Posted on 10/17/2012 4:22:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
On MSNBCs post-debate wrap-up from Hempstead, N.Y., anchor and Hardball host Chris Matthews praised CNNs Candy Crowley for making a charge that Republican nominee Mitt Romney was wrong in challenging the presidents terror description in his response to last months Benghazi, Libya attack.
And even thought Crowley later admitted Romney was right in the main, Matthews and his panel praised Crowley for her courage.
Do you realize, Joy youre a woman here, let me tell you, do you realize the guts it took for Candy, even crystal in memory, knowing he had said an act of terror, Matthews said. Knowing it was on her mind, that it had been in her notebook and that she had been there. If she had been wrong on that, the hell she would have taken from all of these media watchers from the right. I mean, unbelievable.
Matthews panel, which included The Grios Joy Reid and the Huffington Posts Howard Fineman, elaborated on why they thought the Hardball host was right on target with his observation.
REID: She is anyway.
MATTHEWS: Whats their case now? She was right.
REID: In the spin room afterwards, a lot of the complaining was about her.
MATTHEWS: Why?
REID: And people insisting she was wrong, but you know what she wasnt wrong. Shes a reporter. Thats why its important to have a journalist in that situation. And it provided Romneys I think most embarrassing moment of the night because he sat there. He leaned his chin out, he literally put his eyebrows up. And he was wrong.
FINEMAN: He thought he was moving in for the kill at that point.
MATTHEWS: And I think the president lured him in, so he said lets move on. Lets move on, like I really dont want to test this moment.
I hope and pray you’re right. I really, sincerely do. But, I think the Benghazi moment was extremely destructive. Obama and Crowley played it to the hilt — and in doing so prevented Romney from exploiting the issue as he could and, I believe, would have. Obama is now off the hook on Benghazi — and Mitt looked like he was misinformed.
As to the lies, you are absolutely right: Obama lied like a rug. The problem is, he did so with sufficient panache that to the average viewer his lies looked plausible.
In boxing terms, the debate was a split decision. And in split decisions, the match is awarded to the reigning champion.
That said, remember that in Rocky I, Rocky won just by being on his feet at the end. Could be, that’s all that Mitt needed from this one.
watching FOX and talking to tohers this morning then more people are asking questions about this attack than before.
Crwley and oabma did their best to get off this topic but liek I said more peopel are now asking even more questions and wanting to know who told hsi admin to say it was about a video, why did he go to Vegas if he knew it was an attack but then why did he refuse to call it an attack weeks after.
we said last night that the crowd and questions were not fair and they were biased.
Some of those people last night were hard core left wing and then there were idiots too, backed up by a moderator who had an agenda and CNN states she is their best. No wonder CNN is going down.
We now need a debate like this last one but more to our side of fair,.
Mark Levin moderating.
He picks the questions.
To a crowd in SC, or north FL, AL,MS,OK,GA minus Atlanta
Truth is meaningless to Hissy Matthews. He’s been saying for two weeks that unemployment was ten percent when Bush left office. The truth is that it was a less than seven percent at the time, but Tingles just keeps doubling down on the wrong figure because he knows the ignorant proletariat that is his audience will believe it. Thankfully they’re a very small bunch.
That’s good news. I’m glad to hear it. Hopefully, the whole Obama-Crowley ambush (and I firmly believe it was a set-up) will redound to Mitt’s favor. The RNC needs to flood airways with ads emphasizing Obama’s lack of leadership in the whole Benghazi tragedy.
Crowley said afterwards that she was wrong. All the fine “journalists” and “analysts” on MSNBC were wrong. Why does anyone listen to these people as a source of information?
Wait till the polling comes in post debate...if it’s anything like the focus group Frank Luntz interviewed yesterday from Nevada (all former Obama 2008 voters), Obama’s toast.
Because it signaled that 75% of the Obama voters now considering themselves independent are going to vote for Romney.
One lady said it was not undecided whether to vote for Obama or vote for Romney, she was previously undecided about whether actually going to go vote for Romney rather than not casting a vote.
On election night I will get my TV coverage from MSNBC. The hysterical, shrieking meltdown will be HISTORIC, and I want to witness every moment.
The fact that John Candy Crowley even came to Obama’s defense is the bigger story.
She certainly didn’t do the same for Romney when Obama lied his ass off about his energy “facts and figures”. I mean, c’mon, Obama has created coal jobs? That alone was a squealer.
“This will cost Romney points in the polls.”
Just the opposite friend...look at the polls conducted just afterwards on MSNBC and even on CNN...all admitted he won on substance and the ONLY mistake Romney made in the debate was to ask questions of Obama.
On the other hand Obama’s ONLY mistake was discussing his record...publicly.
I hope and pray you’re right. But, I still think that the Benghazi flap will hurt Romney. The mainstream media will spin it as a major gaffe, and that will cost Romney some of the great momentum he was building.
Another interesting question is this:
Why did Crowley have that transcript in front of her? How did Obama know she had it in front of her? Coordination between Crowley and Obama campaign?
Obama outright lied about energy and Libya. That’s gonna hurt.
Well, most likely it was coordinated, but try to prove it. Hell, oblammo is so arrogant he’d probably say exactly the same thing.
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