Gwen Ifill Debate

Ifill: Palin "Blew Me Off"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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On "Meet the Press" Sunday morning, vice presidential debate moderator Gwen Ifill said Palin "more than ignored" some of her questions -- she "blew me...

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Gwen Ifill -- Not Tough Enough

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yvonne R. Davis

Perhaps Ifill's soft questioning and at times repetitive questions at the beginning and end of the debate was her way to prove to conservatives she was not playing favorites.

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Gwen Ifill Responds To "Very Conservative Folks" On Oprah: "I Haven't Even Written The Barack Obama Chapter Yet"

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gwen Ifill appeared on "Oprah" Friday to debrief following Thursday night's Vice Presidential debate, which she moderated. Oprah asked Ifill about th...

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The One Reason Sarah Palin Will Lose The VP Debate

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lee Stranahan

Palin seems to have done well enough in her gubernatorial debates but that's not because the format suited her better. It's because the debates weren't about national or international affairs.

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Real Winner of the Debate: Katie Couric

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cenk Uygur

Imagine if Couric had not done those interviews, and all we had seen were Gwen Ifill's standard queries, we might never have known how very little Sarah Palin really knows.

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McCain On Ifill: I Wish They'd Picked Someone Else

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, John McCain responded to right-wing attacks on debate moderator Gwen Ifill (over a book she's writing about politics and race) reasonably, ...

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The Politics of Distraction

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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When we debate whether the Times is liberal or Gwen Ifill is in the tank or Katie Couric was mean or whether pigs have lipstick, we are all missing the point. That is precisely what the McCain campaign wants.

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Ifill On Race And Rightwing Attacks: "I Find It Curious"

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — PBS journalist Gwen Ifill, moderator of the upcoming vice presidential debate, dismissed conservative questions about her impartialit...

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