Fair and balanced?
. . . possibly, but I'm not sure.
Gwen Ifill, the PBS moderator of the upcoming VP debate is publishing a new book. The title, you ask? "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. "
OK, so now the Age of Aquarius is done, the Quaternary Age is over, and it's the Age of Obama? The Quaternary lasted for 2.588 million years, which causes me to ask . . . WTF are we in for?
Whatever . . .
The real question, though, is how can this woman appear to be objective considering that book title? Notice I said "appear." In certain positions, it is not only required to be impartial, the appearance of impartiality is also important.
In an online video promoting her book, she is enthusiastic about "taking the story of Barack Obama and extending it."
If Obama loses, her book tanks. If he wins, her book is a best seller.
She does not clear that bar, and should recuse herself.
She won't.
Folks who actually make sense.
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3 comments:
Funny, Bernie Goldberg on O'Reilley just a while ago said he didn't think it really matters whether Ms. Ifill wrote a book or not because 99% of journalists are pro-Obama anyway, i.e. would be hard to find a non-biased journalist, albeit not all who have Obama books coming out.
You have an interesting take on the success or not of her book, and probably quite correct.
It'll be hard not to watch the Sound and The Fury of it all tomorrow night and if Ifill treats both candidates the same.
Jannie "Faulkner / Vonnegut" Funster
Everyone has an agenda in this election. It's getting old, huh?
In this election, the truth has been stretched so thin you can see through it.
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