Gwen Ifill: Conservative Parrot

Check this Gwen Ifill statement out from Meet the Press on 6/27/04:

MS. IFILL: Well, as David Brooks pointed out in The New York Times yesterday, in Europe, Michael Moore goes about very widely bashing America and bashing Americans as being stupid and not knowing how to put one foot in front of the other and he's received like a conquering hero. They love this. They want to hear this. Now, that's fine. They think he's a documentarian. They think he is bringing them facts. Now, they don't vote in American elections, but there is a wider question to be raised about the impact of Americans who take that abroad in a time of war.

Remember, Gwen Ifill is supposed to be an objective PBS journalist. She has completely parroted the right-wing mischaracterizations of Moore's movie, given them credence, and then implicitly criticized Moore for voicing opposition at a time of war. This is exactly the same kind of McCarthyism peddled by John Ashcroft ("Your tactics only aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve") and the White House fear-mongers (Americans "need to watch what they say, watch what they do - This is not a time for remarks like that").