October 1, 2008
Posted: October 1st, 2008 02:09 PM ET
Ifill is set to host the VP debate Thursday.
(CNN) - Controversy swirled over VP debate moderator Gwen Ifill one day before the vice presidential face-off between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden, after new scrutiny was drawn to her upcoming book about Barack Obama. In stories published Wednesday, conservative commentators noted that "Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama" – first announced several months ago – is slated to be released around the inauguration of the next president in January 2009, less than four months from today. "...as if we needed any further evidence of a jaw-dropping double standard, we have to contemplate the sheer impossibility that someone who wrote a positive biography of McCain being chosen to moderate a debate," wrote Jim Geraghty on the National Review's Web site Wednesday. The book has not yet been released to critics or the general public. Ifill talked about the upcoming book in a Washington Post interview in August, before the terms of the debate were finalized. In her only pre-debate interview, the PBS journalist told the Post's Howard Kurtz, a CNN contributor, that her book would cover new black political leaders like Obama, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Watch: Kurtz on Ifill Filed under: Barack Obama John McCain Popular Posts Sarah Palin debate
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