Posted on 10/14/2012 9:10:17 PM PDT by cdchik123
In a rare example of political unity, both the Romney and the 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 and the bipartisan commission sponsoring the debates 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?’”
According to the town hall format language in the agreement, after each audience question and both two-minute responses from the candidates, Obama and Romney are expected to have an additional discussion facilitated by Crowley. Yet her participation is meant to be otherwise limited. As stated by the commission: “In managing the two-minute comment periods, the moderator will not rephrase the question or open a new topic….The moderator will not ask follow-up questions or comment on either the questions asked by the audience or the answers of the candidates during the debate or otherwise intervene in the debate except to acknowledge the questioners from the audience or enforce the time limits, and invite candidate comments during the 2 minute response period.” The memorandum, which has been obtained by TIME, was signed by lawyers for the two campaigns on October 3, the day of the first presidential debate in Denver.
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they’ll need a wide-angle lens for said scrutiny...
debate ping
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The buttinsky moderator was live bombed by her professional peers. The moderator that let the candidates grapple with each other was reviled by his professional peers.
cramdy crowlady is a whale sized attention whore. What do you think she will do?
Activist journalism means activism always.
You’da think they learn by this time. Now they’re Closing the barn door after the whorses has left the gate.
LoL. Lying cover.
Live bombed = “love bombed”. Lousy touch screen/auto correct . . .
The libs are well known for planting ringers in the group of undecided questioners. They will be easy to spot.
You are probably a toothless hillbilly.
Her size has nothing to do with this. Only an insecure closet homo would bring it up.
Knock it off...we are better than that.
Just as there is fact checking for the questions that are asked, there is BACKGROUND checking to out the professional activists who pose as “undecided voters”.
I agree.
For the love of God....Don’t ping Laz...
Why not drop all pretense and just get someone from Obama's own cabinet to referee the debate.
So she’s been offered the press secretary job in the second Obama term?
THE GAY MEDIA MESSIAH OBAMA MUST BE SAVED, NO MATTER THE COST!
Imagine how popular she will be on the DC/NYC party circuit if she manages to destroy Romney, and save Obama?
THE SKY IS THE LIMIT!
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