It's painfully obvious that someone who's writing a book called, "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama," especially one that is supposed to come out on inauguration day, has no business moderating a Vice-Presidential debate.

Moreover, the fact that she didn't "tell the Commission on Presidential Debates about the book," tells you everything you need to know about Gwen Ifill's ethics or more aptly, her lack of ethics.

Again, it should be painfully obvious that if you're writing a book called, "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama," that's something you might want to reveal to the people who are deciding whether you're the right person to moderate a debate featuring Obama's Vice-President.

Topping all of this off was Ifill's sleazy attempt to play the race card,

Ifill questions why people assume that her book will be favorable toward Obama.

"Do you think they made the same assumptions about Lou Cannon (who is white) when he wrote his book about Reagan?" said Ifill, who is black. Asked if there were racial motives at play, she said, "I don't know what it is. I find it curious."

Know what I find curious? That Ifill is still being allowed to moderate the debate -- and for that matter, that she still has a job at PBS after this. Quite frankly, she deserves to be fired for this kind of ethical breach.

PS: The only bright side to this is that the McCain campaign can now use Ifill's obvious bias as a talking point after the debate. If Palin does well, it's even more impressive since the moderator was obviously favoring Biden. If she doesn't do well, what can you expect with Gwenn Ifill trying to help Biden?