Gwen Ifill Rocks

Gwen Ifill rocks.

I’ll update when I find a video link.

On Meet the Press, she pretty much shuts down John Harwood, David Brooks, and Tim Russert, when they try to turn the Don Imus story around to rip Al Sharpton or rappers or attempt to turn a discussion about the casual racism of our culture into a tit-for-tat race to find the biggest African American hypocrite— for 'balance.' Hopefully, the national reaction to Imus' slurs will help spur more serious discussion of American racial issues we aren’t discussing.

UPDATE— A video link to part of the discussion is at Crooks and Liars, where John Amato writes about part of Gwen’s terrific responses.

MORE UPDATE— Editor and Publisher also picked up on this. Nico at Think Progress posted on the program and linked video too. I haven’t found the second part of Ifill’s comments on video yet.

STILL MORE UPDATE— Big Tent Democrat at TalkLeft is also looking for a full link to Gwen Ifill’s Whole Nine Yards on MTP.