CNN ADMITS THAT CROWLEY’S DISREGARD OF THE RULES WAS INTENDED TO HELP OBAMA

Powerline ^ | 10/18/2012 | PAUL MIRENGOFF

[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.

[afraidfortherepublic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzdWnigWY0o

Look at it yourself. Note how the minute BO starts talking about the events of the day, she starts waving the paper. She also cuts off Romney and loud clapping ensues. We are told by those there that the loud clapping was Michelle O.

Candy even says that they don’t need to discuss it anymore because “they can go to the transcript” as she waves the paper. Do I know for sue that that was a trasncript? Of course not, but she certainly implies it.

She claimed afterward that it was her “instinct” that made her do it.

[Ann Archy]

WHO gave Candy that TRNSCRIPT from the Rose Garden??? Obama, that’s WHO!

[cnsmom]

I agree CNN should keep her. Promote her. I’d rather American’s see that network for the journalistic fraud that it is. This will haunt her for years, and will taint everything she does in the future.

[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.

[Morpheus2009]

i think of it this way. When the president goes into Congress, he is going to have to contend back and forth with Congress, and they will not debate fair.

[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.

[Little Ray]

Not a chance. She has her ideological credentials and is now assured of a job for life!

[afraidfortherepublic]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/how_much_of_a_set_up_was_crowleys_libya_question.html

How Much of a Set-Up Was Crowley’s Libya Question?

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/how_much_of_a_set_up_was_crowleys_libya_question.html#ixzz29l8ijJBs

[Tex-Con-Man]

From the article...

Did she wave the paper intentionally to give the illusion that she had the transcript in hand?

But more to the point. This is just another unprovable conspiracy that sidetracks the real issue, which is....
Who came up with the "it was a protest against an offensive anti-Muslim movie" lie? And why did they continue to promote the lie when they knew it wasn't true almost immediately?

Why people waste time on these silly unprovable conspiracies when the main issue is much worse, baffles me.

[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."

[holden]

The paper she shuffled may indeed not have been—and probably wasn’t—a transcript of the Rose Garden speech. That would be for subsequent deniability, but at the time it served its purpose—to make Romney believe that she had such transcript at hand and whatever came forth from her was about to be “the verified, gospel truth.”

There may have been two or three such pre planned triggers (Zero’s arranged word and/or gestures) that were intended to engage set plays. More than one set play might have involved pulling out a piece of paper meant to rattle Mitt, as if the Candy Masticator “had the goods,” but since everything had been committed to memory anyway—again, for deniability—it never mattered, whatever might have been written on the paper.

HF

[afraidfortherepublic]

Whatever. There is actually an article elsewhere on FR that purposts to identify Obama’s “tell” in such situations. In any case, the more I look at that video, the more that it seems planned between Obama and Crowley.

[afraidfortherepublic]

See Reply #90 for another egregious flaunting of the rules by Crowley. I would never have used the word “conspiracy”, but since you suggested it...

[MayflowerMadam]

“Why did the RNC and Romney campaign allow all debates to be moderated by Liberals?”

RNC/GOP has highly paid attorneys whose job it is to negotiate the debates. And this is the best they can come up with... a plan to sabotage the candidate. It’s clear they’re incompetent. Daily, I get multiple emails from people in the Romney campaign requesting money. Why should I donate when the campaign itself is doing a piss-poor job of furthering the effort? Like you, “I refuse to participate unless there is a change to these so-called ‘moderators’.”

[Bob]

She no longer has any journalistic integrity!! She needs to be FIRED!!

A couple of minor modifications, if I may:

She no longer has never had any journalistic integrity!! She needs to be FIRED TARRED AND FEATHERED!!

[The_Media_never_lie]

CNN supports cheaters!

[Tex-Con-Man]

Knock yourself out.

[leapfrog0202]

RNC/GOP has highly paid attorneys whose job it is to negotiate the debates. And this is the best they can come up with... a plan to sabotage the candidate. It’s clear they’re incompetent. Daily, I get multiple emails from people in the Romney campaign requesting money. Why should I donate when the campaign itself is doing a piss-poor job of furthering the effort? Like you, “I refuse to participate unless there is a change to these so-called ‘moderators’.”
_________________________________________________

I didn’t realize all of that. I figured it was someone in the candidate’s campaign staff that did the negotiating.

I think if this is the best the legal staff can do, then they need new legal staff! My gosh, these lawyers that negotiated this mess would surely fail as trial lawyers! No wonder they work for the RNC!

I don’t get the emails begging for money anymore, nor the phone calls. I’ve told them all to unsubscribe me and take my phone number off their lists.

Thank you again for the information.