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Crowley to Axelrod: Obama Never Said Benghazi Attack Was 'Act of Terror (
Breitbart ^ | 17 Oct 2012, 3:44 AM PDT | Tony Lee

Posted on 10/17/2012 2:48:23 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

On CNN's "State of the Union" on September 30, Candy Crowley insisted David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's chief strategist, was wrong when Axelrod tried to claim President Barack Obama called the Benghazi attack "an act of terror" on the day after.

"First, they said it was not planned, it was part of this tape," Crowley said when Axelrod tried to spin her.

This was Crowley the journalist, unlike the pro-Obama advocate who moderated Tuesday's debate between Obama and Mitt Romney and interjected herself into an argument between Obama and Romney on the exact same issue -- and took Obama's side.

During the debate, Crowley affirmed Obama's assertion that he referred to the Benghazi attacks as acts of terror on the day after.

After Romney correctly said it took Obama 14 days before Obama said the the Benghazi attacks were acts of terror, Crowley took Obama's side -- to an ovation from the town hall audience -- and she proclaimed Obama had indeed claimed the Benghazi attacks were acts of terror the day after the attacks in the White House Rose Garden.

On September 12, the day after the attacks, Obama did say the words "acts of terror" but he was not referring to the attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens.

Crowley knew that on September 30 and she conceded it again hours after the debate when she went on CNN and said while Romney "was right in the main, but he just chose the wrong word." But the damage had already been done.

With Obama's reelection on the line, Crowley seemed to have conveniently forgotten the facts she knew two weeks before when she grilled Axelrod in a way she should have Obama.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: axelrod; benghazi; candycrowley; davidaxelrod; libya; mediawingofthednc; obama; partisanmediashills
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1 posted on 10/17/2012 2:48:29 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: RummyChick; TigersEye; Marine_Uncle; SunkenCiv; onyx; Grampa Dave; LucyT; zencycler; Fred Nerks; ...
Nice little collage of Obama and Hillary and quotes on a timeline:

Obama's Benghazi Lies

Put together by Freeper...zencycler

2 posted on 10/17/2012 2:51:14 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

So Crowley flat lied.


3 posted on 10/17/2012 2:53:36 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

--Mark Twain


4 posted on 10/17/2012 2:55:31 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Somebody needs to put together a video montage of Obama blaming the YouTube video (and denying any link to terrorism) over, and over again. Juxtaposed with this montage would be clips of Crowley the journalist, and Crowley the Obama tag-team debate partner, then Crowley’s grudging retraction, along with what Obama actually said in the rose garden.


5 posted on 10/17/2012 2:56:02 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2946158/posts


6 posted on 10/17/2012 2:56:02 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Crowley is a fat, ugly hack for the Obama team.
Why the GOP continues to allow democrat hacks who pose as
journalist to moderate debates, I will NEVER understand.


7 posted on 10/17/2012 2:56:30 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: All; RummyChick
Rummychick posted this on a thread....

Crowley On September 30th: Administration Took Weeks To Admit Benghazi Might Be A Terrorist Attack

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it's getting interesting NOW!

8 posted on 10/17/2012 2:56:42 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I hope there is video or audio and Rush plays it tomorrow.

Seems Team Obama got to Candy to get her mind right.

9 posted on 10/17/2012 2:56:47 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Crowley's defense is that she was dumb enough to have believed David Axelrod? Really???

LMAO

Yeah sweetie, that'll save your "reputation" as a hard-hitting investigative journalist.

Until she buys prime-time ad time sufficient to reach EVERY person that she misled during that debate, plus 20%, and issues a categorical retraction she won't be out of this.

IOW, you're toast Ms. Crowley, forever.

10 posted on 10/17/2012 2:57:45 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers us choices: convert or kill, submit or die.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Additionally, "Acts of Terror" are not necessarily "terrorism."

The guy who shot up the Batman premier was engaged in an "act of terror" but was not a terrorist.

Terrorism needs a political motivation. An act of terror merely needs terrorized people to fit the definition.

11 posted on 10/17/2012 2:59:07 PM PDT by dead (It ain't over until the phone lady sings.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

It’s another source.....often has slightly different info....think ARCHIVES.


12 posted on 10/17/2012 3:00:22 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

13 posted on 10/17/2012 3:01:46 PM PDT by dead (It ain't over until the phone lady sings.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; zencycler

When will I ever learn to look back, and see what’s been posted while I’ve been composing a post.

This is very close to what I was asking for in post #5. Now, there just needs to be actual video clips. Then it should go on YouTube.


14 posted on 10/17/2012 3:02:17 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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In this case a very different headline.


15 posted on 10/17/2012 3:02:32 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Not sure that video is a 100% smoking gun on Crowley, but interesting.


16 posted on 10/17/2012 3:04:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"was right in the main, but he just chose the wrong word." I've read this numerous times and for the life of me, I can't figure out what "word" she's referring to.......
17 posted on 10/17/2012 3:04:42 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Timeline of 0bama BS

U.S. officials: Attack on consulate in Libya may have been planned Sept. 12th

Libyan Leader: Embassy Attack Unrelated to Islam Video Sept. 12th

Congress was warned about Libya last month Sept 13th

Libyan attacks said to be 2-part militant assault Sept. 13th

Contentions Carney: Anti-Islam Video Completely to Blame for ‘Unrest’ Sept. 14th

No demonstration before attack on US Consulate, source says Sept. 17th

Breaking: White House Knowingly Gave False Information to Media on Benghazi Terror Attack (Video) Sept. 23rd

At U.N., Obama again blames Libya attack on video Sept. 25th

Rice on Benghazi: Blame the intelligence community Oct. 5th

18 posted on 10/17/2012 3:05:11 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Remember at the debate when Crowley defended Bama’s Rose Garden “ terrorist” statement as valid that he said “you tell ‘em Candy’. Then he told her to repeat it at which she did like a fawning lamb. She did more damage than good to the Bam because it only deepens suspicions further and she poured gasoline instead of water. So be it.


19 posted on 10/17/2012 3:06:38 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

But but but ...

He had to know it was an ‘act of terror’ because, according to the stories released just before the debate yesterday, he was on the phone with the ‘intel community’ right after the Benghazi attack.

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Obfuscation: The activity of obscuring people’s understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered; intentionally creating confusion.

The variations in the narrative(s) was intentional. Create a narrative so obfuscated that no one really knows who did what when.

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They will continue to obfuscate the narrative(s) until they are under oath. Some of those under oath, however, continue to lies.


20 posted on 10/17/2012 3:09:01 PM PDT by TomGuy
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