A gift for Gwen Ifill
An Ivy League prof responds to the Gwen “Age of Obama” Ifill controversy, no doubt with a tinge of regret in his voice, in an interview with the Boston Herald:
“It’s probably not the greatest thing on Earth that she is in that role and it’s probably going to really force her to be fully even-handed,” Thomas Patterson, professor of government and the press at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, told the Herald yesterday.
“Fully even-handed.”
As opposed to the usual partially (un)even-handed way the ogling Obamedia has operated the past 20 months.
Snort.
Anyway, Professor Patterson better be careful.
As I predicted Tuesday night, expressing even the slightest criticism of Ifill’s vested financial and ideological interest in the outcome of the election will get you labeled a…RACIST!
Speaking of which: You won’t believe (nah, you will believe) the number of e-mails from incensed Obama supporters who complained about this sentence in my column:
“It’s not the color of your skin, sweetie.”
The reference to Obama’s dismissive use of “sweetie” when addressing a female journalist sailed right over their heads.
Ignorant of the allusion, the complainers’ immediately proceeded to attack me for…RACISM!
This one’s for you, Gwen Ifill. Like they say, membership has its privileges:
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