[Keyga8tor]

The Secret Service said today they are going to hire Candy Crowley. Anyone who can move that fast to protect the President should be training their agents.

[Humbug]

Furthermore, a debater may choose to speak slowly for stylistic reasons. Such as to make what he is saying sound more profound or more eloquent. So not only would such a debater potentially benefit from speaking slower, but at least according to CNN he should also be given more time to keep hammering home his points.

Strange though that Crowley didn’t inform both debaters before it started that “just to let you know, if you speak slowly, i’ll give you much more time!”

Well okay, not so strange, for it would have sounded ridiculous. For the whole thing is laughable and obviously thought up after the fact as a means to try to justify a referee doing everything she could to help one contestant while delivering low blows to his opponent.

A quick summary: more time for Obama, more interruptions for Romney, more “last words” for Obama, more stepping in and preventing Romney from landing a knockout punch. So go ahead and count all you like CNN, but everyone knows that it all adds up to four measly letters: B-I-A-S.

[TheBattman]

If they are going to base turns to speak on word count, then what’s the point of a clock?
Answer- the fix was in...

[ModelBreaker]

It’s sort of an affirmative action approach to debate rules. Little barry just can’t speak as fast as that other guy. So we’ll celebrate by giving barry more time.

[Sacajaweau]

He doesn't know that many words....and he goes slow because without a monitor...his brain goes awry when he has to make sentences.

Hell, speak real slow and Mitt doesn't even have to show up.

[a fool in paradise]

[chessplayer]

So how did Crowley “just happen to have” that particular quote/transcript? And more interestingly, how did obama “just happen to know” she had it? Remember, he told Crowley to read it. He KNEW she had it. Only one possible answer,,,the two of them collaborated before the debate started.

[xzins]

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,

Word count???

You've got to be kidding.

People communicate with far more than words. 4 minutes more is 4 minutes more chance to communicate. These people must think America just fell off the turnip wagon.

Public communication is body language, laughing, staging, moving, pausing, emoting, you name it.

[Brown Deer]

So Candy broke the rules and helped 0bama because he's a slow thinker?

Hofstra Debate Word Count:

FutureOfCapitalism did its own word count and found Mr. Romney spoke 8,116 words to President Obama's 7,556 words. As Powerline's Paul Mirengoff notes, however, "The rules established time limits, not word limits." He goes on, "CNN's explanation of 'why Obama got more time speak' is an admission that Crowley intentionally gave Obama extra time because she thought he hadn't said enough. It's also an admission that it doesn't know whether, objectively, Romney said more than Obama in the same amount of time. CNN hadn't done a word count when it made the claim, and Crowley certainly hadn't performed one when she gave Obama more time than Romney."