So Candy Crowley supports The Tea Bagger Party? Who is Candy really fronting for?

[bridgit]

Is her position as a 'journalist' so tenuous she feels she needs to kiss so much republican ass? She's interviewing Granholm on SOTU, and is giving her a rough time working in her lighter-than-air RW talking points about America's manufacturing base and the Dem-only led effort to reboot it - what gives with Candy Crowley?

[saltpoint]

1. I don't think she's much of a journalist at all. Never did. I have seen her

demonstrate considerable personal grace to someone I know.

But I think her politics have been suspect for a long time.

[closeupready]

2. AAAHHHH!!!! Would you PLEASE warn us when posting offensive images like this?

:rofl:

[hlthe2b]

3. I have a theory about Crowley which is not very flattering...

I know she adored George W. Bush*, but it goes further than that. She has been an over-the-top apologist for years--even for the most extreme segments of the "right."

My hunch is that she does so, somewhat like the abused kid who defends the bullies in a deranged hope they won't turn on them. I think Crowley has had decades of personal insecurity that triggers that behavior (and God, knows the right wing would be merciless against someone like Crowley--so unlike the slim MILF Palin-type that they perceive to be "acceptable".

[Hannah Bell]

7. not everything is about some individual psychological dysfunction.

you might ask why crowley, who's not a particularly outstanding or exciting commentator, is one of the only overweight/un-pretty women journalists on television.

she's a private-school kid from st louis, which was also her father's hometown.

st louis was also walker/bush territory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert_Walker

and still is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H.T._Bush


I think it's as likely there's a long-standing connection, & part of crowley's "success" has something to do with that connection.

[underpants]

15. That is close to the most reasonalbe explanation

not disagreeing ming you I think it could go more under the serface

just theorizing

she could be a devout (to the cause) Christian. There is a network of like minded brothers resulting from the Promise Keepers movement of the 90's. IT is like Masons but via Blackberry.

Who knows.

There is really no reason for her to be reporting and hosting at this point unless the friends of her bosses at the country club like what she says

[stevedeshazer]

4. It just makes her job easier.

Like so many so-called 'journalists' these days, it's much more cushy to cover a flea circus than to do some actual work, like reporting on something relevant. This, of course, requires actual footwork and research, but it appears that is not important in a ratings-driven environment.

Candy is just a symptom of a much larger problem: The loss of objective media as a public service as mandated prior to 1996, and the following transformation of 'news' into a for-profit enterprise.

This is why real news only comes from sources like the BBC and the CBC. We used to be able to rely on NPR and PBS, but the Republicans ruined that, too.

[OHdem10]

5. Candy Crowley is a Conservative Republican. To be fair until

recently she tried very hard to stay in the middle
in framing her reports.

After the election, it became quite obvious that
CNN hung a right because stories and comments became
framed from a "Right" perspective. They contort
into pretzels always explaining away the Republican
side and defending the Republican position.
Candy was part of this change at CNN.

[closeupready]

6. Yes, I've noticed this about CNN on numerous occasions.

n/t

[blm]

8. She's NOT a journalist - she's a GOP mouthpiece for the propaganda machine used to be known

as a news network.

[lunatica]

9. The last straw for me was when she gushed profusely about Bush

She traveled with him during his first campaign he must have winked at her because she acted like she was love struck with him.

[emulatorloo]

10. Worth noting that Bush nicknamed her "Dolce"

[JDPriestly]

11. I always assumed she was a very conservative, not-too-bright troublemaker.

[ladjf]

12. Her words are for sale to anyone willing to pay. nt

[opihimoimoi]

13. HER RECENT COMMENTS/THRUST INDICATES SWALLOWING COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF KOOL AID

She has become a yellow journalist...given to demagoguery however slight

How can we trust her of little knowledge and background? The answer is NO

[bridgit]

14. Huzzah! For Candy colored Yellow Journalism!