Double Team Debate
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 8:24 am by CordeiroI wish I could say I’m surprised by today’s Drudge headline “VP Debate Moderator Releasing ‘Age of Obama’ Book On Inauguration Day”. I wish I could say I’m stunned by the obvious conflict of interest this presets for someone who claims to be an unbiased “moderator” to have such an obvious inclination toward a particular candidate.
But I’m not. This is, after all, the Age of the ObamaMedia. For them – with very few exceptions – the vote on November 4 is just a formality. The outcome is a forgone conclusion. Hope and Change are coming – personified by the Obamessiah and SlowJoe Biden.
The illusion of an unbiased Press has become so thin its as if the MSM doesn’t even bother to hide the fact they believe using every asset at their disposal to put Obama in the Oval Office is their duty as world citizens. No praise of Obama is too great, and no shot at McCain is too cheap as to not be used in this effort.
I have participated in contests where it was obvious as to whom the moderator/referee favored. Victory is still possible in those situations although it is made all the more difficult by having to beat not one but two opponents at the same time.
Having said that, I fully expect Stiletto Sarah Palin to clean the floor with SlowJoe Biden tomorrow night. SlowJoe hasn’t had an original thought in nearly three decades and his tendency to insert his foot to his mouth and chew on the kneecap is well documented. So I guess if with the SlowJoe handicap aided by obviously biased moderator it makes the odds even for Team Obama.
And before my left leaning readers start feigning outrage at my bluntness about “their” moderator, I’d like to ask one simple question: When was the last time you saw a Presidential Debate moderated by an unapologetic conservative moderator? Three points if you can name one moderated by a journalist who was set to release “Age of Reagan/Bush 41/Bush 43” before the debate even started.
Good luck.
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The McCain camp should play this one carefully considering the moves they made preceding the first debate. They don’t want to appear whiny about the media bias or fearful of the encounters with the all mighty Obama and his brain dead sidekick.
Wow, just another reason not to waste time on this debate. Why bother?
Ifill has moderated before. Does this news change anything? Not really. All it does is punctuate what we already suspected. She and PBS might sympathize just a tad with the left.
The news changes a lot of things. When everything you hear is one side, you start to believe it. Every once in a while, I catch myself and have to figure out if I agree with something because that’s what I’m hearing all the time or if it’s because I really believe it.
-The debate is on,
-All three players will perform the same as if there was no news of the book,
-Our appraisal of the news media is not exactly shattered.
This news does strike me as a little weird (unfair?), and it’s a shame that she and PBS see this as OK. They are supposed to at least feign objectivity, even if we don’t buy it.
Sean Hannity or Rush should co-moderate the debate.
It’s incredible that Republicans are just now reacting to this, despite the fact the book was announced in July and featured in a Time Magazine article in August.
Do you people not read?
What does the fact that most not following the life and writings of Gwen Ifill have to do with the obvious appearance of media bias in a debate?
Upon the announcement of this debate, the Republican Party has had the opportunity to speak out against this choice. Yet, due to lack of organization or lack of foresight, they did not. It is odd to bring this up now, assuming this is as big an issue as some make it out to be.
The fact that Ifill was agreed upon by the McCain camp as a moderator *two weeks* after her book was announced can only mean one of two things: they didn’t care or they didn’t do any research.
So they either flip-flopped on Ifill or they were just dumb.
Either way, the complaint doesn’t have any legs to stand on.
I’m waiting for the movie to come out. I heard Morgan Freeman will do the narration, and Denzel Washington will play the mighty Oba-wan. No word on whether or not Vivica A Fox will play Mean Michelle…
“no shot at McCain is too cheap”
Are you kidding me? Seriously, are you kidding me?
Two words:
Swift Boating
Your point is valid, the media is biased but you ruin it with ridiculous statements like that that.
MSN might be biased, so is FOX. Try the BBC, they have a statutory duty to be impartial and while not always perfect, are pretty good nevertheless.
But maybe I am biased too.
Swift Boats? I’ll conceed the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacks against John “Lurch” Kerry were cheap shots when Lurch does something very simple: release his military records.
You’ll remember he promised to do just that on Meet the Press way back before Election Day 2004. Last I checked, we’re still waiting.
Nice try, Chris. Better luck next time.
The Karl Rove Republican school practically invented cheap shots. The Senator Kerry adverts contained statements from men who did not serve with him stating they did. It was so bad it has become a phrase in itself for cheap shots. I didn’t think anyone actually condoned them.
Anyway, talking of media bias:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2008/oct/02/usa