Did anyone notice how Ifill happened to mention Obama's "bounce" on Washington Week in Review on Sept 5, then talked around to ask McCain "erasing" that? ''.... She was unable to force herself to use unbiased wording. As a "respected journalist" she should have been able to simply ask the panelists about a similar bounce for McCain, and their views on that possibility. . And she is supposed to moderate a debate -- sounds likes it will be Ifill and the Democrat aqainst the Republican.

This isn't new... lately Gwen has been letting her journalistic integrity slip. Her tone of voice, facial expressions, and manner of moderating guests on Washington Week (serving up softball questions to left leaning guests who hit line drives at McCain, receiving applause and cheers from the audience and wide smiles from Gwen) leave little doubt that her bias is costing her in future credibility.

AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WHO HATES REPUBLICANS AND LOVES AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLITICAN...WHO'D HAVE THUNK IT!

It's Brit, not Bret.

Fixed -- thanks, brat!

If she hates Republicans, then for the life of me I don't know why she'd be hosting Condi Rice at her (Gwen's) house for dinner, just a few years back, when Gwen was failing to ask any actual journalistic questions of Condi or any of the other war criminals Condi's in cahoots with, as they lied and manipulated the media straight into a disastrous war. (The gals giggled and acknowledged it publicly, btw.) Maybe she poisoned Condi's food, but we just never heard about it...

Will she be able to restrain herself from using the phrase "Taming of the Shrew" when referring to the VP debate?

Gwen Ifill is the perfect example of the journalist caught up in the fake "fairness" in journalism that has arisen since the demise of the Fairness Doctrine. I shall never forget Gwen's referrnce to "Kerry's version" of his heroism when referring to the story as enshrined in the records of the US Navy. That terminology implied that the Swift Boat smear was a "controversy" with two equal sides.

On Friday night (12 Sept), she introduced Washington Week by describing the previous week as a clash between two campaigns viciously attacking each other, a complete distortion that enhances Republican talking points masquerading as even-handedness.

Please check out this story from Alaska about an anti-Palin Rally to see if it is true and if it is I wonder why it was never picked up by National media? We (voters) deserve to know everything we can about her since so few reporters are allowed around her without her script and handlers. The story came from XLNT Alaska. I got a copy of the video 21 September '08

Ifill went from the NEW YORK TIME to NBC to PBS WITH JIM LEHRER. And she just wrote a book about OBAMA. Why would there be suspicion of bias?

One would only hope that Gwen would remember all the biases against her as a black woman. We the public are smart enough to make up our own minds and we don't need or want them playing this gotcha crap. If she does it, I hope she never gets the opportunity again.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POSTER CHILD

Amazing how whites attack black, minority people with impunity and of course see bias which is a case of seeing themselves, in any minority public person. I have if anything found Gwen Ifill bland bending over backwards as most minorities do in western countries to be 'fair' almost to a fault.
I am myself of dual heritage, Bengali-India and English. I thank my English mother that she loved India and raised us, her children there with my father and did not wish to return to England. I see my counterpart, of dual heritage as having suffered so much living and growing up in the West in a dominant white culture. What is it with whites that they so dislike people of colour, is it the terrible misdeeds of their forbears?

Get rid of Gwen Ifill as moderator on Thursday night's debate. She is in the tank for Obama. How biased can you get?

I think that everyone should allow God to move in this election and stop the judging and racisim that has cancerized our country for over 200 years.
Let Go and let God!!!!!!!

Eyetsemitan...Life does not end; it goes on.

Gwen Ifill scares me because reminds me of King Kong.

Ifill is deep in the tank for Obama, has a financial interest in the outcome of the election with her book and increasingly shows her distain for whites and Republicans. What in the hotel was the Presidential Debate Comm thinking when they chose this tainted shill?

To the Bengali-Indian/English poster:

I've never heard so much tripe and fluff in a single posting. Guess what? You aren't the only half-white person in the world and no one is interested in your life's story which in no-way adds an iota to the point you are trying to make. If you are so in-touch about your Bengali-Indian roots, why didn't you go so far to tell us you still live there... or are you living in the UK thereby making your argument intellectually dishonest?

Here is a fact check for you: Ifill has a book coming out on January 20, 2009 (the day of the inauguration for the next president of the US). The title: "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama". Yeah, pretty non partisan.

Oh, and here's another pointer: starting out with blanket statements like "Amazing how whites attack black, minority people..." really devalues any points you are trying to make. Like attacks never come from the other side?

