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Candy Crowley Self-Destructs

dahni Wrote: Oct 19, 2012 12:49 PM
I'm still interested in why Crowley had that particular transcript on top of the desk, and open to the correct page so she didn't have to look for it, and how Obama knew she would ask that question and how he knew she had a copy of the Rose Garden transcript.
rmt5 in MA Wrote: Oct 19, 2012 12:58 PM
......file that under things we rightly suspect, but will never know for sure!
spurssss Wrote: Oct 19, 2012 12:57 PM
This was rigged, completely against Debate Commission rules. Neither candidate was permitted to know which questions were going to be asked and neither were they allowed to collude with the moderator prior to the debate. Watch the whole sequence and you can see that this was a rehearsed and badly acted (by Obama) part of the debate. He gives the game away twice..once when he walks to Crowley's desk at the start of the sequence and once when he snottily proclaims "Please Proceed Governor."

Crowley also gives the game away...she is clearly uncomfortable in her role but she must act it out anyway.
pow1000 Wrote: Oct 19, 2012 2:42 PM

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...

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