Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Gwen Ifill on Obama's Tire-Swing

Michelle Malkin is saying that Gwen Ifill can't do an objective job of moderating tomorrow's vice-presidential debate because she's done some puff work on Obama.

Give me a break.

Ifill is the senior political reporter for PBS and she got that way by being just as generically affable and good looking as Gloria Borger, Judy Woodruff, and John King. Glenn Greenwald's right about all of them being in the tank for the Beltway, Village, or elite consensus of the moment. As the host of Washington Week in Review, Ifill is totally non-descipt. She formulates her questions in terms of the highly skilled blandness that gets people noticed by publishers. She says nothing challenging, provocative, or even mildly out of the ordinary.

In other words, she's an empty pantsuit who could just as well be in John McCain's tire swing as she is in Barack Obama's tank.

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