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Title: Candy Crowley ... Self --- Destructs
Source: patriotpost.us/
URL Source: http://www.patriotpost.us/opinion/15112
Published: Oct 19, 2012
Author: L. Brent Bozell
Post Date: 2012-10-19 09:58:10 by BorisY
Keywords: Destructs, Destructs, Destructs
Views: 3423
Comments: 6

Candy Crowley Self-Destructs

By L. Brent Bozell

October 19, 2012

Just how badly did CNN's Candy Crowley destroy her first (and hopefully last) attempt as a presidential debate moderator? More than 65 million people saw that she is to debate moderation as CNN is to "news."

Barack Obama made a fatal mistake when he lied, claiming he'd labeled the Libya attack as an act of terrorism. The look on Romney's face said it all: Mr. President, here comes checkmate.

Then Crowley leapt to Obama's defense, declared a lie a truth, changed the subject, and Obama was free.

It was a travesty.

Let's get beyond the perennial partisan toe-taggers Rachel Maddow (touting Romney's "political disaster") and Ed Schultz ("The president destroyed Mitt Romney on foreign policy"), who credited Obama. Look at those who gave the bouquet to Crowley for saving Obama.

That night on PBS, John Heilemann of New York Magazine insisted the subject of Libya would have been disastrous for Obama. "The worst hand that the administration and President Obama have to play in this debate was on Benghazi, and because particularly of Candy Crowley's follow-up on that question, it allowed Barack Obama to win an exchange that I didn't necessarily think it was possible for him to win."

Obama shouldn't have won, but Crowley saved him.

The next morning, Current TV host Eliot Spitzer told Current TV host Bill Press that Crowley caused the "emotional highlight of the night" by declaring Romney was wrong. "I think that really deflated what otherwise should have been on the Benghazi issue a moment when Romney could have hit it out of the park. But instead he took the step too far. Crowley came in as sort of the voice of neutrality and took the victory away from Romney."

Crowley crushed Romney. Even Spitzer wouldn't defend Crowley as staying within a moderator's role.

Crowley knew exactly what she'd done: validate a lie. Time for damage control. Within minutes of leaving the journalistic crime scene, Crowley was back on CNN admitting that Romney was right "in the main" -- whatever that means -- but he chose "the wrong word" by focusing on Obama's cursory use of the term "these acts of terror." If Romney was correct, why not just say it?

Again, Crowley rallied behind Obama -- even repeating her verdict when the president egged her on to "say it a little louder."

So let's say it a little louder: Team Obama engaged in a massive cover-up, hiding and denying what it knew about this deadly terrorist attack for weeks. Even Heilemann and Spitzer admit that this scandal should be a "homerun" for Romney. Journalists know that the White House lied horribly day after day, and - - with a few exceptions -- have enabled that badly disguised cover-up. Obama claimed nobody cares about finding the facts more than he does. It's lie after lie at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Crowley knows full well that it's Team Obama that needs to be held accountable here, not the challenger. Back on September 30, Crowley herself pinned down Obama spinner David Axelrod on this point: "Why did it take them until Friday [September 28], after a September 11 attack in Libya, to come to the conclusion that it was premeditated and that there was terrorists involved? John McCain said it doesn't pass the smell test, or it's willful ignorance to think that they didn't know before this what was going on." Of course, Axelrod shot back that Obama in the Rose Garden called it an "act of terror."

How does Crowley square her October 16 performance with her September 30 performance? Try this theory: after liberals savaged Jim Lehrer as "useless" for somehow allowing Obama's first-debate fiasco, they've successfully worked the refs, both Crowley and Martha Raddatz, to push back at the "lies" of the Republicans.

Journalists now know Obama lied repeatedly about protests outside the consulate in Benghazi. In a September 20 interview with Univision, Obama said of Libya, "I don't want to speak to something until we have all the information.

What we do know is that the natural protests that arose because of the outrage over the video were used as an excuse by extremists to see if they can also directly harm U.S. interests.

There were no "natural protests." The story line had changed the day before when Matthew Olsen of the National Counterterrorism Center cracked under congressional questioning and said, "the facts that we have now indicate that this was an opportunistic attack." On the 20th, Obama spokesman Jay Carney suddenly jerked his knee and declared, "It is, I think, self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack."

