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Faux Right Wing Rage at Ifill Choice for Debate

By Jeralyn

Despite the McCain campaign's assertion that it did not know Gwen Ifill, moderator of tomorrow's VP debate, was writing a book on politics, race and Sen. Barack Obama, as Judd Legum points out, it was in the Washington Times two weeks before McCain agreed on August 6 to Ifill as a moderator. A simple Lexis search would have found it.

"We have an awkward history about how to talk about race in the nation and in newsrooms," says Gwen Ifill, senior correspondent for PBS' "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" and author of "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama," slated for publication early next year.

The takeaway here is only the incompetence of the McCain campaign to do its homework. More...

Jamison Foser at Media Matters has more. Leading the faux rage is conservative blogger Michelle Malkin. Watch everyone else jump on the bandwagon. I'm humming:

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).