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LEAKED CNN EMAIL: DEFEND CANDY!

by on October 18, 2012

CNN MANAGING EDITOR SENDS STAFF EMAIL DEFENDING CROWLEY

Late this afternoon, TMZ reported a leaked email from CNN Managing Editor Mark Whitaker to the staff of CNN, defending disgraced second presidential debate moderator Candy Crowley. It’s a full-throated list of Barack Obama talking points. Here’s the email:

Let’s start with a big round of applause for Candy Crowley for a superb job under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. She and her team had to select and sequence questions in a matter of hours, and then she had to deal with the tricky format, the nervous questioners, the aggressive debaters, all while shutting out the pre-debate attempts to spin and intimidate her. She pulled it off masterfully.

The reviews on Candy’s performance have been overwhelmingly positive but Romney supporters are going after her on two points, no doubt because their man did not have as good a night as he had in Denver. On the legitimacy of Candy fact-checking Romney on Obama’s Rose Garden statement, it should be stressed that she was just stating a point of fact: Obama did talk about an act (or acts) of terror, no matter what you think he meant by that at the time. On why Obama got more time to speak, it should be noted that Candy and her commission producers tried to keep it even but that Obama went on longer largely because he speaks more slowly. We’re going to do a word count to see whether, as in Denver, Romney actually got more words in even if he talked for a shorter period of time.

This is ridiculously biased, partisan, and stupid – or, as CNN might put it, brilliant.

CNN’s a joke. Candy Crowley’s a joke. They’re perfect for each other.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/10/17/CNN-sends-letter-to-employees-defending-crowley

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  1. Unknown's avatar
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    Why do we need the President at the debates?

    We could just have the media sit in for him … I’m sure Candy and others at CNN and MSNBC would love to have that opportunity.

    What a joke the media has become!

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