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By: On Town Hall Debates and an Alternative thereto | otisfulmen.com

On Town Hall Debates and an Alternative thereto | otisfulmen.com — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:31:36 +0000

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By: NoPain

NoPain — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 02:56:25 +0000

She was actually decent tonight, I thought.

Despite the tingle up her leg. (Tell me I don’t have a visual of that. It’s like a cab ride through the Holland tunnel).

Dude.

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Stipulations in the debate agreement « RubinoWorld — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:30:55 +0000

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By: diogenes

diogenes — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:31:01 +0000

Will we see the all of the questions asked but not offered? I suspect not.

By: Watch the debate tonight! » King High

Watch the debate tonight! » King High — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:51:39 +0000

[...] is out the window…you’re right. But at least there’s one instance of agreement: both sides are displeased with the moderator Candy Crowley. In a rare example of political unity, both the Romney and Obama [...]

By: esblowfeld

esblowfeld — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:09:31 +0000

Wow, she has a great plastic surgeon.
She looks 10-15 years younger than 4 years ago.
As opposed to LiLo, after the knife, who looks 10-15 older.

By: Delsa

Delsa — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:48:50 +0000

Candy chooses the questions. She will control the topics. She will choose what interests her. We are not trusting of the media. They seek to cover Obama’s ass and this is where her choice of questions will come into play.
If she is fair and thinks of the American people instead of herself, fellow media, and Obama’s tush, she will be rated a plus.
We shall see?

By: TMOverbeck

TMOverbeck — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:19:11 +0000

Close. It’s solo Ozzy.

By: CorporatePiggy

CorporatePiggy — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:51:32 +0000

Isn’t there a Black Sabbath song about CC? Sherman1864 on October 16, 2012 at 8:40 AM

Candy Crowley inspired?

By: Sherman1864

Sherman1864 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:40:55 +0000

Isn’t there a Black Sabbath song about CC?

By: curved space

curved space — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:14:54 +0000

Candy-O. “Candy”. The word itself is fine — I love candy, especially these days candy corn — and as a name for a Reno hooker it would be great. But what dings our dignity is that this supposed filter of some very important news doesn’t have enough awareness to think that perhaps a name change to something a little more distinguished might be in order — maybe something like, “Candace Murgatroyd Crowley.” Yeah that works. Something like this is well in her control. But no. Candy is fine with an objectifying moniker like Candy. From the first I ever heard of her her credibility suffered from it. But that’s just me. Perhaps she believes making her name less trivial will somehow shift her viewpoint to the right. Gasp!

By: IrishEyes

IrishEyes — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:24:12 +0000

@LarrySabato

Ideal debate: candidates, no moderator, 90 mins, & police on standby to break up fights.

Flora Duh on October 15, 2012 at 1:27 PM

Unless they put each in separate “soundproof booths” and cut off the microphones when time is up, Zero will drone on and on, never giving equal time to Romney.

My question: why always lib moderators? How about some with experience on various networks, such as:

Alexander Britton “Brit” Hume
A conservative political commentator and television journalist. For twenty years he was a correspondent for ABC, including Chief White House Correspondent.

Christopher “Chris” Wallace
- previous moderator of Meet the Press
- the son of Mike Wallace, longtime CBS 60 Minutes reporter
- stepfather, Bill Leonard President of CBS News from 1979 to 1982
- Washington bureau as a political correspondent for NBC News
- chief White House correspondent (1982–89)
- moderator of Meet the Press (1987–88)
- anchor of the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News
- ABC News senior correspondent for Primetime Thursday and occasionally hosted Nightline

Oh, yeah. Both are with Fox News now (wonder why?), so that totally disqualifies them. Ridiculous.

By: diogenes

diogenes — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:01:19 +0000

I noticed in a photo of Candy Crowley’s debate rehearsal the stand-ins were a white and a black man. Can she not tell the difference between Mitt Romney and Obama?

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=candy+crowley+debate+rehersal&view=detail&id=94F5EDE69428A7F48E7D0559D6EC80BA8AC89AE7

By: Mr Galt

Mr Galt — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:35:16 +0000

What I would like to see from Romney (but undoubtedly won’t) would be a couple of well-placed backhanded snarks aimed at Miss Candy – something along the lines of “gosh, Candy I think Paul Ryan did a pretty good job last week. Not bad for electoral suicide, no?” Just enough for him to let her know that he knows who and what she is, and to place enough commentary in the mix that not everyone in the media can ignore it, and the public will notice it. If done properly, the MSM bias can actually be the “story” of debate number two, with the media vociferously denying it, and the public (which already has no respect for the MSM) considering it as real.

