Candy Crowley, who was suspected of being one more liberal moderator in the tank for Barack Obama, was more than just in the tank for him; she dove in and sucked all the water out for him so he could pretend he walked on water.
In the first presidential debate, Jim Lehrer, no slouch at shilling for the Democratic Party, interrupted Mitt Romney 15 times and Barack Obama only five.
Crowley made Lehrer look like an amateur. She interrupted Obama nine times, (although four of those were when he wouldn’t respect the time limit when discussing assault weapons; he went over his time limit all night long), but when it came to Mitt Romney, she was utterly beyond the pale.
Crowley interrupted Romney 28 times. 28 times. Her desperation to keep Romney from scoring points was so patently obvious that it wasn’t really a surprise when she had her infamous moment: the moment when she interrupted and falsely claimed Romney was incorrect in accusing Obama of refusing to call the Benghazi attack an act of terror.
And even beyond the interruptions, there were numerous instances where Crowley’s obvious partisanship prompted her to treat Romney with great disrespect:
1. She wouldn’t let him respond when Obama lied about the
2. After the question asking whether
3. When discussing how he would deal with deductions, just as Romney was about to destroy Obama with statistics, Crowley jumped in to save her man not only by denying the value of statistics, but changing the narrative to say Romney’s numbers couldn’t possibly add up:
“And Governor, let's - before we get into
a vast array of who says - what study says what, if it shouldn't add
up. If somehow when you get in there, there isn't enough tax revenue
coming in. If somehow the numbers don't add up, would you be willing to look again …”
4. When Romney was trying to make a point of Obama’s pension investing in China, Crowley cut him off by insinuating people were tired of him talking:
“Governor Romney, you can make it short. See all these people? They've been waiting for you. Make it short.”
Then she really tried to humiliate him with this: “If I could have you sit down, Governor Romney. Thank you.” She never asked Obama to sit down.
5. The infamous incident when she interrupted Romney’s claim about Obama’s refusal to call the Benghazi murders a terror attack:
“It - it - it - he did in fact, sir. So let me - let me call it an act of terror...
Prompted by Obama to say it a little louder, Crowley obliged:
“He - he did call it an act of terror. It
did as well take - it did as well take two weeks or so for the whole
idea there being a riot out there about this tape to come out. You are
correct about that.”
6. 6. Just as egregiously, when the
question was about assault weapons and Romney naturally started to
discuss fast and furious, Crowley quickly shifted him away from that and
turned it into an attack on Romney’s assault ban position:
“Governor, Governor, if I could, the
question was about these assault weapons that once were once banned and
are no longer banned. I know that you signed an assault weapons ban when
you were in Massachusetts, obviously, with this question, you no longer
do support that. Why is that, given the kind of violence that we see
sometimes with these mass killings? Why is it that you have changed your
mind?’
The fact that Obama escaped all night long by lie after lie didn’t seem to disturb Crowley in the slightest. She had her shadowy agenda, and she stuck to it fiercely. Now it is our job to throw her out into the sun where every American can see exactly how dirty she is.
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