CNN's Candy Crowley adopts McCain's position on Public Financing: Omits McCain's FEC violations
By John Amato Sunday Apr 13, 2008 2:10pm
McCain's Media back in action. Did Crowley take a John McCain press release and develop this segment based on their talking points? This clip is from last Friday.
John McCain is in violation of the FEC's public financing laws because he has signed up for it, has received money from it, procured a loan to help his primary and then went over the limit. Read here for more details. Crowley could have told you that McCain wouldn't have had the money to produce ads in New Hampshire to win that primary without the loan. We might be talking about the Mitt Romney nomination right now. And we need to look at the bank loan more closely. The DNC has filed a complaint about it to the FEC. Plus, Jane and the blogoshere have filed a complaint against McCain's campaign as well with over 32,000 signatures being delivered already. Wouldn't you think that we be part of her story? Nope. Instead she does a hit job on Obama who made no such commitment.
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She makes sure to frame it as if Obama is waffling out of it when McCain has his hands dirty in every way.
Remember, Obama only checked a survey box, but Candy doesn't tell her audience that. I'll repeat this again. John McCain actually agreed to public financing when his campaign was in trouble, borrowed money to keep it going before he won the nomination and now has spent well beyond the guidelines for which he received a stern letter from the FEC's David Mason. Obama doesn't need to opt out because he never signed on. I'm sure McCain was giving his staff high fives over Crowley's report. A job well done. Full transcript below the fold.
CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SR. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, since the system for public financing of presidential campaigns was put into place in the post-Watergate era, no major presidential campaign has ever opted out. The question is whether this year will be the exception.
CROWLEY (voice-over): Barack Obama, who has raised more than $230 million so far, no longer sounds like a candidate who'd take the paltry $84 million he'd get out of the public campaign finance system.
SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think that it is creeky and needs to be reformed if it's going to work.
CROWLEY: Public financing of campaigns was designed to take big money influence out of politics. It's funded by that $3 check box on income tax forms. In a written survey late last year, Obama said he'd take public financing if his opponent did. But that was before he became fundraising king. Now he talks about how he has a kind of de facto system of his own.
OBAMA: We know that the check-off system has been declining in participation. And as a consequence, the amount of money raised through the public financing system may be substantially lower than the amount of money that can be raised through small donations, which presents candidates then with some pretty tough decisions in terms of how they want to move forward, if they want to compete in as many states as possible.
CROWLEY: Actually, just under half of Obama's donations came from people giving $200 or less.
John McCain, whose own fundraising pales in comparison to Obama's, says he'll take public funding, and he uses Obama's hesitation as a campaign issue. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The fact is that he's saying one thing and he's doing the other. I mean, that's indisputable.
The piece of paper is there. He didn't talk about having discussions about third parties and all that when he committed to saying that he would take public financing if the Republican nominee did. I'm the presumptive Republican nominee. I will take public financing. Keep your word to the American people.
CROWLEY: Actually, though Obama did check "yes" on that survey, he added a caveat. "If I am the Democratic nominee," he wrote, "I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election." That is a meeting Obama says he still wants to have.
CROWLEY: The McCain campaign says he is committed to taking public financing for his campaign. Nonetheless, the door seems to be just a bit ajar in case McCain's opponent opts out -- Wolf.
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under this repig bitchers fat .beats a heart of gold!
We should remember that Candy sued CNN for firing her because of several issues at the time. One was obesity and not rightfully a firing offense except for the fashion police. No one wants to look at her, but someone stupid at CNN said so once and caused a ruckus.
CNN is blackmailed by this person pretending to be a newsie. She keeps her job as a result of a lawsuit. Newsies have "contracts" that they get to appear on so many shows, say so many outrageous things each year, and every single aspect of their on air persona is strictly scripted.
this is a perfect example of what all news people are, contract bit players for a corporation. They are actors, nothing more and nothing less.
Most of the excess tonnage on this cow is from gorging at the McCain BBQ trough. What a nasty piece of work.
