Megyn Kelly Focus Group Explodes Over Candy Crowley’s Debate Moderation

Mediaite ^ | 10/17/12 | Noah Rothman

[Nachum]

A focus group of media professionals convened by Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly burst into a heated yelling match on Wednesday during a discussion of CNN anchor Candy Crowley’s performance as the moderator of the second presidential debate.

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Several of the Republican focus group participants said that they believed Crowley’s fact checking was inappropriate, both because she was supposed to be the impartial moderator and because the fact that she checked was debatable.

Media writer and entrepreneur Carol Roth said that it was “clear that she was the third debater” during the town hall-style debate. “If we wanted somebody who was a surrogate or somebody who was a pundit, they should have clearly said this was her role,” said Roth. “But her role was to moderate, and she didn’t do that in an effective way.”

Democratic pollster Bernard Whitman disagreed, however, saying that Crowley was an exemplary moderator and “did a great job pushing back against a bully” in Mitt Romney. “It’s sort of amazing that in the face of a relatively poor performance by Romney, all we are talking about is the moderator Candy Crowley.”

[tbw2]

Is this the moment that provides the proof of the liberal bias in reporting and debates Republicans have charged for years?

[Nachum]

I’m not sure it proves much of anything. At this point no one is getting fooled.

[meyer]

All this transcript stuff is irrelevent - the transcript says that Obama did NOT call this an act of terrorism. The lying sack of s&&t put her 2 cents in and still got it wrong.

res ipsa loquitur - The record speaks for itself.

[tbw2]

It did look like Obama knew the questions in advance, though many of his answers seemed unrelated to the question. When a college grad says he can’t find a job, telling him to go into manufacturing is insufficient.

[gotribe]

I’m telling you, Romney’s election will be the end of the mainstream media for good.

[NonValueAdded]

Hey, and I thought the fat lady was one of the candidates!

LOL, the only thing missing was Candy Crowley breaking into song at the end

[ntnychik]

The MSM quoted the Rose Garden speech mention of “terror” without quoting the beginning of the speech, which provided the context of 9/11/01. I witnessed this on CBS and PBS, and on a video clip of the woeful Soledad O’Brien waving a paper in John Sununu’s face. All she could comprehend was she could see the word “terror” on the paper. Sununu told her, “but you left out the first part.” She didn’t seem to have a clue what he was talking about.

My guess is that the 0 campaign provided the press with the quotes from the Rose Garden speech, omitting the significant opening part that
provided the true context.

[CodeToad]

Obama and Candy obviously were cheating. She had that transcipt at the ready.

[Boogieman]

That’s exactly what I noticed. When he said “Get the transcript”, he hamhandedly blew his cover that his team had coordinated with Crowley before the debate, and he knew she had the transcript on hand just for this occasion. He’s too incompetent to even cheat properly.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Obama knew that Candy had that transcript

Exactly

[The_Media_never_lie]

Hey, he is colluding with Vladimir. Why wouldn’t he with Crowley?

[LibLieSlayer]

She acted as if she were already President. I believe after reading and seeing all of the evidence... she conspired with obama and should be prosecuted for fraud. This is far worse than a game show cheating for a contestant.

LLS

[stephenjohnbanker]

” I mean Candy Crowley, the myopic mendacious masticator for the mindless mendicants maneuvered him through his meandering maundering.”

Hey, that was pretty good.