The right is right, and I hate when that happens!
If I've got my facts straight, this is the situation:
- Gwen Ifil will moderate a debate between Joe Biden and the odious Sarah Palin tonight.
- She is publishing a book that is somewhat 'pro Obama'
- The book is to be released on Inauguration Day
- She has said she did not tell the Commission on Presidential Debates about the book.
- Ummm, the book's not mostly about Obama (errr, isn't he in the title ferchissakes?)
- Yes, the McCain camp probably knew these facts before they accepted her as a moderator. They may even have kept this nice chestnut to themselves as ammo if Palin started to tank - and that doesn't matter. Two wrongs do not make a right.
OK, let's get some more straight:
- I am NOT QUESTIONING MS. IFILS IMPARITALITY.
- I am questioning her common sense: if Obama wins she stands to make much more money out of this book - can't she (or all of you) see a potential conflict of interest?
- If the shoe were on the other foot (as it so often is) and someone biased in the other direction, were moderating, I beleive that virtually all of you would be up in arms, displaying high dudgeon, moral outrage etc.
- I think Ms. Ifil should have 'recused' herself once this came up. Instead, she will enable the right-wing outrage machine, giving them a beautiful 'liberal media' grenade to lob back at us.
- I think she displayed very poor judgment, hubris even, in taking the course (complete with not informing the debate commission) that she has.
- I am, as always, amazed by the apologistic group-think I see on the left, that so closely mirrors that on the right.
- I am interested in right and wrong, and in propriety, and I don't give a rat's ass if it falls against the left or right even though I'm a red diaper baby.
- If you disagree, please try to do so in a civil, non-ad-hominum manner.