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The Candy-Obama Controversy: 'Get the Transcript'
American Spectator ^ | 10.18.12 @ 10:17AM | By Jeffrey Lord

Posted on 10/18/2012 9:30:39 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

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To: RetSignman

LOL! That’s not too far from the truth. It SICKENS me how the devil fools the people. 0bama is the devil. EVIL DEVIL.


21 posted on 10/18/2012 9:58:58 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Toespi

This whole 14 days of Youtube and fake protests and stuff now never happened. History has been rewritten in front of our faces and the MSM is in full compliance.


22 posted on 10/18/2012 10:00:01 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

It’s blatant. But you know what? If the RNC and Mitt Romney don’t have a problem with it, I am not going to defend them.

I’ll vote for Mitt, but if he and the RNC won’t stand up against crap like this, I still see them as Keystone Kops. Better than the blatant socialists, but they aren’t impressing me much.


23 posted on 10/18/2012 10:00:39 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Crowley’s comments both during and after the debate, are anything but clear.

During the debate, she’s quoted as saying:

Crowley: “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 of there being a riot out there about this tape to come out. You are correct about that.”

It took 2 weeks for the “idea of there being a riot out there about this tape to come out”? What? It took 10 minutes for that idea to come out, because that’s the fiction the administrations wanted pushed. In fact, it took 2 weeks before the administration fully specified that the riot over the tape was a complete fiction.

So, during the debate, Crowley aggressively supports Obama’s contention, putting Romney in his place, then offers this thin gruel to him in support? Yes, it was obvious from her inflection that she was tossing a bone to Romney, but it certainly wasn’t obvious in what she actually said. Quite the opposite.

And then, after the debate Crowley claimed the following about the exchange with Romney:

” ...because, right after that I did turn around and say but you are totally correct, that they spent two weeks telling us that this was about a tape and that there was a, you know, this riot right outside the Benghazi consulate, which there wasn’t. So he was right in the main but I just think he picked the wrong word.”

No, she in no way said “you are totally correct.” She said, “you’re correct about that” in reference to her convoluted statement about the tape and the riot. And what in hell did she mean by “I just think he picked the wrong word”? What word? Who picked the wrong word? Romney? Terrorism? What?

Now add in these two factors. Obama waited as Romney dug deeper into his accusation and then directed Crowley to “Get the transcript!” As soon as he said this, a statement which directly implies that she had the transcript available and that he knew full well that she had it, Crowley immediately supported Obama. She didn’t hesitate for even a second, as one would if an unexpected request had just come at her. No “What transcript?” No “I don’t believe I’m supposed to interject my own comments” or even evidence that she reflected on that.

No, she just immediately supported Obama. This was a trap, pre-arranged, right down to the audience suddenly applauding Crowley and Obama as Obama said “Can you repeat that Candy?”

Reporters should be camped out in Crowley’s back yard until she finally admits her obvious complicity in helping Obama to overcome his greatest weakness at the time of the debate, his lying for two weeks about Benghazi, a lie he promulgated longer than anyone else in his administration. Furthermore, CNN’s executives should be grilled daily about their interpretation of the event and should, in turn, be seeking to get to the bottom of Crowley’s part in all this.


24 posted on 10/18/2012 10:08:21 AM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left-Completely!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I’m inclined to think nothing will come of this. First, it sounds like there isn’t any way of knowing whether she had the actually transcript with her or not. Obama may have simply meant that he was so confident in what he was saying that people could check the transcript for themselves. At least that is a plausible interpretation. And lastly, i read somewhere yesterday that Axelrod had been making the rounds recently saying that the President mentioned “terror” early on, which could be what Candy was thinking about.

That doesn’t mean i think Candy or CNN should be let off the hook by a long shot. Her bias is still blatant, transcript or no transcript, collusion or no collusion. That CNN Is going out of their way to stick up for her (eg. Obama spoke slowly and that’s why he was allotted more time, which is completely laughable) shows that Candy accurately reflects the overall organization and that they have no shame.


25 posted on 10/18/2012 10:10:56 AM PDT by Humbug
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To: joethedrummer

People that understand saw it for what it was. People that don’t understand can’t really be convinced. It’s sort of like telling a joke, then having to explain why it was funny.


26 posted on 10/18/2012 10:13:06 AM PDT by HogsBreath
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Definite proof of collusion. Romney should refuse to participate in the third debate.


27 posted on 10/18/2012 10:23:46 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Norseman
Reporters should be camped out in Crowley’s back yard until she finally admits her obvious complicity in helping Obama to overcome his greatest weakness at the time of the debate, his lying for two weeks about Benghazi

If this was a setup, and I believe it was, then I'd have to be pretty foolish to think it stopped there.

I believe that Bambi's improved performance during the 2nd debates stemmed solely from the fact that he had the questions in advance .. up to and including the knowledge that his opportunity to bring up the 47% would be presented at closing ... when Romney wouldn't have a chance to respond.

28 posted on 10/18/2012 10:40:15 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: GeronL

As I see it, it is up to Romney, to forcefully and aggressively correct these lies, this is so imperative, not just to the election, but the security if this nation, that he should call a preemptive press conference. He will be facing the closing pitcher on Monday, and they will be ready for him on Benghazi, he will be all but shut down.


