Crowley's False Fact Check Saves President, Derails Debate - UPDATE: Crowley Backtracks
***UPDATE 4: Politico's Dylan Byers: "After the debate, even Crowley seemed to acknowledge that she had erred."
***UPDATE 3: Even Politico's Mike Allen is questioning Crowley's call.
***UPDATE 2: Even Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler says Crowley got it wrong: Obama "did not say terrorism."
***UPDATE: After
the debate, Anderson Cooper was the first member of the CNN post debate
group to question whether or not Romney really got the Libya issue
wrong. They then brought Crowley on and after all the damage she had
done during the debate, she finally admitted that Romney was "right" but
"picked the wrong word."
Romney "picked the wrong word!" And for that sin the the referee ran onto the field and tackled the other guy!This is a scandal; a total and complete media scandal committed by a woman who promised to violate her contract and to insert herself into the debate. All she did for weeks was brag about how she intended to grab the spotlight -- and boy did she ever.
Absolutely disgraceful.
We're done with the second presidential
debate, but it was apparent 45 minutes in that between the questions
Crowley chose and her handling of who was allowed to speak and when,
that this debate was a total and complete setup to rehabilitate Barack
Obama.
If these are truly undecided voters,
they're apparently undecided between Obama and the Green Party.
Moreover, as I write this, Obama's already enjoyed four more minutes of
speaking time than Romney. In a ninety-minute debate, that's a big deal.
The lowest and most dishonest part of
Crowley's disgraceful "moderation" was when she actually jumped into the
debate to take Obama's side when the issue of Benghazi came up. To
cover for his and his administration's lying for almost two weeks about
the attack coming as the result of a spontaneous protest over a YouTube
video, Obama attempted to use as cover the claim that he had called the
attack a "terrorist attack" on that very first day during his Rose
Garden statement.
Romney correctly disputed that.
Crowley, quite incorrectly, took Obama's side and the crowd exploded.
Here's what Obama said that day:
No acts of terror will ever shake
the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the
light of the values that we stand for.
Context matters and the context here is
that Obama connected this "act of terror" to … a mob action over a
YouTube video -- not a deliberate terrorist attack. Obama was using the
term generically and it would be almost two weeks before he used it
again.
Let's not forget that Susan Rice said declaratively on the five Sunday shows four days later that it was NOT an act of terror.
And during those two weeks the Obama
administration lied like a rug. For Crowley to step in and attempt to
correct Romney on a statement that is at best arguable, was completely
out of line. The debate over this debate has only begun.
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Crowley Interrupts Romney 28 Times, Obama Just 9
Candy Crowley, who was suspected of being one more liberal moderator in the tank for Barack Obama, was more than just in the tank for him; she dove in and sucked all the water out for him so he could pretend he walked on water.
In the Vice-Presidential debate, Martha Raddatz, no slouch at shilling for the Democratic Party, interrupted Paul Ryan 15 times and Joe Biden only five.
Crowley made Raddatz look like an amateur. She interrupted Obama nine times, (although four of those were when he wouldn’t respect the time limit when discussing assault weapons; he went over his time limit all night long), but when it came to Mitt Romney, she was utterly beyond the pale.
Crowley interrupted Romney 28 times. 28 times. Her desperation to keep Romney from scoring points was so patently obvious that it wasn’t really a surprise when she had her infamous moment: the moment when she interrupted and falsely claimed Romney was incorrect in accusing Obama of refusing to call the Benghazi attack an act of terror.
And even beyond the interruptions, there were numerous instances where Crowley’s obvious partisanship prompted her to treat Romney with great disrespect:
1. She wouldn’t let him respond when Obama lied about the auto industry. First she called him Mr. Romney instead of governor, then protested, “there'll be plenty of chances here to go on, but I want to... We have all these folks. I will let you absolutely... OK. Will - will - you certainly will have lots of time here coming up.” Romney never did get the chance to respond.
2. After the question asking whether gas prices as they stand now are the new normal, Obama got 2 chances to respond. When Romney asked for his second chance, Crowley shut him off by saying, “ … in the follow up, it doesn't quite work like that. But I'm going to give you a chance here. I promise you, I'm going to.” She didn’t.
3. When discussing how he would deal with deductions, just as Romney was about to destroy Obama with statistics, Crowley jumped in to save her man not only by denying the value of statistics, but changing the narrative to say Romney’s numbers couldn’t possibly add up:
“And Governor, let's - before we get into
a vast array of who says - what study says what, if it shouldn't add
up. If somehow when you get in there, there isn't enough tax revenue
coming in. If somehow the numbers don't add up, would you be willing to
look again …”
4. When Romney was trying to make a point of Obama’s pension investing in China, Crowley cut him off by insinuating people were tired of him talking:
“Governor Romney, you can make it short. See all these people? They've been waiting for you. Make it short.”
