Sunday, August 19, 2012

Gwen Ifill reportedly ‘livid’ about being passed over for presidential debates

http://thegrio.com/2012/08/19/gwen-ifill-reportedly-livid-about-being-passed-over-for-presidential-debates/


the right wing radical inclinations are telling the world they don't want people of color moderating their debates.
 journalist and debate moderator Gwen Ifill is greeted by Democratic vice presidential candidate U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) during the vice presidential debate with Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at the Field House of Washington University's Athletic Complex on October 2, 2008 in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Don Emmert-Pool/Getty Images)" title="gwen-ifill-16x9" />
PBS journalist and debate moderator Gwen Ifill is greeted by Democratic vice presidential candidate U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) during the vice presidential debate with Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at the Field House of Washington University's Athletic Complex on October 2, 2008 in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Don Emmert-Pool/Getty Images)
A growing chorus of critics is decrying the Commission of Presidential Debates’ decision to not include a single journalist of color among the presidential (and vice presidential) debate moderators this year.
This week it was revealed that Jim Lehrer, Bob Schieffer, Candy Crowley and Martha Raddatz would moderate the 2012 debates in the fall. This announcement was slammed by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
Representatives of the Spanish language network Univision have also expressed displeasure with the lack of debate moderator diversity.
Now, reportedly, a celebrated black journalist, who has moderated vice presidential debates in the past, is speaking out as well.
“I was indeed disappointed,” PBS’ Gwen Ifill told the New York Times, which reports that she is “livid” about not being offered a role as a moderator this year despite the fact that Lehrer had previously said he didn’t want the job and she had ably filled the role during the 2004 and 2008 debates.
what are they afraid of the truth, how do you proclaim your embracing of ethnic groups them like Issa's women productive rights hearing you invite no one of that persuasion, hypocritical, hell yes it is. WAKE UP EVERYBODY!
 Meanwhile, right wing shock jock Rush Limbaugh has come out against the moderators as well, calling them all “far, far left wing.”
so now it's official the chief hater and fact checker for the right wing has confirmed that they only want those of their kind there, kinda hard to rub a country with only half of its people, does that make him and ROMYAN half cocked leaders?