CURL:Crowley skews hard for Obama in disastrous debate
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Another debate, another debacle for America’s media.
In the runup to the second presidential debate, CNN’s Candy Crowley declared that she would not just be a “fly on the wall” as she played the tiny role of moderator, that she would step in whenever she chose to say, “Hey, wait a second, what about X, Y, Z?”
And boy did she, cutting off Republican Mitt Romney repeatedly and often throwing the floor to President Obama with an open “let me give the president a chance here.”
More, she alone decided the topics for the debate, picking questions from the 80 so-called “undecided” voters chosen by the Gallup polling organization. Her selections were tailor-made for Mr. Obama — Mitt Romney’s tax plan, women’s rights and contraception, outsourcing, immigration, the Libya debacle (which gave Mr. Obama to finally say that the buck stops with him, not, as Hillary Clinton said, with her).
She even chose this question, directed to both men: “I do attribute much of America’s economic and international problems to the failings and missteps of the Bush administration. Since both of you are Republicans, I fear the return to the policies of those years should you win this election. What is the biggest difference between you and George W. Bush, and how do you differentiate yourself from George W. Bush?”
Ms. Crowley, who called Mr. Romney’s selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as running mate a “ticket death wish,” asserted her unilateral power at the outset, telling the audience before the cameras went on that she planned to “give the debate direction and ensure the candidates give answers to the questions.”
After both candidates answered Question One, she blurted: “Let me get a more immediate answer” — whatever that means. But when Mr. Romney sought to correct falsehoods told by the president, she cut him off: “We have all these folks here.” In the end, Mr. Obama would get 9 percent more time.
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what a mess for the moderator , Obama opened up a can of worms on libya
GALLUP: R 51% O 45%
The President clearly misled the American people with this claim, because if Obama’s Rose Garden speech was indeed the White House position, it did not inform any subsequent statement by the White House press office — and was even directly contradicted by his own spokesman several days later.
On September 20 — eight days after Obama claims to have called the Benghazi attack an “act of terror” — Jay Carney affirmed to reporters that the White House had never called it “a terrorist attack.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/more-evidence-of-deception/2012/10/17/2a4a26c6-1870-11e2-a55c-39408fbe6a4b_blog.html
What really happened:
1. Obama F-ed up in the Rose Garden by actually mentioning the words “act of terror”, albeit in a general manner.
2. Political advisors freak out and he spends 2 week walking this back and blaming “the video”
3.Eventually the truth comes out (to the public) – that it was in fact a pre-planned act of terror and the Obama administration is in full panic mode as their “video” explanation falls apart.
4. Thankfully, Obama “misspoke” in the Rose Garden and he now throws up the “act of terror” defense (also weak and not believable, but it IS better than nothing)
5. Romney has a huge opening to “bury” Obama in the debate on this issue and totally blows the opportunity, allowing Candy to step in and help out the president and the allowing Obama to act self-righteous.
So he did call it an “act of terror” but you don’t like the way that he used the expression? Someone is desperate.
Romney got called out by the fact checkers – again.