Posted on 10/20/2012 1:07:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto on Thursday offered a plausible explanation for why President Barack Obama, during Tuesday night’s debate, felt confident he could count on moderator Candy Crowley of CNN to back him up on how he had uttered the phrase “acts of terror” the day after the Benghazi attack.
On her CNN State of the Union show back on September 30, Crowley interviewed David Axelrod and during that segment she was as incredulous as Mitt Romney was at the debate that Obama had initially referred to “acts of terror” in any relationship to Benghazi.
In “Was Candy in Cahoots? Almost certainly not. Occam’s razor suggests Obama took advantage of her,” Taranto postulated in his October 18 “Best of the Web Today” column:
Here’s what almost certainly happened: After the interview, Axelrod, or someone else from the campaign, called Crowley’s attention to the White House transcript. She read the relevant portion and conceded that Axelrod was right: Obama had called the attack an act of terror. As we wrote yesterday, such an interpretation was reasonable, although it was a matter of opinion because the President’s statement was ambiguous. Obama was briefed on all this during his debate preparation.
If this surmise is correct, then Crowley knew about the “acts of terror” Easter egg hidden in Obama’s Sept. 12 speech, and Obama knew she knew. Romney did not know and was as incredulous as Crowley had been, because the administration had spent weeks peddling the claim that the video dunnit. Obama brought the matter up expecting incredulity from Romney and backup from Crowley. She therefore unwittingly played her role in Obama’s little ambush of his opponent. She was just clarifying the facts – or so Axelrod & Co. had led her to believe.
As noted in the MRC Media Reality Check by Rich Noyes, “Candy Crowley Aids Obama With 2-to-1 Liberal Agenda & Validation of Libya Falsehood,” Crowley on her CNN Sunday program State of the Union on September 30, “hit Obama advisor David Axelrod on exactly this point: ‘Why did it take them [the White House] until Friday [September 28], after a September 11 attack in Libya, to come to the conclusion that it was premeditated and that there was terrorists involved?’”
Axelrod retorted: “Well, first of all, Candy, as you know, the President called it an act of terror the day after it happened.”
“Crowley wasn’t buying what Axelrod was selling,” Taranto recounted in citing the Septenber exchange highlighted by Breitbart.com’s Tony Lee: “‘First, they said it was not planned, it was part of this tape. All that stuff....didn’t the administration shoot first? Didn’t they come out and say, listen, as far as we can tell, this wasn’t preplanned, this was just a part of’ – at which point Axelrod interrupted her.”
John Candy in drag (apologies to Mr. Candy)
al Qaeda, Boko Harem, pirates from Somalia, AQIM, al Shabaab, AQAP,
and Ansar al Sharia were (conveniently) provided
15,000 MANPADS by Obama and the DNC
For plausible deniability, Operation 'Wind Zero',
using Sean Smith and the two retired SEALS,
executed by the company and State Department
tracked this "loss" (planned transfer to al Qaeda
from Obama's American Caliphate) and
produced a 'kill list’ for drone strikes.
This was apparently not approved by Al Qaeda in Libya's ringleader,
Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda bin Qumu,
who was employed by Hillary Clinton and
Obama-the-Undocumented, and
was released from Gitmo to Qaddafi in 2007.
The SECOND 911 Atrocity was Hussein Obama's October Surprise
which got a little out of hand.
Yeah, they were married, making her Candy Candy.
On October 31 she becomes Halloween Candy......
Doesn’t Barry refer to himself as being “I, Candy”?
So know she isn’t complicit, she is just stupid.
I hope she took the morning after pill.
Yes, he does.
To me he’s Oy Q’andy.
I went back and edited the transcript to align with the exact video timing of Øbama's interruption ("dog whistle") and Crowley's intervention. Here is the termination of Romney's "Fast and Furious" remarks:
ROMNEY: I’d like to understand who it was that did this, what the idea was behind it, why it led to the violence, thousands of guns going to Mexi- OBAMA: Candy? can drug lords... CROWLEY: Governor, Governor, if I could, the question was about these assault weapons that once were once banned and are no longer banned.
BINGO! (See # 48...)
1) Without Congressional approval, Øbozo committed an act of war to topple Khadaffi -- and that led to Al Qaeda resurgence, which led to Benghazi.
2) Sending weapons to enemies of Mexico was also an act of war -- called "Fast & Furious" -- an act of war aimed at destroying the 2nd Amendment.
For both (or either) of those treasonous acts, Øbozo should go to prison!
Does not answer both questions:
1. Why did Crawly have a transcript of the speech in question with her at the debate? (she was a moderator not a fact checker)
2. How did Obama know Crawly had a transcript of the speech in question with her at the debate?
Because Axelrod explained what was in it and gave it to her (on air, 9/30). And told her to hang onto it, because it would come up in the debate. 2. How did Obama know Crawly had a transcript of the speech in question with her at the debate?
Because Axelrod told him what he'd done.
It was an out-and-out set-up. Crowley was used, all the way. And she didn't have the presence of mind to actually read the transcript, but took Axelrod's word as to what was in it.
Dumb broad.
How do you know she had a copy of the transcript with her?
She looked like a grade school Kid raising her hand”I have the answer””I have the answer”.She should be ashamed for embarassing all women in her profession.
That was my question also.
Like Rush said....if this shenanigans of debate "moderating" would have happened ten years ago, she would've been fired. The mainstream news media have sold their souls.
The women in Broadcasting will look down on her from now on.She took a debate and made it about her.Look at me.
She had it in her hand when she told Romney that, 'Obama was right'. Watch the video.
I watched it when it happened. Those were the same notes she used all night.
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