You guys are so politically partison you can't see straight anymore. I think your entire perspective is tilted as far left as Rush and Co. are right. I listen to Rush to get mad at the right and read this site to get mad at the left. I hope the moderates end up running this country in '08.
Crazy. Lieing by omission. SOP. I can't figure out why people, any people would want another 4 years of Bush. try as I might, there is no rationalization for it. Sure, he's corporate friendly and everything, but these reporters are people too. In fact, they probably see more of the unseemly side of McCain than we plebs, so how are they able to keep on riding the McCain bone rollercoaster?
President McCain. :-(
Get used to it.
me @ 4:
So you like to be mad?
Once upon a time we could depend on CNN for real journalism.
Once upon a time we could depend on NPR for real journalism.
Once upon a time ...
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me @ 4:
True, the problem is that you can't get the moderates to do anything. Everything is 'Meh'. However, dangle a gay person in front of a rightwinger and they'll stuff envelopes, cold call people and make crappy picket signs for free... some may even pay for the opportunity. You can't get that kind of blind fervor out of a moderate whose philosophy is "Live and let live." Moderates can't win without pandering to the extremists, pushing their platform further off-center.
McCain must've sent her a big box of donuts.
me @ 4:
you aint seen nothing yet fella!!!im for the death penalty!!!
Boy, I wonder if Candy sent McCrazy a dozen donuts too.
pissed off patricia @ 7:
you crack me up. thanks patricia, i had a great laugh.
casper46 @ 13:
that's an easy question......duh NO!
me @ 4:
But who is that? Myself, I'd settle on voting for an adult(s).
And anyway, what's the danger of being too lefty? I guess you mean (and I'd agree, in theory) that if one is too anything, one loses the ability to hear new ideas or give an opponent's opinions weight, but if there is anything inherently bad in being too left, I'd like to hear it.
It's sorta true, though:
Rush Limbaugh is in my mind such bloviating idiot that if he told me the sky was blue I'd immediately run out to verify that it had just turned red. That's just regarding him, but I can see myself getting just as whacked about the average conservative; Hannity would another. Gotta watch that...
casper46 @ 13:
Yeah, and she played ring toss if you get my drift!
Another case of RWI = Reporting While Ignorant. CNN has built up quite an impressive record on this front. This report would make Glenn Beck proud.
You know what GUYS, her weight is not the issue here, it's her reporting. Every woman, everywhere is not about whether you would hit that.
In the same way I didn't care whether Bill slept with an intern, I don't care if a reporter is fat or ugly or beautiful.....it is irrelevant to my world. I care about slanted reporting that is going to affect the voting (and this was subversive - you had to know the situation to understand what she was leaving out). When you talk about her weight, you really don't make the case - in fact, you just muddy the validity.
After ALL the bushit of the past 7+ years, the lame street media continues to carry water for the RNC.
Absolutely pa-thet-ic!
UGH! The media has gotten so lazy its absolutely pathetic. Edward R. Murrow must be rolling over in his grave at the state of our media today...fourth estate my arse! The only estate they know is the retirement home: shady acres.
Gotta run with that "eilitist" narrative. Candy Crowley (and her bosses) are disgusting.
I said it before but I can't wait for Obama to debate that hopelessly confused old Cobb.
Truth and facts are like cryptonite to McSame.
me @ 4:
Your correct but then again that is what this website is about and Mr. Amato has said it clearly in the commenting terms (see below). I always keep that in mind when I comment. Now, you may not agree with the point of view on this or any other story but its worth keeping in mind that this is still the authors' point of view that is being presented.
"C&Lis a personal site. It is not the Government. It is not public institution or a media organization. It is not a neutral site. It is intended to express and disseminate the authors’ point of view. It reserves the right to limit comments to those that, in its view, comport with its stated comment policy. Comments that do not comply are subject to deletion and banning of the author’s ISP. "
The fix is in. And crowley and the MSM are
an integral part of it. Just like 2000 and 2004 all over again.
We will have a "bush" 3rd term - or at least he will be around as long as that cancer-riddled body and brain of mccain lasts. BTW, watch to see who pappy bush selects as mccain's running mate, as that person will be president before too long.