Stick that in your pseudo-intellectual sensitivity pipe and smoke it.

Why are Republicans so afraid letting Palin debate? Gwen Ifill is a paragon of objectivity. See for PROOF:
watch?v=9cKAFqn4Y8Q

She has a direct financial interest in this campaign with her book coming out glowing over Obama. It will do much better if Obama is elected.

If she had any morality at all, she would withdraw from the debate.

Stupid me, I keep forgetting morality is not a term understood by hipocritical liberals.

Racism is unacceptable, whether fueled by someone who is white or black. Black racism exists, just say it and now we've identified the "duck". She walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, she's a duck!

It amazes me at the racism displayed on this site towards Gwen Ifill. Republicans and racists assume because she is Black the VP debate is fixed. How about letting Palin answer the questions without McCain by her side for a change. If Palin answers the questions coherently without gaffes then so be it, however if she answers like she has recently I guess all you racist republicns will try and blame Gwen Ifill.

It's not the color of her skin - it's the color of her politics that is the problem.

The "CAT" is out of the bag or should we say GWEN is in the "bag" for Obama. Her upcoming book release praising Obama certainly makes AMERICA question her ability to be an unbiased facilitator for the Thursday VP Debate. We NEED CHANGE.....but we certainly don't need GWEN making it look like the FIX IS IN. Boot her butt out and put in somebody really fair and balanced so the Dems can win this FAIR AND SQUARE. I don't care if she is yellow, orange, purple, black or white - she is no longer unbiased to the public. She can come back on-line when the votes are in - but right now most of the public is DONE WITH HEAR....how stupid to "forget" telling the public that she was almost finished writing about how wonderful Mr. Obama is......

Amazing...obviously nobody on this board has watched a presidential/vice-presidential debate.

Seeing as the moderator doesn't get to interject one's own opinion and asks virtually the same questions of both candidates, allow the debate to either expose her alleged "bias" or Palin's incompetence.

But this junk here is only indicative of racism...the personal and racial insults over a perceived "bias" only proves there's more racism in this race than media bias. If the comments were strictly kept to a political critique, that's one thing. But the extras? That says it all.

Interesting how Republicans are afraid for Palin to stand up to Gwen Ifill, but are fine with her "standing up" to Iran or Putin if president.

This woman is the poster child of black racists, affirmative action, democrat supporters, Obama butt kissers and socialist R us. She should not be allowed to moderate. If so, then Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity need to moderate the next presidential debate.

Gwen should not be allowed to moderate this vice presidential debate on Thursday. It's not what you say, it's how you say it?Feelings and looks are as strong as the spoken word.
I'm hoping there is enough pressure from the public to have her step down graciously.

I think her giant monkey nose was tired that's all,these savages can go without sleep for days.

She really gives journalists a bad name! Unfair and bias, in it for her own good Just like Barack Hussin Obama!
Moderator" is a nonpartisan person presiding as an officer of a town meeting." But there is nothing "moderate" nor nonpartisan about where Ifill stands on Barack Hussin Obama. She's so far in the crack of the Democratic presidential candidate's ass that you can't tell were she starts or ends. How can she be allowed to be the moderator of the VP debate? Who made that choice?

whoever owns this MUST be BIASED and RACIST seeing as how my previous comment was not posted..mmmm

f*ing red necks!!!!!

So what!!!!!!!

So what, if she don't like Republicans! So what, if she wrote a book about Obama!!
So what if some people are only voting for Obama because he's black!
but...isn't that the exact reason you RACIST MOFO's isn't voting for him!!!!!

You people hate that our skin pigment is darker, yet you are always running to the tanning booth!!

Hypocrites, just like McCain/Palin.

you pale people are the ANTI-CHRIST!!!

It is amazing that the thought is that you can only be fair if you are a white republican. Sounds a lot like the troopergate investigation into Palin...she won't cooperate because democrats are part of the investigatory board. Gwen Ifill has been a fair impartial journalist for many years. She is entitled to write books and have personal views and is professional enough to keep those separate from her role as moderator.

As "a typical white person" I'm a bit confused by all of the racits talk. I hear that 95% of black people are voting for Barock. I wonder are they racist or for the first time in history has one person found a message that 95% of one race agrees with. I agree with the duck message. She loves Barock, she hates Palin and she's so deep in the bag for Barock she wrote a book with his name in the title. That's a duck. Also, just like 95% of black people she is going to vote for Barock. I'm sure she will be fair and balanced, not doubt about it. If you believe that I've got a $700 million deal just for you. Good luck suckers!

