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CNN ADMITS THAT CROWLEY’S DISREGARD OF THE RULES WAS INTENDED TO HELP OBAMA
Powerline ^ | 10/18/2012 | PAUL MIRENGOFF

Posted on 10/18/2012 7:46:01 PM PDT by tobyhill

If authentic, CNN’s memo explaining why Candy Crowley permitted President Obama to speak four minutes more than Mitt Romney during Tuesday’s presidential debate is devastating to that network:

On why Obama got more time to speak, it should be noted that Candy and her commission producers tried to keep it even but that Obama went on longer largely because he speaks more slowly. We’re going to do a word count to see whether, as in Denver, Romney actually got more words in even if he talked for a shorter period of time.

One of Crowley’s main jobs as moderator was to enforce the rules that were established for the debate. The rules established time limits, not word limits.

When I debated in high school and college, we had to stop speaking when our time ran out. It didn’t matter how many words we had gotten in (I wish it did when I debated John in practice rounds). When, as I lawyer, I argued cases before Courts of Appeals, I had to sit down when my time was up. It didn’t matter whether my opponent had uttered more words in his or her alloted time.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2009; asinine; assinine; cnn; cnnmalpractice; collusion; communistnewsnetwork; crowley; enemedia; fraud; getthetranscript; media; mediabias; mediamalpractice; nlrb; obama; prearranged; presstitution; setup; transcriptgate
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To: bigbob
If you're not old enough to know what that is, it will be a teachable moment.

Ah, brings back fond memories, but will it also have that loud tone playing under the Indian test pattern?

21 posted on 10/18/2012 8:08:05 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: tobyhill
Obama went on longer largely because he speaks more slowly.

That has to be one of the stupidest excuses I have ever heard!!!

22 posted on 10/18/2012 8:08:34 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: tobyhill

Crowley chose ALL of the audience question (11), and then asked more that 11 questions OF HER OWN.

BTW, how many of Crowley’s questions were fed to her by Axelrod and Jerrod?


23 posted on 10/18/2012 8:09:10 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
She no longer has any journalistic integrity!! She needs to be FIRED!!

If the MSM fired their talking heads for "Lack of Integrity" they would have dead air. (crickets)

24 posted on 10/18/2012 8:09:56 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: tobyhill

Typical libs. If they can’t win legally, they change the rules.


25 posted on 10/18/2012 8:11:30 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: From The Deer Stand
When Romney wins he can have a field day with these media idiots.
26 posted on 10/18/2012 8:12:23 PM PDT by tobyhill (Obamacare, the final nail in the US coffin.)
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To: JoanneSD

“Ummmmm....Uhhhhhh......Duhhhhhhh”, which do nothing more tht tie together emplty slogans, should be counted as words in order to reflect equity. Ms (Mr.?) Crowley should never be on CNN after the false reference to the ghost transcript. Let’s have electric buzzers prepared for the hosts, triggered for any and all interruptions.


27 posted on 10/18/2012 8:12:29 PM PDT by Blue Devil Reaganite (A Professor is someone educated far beyond his or her own intelligence)
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To: tobyhill

It was worth several million dollars to CNN to please Obama...

CNN has a multi-million dollar appeal languishing in Obama’s stacked NLRB (NLRB Case 05-CA-031828).
the administrative-law judge (an Obama donor) already ruled against CNN in 2009 .
Their appeal has since set before the 4 member NLRB board: 3 of them Obama appointees.


28 posted on 10/18/2012 8:12:37 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
She no longer has any journalistic integrity!!

Journalistic integrity. Journalistic integrity.

Hmmmm???

What’s that?

29 posted on 10/18/2012 8:13:09 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: rawhide

That’s CNN’s idea of affirmative action. They are helping the slow guy by handicapping the normal guy.


30 posted on 10/18/2012 8:13:23 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: chessplayer
They are authenticating it but have leaked bits and pieces.
31 posted on 10/18/2012 8:15:42 PM PDT by tobyhill (Obamacare, the final nail in the US coffin.)
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To: tobyhill
BEFORE Town hall debate:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/333216.php

Today Show Ann Currey argues with Libyan president, insisting Obama has not called this a terrorist attack.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/09/white-house-obama-believes-libya-attacks-were-terrorism-136717.html

Politico states Obama has not called it an act of terror.

32 posted on 10/18/2012 8:16:59 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: bigbob

I think a seriously entertaining debate structure would be to eliminate the moderator and eliminate questions.

Instead, each candidate would get specific periods of time. The first candidate would get 1 minute. Then they would alternate 3-minute time periods, and could say whatever they want. And at the end, the 2nd person would get 1 minute, the first 30 seconds, and the second 30 seconds (to limit the damage of the last person getting to throw out a bunch of stuff that doesn’t get answered).

The microphones would only be on during their periods. That would control the time. 3 minutes up, your mike cuts off. If you stop early, the other person still doesn’t get to start until their time starts.

Each candidate would either answer something the opponent said, or introduce a new topic, or raise questions — and the opponent could ignore those questions. People would decide for themselves how “presidential” each candidate was, and whether they seemed serious about the issues that were important.

If structure is needed, there could be “subjects” for each half-hour period, and the subject would be put across the top of the screen, so people would see the subject while the candidates spoke. The candidates could ignore the subject, and the viewers could decide if that was a good or bad decision.


33 posted on 10/18/2012 8:21:31 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: mass55th
Typical libs. If they can’t win legally, they change the rules.

Crowley didn’t change the rules she just interpreted them Liberally.

34 posted on 10/18/2012 8:22:29 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
She pulled out a transcript from the Rose Garden on hand when Obama asked for the transcript.

I don't believe that ever happened.

35 posted on 10/18/2012 8:27:32 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man (Muppet season now open - no bag limit)
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To: tobyhill

I hope that sucking sound we hear is Crowley’s career circling the drain!


36 posted on 10/18/2012 8:29:13 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: From The Deer Stand

Why did the RNC and Romney campaign allow all debates to be moderated by Liberals? Drives me crazy.

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It’s every election. The idiots fall for it every single time. I’m done asking why they only allow liberals to moderate debates - if someone’s stupid enough to allow it, they deserve what they get.

I would say I refuse to participate unless there is a change to these so called moderators.


37 posted on 10/18/2012 8:30:14 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: tobyhill

Give Mitt 4 extra minutes to talk during the next debate.


38 posted on 10/18/2012 8:31:14 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: tobyhill

They’re trying to spin it as “oh both sides are complaining of unfairness to their guy” when the facts and statistics don’t support that. Especially when there’s been a pattern of it in all three debates held so far.


39 posted on 10/18/2012 8:31:41 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: From The Deer Stand

Who would you prefer? A candidate who goes through unfair opposition to win the presidency, or won who deals well with having plenty of little helpers to hold his hand. The fact that Romney and his wife bother letting people who hate their guts host debates or interviews tells me one thing: he really means business with whatever he is going to do as president. Do you think the Halls of Congress are going to instantly comply with whatever a president Romney wants? not a chance! The fact that he bothers doing as well as he does when his opponents like Obama try and rig the game to favor him and the ultra-liberals gives a pretty good idea of the kind of person Romney is. I would rather have a guy who goes into rigged debates than a guy who gives up or relies on finding a room full of fans like Obama does. Just my two cents.


40 posted on 10/18/2012 8:33:30 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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