Jill Bryant @ 19:
i totally agree with you and everyone seems to be addressing this by doing
just as she is, "muddy the validity" of her reporting by re-directing the issue.
Just another member of the press blowing McCain, by not reporting accurately what is happening.
McCain accepts public financing, overspends by a few million, no mention by this reporter.
Obama does not accept publicfinancing, but somehow he's the crook.
Have I got that right?
Goddamn our media.
Ex-Canuck @ 25:
McCain/(Jeb) Bush? teh Horrorz!!!
me @ 4:
Don't get an ulcer.
Wapo Fred did the same number in an editorial this a.m., seems not to think McCain violating laws is worth noticing, but Obama is a big problem for not keeping the agreement that McCain didn't.
"Strange that only Mr. Obama's practices, not Mr. McCain's are the object of concern. Law breaking by GOP candidates, it would seem, is so standard a practice that is assumed in any campaign."
see http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2008/04/free-trade-fraud.html Part II.
StevePam @ 23:
It is the debates where we will see the real McCain and no amount of public financing is going to help him when that time arrives.
Are all these talking heads on the Republican payroll? Between the run-up to the war, to the Kerry bashing and now kissing McCain's ass. WTH! I remember a segment when Candy asked "Why are the Democrats losers." And that was before 2006. If it weren't for Keith O or Stewart and Cobert, I'd probably end it all.
Ex-Canuck @ 25:
I still say it'll be Jeb.
Ex-Canuck @ 25:
Remember where Romney was when he made his speech about his religion and who introduced him that day. They said at the time it meant nothing, but I'm not so sure of that.
And @ 5:
They're told what to report on by an establishment that boils down to Wall Street. That's where the real bias comes in: what is and is not reported. People like Candy Crowley then spin things even further to the right.
It's rightward spin on pro-corporate content.
Dr. Acula @ 20:
Quid pro quo. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Ugly people should not be shown in tight shots unless they're actually smart or qualified or honest.
If Americans cant set aside their petty differences long enough to ensure this NeoCon nightmare ( MC Same included ) is over ? Then you deserve everything thats coming your way. Sad but true. Hillary isn't perfect. Either is Obama but they are both obviously better than Flip Flop Sidney. Mc Cain is a pandering old fool. He will gladly serve up another generation of US kids as fodder for bullshit war and he will bend over to Corpmerica to hand them whatever BushCo already hasn't stolen off the middle class. Come on folks. Save yourselves and your democracy first off from the Zionists and Neo Scum. You can get back to the petty partisan backbiting and bitching later on. Sending the GOP back to shit house of history where they belong HAS TO BE Job #1. Isn't that rather obvious ? Im sure it is to most regulars here.
I think the media wants a war with the TRUE Americans in this country.
They think they tell us what to do and we do it.
There are 10s of millions who are sick of this...they need to pay heed.
They are only as powerful,credible or relevent as we let them be.
This election will be a determining factor.IMHO If Obama wins inspite of the media bias and crazy crushes on
McSaidnothingreally, this proves the MSM has lost power and influence.
What do we need to do to burst the media/McLame bubble?
Send copies of 'Free Ride' to every MSM journalist?
That and a box of frickin' sprinkle doughnuts?
http://www.amazon.com/Free-Ride-John-McCain-Media/dp/0307279405/ref=sr_1...
I just heard on tv that Rush has joined McCain and Clinton in bashing Obama as an elitist. Nice trio, huh?
Obama said today since Clinton and McCain have been in the loop of DC politics for so long it seems funny they should say that he is the one who is out of touch with the average American.
Oy, Debates; Joe 31;
after the debate there will be no choice but to have another terrawrist attack. when people see how age related dementia can rack a person's mind, the shooter is going to have to find a reason to stop the elections. there is no way to fix a 70/30 landslide. only the serious war profiteer/traitor could still vote for a vegetable.
Candy has had a rough time since the Muppets were cancelled.
me @ 4:
So basically you can get mad at a bigoted jackass like Limbaugh, who pulls shit out of his arse in a manipulative and propagandist way that would make the combined love child of Goebbles and Pravda blush.
