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CNN's Candy Crowley embraces the 'optics' of her role in Tuesday's presidential debate
Baltimore Sun ^ | October 12, 2012 | David Zurawik

Posted on 10/13/2012 8:41:09 AM PDT by SMGFan

October 12, 2012|By David Zurawik | The Baltimore Sun Two weeks ago, the conventional wisdom was that televised presidential debates weren’t going to matter much this year.

Then a TV debate took place in Denver on Oct. 3, and we are still talking about Big Bird being threatened, moderator Jim Lehrer getting steamrolled, President Barack Obama under-performing and the polls flipping from “done deal” to “game on” overnight.

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“I was honored and happy and all of those things when they asked me,” CNN’s chief political correspondent said in an interview last week. “But I did not think, ‘And I’m a woman.’ Because it’s not like you wake up in the morning and think, ‘I’m a man.’ It just is what you are, and you live your life.”

But, she adds, “I came to understand that it does matter in a way that I didn’t see at first. And I came to understand that through my emails, through folks who approached me in the grocery store, on the street, at the conventions, at the debates — folks who would hug me, young women, old women, their husbands, their sons, their fiancees or whoever who would say, ‘We’re so excited a woman’s going to do this.’”

Crowley says she does not “play down the optics of this” any more now that she sees the larger symbolic import of standing on that stage Tuesday night.

“It matters to minorities that you can see someone doing something you want to do and, hopefully, succeeding at it,” she explains. “It helps if you are a young woman to be able to look up on that stage and say, ‘Wow, a female’s doing this. I can do this, too.’”

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To: SMGFan

No where does she talk about a commitment to fairness or objectivity. The qestion selections and follow-ups will all favor O. “Where’s the specifics of your tax plan, Gov. Romney.” Meanwhile, she’ll let O skate on his record of failure and complete lack of any plan to grow the economy


41 posted on 10/13/2012 9:08:58 AM PDT by vekzen
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To: SMGFan

Candy Crowley?? What’s the matter...was Bill Ayers unavailable?


42 posted on 10/13/2012 9:15:10 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
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To: SMGFan

Wide angle optics...


43 posted on 10/13/2012 9:17:27 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: nonsporting

“I nominate Rush Limbaugh.”

Seconded. And when the libs fail to show up, Romney can debate an empty chair.


44 posted on 10/13/2012 9:26:52 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

I was thinking the same thing. This is not at all new to have a woman moderating a debate. I bet they were applauding that a not so pretty woman would be allowed to have center stage for so long.


45 posted on 10/13/2012 9:29:33 AM PDT by Anima Mundi (ENVY IS JUST PASSIVE, LAZY GREED)
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To: verum ago; dforest
So I guess it's her taste that's in question then.

Indeed! It is the Mary Matalin paradox.

46 posted on 10/13/2012 9:38:30 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Why not eliminate the middle man and have whoever feeds Obama his lines debate Romney directly?")
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To: verum ago
Even Colmes has better taste than that. His wife is actually attractive and quite an accomplished brain.

WOW!! I didn't know that Colmes was married to a Republican. (no Dems are hotties like this) I don't know how she can stand him, which calls into question just how much brain she has. He reminds me of a mule eating saw briars.

47 posted on 10/13/2012 9:39:58 AM PDT by lwoodham (I am Andrew Breitbart. Don't doubt me on this.)
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To: nonsporting
"I nominate Rush Limbaugh."

Rush would be good, but my personal pick would be Mark Levin.

48 posted on 10/13/2012 9:48:59 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
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To: nonsporting
"I nominate Rush Limbaugh."

Rush would be good, but my personal pick would be Mark Levin.

49 posted on 10/13/2012 9:48:59 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
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To: CatherineofAragon

For the next two debates, even....


50 posted on 10/13/2012 9:49:45 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
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To: txrefugee
Perhaps the RNC was diabolically clever in allowing these Leftist losers moderate the faux “debates.” Or they were just typically stupid. Take your pick.

Typically stupid.

51 posted on 10/13/2012 10:04:43 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina
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To: JPG

“quite an accomplished brain.”

Not if she married colmes.


52 posted on 10/13/2012 10:06:03 AM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: verum ago

How is that corpse get HER to marry him????


53 posted on 10/13/2012 10:10:41 AM PDT by Aria ( 2008 wasn't an election - it was a coup d'etat.)
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To: verum ago

How did that corpse get HER to marry him????


54 posted on 10/13/2012 10:11:12 AM PDT by Aria ( 2008 wasn't an election - it was a coup d'etat.)
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To: verum ago
Dr. Jocelyn Crowley is sister to Monica Crowley, almost always paired with the obnoxious Alan Colmes on the Bill O'Reilly show. Jocelyn is married to Colmes.

Therefore, Monica Crowley is Colmes' sister-in-law.

Must be a fun time at Thanksgiving dinners.

BTW, in my humble opinion, Monica Crowley is the most informed, most quick-witted, most gutsy and most articulate conservative counter-puncher on TV as well as being very attractive.

Well, Monica, as they say, you can pick your pew, but you can't pick your relatives.

Leni

55 posted on 10/13/2012 10:13:58 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: SMGFan

These “debates” are not debates at all, and the idea that a) they have some kind of official status and b) that they should be run by Leftists is absurd.


56 posted on 10/13/2012 10:15:36 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown are by desperate appliance relieved or not at all.)
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To: clintonh8r

She renamed herself Candy after her favorite food.


57 posted on 10/13/2012 10:22:56 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: SMGFan
I am sick of all the moderators being unmoderate leftist shills.

If the left insists on doing this, then the right should insist on having Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin moderate a debate. That would be great entertainment!

58 posted on 10/13/2012 10:23:22 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (christian.bahits.com)
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To: SMGFan

Will she have any questions about the Mooch’s calorie nazi policies?


59 posted on 10/13/2012 10:23:53 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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To: SMGFan
Why does the commision never appoints a Republican to moderate the debates. Obamas went to (Democrat) moderators Raddatz wedding. I'd call that a conflict of interest. A big no no! Raddatz was rude, wouldn't let Ryan finish speaking, cut him off least 10 times, went to Biden whom she gave ample time. Did anyone notice that on the next to the last question that was asked Biden, he rattled the answers right off and cross them off on his paper one by one like he have been given the question before the debate.
60 posted on 10/13/2012 10:25:12 AM PDT by deedeedog
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