It looks as though Gwen Ifill doesn't seem very shaken by the reaction of the conservative blogosphere's response to her conflict of interest as reported in this AP story by David Bauder.

 

I find the last sentence to be quite telling: 

 

"Do you think they made the same assumptions about Lou Cannon (who is white) when he wrote his book about Reagan?" said Ifill, who is black. Asked if there were racial motives at play, she said, "I don't know what it is. I find it curious."

 

Like my previous post from her interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it appears that she is setting herself up to be totally insulated from criticism.  Now we know.  If she's criticized, racism will be blamed on those who not only do not support Obama, but call her out as a biased hack working in line with the Obama campaign.  This is completely appalling and cynical behavior by a so called professional journalist and the MSM as a whole.  I don't think the Obama tank can get any bigger to support all the MSM.  It's laughable at how the MSM has totally caved in to the Obama religion.  They don't even pretend to hide their bias anymore.  It's an all out assault between the DNC and MSM trying to outflank the Republicans and American people.

 

As a conservative, the only thing I care about is that she is now financially tied to an Obama presidential victory in November so her book sells in January.  If Obama loses, she loses money.  How can she NOT slant the debate more in Biden's favor?  I say keep her on and let Palin smoke her out as only Palin can!  I think now that the cat's out of the bag, it actually puts Palin at an advantage since she, Biden and Ifill all know that there will be a microscope on the whole show with everyone looking for the slightest whiff of bias on Ifill's part.  This will be good!