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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Today, McCain picked up the criticism of Gwen Ifill. The McCain campaign is pushing this bias storyline really hard.

What that tells me is that they're trying to inoculate Palin against mistakes and bad impressions from moderator followups probing for answers.

(It was the followups in the Couric interviews that killed her.)

I smell Rove

By Praguetwin, at 10:43 AM
I don't think so. It's strategy, but it's not horribly devious if I could figure it out.

Rove would release fake excerpts.

By mikevotes, at 10:44 AM
This is classic "blame everyone but the Republican" stuff. It's the party of blame and excuses.... They're like a bunch of C-students at the local high school.

How do you run as the bad-ass tough guy -- as a leader -- when you're whining all the time? I don't get it. I may be wrong but I think the swing voters are starting swing and I don't think whining like this helps them.

By -epm, at 11:26 AM
I saw that somewhere else. If you can't stand up to Gwen Ifill....

By mikevotes, at 1:21 PM
And really, the supposed "bias" of Ifill is because she, as an African-American, wrote a book about the new politics of next-gen (post Civil Rights era) African-Americans, of which Obama is the most illustrative example.

Honestly. It's embarrassing. We should all chip in and send him a pacifier.

By -epm, at 2:02 PM
Maybe stress balls would be funnier.

By mikevotes, at 2:03 PM