Candy Crowley: ‘I’m not a fly on the wall’

POLITICO ^ | 15 Oct 2012 | By DYLAN BYERS

[US Navy Vet]

She's right, she is a PIG IN A PEN!

[Salamander]

I think of her more as what precedes an adult fly.

[Paladin2]

More like a Scorpion.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

"Once the table is kind of set by the town hall questioner, there is then time for me to say, ‘Hey, wait a second, what about x, y, z?’,” Crowley told CNN earlier this month.

LOL. "x, y and z" for Candy are mashed potatoes, gravy and apple pie.

[Fresh Wind]

No, she's a fly somewhere else...

[KarlInOhio]

Like any journalist worthy of the assignment, Crowley concedes that the debate on Tuesday night isn’t about her...

... it's about Obama winning by any means necessary (including biting off Romney's ear, but only if absolutely necessary).

[paddles]

No, Ms Candy, you’re a big tub of guts.

[pepsi_junkie]

Like any journalist worthy of the assignment, Crowley concedes that the debate on Tuesday night isn’t about her, but she just as eagerly acknowledges her role in it.

"Of course it's not about me! But enough about them, let's talk about me!"

[Belteshazzar]

No, she’s not.

I’ve never seen a 260 lb. fly.

[mikrofon]

All in all, you’re just another “bump in the road”....

[Gaffer]

No, she’s just a fat a$$ white rabid liberal that thinks because she has long hair like when she was young makes her more appealing. Underneath a black heart and black soul....

[fuente]

Anyone that has ever seen Talkback Live in person (an old CCN afternoon show) where “regular people” in the audience asked questions to the guest will recognize that this is neither a town hall or random in nature. CNN will specifically choose questions and tone to tell a story of their choosing. Candy Crowley is a strong partisan and the debate will be pure theater. Romney will need to overcome the bias that will attempt to slant the debate. I thought Ryan left a ton of meat on the table because he did not overcome the bias truncation of his answers and the repeated interruptions to his points very well. He should have come back to those points after the next questions and INSISTED that his points be made, not dismissed by others.

[fuente]

Anyone that has ever seen Talkback Live in person (an old CCN afternoon show) where “regular people” in the audience asked questions to the guest will recognize that this is neither a town hall or random in nature. CNN will specifically choose questions and tone to tell a story of their choosing. Candy Crowley is a strong partisan and the debate will be pure theater. Romney will need to overcome the bias that will attempt to slant the debate. I thought Ryan left a ton of meat on the table because he did not overcome the bias truncation of his answers and the repeated interruptions to his points very well. He should have come back to those points after the next questions and INSISTED that his points be made, not dismissed by others.

[JohnBrowdie]

the wall would collapse.

[Gaffer]

Funny....actually, I think of her as more of what the adult fly lands on and craves to emulsify (excrement).

[Da Coyote]

As a MSM reporteer, she’s lower than a fly on the wall.

She is what the fly likes to eat.

[Flycatcher]

I think of her more as what precedes an adult fly.

I think of her more as what a "preceding adult fly" eats...

[Average Al]

Looks like paint on a pumpkin! ;-)

[Salamander]

The great circle of life.....

[SIDENET]

Candy-Eater Crowley will do anything she can to help her Messiah.

Oh, and the "town hall" format is stupid. That is where Bill Clinton got his "boxers or briefs" question.

[Flycatcher]

Geez...

Ya gotta be fast in this room...

[doug from upland]

HITLER RANTS ABOUT CANDY CROWLEY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TED12yLhB0U

[thingumbob]

Nope...just the whale in the room....here she is practicing.......

Welcome , this is Candy Crowley from the Second Presidential debate from........

[theDentist]

Audience questions will be submitted in advance for the CNN TubOLard to review and choose. Anything with more than 2 vowels will not be put to Obama, and quadratic equations regarding interstellar physics will be Romney’s fare.

[Salamander]

Thank God I haven’t had dinner yet.

;D

[bigbob]

“Ain’t no wall big enough”

[Leep]

Really really biggggg fly.

[cpdiii]

The legal document signed between the two campaigns define the role of the moderator in each of the three different debates. The town hall type debate was to be one that the moderator had “minimal input” except to keep the debate within the agreed rules. This debate was to be about what the people ask not what Candy Crowley wants to ask.

If the Commission on National Debates has any integrity they will pull Candy Crowley from the debates.

[SIDENET]

Yep. The whole thing will be nothing but a lifeline for Obama to help him come back from his disastrous performance in the previous debate.

[dead]

“We’re gonna need a bigger wall...”

[austinaero]

Candy, you’re not a fly on the wall -
YOU ARE THE WALL!

Note to self - must NOT go to POLITICO..will not give them the traffic.

[Eva]

Romney should have never agreed to a Town Hall debate. Obama is a community organizer. This is where he shines. This will be pure theater, probably set up like a meeting using the Delphi technique.

When Crowley says that she can intervene and ask, “What about x, y and z, she means that she will try to belittle the questioner, and make the questioner seem out of touch, as well as Romney, if she doesn’t like the question. In other words, she might take a question that sounds as though it is pro-Romney, and then add questions of her own that defend Obama and turn the question back on Romney.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“If the Commission on National Debates has any integrity “

If they did the moderator and the TV network would have to sign the contract also.

[Salamander]

LOLOL

[Salamander]

LOLOL

[dead]

Kevin Meaney in drag?!? That's not right!!

[MNDude]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2917285/posts

[DarthVader]

She is right. She is a slimy slug that crawls up a wall on a film of mucous.

[NFHale]

Oohh...ahhh...err...Dude...I was eating lunch,....

Argh...

[Obadiah]

The whole thing will be nothing but a lifeline for Obama to help him come back from his disastrous performance in the previous debate.

Bank on it.

[Salamander]

*She* thinks she has long hair?

Pfffft.

I got ‘er whooped.

[eCSMaster]

Bill Clinton got his "boxers or briefs" question at a MTV forum.

The Town Hall event that year was when the "pony-tail guy" stood up and said to Clinton "we are your children - take care of us ..."

Made me gag.

I think that was when Bush looked at his watch.

[Average Al]

No need to ask this “looker” what party she favors!

[skinkinthegrass]

Candy Crowley: ‘I’m not a fly on the wall’NO! YOU CERTAINLY ARE NOT!...
but, if blue whales could fly &/ hover however....
(size is approximate)

[NFHale]

Damn...that ain’t even “2am Beauty Queen”...not enough beer goggles in the world...

[mrs9x]

She’s not a fly on the wall, she’s the elephant in the room.

[j_k_l]

Why are Republicans so weak as to allow the Dems to pick the moderators?

[Salamander]

[fuente]

On Talkback Live, one of the favorite ways of doing this was, “Let me rephrase the question,....” Then they would load the question with a false choice or bias where the only thing someone could do was to not answer the question. Then the CNN “Facilitator” would claim that the respondent didn't answer the question.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

No, she’s not a fly on the wall, more like the elephant in the room.