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When matters are going the way a bully wants them to go, his icy brazenness will make your goosebumps pregnant.

A bully is defined as:


­He has the gun, you have the perspiration drops.


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A little more than a day and a half before tonight’s Vice Presidential debate, it was discovered that the — you will excuse the cynical grin — neutral moderator, the ethically deprived Ms. Gwen Ifill, is writing a book about Barak Obama, “The Breakthrough.”

[Murgatroyd, please research the definition of “neutral” once more?]

The authorette’s salute to her favorite living liberal is scheduled to be released — bless her secretive little mind (emphasis equally distributed) — on the day Mr. Obama is inaugurated, next Jan. 20.

The sneaky Ms. Ifill, and with her girth she does, has been sitting on this considerable piece of information throughout the campaign. Believe me, she could sit on War and Peace and Gibbons’ The Fall of the Roman Empire without one word showing.

Despite the fact that Ms. Ifill has spent her career at two of the most liberal organs in the United States, The New York Times and PBS, she was chosen by the debate commission to referee Biden-Sarah.

In the process, she unworriedly chose to hide the obviously damning news about her book to the commission or to anyone in position to do anything about it.

Her own conscience must have fallen into the garbage can some time ago.

Who would squeal?

Since liberals have control of all but one television network and all but two major newspapers, who was going to do anything about it? No one.

And so, the tainted Ms. Ifill gallops into the debate as the lopsided favorite to manipulate the outcome.

In a Fox News poll this week, 98 percent said the media had predetermined the victor.



Note This Name, Murgatroyd

David Bauder is a veteran Associated Press reporter based in New York. In the two-plus years since Hezbollah’s brief war against Israel, shoddy reporting and knowingly doctored photos have stained the A.P.’s formerly decent reputation, during the war and subsequently.

Mr. Bauder, who does know better, further muddied the A.P.’s reputation yesterday with his opening sentence:


NEW YORK (AP) – PBS journalist Gwen Ifill, moderator of the upcoming vice presidential debate, dismissed conservative questions about her impartiality because she is writing a book that includes material on Barack Obama.



Because he, a flaming liberal, regarded the challenge as unfair, Mr. Bauder loaded up the lead by inserting the term “conservative” because he knew it would play more inflammatorily than “Republican.” Given the inherent unfairness of the proposition, no adjective was called for.

Mr. Bauder presented his own agenda. Generally, only conservatives are identified by ideology. Because the Left regards itself as the mainstream, this usually obviates any need for labeling.

Ms. Ifill’s defense of her obviously embarrassing position added a new layer of meaning to the concept of haughty:

“I’ve got a pretty long track record covering politics and news,” she told Mr. Bauder. “So I’m not particularly worried that one-day blog chatter is going to destroy my reputation.

“The proof is in the pudding. They can watch the debate and make their own decisions about whether or not I’ve done my job.”

A “one-day blog chatter,” she called her ethical lapse. What a lady.


Honesty Probably Went on Vacation

Columnist Michelle Malkin, one of few to protest Ms. Ifill’s extraordinary sneakiness, said in the New York Post that “she’s so far in the tank for the Democratic presidential candidate, her oxygen delivery line is running out.”

The more she talked, the daffier and the more racist Ms. Ifill sounded. She asked Mr. Bauder why sensible people would assume her book will favorably portray the guy she is rooting for.

From his side of the Obama tank, Mr. Bauder gurgled and called out to Ms. Ifill’s side of the Obama tank that he wanted to know whether she thought those darned right-wingers were playing the race card again.

Donning her favorite golly, gee whiz-bang, who me? expression, the cornered Ms. Ifill said, “I don’t know what it is. I find it curious.”

With that kind of goldplated dishonesty, she must have been one of my earlier ex-wives.