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Candy Crowley: Romney Was ‘Right in the Main’ on Benghazi, But ‘Picked the Wrong Word’ in Debate

Oct. 17, 2012 12:45am Becket Adams

TheBlaze’s Jason Howerton contributed to this report.
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Candy Crowley Clarifies Why She Corrected Gov. Romney During Tuesday’s Debate

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One of the big moments from Tuesday’s presidential debate between Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney occurred when moderator Candy Crowley of CNN injected herself into the discussion after Romney accused the president of refusing to refer to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi as a terrorist act.

“I think (it’s) interesting the president just said something which — which is that on the day after the attack he went into the Rose Garden and said that this was an act of terror,” said Gov. Romney.

“That’s what I said,” the president responded.

“You said in the Rose Garden the day after the attack, it was an act of terror. It was not a spontaneous demonstration, is that what you’re saying?”

“Please proceed, governor.”

“I want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.”

“Get the transcript.”

“It — it — it — he did in fact, sir,” Crowley said, offering the president what looked to be a little debate assistance.

“Can you say that a little louder, Candy?” the president asked confidently.

“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,” Crowley said.

“This — the administration — the administration indicated this was a reaction to a video and was a spontaneous reaction,” Romney noted.

“It did,” Crowley agreed.

However, not long after the debate, Crowley explained during a CNN interview that Gov. Romney was “right in the main,” but that he used the wrong word:

“I heard the president’s speech at the time. I re-read a lot of stuff about Libya because I knew we’d probably get a Libya question,” Crowley told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

“We knew that the president had said, ‘These acts of terrors won’t stand,’ or whatever the whole quote was. I think, actually, you know, because right after that, I did turn around and say [to Gov. Romney], ‘but you’re totally correct … they spent two weeks telling us this was about a tape and that there was this, you know, riot outside the Benghazi consulate, which there wasn’t.’ So [Gov. Romney] was right in the main. I just think he picked the wrong word.”

Here’s what Obama said the day after the Libya attack in the Rose Garden, according to the transcript:

Of course, yesterday was already a painful day for our nation as we marked the solemn memory of the 9/11 attacks. We mourned with the families who were lost on that day. I visited the graves of troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hallowed grounds of Arlington Cemetery, and had the opportunity to say thank you and visit some of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed. And then last night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi.

As Americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it. Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe.

No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.

But we also know that the lives these Americans led stand in stark contrast to those of their attackers. These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity. They should give every American great pride in the country that they served, and the hope that our flag represents to people around the globe who also yearn to live in freedom and with dignity.

So while Obama did say “acts of terror” in his first public statement on the attack, Romney is still correct when he says the president blamed a wholly insignificant YouTube video and non-existent protests for the attacks in Libya.

For example, when the president appeared on “The View” on September 25, days after his Rose Garden speech, he blamed the Benghazi assault on an anti-Muslim video.

Furthermore, when asked directly if it was terrorism, he said: “We are still doing an investigation. There’s no doubt that the kind of weapons that were used, the ongoing assault, that it wasn’t just a mob action. Now, we don’t have all the information yet, so we are still gathering it.”

Lastly, multiple Obama administration officials repeatedly blamed the deadly Libya attack on the video for more than a week, including U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.

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cjelephant
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:41am
What a disgusting slob Candy Crowley is.

She had to butt in and she had it all wrong. She was just in a panic because her candidate was about to get crushed on Benghazi.

Later when someone asked about AK-47s – Candy didn’t let Romney talk abouyt the AK-47s Obama gave to mexican drug lords in order to kill American Border Agents

Nothing worse than a fat, stupid, communist

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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:50am
  When Ryan had Biden “on the ropes”, the moderator swooped in to save him, too.
  
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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 3:02am
  She just didn’t hear Romney’s statement correctly. She had fat in her ears.
  
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- jblaze
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 8:20am
  President Barack Hassein Obama told premeditated bold face lies and Crawley was his accomplice. There is no one, on this earth, who can prove to me that the President did not know each one of those questions before the debate. Crawley admitted that she personally choose the questions and obviously, in plenty of time to fill the President in. This guy is nothing without a prompter. It was there last night but in a different form. I put nothing deceptive and/or evil passed this man and his minions. By those standards Mitt Romney knocked it out of the park once again.
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 8:55am
  Yeah, Candy really threw her weight around! :-D
  Wouldn’t you love a debate moderated by say, Judge Napalitano? sp
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 8:55am
  Watch it again.
  She cooly and calmly takes her time to uphold Obama’s misleading quote.
  She is not flustered.
  Then when Romney tries to clarify–exactly as Crowly herself does AFTER the debate–
  Crowly and Obama literally gang up on him to shut him up.
  
