Team Romney Gets Bogged Down In Candy Crowley Fight
HEMPSTEAD, NY — Republicans are not happy with Candy Crowley’s mid-debate fact check of Mitt Romney’s Libya claims, with many prominent conservatives claiming — inaccurately — that Crowley herself admitted she was wrong.
Crowley injected herself into a Libya exchange after Romney pressed Obama over whether he used the phrase “acts of terror” on September 12 to describe the Libya murders the night before.
“You said in the Rose Garden, the day after the attack, it was an act of terror?” Romney said. After Obama urged him to “get the transcript,” Crowley cut in: “He did in fact, sir, call it an act of terror.”
The transcript, from Obama’s Sept. 12 speech in the Rose Garden: “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.” He used the same phrase the next day, explicitly referring to the Benghazi attack.
Romney supporters after the debate were not happy with the exchange. John Sununu told TPM in the spin room that Obama “said terror will not dissuade us, he did not say it was an act of terrorism.” Others made similar arguments, with NRO’s Jim Geraghty also suggesting the line was ambiguous.
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