. Last night, concerned citizens on the Internet and Greta Van Susteren of Fox News broke the story about a conflict of interest concerning Ms. Ifill as a moderator for this debate.
Ms. Ifill has a book coming out that currently has TWO TITLES:
The title on her PBS Website is The Breakthrough: Politics in the Age of Obama
http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/gwen/
OOPS! Gwen Ifill apparently read my post on RealClearPolitics.com today -- so she "fixed" her Webpage. Here is a PDF containing the cached copy from Google, showing how the book title appeared until this morning:
http://64.37.107.199/ifill_tower/20080924_ifill_webpage_before.pdf
The title on Amazon.com is The Breakthrough: Politics And Race in the Age of Obama
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/038552501X/
Why try to hide it? A pig with lipstick is still a pig. This is just another Winky-Wink where someone is trying to do something that is not about race, when in fact, it is.
Although the book was not a secret, Ms. Ifill and/or the debate committee did not inform John McCain's campaign of the book. As of this writing, Ms. Ifill and the debate committee have not returned calls from Fox News or anyone else that I am aware of.
Ms. Ifill stands to make a lot more money from her book if Obama is elected, a book which is scheduled to be published on Inauguration Day (see Amazon.com link above). This is an obvious conflict of interest.
This is not good news for either V.P. or Presidential candidate, the moderator, the two parties, the public, the debate committee or anyone. Ms. Ifill should recuse herself, heck she can blame it on her recent broken ankle injury, and the debate committee should take responsibility for handling this properly.
By the way, if you are still thinking Ms. Ifill can handle this without bias, take another look. Ms. Ifill also gave her opinion on Gov. Palin's speech at the GOP Convention and on Gov. Palin in another interview - here are the videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpXKBZVuK9I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zafLsAtp_Q
This is about as unbiased as it gets with media these days -- except for Greta Van Susteren. Thank you Greta for listening to our concerns and reporting this story! I am not a party member, but yours is now the news show I will watch.
GretaWire blog:
http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/10/01/oh-oh-6/
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