Gwen Ifill has responded to outrage that she, the author of a fawning Obama book due for publication on Inauguration Day, will be moderating tonight’s Vice Presidential debate by ignoring the obvious ethical issues involved and playing the race card.
Greta Stumps Slick Willie
I don’t watch Greta Van Susteren much, but boy did she have a great moment the other night in her interview with former President Bill Clinton.
Question: What is the difference between an association with someone like David Duke and an association with someone like Reverend Wright?
Clinton: 10 seconds of silence and unintelligible muttering before saying “We don’t have to go there.”
It doesn’t end there. He tries to skate on it, and she won’t let him.
Video Below, found via Ace.
Rush Limbaugh Show Links: Wednesday October 1, 2008
Here are the web sites, articles and videos referenced by Rush Limbaugh on his October 1, 2008 Show.
Full Text of the Senate Bailout (Financial Rescue) Bill (WARNING: Giant 451-Page PDF File)
Erroneous Politico article claiming Rush lambasted House Republicans
NBC News report downplaying the brutal torture John McCain sustained at the Hanoi Hilton based on the torturer’s account.
C. Edmund Wright of American Thinker’s Time For McCain to Name Names about Democrat Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac Corruption
News article about the Rudman Report (still searching for the WSJ article Rush read).
VIDEO: VP Debate moderator Gwen Ifill is dismissive and derisive of Sarah Palin’s GOP Convention speech
VIDEO: John McCain tells off the Georgetown Cocktail Party Republicans in interview.
AUDIO: Governor Sarah Palin on the Hugh Hewitt Show (MP3 Download) (Full Transcript)
VIDEO: Joe Biden says Corn Syrup is more dangerous than terrorism
VIDEO: NBC News report from 1987 detailing Joe Biden’s plagiarism.
ARTICLE: Andrew C. McCarthy’s National Review article Biden’s Baggage about Joe Biden’s foreign policy experience largely consisting of being wrong about foreign policy.
That called to mind the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. As policymakers considered potential responses to the attacks, Biden had a brainstorm. “Seems to me,” he told Foreign Relations staffers, that “this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.”
Governor Palin must admit: She doesn’t have the foreign-policy background to come up with something like that.
WizBang Blog calculates some rescue package (bailout) numbers.
Congressman Sorry Democrats Dropped Ball On Mortgage Crisis
After being featured on Hannity & Colmes in a damning 2004 video showing Democrats fighting tooth-and-nail against greater Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac regulations, Democrat Congressman Artur Davis admits Democrats dropped the ball on reigning in the failed institutions and calls on fellow Democrats to do the same.
“Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues, I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership, when in retrospect I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit that when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong. By the way, I wish my Republican colleagues would admit that they missed the early warning signs that Wall Street deregulation was overheating the securities market and promoting dangerously lax lending practices. When it comes to the debacle in our capital markets, there is much blame to go around for both sides.”
Along with President Clinton, I take issue with Davis’ contention that equal blame exists on both sides. President Bush requested greater oversight in 2003, Republicans are clearly seen in the video fighting for greater oversight in 2004, and John McCain led the charge for greater oversight in 2005. All efforts were rebuffed by Democrats, who demagogued the issue with racial politics that made reform impossible to accomplish. At least they tried. I see no evidence of any push toward greater Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac oversight since the short bus rolled onto Capitol Hill in January 2007.
That said, I appreciate Congressman Davis’ candor in admitting Democrats let their ideology get in the way of what was right for the country.
Manion Commercial Slams Murphy On Rangel Ties
Republican Tom Manion, challenging accidentally elected PA-8 Democrat Congresskiddie Patrick Murphy, has released a new commercial. Since I was less than enthusiastic about Manion’s first commercial, I thought it only fair to point out how enthusiastically in favor I am of this most recent commercial.
Manion’s commercial points out the appearance of impropriety in Patrick Murphy accepting $14,000 in donations from accused tax-cheat and ethics abuser Congressman Charlie Rangel and then voting a $2,000,000 earmark in Rangel’s direction.
30 seconds isn’t enough time to outline the full swirl of charges against Rangel or how Murphy has chosen to look the other way when it comes to Rangel, but I think Rangel’s ethical problems are pretty well-known by now.
The commercial is below.
Cynthia McKinney: Green Is The New Nuts
Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney has announced that she has solid information (from someone’s mom) that Hurricane Katrina was used as an excuse to execute 5,000 males who she believes to have been prisoners with a single gunshot to the head. McKinney says that the bodies were later dumped in a Louisiana swamp by request of the Department of Defense.
And people say the blogs won’t give coverage to third-party candidates. Here it is!
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No Bias Here: Debate Moderator Ifill’s Obama Book Due 1/20/09
Clearly doing her best to avoid any appearance of impropriety or bias while moderating Thursday night’s Vice Presidential debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin, Gwen Ifill is set to release a laudatory Obama-focused book entitled “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” on the next President’s Inauguration Day: January 20, 2009.
Drawing on interviews with power brokers like Senator Obama, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and many others, as well as her own razor-sharp observations and analysis of such issues as generational conflict and the “black enough” conundrum, Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history.
Why on earth do conservatives keep insisting that the media is wildly biased in favor of Obama? OF COURSE Ifill is going to be equally hard on Biden and Palin during the debate, even if it risks the result of this “pivotal moment in American history,” just to be seen as fair. After all, the media has been nothing if not fair, especially toward Governor Palin. There’s no reason to believe the debate would be conducted in a biased way.
Right.
Besides any liberal bias toward the Obama campaign implicit in publishing a book with his name in the title, Ifill clearly has financial reasons to be pulling for an Obama win and should recuse herself from moderating Thursday’s debate.
Public Service Announcement: Ifill is not “disabled” (I see some people arriving here searching that on Google). She broke her ankle last week falling down the stairs, and that’s why she’s tooling around St. Louis in a wheelchair.
The video below is your impartial debate moderator reacting with contempt and disgust to Governor Palin’s Convention speech.
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Rush Limbaugh Links: Tuesday September 30, 2008
Here are the web articles and videos referenced by Rush Limbaugh on his September 30, 2008 Show.
- Instapundit (initially misidentified as Little Green Footballs) gets an email verifying the left-wing bias in the media.
- Supposedly grassroots but actually Hollywood produced video of indoctrinated little kids singing praise to Barack Obama.
- Wizbang Blog
- Rasmussen poll on the Congressional rescue plan.
- Politico incorrectly reports House Republicans Mocked by Rush
- Rush Limbaugh Show Hour One Transcript, showing the Politico’s inaccurate reporting.
Creepy Video Of Enraptured Indoctrinated Singing Obama Youth
How scary is this video of a bunch of little kids with enraptured looks on their faces singing about the Obamessiah as if they were participating in a Sunday School pageant?
Palin “Witchcraft” Smear Based On Prejudice And Ignorance
Politico did a little research and found that a smear against Sarah Palin, that she somehow belongs to a fringe religion because they’ve seen video of a priest visiting her church and offering her a blessing against witchcraft, “has been blown out of proportion by ignorance and intolerance.”
