Conservative Leader: Selection of Gwen Ifill Shows That GOP is ‘The Stupid Party’
I’m not surprised that the GOP is allowing a partisan, left-wing pseudojournalist to be the moderator for a vice presidential debate, but some conservatives still get angry and sometimes shoot-from-the-hip in response to the media’s liberal-left bias. Below is the reaction of one of the top conservative leaders in the United States today:
By agreeing to the selection of Gwen Ifill to moderate the vice presidential debate, despite her obvious conflict of interest regarding the presidential election, Republicans have shown why they are called “the stupid party,” Richard A. Viguerie, the Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said.
“How could the negotiators have signed off on a liberal moderator who has a book coming out on Inauguration Day heralding the ‘Age of Obama’?” Viguerie asked.
Ifill’s book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, is due to be published January 20, 2009, according to the book’s page at Amazon.com. “Needless to say, the success of the book depends to a great extent on the outcome of the presidential election,” Viguerie noted. “As Greta van Susteren, a lawyer, pointed out: ‘In law, this would create a mistrial’.”
“Imagine if one of the officials at Super Bowl earlier this year had had a book coming out on Super Bowl Sunday entitled Dynasty: The Age of the New England Patriots. Can you imagine the New York Giants agreeing to that? But then, the New York Giants are a lot smarter than Republicans.”
Ifill’s book was mentioned by name in a July 21 Associated Press article by Kinney Littlefield. The roster of debate moderators was revealed August 5.
“Democrats don’t agree to debates on the Fox News Channel, where they might get tough questions,” Viguerie pointed out. “They agree to debates only when they get the home field advantage — only when the questioners are people who see liberalism as objective reality and who consider the opinions of conservative, mainstream Americans to be backward and ill-informed. And they get away with it because the Republicans don’t have the fortitude to do something about it.”
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he’s the new editor for the House Conservatives Fund’s weblog. Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.
He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's the former editor for the House Conservatives Fund's weblog. Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. To subscribe to Kouri's newsletter write to COPmagazine@aol.com and write "Subscription" on the subject line. | More from Jim Kouri, CPP
Stumble It!
October 1st, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Well, just like Mr. Bush goes on CNN, praises Nancy Pelosi, and asks God to bless Arafat’s soul for a pat on the head and a kick in the balls…R’s don’t get it. There’s only one way to defeat the bolshevik dragon. Kill it with gleeful furor. Only then do you say “Thank You.”
October 1st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Yup. And McCain could have really exploited this economic mess and done some damage to the Democrats along with Nobama. There have been so many lies this last week from Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Nobama, Pelosi…..but where have been the counter-strikes from the GOP and McCain?
No where.
A McCain-Palin administration may be good or no-so-good for men and fathers.
A Nobama-Biden administration will be a nuclear hit on the rights of men and fathers lasting generations. American men and fathers would never recover their rights and fatherhood will forever lose it’s place of respect in America.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:10 pm
American men and fathers would never recover their rights and fatherhood will forever lose it’s place of respect in America.
True enough. However, we may already be seeing a move away from fatherhood in the USA. Men will “out migrate” to other continents and other countries, and settle with foreign women in foreign lands. Lands that still respect masculinity. American males may well raise their children in foreign countries. (such as Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Thailand, New Zealand, etc)
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:19 am
One word RUBBISH! Yes I know that Gwen has a pro Obama book that is coming out on inauguration day but she also has an excellent reputation for being impartial. She proved that last night because I watched the debate and by the way I am very pro McCain\Palin so I was extra vigilant and I couldn’t fault her moderation at all. Thing is it would probably be a very tall order to find anyone who had requisite moderation skills in the full heat of a large TV viewing audience who wasn’t in their own views partial to one candidate more than another. How stupid to be engineering ‘blue on blue’ hits when there is plenty to attack on the oppositions side!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:53 am
I’m sure Gwen was extra vigilant in wanting to appear as being a fair moderator last night also considering that she was “found out”. Many eyes were on her last night. Not making her book deal known prior to accepting the role as moderator shows that she is also capable of being less-than-forthcoming. A truly honest person would have made this known beforehand.