  Look at Obama’s physical positioning and body language.
  Listen to his tone with Crowly. He directs the whole scene.
  Really, it’s worth a second look.
  
  These people will do anything to win, anything.
  Realize that all they really need is to tighten the polls a bit so that when–
  surprise surprise– Obama wins, that can somehow be seen as vaguely possible.
  
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- HKS
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:05am
  This issue looks like the biggest cover-up of all time to me. It has all the markings of a political assassination. Someone, probably the ambassador there, had knowledge that was or could come to light and the administration wanted that problem fixed. Probably had something to do with that revolution in that country. So, arrange with the local terrorist group a fix and remove all the defenses to make it easy and dwla-la, problem solved. Now with the help of the media and it would appear Candy Crowley now in particular, the whole issue goes away. This was a planed event and we probably planed it. Now with a little self investigation over say the next year and a clean bill of health, it’s over. Watch it happen.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:09am
  Obama was talking about 9-11-2001 in that clip, not 9-11-2012.
  
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- johnjamison
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:10am
  Exactly It proves just how bias the media is and that the bias is so enbedded that you can’t have a fair debate. But given last nights moderators blantant lie to cover for Obama I think y=they should remove the next moderator and replace him with Sean Hannity JUST TO BE FAIR.
  Sense we can’t have an unbiase debate we should at least alternate in which direction the biases are directed.
  
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- jsciai
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:14am
  Getlife:
  You are hitting around what I will say directly: Crowley was in cahoots with obama in the debate and particularly on this issue. I don’t believe for one second she had these three little words(acts of terror) and the rose garden press conference in her mind that she could pull out of thin air should it present itself in the debate. And for her to interject herself in the debate to the favor of obama is something a high school debate moderator would not do. Like you said, she was too cool in the interaction to be legit.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:17am
  Bingo, GONZO!
  
  First, Hussein does make an allusion to the video: “…The United States…respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the beliefs of others.”
  
  Second, now that I have listened to the speech, I realize what Obama & Gang are claiming IS A RUSE. Listen again:
  
  Obama talks about the 2001 attacks (in NY, D.C. and PA). Then he says, “No ACTS of terror (a plural reference) will ever shake the resolve of this great nation. Don’t you see?! It is the CONCLUDING SENTENCE to that paragraph. Hussein will only describe as “terror” the attacks that happened under Bush.
  
  THEN he goes back to talking about the Benghazi attack by saying, “TODAY we mourn four MORE Americans” (emphasis added). Why include the word “more” if he was talking about the 2012 attack all along? Besides, only one attack occurred in Benghazi, and he uses a singular noun throughout the speech to refer to that attack. Initially he calls it “an outrageous and shocking attack. In closing he labels it a “terrible act,” (again singular forms).
  
  In sum, Obama & Gang are re-interpreting their speech to fit their new narrative. Their claim is clearly contrived. Acts of terror was a reference to the 2001 attacks. LIARS.
  
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- In a Bunker
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:25am
  As Glenn said, they’re playing the word game….what the definition of “is” is. He can’t get away with this. People died and it wasn’t because of a youtube video. He clearly said the video was the cause. He’s trying, as all progressives do, to re-write history.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:30am
  I’v never heard of this woman! Why didn’t we get someone we know. Someone should have explained to someone that I suppose they picked up off the street how a Town Hall format works.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:31am
  Anyone else curious how and why Candy had the transcript from a month old press conference handy? Did she just pull it out of her…hat? Mighty curious.
  
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- Hanner
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:55am
  Gonzo, did you hear Obama yell to her to “get the transcript” BEFORE she even reached for it!!! What a setup! Crowley and Obama was ready for Romney on this. That was a setup!
  
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- Hanner
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:56am
  How did Obama know that Crowley had a transcript of that specific comment?????
  
