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By Jim Roberts Oct 2, 2008

Gwen Ifill is under fire as she has a financial interest in Barack Obama winning the election and now she is looking to try and help Obama win by rigging the election as a host of the Vice Presidential debate. Sound ridiculous? That is what some would like you to believe. Let's examine exactly what has happened for some to make these accusations again Gwen Ifill.

Gwen Ifill Places Huge Bet on 'Age of Obama' Victory (Image: Wenn)

She has a book coming out that it titled "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama." Catchy title but the book will not sell unless Barack Obama wins the election. The 'Age of Obama' will have ended in a loss on November 4, and he would go back to being only the US Junior Senator from Illinois that never really shows up to work.

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Ifill fought back, hoping know one will notice that she has a very large bet on the election. Her statement was hilarious and if we are all going to poke fun at Sarah Palin, we really have to mock Gwen Ifill. She fails to address her financial interest in an Obama win but still tries to say that she is a fair journalist. Many will believe she is full of it.

"I've got a pretty long track record covering politics and news, so I’m not particularly worried that one-day blog chatter is going to destroy my reputation." Unless Gwen takes zero money for her book, "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama" then her reputation will be mud among many that believe that journalists should not profit from an election where they are a debate moderator.

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It's not a factor of bias, it is a matter of the cash she is trying to make by helping Barack Obama win so her book will sell. It really is all that simple, she has a huge bet on an Obama win, and now she looks the referee trying to fix the game.

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