Was that an actual flash of anger I saw in Gwen Ifill’s eyes last night? Did I hear a momentary change in tone as she delivered her commentary at the end of PBS’ “Washington Week”?

Well, it’s ABOUT. DAMN. TIME, GWEN.

My great peeve about Black MSM pundits is a simple one. When they criticize whites who diss them every day in one form or another, it’s gotta be “objective” criticism. When they criticize Blacks—especially the now-aging Dashiki Class after the latter calls them Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemimas—they actually return fire like honest-to-gosh opinion writers, not worried at all about offending the targets or those they claim to represent. Guess it’s because the former actually represent REAL power, including the power to get their Black asses canned and rushing to Kinko’s to photocopy their HBCU News Writing syllabi. 🙂

Which is what made Ifill’s slight inflection so interesting. The Mask slipped off a little. Instead of doing what she’s made into an art form—showing the White Boys She Can Play Their Game As Well Or Better, etc.—she actually stepped outside of her smiling Washington insider posture and showed her audience that she was not happy. Not with Imus, and not with her enabling colleagues. She even quoted from her New York Times Op-Ed, which defended the honor of her sisters. Wow…….  🙂

Yeah, Gwen, put ’em on notice: There is no Stork Club anymore! LOL!  And just one more thing: Show that tone again sometime, PLEASE???

(JULY 15 ADDENDUM: Man, she’s called even more people out today on “Meet The Press”, including host Russert! I really hope to see more of this Gwen Ifill in the future.)

Meanwhile, on “Inside Washington,” Newsweek‘s Evan Thomas—who I KNOW got at least one email this past week asking not to appear on Imus’ show—just told the truth: he was on there to sell books, so he ignored all of Imus’ antics. He sounded sad—the way white liberals always do when they are (a)shamed and have to acknowledge white privledge of any amount. Since he defended Imus in the email response he sent back, this remorse just makes him, in this instance, just another Powerful White Boy who’s full of……..

Finally, speaking of white boys, Howard Kurtz is supposed to devote the whole hour of tomorrow’s “Reliable Sources” to the I-Mess. A media critic friend pointed out to me that Kurtz ignored the topic last Sunday. So There Ya Go. 🙂

CODA: As usual, “On The Media” is strong. But I’m not surprised; as a regular listener, I know Brooke and Bob never seem to care who they offend. I guess that shows that either they’re deep in The Club that Mike Wallace talked about with Brooke, or they really don’t care about being celebrity authors or television pundits.