No worries about Gwen Ifill

Okay, so she adores Barack Obama and is writing a book about him to be published on inauguration day, it's alright, there's nothing to see here, move along. (Anyway, Ifill's busy on the phone with Katie Couric and Charles Gibson trying to figure out which gotcha questions resulted in the most damaging sound bites of Sarah Palin, maybe Katie will remind her not to refer to Sarah as Governor (too respectful) and Charlie can lend Gwen his glasses so Gwen can look down her nose at Sarah just like he did.)

Its not "odd" and my support isn't "new". But alas, its time to go home now.

Until we meet again--and you always seem to seek me out.

your odd anti-Obama bias, which you've never bothered to explain or reconcile with your supposed Democratic leanings, anymore than you've reconciled your Democratic leanings with your newfound support for McCain.

Keep it up, baby.

No, not really. But thanks for playing along. I'm sure you need to get back to "correcting misleading posts"--and you do that by name calling and insulting people, right?

"Your libreral ignorance." Thank you for obviating the necessity of a reply.

However,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202583_pf.html
The piece is titled, McCain Loses His Head. You see this as, "McCain isn't conservative enough," you need your optical prescription checked.

Don't patronize me, chazzykc. I read, rather than listen to AM radio to formulate my opinions. Try learning how to distinguish right-wing frothing from learned discourse.

probably never even heard of Gwen Ifill before reading this post?

Me too.

Looks like CystBoy pretty much nailed your logic. Of course it makes sense that you'd be voting for McCain and attacking Obama. Just like it makes sense for George Will to be supporting Obama.

Talk about an oxymoron. Ifill??? The left wing shill, Ifill, from PBS, Ifill????????

The fact that Shelly the Corrupt is defending her speaks volumes about who and what she is.

I don't have to reconcile anything with you or anyone else. And you never answer my questions either. So there.

Yeah, calling me a Repub because I am a life long voting Dem who chooses not to pray at the alter of Obama does so much good. Stay classy Obama fans. All that is missing is calling me a racist--again.

Got anything else?

Your libreral ignorance. Do you just read headlines? Or will you, on occaison, actually read a pundit's position.

Will has not taken a "position" on the McCain Palin ticket.....other than that he favors McCain/Palin by a significant margin over the pompous pontificator of puff. When a headline asks a rhetorical question over a pundits column it does not mean that he favors the other candidate.

In fact Will is upset that McCain is not conservative enough and challenged him to return to his conservative roots rather than continue his counterproductive march to the left. Yes he also was critical of McCain's most obvious negative attribute: impulsiveness.

Unlike most liberal pundits, conservative columnists have long practiced the habit of criticizing their own. I doubt you have ever read a Will column other than the one referenced by Tiller on this blog.

If you had you would not be agreeing to Mr Will as a moderator of anything that is striving for an appearance of fair and balanced.

Back to the ballgame

You just don't get it, do you? The Democrats became too much like the detested Republicans, so jenniferm decided to quit the Democrats in disgust and become a Republican.

So simple a caveman can understand it.

As a flaming liberal I'd LOVE to have George Will moderate, given the position he's taken on the McCain-Palin ticket.

right, Jen, right.

Okay, explain to us again how you can reconcile your support for John Edwards' policies and your supposedly newfound support for McCain and his policies.

If you have given up trying to engage me, why do you follow me around? I've always been honest here. Why do you refuse to answer any questions I pose you?

I'm not a Dem anymore, remember, we had this conversation.

"and you had us going along for awhile."

You mean, for the past year or more I've been posting on this blog? Or only since you showed up to be the moderator and schoolmarm.

Ms Ifill is indeed, quite well respected. Deservingly so I am sure.

Unavoidable however are the the facts that follow: she has a vested financial interest in the Obama/Biden ticket being victorious (her book is being released on Inauguration day....clearly not a coincidence.) You mention a pre-emptive strike in a pejorative way when in fact Ms Ifill has already castigated Ms Palin on the airwaves thereby establishing her as a partisan.

With those simple 2 unarguable facts there is an obviously apprpriate thing to do: Recuse herself from the debate.

Anything else gives the appearance of impropriety and bias and invites (appropriately) complaints of lack of objectivity and fairness.

I cannot do anything but chuckle, Barb at how partisans like you might implode if say...George Will were invited to moderate.

In fact, if you and your employer were anything but left headed partisans you would be urging the solution that I proferred

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDFhMWUxZTZmMmE5MzkzYWVhMTU5NDYyNWRhNTQyM2M=

Especially telling is her coverage during the conventions on fair and balanced MSNBC(this is a joke liberals) and her recent article in Essence

http://www.essence.com/news_entertainment/news/articles/theobamasportraitofanamericanfamily

Yup, she's sure to be a nonpartisan moderator...My question is why we conservatives put up with this liberal charade? I don't have the answer....

thank you for your vituperation.

Your one-sidedness, as always, inspires me to keep on posting, if only to correct misleading posts and help maintain an approximation of veracity here.

I've more or less given up on trying to engage you in any real dialogue, since it's clear that you are no more the Democrat you profess to be than is Rush Limbaugh. It is a clever guise you've been putting forth, though, and you had us going along for awhile.

This is a newspaper's site, isn't it? Therefore, I might actually expect some balanced posts and comments, alas, not to be.

Yes, very proud to be the 'resident Obama-basher.' Are you happy to spend your time here calling people names, insulting and belittling others, and participating in behavior one would have to go back to high school to experience?

You never did respond to my question on which Dem nominee for POTUS in the past 50+ years had less experience than Obama. Funny how you always think I should defend or justify my voting preference, yet when I ask you something you run and hide. Do you work for the KC Star editorial board too?

like our resident Obama-basher.

Thanks for your as always insightful posting, jenniferm.

Couldn't this post be considered a preemptive effort by a partisan Obama supporter that happens to write for a major metropolitan newspaper, as a way to defend Ifill prior to the debate? I mean, you haven't read the book, "just heard" about it, you don't know Ifill personally from the way you wrote this, so its not a defense of a friend. I would guess there is an agenda involved here on your part too, Barb.

The day the League of Women Voters lost the debates to the candidates is the day the public lost the ability to truly judge those running for office.

only a fool would try to rig a nationally televised debate to favor one candidate or another.

Like Tim Russert or anyone else on NBC/MSNBC.