I read the headline and expected a story about Weight Watchers.

Tipping Point?
Likely her bathroom scale.

Candy Crowley--exhibit A of what is wrong with American journalism.

Her tipping point was most likely at about 250, a few pounds ago.

She looked to me like the late John Candy in drag and her performance was a joke. Her response was so quick I believe it was coordinated with the WH. I also feel that little barry had all the questions in advance. I can't prove it but just got the feeling during the debate.

If Porkchop thinks she helped the Affirmative Action president, shes wrong

Helen Thomas wannabee.

Obama's 4 weeks of steady lies about Benghazi, the complicit media's consistent coverup and media fog and finally Candy Crowley's over-the-top roll as a corrupt leftist moderator in the 2nd debate, provide what we call a 'teachable moment'.

Obama is a dangerous liar.
The complicit leftist mainstream media is corrupt and biased beyond redemption.

If only the article were true. The MSM is already lying and spinning the facts into something that cannot be recognized as truth.
I've already commented on my local fish wrapper lies. Those who get their news from the msm are in another world.

Don't forget Obama-Mao has his lawyers off stage to challenge any vote count that hurts his chances...this game ain't done by a long shot!

FTA: ''Add it all up, and Crowley's posture on Tuesday night was that of a pro-Obama participant, not the impartial moderator that voters expect.''

Great article Mr. Lord, but no one I know expected Crowley to be honest with America. The media's objective is still to get this America-hating clown re-elected and you know what? I don't think they even know why themselves, other than he's not a Republican. Honestly, the media types are really not all that bright.

No one can stay home. Everyone must vote if Obama is to be kicked out. Romney needs a indisputable majority everywhere in order to avoid a recount circus, refute Obama's agenda and to give Romney the mandate to clean house.

Biggest loser is a more fitting headline.

How did Obama KNOW she had the transcript he ordered her to check?

Why did she have the transcript of the rose garden speech and how did BO knew she had it.At the same time Moochelle illegally clapping???

People are as weary of the Obama media as they are of the Obama agenda. The Misery Index has not been this high since the first Great Depression. Time to end the misery and get America back on track. Vote like your country depends upon it because it does.

Join me. Cnn has been notified that they are suspended in my household, and if i see crowley on tv, i am changing the channel

The one thing which can be counted upon with these people is their unerring ability to destroy themselves. They will end up hanging themselves every time, because what they offer does not work, and their means are therefore necessarily corrupt.

The sad part is if she had read the transcript she had in her possession it would have destroyed the won, but she continued to lie to cover for the won. We all knew something was coming when the DNC objected to Candy.... It backfired, it helped Romney & hurt the so called journalist world. Lets see how many credible journalist will stand up & object to Candy's performance.

I saw posts yesterday indicating Crowley spent some time on Sunday at the White House. Of course they would have coordinated what they were going to do.

The cow tipping point...

7, I think you are close, but its not Helen Thomas wannabe as much as its Helen Thomas gonna be. That is who she will now become in the lore of reporting I think.

Or, maybe she'll be known as Fat and Furious.

Assuming we outvote the dead and illegals and the zombified RAT voters and TAKE BACK our America from those who despise her,be ready for a massive reaction from the soon- to-be-really-disenfranchised moochers and leech class! Lock and load America, they may be heading to a city near you!

I guess I missed the memo but I don't understand why the debates are conducted only by MSM, with liberal moderators. If I were the Republican nominee, I'd say fine to one but the next one has to be with a more conservative moderator.

I've been hearing about the "tipping point", that moment when the anti-American MSM is finally exposed to Joe Sixpack, for years. I even believed it myself once. Let's face it: Joe & Jane Sixpack STILL get their information through the MSM filter. An informed electorate would have demanded accountability after Fast & Furious broke. An informed electorate would be demanding Crowley's head and her those of her bosses at CNN. The Honey BooBoos don't know or care.

Candy screened the questions prior to the debate. And she allowed that stupid woman to slur President George W. Bush, asking President Romney how he was different. There should have been an equivalent question to the kenyan klown about Carter.
The 'assault weapons' ban question was out of place, and the libya question was a set up.