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- EmperorHasNoClothes
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:05am
  Why do the Republicans go along with this debate crapola election after freakin’ election?! Why don’t we all just acknowledge that this debate moderation baloney CANNOT be done in an impartial way?! How about we just drop all pretenses and allow each side to choose a moderator from each side of the political spectrum and have a completely honest debate. They bring Chris Matthews to moderate, and we bring Charles Krauthammer, and each can ask questions of both candidates. The sooner we realize this cannot be done in an “impartial” way and we acknowledge our biases, the better! So from Martha, to Candy, and now freakin Bob Shieffer, it’s just too much!!! I can’t take the blatant shilling for Obama every single darn time (except for Jim Lehrer, which looks like to be the best moderator to date, and that’s because he didn’t really moderate). To make this fair, we should now insist we have a series of three debates now moderated by Rush, Sean, and Glenn.
  
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- nrse2go
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:12am
  Crowley surely did’t disappont what we expected from her an obama slave
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:24am
  Excellent comments here. I wonder if these MSM cheaters ever experience any remorse? Those who wanted to be ‘memorial news casters’. Not only did CROWLEY give Obama almost 10% more time but that LIE – then repeating it at the behest of that dope-in-the-White House really seems to have backfired on her/both Crowley and Obama.
  Americans were paying attention. Romney was great, solid, strong, steady and real.
  
  The questions could not have been more liberal!! Even the wording of the questions!! Assault weapons? Income inequality? But more than that! In every case, the tough questions went to Romney, the soft balls went to Obama and a blogger last night brought up a point (about early) on about a question Obama said was ‘not supposed to come to him’… DID HE KNOW about the Questions/questioners in advance?? Sure seemed like it.
  
  I loved Romney’s pure authority. Crowley? ? I wonder if these MSM people have any idea how necessary HONESTY is? These liars and fact manipulators blow every opportunity to leave
  a lasting reputation…they just become “some more MSM liars”
  
  Romney is going to make a great, gutsy, ADULT President. Obama’s minions are busy compiling graphics of ‘women in files’ – degrading photos of women – instead of wanting to acknowledge that Romney has a much better record of hiring women, treating women with equality !! 20 more days!!!
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:25am
  All these news media really thing that if Obama gets re-elected they will have a job! Chavez layed off 75% of the news folks when he was elected for life and then made a state run news media. You don’t need many to just look at the camera and read his statements. If re-elected Obama will become another Chavez. He will need about 4 people for TV and 4 for radio. Those along with camerman and a few techs should about do it.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:33am
  I would love to know the answers to those questions myself Hanner.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:46am
  Romney got called out on a lie. Mittens and Lyin, Cleaning the Clean Pots Ryan have no understanding of what the truth is.
  
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- celestialfire
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 11:05am
  Pure coincidence that the moderator had the rose garden transcript? While obama is calling for his moderator to”get the transcript” (and it’s right there on top, oh my) to verify his ambiguous words and then loudly says “Can you say that a little louder Candy” Very presidential!. Acting like a child in a sandbox always wanting to kick sand in someones face, while the wife ignores the debate no clapping rules.
  
  http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/17/obama-cites-benghazi-phone-call-with-national-security-team-but-no-meeting/ wonder what the spin will be on this, it seems important in light of the him putting blame on a video for days especially if he knew it was a terror incident while it was happening.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 11:21am
  Yes , 3 debates, 3 liberal Obamabot commentators and Romney and Ryan still ahead
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 11:29am
  Almost everyone knew Obama would lie ad nauseum, but the “moderator” actually helped him lie in r/t Libya. Shocking!! Yes she walked it back. Yes I believe this will be the big story–even bigger than binders full of women. Before it was Team Obama lying about Benghazi, now we have the big kahuna himself throwing down lies like a professional wrestler. Flare, style, skill… but still a lie. I won’t worry too much about this gift, as Romney et al will pound this matter into the FRAGGIN dust!!
  
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- pschlentz
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 11:49am
  This crap sooooo ****** me off! She’s a MODERATOR, not the director! What the H3LL is she doing correcting Romney? Then she gets on CNN and tells America that Romney picked the wrong word???? You gotta be kidding me!! Romney was correct, America was being duped by Obama and his Administration AND the MSM! Crowley knows that. She just aided and abbeded Obama in his attempt to lie to the public – AGAIN!!
  Crowley should be ashamed of herself but I guarantee you that she is getting high fives from the other crooks in the MSM arena. SHAME ON EVERY ONE OF THEM!!!!!
  
