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During the debate last night, Obama claimed that he called the Benghazi attack an “act of terror” the day after in a statement he made from the Rose Garden. Here is the claim Obama made during the debate – “The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people in the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened,” Obama said. “That this was an act of terror and I also said that we’re going to hunt down those who committed this crime.” Obviously, this caught me by surprise...

You might think that with all the recent focus on media bias in debate moderation, Candy Crowley would have minded her p's and q's in last night's presidential debate. But clearly, she doesn't even know the ABC's of her job. Her most obvious transgression was chiming in and contradicting Mitt Romney's assertion that Barack Obama did not label the Benghazi attack an act of terror when he spoke in the Rose Garden on Sept. 12. Crowley's unwarranted meddling was significant. The apparent lies surrounding the Libya tragedy are a huge scandal for Obama, and, with the mainstream media's failure to...

Like many couples do, my wife and I get into late night talks about politics whenever we watch a debate. After watching the one last night, we spent a few hours discussing it in depth. As we went over the many lies that Obama gave for his pathetic excuse of a record, my wife pointed out how Obama probably destroyed any chance he had left of regaining the advantage with the female vote. She said this because in less then 8 hours, two women were thrown under the bus for Obama. First one to roll under "Bus Force One",...

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,”...

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...

CNN anchor and debate moderator Candy Crowley joined CNN’s panel after the debate to discuss a moment where she corrected Mitt Romney after he claimed that President Barack Obama had refused to characterize the attack in Libya an act of terror for 14 days. Crowley said that Romney’s was “right” in that the Obama administration spent weeks refusing to say that the attack was terrorism, but she thought at the time that “he picked the wrong word.” “I heard the president speak at the time. I, sort of, reread a lot of stuff about Libya because I knew we’d probably...

Rose Garden 10:43 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Every day, all across the world, American diplomats and civilians work tirelessly to advance the interests and values of our nation. Often, they are away from their families. Sometimes, they brave great danger. Yesterday, four of these extraordinary Americans were killed in an attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi. Among those killed was our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, as well as Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith. We are still notifying the families of the others who were killed. And today, the American people stand united in holding the families of the...

I want to preface by saying I am voting for Mitt Romney and I thought the debate moderated by Candy Crowley was horrendously bad. I think she was even worst than Martha Raddatz, if that was possible. But one statement Romney said that bothered me during the debate. A feminazi asked a loaded question about how men make more than women (a falsehood for the most part). Gov. Romney said that when he first became Governor, he looked at a stack of potential cabinet members and complained that they were all men. He then directed his chief of staff to...

Watching it unfold on live TV it did not seem right. It was awkwardly and comfortably scripted, and too smooth in execution. But watching it on replay the agenda filled manipulation was obvious. It appears Candy Crowley and CNN together with the Obama Administration scripted the Libyan injection into the Presidential Debate.I’m not just talking about Candy Crowley interjecting on behalf of President Obama, and interrupting Mitt Romney, I mean the whole segment was a set up. So we did a little research: Candy Crowley told Erin Burnett on CNN’s show Out Front, Monday Night 10/15, that she had collected...

Mitt Romney was right. Barack Obama was wrong. And now, after journo-tool/moderator Candy Crowley jumped to Obama’s aid in front of millions of viewers, CNN is admitting that her fact-check was not kinda, sorta, no completely “cut and dry” factual. READ: CNN walks back false “act of terror” fact check. How’s that crow tasting, lapdogs?

In the baseball playoffs, the tie goes to the runner. In debates, ties are decided by the moderator and that’s what happened during the Tuesday night presidential debate at Hofstra University in New York. CNN’s Candy Crowley made her presence felt as a moderator in a major way on two points, but none larger than the issue of Libya. The terrorist attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and four others in Benghazi has become a sore point for Obama, but Crowley made sure she called Romney out before Obama could tag him. When Romney said Obama had not called...

WSB AM750 - the nation's top talk radio station and the Atlanta home of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz and Herman Cain - has yet to mention Candy Crowley's debate performance. Never mind that Crowley's intervention on Obama's behalf was obviously scripted and rehearsed, and that she "just happened" to have the Rose Garden transcript right in front of her. Never mind that Crowley interrupted Romney to protect Obama from his greatest scandal. And never mind that Crowley admitted afterward - on tape - that she was wrong and Romney was right. As far as WSB's newsroom is concerned,...

I saw a discussion board where somebody called Obama "Miss Elizabeth". I guess the beefy Ms. Crowley had to save The Effeminate One's bacon last night. It's like watching the WWE, only the female Lefty moderators take the steroids, and the Democrat male debaters are the damsels in distress...

- FrontPage Magazine - http://frontpagemag.com - Candy Crowley’s Benghazi Lifeline to ObamaPosted By Matthew Vadum On October 17, 2012 @ 12:55 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 9 Comments In an outrage destined for the history books, the moderator of last night’s hotly contested presidential debate uttered an untruth about President Obama’s deadly bungling in Libya after Obama overtly asked her on live television to support his dishonest version of it.It was truly unprecedented and could only have happened in the Age of Obama.During the town hall-format debate with an audience of undecided voters, Crowley provided an assist to Obama to...

The second of three presidential debates is behind us and although the town hall format is supposed to be more of a calm debate, it turned out to be anything but calm. It was downright rowdy at times and each side is claiming victory for their man. Here are a few observations from a supporter of Mitt Romney. Obviously, I believe he won the debate, or at least held the President to a draw, but it wasn't the kind of slam dunk that happened in Denver. It's really hard for any political candidate to debate effectively when they are debating...

The lowest and most dishonest part of Crowley's disgraceful "moderation" was when she actually jumped into the debate to take Obama's side when the issue of Benghazi came up. To cover for his and his administration's lying for almost two weeks about the attack coming as the result of a spontaneous protest over a YouTube video, Obama attempted to use as cover the claim that he had called the attack a "terrorist attack" on that very first day during his Rose Garden statement. Romney correctly disputed that. Crowley, quite incorrectly, took Obama's side and the crowd exploded. Here's what Obama...

In the baseball playoffs, the tie goes to the runner. In debates,ties are decided by the moderator and that’s what happened during the Tuesday night presidential debate at HofstraUniversity in New York. CNN’s Candy Crowley made her presence felt as a moderator in a major way on two points, but none larger than the issue of Libya.The terrorist attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and four others in Benghazi has become a sore point for Obama,but Crowley made sure she called Romney out before Obama could tag him.When Romney said Obama had not called the attack an act of terror...

“Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous – not a premeditated – response to what had transpired in Cairo,” Rice told me this morning on “This Week.”

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. Another debate, another debacle for America’s media. In the runup to the second presidential debate, CNN’s Candy Crowley declared that she would not just be a “fly on the wall” as she played the tiny role of moderator, that she would step in whenever she chose to say, “Hey, wait a second, what about X, Y, Z?” And boy did she, cutting off Republican Mitt Romney repeatedly and often throwing the floor to President Obama with an open “let me give the president a chance here.” More, she alone decided the topics for the debate, picking questions from...