But if we get mad at it, that makes you mad too.
Your logical dissonance is deafening. And if you think that this blog is representative of leftist ideals, I have an advice for you: do not travel abroad to places like Europe. It seems that a place with a healthy liberal movement or dissenting opinions in general doesn't agree to well with your stomach.
Repub Confectioner Correspondent Candy once again earns her place in today's MSM.
Col Kilgore @ 37:
It is to this regular. No way in hell I would not vote in this election. No way in hell I would vote for McCain. I will vote for the democratic nominee.
Candy is introducing her new line of cologne.
Doughnut.
What a tough situation for CNN. I'd buy her out. If she could report her way out of a wet bag it might be different, but shes the defining model of MSM stenographer. Lazy, egotistical, and indifferent.
Joe O. @ 31:
In all fairness, Boosh managed to screw most of his debates in 2000 and 2004. And it didn't matter much, did it?
I guess that the spin the media will give once McInsain fuse goes off in one of the debates will be that "the smug uppity elitist negro mistreated the affable old nice old man to the point of breaking his spirit. Something that the evil commies in Vietnam were not able to do, shame on Obama... what an ungrateful bastard!"
So it will be a double whammy: Obama mistreats the elderly AND the vets.
I thought the outdated campaign finance fund program was to help a candidates that are not able to raise a lot of funds from contributers. Why would anyone want to go there if they did not need the funds other than to rip the taxpayer off. I would think that McCain would want to back off on this issue.
CNN = Politics
i couldn't think of a better insult for this bullshit station. and they hold it up as a badge of honor.
when we need investigative journalism, and those who speak truth to power, we get this failure of a network. this is what we need, it is what democracy needs, but this is not what cnn peddles. they are politics: in their choice of what to cover/not cover.
indeed, CNN is political... in their maneuvering, posturing and manipulation
Eric Hussein Almighty @ 36:
What do you mean, nothing to see here? She took up the whole screen.
Ms. Crowley's face should be banned from the public airwaves.She belongs in horror movies.
Crappy News - Crappy News - even more Crappy News
oldtree @ 41:
Agreed. McCain is lacking in so many areas that appeal to the broader Conservative base that he could very well shut them out totally in disgust. The moderates also could venture away from him simply because he appears to be just as you stated. There are many things money can buy but natural leadership ability and appealing ideas that capture a large swath of voters are not among them.
me @ 4:
If you listen to Rush (Limbaugh, not the excellent prog-rock band that existed way before he did), you are by definition a right-winger. Nobody with an independent brain listens to that spew.
There is no moderate, there is no centrism. There is only caving to the right wing.
Here's an example of those in the media trying to make themselves important. Last week when Petraeus was talking to the Senate, MSNBC cut away to Norah O'Donald and Norah proceeded to tell us what we had just heard Petraeus say. It was as though she thought she had to translate his words so we poor illiterate could understand his message.
Are all the reporters on CNN hired by Faux Noise and just spread their lies and falsehood??
Bill B @ 52:
As should Carville & Matalin.
Candy Crowley is John McCain's illegitimate daughter.
The one he had with Janet Reno.
pissed off patricia @ 40:
The axis of evil....3 elitists calling a Obama....ahahahahahaha...stop your killing me.....hahahaha!
I don't think ANYONE who makes a difference believes this non-story rubbish.
Why can't we talk about a way to make the cost of borrowing money more reasonable...the housing crisis has VERY little to do with the actual cost of the home.
It has more to do with the outrageous cost of financing.Fix the problem and we have a boom.
Same goes for the auto industry.If lenders come up with a fair system of interest rates we will have a boom.
So what do the repugs do?
Cut taxes for the rich and
bail out the lenders.
Dr. Acula @ 58:
Do you ever get the feeling we are subjected to these absurd people because, deep down, the MSM really hates all of us, left and right?
The Dude @ 48:
That is true. The debates didn't matter back in 2000 and 2004 because Bush had all of the Conservative vote in lock step. He basically had a broad base of support even before he approached the debates. Now, the Conservatives are much more fragmented and McCain is already seen as a "Liberal" on many issues by those same voters. Contrast that to say an Obama that commands the same support that Bush once did.
