Poll: Should Candy Crowley be fired for her "fact check" during debate? (deaths, Clinton)
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What Crowley said on CNN after the debate: Romney “was right in the main, I just think he picked the wrong word.” But on the same network Wednesday morning, she said she was in no way taking back her original interjection.
“Listen, what I said on that stage is the same thing I said to you actually last night,” she Soledad O’Brian. “[W]e got hung up on this ‘yes he said,’ ‘no I didn’t,’ ‘I said terror,’ ‘you didn’t say terror.’ … So I said, [President Obama] did say ‘acts of terror, call it an act of terror, but Governor Romney, you are perfectly right that it took weeks for them to get past the tape.’”
Asked if that was a backtrack, Crowley said, “No. The question was — we got so stuck on that ‘act of terror.’ Now, did the President say this was an act of terror? The president did not say — he said ‘these acts of terror,’ but he was in the Rose Garden to talk about Benghazi, so I don’t think that’s a leap.” (The exact phrase Obama used: “no acts of terror.”)
In all three debates, the Democratic candidate got more time by several minutes.
I'm glad she admitted she was wrong, but she should have kept her mouth shut to begin with. It's not her job to back up what either candidate says. And some people will watch only the debate and not news later to see that she admitted she was wrong.
If they are going to have moderators that are biased for the left, they should also have an equal number of moderators that are biased for the right. Or moderators that are able to keep their personal politics out of it. That's like having a referee working a game where he is a big fan of one of the teams.
Wow,the whinning and childishness of the right really rears its ugly head in this thread. Grow up people. It's ok to disagree but to attack a woman because of her weight just solidifies us calling the right out in their continuing war on women.
The "fact-check" was out-of-place for a moderator about as much as the liberal applause following that fact-check. But that didn't concern me nearly as much as Crowley giving Obama a bailout on the Fast & Furious issue.
F & F was one of the Obama administration's biggest scandals and unanswered questions to date, a scandal apparently bad enough to invoke executive priviledge to muffle to noise at least until after the election.
The reference in the debate was to Obama's remarks in the Rose Garden the day after the attacks.
False.
Jay Carney on September 20th stating that the Obama Admin HAD NOT called it a terrorist attack:
Quote:
Q Can you -- have you called it a terrorist attack before? Have you said that?
MR. CARNEY: I haven’t, but -- I mean, people attacked our embassy. It’s an act of terror by definition.
Q Yes, I just hadn’t heard you --
MR. CARNEY: It doesn’t have to do with what date it occurred.
Q No, I just hadn’t heard the White House say that this was an act of terrorism or a terrorist attack. And I just --
MR. CARNEY: I don’t think the fact that we hadn’t is not -- as our NCTC Director testified yesterday, a number of different elements appear to have been involved in the attack, including individuals connected to militant groups that are prevalent in eastern Libya, particularly in the Benghazi area. We are looking at indications that individuals involved in the attack may have had connections to al Qaeda or al Qaeda’s affiliates, in particular al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
You didn't hear about all the Dems and different security agencies saying the same thing? Even our present SoS said it along WITH her husband! WikiLeaks proved all this.
And so therefore what?
How they responded to this attack couldnt have changed the outcome in the least-unless they had a time machine.
Exactly. No need for an investigation if it had already been declared an act of terrorism. It wasn't. Carney admits that to the press several times over several days. Obama was still blaming the YouTube video in his U.N. speech two weeks later.
How they responded to this attack couldnt have changed the outcome in the least-unless they had a time machine.
Let's be honest with ourselves here. That consolate requested additional security forces, and were denied twice. Those are true facts.
But, let's also be honest with the fact that an attack on a US consolate in Libya is not a matter of "if", but a matter of "when".
"Hey, this country is just now crawling out of a bloody civil war, let's build a consolate, everything looks good from here" yeah, no.
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