Gwen Ifill and her cousin

Gwen Ifill's cousin, Sherrilyn Ifill, a Law Professor at the University of Maryland, was quoted in a local Maryland paper, The Community Times, “From the first day, Palin presented herself as shooting a bear in the morning, field dressing it, cooking up the breakfast, diapering the babies, passing legislation in the afternoon, cleaning the house, satisfying her husband, etc., etc., etc. And it’s just not true,” she wrote in an e-mail interview. “It’s hard to be an average working mom, really hard. And when women who are privileged present as though they have it all together, it’s offensive to black women.”

She continues “black women are not easily confused by false claims to feminism. When women like Palin lay claims to ‘representing’ average women, I think that black women have a visceral reaction to it.”

She thinks that Sarah Palin “missed her opportunity when she announced Bristol’s pregnancy to explicitly talk about how painful it was to her as a mother - instead of making it as though this too was also part of her perfect life."

“Hillary has the sympathy of women because of what she went through with Bill in front of the whole country. Michelle [Obama] takes pains to be self-deprecating and to talk about her concerns and fear about her girls. She insists that she couldn’t do what she does without the help of her mother. Most importantly, both champion issues that affect the lives of real, average women - universal health care, equal pay, choice, etc. To do so is a recognition that real working women (not political wives or politicians) need policies that will help them maintain their families. What’s the point of Palin’s brand of feminism if it doesn’t translate into real returns for average women?”

Ted Graham, from News Busters, states the following:
"Gwen Ifill’s family pride came through in her monthly washingtonpost.com online chat on October 4, 2007:
Pittsburgh, Pa.: Is Professor Sherrilyn Ifill at the University of Maryland Law School, who's spoken out so eloquently and thoughtfully on symbols of racial hatred lately, any relation to you?
Gwen Ifill: She is indeed my brilliant baby cousin, and the author of an excellent book 'On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 20th Century.' "

Gwen Ifill, The VP Debate Moderator

It has come out that Gwen Ifill, the supposed moderator for the first VP Debate on Thursday night is, surprise surprise, a big Obama supporter. How can one possibly moderate a debate when they are in bed with one of the campaigns? Gwen Ifill is so in the tank for Obama, that even before he has been elected, and with no certainty that he will, has written a book due to come on Inauguration Day. The book titled The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, is set to come out January 20th, 2009. It chronicles Obama's campaign, and I imagine she has a chapter or two about him winning, which hopefully she will have to rewrite. So if a moderator is not a moderate, then how could she do her job properly? She had already shown partisanship in 2004 when John Edwards (The cheater) and Dick Cheney debated, but this election is so much more important to our future. An Obama win could symbolize the first Socialist President of the United States, and we cannot risk that. I believe Gwen Ifill should withdraw as moderator of this event, the liberals would never let us get away with having Ann Coulter as a moderator for a debate, which would be hilarious, so why could they get away with it?