Of course, one of the most delicious moments of Tuesday night’s debate was when Romney was talking shit about Libya again, like it’s Obama’s fault that democracy did not blossom like a bright blue flower in the desert after Arab Spring, and an American
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ambassador and 3 others were killed. He specifically accused Obama of not calling it a terrorist act until 2 weeks after the fact, since, as we learned from Bush the lesser, the proper response to all hostile actions is to jump up and down and scream “TERRORISM!” just as loud as you can. Obama’s response was “Yes I did,” and Crowley backed him up.
Now, the folks over at Fox, and all the think tanks and super pacs and bow tie wearing, homophobic right wing pundits (yes, I’m referring to Tucker Carlson) are enraged, saying Candy Crowley “interfered” with the debate. Carlson went so far as to compare her to John Wilkes Booth.
Candy Crowley has become, perhaps inadvertently, this year’s Katie Couric.
I don’t think Couric intended to destroy Sarah Palin when she asked “Which newspapers do you read?” For any politician worth their salt, that would have been a softball question. But when Sarah Palin said “All of them, Katie” everybody in America could see, in that instant, that we were dealing with a very dim bulb indeed.
Likewise, I don’t think it was Crowley’s intention to destroy Mitt Romney. She certainly is not known as a raging liberal. But, there was a clear point of contention between the candidates as to what Obama had said and when he said it and it was perfectly proper of Ms.Crowley to say “Sorry, Governor, but he did in fact say what he says he said when and where he says he said it,” or words to that effect. Which he did, the video record is pretty clear on that.
There was nothing else Crowley could have said at that point. Like Sarah Palin before him, Mitt did this damage to himself.
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