Candy Crowley

[Puglover]

How do folks feel about her moderating the next debate? I'll never forget how she practically sneered when she would talk about Al Gore. I'd be curious to see what people think? I personally don't like her one bit.

[samplegirl]

1. No way.......

I could not stand her bias rightwing nuttery during the Bush years.

[JohnnyBoots]

2. She is Delores Umbridge from Harry Potter.

[FarPoint]

31. I couldn't agree with you more...

They are twins!

[City Lights]

3. I can't stand her and am nervous about her as a moderator.

IMO, she is a GOP shill. Doesn't even try and hide her bias. She has no business moderating a presidential debate.

[LibGranny]

5. +1

[siligut]

49. See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya!

[LiberalFighter]

56. She has no business being part of the 4th estate.

[Auntie Bush]

78. Truer words were never spoken!

I used to call her pig face before she had all the plastic surgery and make over.

[Mutiny In Heaven]

4. She is also a vegetarian who is into Transcendental Meditation.

Not exactly GOP staples...

She also rebutted Little Bow-Creep and his crusade to discredit Martha Radditz:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/10/crowley-daily-caller-playing-the-refs-138059.html

My abiding hope is that she shills because, ya know, it's what happens in the mainstream media, rather than because she's a genuine RepubliNut. Maybe she'll see this as her chance to do a clean, impartial job.

I'm not saying that I'm a fan and I don't think the doubts expressed in this thread are unreasonable, just that (perhaps naively) I'm going to assume that she'll take the role seriously and not indulge in partisan chicanery.

Either way, she seems to telegraph how she intends to moderate here:

And if Obama or Romney is flatout lying?

“Look, these are two grown men,” Crowley says. “And if there are two grown men who should know what’s going on — or what should go on in this country — it’s them. So, I’m not sure either one of them needs me to defend them or go after the other guy or whatever.”

Crowley says such TV debates, like interviews on her Sunday morning show, “tend to be organic,” and you can’t predict or anticipate all that will happen — especially when it comes to live TV.

“Am I going to catch everything they say that is wrong?” she asks rhetorically. “No. Should I? Actually, I think, President Obama can figure out when Mitt Romney’s wrong, and Mitt Romney can figure out when Obama’s wrong.”

But, she adds, “That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t. I’m just telling you it’s an organic thing. That’s the way it works on the Sunday show. ... You plan one thing, and something else happens. So, there’s not a lot of promising you can do about what’s going to happen until you see what happens.”

If - and it remains a big if - I hope that means that President Obama will get the opportunity to be as eloquently forceful as the situation requires. Personally, I would like, if a candidate tells a blatant whopper, the moderator to have facts at their disposal for clarification purposes; for instance, Romney (or, in the interests of fairness, Obama) says something blatantly false and the President rebuts it - THEN the moderator should consider it part of the job to bring out the facts. Not just leave it so it looks like a game of "he said, she said" because the audience by default assumes both are merely peddling their agenda without regard for the truth.

However, if a candidate fails to call their opponent on falsehoods, I don't think the onus should flip to the moderator to mop up for them.

[Zorro]

22. She certainly eats a lot of vegetables

[lynintenn]

23. yeah and you don't see many obese vegans

[Mutiny In Heaven]

34. Vegetarian, not vegan.

Trust me, you can be a fat vegetarian. Past experience.

[11 Bravo]

44. Slip a plate of Twinkies onto her lectern. She won't even notice that there's a debate going on.

[backscatter712]

72. Nah, go directly to the Shame Sticks!

In other words, sticks of butter rolled in sugar. See how many she scarfs down!

[JI7]

62. And She said John Kerry was Elitist for Asking for Green Tea in Iowa

because you know those little people in Iowa don't know what Green TEA is. it just shows how elitist and out of touch he is.

[upi402]

6. Right Wing Media hack

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Traitor to the 4th Estate and thereby the Republic it needs to serve.

I used to like her because she broke the 'news-babe' mold. But she's a whore and a traitor. (I'm being too reserved?)

[BumRushDaShow]

11. ^^^ THIS ^^^ n/t

[vaberella]

7. Obama better watch out is all I say. Crowley is not a reporter. She's a ReTHUGLICAN!

She puts FOX news to shame.

[HappyMe]

8. I don't like her at all.

Rethuglican't shill.

[lonestarnot]

9. There is a reason this cow pigliCON hack has been selected. I hope Mr. President does not try to be

"too nice" to her.

[Glitterati]

12. Cow? Really?

Was that necessary?

I don't like Candy Crowley either, but that kind of name calling is best left to the republicans.

[Fla Dem]

16. My sentiments exactly! Can't stand her, she is in the pocket of the RW, but name calling

of this nature is uncalled for.

[lonestarnot]

17. Yes. Necessary.

This is my place too!

[backscatter712]

51. Jabba the Moderator...

No I'm not holding high hopes that Candy the Hutt will be fair to Obama.

[Warpy]

53. I'm with you

Sometimes it's necessary to identify Republican denizens of the barnyard or kennel.