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- canada 1958
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:02pm
  hey dont blame fad people stupid come in all sizes look at obama he stupid
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:04pm
  JSCIAI, Yes, that’s exactly what I was saying.
  You even used the word “cahoots” which came across my mind as I was writing my post.
  The whole incident is way too smooth to be an accident.
  This was THE night of Crowley’s career.
  She was not flustered.
  She was ready and waiting to intervene in this way on Libya.
  And Barack intentionally put out the bait.
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:19pm
  HANNER and GONZO,
  A set up so outrageous people didn’t even absorb the anomalies.
  Of all of the accusations of untruths– Obama asks for the transcript on this one, and only this one.
  Way beyond strange. All of a sudden Obama knows Candy can play fact checker?
  And why would he deliberately bring up the Rose Garden speech?
  Why take such an enormous risk if he wasn’t sure how it would play out?
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:40pm
  I take issue with AK-47′s being classified as “assault weapons”. I could be wrong; but I think most people assume when you are talking about assault weapons the implication is “machine gun”; meaning as long as you keep the trigger pulled, it will continue to fire until either you release the trigger, or run out of bullets.
  
  The fact of the matter is that unless you have a special license (I believe it is a class III license); you cannot LEGALLY purchase a fully automatic AK-47 (i.e., machine gun). The only legal AK-47 available to the general public; who pass a back ground check, and do NOT have a class III license, is a semi-automatic AK-47. Meaning, you have to physically pull the trigger for each round of ammunition you want to fire.
  
  Now, there are plenty of long guns (rifles), that are semi-automatic and just as deadly as any semi-automatic AK-47. So, this whole idea of re-instituting an assault weapons ban (AK-47′s, AR-15′s, etc) is utter hogwash and would NOT be affective in reducing violent crime. Any nut job who has violent intentions can obtain a semi-automatic weapon and be just as deadly; either by purchasing one from a dealer and passing a background check (easy to do if you have no felonies, demostic violence or drug convictions); or by out-right buying a weapon on the black market.
  
  I am opposed to ANY gun control out side of enforcing existing laws.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:42pm
  Conservatives all knew this was going to happen. I blame Romney for letting her get away with it. He sould have brough a impenetrable box of twinkies and tossed them to her at the beginning of the debate. She would have spent the entire debate tearing at the box to get to its contents.
  
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- 1911CK
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:19pm
  @Lakeheart-Thank you for that post. I don’t expect the general non-shooting public to understand every gun or gun law but jeezus shut the F up if you don’t know what you are talking about. I promise you that there will be more destruction and damage done with the 1500+ guns that this administration let into mexico than by all the law abiding gun owners in this country.
  
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- yukon42
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 3:56pm
  What can I say? Except you’re RIGHT ON!
  
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- pcj
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 5:36pm
  We have had two biased moderators, ready to jump in a second’s notice to make sure that their favorite candidate didn’t embarass himself. Who picked these people, and did the Republicans get a more conservative moderator for the next debate? Romney has shown that he can handle himself in a dignified and presidential manner even when both the moderator and Obama are against him. Obama whines to Candy for help when he gets pinned in a corner, Mitt stands and fights for himself. That is a statement of their character.
  
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- bdsconserv
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 6:00pm
  couldn’t have said it better myself. she’s a lying hypocrite just like the rest of the msm. why oh why do republicans agree to and put up with this garbage?
  
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- catman
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:40pm
  MUST WATCH!!! Benghazi Attack Was Botched Kidnapping to Trade Blind Sheik
  This sounds outrageous, but could be true? Obama did meet with the Muslim Brotherhood a couple of months ago. It is true Obama wants to release the Blind Sheik. Obama knows he could loose the election. But doesn’t know how to do it without Americans fighting back!!!
  But your tip won’t take video.
  Jim B
  
  http://www.westernjournalism.com/benghazi-attack-was-botched-kidnapping-to-trade-blind-sheik/?utm_source=Western+Journalism&utm_campaign=657e18a5af-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email
  
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- dskancer
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:35pm
  Crowley had no business taking part in the debate and should be replaced. She is disgraceful.
  After the debate I found it interesting that the whispering commentator mentioned to watch the families and body language (which signifies winning/losing, etc.) I watched as Ann warmly joined her husband, and then the children gathered, all were happy regardless. Watching Obama greet his own wife – I had to laugh when she turned her face away when he leaned over to kiss her… no “love” there!! Body language says a lot, and the strutting rooster-wanna-be Barry, has been plucked his next to last feather. If the man cannot stand before the public and be truthful, when his record shows he is lying, then why would anyone want to be in his presence?
  