Gwen Ifill is a flaming pro-Obama biased liberal who cannot be impartial to a conservative Republican woman like Sarah Palin. She should recuse herself from moderating the vice-presidential debate!

She needs to go as moderator. Even if, a really big "IF"....she writes negatively asbout Eegg-Obama, she shouldn't be moderating a nationally televised debate. I hope that feisty Sarah tells it like it is at the outset so that there is no doubt in viewer's minds about Ifill's BIAS. Can the bitch!

Who decides the moderater of a debate? Tim Russert was the best of the best! His shows were worth watching because he was about truth & never bais on his TV broadcast. It seems strange to pick someone that has written a book on Obama to moderate the VP debate.
I think it is wonderful to have a black man run for president! In the beginnning I was going to vote for him. But after verifying facts about him, I changed my mind. I was surprised to find out that biologically Obama is 50% white. He doesn't asknowledge it. Why? But Obama's ties to shady characters concerns me the most.
The sacrafices made for war in Iraq could be washed down the tube if military was removed before the Iraqis are able to run their country. John McCain wants the decision to be made by General Petreas on troop removal.

Wow. Folks here sure know how to hate and prejudge. The book isn't even OUT, and it's being criticized for being favorable to Obama. And "she hates Palin"??? Uh, any evidence to support that? Oh, yeah. She "wrote a book with his name in the title." A trenchant analysis by a small mind, methinks.

Instead of all the handwringing in anticipation (more, I believe, from legitimate concern about how poorly Sarah might perform, rather than anything GI might inject) of the debate, how 'bout we see HOW the debate is conducted and plays out first. Then come back IF the criticism now being leveled becomes real.....

"I think her giant monkey nose was tired that's all,these savages can go without sleep for days.

Posted by: Jay at October 1, 2008 4:11 PM"

Nice!! You must be quite proud of that!

Wow, a lot of racists sneaking in little comments here, but mostly just a lot of misinformed people. I love it when people start talking about Black racism or reverse racism. I grew up listening to that kind of mistaken reasoning which assumes that racism is synonymous with identifying with someone that has the same color skin as you.

If you are a white person living abroad in japan for a few years, and you see another white person on the street, you probably immediately identify with that person. This does not make you a racist. If you go up and talk to them instead of the other people on the street, you are not a racist. If you decide to write a book about that person once you've talked to them... you are still not a racist!

On the other hand, if the Japanese people one day decided to kill any white-skinned people they see on the street, and then made jokes about how dumb or ugly or weak white people are for decades afterward, or even if they just decided to rarely hire white people for jobs or to make it hard for them become citizens, because white people are "on the average not as trustworthy" as Japanese people -- now that would be racism!

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means!

If you’re black you can’t be a racist even if the only reason you’re voting for Barock is because he’s black. As a white person, if I don’t vote for Barock, I might be considered a racist. A racist is a racist at the end of the day. If you’re voting on race and little to nothing else you’re a racist, either way you cast your vote. I would vote for a green person if I agreed with their policies. If you’re dumb enough to vote for or against a persons color then you’re stupid and ignorant. My problem with this woman is she controls the entire debate. She selects the questions and controls the flow of the debate. You can be ignorant or act ignorant, but either way you’re still ignorant. She has more to gain if Barock wins and that is the issue. Having an opinion or an idea is one thing, she has a vested interest in the outcome both financially and ideologically. She’s too invested in Barock like the rest of the media. Stop asking Palin about her experience and start asking Barock.

1. Where did his economic experience come from?
2. Do you think he has a complete understanding of world economics?
3. Where did has national defense experience come from?
4. Can he protect your family from attack?
5. What successes in his past can he point to?
6. Name three accomplishments.
7. Why won’t anyone drill him on his ties to Bill Ayers?
8. What are his ties to Acorn?
9. Why is he rated the most liberal senator?
10. He has no record of crossing party lines, why should we believe he will when he’s elected?
11. Where does he really stand on defense spending, increase, decrease or reduce?

I could think of a thousand more questions that would have been asked of Palin if she had a similar background. I’m not going to convince you and you aren’t going to convince me. Vote and see what happens. You have one vote and so do I. If you really want to make a difference then do what Palin did and throw your hat in the ring. She did and she succeeded, you’re typing on your computer. I know she’s more qualified than all of us!

