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RUSH: As you know, ladies and gentlemen, Gwen Ifill — formerly NBC, now at PBS — is totally in the tank for Barack Obama. There\u2019s no question about that. She has a book. She has a book coming out, ‘The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.\u2019 It\u2019s set to be released on Inauguration Day. This is a conflict of interest. She has a financial stake in Obama winning the race, in addition to whatever other stakes that she has invested in Obama winning the presidential race. So McCain today (he didn\u2019t know about this) he was on KMBZ today, our blowtorch affiliate in Kansas City, on Morning News with E.J. &amp; Ellen. Ellen Schenk asked him a question about this. She said, ‘It\u2019s reportedly very pro-Barack Obama this book about Gwen Ifill. Do you have a problem with her serving as moderator?\u2019<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I don\u2019t make that judgment. I am confident that Gwen Ifill or whoever is moderator would be fair. <\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I have no reason to think otherwise —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, of course not. Why would you?<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: — she is widely respected.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hell no.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: — and so I had not heard about a new book or anything else, but I believe there\u2019s so much at stake here that anyone — including Gwen Ifill — will be scrupulously fair to both of the candidates.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sure! Why suspect, Senator? Why suspect she\u2019d be anything other than fair. She\u2019s only got a book coming out about Obama winning the election. She stands to make a pretty big amount of money if Obama wins. Why would anybody suspect, anybody in the liberal media, Senator McCain, would be anything other than unscrupulously fair? He\u2019s right. But nevertheless, let\u2019s listen at the Republican convention, September 3rd, 2008, St. Paul. The anchor on PBS, Jim Lehrer, was speaking with correspondent Gwen Ifill about Governor Sarah Palin\u2019s speech. Jim Lehrer said, ‘Gwen, your closing thoughts.\u2019<\/p>\n

IFILL: She belittled — and so did other speakers — Barack Obama at every opportunity, mocking the size of the state, his community organizer status, and every time there was an explosion in this room. We also heard, uh, I think the chant started earlier in the night with Michael Steele. Every time they talked energy search — energy, they started chanting, ‘Drill, baby, drill.\u2019 That was the big cry of the night. She delivered her speech word-for-word.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It doesn\u2019t sound like she\u2019s too excited here. ‘She belittled Barack Obama at every opportunity.\u2019 Grow up, Gwen! It\u2019s a political contest. Obama is a man-child. He deserves to be belittled and he deserves to be defeated. Ifill was on the front lines of the feminist assault on Palin\u2019s ability to be a mother and vice president. September 2, 2008, NewsHour on PBS, Gwen Ifill interviewed Heather Wilson, and they had this exchange about Palin.<\/p>\n

IFILL: There is also a big difference between running a state — or running — as long as she has run a state — and running for one of the biggest jobs in the country. What advice do you give her, how to balance it? <\/p>\n

WILSON: Let me say something on that.<\/p>\n

IFILL: She\u2019s got five kids! She\u2019s got challenges.<\/p>\n

WILSON: That bothers me.<\/p>\n

IFILL: Tell me why.<\/p>\n

WILSON: No one ever asked John Kennedy whether he could be president and be a dad. Nobody asked Senator Obama whether he could be president and be a dad. But because Governor Palin is a woman, they\u2019re asking whether she can be vice president and a mom.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So here\u2019s Ifill, on front lines of the feminist assault on Palin\u2019s ability to be a mother and a vice president. But, (doing McCain impression), ‘She\u2019ll be scrupulous! I — I — I have no question about that!\u2019 The conversation continued.<\/p>\n

IFILL: But she described herself in herself in her —<\/p>\n

WILSON: It\u2019s time to end the double standard.<\/p>\n

IFILL: I understand what you\u2019re saying. She described herself as a ‘hockey mom.\u2019 That was her self-description.<\/p>\n

WILSON: One of the greatest things about Senator Obama is he talks about the important of being a father and a parent, but nobody asks whether he can do both at the same time. We need to end the double standard — and the double standard, I think, is not being pushed by Republicans here at the convention. It\u2019s being asked by people in the media who should know better.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Including Gwen Ifill, which is the person Heather Wilson there was talking to (and about). So, you know, folks, we\u2019re wishing for things that aren\u2019t going to happen here. He\u2019s not going to criticize. He\u2019s not going to name names. He\u2019s not going to criticize Ifill. We\u2019ll just have to gut it up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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