Dr. Acula @ 58:
bingo
Obama is at the associated press meeting as we pound away at our keyboards.
Dun nuh nuh,
Boom boom boom boom
Bang, Swoosh, Bong
Dun nuh nuh
McCain is an idiot!
Dun nuh nuh nuh
I added sound effects so the fox viewers could hold their attention through all four words of my comment. I also have a new campain slogan to get fox viewers to vote for Barack:
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, Obama!
Ron @ 64:
I hope he brought sprinkle doughnuts for all the repeaters..
Well I have to say, something good has come out of all the bullshit the msm has been doing as of late. It got me to stop watching any of them, and I feel a hell of alot better.
goat hussein sage @ 66:
He did but Candy Crowley got to them before anyone else could get one.
Joe O. @ 62:
It's a different world now compaired to 2000,this is a post 5-1-03 world.
The repubs have sustained alot of damage since '04.
Not to mention the awakening of the American voter becoming a movement!
I sent CNN an email (usually let it pass, but this POS really ticked me off) as soon as it aired.
Again, the "best team in
politics" hacking up fur-balls.Kyle @ 65:
Thank you...that was AWSOME! lmao
StevePam @ 69:
And the msm is doing everything in their power, to make sure the American voter goes back to sleep before Nov.
diamondmc @ 72:
StevePam@73: I hope like hell your right.
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StevePam @ 69:
Awakening of the American voter? Surely you are joking. The middle class has been screwed over by both the Democrats and Republicans since the early 70's. Because they will likely vote democrat this time around they are awakened? C'mon! Take a step back. Do not fall for the 'two options' BS that the msm is selling. You can choose someone who is not under corporate control. Seriously, you can. When people realize that we can call it an 'awakening'.
wasn't there a report recently that showed that ALL major cable news services numbers were DOWN from a year ago? YES!
Well, Candystriper and her Naysaying Nitwits are simply strengthening the case of those who rail against cable news. Since I don't watch that crap, I have NO PROBLEM.
I'm glad to come th C&L, Kos, Buzzflash, Rawstory, et al, for the latest WTF moments these arseholes produce. That keeps my motor running.
Her name says Candy but her face says brussel sprouts.
Why does McShitstain bother to pay for advertising when all of the propaganda networks are actively donating airtime as they campaign for him? I would really like to be appointed to run the FCC in the next administration. It would be these guys' worst nightmare: imagine an FCC that actually upheld its trust to the people, instead of operating as a sleazy cathouse for the handful of corporations that now effectively controll all mass-consumed "information". I'd need secret service protection.
campaign financing is a total joke all around. Politicians are all bought and sold by bif whigs and corporations and I don't care which one your talking about..
Kyle @ 76:
Come back to the real world, this is America, the land of the two party system. I for one will not waste my vote again like the last time. There is no third party or real leftwing movement here. There is a differance between another four more years of necon repugs and either dem.
McCain used his pledge of accepting public financing to get on the ballot in Ohio and several other states in lieu of the appropriate signed petitions which violated the campaign laws.
abob @ 75:
can this racist shit be deleted, site monitor?
[Funny how the 'fat-ist' stuff he did in this and a previous post escaped your notice-but I totally agree. Thank you for pointing it out. There's no need for either-Sitemonitor]
It's a different world now compaired to 2000,this is a post 5-1-03 world.
The repubs have sustained alot of damage since '04.
Not to mention the awakening of the American voter becoming a movement!
Awakening of the American voter? Surely you are joking. The middle class has been screwed over by both the Democrats and Republicans since the early 70's. Because they will likely vote democrat this time around they are awakened? C'mon! Take a step back. Do not fall for the 'two options' BS that the msm is selling. You can choose someone who is not under corporate control. Seriously, you can. When people realize that we can call it an 'awakening'.
Come back to the real world, this is America, the land of the two party system. I for one will not waste my vote again like the last time. There is no third party or real leftwing movement here. There is a differance between another four more years of necon repugs and either dem.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/09...