This topic is too serious for the fat jokes.

Above posters have it right about NerØbma' knowledge of the transcript. The Benghazi exchange in the debate highlighted the Emperor's lack of clothes and the media's excess of bias for all to see. Hopefully more voters will view what they are being fed by the media in a new light.

Politics, the Hollywood for ugly people.

Same as #16. How did Obumble know that Crowley had a trascript?

He was (Obama) just too ready for the questions based on the way he answers questions normally. I would wonder about a secret service type ear piece as well. "Get the transcript Candy"

1. How did Obama know Candy Crowley had a transcript of his Rose Garden speech?

2. How did Obama know who the questioner Kerry was, that he was male and not female, and where to find him in the audience?

3. What did Michelle Obama know about the scenario and why did she, all by herself, begin clapping loudly when clapping was against the rules?

Jef if you think the media bias is over you must be smoking something illegal. It willnever stop too maney have been brain washed in school and in their jobs by the owners of the so called media.Its in there blood.

All the sweeter for happening live before an audience again estimated at close to 70 million when you add in those who watched it on the internet.

Some phrses just jumped right off the pages.

'After CNN gave the debate to Obama ...'

'A tipping point emblamatic of a mainstream media doing everything in its power to avoid honest coverage of a president. To give him not just cover but unadultrated idolatry.'

and best of all ...
'The idea that the liberal media is deliberately trying to fix the 2012 election for Obama is now rampant, speeding across America faster than the flu in February.'

@#25: The dems will not participate in a debate moderated by a `conservative`. They`re cowards. If they can`t control the message there will be no message.

Yeah, I thought that was more than just suspicious when 0bama ordered Candy to read a transcript of a press conference from a couple of weeks prior, which he somehow knew that she, entirely by coincidence, had right there at her fingertips. Why, it was almost as if they had planned it in advance./s
I guess Candy has her application in for 0bama's next press secretary.

My thoughts exactly #16. Obama coaxed Romney to keep going because he was waiting for the setup moment. When it came he told Candy to get the transcript. This was all preplanned. Everyone should be contacting CNN to complain about this. It is obvious it was preplanned and goes way beyond anything I have seen the media do since Rather and the typewriter. Clearly that didn't prevent them from continuing in their media bias, but in a debate, to benefit their hero??? EVERYONE MUST SPEAK OUT ON THIS!!! Sorry for yelling.

'The idea that the liberal media is deliberately trying to fix the 2012 election for Obama is now rampant, speeding across America faster than the flu in February.'

Which is exactly what happened in 2008.

I discovered this "Tipping Point" the author writes about last night at a social event here in the city last night.

I'm a conservative who works in Manhattan, which is something akin to being a Christian living in Rome during the height of the Roman Empire.

I too was shocked by the overt bias by Crowley and revealed in the questions "chosen" to be asked during the debate. But again, work in Manhattan and I have little doubt that 60% of the people I work with- all highly educated white-collar types- have a political point of view far to the Left of mine. So, I avoided any water-cooler talk concerning the debate during the work day for fear of blowing my cover and endangering my own career prospects.

Then at a work/social last evening I happened upon a conversation by a large group of my co-workers- who are unabashedly liberal- discussing the tenor of Tuesday's debate. Almost to a person, they were dubious about the "undecided"-ness of the questioners, and were surprised at how much the questions asked were from a left-wing perspective. Then a lefty co-worker brought up Crowley's "moderating" and stated she was surprised the GOP signed off on her selection, then goes "That had to have been a set up with that transcript. You're telling me of all the speeches Obama and Romney have made - that's the single transcript she has at the ready?"

Again, I was gobsmacked!

None of these folks are going to change their votes and vote for Romney in three weeks, but what last night revealed to me is that if these folks can recognize this bias - even in their favor - millions of independents and others across the country recognized it as well.

What's done is done, though it's good this is getting out, it's still not being covered by the usual left media sources.

But hopefully it will serve as a message to Bob Schieffer, the next moderator.
(How in the world was he approved, anyway)?

Unfortunately this is preaching to the choir. Perhaps Romney should open the next debate by asking the moderator if he has his transcripts and Dem talking points ready like Candy did.

