Imagine the howling if Hannity or Limbaugh were moderating a debate.
What does the McCain camp say about this?
Here is contact info for the sponsors of the debate.
Commission on Presidential Debates
2008 National Sponsors
http://www.debates.org/pages/natspons.html
Anheuser-Busch Companies
1 800 342 5283
BBH New York
212 812-6600 T
212 242-4110 Fax
KOREN.PHOTOPOULOS@BBH-USA.COM
The Howard G. Buffet Foundation
158 W. Prairie Ave., Ste. 107
Decatur, IL 62523-1442
217-429-3988
Sheldon S. Cohen, Esq.
http://www.farrmiller.com/members/sheldon_cohen.asp
sscohen@farrmiller.com
EDS, an HP Company
Contact Us
EDS
1 800 566 9337
1 972 604 6000
(United States)
+1 972 604 6000
(International)
International Bottled Water Association
1700 Diagonal Road, Suite 650
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-683-5213
Fax: 703-683-4074
Information Hotline: 1-800-WATER-11
ibwainfo@bottledwater.org
The Kovler Fund
VTCCustserv@cds-global.com
Kaiser Family Foundation
2400 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
phone: (650) 854-9400
fax: (650) 854-4800
YWCA USA
advocacy@ywca.org
I sent an email to the Debates Commission, but I think people should email PBS as well, asking them if they think they deserve taxpayer support for doing this kind of thing.
McCain apparently took Palin away from her earlier handlers and gave her to a new bunch, hopefully more competent. Anyway, the McCain campaign didn’t know about this forthcoming book.
But Gwen Ifil certainly did. And I believe that PBS knew about it, too. Does anyone believe that Ifil wouldn’t have mentioned her book to her co-workers at PBS?
And it’s pretty obvious that Obama knew about this book, too, yet said nothing during the negotiations.
I think it is in best interest to keep her there and make public known that she had vested interest in Obama. It may raise doubts in people’s minds just like they had about Rick Warren and Saddleback.
What about Mara Liason from NPR?
I don’t think Ifill should have to step down, that looks like the GOP having too much of a temper tantrum, plus you know the MSM and the DEMS will spin it as racism. However, I do think it would be profession for Ifil to disclose her book and interviews of Obama at the beginning of the debate. It would go a long way toward letting the audience know she has a vested interest. I would expect her to have some interest considering she is an American. I could see her acknowleding the book and her previous positive reports on Obama as a sort of compromise.
Palin’s opening remarks MUST include a gracious congratulation to Ifil on the imminent release of her book celebrating Obama. We have to keep the bias of the media in the public view.
Don’t forget Faxing Commission on debates....
Their phone box is full:
fax (202) 783-5923
If Ifill’s questioning is biased, Palin will automatically win the debate. PUMAs would be enraged at seeing Palin be the victim in a rigged debate. So, Gwen Ifill could end up being good for us.
Is this sheer insanity or what? Letting a black Obama supporter and pro-Obama book author have control of the one and only vice presidential debate??
And heres the e-mail address of Janet H. Brown, Executive Director of the Debates Commission: jb@debates.org
FREEP HER OUT WITH PROTESTS. DEMAND IFILL BE REPLACED.
And did you hear McCain telling the nation today that he had every confidence that Ifill would be fair??
Email McCain. Tell him he has an obligation as our candidate to get off his duff and fight back.
To h*ll with bipartisian BS, to h*ll with PC, to h*ll with ‘conducting a respectful campaign’!
Respectful campaigning went out the window with Obama’s nasty, ‘lipstick on a pig’ and ‘You can wrap AN OLD FISH in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.’ Take off the gloves, McCain!
Hit the Marxist/Muslim hard with Ayers, Acorn, Violation of Logan Act, Campaigning for Odinga!!
MCCAIN WEBSITE
http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/
THE CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST’S
GIANT E-MAIL LINKS PAGE!
http://www.conservativeusa.org/megalink.htm
Go here
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html, read The Making of a fuerher- the best explanation Ive found of the Obama- worship insanity. It’s a legitimate psychological disorder. Find out what.
Might as well call your local McDonalds....As others have stated, PBS has no say in this.