I am in the real world. Stop choosing the lesser of two evils before we return to the fuedal system. The two-party system was created to keep you where you are, more specifically to keep those on top where they are. James Madison was no hero, more of a villian. Read up on Noam Chomsky. Learn something outside of your high school american history class. You might be surprised what you find out about the birth of your nation and the federal reserve and the many other ways the elites win your voluntary control.
Ron @ 68:
Well, Obama's donuts are wasted.
IT'S GOING TO GET WORSE FROM NOW ON NOW THAT MURDOCH IS ON THE BOARD AT AP
CINDY CRAWLEY...
....WHEN OBAMA IS PRESIDENT HERE IS ONE BITCH WHO WON'T BE IN THE PRESS ROOM
She isn't by any chance the spawn of Alistair Crowley, is she?
Site monitor,
thanx for the response.
I'll try to broaden my scan for more -isms.
If you want to do a cleanup in aisle 83, I have no objections.
I should have clipped out the 'donuts reference.
Col Kilgore @ 37:
I am totally down with what you are saying until you talk about Zionists. You start sounding like a weird conspiracy theorist/anti-semite at that point. Aside from that, I am totally behind you, my man.
pissed off patricia @ 34:
Actually Patricia I do not remember as I missed that event. Please remind all of us..
Thanks,
- Ex
Kyle @ 76:
No because of the record breaking numbers...duh!
That IS the awakening and if you don't see it you must still be fast asleep.
Vote for Nader or write yourself in I couldn't care less.
Kyle @ 65:
NICE!!
K, people...she threw in the caveat Obama added to his survey at the end of the report, can we give her a break?
Is Candy any relation?
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/aleister_crowley.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHcaIJETZo
So was the video report supposed to be about McCain? It seems that it was only ever intended to be about Obama. Also, Candy (good stripper name) said that no major party candidate for President has ever refused public funding - didn't the illustrious W. avoid public financing in both his campaigns? Or am I mistaken?
StevePam @ 91:
Ya, but they are still voting for candidates that are owned by corporate interests. Everyone on this site hates the mainstream media but somehow loves a mainstream candidate. I understand they are a lot more people drinking the kool-aid than four years ago.
The middle class's percentage share of America's wealth has been decreasing since the early '70s at an alarming rate. Since then Republicans and Democrates have each kept this thing going. You lose either choice. The only way to win is to realize that not just donkeys and elephants can be president.
I cannot stand that woman. Her and Cokie Roberts. They would both turn porter sour!
Kyle @ 96:
And you're not? Repugs would just love enough people to vote for Nader or some pie in the sky guy, and then we can have four more years of war, murder, torture and freedoms taken away. Alot of us learned our lesson after eight years of bush. I'm willing to take a small step in the right direction, instead of staying the course.
Why would anyone who weighs three hundred pounds deliberately go by the name of Candy?
She has been assimilated. Along with most of her colleagues.
Wasn't she in Wilson Phillips? Good point, Pechorin (@99), would she be credible going by "Ricecakes Crowley"? Fat chance...
Anyway, people, save yourself the time and trouble and avoid CNN and Faux.
This sounds like a violation of the (ZOMGWTFBBQROFLMAO)...
... McCain-Feingold bill.
Why does anyone bother watching the corporate owned and controlled media?
They are just a pack of good little nazi's busy doing the bidding of their masters, you know the ones with the dollar bills they keep bying these low life scumbags with, money can buy anything any of these people have. They prove it every day!
redestructionist @ 89:
I apologize if my Zionist reference offended you but the fact does remain that they are out there and have their own agenda which has little to do with the welfare of either America or Israel. I wish Joe Lieberman was a Canadian Rastafarian so we could openly call him what he is which is a selfish pandering prick who don't give 2 shits about America or Americans in general. The right have been able to frame that debate as racist or anti Semite when the bottom line is that Joe is just a plain and simple prick and Howard Dean should grow a pair and cut his ass loose on principal so he can go off and blow Mc Cain in the open. The GOP have taken the party first thing to new and ugly heights but Lieberman falls right off the other end of the scale. I hope MC Cain is nuts enough to think Holy Joe is a good running mate so Joe gets his traitorous ass stomped rightly come November too. That would make me very very happy. I played on a lot of teams in my youth but would never tolerate a team mate who thought it was a better idea for the other team to win.