I refer all Ldotter's again to the Presidential Debate Commission website.

Inspect the Board.

KNOW the whole charade is rigged.

Yes, # 16 and others making the same point: How did Obama know that Crowley had a transcript of his remarks in the Rose Garden?

This has bothered me from the moment Obama said, "Proceed" with that funny smirk on his face - like the cat that ate the canary. When he ordered Crowley, as if she were his secretary, to do his bidding and get the transcript, it all made sense.

This was a setup and Romney walked right into it.

#40 "None of these folks are going to change their votes and vote for Romney in three weeks, but what last night revealed to me is that if these folks can recognize this bias - even in their favor - millions of independents and others across the country recognized it as well."

That is what makes the job we have so hard. Do these Lefties think that they will somehow be spared in the tyranny that they will help to make possible? As someone posted elsewhere, this is "weapon's grade stupidity."

Regarding the transcript: I didn't and don't think Crowley actually had a transcript of some minor speech given in the Rose Garden. She's no genius, but she can't possibly be dumb enough to bring physical proof of her bias to a debate.

But Obama is dumb enough to let it out of the bag that there was pouring over transcripts looking for the word "terror" or "terrorism"... and Crowley somehow being aware of it.

Her rehearsed collusion was clear when Obama referred to "the transcript" and she instantly knew what to say. How would she know what he was talking about if not in on the lame attempt to claim Obama had called Benghazi a terrorist attack all along?

#43 "Who reported that? The version I read quoted Obama as simply saying "Get the transcript" -- a remark seemingly directed to Romney not Cowley."

Wasn't it a remarkable co-incidence that Crowley had just that transcript handy?

Too bad Romney didn't turn it on crowly and ask her why she had a transcript and how Solbama knew it. Disgustingly obvious. When will republicans stop allowing these liberal news pimps to interject themselves into supposedly honest discourse. I think I know why. Because democrats wont do a debate that isn't rigged in their favor.

Several years ago, on this great site especially, Clymer became a noun all its own. I think Crowley needs to become a verb.

The only thing Crowley tipped is the car she left the debate in... She violated the fairness of a clean debate... She should be removed from the media... Everyone like her also... We need honest GOD-FEARING media members to tell us what really happened in a news story

when I heard ''get the transcript'' I thought it might have been an arrogant throw away line. Like - ''I know what I said and I challenge you with the proof.'' But the next day I heard Candy say that she actually had the transcript and my brain said hmmmmmm. So, how did the Leader KNOW Candy had the transcript? another hmmmmm...

What I take away from the debates so far:

First Debate finally made it clear that the Lightbearer is not by any stretch of the imagination the smartest guy in the room. The mighty Oz just had the curtain torn away.

Second Debate:
The major media just got exposed for the shilling DNC hacks they all are. Again the curtain falls and the reality is not pretty.

barring something weird like wag the dog attack on Syria this weekend: predict third debate will allow Americans to see what a dangerous world we are living in compared to 4 years ago.

Focusing on Candy's weight is trivializing the incredibly important point that main stream journalism is so deep in Obama/liberal pockets that it has become our biggest enemy.

The debate moment was just the best evidence yet.

I worked for a huge media company for almost two decades. While there is no doubt that the vast majority of the editors and TV personalities supported Democrats, I also learned that much of what is thought to be conspiracy usually wasn't, but the way that Libya thing played out was very suspicious. Romney tries to get Obama to confirm the rose garden remark and FOR THE ONE AND ONLY TIME Obama doesn't interrupt but prompts Romney to CONTINUE, ceding him airtime. Then after Romney says it took two weeks, Obama asks Crowley to check the transcript. How did Obama know she just coincidentally happened to have that one particular transcript? Then, she actually MISQUOTES the transcript. Maybe all of that was happenstance but (and especially after all that so-called agreement between the two campaigns that Crowley wasn't supposed to interject at all) it doesn't pass the smell test to me.

Some Wiki background on the Pres. Debate Commission...