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- Obama Been Lauding
  Posted on October 18, 2012 at 5:58am
  Candy, Moochelle was in the audience, and she saw you get that chocolate eclair out and suck the custard right out of it.
  You need to keep your ‘tingles’ to yourself.
  The American People are surely smarter than rocks!!! They could see you were a pandering propagandist for Obama when he got in trouble!!!
  
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RevRiles
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:39am
Crowley is parsing words, trying to save the President some face. (Romney had him and Crowley let him escape. Pulling the attention and the pressure off of Obama and onto her. Now she is part and parcel in his lie, too.)

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- jimbo_from_suwanee
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 2:06am
  Feminist following Hilary by falling on the sword to protect her Lord and Master Obama.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 6:13am
  How exactly did liberal women reproduce before in vitro fertilization was invented??
  
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- LuLu50
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 8:49am
  Maybe Candy can be the new pet in the White House. Pit Bulls tend to protect their master, no matter how wicked that master may be.
  
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- johnjamison
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:17am
  Krypto,
  They reproduced thanks to Alcohol because no woman is too ugly,fat,or intellectually undesirable when the bar tender annouces last call. That and some guys have extremely low standards.
  Truth be told even Alba and her Hollywood starlet brigade have become unappealing since calling for people to pledge alligance to Obama. I can’t stand the sight of them after hearing their own words and beliefs.
  
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- Gazoiks
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:30am
  JohnJamison, you made me chuckle pretty hard there. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and when that eye is well watered with alcohol, what we used to call skunk hunting ensues. I can remember plenty of tales of guys waking up and getting a look at their partner they picked up at the bar, and wondering how they could have lost all that beauty overnight. Lol. Thanks for the laugh.
  
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wordsofwisdom
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:37am
I think she tried to help the president out by interrupting & changing subjects over & over again. This song is fitting for her called “The Devils Song” http://www.twitmusic.com/cyou_in_song/songs/the-devils-song

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voting-for-romney
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:31am
So Candy was getting a little nervous that she could not pull off the blatant fact that she had probably rehearsed this moment with a focus group, if the not members of the White House itself?

Just long enough to avoid the real question, why was this a gun free zone? Just long enough to avoid the question, if the buck stops here, I resign question?

next…..

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- seresmary
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:50am
  It’s too bad that the president got away with that question because no where in that statement in the rose garden does he call it an “act of terrorist”, he refers to a non-specific act of terror to our country but not specifically to benghazi, libya and it isn’t until you get down to the last paragraph. But he had to get in the part about respecting faiths, especially that of islam and the prophet mohammed especially in his speech at the u.N. But as far as christians not wanting to pay for abortions, whether it’s a religious hospital, university, school, etc. That’s ok to bash one’s religion there. Shame on you barack obama. Plus he out and out lied about the federal lands and oil drilling off shore and on shore, more than 63% of federal leases were denied, and drilling was down 14% so next time you fill up our automobile, truck or rv just remember obama lied. Marys, ca
  
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- encinom
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:50am
  Voting-For-A Liar
  
  ROMNEY LIED ALL NIGHT LONG, From his now support of contraceptives and Pell Grants (something that would be cut in his budget to pay for his tax cuts to the rich) to Libya. Romney got caught lying and the Beckerheads are whining that the umpire called a a strike a strike.
  
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- chalkdust
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 4:25pm
  encontinent
  
  The liar is you and the pathetic excuse for a President. Now we know he is also dangerously incompetent with the middle east debacle. I don’t think we have ever had a President this bad….ever.
  
  Jimmy Carter can rest easy knowing Barry has taking his spot as the worst President ever.
  
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lizaz
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:24am
Crowley needs to look at the entire soundbite…by the time he spoke of “terrorist acts” against the U.S. he was no longer referring to Libya. Besides, how does that explain Susan Rice some days later on nationalTV, five stations, saying it was a spontaneous protest in response to this stupid video no one has seen…then the dictator himself at the UN saying the same thing????? Something is being hidden here……..WHAT IS IT??????? Crowley showed her bias for sure on that one!!!!

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Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:24am
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- Lucy Larue
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 6:27am
  Candy to Anderson Cooper after debate referencing Benghazi, Libya…,”I kinda wanted to be up on Libya so I read up on it”. Disgraceful! She READ UP on it?! She should KNOW about it!
  Yeah…,an esteemed member(not) of our Fourth Estate who kinda, sorta, knew about Libya. UGH!
  
