ALEXANDRIA,
VA – Last night, in what was the most stunning and disgraceful single example
of moderator malpractice in the history of presidential debates, CNN’s Candy
Crowley allowed Barack Obama to lie to the American people about his
administration’s Libya cover-up. Even worse, she then validated this lie of
extraordinary magnitude by certifying it as honest and by attacking Mitt Romney
when he pressed the president on his administration’s cover-up. Crowley robbed
tens of millions of Americans of the truth on national primetime television.
Real journalists – who were fed the Obama Administration’s Libya lies for two
weeks – should be furious.
Crowley
was solely responsible for choosing the questions, meaning that it was her
decision that there be only one question about Libya and nothing about anything
else dealing with foreign policy. Her question selection process was typically left
wing. Going into Tuesday night’s debate, the
Media Research Center documented [1] that
since 1992, moderators have called upon voters with a liberal agenda twice as
often as those with a conservative agenda. The citizens selected by Crowley
matched that tilt exactly [2], with six pro-Obama/liberal-themed questions, vs.
three pro-Romney questions, and two others scored as neutral.
Media
Research Center President Brent Bozell reacts:
Crowley was an utter disaster last night, and was, by
far, the worst moderator of the 2012 election.
The Libya cover-up continues, and the national news
media need to start asking some tough questions – including questions about one
of their own. If Obama was correct that on Day 1 he said it was a terrorist
attack, why did his UN ambassador say on five different national interviews
that it was a YouTube video that was responsible, and who put her up to it? If
he saw this as a terrorist attack from the very beginning, why did the
president himself blame it on a video six times during a UN speech? Why has he
made the statement so many times, as has Hillary Clinton, as has Jay Carney, as
have others?
And why did Candy Crowley validate this lie?
If the national media don’t start asking these
questions soon, they also will be guilty of enabling a massive cover-up.
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