The organization, which is a nonprofit corporation controlled by the Democratic and Republican parties, has run each of the presidential debates held since 1988. The Commission is headed by Frank Fahrenkopf, a former head of the Republican National Committee, and former White House press secretary Michael D. McCurry. As of 2011, the Board of directors consists of Howard Graham Buffett, John C. Danforth, John Griffen, Antonia Hernandez, Caroline Kennedy, Newton N. Minow, Richard D. Parsons, Dorothy Ridings, and Alan K. Simpson.

They should lose their non-profit status and a class action lawsuit should be commenced by Tea Party activists, immediately

Something seems to be wrong with The American Spectator website. Every time I try to open up the original article, it locks up my PC.

I would have liked to have read the entire article.

It is SOOO obvious that the Crowley “fact check” was coordinated with Obama in advance.

At: :14 Romney starts he statement about how Obama did not call the attack terrorism.

At :29 Obama smugly tells Romney to proceed.

At :38 Obama tells Crowley “Get the transcript!”

At: :39 (possibly before the word transcript even completely leaves Obama’s mouth) Crowley states “he did infact”

Do you blame leftist thugs for being leftist thugs, or do you blame the RNC for allowing 100% leftist moderators ?

From an interview after the debate, Crowley said,
“I, sort of, reread a lot of stuff about Libya because I knew we’d probably get a Libya question so I kind of wanted to be up on it,” said Crowley.

Probably??? Probably a question about Libya? She chose the questions. That's a strange thing to say.

I became quite frightened when I saw this headline. Suddenly, images of a second Chicxulub crater and the extinction of mankind came into my head.

I can see Candy Crowley from my front porch.

Hilarious #62!

#23 Not Fat & Furious but

Fat & Fatuous

CNN explains the transcript: This was posted here yesterday, by ketchuplover.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/10/cnn-explains.php

I believe that BO was talking to CC when he said, 'Get the transcript...Could you say that a little louder Candy?'. Why would he tell MR to get the transcript if he already knew that CC had it ready and waiting?

Rose Garden speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nu6VZ9DeVc

BO on how our country 'respects all faiths and that we reject all efforts to denigrate the faiths of others', which seems to refer to the anti-muslim video. At the end he says, 'no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation', not specifically that this was an act of terrorism. IMO

The original question about Benghazi was, "...Who denied enhanced security, and why?" Obama's answer was irrelevant and Crowley had the irrelevant transcript to back him up. I'd like to know how she knew what he would answer and why would she have the transcript for the irrelevant answer.

I believe "get the transcript" was aimed at Romney. That still doesn't excuse Crowley's botching the exchange.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCNd5DutF4c

Any one with half a brain knows this already. My friend and her family I consider total idiots in regards to politics. They do not follow any politics and they voted for Obama. She does not pay attention at all to current events at all and lives in a bubble. Interestingly enough her and her family are a bit racist, but also they believe what the Tee Vee tells them. When I think of how Obama won, I think of her.

Referring to my earlier comment. I now see she waved a paper at Obama when he said to check the transcript.

#58, if you will email me, I'll copy and paste the article to you.

'get the transcript'.....yeah, and right on target she had it.....how did she know this would come up???? And still, they had to lie! That dame should resign and change her first name.....eye candy she ain't!

#40, Republican tolerance of the inequities proves the simple "fact" that they're stupid. It's the cowardly dogma your cohorts and all progs believe. They truly live in an echo chamber, it explains how the Obama campaign could pull such outrageous behavior. Sure, there's a huge stink being raised by the right but most progs are totally unaware.

I haven't gone back to look at the actual transcript of the debate, but my impression of this exchange was that after Romney came back with the "let me get this straight" line and Obama had his scary eyes lasered on him, did he not say.. "Candy" first.. then Romney was still in his speech, and O said again right away.. "Candy" again followed by, "get the transcript". He was talking at the same time as Romney, so it was kind of hard to hear, but I was pretty clear in that Obama was directing Crowley when the question was brought up, to get it. They knew it would be brought up.. SHE picked the questions. Of course she didnt know if they would get to it, (they buried it late in the debate, Im sure hoping to run out of time), but no mistaking that she would be prepared anyway. I just wonder what other "facts" she had at her ready to dispute either candidate. Having the chance to ask follow-up questions was her agreement before the debate. If I remember correctly, this was changed a couple days before the debate and not the norm for this town hall style.