  I went to the CNN website and left my comment on her moderation of the debate.
  So many great posts here. I hope you share them at the CNN website as well. Just scroll down to CONTACT and click. :) Merci.
  
  Vox Populi Vox Dei!
  
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Fla.Patriot
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:21am
Crowley can spin it however she wants but it does’nt change the facts. Romney was indeed correct. Why do Obamas media shills insist on doing this in a day and age when anyone can google the archive footage? WHEN Romney becomes President, I hope he, and the American people remember the blatant deceptions perpatrated by the MSM, and hold them accountable

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BookMDanno
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:17am
Crowley injecting herself in this–wrongly–is another reason why this debate jazz is useless. So BO NOW says he called it an act of terror (and Crowley supports that claim)? Then why did he apologize all over the UN more than a WEEK LATER for the movie…and send Amb.Rice out on the Sunday talk shows to contradict him? This is outrageous, and Crowley should be off debate panels from here on.

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curlyque
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:16am
I’m so ticked off right now I can barely talk straight. Crowley may think she helped her guy, but she is wrong. Her inserting her lies on top of Obama’s, just serves to prove the media carries this loser. For me it just makes me more determined to get rid of this excessive load of garbage we call a presidential administration and turn the television off.

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Degan
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:15am
Crowley was a shill for Axlerod who she interviewed in September and he tried to use the same excuse.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/09/30/no-obama-didnt-call-benghazi-act-of-terror-in-speech/

Now that the Obama administration’s initial narrative that the Benghazi assault was a spontaneous response to an anti-Islam film has collapsed, the new spin from the White House is that President Obama has actually called it a terrorist attack all along.

“Well, first of all, Candy, as you know, the President called it an act of terror the day after it happened,” David Axelrod told CNN’s Candy Crowley this morning, referring to a speech Obama made in the Rose Garden on Sept. 12.

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Pigpen
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:14am
Poor Candy, only now when it’s too late does she realize that, yes, a handful of “beautiful people” are happy with what she did as “moderator”, but now…

…the WHOLE FRIGGIN’ COUNTRY is laughing at her for compromising absolutely EVERYTHING HONORABLE on NATIONAL TV for people who won’t even remember her name come tomorrow morning…

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crusaderx9
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:10am
Crowley must have “misremembered” obama’s speech – ‘These acts of terrors won’t stand,’ [crowley] is NOT the same as ‘no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve…’ [obama].

obama’s statement was purposefully obtuse and evasive. Crowley seeking to assist obama knew exactly what she was doing when she took the huge outside of her moderator box in favor of obama – when she was absolutely incorrect as to the point.

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CatB
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:09am
The Official White House Statement from the same day ….

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release September 12, 2012

Statement by the President on the Attack in Benghazi
I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Right now, the American people have the families of those we lost in our thoughts and prayers. They exemplified America’s commitment to freedom, justice, and partnership with nations and people around the globe, and stand in stark contrast to those who callously took their lives.

I have directed my Administration to provide all necessary resources to support the security of our personnel in Libya, and to increase security at our diplomatic posts around the globe. While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants.

On a personal note, Chris was a courageous and exemplary representative of the United States. Throughout the Libyan revolution, he selflessly served our country and the Libyan people at our mission in Benghazi. As Ambassador in Tripoli, he has supported Libya’s transition to democracy.

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- CatB
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:12am
  His legacy will endure wherever human beings reach for liberty and justice. I am profoundly grateful for his service to my Administration, and deeply saddened by this loss.
  
  The brave Americans we lost represent the extraordinary service and sacrifices that our civilians make every day around the globe. As we stand united with their families, let us now redouble our own efforts to carry their work forward.
  
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09…
  
  No terrorism mentioned.
  
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BODYBAG
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:06am
Based on the reaction of undecided voters to tonite’s debate overwhelmingly
moving to Romney——

You can stick a fork in Barry the Bull$h**ter—–HE’s DONE.
The nuclear winter of the past 4 years is over.

President Romney 2012

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- Wango
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 2:32am
  What reaction is that, Buddy Bag? Another gem from examiner.com?
  