[Zorro]

82. Candy Cowley

That's my moniker for her.

[asjr]

10. She was practically in tears in 2000 because she

thought Bush was going to lose. If she does moderate the next debate I will not be able to watch. How she has maintained her job at CNN is beyond my comprehension. She just may know where all the CNN bodies are buried.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. CNN has shifted to the right. I am sure that is why she is still there.

[UTUSN]

13. She's a wingnut lover, just about any of them, but particularly Hayley BARBOUR n/t

[lunatica]

15. Can't stand her

[OldDem2012]

18. Right-wing to the core. Next question. nt.

[Cali_Democrat]

19. She's going to be an unmitigated disaster

[goclark]

20. cant stand her ...question...

Does our PRESIDENT have to bow down to CandyBarf or can he
raise his eyebrow to give us a hint that CandyBarf is not playing
fair?

[WilliamPitt]

21. Buy "This Is Going To Suck" futures.

They're going to skyrocket in value when that fraud takes the stage.

[lonestarnot]

30. Soledad O'Brien wasn't picked because she's Irish.

[lynintenn]

24. Why Candy? Why not Rachel Maddow?

This debate is so important and the fact that she is the moderator really makes it scary. I think the perception of the debaters performance has a lot to do with the moderator. Remember the negative reaction Jim Lehrer received for letting Romney take over. Romney looked like a petulant child to me but others on the right perceived this as a strength for him. The ability to take charge. I think there will be some yelling at the moderator on TV during this debate. She is a self pronounced republican just like Wolfe Blitzer. Isn't this a conflict. CNN is unwatchable these day and I was once a regular viewer. Erin Burnett makes my skin crawl.

[senseandsensibility]

25. I love RM as much as the next DUer BUT

no network, even cable, would allow her to moderate a debate. That's how right even our middle of the road politics are skewed in this country. But, assuming that she was selected, I'm not sure that many Obama supporters would be that pleased. Yes, she would demand answers of Romney. But she would probably question Obama from the left, something he rarely has to face. It would be a whole different ballgame.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

32. If you're going to dream, why not Amy Goodman?

Want to talk hard hitting questions based on fact for both sides?

[UnrepentantLiberal]

66. Not in 1,000,000,000,000,000 years.

Neither party would want her asking the questions.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

67. But Liberals would.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

69. Oh, I would love to watch that.

They'd have to have janitors standing by with mops.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

74. Imagine if she asked about New Orleans....

Specifically, what efforts have been done to rebuild and allow former residents to return.

[U4ikLefty]

70. I still remember her interview with Bill Clinton.

Good stuff.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

75. It's still on the site...

http://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/22/bill_clinton_loses_his_cool_in

[backscatter712]

59. This is CNN (Conservative News Network) we're talking about!

They're determined to silence rational voices.

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

26. Total Republican stooge

She always has been, always will be. I remember well her from her days as a "reporter," using that word very loosely, as CNN tends to do.

[JanetLovesObama]

27. I cannot stand the sight of

Candy Crowley. Besides being a right wing lunatic she just looks dirty. She's gained back all that weight she was bragging about losing and her hair is always stringy and greasy looking. She makes my skin crawl.

[seabeyond]

28. disappointed and not hopeful for fair. nt

[woolldog]

29. From the little I've seen of her

She's very focused on the process of politics (ie horserace reporting) and not on substance/policy discussion. That goes for most of CNN

Basically the opposite of a real journalist like Martha Raddatz.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

33. Mike Malloy knows Candy Crowley from when he worked at CNN...

...let's just say there are some people in the media that are there as part of an agenda.

[arthritisR_US]

37. What agenda? n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

39. He knows there are many in the media that are CIA plants.

It's considered to be illegal for the CIA to do psyops on the American public but you know their track record of being a good law abiding agency.

[arthritisR_US]

55. I have felt that way about Tom Brokaw, interesting. I would think having worked with her

his suspicions have more validity than mine which are based only on the disgust I have with both Brokaw and Crowley. Fairness is not what we are going to see at this next debate

[Spitfire of ATJ]

63. His main memory of her was the staff having to race her to the doughnuts.

[arthritisR_US]

65. Lol...that's not how I would want to be remembered! n/t

[begin_within]

35. I just hope she doesn't try to throw he weight around.

[Douglas Carpenter]

36. I don't think she is knows very much about America - and she was so sycophantic to Bush

I recall her in all seriousness and with a straight face telling the story about how John Kerry asked for a green tea in a Howard Johnson's or some such type restaurant. She thought that was just so outlandish as if Sen. Kerry had ordered beluga caviar on melba toast with a glass of vintage Veuve Clicquot at the local Bob's Big Boy. She either didn't have any idea that green tea was a fairly common thing you can buy almost anywhere or she was just so determined to support the narrative that Bush was a man of the common people while Kerry was an out of touch elitist. Yet, as far as I know she has never suggested that Mitt Romney is an out of touch elitist. I don't think she is very smart and I don't think she is capable of minimally acceptable objective observation of the world around her.

