No Media Liberal Bias? Are You Blind or just Illiterate?

I do wish they had picked a better person to moderate this debate. To me this is a very important debate. I'm predicting that with the way Palin has handled her interviews lately she will either completely screw the debate up or she will come out smelling like a rose. If she screws the debate up I don't want anyone to be able to blame it on a biased moderator. But of course if she does really well with the debate she will come out looking even better since the debate is being moderated by a liberal democrat. Guess we'll just have to see how it goes. And I agree with what the first person says. Couldn't the McCain campaign said "Nope. Find someone else to moderate."?

Her book ISN'T published. She hasn't finished writing it and she hasn't even started the chapter on Obama. Who are the other moderators with her? Besides, someone has to be chosen and everyone has a personal perspective. If they'd chosen a diehard Republican, would you have complained of bias? Unless they opted for a third party moderator, there will always be someone who can find fault.

If she was republican it would never fly!! That's for sure!

I'm really not that familiar with Gwen Ifil but I do know her book was announced back in July and written about in Time Magazine some time ago. The book was announced at least two weeks before both sides agreed with her being the moderator. I agree, she doesn't seem like the ideal choice but I really don't think the right has a legitimate argument since this isn't anything knew and they didn't protest when she was announced as the moderator. For what it's worth, I have heard commentators from both parties say she's an objective journalist. As I said, I'm not very familiar with her so I can't say if I agree or disagree with them. Annie

Obviously most people have a political affiliation right or left, but to have a moderator that will directly, financially, benefit from the victory of one candidate over the other is just ridiculous. They shouldn't have to challenge her status as moderator. She should recuse herself just for the appearance of impropriety. I guess fairness would just be too much to ask.

Both candidates approved of the moderator and the format of the debates. If you are so upset about Gwen Ifill, just blame her for whatever the results of the debate are. That would be typical.

Now that the debate is over I must say, she did an outstanding job. Not like she had much choice. Her gig was up by the time the cameras rolled. I heard a guy callin on the radio with a good analogy. He said if you compared it to a football game. You are always going to have referees who have a favorite team, That is unavoidable. But with her book, It was like Gwen Ifill Had Money on the Game. But she did do a great job.

Liberal Bias?? In the media?? Really?? AT NPR??? Where the 'N' stands for Liberal. We can only hope that McCain's people will let Sarah Be Sarah and not try to form her into the middling weeniee that McCain is. She should talk about liberal bias and Ifill's book every chance she gets. We can only hope that Ifill will Be so over the top Biased that even the "Blinded By The Light" Obamabots can't even deny it.

Liberal bias upsets a lot of people just because of the fact that too many people try to act like it doesn't exist because they are liberals. I think this may be a good thing, to an extent, since it shows McCain and Palin have a lot of confidence in the fact that she'll perform well in the debates. It'll be the best thing seeing Joe Biden getting owned by a woman all Democrats have so little respect for.