To be honest, I haven't followed PBS or NPR for many years (back when Robert McNeil was at PBS). Until tonight I didn't know what Ms. Ifill looked like.
I do now recognize her as one of the commentators at the republican convention. I felt her commentary at that time expressed an obvious disdain for the proceedings. It was patently different from the commentary of her more conservative-leaning counterparts.

In any event, I am concerned that an obviously liberal journalist (one of the large majority of journalists) who has written a pro-Obama book to be released on inauguration day (big $$ if he wins) is going to "moderate" the VP debate. This seems questionable at best. I do hope that each candidate gets equal treatment. We need the chance to hear them both.

Gwen Ifill should not be hosting the VP debate. She will have no credibility. She has to be replaced with someone who is unbiased. We are losing faith in the media. America deserves fair and balanced media.

Just another dagger in the heart of american journalism. i grew up trusting my papers and television reporters, but, as i've grown older, i've come to realize that most of the media i've grown accustomed to don't report accurately, on balance, or in depth. It's a monoculture bred in journalism schools. There are not ethics. This is just one more pitiful example of someone who should have recused herself long, long, ago from a debate on this subject. And shame on the Commission. Now its integrity is thrown into question.

Since Gwen Ifill has a monetary stake in the outcome of the election she should do the moral thing and take herself out of the moderator’s position in the 10/2/08 vice presidential debate.

Really

Gwen should step down, we all know that she will be in pallins corner, choosing sisterhood over nation. Poor Joe Biden doesnt have a chance with Sarahcuda and Gwen tag teaming him the whole debate!

These comments have to be approved by the owner of this site, but he allows statements like "her giant monkey nose!"
what a joke!

What were they thinking at the CPD? Gwen Ifill is rooting for Obama (view the book promos at Amazon.com). She will make more money selling her book. Where is her integrity? She should excuse hersself and go away forever.

We need to VOTE for what we want, not for what elected officials tell us we should want. Ifill is just another pawn in the media's grip who is more than happy to pump up ratings. Ratings driven by any controversy: conservative, liberal, biased, lying, dirty, truthful, open or spun...it doesn't matter. All media are exploiting the US public each and every time it INCREASES their ratings. Ifill, and everyone else who has used any and every avenue possible to further their own self interest and wealth, has a lot of introspection to do when their 15 minutes are up. For 99.9 percent of Americans...we can't afford to be distracted by their career pursuits while the 21st century's genesis is being solidified. Don't vote emotionally, don't vote hopefully...vote for what you intellectually know is the best thing for your children and your grandchildren. It is as simple as voting to remain what we know to be American vs. voting to become the next impotent once-powerful nation of independence. Ifill is no different than any other who is riding the media medium to further her own career, fame and fortune.

Controversy swirled over vice presidential debate moderator Gwen Ifill one day before the face-off between Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Joe Biden, after new scrutiny was drawn to her upcoming book featuring Barack Obama. Gwen Ifill of PBS is the moderator for Thursday's vice presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri.

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

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

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

In the book, Ifill takes a look at the black political movement's beginnings during the Civil Rights movement that gave way "to a generation of men and women who are the direct beneficiaries of the struggles of the 1960s," according to Amazon.com.

Ifill discussed the book in a interview with The Washington Post on September 4, well before the Commission on Presidential Debates announced the debate moderators

The McCain campaign said it had not seen Ifill's Post interview, or been aware of her book, until Tuesday. McCain told CNN's Juan Carlos Lopez that the situation concerned him but that he was sure Ifill would be professional.

The Washington-based journalist is traveling to St. Louis and has not publicly commented on the controversy.
"Right now Gwen is in St. Louis. Her focus is on the debate. ... I don't think it's anything she needs to worry about or address. It's in her bio, there have been articles about it," said PBS spokeswoman Anne Bell.

In the Post article by Howard Kurtz, host of CNN's "Reliable Sources," Ifill responded to criticism over moderating the debate. "I'm in great demand -- everyone wants to talk to me -- but I'm not speaking for the whole race," Ifill said. "My job is to be a reporter. I cannot be the great interpreter. It's not my job to be on someone else's air telling them what black people think."

Ifill told Kurtz that as Obama accepted his party's nomination for president, a white television reporter asked her: "Aren't you just blown away by all of this?" She said she was not.

