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Gwen Ifill Profile of Moderator For Tonight’s Veep Debate
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 @ 11:58 am | You think so
The moderator of tonight’s Vice Presidential Debate is Gwen Ifill. Ifill is an experienced and knowledgeable journalist who currently works for PBS. There is some made up controversy about the book she is writing. The book’s subject is politics in an age when educated blacks are aspiring to and achieving high levels of success in the field of public service.
A few McCain supporters believe as the moderator of tonight’s debate between candidates Palin, the number two on the Republican ticket, and Senator Biden, the vice presidential candidate on the ticket with Senator Obama, Ifill can not be unbiased in her duties as moderator.
We believe Ifill will be no more or less unprofessional than Tom Brokaw who disclosed earlier this week his friendship with Senator McCain and the fact, according to Brokaw, the McCain campaign officials would not have permitted their candidate to participate in a third debate with Senator Obama if not for the fact Brokaw, McCain’s close personal friend, were not the moderator.
“We’re very lazy when we think about race in this country,” Ifill says. “We try to put it in a box. It’s Jesse versus Al, or Jesse and Al versus everyone else,” she says, referring to Jackson and Sharpton. “We love simplistic conflict. There’s a whole group of people who have Ivy League degrees and immense accomplishments who actually benefited from the things their parents were fighting for.”
Watch the video. Decide for yourself.
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