Did any undecided women notice how Obama dismissively ordered Candy to get the transcript ?
" Get the transcript , Candy ! "
made Obama sound like a misogynist used
to treating women like servants.
Romney , because he is a gentleman and also used to dealing with women in a professional work environment ,
would never have ordered Crowley around like that.
The story that millions saw on for themselves
while watching
the debate was Obama's hyperactivity and snarky nastiness,
his inability to answer questions ,
his high pitched , unmanly voice which signaled desperation and his beady snake eyes.
If the executives at CNN had any ethics ( ha ! ) ,
Crowley would be suspended .
Instead they have gushed over Crowley and excused her terrible behavior by saying Obama speaks slowly
( stuttering and uuuuhhhs ),
that's why Crowley had to give him more time.
Does CNN understand that by labeling Obama a slow talker , they reinforce that he requires a time handicap.
In other words , he's not too bright.
Paging Chris Matthews.
If FOX moderated a debate and
one of their anchors behaved the way Crowley did -cutting off Romney 28 times vs 9 times for Obama ,
acting as Obama's teleprompter ,
giving him more time,
refusing to let Romney answer questions,
always giving Obama the last word on any subject and
selecting moron questions-
that alone would get them suspended for unprofessional conduct.
But, actually helping a presidential candidate answer a question
by presenting fraudulent information
would definitely get them fired.
By just by FOX.
CNN will probably promote Crowley.

The presidnetial debate #2 moderated by
Meatloaf.

#73 wrote: "If the executives at CNN had any ethics ( ha ! ), Crowley would be suspended. Instead they have gushed over Crowley and excused her terrible behavior"

Save your breath. CNN is going to the mat for Creepy Crawly (h/t hillbuzz) If this doesn't change the debate landscape forever, I give up and the Republicans deserve whatever they get.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219402/Candy-Crowley-CNN-chief-praises-moderator-superb-job-Obama-Romney.html

Yes, WHY did she have the transcript ready and waiting????? Poor Mitt was in a den of snakes. God please protect him. He's winning and they will say and do anything to hurt him.

WHY DO THE REPUBLICANS KEEP ALLOWING THE LIBS TO SET THESE DEBATES UP FOR THEIR ADVANTAGE??

Posting in ALL CAPS is considered shouting. Don't do it here. LCom Staff.

Now they're saying Barry got more time to talk because he talks more slowly. Sure sounds like a racist comment to me.

"Get the transcript" sounds like something an office pit bull would bark at some poor thing from the typing pool.

Duh Wun showed his true colors about the way he views women. There to do his bidding. He's been carried around on a silver platter all his life by women, hidden behind women, and basically resents them for it.

Bet you Mitt doesn't order Ann around like that, or any other woman.

I'm with poster # 42!

can we stop with the fat references. I would hope we can express our opinions in a civil manner. I think we are better than than that. It makes us sound like the Daily Kos folks.

I think they need to change these debate structures. Make it simple:

1. Only two debates

2. Each candidate picks the moderator, place, format and audience.

Simple!

PS.... I wouldn't of been surprised to see Candy rush over to Obama, kneel down and kiss his ring after the debate. These people are sickening!

First, Candy, go on a diet, theee-ennnnnn, get the transcript!

People saw exactly what was going on: A pathetic president who had to be bailed out by the moderator and couldn't go toe-to-toe like a man against Romney. That means anyone who needs help in a lousy debate really shouldn't be leading the free world. Romney smacks him down AGAIN!

just get out and vote. I live in MD and will still vote, I have few referendums to kill. can't wait for the medi meltdown.

it's about time for a October surprise the media will do whatever is needed when it happens.

I am amazed at the conspiracy mongering on this particular debate exchange - an exchange, which to me, Romney clearly won at the time, Crowley or no Crowley.

One other thing, at the moment Romney is widening his lead. It will narrow again before the election, so don't panic, it's the nature of these polls.

Broken glass people. Romney landslide. Romney Illinois.

#1, I thought the same thing at first glance. LOL!

