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Some
of you will remember Gwen Ifill's national television debut. I'm
doing this from
memory, so no hard dates, but it was a Sunday. This Week with David
Brinkley. Before 1997. His, Brinkley's, last gig before retiring was covering
the 1996
election. I always did like him, but this sealed the deal. [I had
to
look this up, so's
to get it right.]
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at a moment when he thought they were on commercial break. One of
his colleagues asked him what he thought of Bill Clinton's re-election.
He called Clinton "a bore" and added, "The next four years will be
filled with pretty words, and pretty music, and a lot of goddamn
nonsense!" One of his team pointed out that they were still on the air.
Brinkley said, "Really? Well, I'm leaving anyway!" |
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I digress. Back to Ifill. As I remember she was introduced as a "comer," and
joined Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts, George Will - one of
them maybe missing that day. Jumping right into a discussion, she
referred to
Democrats as "we." As in, "How do we stop the vicious rumors
Republicans are spreading." I made that up, but it was something like
that, and more than once. Everyone raised eyebrows. I think it
was
Sam Donaldson who finally scolded her for showing her partisan
drawers.
So here's Ifill; in way over her head, stumbling, bumbling and showing
bias up to her gills. I'm sure I wasn't the only one thinking, "what in
the hell recommended her for this gig?" Today of course I'd guess
that
John Kerry recommended her to NBC muck-a-mucks at some dinner
party. "Look, you got here the
first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and
clean and a nice-looking woman.”
Skip to 2010. (via HOT AIR -Leftist
dullards mock Palin for correctly referencing Boston Tea Party)
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That’s
from Gwen Ifill, respected PBS fixture and — remember? — moderator of
the Palin/Biden VP debate back in 2008, a job she landed right around
the time she was working on her book about the glory of Hopenchange.
You sure showed her, Gwen.
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* Don't ask me about Mayo,
Windex and Eggs. I don't understand anything these media weasels
do.
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