Moderator Crowley Plans To Insert Bias Into Debate

In a rare example of political unity, both the Romney and Obama campaigns have expressed concern to the Commission on Presidential Debates about how the moderator of the Tuesday town hall has publicly described her role, TIME has learned.

While an early October memorandum of understanding between the Obama and Romney campaigns suggests CNN’s Candy Crowley would play a limited role in the Tuesday-night session, Crowley, who is not a party to that agreement, has done a series of interviews on her network in which she has suggested she will assume a broader set of responsibilities. As Crowley put it last week, “Once the table is kind of set by the town-hall questioner, there is then time for me to say, ‘Hey, wait a second, what about X, Y, Z?’”

In the view of both campaigns and the commission, those and other recent comments by Crowley conflict with the language the two campaigns agreed to, which delineates a more limited role for the moderator of the town-hall debate. The questioning of the two candidates is supposed to be driven by the audience members themselves — likely voters selected by the Gallup Organization. Crowley’s assignment differs from those of the three other debate moderators, who in the more standard format are supposed to lead the questioning and follow up when appropriate. The town-hall debate is planned for Tuesday at 9 p.m. E.T. at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.

According to the town-hall format language in the agreement, after each audience question and both two-minute responses from the candidates, Obama and Romney are expected to have an additional discussion facilitated by Crowley. Yet her participation is meant to be otherwise limited. As stated in the document: “In managing the two-minute comment periods, the moderator will not rephrase the question or open a new topic … The moderator will not ask follow-up questions or comment on either the questions asked by the audience or the answers of the candidates during the debate or otherwise intervene in the debate except to acknowledge the questioners from the audience or enforce the time limits, and invite candidate comments during the two-minute response period.” The memorandum, which has been obtained by TIME, was signed by lawyers for the two campaigns on Oct. 3, the day of the first presidential debate in Denver.

But if the Obama and Romney campaigns agreed to such terms, there is no evidence that Crowley did — or was ever asked to do so....

The apparent confusion over the town hall moderator’s exact role is the latest in a series of moments that point to the unusual and often fraught relationship between the Commission, the campaigns, and the moderators. Ever since the bipartisan panel took over the staging of the quadrennial debates in 1988, presidential campaigns of both parties have groused that the CPD is frustrating to deal with and appears at times to represent bureaucratic and institutional concerns separate from the public interest. In 2004, President Bush’s re-election campaign even gave serious consideration to sidestepping the Commission’s part in the process.

In an unusual departure from the normal hostility that exists between the Obama and Romney campaigns, both parties wholeheartedly agreed with the Commission that they wished to avoid a repeat of what occurred four years ago. In 2008, NBC News’ Tom Brokaw moderated the town hall session between Obama and Republican nominee John McCain, and the two campaigns and the organizers felt that Brokaw redirected the topics too severely from the audience queries and asked too many of his own questions, limiting the number of citizens who got a chance at the microphone. Appearing on NBC News “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Brokaw said, “t’s tricky for the moderator. I said that Candy Crowley ought to get combat gear after I went through that four years ago.” Brokaw told TIME, “I am satisfied citizens in the hall and online got a fair hearing.” Brokaw also said that while there was some press criticism of the job he did, he heard no complaints directly from the campaigns and a Commission official praised the debate to him as “good television.”

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Crowley claims Romney-Ryan ticket is a 'deathwish.'

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-s...tle-bit-some-sort-ticket-death-#ixzz29N2psx9D

 

That cunt should emigrate to Venezuela and let Hugo run her life... she'd be happy there.

 

Now that is no way to talk!

 

She sort of even looks like Michael Moore in drag. Scary.

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Yet another typical liberal hag.

 

Look at her! Bush is 6'2". She's fucking huge! She could probably make quick work out of Obama and Romney at the same time. Secret Service better staff up for this debate!

 

Pre screened voters will submit questions to be pre screened by Crowley. Candidates will then answer the question they wish they were asked. Not expecting much out of this format, other than the leftist media saying Obama is back as they fight to a very boring draw.

Town halls have lost some of their spontaneity. The 80 or so undecided voters chosen for Tuesday's event must submit their questions in advance and moderator Candy Crowley of CNN will decide which people to call on. She can pose her own follow-up questions.

 

It's a ridiculous format, designed to showcase the more liberal candidate's deep concern for ordinary voters. This would be a good idea if we were picking a national grief counselor or a new host for Idol. It's a stupid way to pick the leader of our country however.

It might still be useful if the questions were actually coming from randomly selected independent voters. They won't be however. You know damn well both camps will try to stack the audience with their supporters, masquerading as independents and undecideds. Then someone, ie liberal moderator Crrowley, has to pick the questions.

Why not just let her ask her own questions and dispense with the pretense?

 

Crowley is an Al-Quaeda sympathizer and will therefore help Obama Hussein.