I never want to see her ugly partisan face again.

The reason Romney was so perplexed during this particular part of the debate was because Obama and Crowley had obviously conspired to create a "gotcha" moment to trap him. How else would Crowley have been able to so quickly declare Barry correct? How would she have known that the president was going pull this bit of trivial semantics our of his rear end? They both knew their roles and they played them.

I am absolutely convinced that this was planned in advance by Crowley and the administration. Anyone who's read any of the exchanges from the now-defunct "Journolist" knows that many reporters actively seek advice from Democratic operatives on how to attack conservatives.

This bit of contrived theater was every bit as shameful as what Dan Rather tried to do to George W. Bush.

It was reported somewhere that Crowley spent some time at the White House before the debate, possibly a tutoring session. The flub-up on the terror question gives that away, Obie and Candy outsmarted themselves trying to spring the trap too quickly. It's just too bad that most people are too stupid to have picked that up and just saw Obama as a wise and tricky debater. But then if those same people weren't so stupid, he wouldn't have been in the White House in the first place.

agree w the article. Crowley episode is another in the sequence of exploding cigars that has been the Obama campaign, where each tactical victory becomes a vaster loss. Yet to be seen, again too late, is how all the flattery the WH has demanded of the media has itself contributed to Obama's defeat, never letting him see his position clearly. Flattery is more dangerous than persecution. Too late now.

After seeing the new Gallup poll, if it is anywhere near accurate, Romney now holding a 7% lead, and Romney now holding an electoral college lead, Obie is done and Moochelle should start packing for Chicago. Good riddance.

This reminds me also of when I think it was Lahane, that pulled the DWI out on George W. Bush three days before the election. That offended me greatly.

Who in their right mind would EVER watch CNN?

Our guys get CROWLEY'D there all the time! Who wants to see that? Watch Fox when you can stand it and stay here reading on Lucianne. One more silly debate, then...

Romney 53%
LIAR 47%

Looking forward to:

1)Money market interest increase.
2)401K value increase.
3)Better returns on investments.
4)Value of home and property increasing.
5)Traditions being honored again.
6)Our standing in the world improving.
7)Our enemies on the run.

Yes, We can! And thank God we'll relegate that Indonesian liar and his mooch wife back to the south side of Chi ca-ca....where they belong!

Evidently, Obama panicked, probably because Candy didn't 'get the transcript' quickly enough, and felt he had to prompt her. It's obvious to a blind person that there was collusion.
Am I the only one who can see this? I don't think so.

Fat biker chick boosts skinny weasel out of a jam. Without his media enablers, what would the Empty Chair be?

PS. I have no sympathy for the GOP, they should have boycotted the debate farce long ago. No moderators. No media people. A time keeper with a mute switch. Hold them on C-Span. This has been going on since Nixon. Man up, GOP and say Enough.

She was biased. She may have had Obama talking points. She cut off Mr Romney many more times than she did Obama. She interjected herself into help Obama and her points were incorrect, but she only retracted that point the next day. Furthermore, of had been paying attention, she would have known that Obama did Not answer certain questions he was asked. He just rambled. She should have made him answer the questions, such as why the security was pulled from the Libyan city where the terror attack occurred. She presented a partisan moderator and since she represented CNN, she should be put on suspension until she can trained to present a fair/balanced neutral position.If CNN wishes to post the fact they they are in fact a left wing media outlet, then that is a different story. In that case, they would finally be telling the truth.

Look all around the edges for other perspective. Although, I would like to know why she went to the White House and what was said. a date with the most powerful man on earth might goes to a girls head.

She had some paper and some have suggested the obama camp provided her transcripts (I wouldn't kick a dog on the evidence of a partisan/participant provided transcript)--remember the Birth Certificate which names obama's father where the name on original is probably "unknown".)

What was really telling in body language and her response was his appeal to her and her facilitating him. It was the connection of her obedience to a superior in the human hierarchy that was telling. Subtle but instinctive more than coordinated between the two liberals in advance IMO.

Her own self interest would have been to do it up right as a journalist. But she responded to his cue/appeal as a female or friend.

Mesmerized and utilized. He tried the same on Raddatz.