There must be a presidential election -John Candy Crowley, after a 4 year sleep, has emerged from her cave once again to push the Republican nominee.
My theory is she's hoping he'll give her a dougnut.
Someone, anyone, should simply tie a feedbag around this swine called 'candy' crowley that has RNC stenciled to both it's side and then parade the swine around on tv .. that would say it all. Yet, beyond the swine stands CNN itself and evil secretions like Lou Dobbs who pretends to be a 'populist' while investing his millions into yet another stock scheme and hires 'illegals' to tend to his daughters riding horses. Who sits there and tears down Obama over his accurate 'bitter' comments and calls Obama, of all things, an 'elitist'. And there is that fucking corporate nazi called Blizter , like a orchestra conductor, co-ordinating the corporate created 'media narratives' who intention is to do all they can to destroy any Democrat so that the Repiglicans/Corporations can stay in power and sustain a government BY AND FOR THE FEW: GREED. Which comes right back to the swine called Crowley and her greed manifested in the feedbag itself and she snivels about never being full enough.
me @ 4:
That's what we need. Moderates like Harry Reid to battle the neocon hordes. Go back to listening to Rush, you still don't get it!!
Yes, so how does I Ate Too Much Candy Crowley deal with the DNC lawsuit you have a post below on?
Email CNN. This link will take you to an email web page for The Situation Room on which this person reported this.
Anyone who thinks they are going to allow Obama to become president is a fool.
I swear every time I hear her, I am convinced she is doing McCain. Eeeh!!!!
Ponder @ 112:
What "they" are we talking about here? The people under the stairs? The Man (probably not- that's singular)? The Tri-Lateral Commission? Major League Baseball? The Men in Black? The True Atlanteans? The Gnomes of Zurich? Vampires? Werewolves? Who, exactly?
Candy Crowly is a joke. Always has been.
Joanie @ 111:
In all fairness, as the sitemonitor pointed out, it is another -ism and should not be part of the discourse. Ever. And yes, she works for CNN the ConArtist NotReally News, so there's no longer any expectation of truth or journalism from her. We have this case in point.
Candy was hoodwinked by the same guy who told Andrea Mitchell he would make her look like she was 30 again. Who do they think they are fooling? When is too old too old?
Around our house we call Candy Crowley "the Love Boat". Think about it.
Candy Crowley is a POS!!! Any candidate she covers gets beat at election time because of the negative association they have of the candidate with her nasty, lame ass. That is why John Kerry lost.
StevePam @ 23:
You and I will know that Obama has won a debate, but the media will paint a different picture and just enough rubes will buy it. We saw it happen in '00 and '04 and there's no reason to believe it won't happen in '08. There's no worse debater on EARTH than George W. Bush, but you'd never have known it to listen to the pundits afterwards.
oldtree @ 2:
I know, like rodeo clowns but with more money.
Give Me Convenience @ 95:
No, I think she said just the opposite. No candidate has ever taken up the offer.
Well, I hope McCain paid her at least. Better a prostitute than a whore.
CNN = Corporate News Network
Pechorin @ 99:
Etta Candy?
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Dumbing down of American journalism. Seriously, do journalists investigate or read before commenting (not reporting) on television? The terms of McCain's loan to save his primary run has been in every major newspaper and on-line for months. It's not a secret and yet, these journalists seem to know nothing about it. It's not like this is an "option" for McCain. He may be legally bound to public financing whereas neither of the Democratic candidates are. It's like they spend more time checking their makeup and pontificating than actually working as journalists. Uggh.
casper46 @ 13:
No. She was eating them before they even reached McShame.
Atta girl,Candy! Mmmmoooooooooooo!
She definitely repulses me in a cheap old whore kind of way.....
When she was born the doctor slapped her mother.
This post had a point until you all turned it into a fat-bashing party. Way to completely negate the validity of your opinions, everyone!
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