Kurtz also points out that "on one level, Ifill says, she views this moment as the daughter of a black minister who marched in civil rights demonstrations and who she wishes were alive to see what Obama has achieved."

Ifill told Kurtz, "I still don't know if he'll be a good president. I'm still capable of looking at his pros and cons in a political sense." Besides, Ifill says, "no one's ever assumed a white reporter can't cover a white candidate."

Ifill also discussed the upcoming book in the Kurtz interview. She said her book would cover new black political leaders such as Obama, Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts and Newark Mayor Cory Booker.

"We're very lazy when we think about race in this country. We try to put it in a box. It's Jesse [Jackson] versus Al [Sharpton], or Jesse and Al versus everyone else," she told Kurtz. "We love simplistic conflict. There's a whole group of people who have Ivy League degrees and immense accomplishments who actually benefited from the things their parents were fighting for."

Amazon.com's description of the book notes that Ifill drew on interviews from "power brokers" such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and many others, as well as "her own razor-sharp observations and analysis of such issues as generational conflict and the 'black enough' conundrum, Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history."

Ifill has been criticized in the past by political commentators for her performance as a moderator -- most notably in 2004's vice presidential debate between Dick Cheney and ex-Sen. John Edwards. Edwards lashed out at Cheney's ties to Halliburton, to which Cheney responded: "I can respond, Gwen, but it's going to take more than 30 seconds."

Ifill shot back: "Well, that's all you've got."

And most recently, some PBS viewers complained about Ifill's facial expressions after Palin's acceptance speech during the Republican National Convention in September, according to The Associated Press.

"Those viewers apparently believed Ifill didn't seem sufficiently excited," the AP's David Bauder wrote Wednesday.
"We are all subject to that kind of scrutiny," Ifill told Bauder. "If you're frowning to think after a long night on your feet ... you're not even aware that your face is frowning to think. You're just thinking. I know where my head was," the Washington-based journalist also told the AP. "So that's what counts."

Ifill made news Tuesday after it was reported she broke her ankle in her Washington home while carrying debate prep material.

Ifill said that would not hinder her from traveling to the debate.

Ifill's career spans decades. Previously to working at PBS, Ifill was a reporter for NBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun and Boston Herald American.

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."
-Yoda

Moderate? Ifill should bow out, but she won't. She will prove her lack of journalistic integrity by not recusing herself in tonight's VP debate. Good Lord! We demand that our umpires and referees perform impartially for mere games. How is it that we allow our national election process to function with a lesser standard?

Thankfully no one posting on this forum is "biased." :-)

There's a very big problem with Gwen Ifill moderating the VP Debate tonight! How can you even begin to pretend that there is no bias here? "Professional Journalist”?!!! I have yet to find one in the media and then let's add to it your financial interest in Obama winning. Pa-leeeeze . . . this election coverage by the "media" is one big rally for Obama! And now let's throw this fuel on the fire! Disgusting!

Let me say FIRST that I am a fervent Obama supporter.

That said, I am very disappointed by the choice of Ifill as the VP debate moderator. She wrote a book in which Obama seems to be a prominent figure (judging from the title). That alone makes me worry that it will be hard for her to be unbiased -- at the very least subconsciously biased. If I were her, I would have recused myself.

Frankly, I think there will be a backlash by the Rebublican base. If Sarah Palin botches it, they'll be able to say it was because of a biased moderator. It was a little silly to accuse Katie Couric of being too tough and embracing "gotcha" journalism. In this case, there will be some real basis for complaint.

WOW...just when you think racism is dissipating and objectivism is rising you see comments like many posted above. Most male journalist that have moderated debates in the past have written books about candidates. This book is not about Obama, but about the political history of a people. The book was discussed before she was agreed upon by both sides. Did they vet her like they vetted Palin?

I am shocked at the comments on here...some of you guys are despicable....probably glad we have the internet so you can hide behind your racist comments...Gwen Ifill is qualified to do the job, so let her do it and stop judging her by your obviously low standards. No wonder the rest of the world laughs at us....Go ahead now and tell me that you dont care what the world thinks of us....IDIOTS....

Bob, you make good points but it's Barack, ok?! Silly guy. I know you know, but in the heat of the moment, right?!

