As the conservative "attacks" on Gwen Ifill were ramped-up over the past 48 hours, John McCain was quoted as saying that he thought she would be "totally objective".
Now, it appears that he has been poked and proded by those same "attackers" into changing his tune in order to look "tough". He was on Fox and Friends this morning:
McCain also went further than he had yesterday in responding to a question about Gwen Ifill serving as the moderator of tonight's veep debate, saying he preferred somebody else.
"Frankly, I wish they had picked a moderator that isn't writing a book favorable to Barack Obama," McCain said of Ifill, who is examining the rise of the Illinois Democrat and other post-civil rights black leaders. "Let's face it. But I have to have to have confidence that Gwen Ifill will handle this as the professional journalist that she is."
"Life isn't fair, as I mentioned earlier in the program."
Par for the course, actually.
The larger question to be asked here is this - does McCain even have his own original thoughts to contribute? Did he even know who Gwen Ifill was until some handler told him who she was? Was this new opinion of her "fed" to him? Probably.
It is widely apparent that Palin is as blissfully ignorant as they come, but McCain is supposed to be this "strong, opinionated leader with convictions and conservative moral fiber" blah-blah-blah. What happened to this "Maverick" that everyone seems to be talking about? Did he ever exist?
The whole "Ifill is biased" nonsense is just that - nonsense.
Tonight is about Biden and Palin. Period.
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