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- jsciai
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:18am
  twangdango:
  Sorry, you didn’t watch the debate, or after debate, on Fox where Frank Lunz had a focus group of undecided voters. He is w/out one of the best and most independent focus group professionals I have ever seen. That group OVERWHELMINGLY said Romney won the debate and they were convinced to vote for him. Romney-2 Obama-0
  
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Ms.Independence
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:04am
Ms.Candy, your job was not to judge which candidate was right or wrong, correct or incorrect. Your job (besides aiding and abetting Thug Obama) was to moderate and not insert yourself into the debate.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: journalists should be licensed, taking an oath of objectivity, much the way doctors and lawyers are. Other than that…someone slap that b&%ch.

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- CatB
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:13am
  LOL .. I certainly wanted to slap … more than once .. her and that snarkey BHO.
  
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- Goldi-lox
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:52am
  Yes, a LOT of us were reaching over to the TV to slap that hefty broad! WHO selected her to moderate, anyway? Slap THEM, too, while you’re at it!
  
  Crowley’s intrusive, supercilious and obnoxious insinuating of her LARGESSE into the debate was offensive, unfair, and shameful. FIRE whoever chose her, and NEVER choose her again.
  
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Speed Racer
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:03am
Well, at least she had the decency to come back and say that Romney was basically right on the subject, but simply used poor phrasing. I think that’s about the closest we’ll ever get to an, “I was wrong I’m sorry,” out of the media.

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- CatB
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:16am
  Yes .. make Romney out to be a wrong or a liar .. during the debate … and then how many people will never hear that she was wrong … I think it was set up .. she had that at hand ????
  
  If Romney says this .. I will side with Obama .. .even though it isn’t true.
  
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rdjones
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:03am
WE all knew going in she was going to insert herself, and Tom Brokaw encouraged her.

How about those questions she picked out?

Making the debate about yourself is just not right and they all agrees she would not do that.

Except CANDY

And then she was wrong too about the most critical point. BENGHAZI.

Wow, what a country.

CNN sucks so bad, I can’t even say how bad…off the charts.

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crusaderx9
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:01am
DISGRACEFUL

The greater question is why is Candy Crowley INCORRECTLY attempting to correct Romney?

This was a blatant attempt to lessen the blow against obama AND send a clear message to Romney that Crowley was going to intervene on obama’s behalf.

Crowley is just another democrat. That is now two debates in a row where a democrat monitor has stepped over the line to assist biden or obama.

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Stoic one
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:01am
Romney is correct; the administration blamed ‘it ‘ on the video/movie.

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ishka4me
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:56am
candy became an pponent of Romney three times in this debate. She liedad was part ofthe Obam coverup on Libya. She should lose her journalism credentials

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Ginger30
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:55am
Does it really matter that she is coming out now to correct herself? She already did her damage which she was most likely happy to do. Judging by the questions asked nobody in the audience is going to bother looking up the facts.

Useful idiot.

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crusaderx9
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:54am
Crowley LIED.

In fact, she still can’t even tell the truth about what obama actually said on 12 September.

obama NEVER said that the Benghazi attack was a terrorist attack. PERIOD.

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- Metallicat
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:16am
  Romney wasnt wrong about anything. Obama uses the term “acts of terror” as a broad generalization that relates to our resolve to stand against any attack against America.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 2:36am
  Metallicat . . .Why guess . . . Here’s the quote. The very next sentence refers to Benghazi. Sorry, but you all just look petty and desperate. Mitt screwed up. Obama tagged him. It’s not the end of the world.
  
  “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.”"”No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.”
  
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- chalkdust
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 4:36pm
  No stanko, the prez characterized what happened as a spontaneous act caused by an insulting video numerous times. Ambassador Rice said the same thing and Hilary said the same thing. They knew there was no protest in Benghazi but they continued to blame this video. And to boot Hilary and Barry made a video apologizing for this stupid video. Face it,
  
  The prez is HIGHLY, DANGEROUSLY incompetent.
  
  You can hang out in delusional town but I’m going back to realityville.
  
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freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:54am
She sure helped Obamas debate capabilities like a good lap dog.

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- jaylew
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:03am
  Candy Crowely is more like a St. Bernard than a lap dog.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 6:22am
  @JAYLEW
  Candy Crowely is more like a St. Bernard than a lap dog.
  —–]
  Well, she does drool a lot.
  
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Sojourner
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:52am
crowley was out of line in placing herself in the discussion like that.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:52am
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I don’t think Romney or Obama either one did very well in the debate.
I’m still voting for Romney. He can’t be as bad of a President as Obama.
Obama is the worst President in America’s history.

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