Of course you don't care! That's sorta the whole point!

I'm just glad Gwen's reputation for integrity is lost forever. Everyone knows you should at least disclose this kind of thing in the beginning. Any honest person would.

Adios to your reputation Gwen!

So take that John McShame.... quit your whining and lets get on with the debate

If Sarah palin does poorly tonight, it is all somebody elses fault!

Ifill should still step aside.
Just like Pelosi, Reid they have shown rotten leadership.

Palin should just turn to Gwen tonight and congratulate her on her book and ask if she'll sign it for her on it's release day which is inauguration day. Tell Gwen she'll be up at the podium getting sworn in with McCain if she wasn't sure where to reach her.

;-)

Remember the democrats (Edwards & Obama & Hillary) refused to do a Fox debate for the . They boycotted it and it never occured.

Now McCain/Palin are suppose to just suck it up and do a debate with a partisan hack in the GENERAL and be okay with it.

Bizarro world indeed.

If McCain had taken his VP decision seriously and picked a qualified candidate, he wouldn't need to engage in this pathetic whining nonsense about the HIGHLY RESPECTED Gwen Ifill.

IT'S SAD.

JOHN: YOU SCREWED UP.

well i care. conflict of interest is conflict of interest. if obama is elected, ifill hopes to make hundreds of thousands of dollars off the sale of her book; if he loses, she will sell 4 copies. motives are seldom pure and this woman is no saint: ifill has motive to assist the candidate she supports; that is not fair.

Republicans did a debate with Chris Matthews as moderator, but Dems wouldn't do one on Fox News.

Can you say WUSSY BOYS????

Lol.

Columbia Journalism Review disagrees. She stands to benefit financially if Obama wins; thus, she should be disqualified. I don't understand why this is so hard for others to understand. She has a clear financial conflict of interest. She should be gone! It would be exactly the same if she (or any other moderator) were writing a book about McCain that were clearly tied to HIS winning the election. If there's a stake in the outcome, that person should not be involved. Period.

And Ifill definitely should have informed the commission and not even taken the job.

How can Gwen's reputation be lost when it's the Republican Co-Chairperson on Presidential Debates that said he doesn't care. If I remember correctly, that means his party could give a rip about the book. Only McShame is crying, probably because his "hand picked" bimbo is going to make him look like a bigger fool.

Gwen named her book in July. Anyone can google it and find the details.
Stop making excuses for Sarah. Let them debate. If there is bias, everyone will see it.
Then we can all blog about that.

Smacks of desperation from the McPain camp.

Sarah Palin has committed yet another political blunder after claiming she had held talks with a British ambassador - talks that never actually took place.
In an answer to questions about her foreign policy experience ahead of tonight's make-or-break vice presidential TV debate, her aides listed numerous contacts with foreign officials - including Britain's ambassador to Washington, Sir Nigel Sheinwald.
However the meeting never occurred. Officials at the embassy swiftly contacted the McCain-Palin campaign to inform them of the discrepancy.
A British Embassy spokesman said the error arose after Sir Nigel's name was listed among those who had attended a US Governor's meeting in July.
Mrs Palin was at the meeting in her role as Governor of Alaska. However Sir Nigel pulled out at the last minute, leaving his name on the guest list.

The embarrassing mishap comes as Mrs Palin faces the biggest challenge of her political life tonight in a head-to-head vice-presidential debate with Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

She hasn't asked a single question and yet all the Palin sympathizers are convinced they will be biased.

Why so worried about your candidate? It's almost sad how little confidence you have in her.

Ifill is old school journalism at it's best.She's one of the few journalists left that can separate her profession from opinion.People are interjecting their opinion of her book without even knowing what it's about. Talk about unprofessional. People have become so jaded and skeptical.A generation of excuses. That's what happens when you let your kids win all the time. They look for excuses. I suppose if Biden wins the debate, that will be Palin's excuse. The moderator. Well, if your good at what you do and know your stuff, it dosen't matter who the moderator is. They both get the same questions and the same amount of time. With the invention of Fox news and the Olberman's and O'Reilly's out there, no wonder people have forgotten what a real journalist does. I for one miss those journalists.

It is stunning that the committee didn't know about Ifill's Obama book. Gwen Ifill needs to behave professionally regardless of her feeling about race. This time she failed, and it will take years for her to regain her credibility.

Gwen should have disclosed this fact, but did not. Same as a lie. Disgraceful

It won't matter. Everyone's made up their mind that Palin will win even before she steps on stage.

Everyone will give Palin the win because its better TV if they do.

1st off it isn't a book about Obama, its a book about Blacks in Politics. 2nd it would still sell regardless if he is president or not, it shows the path towards their political careers.
Why don't we just get Karl Rove to moderate it, that would be fair right?

What exactly is she going to do to hurt Palin? Ask her what papers she reads?

Oh no, that's too hard. BIAS!

Frank Fahrenkopf, the REPUBLICAN co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates said the commission isn't bothered.

This is just another excuse for Plain if she flails. Of course it's always someone elses fault. And the debate hasn't even started.

PATHETIC this is the best the Republicans have to offer.

OBAMA/BIDEN. Say goodnight Republicans. It's over!

The REPUBLICAN Whiners are here again!

Gwen's book is NOT been kept a secret!
It has been on pre-order sales at Amazon and Barnes and Noble for months!
Ifill's book was mentioned by name in a July 21 Associated Press article by Kinney Littlefield. The roster of debate moderators was revealed back August 5 after. After it has already been advertised in Magazines!
Ifill has moderated many debates over the years.
SHE DID NOT LIE or HIDE anything!
She is a professional!

Gwen should have disclosed this fact, but did not.
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ACTUALLY, the book was announced in JULY. It's not done and it's not even about Obama, it's about black politicians.

And why does the McCain campaign just start complaining in the last two days? It couldn't be that the golden girl has made an ass of herself in every interview recently could it?

CAN WE PLEASE LOWER THE BAR EVEN MORE SO MS PLAIN CAN FINALLY JUMP OVER IT?

I am curious - if BO does win, are you all you McCain haters going to be Obama haters when he gets in office and everyone discovers that - OH MY GOD, HE LIED! Not Barack, can't be!

What gets me is that everyone is hounding Palin because of inexperience - yet refuse to look at where all the so-called experienced people and experts have managed to get us so far.

When are you idiots going to wake up, smell the coffee and quit tolerating this cr@p from the politicians - on both sides of the fence?

I am still undecided. It doesn't matter which one gets elected, we are thoroughly screwed either way.

They both get the same questions people...where is the bias? One question is not worded differently than the other. They moderator's job is to keep the debate moving. She doesn't stand up and raise the hand of the winner like a referee at a boxing match.

People are losing jobs, homes and life savings and you guys are worried about who the moderator is or is not at a "VP" debate! Man, what is this country coming to? No wonder Congress turned a blind eye while Wall Street was raping the country. The people were concerned about the wrong things and not holding them accountable!