29 posted on 10/18/2012 11:11:06 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I’d like to report a similar occurrence from the debate. One of the first questions asked of Romney was what he was going to do to address inequities in male/female salaries. All would agree that that was a wacky question for a Presidential debate. Yesterday (the day after the debate) I received in the mail a full color mailing which asked something like “Do you believe that women’s rights in the workplace should go back to the Stone Age? Greg Ball(R) does”. The wording was almost identical to the question posed at the debate. Methinks the young lady was a Dem plant. Who chose the questions used?


30 posted on 10/18/2012 11:36:17 AM PDT by Inwoodian
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To: Sacajaweau
Read the comments....She had an earpiece.

Those of us on dialup can't -- the site requires we download Java software Disqus and run it to see the comments.

31 posted on 10/18/2012 11:41:50 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; All
On another thread, there is a report that Crowley contradicted her own September 30 position as stated in her interview with Axelrod on that date.

At any rate, despite progressive Dem "talking heads," their "pundits," and "useful idiots," "the People" are not stupid enough to buy the arguments being put out there by the "progressive" spinners--not even Crowley's "The View" comment that her involvement in the deception was "a semantic thing."

It was not a "semantic thing," for all across America honest people know the difference between deception and honesty when they see and hear it.

During the debate, the President claimed that questions or criticisms about his Administration's handling of security, and subsequent dissembling about the deaths of our Ambassador and others in Benghazi were "offensive" to him.

Is that not the very same word he used about complaints on the "leaks" which leading Intelligence Committee members of his own Party attributed to the White House? --that was "offensive" to him?

Perhaps he does not realize how "offensive" his Administration's lack of credibility is to his employers--"the People"!

"Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition, that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties ten fold; and those who pursue these methods, get themselves so involved at length, that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed. It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions." - See "Letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785," in Thomas Jefferson: Writings (New York: The Library of America, 1984), pp. 814-815.

". . . he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him." - Jefferson

When a man stands before the world and makes claims which are as easily disproven as those made by the President, then, truly, "his infamy becomes more exposed."

The 5-minute Rose Garden statement was played on FOX Radio, and, in context, it reveals that both Crowley and the President might take Jefferson's warning to heart: "Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition, that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice."

Tuesday night, American voters saw the "chicanery," the "dissimulation," the "trimming," the "untruth," and the "injustice" attempted by avoiding the real question from the audience, and on November 6, both may see that the President did not "extricate" himself from the "difficulty" of his attempted misrepresentation and cover-up of a terrorist attack during his watch.

32 posted on 10/18/2012 11:53:34 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I can’t watch the videos while at work. I have been asking this question all day today. About Obama saying “get the transcript”.

The only question I have (if someone could kindly answer) is who was Obama directing the comment to? If Romney, then he was telling Romney to just look at transcripts. If Candy, then collusion. Thanks in advance.


33 posted on 10/18/2012 1:01:14 PM PDT by justice14 ("stand up defend or lay down and die")
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To: loveliberty2
". . . he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him." - Jefferson

Reminds me of what Gen. MacArthur said, when he was told Pres. Franklin Roosevelt had died: "Now there was a man who never told the truth, if a lie would suffice."

34 posted on 10/18/2012 1:21:06 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: classified
mods are picked by the Debate Commission...obviously left leaning..several folks tied directly to Obama...we get Danforth and Simpson...it's laughable really and is reflected by the lib tenor of the debates this year

Newt woulda never stood for that ..he likely woulda called Crowley on that transcript being right there at that second on the spot

the GOP brass has as much influence there as I have in Fresno for here

in other words ..not a whole lot

GOP powers that be can refuse to go along next time but not much chance...they ware mostly weak spined...I heard both Laura Ingram and Sean yesterday going on about how fair Candy usually is...barf barf whores all them...incestuous...except Levin

35 posted on 10/18/2012 1:28:36 PM PDT by wardaddy (my wife prays in the tanning bed....guess what region i live in...ya'll?)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

For the 3rd debate, this is where Romney trashes 0bama for blaming the ‘YouTube video’ for days after he said ‘act of terror’ in the Rose Garden. He should ask 0bama, “Why did you blame a movie for days, including in your U.N. speech, if you knew in the Rose Garden this was an ‘act of terror’ not connected to the movie in any way? Why did you call the Ft. Hood shooting ‘workplace violence’ when the perpetrator was shouting ‘Allah Akbar’ as he fired his weapon? You STILL have not called either a terrorist attack, Mr. President. WHY, Mr. President?”


Couple that with the “ Russian flexibility” comment and O is set for the knockout.


36 posted on 10/18/2012 2:24:48 PM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Inwoodian

Candy got to pick the questions. She referred to doing so with “her team”. What do you want to bet that Axelrod provided her with her very own intern to help out for the occasion?


37 posted on 10/18/2012 3:36:03 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: justice14

He was clearly saying it to Candy.


38 posted on 10/18/2012 4:29:22 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: justice14

He was clearly saying it to Candy.


39 posted on 10/18/2012 4:29:22 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: justice14

He was clearly saying it to Candy.


40 posted on 10/18/2012 4:29:28 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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