"Self-evident?" If so, then Team Obama is guilty, period.

Instead, so many in the shameless media are still trying to pin the tail on Romney. They'll do anything to reelect Obama. Just ask Candy Crowley.


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Where's valerie plame - richard clarke !

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#1. To: BorisY, calcon, All (#0)

When saying I have something in common with, BY, please refer to this.....thanx....;}

This Article is for All who wish the Debates were Coin tosses.

Blaming the Mod in a beauty contest interview.... And one where your Candidate lost is basically the bottom of the BBL....;}

If you can't control it all, you lose...

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-10-19   10:05:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: mcgowanjm (#1)

You don't know what you are talking about on any subject. So this is just for laughs. Who is going to win the election?

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-10-19   10:22:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: mcgowanjm (#1) (Edited)

And one where your Candidate lost

Bush2 in 2004 only lost pennslyvania by a few hundred thousand votes !

He had that deficit covered by a surplus in Ohio !

The country is turning red - again !

If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !

BorisY  posted on  2012-10-19   10:29:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: A K A Stone (#2)

To: BlatherNaut

In 2004 Air America sent Franken to Boston for election coverage; a big party to celebrate the election of “President Kerry” was planned. Google “Kerry party turns to tears, bitterness”...we know how it turned out. Then he and his fellow libs got on the air and, sounding half-asleep (or maybe just boring as usual) they talked about how the election was stolen, again!

Here, I just googled it... 2004...

http://rense.com/general59/bitterness.htm

Boston (CNSNews.com) - As President George Bush edged closer to the 270 electoral votes necessary to secure re-election, supporters of Democratic nominee John Kerry openly wept and consoled each other at the Election Night celebration in Boston’s Copley Square. Some Kerry supporters called Bush’s platform “all lies” and heckled a group of College Republicans who were passing through the crowd.

A distraught woman confronted Democratic U.S. Rep. Harold Ford in the lobby of the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel and screamed, “Can you tell me why everybody made a mistake?” Ford responded, “Let me talk to the candidate before I make a comment. It’s been a long day.” Another woman standing near Ford began to openly weep at the prospect of a Kerry loss. When CNSNews.com asked why he had confidently predicted a Kerry victory just a few hours earlier, Davis responded, “I, like many people saw the exit polls, which saw Kerry ahead in every battleground state.”

Meanwhile, outside Kerry’s Copley Square rally, a contingent of College Republicans from Northeastern University marched through the sea of Kerry supporters and got heckled. “You vote for Bush, you get what you deserve,” shouted Kerry supporter Bob Bryant to the GOP contingent. A woman, unhappy the Republicans were there, screamed, “someone shut up those idiots.’

Brian Henchey, one of the College Republicans marching through the crowd told CNSNews.com that he had “never seen more sad and depressed faces in my life than what I have seen here in Copley Square tonight”

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NEW YORK, Oct. 28 2004/PRNewswire/ — Sundance Channel will air a special election night edition of “The Al Franken Show,” on November 2nd at 11:30pm. The political humorist will be broadcasting live from the Kerry campaign’s election-night headquarters in Copley Square in Boston. The show will contain breaking news as well as segments taped earlier that day.

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A comment on DailyKOS a couple weeks later: “ But, a letdown was expected after such a build-up to what most of us thought was going to be a big party Nov. 3rd. The show he did from the Kerry election night party was particularly depressing. I think air america will benefit in the long run from the election result, serving as a continuing watchdog and counter to the conventional wisdom of our mainstream media. “

(Me: In 2004 Jon Sinton of Air America said “In five years we’ll be on 600 stations [just like Rush].” At most it got on about 60-80 stations and by 09 it was bankrupt/off the air.

13 posted on Friday, October 19, 2012 4:36:57 AM by raccoonradio

If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !

BorisY  posted on  2012-10-19   11:12:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: BorisY (#4)

I voted for Mike Peroutka in that election. I was utterly disappointed by Bush.

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-10-19   13:21:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: A K A Stone (#5)

We got the national health care TAX - roberts !

Illegally from the senate !

If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !

BorisY  posted on  2012-10-19   13:34:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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