They hope it will undermine the moderator of tomorrow's debate and provide cover for the potential poor performance of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin
On the eve of the Vice Presidential debate, conservative operatives and their minions are going into over-drive to undermine moderator Gwen Ifill.
Ifill, the only person of color to moderate debates during this high-profile election season, is the target of character assassination by the likes of conservative huckster Michelle Malkin. You can read Malkin's drivel here, but in a nutshell Malkin charges that Ifill "is in the tank" for Sen. Barack Obama and is encouraging other conservatives to place calls to the commission that selects moderators to complain about the "conflict of interest" Ifill presents as a moderator. Malkin also wants this to be the first thing Republican veep nominee Palin brings up during the broadcast of Thursday night's debate.
Yeah, I want to see Palin attack Ifill right out the box tomorrow, that will surely increase her approval ratings. Among some, yeah, but hopefully many more will see this coded racial behavior for what it really is.
Anyway, Malkin basis her claims of "conflict of interest" on the fact that Ifill wrote a cover story about the Obama family for Essence Magazine in August (of course Essence's primary readership are African American women for my bretheren and sisters who might not know). Malkin also cites an upcoming book Ifill wrote as proof that the highly respected journalist is somehow compromised and should not be allowed to moderate tomorrow's debate.
Malkin fails to tell her followers that the book isn't about Sen. Obama in so much as it is about the new era of race in politics, the decline of the Civil Rights Movement and the rise of new black power elites like Obama, Artur Davis of Alabama, Deval Patrick of Massachusetts and Corey Booker of Newark, NJ.
Of course, this very factual piece of information doesn't matter to Malkin and conservatives who agree with her. They just want to set-up a straw-man, or in this case a straw-woman, to take the blame in the likelihood that their beloved Sarah Palin falls on her face in the debate in much the same way she's fallen on her face in recent interviews with Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson.
Question is will such cynical tactics continue to work on the psyche of
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