Memeorandum shows Michelle Malkin's brown-on-black smear job against Gwen Ifill

Achor-baby Michelle Malkin is at it again. As the official "darkies enforcer" for the extreme right, she's jumped at the chance at attacking the scheduled moderator of the VP debate, Gwen Iffill. After all, it's how she makes her living.

Malkin first attacks the person of color with media power by labeling them as "biased", "extremists" or "crypto-marxists". She does so as a "journalist" and concerned person with "the truth". She keeps the screaming through her blog, has other neo-con bloggers back her up and it's not until white mainstream media picks up on her concern trolling that she let's go, sits back and waits for her next assignment.

Last night I saw this very thing happen. Malkin wrote a "concern troll" post on Gwen Ifill about her "being in the bag" for Obama due to an article she wrote for Essence Magazine and a book she has coming out titled,  The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.

You know, because George Staphanopolous, the former Bill Clinton speechwriter and now ABC newscasters, was completely unfit to moderate the last of the Obama and Clinton debates. Well ... he was, but Gwen Ifill is an infinitesimally better journalist than Stephanopolous could ever dream to be.

Yet there it was, Malkin's concern trolling post popping-up on memeorandum and this is how the drama unfolded :

  • September 30 at 11:40 pm Malkin's post is supported by Gateway Pundit, but it is a related item to the story of Ifill breaking her ankle.
  • October 1 at 12:40 am the article is now a top item still with Gateway Pundit supporting it.
  • At 1:00 am Riehl Word and Red State jump on the party. 
  • By 7:30 in the morning, it's NewsBusters.org, Gateway Pundit, Red State, Classical Values and Riehl World View
  • 9:30 am is the breakthrough : Greta Van Susteren and World News Daily picked up on it and spread the meme to the "mainstream"and by 2:30pm it was all over Fox News --along with the obligatory Media Matters rebuke.
  • It's 7:46 PM and CNN is tallied with other major media. They even been running segments on the "controversy" --I caught the one aired around 5:30 PM.

A lot is riding in the smearing of Gwen Ifill. Obama is ahead of the polls all across the board a week after conservative political commentators Kathleen Parker, George Will,  Ed Rollins, David Gergen, David Brooks  and others.

The first tactic was to latch on to Campbell Brown's editorial and scream throught out all the newscasts (am looking at you Bay Buchanan). The other tactic has been to lower expectations by shielding her from the media and putting her in "debate camp". This sets the stage  for them to claim victory if she does a passably decent show.

Yet Obama is not just ahead by an average of 5 points with a huge gain with (white) women and Swing States.

The neo-cons are desperate.

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Malkin and WorldNet are a swell combination

As Howard Kurtz pointed out today, WorldNet isn't exactly without sin here - not that I ever thought they were, but this is so blatant it hurts my brain. While they're shrieking about Ifill's biased book, "WorldNet is offering its readers a $4.95 book titled "The Audacity of Deceit: Obama's War on American Values." "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR200810...

Or maybe this isn't hypocracy, maybe it just qualifies them to be experts on bias

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Michelle Malkin's column about Ifill

In reading the lines of Malkin's column, between the lines I sernsed and felt bitterness from Malkin that she is not the "moderate" moderator for the debate, as well as envy by the lines she quotes about Michelle Obama: "educated, beautiful, tall." Malkin would be better focusing on issues and respecting the reader's ability to decide about those, as her recent column falls short of that.

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