Anybody know What Candy Crowley's background is?

[AlCzervik]

What is her deal? Was she always a repub shill or is it a recent affliction?

[democrat in Tallahassee]

1. she was a bush shill in 2000 is all I know

[apnu]

3. well actually she was one of those CNN people

who happened to be in the right place at the right time in Crawford, I believe, covering the reaction to Bush's "victory" on election night.

She's a lot like Leslie Blitzer: not really remarkable, important, or skilled but happened to be the warm body at the right place and time for CNN (Leslie got his start b/c of Gulf War 1 as the gas-masked reprorter for CNN in some Bagdad Hotel)

[Adamocrat]

2. I don't know. She barely fits on my screen.

I can't see the background when she's in the shot.

(And I'm a fat person, so I can say it.)

-A

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

4. There is hardly a background to see

when she fills the screen with her presence

[mumon]

9. OK, dammit, you made me do it!

"I can just see you slaving over a hot stove...but I can't see the stove." - Groucho Marx

[madinmaryland]

5. Here you go, from CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/crowley.candy.html

Take a look at the picture!

[MrMonk]

8. Transsexual

She used to be a British man named Aleister.

[deutsey]

14. LOL

:evilgrin:

[gratuitous]

12. Hmmm, looked over her biography

And it doesn't mention that trick she does with a golf ball and a garden hose. You'd think a talent like that would always figure prominently on a resume.

[Lerkfish]

15. aarrrgh! MY EYES!!! MY EYES!!!!

Just kidding, they actually made her look 10% better than usual with heavy makeup, photoshopping and a 3/4 view.

[11cents]

6. She was George H W Bush's favorite reporter

Always a GOP shill.

[mumon]

7. She has a background in consumption.

That is, much experience eating.

I better stop there, before I rehash some of Groucho Marx's lines used against Margaret Dumont.

[Zen Democrat]

10. ALWAYS -- She covered the Dole campaign in 1996 and said the

nastiest things about Bill Clinton. She was and remains totally biased.

[mumon]

11. " Crowley is also a rotating panelist on CNN's On the Story, ..."

Huge moment of inertia there, I'd say.

[Safi]

13. Deep-fried twinkie affecionado? (nt)