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yurbud

(39,405 posts)
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 07:47 PM Oct 2012

Will Candy Crowley be fired or ostracized for daring to fact check Romney on the spot? [View all]

It is so rare for the MSM to do that, let alone to a pol's face (unless the happen to be wrong AND bucking the conventional inside-the-beltway wisdom...or just the bucking part).

I wonder if she is going to be moved to the progressive ghetto at MSNBC or CNN will stand by her.

It would have also been nice if she had interrupted Romney and said, "Even if he DIDN'T say 'act of terror' for two weeks, SO THE FUCK WHAT? Why do those magic words matter so much to you? If he doesn't invoke the terrorist boogeyman, are you worried people won't be adequately terrorized here?"

But that really would cost her her job.

What, if any, will be the consequences for her daring to do real time fact-checking?


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No consequences. CNN will ride out the right wing caterwauling
10 (83%)
Meet your new MSNBC host
0 (0%)
A slot on the ever shrinking progressive talk radio
0 (0%)
podcasts & blogging
0 (0%)
a public change apology and a new job as house broken liberal at Fox News
2 (17%)
other
0 (0%)
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