I turned on Morning Joe and heard him going off about Gwen Ifill moderating the debate tomorrow night. His complaint is that she has authored a book; The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama . I hadn’t heard about this book, so I started Googleing it. One of the first links I found was from none other than the National Review by none other than Malkin:

My dictionary defines “moderator” as “the nonpartisan presiding officer of a town meeting.” On Thursday, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill will serve as moderator for the first and only vice presidential debate. The stakes are high. The Commission on Presidential Debates, with the assent of the two campaigns, decided not to impose any guidelines on her duties or questions.

But there is nothing “moderate” about where Ifill stands on Barack Obama. She’s so far in the tank for the Democratic presidential candidate, her oxygen delivery line is running out.

And how does Malkin know exactly what is in Ifill’s book when it won’t be released until the very day our new President takes office, January 20, 2009? Reading the editorial review, it just says she is talking about the breakthrough of African-Americans in politics. Nothing about it being specifically about Obama.

So could this become the reason the McCain campaign does a last minute pull out of the debate? I Wouldn’t be shocked if that’s the case. If that’s the case then how about Tom Brokaw, who has been acting as a “liaison” between the McCain campaign and NBC?

His [Brokaw’s] mission, he said, was to assure the candidate’s aides that — despite some negative on-air commentary by Mr. Olbermann in particular — Mr. McCain could still get a fair shake from NBC News. Mr. Brokaw said he had been told by a senior McCain aide, whom he did not name, that the campaign had been reluctant to accept an NBC representative as one of the moderators of the three presidential debates — until his name was invoked.

“One of the things I was told by this person was that they were so irritated, they said, ‘If it’s an NBC moderator, for any of these debates, we won’t go,’ ” Mr. Brokaw said. “My name came up, and they said, ‘Oh, hell, we have to do it, because it’s going to be Brokaw.’ “

Here’s the problem. Both candidates agreed to these moderators. Olbermann and Matthews’ bias towards Obama or the Democrats is not newly found. It has been obvious before these campaigns even started. So then why didn’t the McCain campaign say, “hold it right there – these moderators are too biased”? The answer is simple. Because when they agreed to these debates, McCain’s campaign wasn’t in self-destruction mode.

McCain has destroyed his chances at becoming President and he has now echoed his inner Hillary with a constant attack on the “liberal media”. The problem is it’s not working. The media was in bed with the McCain campaign for so long and people know it. Now that McCain has become so bad that they had no option but to start reporting the truth, McCain is out to blame them. This really echoes the similarities between George Bush and John McCain, two people both unable to admit their own problems. That is more of the same.