Controversy Swirls Over Tonight's Debate Moderator

A major controversy concerning the moderator of tonight's debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden simply refuses to die down.

PBS reporter Gwen Ifill, who is scheduled to moderate the debate, failed to notify election commission officials that she has written a book that is enthusiastically supportive of Barack Obama.

The book is to be released on Inauguration Day.

Apparently the McCain campaign was unaware of the book as well.

It is difficult to imagine how a news organization can justify the selection of a debate moderator that is supposed to be 'impartial' when that moderator is a blatant and outspoken partisan.

It is further unconscionable that a news organization would choose a debate moderator who is so thoroughly supportive of one side in the debate. Anyone who believes that such a thing does not place the other side at a distinct disadvantage is either a moron or is engaging in pathological
denial.

Naturally Ifill is playing the race card now that she is under fire.

But this has nothing to do with race and everything to do with fairness. Suppose, for example, Rush Limbaugh were chosen to moderate the debate. Wonder if Ms. Ifill would think that appropriate?