Then she really tried to humiliate him with this: “If I could have you sit down, Governor Romney. Thank you.” She never asked Obama to sit down.
5. The infamous incident when she interrupted Romney’s claim about Obama’s refusal to call the Benghazi murders a terror attack:
“It - it - it - he did in fact, sir. So let me - let me call it an act of terror...
Prompted by Obama to say it a little louder, Crowley obliged:
“He - he did call it an act of terror. It
did as well take - it did as well take two weeks or so for the whole
idea there being a riot out there about this tape to come out. You are
correct about that.”
6. 6. Just as egregiously, when the
question was about assault weapons and Romney naturally started to
discuss fast and furious, Crowley quickly shifted him away from that and
turned it into an attack on Romney’s assault ban position:
“Governor, Governor, if I could, the
question was about these assault weapons that once were once banned and
are no longer banned. I know that you signed an assault weapons ban when
you were in Massachusetts, obviously, with this question, you no longer
do support that. Why is that, given the kind of violence that we see
sometimes with these mass killings? Why is it that you have changed your
mind?’
The fact that Obama escaped all night long by lie after lie didn’t seem to disturb Crowley in the slightest. She had her shadowy agenda, and she stuck to it fiercely. Now it is our job to throw her out into the sun where every American can see exactly how dirty she is.
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El segundo debate presidencial: Ud. decide
En el muy anticipado segundo debate presidencial, el presidente Barack Obama cumplió con la hazaña de demostrar más entusiasmo y preparación esta vez comparado con su pésimo primer debate junto al gobernador Mitt Romney. Pero, pese a toda su energía en este segundo debate, el presidente continuó dándose contra su propio récord cuando le preguntaban qué podría esperar el electorado si se le concediera un segundo mandato.
Y para una campaña presidencial obligada a inspirar por cuatro años más, simplemente criticar los planes del rival republicano no basta. Este debate presidencial ofreció muy pocos detalles sobre lo que el presidente haría de forma distinta si fuese reelegido. Prometió cuatro años más de lo mismo.
Afortunadamente para el electorado, este segundo debate tomó en cuenta la economía, el desempleo y el déficit.
Claro que ambos candidatos querían apelar a ciertos grupos demográficos como hizo el gobernador Romney cuando empezó el debate elogiando las becas Pell, a pesar que la experta de Heritage Lindsey Burke ha escrito que esto ayudará muy poco a reducir el precio de la matrícula.
En este debate tuvimos la primera mención a Latinoamérica cuando el gobernador Romney hablo sobre la importancia de incrementar el comercio con esta importante región – algo que hará que nuestras economías crezcan. Curiosamente, el presidente Obama no mencionó Latinoamérica cuando tuvo la oportunidad de responder al gobernador Romney. Muy interesante ya que, como dijo nuestro experto Bryan Riley, el comercio crea empleos. Y se habló del escándalo de Libia, aunque ese tema se tocará más en profundidad en el tercer y último debate el próximo lunes 22.
Interesante también en el debate fue que se tocó el tema de la inmigración. Ambos candidatos parecieron estar de acuerdo en que Estados Unidos es un país de inmigrantes pero también que se rige por el Estado de Derecho. Esta pública aceptación de ideas fue particularmente rara dado que los medios de comunicación y los progres suelen pintar a cualquiera que se oponga a la inmigracion ilegal como contrario a todo tipo de inmigración. El debate demostró que la diferencia entre ambos candidatos en este tema no es tan grande como algunos se empeñan en describir.
A tres semanas de las elecciones, ambas campañas presidenciales tratarán de aprovechar su actuación en este debate para animar a sus votantes y simpatizantes, pero sobre todo a los codiciados votantes independientes que finalmente serán los que decidan el resultado de las elecciones. Ojalá que en las tres semanas que restan, logremos saber más sobre lo que piensan los candidatos de asuntos como la reforma de la asistencia social o cómo reducir la carga de la deuda que pesa sobre todos los americanos y que incluye a 50.5 millones de hispanos.
Los medios hablarán toda la semana sobre este debate, las campañas dirán que su candidato fue el mejor, pero aquí, Ud. es quien decide si Obama o Romney llevará las riendas de la gran nación americana los próximos cuatro años. Son dos filosofías distintas de gobernanza: Ud. decide.
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