You forgot to mention Barack's ties to Frank Marshall Davis, a well-know Communist, when he was under his tutelage years ago in Hawaii, why Barack has never released his grades from college and law school, or supplied his birth certificate without it looking altered. The info is all out there if people are willing to take the time to investigate and become well-informed. But the sad thing is that most of us are too busy working, working overtime, watching stupid sitcoms or reality shows and even watching the propaganda spit out every night by our wonderful liberal major network news media, to give a damn. I have friends who NEVER watch the news and it kills me. Be informed. Be aware of agendas and bias. It's out there in full force, more than ever for this election. It's in the spoken word and in pictures. Cover photos of Obama are photoshopped, lightened, blemishes removed, taken from a low angle to make him look bigger than life. Ones of McCain and Palin recently (one in particular on Time or Newsweek)are left with bad lighting, blemishes etc. One even left the glare on her eyeglasses, which for anyone else, would have been photoshopped away. One photog even admitted she shot McCain in unflattering lighting that made him almost look demonic, on purpose. Subliminal Seduction.......an old book but very enlightening about advertising and print ads. More good coverage and more coverage period has been given to Obama this campaign period than McCain.....it's a proven fact. If all you watch is the evening news, you are not getting the whole story. Be informed. Or become a Socialist country. We're headed there fast.

I would like just ONE of you IDIOTS to give a specific example of how Ifill's selection or political views will affect the outcome of the debate? Aren't both parties given the same question? And isn't ANY one chosen to moderate only able to support one candidate? So find me a moderator that wouldn't be biased??

We could never find a purely independent moderator in America. I just can't imagine the media would allow a person who's writing and publishing a book to the Democratic Presidential candidate to take the job as a moderator. Both the media and this moderator woman are just too stupid beyond imagination.

Oh and by the way, when she nails Democrates (equally)...guess what happens? She get's blamed for being in the tank for GOP...read this from 2005: http://www.blackcommentator.com/138/138_fr_hack_journalism.html

Make up your minds people she can't be unbiasely Republican AND unbiasely Democrate. Maybe just MAYBE she's a human being interested in the election, the effect of Obama, Politics as a whole and many other things.

Bengali-India and English

You comments are actually a little racist. not all white people hate people of color, in fact more than 90% of whait people don't hate anyone. I do not hate any group of people and your automatic assumption that all white people hate all people of color is ignorant, untrue and offensive to me and millions of "white" people that do not hate anyone. Accusing me odf racisim make me think you are the racsit, seeing all whites as bad ot threatening. Grow up, racism is everywhere and affects everyone. I do not like being called a racist bu implication from someone who has never met me and would not bother to do so before jusging me as a person. You are a troll, trolling for people you can offend

Shellbell, use your brains, if you got any! How many would-be-moderators are literally banking their future on the Obama's victory, come January 20, 2009? Get it?

Gwen Ifill an "impartial moderator"? Yeah, and she is Japanese too, wouldn't you agree, Miss "brains"?
In pure ethical grounds, she must recuse herself!
This is "rigged" and stinks!!!
Maybe Shellbell could take her place... She doesn't sound "bias" to me...(!?!?!?).
FLavin

How about a trade then? Ifill can do thois one if Brit Hume can do the next Presidential debate? It's time someone asked him a question.

If you want to criticize Gwen's work as a journalist than so be it. But to inject hurtful, negative comments concerning her appearance is totally uncalled for and this is the type of hate that undermines unity of all people. Remember that God created us in his own image!!
Hopefully when Barack becomes President he will not be viewed as an Affirmative Poster child, it was suggested Gwen was. But as what he and Gwen really are, bold, intelligent people.

Note to all WHITE AMERICANS, Stop watching PBS and stop donating!!

You guys are on crack. Ive never seen such ridiculous comments. And stop watching PBS and donating? Really? This is one of the channels that offers programming other than the likes of the simpsons that may stop children from growing up ignorant. And those tolerant whites here, dont defend this forum, some comments show racial bias is alive and well.
Gwen admittedly may not be the least affected moderator, but her record is strong and able to withstand the speculations against her because of her unpublished, Obama "ass-kissing" book. She did maintain neutrality. And Jennifer? Please. There McCain-approved commercials featuring Obama depicted in similar ways, yet the awful pictures of McCain were not approved by a Presidential candidate.

Did anyone else catch Ifill's comments on the mike after the debate ended? I was watching the NBC coverage, and I heard clearly as she leaned in to shake Biden's hand and said enthusiastically, "You did great!" The exchange between her and Palin was devoid of any such praise (at least audibly). I thought such an evaluative comment about the debate performance by the moderator was unprofessional.

Darn right, Yoda!

Unbelievable I thought as a country we were passed this.