When the Moderator Thinks She's the Star of The Show (interviews, campaign)

[LauraC]

Whoa! Something Romney and Obama agree on:

"In a rare example of political unity, both the Romney and Obama campaigns have expressed concern to the Commission on Presidential Debates about how the moderator of the Tuesday town hall has publicly described her role, TIME has learned. While an early October memorandum of understanding between the Obama and Romney campaigns suggests CNN’s Candy Crowley would play a limited role in the Tuesday-night session, Crowley, who is not a party to that agreement, has done a series of interviews on her network in which she has suggested she will assume a broader set of responsibilities. As Crowley put it last week, “Once the table is kind of set by the town-hall questioner, there is then time for me to say, ‘Hey, wait a second, what about X, Y, Z?’”


Moderator Role Under Scrutiny

[Bulldogdad]

Will be interesting to see if both Romney and Obama take a piece of her hide. And Lord knows she has a bunch of it to take.

[brokensky]

I had already thought about this b/f I had a clue that the candidates themselves had their own concerns.

[ObserverNY]

I am very tense about tomorrow night's debate. Crowley is a fat Lib pig, the event is a town hall on blue Long Island and Obama will be given free rein to run ramshod over Romney. I sure hope the HOUSING MARKET is a topic of discussion.

[EdwardA]

This is why I think Lehrer did a good job. Setup a question and step aside. It's up to the debaters to challenge each others position.

I'm not worried about Crowley being biased but interjecting herself needlessly.

[EdwardA]

Originally Posted by ObserverNY

I am very tense about tomorrow night's debate. Crowley is a fat Lib pig, the event is a town hall on blue Long Island and Obama will be given free rein to run ramshod over Romney. I sure hope the HOUSING MARKET is a topic of discussion.

Long Island isn't that liberal. Crowley is very fat though.

[cuebald]

Originally Posted by ObserverNY

I am very tense about tomorrow night's debate. Crowley is a fat Lib pig, the event is a town hall on blue Long Island and Obama will be given free rein to run ramshod over Romney. I sure hope the HOUSING MARKET is a topic of discussion.

No reason for it. Bush isn't running this time.

[aquietpath]

Originally Posted by ObserverNY

I am very tense about tomorrow night's debate. Crowley is a fat Lib pig, the event is a town hall on blue Long Island and Obama will be given free rein to run ramshod over Romney. I sure hope the HOUSING MARKET is a topic of discussion.

What does her weight have anything to do with this debate? Grow up.

[ObserverNY]

Originally Posted by EdwardA

Long Island isn't that liberal. Crowley is very fat though.

It depends what part of Long Island the questioners come from. My guess is that CNN is going to pack the audience with a large minority presence from the immediate Hempstead area. I highly doubt that the North Shore wealthy white Republicans will be well represented.

I have watched Crowley on CNN many times before and she is a hard-left partisan. And if the Left can constantly criticize Chris Christie's girth, I can call her a fat Lib pig. Anyone who makes the kind of money she makes to be on national television can afford a personal trainer and dietician. If she was strictly a radio host, her appearance wouldn't matter.

[CheyDee]

Originally Posted by EdwardA

Long Island isn't that liberal. Crowley is very fat though.

I went to grad school at Hofstra. That area is VERY liberal.