Posted on 10/17/2012 6:40:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We can now fairly assume that both Democrat and Republican analysts concluded that President Obama's weak performance in the first presidential debate could be attributed to the absence of a teleprompter. The president's reputation -- earned or unearned -- as a golden orator cannot be upheld without this prop. So, to level the playing field -- as he is fond of saying -- he was provided with a flesh and blood teleprompter in the shape of Candy Crowley for the second debate.
It was a Catch 22. If Mitt Romney had pointedly objected to this glaring intervention he would have been seen as the bad sport who shouts at the referee. The same goes for post-debate commentators. You're not supposed to grumble about the conditions, it makes it look like your guy didn't hold his own.
From my observation point here in Paris in the middle of the night, the whole setup was skewed. Forgive me if I don't know the inner workings of the election committee that supposedly ensures a fair fight but I am wondering how in the world they could organize a Town Hall debate composed of 80 undecided voters. Does anyone know how the voters proved they were undecided? Was there a competition to eliminate the less undecided in favor of the truly sincerely undecided? Did they have some kind of test to root out the secretly decided? And how about intelligence? Are the undecided automatically inarticulate or was there another filter that excluded citizens capable of pronouncing a sentence of more than five words containing more than one idea? Why did they all look like props?
I have witnessed dozens of town hall style debates on French television and, trust me, they are never reduced to such first-grade level.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Candy Crowley intervened from the very first exchange, like a mother prompting her little boy who forgot his spiel or maybe doesn’t want to brag about his accomplishments.
The pattern was set: each candidate would give his answer to the (elementary) question, Candy would call on Barack and throw him some talking points, he would take the cue and do a little performance, and when Mitt Romney tried to do his rebuttal Candy would say that’s enough, let’s go to the next question.
This is a moderator? Why is there only one?
SNL could have a field day with this debate. Is it too much to hope?
I'll take Biased Moderators for $20 Alex.
>> This is a moderator? Why is there only one?
Uh, that stage may *look* sturdy, but with Cow-ley on it was *already* overloaded.
This article is good and points out some obvious problems with the debate format... What I find infuriating was the questions that were selected... “What’s your opinion about women earning 72% of men for equal work?” Sure, that came from an undecided! /sarc Shouldn’t these questions at least have been screened for some measure of unbiased accuracy? That 72% number has been debunked NUMEROUS times, but here goes Candy Crowley serving it up to Obama (or rather Romney which makes it another means of putting him on the defensive: answering a perfectly stupid question). Exasperating.
Well we all knew Candy would try to help Barry stutter through it and she did. Apparently he didn’t convince anyone except the base because Frank Luntz’s focus group were unmoved by Oblather’s performance. Most of them are going to vote Romney based on what they saw and heard.
This is not a bad thing, as it keeps the talking class talking about Benghazi, and the next debate will roll it another few days along.
Obama’s inner Don Knotts came out loud and clear, that’s good too. He sounded guilty as sin and an octave too high.
Meanwhile I have found my tagline.
Love the headline and totally agree with the author. I hated the Townhall format. Thanks for posting SeekAndFind.
Candy Crowley was Obama’s debate coach and spokesperson. If he wins the election be assured she’ll get a huge promotion.
did you notice how Romney was making points which whould hurt obama like fast and furious or his investments in China or Libya, then Crowley came int to rescue him but even more than that.
obama would raise his finger and say something and then Crowley came and butted in on behalf of obama.
Even the most ardent left wing kook cannot say that it was not biased.
Then there was obama’s wife clapping when Crowley butted in and stoped Romney over Libya.
It’s a waste of time her going on her network to a small crowd saying she got it wrong, most have no idea what she said then and what she needs to do is call herself a press conference and say I made a mistake Gov Romney was correct and I was wrong and the Pesident was wrong too as he did nto call it a terrorist attack.
I’m so frigging pissed off with this biased media, for 6 years they have been covering for their messiah, lying for him and now picking which questions are to be asked and then moderating what was supposed to be a debate but turned into a rude, arrogant display by obama and a debate which I would expect middle school would have.
the questions pissed me off so much,
AK 47’s
how are you different from Bush and I don;t blame the last 4 years just on oabma but on Bush and overseas.
Theh women’s pay.
My wife was B/S and when she heard about obama going on about the pill, planned parenthood and contraception then she said”this idiot thinks us women only care about getting someone to pay for our pill and then having an abortion”
Roseann Barr can play Candy Crowley’s part.
Kicking the Benghazi can farther down the road.
Considering Crowley’s blatant biased behavior last night, I’d say that the GOP has legitimate grounds to request a different moderator for next week’s debate. Bob Schieffer? Please. He was horrid four years ago. Seriously; we need a different moderator next week.
It’s all the fault of racist media.
All the talking heads seem to think a black genius Nobel prize-winning President can’t hold his own against a white mormon bishop without extra time, training wheels and a lib moderator running alongside his bicycle /s
Crowley and CNN must be sued !
Fake journalism and media are trying to destroy US democracy and fair elections....That’s obvious
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