[Baitball Blogger]

38. Candy Crowley's sneers.

I hope the MSM points out her lack of objectivity.

[ananda]

40. She'll be awful, horrible!

I haven't watched her for several years.

[woofless]

41. I think she is repugnant.

I am hoping that the Town Hall format, in which the attendees ask the questions, will limit her input. If she were the one asking the questions, I doubt whether I would watch. (Love the mute button.)

[mnhtnbb]

42. She's trouble for Obama. He'll have to fight for his time.

[AllenVanAllen]

43. Rmoney has an ally in Crowley.

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If she turns out to be anywhere near as fair as Martha Raddatz I'd be very surprised, but I really doubt it. She's part of the reason I haven't watched CNN (Fox News-Lite) for years. She was a terrible pick.

[Evergreen Emerald]

45. she is a female David Gregory

She uses right-wing talking points as the basis for questioning democrats ...and lets republicans spew shit with no push back

[ancianita]

46. Candy Crowley is HORRID AND HOLLOW, and Obama should ignore her.

She's a smarmy Rethuglican shill and should be put in her place if she tries to screw Obama during the debate!

[tavernier]

48. Um, you may want to reword that...

Let's not take the chance of Obama running screaming out of the country because of that kind of a threat.

[backscatter712]

50. Obama needs to be training to deal with Cowley as well as rMoney.

Candy is not going to be a fair moderator - she'll be looking for every way possible to give rMoney the advantage.

[krispos42]

52. A real liberal would be able to skewer both Obama and Romney on many issues

Because in many ways, Obama's policies haven't changed much from Bush's.


Let Thom Hartmann moderate.

[notadmblnd]

54. When I think of her, I think of a box of donuts

[mitchtv]

57. like Candy Cruller?

[mikki35]

58. Curiosity....

I'm glancing through all these nearly uniform condemnations of Candy Crowley as a self-avowed Republican, 'shilling for McCain', etc, etc, (I don't watch CNN anymore and didn't have a big opinion one way or the other, but I do remember her from years ago, and she wasn't shilling for anybody then) and I had to wonder...what's the take from Fox on this? Are they happy? Are they excited? And THIS is what I found (I should get a medal for willingly pointing my computer that direction....ewwwww):

"What the hell was the Presidential Commission on Debates thinking?"
"Seriously who approved this because they should be fired. Now."
"Candy Crowley and Bob Schieffer are haggard old media whores, truly sad-sack shills for institutional liberalism."
"Candy Crowley? Are you kidding me. She loves bashing Republicans almost as much as stuffing M&Ms in her mouth!"
"Crowley, Schieffer/CBS, Lehrer/PBS – are on record numerous times during the GOP primary and even more recently making points about “right wing extremism.”
"Romney and his VP better grow a pair and say NO! and HELL NO!! to Crowley, at least get Blitzer."
"CNN’s Candy Ryan-Ticket-Death-Wish Crowley is the token female this year."

There wasn't a single solitary favorable comment anywhere to be found 'over yonder.'

[backscatter712]

60. My bet is Candy tries to make Obama stand on a trapdoor over the Rancor pit... n/t

[EmeraldCityGrl]

61. Being a rabid republican

she will IMHO look for her Katie Couric moment.
Couric buried Palin during that infamous interview
and was a superstar for Obama supporters.

Crowley will have to be cagey in order to do any
damage, but given the opportunity she will take it.

I wish these debates were moderated by academics
or some other qualified professionals.

[COLGATE4]

64. We'll be fortunate if

she doesn't attempt to fellate Rmoney onstage during the debate.

[backscatter712]

68. Imagining that scene has a Lovecraftian effect on my sanity!

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Pass the brain bleach!

[Zoeisright]

71. She's a pig.

And a repuke. And she's smarmy and stupid. That's how I feel.

[SaveAmerica]

73. Candy Crowley, what when wrong in your head?

[budkin]

76. Nothing can go worse than last time. Obama will be ready for anything... even Mamma Cass

He better bring some ham sandwiches if she gets out of line.

[Mike Nelson]

77. Wretched choice...

She's a stealth anti-Democrat.

[MjolnirTime]

79. At least she cares more about the public opinion of her than Jim Lehrer

She's too vain to endure that much criticism.

Therefore, she won't be completely in the bag for Mitt.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

80. Cannot stand her.

She cannot (and doesn't even try to) hide her political "preferences". She is so NOT an impartial reporter and will most likely not be an impartial moderator, either.

[Samantha]

81. I do not like her either -- she appeared to have a real crush on George Bush*

and when I hear her name, the first thing I think about is her snarky comments about Gore when he was running for President in 2000. Really poor judgment on her part.

Sam

[hrmjustin]

83. i do not like her, but she knows that this could hurt her if she screws up.

[just1voice]

84. She's a lying press whore, a product of the MSMedia

She's a vile human being and venal -- "Capable of betraying honor, duty, or scruples for a price".

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/venal

[arely staircase]

85. well she used to cream her panties over george w bush

so she must be "fair and balanced"

in the FN sense of the term (though on CNN)