By: Sir Rants-A-Lot

Sir Rants-A-Lot — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:59:06 +0000

There needs to be MUCH DIFFERENT moderators when President Romney debates the Democrat nominee in 2016. Khun Joe on October 15, 2012 at 2:35 PM

So true! Why not Monica Crowley in 2016?

By: Mary in LA

Mary in LA — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:27:01 +0000

Not meaning to be mean or petty, but how can somebody who claims to be a vegetarian be so heavy? Me thinks there is more to the story.

cat-scratch on October 15, 2012 at 4:22 PM

Because, IMHO, most vegetarian diets are terribly unbalanced.

When you give up meat, you have to get your protein from combining sources of the different amino acids that make up a complete protein. That’s why just about every culture in the world has a grain+legume combination as a staple dish. However, the problem with doing it that way is that you get a lot more carbohydrates along with your amino acids, and carbs will really put weight on a person.

That wasn’t nearly as big an issue when most jobs required physical activity. Farmers, bricklayers, postal carriers and cops on the beat burn lots of calories during their workday; students, desk workers and TV presenters, not so much.

It is possible to eat a balanced vegetarian diet, but it’s difficult and time-consuming.

/not a nutritionist

By: Brat

Brat — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:20:07 +0000

Candy just bashed Mitt while talking to Andy Cooper. She looks drugged.

By: KirknBurker

KirknBurker — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:52:59 +0000

How about a woman at the townhall has a heart attack, Barry O faints and Mittens gives her CPR and saves her.

Game/Set/Match!

By: right2bright

right2bright — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:53:55 +0000

“If you can’t lay your hands on them and feel the ribs pretty easily, they’re obese,” said Arn,

Wait, is this the wrong post, or the right one…these are starting to blur…

By: Marcola

Marcola — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:42:42 +0000

I knew a Randy Crowley way back when… looked like he could be her brother.
Haven’t seen him in a long time.

By: Activist president worried about activist moderator «

Activist president worried about activist moderator « — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:31:02 +0000

[...] tomorrow night’s town-hall debate moderator, Candy Crowley: As Crowley put it last week, “Once the table is kind of set by the town-hall questioner, there [...]

By: M240H

M240H — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:09:24 +0000

I’m not sure that Crowley is a bad choice for Republicans. She regularly appears on Hugh Hewitt’s show and seems at least inclined to challenge Democrats on her Sunday talk show. And even if commenters think she’s hopelessly biased, can we stick to that rather than attacking her for her weight and appearance?

Ed Morrissey on October 15, 2012 at 12:51 PM

Really, Mr. Morrissey, are you this desperate to be recognized as ‘mainstream’? Or are the intellectual feints of an, at best, middling intellect such as Crowley’s enough to pull you off target?

In either case, you’re weak.

By: RINO in Name Only

RINO in Name Only — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:05:04 +0000

One of the few downsides of Romney winning so epically in the first debate is that since he’s a republican, people on the left will convince the rest of the media (all two of them) that Lehrer’s hands-off style was a bad thing. This already happened in the vp debate, and it was a real shame – she cut off Ryan sometimes, and Biden sometimes, and it was annoying no matter who she did it to; even when it was Biden who got cut off, it still meant I didn’t get to see how Ryan could have handled the question, and an independent voter couldn’t have seen Ryan shred Biden’s arguments.

Someone needs to tell these moderators that a quiz show is not a debate. Let the candidates stand on their own two feet.

By: Del Dolemonte

Del Dolemonte — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:04:44 +0000

CNN’s Candy Crowley

Never heard of her.

Why in the Hell is CNN even hosting a Presidential debate in the first place? In terms of viewership, it’s basically a fringe cable-access channel.

logis on October 15, 2012 at 5:59 PM

CNN isn’t hosting it; it will be on all the networks like the first one. PBS didn’t host the first debate with Lehrah. She’s simply the moderator.

All of the debates are officially sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

By: Who Are The Real Obstructionists?

Who Are The Real Obstructionists? — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:01:43 +0000

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