Becoming Human

The moderator of Thursday night’s V.P. debate is Gwen Ifill of PBS.  She should step down as moderator due to her personal and financial interest in Obama succeding in his campaign.  It’s bad enough that she is from PBS, a liberal tax-payer funded organization, but she has a book coming out praising Obama and his campaign.  It is called “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” and will be released on Inaguration day.  You can already pre-order it from Amazon or Target for the discounted price of $16.47.  The publisher’s blurb says: “In THE BREAKTHROUGH, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential campaign and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power.”  Not surprsingly, all of the polititians profiled are Democrats.

The book not a secret, it is mentioned on the “About Gwen Ifil” page on the PBS website.  Bloggers and Fox News are talking about it today, but I have not been able to find anything about it on the MSM, including CNN and Yahoo news.  Let me know if I missed it.

I won’t bother to go into why Ifill’s liberal leanings should have disqualified her anyhow, the point here is that she has a financial interest in the outcome of the election.  Clearly, her book will sell more copies if Obama is elected.  Don’t journalists have a code of ethics?  She says she can still be impartial.  What if the moderator were Greta van Sustern or Meghan Kelly of Fox News and had written a book about the breadthrough politics of Sarah Palin and other Republican women?  The liberals would have a fit, and rightly so.  At the very least, if no one impartial can be found, Greta or Meghan or Sean Hannity should be added.

Incidentally, one of the other politicians she profiles in the book is Artur Davis, the Congressman from Alabama who defended Fannie and Freddie when Bush and McCain tried to impose more oversight in 2004.  He just apologised for not recognizing the trouble earlier.  What’s your bet her book does not mention his role in causing the current economic crisis?