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F Is For Ifill: Gwen Ifill Failed the Moderator Test
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Posted on 10/03/2008 12:02:36 PM PDT by WilliamReading

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To: ari-freedom

Ifill is an arrogant disgrace to ethics, journalism, PBS.

She is beneath contempt having stolen a fair VP debate
from the American people.


41 posted on 10/03/2008 12:33:42 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: lonevoice

To Sarah Palin, snooty Gwen Ifil said, “Now that wasn’t so bad, was it?” as if she had just given Sarah a root canal.


42 posted on 10/03/2008 12:33:44 PM PDT by WilliamReading
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To: Yaelle
nobody expects the Palin inquisition!

43 posted on 10/03/2008 12:34:12 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Betcha they're good. Why shouldn't they be? Their one mistake was giving up me!)
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To: KansasGirl

Did you notice that when Ifill asked a rather odd, unusual question, “What campaign promises might you not be able to keep?”, Biden was able to instantly, on a dime, come up with an answer. He didn’t even take half a second to think about the different promises and evaluate them. Don’t tell me that he wasn’t given some sort of clue ahead of time about the questions.


44 posted on 10/03/2008 12:35:12 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (Homeschool like your kids' lives depend on it.)
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To: Exton1

“They were all leftest questions.”

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Bullseye.

That BASIC fact is not recognized even HERE on FR. Yes, Ifill smiled real nice at Sarah. Big Obama-Lovin’ deal!

Almost invariably and by default, it is the LEFT that sets the agenda, creates the talking points, lays the ideological foundation, and is this case, literally frames the debate.


45 posted on 10/03/2008 12:35:42 PM PDT by EyeGuy (Obama will deliver America on a Leash to an envious world.)
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To: WilliamReading

She will get everyone’s approval. Her method was letting the candidates respond with any answer they wanted regardless of the question she asked. She was a potted plant. Both candidates did well with the opportunity they had to put forward their campaign’s talking points. They both hit it out of the park for their side. Now on to the main event.


46 posted on 10/03/2008 12:35:48 PM PDT by ex-snook ("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: WilliamReading

I expected much worse from her, so I was pleased it went the way it did. Let’s just enjoy the win and move forward, they’re sill a huge amount to be done in the next few weeks. Whining will not win anyone over to our side.


47 posted on 10/03/2008 12:36:27 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: EyeGuy

yeah I can see some questions:

do you think mccain-feingold should be repealed?
do you think people who voted for hamas terrorists deserve a state?
how are we going to pay for this bailout?
how are we going to deal with illegal immigration?


48 posted on 10/03/2008 12:37:34 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Betcha they're good. Why shouldn't they be? Their one mistake was giving up me!)
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To: hosepipe

Yes, indeed. The commission also chose two “unbiased” reporters from PBS. Fox News was passed over yet again . . they are much too “biased” to deserve a single moderator.


49 posted on 10/03/2008 12:37:46 PM PDT by WilliamReading
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To: WilliamReading
At my age, I learned to not expect much from others....

I'm rarely disappointed.

50 posted on 10/03/2008 12:38:16 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: EyeGuy

PBS and DNC puppeteers remove their unethical, financially-connected,
corrupt, arrogant, self-serving, attack-shill.

Weeks earlier


51 posted on 10/03/2008 12:38:28 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Bob
Gwen Ifill is not the issue from last night. The lies spewing from Biden and the excellent job Governor Palin did are the proper focus. This thread is an open invitation to mouth foaming kneejerk posts insulting a liberal moderator. That gives the most important conservative website on the Internet a very bad flavor at a time when we need to be leading the discussion of ways out of the financial mess and how to make real change for America's future. Your mileage may vary
52 posted on 10/03/2008 12:38:32 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: proudpapa
Who recommended that she wear that awful looking green blazer?

She looked like a Barcalounger from Goodwill!

53 posted on 10/03/2008 12:38:51 PM PDT by hunter112 (Gov. Palin is ten times the woman Hillary could've hoped to be, if she had stayed a "Goldwater Girl")
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To: stylin_geek

Gwen did fine, I have no complaints.


54 posted on 10/03/2008 12:39:19 PM PDT by moose2004 (Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill And Then Drill Some More)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

“Ifill was at least as good as Lehrer, and probably as good as you could get from the media “

I must have seen a different debate than you did. Don’t you remember Sarah having to slap Ifill down for Gwen criticizing her answers?


55 posted on 10/03/2008 12:40:06 PM PDT by WilliamReading
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To: ari-freedom

Gwen did a good job. I don’t know if biden was given the questions ahead of time but I suspect he was because of his plugs. Gwen has however, porked out quite a bit since I last saw her.


56 posted on 10/03/2008 12:40:25 PM PDT by yorkie01
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To: stylin_geek
I watched debate and I think Ifill was fine

I though the clock was not watch for Biden. He was allowed to run over and on occasion given two shots at a question and Palin got only one. I marked on a paper the sequence. Was real sh@@. If you can find a video of the complete debate, test it out.

57 posted on 10/03/2008 12:41:44 PM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Her book will be a dud along the lines of Pelosi’s.

I look for it to be on the dollar remainder table at Borders, and I just might have to buy it to use when my Koran is used up.

58 posted on 10/03/2008 12:42:29 PM PDT by hunter112 (Gov. Palin is ten times the woman Hillary could've hoped to be, if she had stayed a "Goldwater Girl")
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To: Diogenesis

She is a black, liberal, female. Hence, in that order bulletproof.


59 posted on 10/03/2008 12:43:59 PM PDT by EyeGuy (Obama will deliver America on a Leash to an envious world.)
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To: ari-freedom

Just evidence that she is a liberal and liberals don’t have the ethical capacity to see when they are in a conflcit of interest becasue everything is an oppotunity for them to fruther their secular agenda regardless of conflict or unethical nature ... leftists don’t have set ethics, everything is on a sliding scale, so you can’t expect someone like liberal Gwen Ifill to see the conflict, so it does little good after the fatc to chide a liberal for a conflict they couldn’t see and would only exploit if they could. Better to exploit their bias, know what I mean?


60 posted on 10/03/2008 12:44:16 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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