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Matthews imagines ‘the hell’ Candy Crowley would have taken if she were wrong on Libya
The Daily Caller ^ | October 17, 2012 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 10/17/2012 4:22:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

On MSNBC’s post-debate wrap-up from Hempstead, N.Y., anchor and “Hardball” host Chris Matthews praised CNN’s Candy Crowley for making a charge that Republican nominee Mitt Romney was wrong in challenging the president’s “terror” description in his response to last month’s Benghazi, Libya attack.

And even thought Crowley later admitted Romney was “right in the main,” Matthews and his panel praised Crowley for her courage.

“Do you realize, Joy — you’re a woman here, let me tell you, do you realize the guts it took for Candy, even crystal in memory, knowing he had said ‘an act of terror,” Matthews said. “Knowing it was on her mind, that it had been in her notebook and that she had been there. If she had been wrong on that, the hell she would have taken from all of these media watchers from the right. I mean, unbelievable.”

Matthews’ panel, which included The Grio’s Joy Reid and the Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman, elaborated on why they thought the “Hardball” host was right on target with his observation.

REID: She is anyway.

MATTHEWS: What’s their case now? She was right.

REID: In the spin room afterwards, a lot of the complaining was about her.

MATTHEWS: Why?

REID: And people insisting she was wrong, but you know what she wasn’t wrong. She’s a reporter. That’s why it’s important to have a journalist in that situation. And it provided Romney’s I think most embarrassing moment of the night because he sat there. He leaned his chin out, he literally put his eyebrows up. And he was wrong.

FINEMAN: He thought he was moving in for the kill at that point.

MATTHEWS: And I think the president lured him in, so he said let’s move on. Let’s move on, like I really don’t want to test this moment.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2012debates; candycrowley; cnn; lapdogmedia; statemedia
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1 posted on 10/17/2012 4:23:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

she was wrong, and still no one plays the rose garden from the beginning to see bambi was really talking about 9-11-01


2 posted on 10/17/2012 4:29:22 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Let them eat arsenic.


3 posted on 10/17/2012 4:29:26 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Technically she was right, but she conceded the substance of Romney’s argument in her very next breath. But these debate circuses are all style over substance so the gotcha moment in Obama’s favor is all the general public will remember.


4 posted on 10/17/2012 4:30:39 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: The Wizard; MestaMachine

Watching the state media is like watching a touring side show - freaks for Obama.


5 posted on 10/17/2012 4:31:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
chrissy matthews peed his depends all down his tingly leg.

He really believed that obummer killed it last night just because he showed up.

chrissy wants to lewinsky obama.

6 posted on 10/17/2012 4:32:21 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, start today.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Not surprising that gets it 100% bass ackwards.

Mitt’s takeaway is great material for pressing the FACTS in evidence on Benghazi. And FACTS are troublesome things for liars.


7 posted on 10/17/2012 4:34:24 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

To me, his first utterance of the words “act(s)of terror” followed by a long diatribe about condemning freedom of expression missused to attack a perfectly harmless religion isn’t recognition that the attack was planned by terrorists for reasons completely different than that BS little movie no one has seen. Because ‘terror’ was mentioned in no way technically translates to ‘terrorists’ with a planned agenda.


8 posted on 10/17/2012 4:35:41 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Crowley was wrong when she 'corrected' Romney. During the Rose Garden talk, Great Leader used the phrase, 'act of terror' exactly one time and it was to the effect that 'no act of terror would' and never specifically called the murder of the four Americans a terrorist attack. And then he flew off to Vegas to make some money. Romney was right. Candy is a b-eye-itch.

The other two times, I saw, she skewed heavily to the left (and for a woman of her girth, skewing heavily seems to come easy) was when she gave up the 'how are you different than Bush' question, and then how she put the pedal to the floor and got Romney off of fast & furious as fast as humanly possible - veering into 'oh, so you would be for an AK-47 ban if...' territory.
9 posted on 10/17/2012 4:35:49 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

You nailed it. Too much work and distraction to check. She said, “Read the transcript...” How many folks do you think actually looked up the speech transcript and read it?


10 posted on 10/17/2012 4:40:29 AM PDT by jughandle
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Does anyone really believe Obama did not have the questions in advance and the plan was for Candy to do just what she did? Obama the Zero saved by the women, Candy and Hillary.


11 posted on 10/17/2012 4:40:55 AM PDT by Hattie
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

>>but you know what she wasn’t wrong. She’s a reporter.

These people on TV are reporters? LOL.


12 posted on 10/17/2012 4:41:45 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

This “dust-up” will keep Libya/the cover-up by the administration of why 4 Americans were murdered, in the news. The Matthews and Crowleys of state media [snug as bugs in bed with the Obama-Biden racist-socialist agenda] will sink even deeper into the world of lies and deception, trying in vain to hold on to those voters who are now stampeding to Romney-Ryan.


13 posted on 10/17/2012 4:44:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Gaffer

I think the mention of terror in the Rose Garden was just a fortuitous insertion by Obama overwhelmed by his broader words and deeds. But Romney made a tactical mistake by emphasizing a relatively narrow verbal point over the broader substance of the issue. The sad thing is that the superficial debate theatrics arising from this error is going to hinder any further needed discussion on this issue.


14 posted on 10/17/2012 4:45:13 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: AD from SpringBay
Why does the “Party of Stupid” always agree to the most liberal moderators to host the debates. Then we wonder why they tag team the conservative speaker. Crowley was way out of line with her well timed interruptions not to mention her poor performance as a fact checker and debate timer. Bamby got over 3 minutes more time to invent his facts.
15 posted on 10/17/2012 4:47:33 AM PDT by River_Wrangler (Nothing difficult is ever easy!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

SHE WAS F-IN WRONG/

sorry but I’ve had it with their lies and B/S.

These last two debates have seen two moderators so biased and let Biden and obama say just crap and they never shut up.\\The questions were awful, so lets have those who do not knwo who to vote for down here in SC, or AL, MS and lets see how the questions are different


16 posted on 10/17/2012 4:49:12 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

This is true. However, Candy Crowley did not escape unscathed either in this and had to walk back her impudent interruption. On balance, while Romney attacked too narrowly, multiple days of rehashing this argument gives his side the opportunity to back up further discussions about his with the constant lock-step wag-the-dog accusation that this planned terrorist attack was not due to an unforseeable movie, but due to utter incompetence within the Executive Branch and State Department.


17 posted on 10/17/2012 4:51:17 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: jughandle

It reminds me of the verse about the kingdom lost for the lack of a nail. Details matter!


18 posted on 10/17/2012 4:53:11 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Actually, the "hell" was what Matthews and his ilk gave to Jim Lehrer, and Candy Crowley knew full well that her colleagues would ensure that there be no downside to her assisting Barack Obama. In their - and that lovely group of "undecideds" at Hofstra... HOFSTRA, for crying out loud - eyes, the only way Crowley could have been "wrong" on Libya would have been for her to not give cover for Obama's semantics, and she made certain of that.

Last night's format, venue and moderator facilitator was astoundingly detrimental to Mitt Romney (and in fairness, to any Republican), yet he was still able to do well. Nevertheless, the abject willingness to roll over for the opposition in setting up these "debates" has reached the point where Alan Simpson and John Danforth need to be sent to the political glue factory by the GOP.

Mr. niteowl77

19 posted on 10/17/2012 4:54:12 AM PDT by niteowl77 (Getting stuck with other peoples' just desserts good and hard for over 50 years.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This was a planned setup and the STUPID Party fell for it.


20 posted on 10/17/2012 4:55:17 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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