Posted on 10/17/2012 6:52:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
After embarrassing herself with her incompetently biased attempt to “fact check” GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney during the second presidential debate, CNN correspondent Candy Crowley has already began trying to save her shattered credibility. In a panel discussion afterward, a fast-talking Crowley tried to spin away her offensive conduct by admitting that Romney was indeed correct in casting blame on the Obama Administration for falsely blaming an anti-Islamic video for attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
“It was one of those moments, and I could even feel that here, you know, when you say something you’re not expecting,” Crowley insisted, admitting she simply couldn’t help herself from unprofessionally inserting herself into a heated dispute that Obama and Romney were having. Video and transcript below the fold.
“He was right in the main, I just think he picked the wrong word,” Crowley said, echoing the extremely legalistic reading of the facts about what President Obama meant when he said “acts of terror” in reference to the Benghazi attack.
Knowing that she is facing a tremendous amount of backlash for her outburst, Crowley tried to play down the Libya discussion in the debate, insisting it wasn't really important:
"They’re going to parse and we all know about what the definition of is is, but, I, uh, you know, in the end, I think John [King]’s probably right. I think this has a lot more to with jobs and the debt crisis and all of that kind of stuff.
If her unprofessional conduct had not been so highly visible, Crowley's sad attempts to excuse herself would be amusing since she's almost literally admitted she has a knee-jerk liberal bias. Instead they are only ironic.
Full transcript of Crowley's remarks is below:
CANDY CROWLEY: Well, you know, I heard the president speak at the time. I, sort of, reread a lot of stuff about Libya because I knew we’d probably get a Libya question so I kind of wanted to be up on it. So I knew that the president had, had, said, you know, these acts of terror won’t stand or, whatever the whole quote was.
And I think actually, you know because, right after that I did turn around and say, but you’re totally correct that they spent two weeks telling us this was about a tape and that that there was a, you know, this riot outside the Benghazi consulate which there wasn’t.
So he was right in the main, I just think he picked the wrong word. And I, you know, they’re going to parse and we all know about what the definition of is is, but, I, uh, you know, in the end, I think John [King]’s probably right. I think this has a lot more to with jobs and the debt crisis and all of that kind of stuff.
I just think that probably it was one of those moments and I could even feel that here, you know, when you say something you’re not expecting. It’s just that was the natural thing coming out of me going, ‘Actually he did, you know, call it an act of terror.’ Uh, when, you know, half the crowd clapped for that and the other half clapped for ‘But they kept telling us this was a tape, this was caused by a tape’ so, you know, in the main, the thrust of what Governor Romney was saying, which is why I went back and said that, um, but I just think he picked the wrong kind of way to go about talking about it if that makes sense.
I don’t want any of THAT Candy. I have 10 year old candy I’d sooner partake of.
She gives new meaning to the phrase “going whole hog”.
Nasty woman. If I’d been Romney, I would have told her straight up - “You interrupt more than HE does - and it’s just as rude and ignorant” with a thumb over at the clown-in-Chief.
mark Levin had a montage of her interruptions on the radio tonight. I watched the damn debate, and didn’t realize how bad she was until I heard that.
Did I hear right that she happened to have a copy of Obama’s Rose Garden address about Benghazi at the debate? And that President Obama knew she had a copy of the transcript?
check...
"when you can walk this rice paper, AND leave no trace, it will be time for you to leave...
check...
"ok cain, grab this iron pot filled with red hot rocks, with your forearms only, and itll open a trap door, and we'll know yer nutz enough to take on the world"...
In the words of the immortal, incomparable Bugs Bunny: “What a gulla-bull. What a nin-cow-poop.”
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What a maroon.
RE Cain:
Always laugh when I think of David Carradine playing a chinese guy in the 1970s...and then seeing him in “Kill Bill”.
LOL!!
well, david carradine was so fried that his squint had a chinese flavor... 8^}
I think I was 11 or 12 when “Kung Fu” was on TV. I remember the old chinaman with the cataracts; he freaked me out.
Carradine and his brothers were in “The Long Riders” back in 1980 or thereabouts. Good movie. Ry Cooder’s guitar soundtrack was amazing.
Carradine hanged himself a couple years ago, I believe...
i recall that DC admitted to trippin acid during alot of the filming of kung-fu...he was whacked pretty badly for most of his life, and IIRC, you are correct that he offed himself awhile back...
long riders was a classic too, the knofe fight with the mexican was gnarly intense for me back then...
Crowley needs to lay off the candy...what a douchebag.
When I was doing my spring cleaning I found a 3-4 year old gummy bear between the cushions. I ate it.
Never discount the nutritional value of old couch-lint infested gummy bears... it’s legendary.
Some even say it’s an aphrodisiac (shhhh...that’s a secret)...Haha!
“Offed himself...”
Was reading on wikipedia that he hanged himself doing some sexual auto-suffocation act...
So, naturally, the question is “WTF?!?!? were you thinking, DAVE???”
I dunno...just go buy a hooker, for crying out loud...but hanging yourself???
But hey...I’M weird, I guess...
“Some even say it’s an aphrodisiac (shhhh...that’s a secret)...Haha!”
Is THAT why the g/f left with an extra-wide smile on her face? :)
RE Master Po:
My eyes looked like that once...I was REALLY constipated, and let me tell you, the world DEFINITELY looks different when you’re THAT backed up!!!
Brrr.....bad memory...bad, BAD memory...
“...Is THAT why...”
I’m thinking yeah...that, and the 55 gallon drum of Vaseline, studded snow tire, seven viagra-crazed dwarves and rhinoceras-hide bullwhip...
But yeah, that’s GOTTA be it...
Never underestimate the power of the lint-encrusted gummy bear.
“...Never underestimate the power of the lint-encrusted gummy bear...”
...and let me add - never - EVER - get in the path of seven, stampeding, rampaging Viagra-crazed dwarves...
..bad things can only result....day-ruining bad things.
Brrrr......
“...seven, stampeding, rampaging Viagra-crazed dwarves...”
Sounds like the plot of a porn flick.
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