Oh joy oh joy: Candy CROWLEY to be first woman moderator of presidential debates

[UTUSN]

What, will her soulmate Haley BARBOUR be feeding her the questions?!1 Martha RADDATZ will do the VP.

[WI_DEM]

1. Not the first, but the first in 20 years

while I'm not too excited about her it's about time they included women moderators again. A much better selection would have been Solodad O'Brien.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. +1

[goclark]

42. Rachel would wear them out!

[WCGreen]

2. Candy Crowley is the most biased person on CNN....

and that says a lot...

[darkangel218]

8. How is she biased?

I kind of like her, but I must admit I haven't got the chance to watch much tv lately, so i might be wrong

[mfcorey1]

16. Yes, you are definitely wrong. She has never seen a republican that she didn't

love or would not cover for.

[catbyte]

17. You must have missed her plotzing all over herself after Ryan was announced

It wasn't pretty.

[darkangel218]

21. I havent watched tv over the weekend because of work, im logging on here from my cell

If she is a rw douche, then screw her. Sorry, I didn't know.

[panader0]

37. OK--"plotzing" is a new one for me........lol

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. she's intellectually lazy....par for the course for almost all of them, including Gregory.

[uponit7771]

20. +1, She's lazy on the David Gregory level though...enough to skate by but not enought to think

...outside of the belt way bubble

[Lint Head]

3. Candy Crowley is a lame reporter much less a moderator.

[quinnox]

4. just ugh

They had to pick her, of all the choices.

[jwirr]

5. They could have at least tried to find someone who was intelligent. I would love to see Rachel but

I doubt that will ever happen.

[WI_DEM]

7. I think Solodad O'Brien would have been great if it had to be someone from CNN

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. Yes, she's pretty fiesty...but for some reason has never risen to the "gravitas" level like I

thought she would. I guess the bright side is that there are no blatant right wingers.

[CherokeeDem]

6. Crowley is a poor choice...

but interesting that Raddatz, a foreign affairs correspondent, will moderate the VP debate. Considering the strength of Biden on foreign policy and Ryan's total lack of experience, she could be an interesting choice.

[October]

9. Yawn. She's probably trolling here to see DU'ers in an uproar over this announcement.

Just means I won't tune in. I know what to expect, and I'll read about it later.

[valerief]

10. Prez Obama doesn't even have to bother to show. It'll be a Mitt Lovefest. nt

[catbyte]

12. Yup. Pick the biggest GOP shill in the bunch.

Figures.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. I just read this and threw up. CANDY freakin Crowley. GEEZ. WTH. She's stupid. nt

[Whisp]

15. I don't really think she's stupid

quite the contrary

but one of the biggest repug ass kisser on that channel, and she has a lot of competition for that.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. Well, I have never heard an outside-the-box thought from here, ever. But, since I can't stand her

I don't watch -- so I will take your word for it

[uponit7771]

25. great minds :)

[uponit7771]

24. Unnn, stupid in the sense she has no out of DC thinking. Like Gregory they live in a...

...bubble of what DC cares about and it's hard to get their framing of questions etc out of that mentality.

The right leaning bias also shows in follow ups...

[Whisp]

26. okay, I can see that.

I suppose it's because I 'want' to like her. There is something appealing about her to me - I know, sounds crazy, and stupid.

But if she used her powers for good instead of evil, I think she'd do quite well at it.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

43. I am so tempted to say something totally un-PC

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. Isn't she the one who burst into tears

when it was announced that Gore had won, before they "fixed" it, and Bush won after all?


what a cow

[Raine1967]

30. Can we leave the insults about her weight out of this?

Please?

[JitterbugPerfume]

31. her weight?

This is about her lack of principles

[Raine1967]

45. Fine, Then why the need for you to call her a cow?

That was my point. Sorry if you missed that.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. Argh

Carol Simpson and Baba Wawa have done it before (with Gwen Ifill doing a VP debate).

Seems this deicision was partly the result of a Change.org petition and major push (and ironically, the site doesn't even mention Creepy Crawly but highlights a number of other good ones... )

http://www.change.org/petitions/it-s-time-for-a-woman-moderator-equality-in-the-2012-presidential-debates

They should have let Leslie Stahl do it. Hell, that woman has reported from so many conventions over the years that it's not funny.

[Chiyo-chichi]

27. Just scroll through her Media Matters tags.

http://mediamatters.org/tags/candy-crowley

CNN's Crowley blames Obama for persistence of Muslim myth

"The Most Trusted Name In News" Pushes Right-Wing "Class Warfare" Narrative, Suggests Biden Speech Was An "Attack On The Rich"

(Crowley claims) Palin's show "doubled" Fox News' normal ratings? Not so much

Media (figures including Crowley) mischaracterize Pelosi's warning against "anti-government" rhetoric as attack on health care reform opponents

[CTyankee]

28. Martha Raddatz should do the prez and let Crowley have the vp.

I like Raddatz. She did excellent Iraq War coverage. She is brave.

[importDavid]

29. Rachel Maddow for moderator!

She asks the best questions of BOTH sides!

She should also take over as moderator of MTP - but that's another thread...

[ProfessionalLeftist]

32. Can't stand her rightwing azz. Should have been Rachel. OR...

..Jennifer Granholm.

[Drunken Irishman]

33. Well Romney just won the first debate...

Too bad. That's generally the most important of the debates.

Oh well. Hopefully it doesn't come down to 'em or we could be in trouble.

[Blue Idaho]

38. Crowley hosts the second Presidential Debate in this year's cycle

The third debate overall if you include the VP debate. Being the first woman does not make it the first debate.

[Drunken Irishman]

39. I see...well that makes me feel better.

No one cares about the second debate.

[1-Old-Man]

34. There is only one person in TV that I would trust to be unbiased in moderating a debate

Brian Lamb

[ellisonz]

35. I threw up a little bit in my mouth when I read that. n/t

[JI7]

36. can't figure out if this is better or worse than if they had that whore Blitzer

[lonestarnot]

40. I guess mittwitt speaks oink.

[SoCalDem]

41. Mayby she'll wear her wart-necklace

[applegrove]

44. Didn't Gwen Ifill of PBS moderate a debate not too long ago?

[tabasco]

46. She recently hosted a debate in Virginia between Tim Kaine and George Allen and was awful.

She lost track of the sequence and rules and was a complete basket case.

If you don't believe me, look in the video section at:

www.alleghenymountainradio.org, where they have the entire debate posted.

The candidates themselves had to straighten her out a couple times on the sequence.

She was utterly unprepared and unprofessional.

Naturally, that's what CNN rewards.

[JoePhilly]

47. Candy Crowley and David Gregory should be in court fighting over which invented the SOFTBALL.

[Motown_Johnny]

48. "Martha RADDATZ will do the VP." ?!?!?