Candy Crowley on the "Broken Democrats", just now on CNN

[Bluebear]

"One: no backbone. Two: Too much policy talk. Ever since the seventies when they became the party of acid, amnesty and abortion, they have been on the losing side of values issues blah blah blah."

To which Cafferty says she might be the "best writer in America".

She has officially crossed from "political reporter" to "RNC talking head".

[TomClash]

1. RNC's version of Porky Pig

Oink! Oink!

:dem: :kick:

[BornagainDUer]

11. Too much Candy

Happier than a pig in sh$t

[TomClash]

That's great!

:rofl:

[liberaldemocrat7]

64. Why do you people watch CNN?

I stopped watching CNN in December 2005 !

People like Candy Crowley, Wolf Blitzer and Bill Schneider gave me good reason to stop watching CNN.

I saw Al Gore on Larry King Live one night while looking at channels on cable so I did watch CNN one night for an HOUR and turned it away as soon as the show with Al Gore finished.

CNN leans heavily Republican and I won't give them any viewership from me nor will their advertisers get me to see their commercials.

[BreweryYardRat]

79. They do have Anderson Cooper.

[cosmicdot]

98. he's done quite well for a Vanderbilt

and, only 39 y/o

In comparison, Walter Cronkite was 46 when he became anchor of CBS Evening News in 1962, 12 years after joining CBS. Anderson must be quite the journalist.

"...And that's the way it is"

[KayLaw]

45. Be fair.

Petunia Pig is more like it.

[TomClash]

57. I can't imagine her smelling that great nt

[Downtown Hound]

2. Let's see how broken they are after the elections

[texasleo]

3. Is Limbaugh growing out his hair?

:smoke:

[BornagainDUer]

40. LOL.

[Fenris]

4. Did she actually say that?

The gall of that woman.

[Bluebear]

13. Oh she surely did.

Anything to tamp down our prospects. Her final conclusion was that if we do win, it was not on our own merits, rather GOP bungling.

[Cha]

60. The American public catching

on to the republiCONs lying, cheating, murdering, perversions in spite of her lying on cnn is more like it.

[SeattleGirl]

5. Oh shut up, Candy!

Your party isn't doing so well right now, you know. But of course, I'm sure you have a big bag of excuses for them. :puke:

[bridgit]

66. pft...

:spray: :hug:

[kenny blankenship]

6. So is she the official mascot of the GOP now?

[DoYouEverWonder]

25. Ever since 9-11

when she got to fly around the country with Dimson on AF1 all day.

[MetaTrope]

37. Euuuuugh

Can you imagine Bush and her joining the Mile High Club?

[kenny blankenship]

69. It was a fat joke, referring to her size & rings of fat-like an elephant

the official party mascot of the Republicans. I guess I need to work on it some more.

[SoCalDem]

7. Um.. she crossed over a long time ago

She was practically in tears when Al Gore "un-conceded" in the wee hours after the election..

[Hell Hath No Fury]

85. I remember watching the 2004 returns...

with my Mom and Crowley was amazing -- whenever she anounced a state had gone to Bush, she was practically orgasmic, and when a state swung to Kerry she got this tight little smile on her face when she made the announcment.

She couldn't have been more obvious if she'd had a flashing "I suck GOP dick" sign over her head. :eyes:

[JI7]

8. i just saw this, i was angry and disgusted,

but shouldn't be surprised coming from the woman Bush refers to as "buttercup".

she was pretty much puking out of the mouth with nonsense and no discussion of anything. these fuckers complaint is that Democrats are talkinga bout the issues. the whores don'te ven hide it anymore that they don't care to report on important things.

[Catherine Vincent]

100. Bush calls her buttercup?

:rofl:

[Kool Kitty]

103. Yes. Peanut buttercup.

[bluestateguy]

9. Candy Store Crowley

[Fridays Child]

10. CNN is doing a show called Broken Democrats???

[Daylin Byak]

16. I'm going to put this in a nice way.

What a fat fuck.

I thank you.

[Bluebear]

18. It's an hour special on the election, but this was the opening story

Surprise!

[SeattleGirl]

19. Actually, the title of the show is "Broken Government" n/t

[krkaufman]

96. Probably just a play on the theme of Cafferty's recent multi-part show....

... "Broken Government."

The media is so unwilling to see themselves as the problem.

[tularetom]

12. I cannot comment on Ms Crowley

Every time I venture an opinion about her I get flamed so I'm just gonna keep my mouth shut.

[BornagainDUer]

14. She's going nowhere, she knows it, so she gets paid to

say this. That's my guess.

[davidwparker]

48. Welcome to DU, BornagainDUer

[leftchick]

15. yikes!

you need a graphic warning BB! :scared:

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Um, One: MOST AMERICANS ARE PRO CHOICE.

Two: THE GOP PLATFORM AS WRITTEN WOULD CRIMINALIZE THE BIRTH CONTROL PILL.

Now, Candy, please explain again how we are on the "losing side" of "values issues"?

[saltpoint]

20. Way too often Crowley recasts news events to harm Democrats.

It doesn't matter which Democrat. She appears quite eager to lump them together and inflict some sort of skewed language to misrepresent events or trends.

I would bet a triple-stack chocolate cake with fudge icing that she's a die-hard Republican.

[Aviation Pro]

21. Side by side....

...the whale Limbaugh and the walrus Crowley would change the atmospheric density of the Earth anywhere they stood.

[acmavm]

24. That and drastically lower the property valuations.

[DoYouEverWonder]

26. Worse then

living next to a chicken farm.

[BornagainDUer]

41. LOL! No wonder they are in denial about global warming.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

22. The idiot worked for W's gubernatorial campaign; that's how

stupid she is.

[DURHAM D]

23. I think her animosity goes back to 1989-90. She offered/

begged/cried to Clenis - Please let me ... (you know, serve you)

He threw up on her blue dress and ran from the bus.

Really, I am kidding but she definitely has a tremendous animosity toward Dems. It is obviously personal. She was not always that way.

[SeattleGirl]

28. She is supposed to be a reporter, not an editorialist.

I know that a lot of "news" people these days give out at least a peek at their personal politics, but this woman goes so far over the line, she should have her "news" mic yanked from her.

[TankLV]

27. She's lost is long ago.

This is the repukes "hail mary" pass.

They have nothing else to run on.f

They get more desparate every day - just like the rabid cornered dogs they are...

[Cleita]

29. She'd better lay off the cream puffs. I haven't seen her since

I turned off CNN and she's twice as big now. Time for her to hang around Ann Coulter as a role model.

[Mythsaje]

30. "99% of Republicans are thuggish morons..."

"and to prove my point, I will now make meaningless, speech-like noises for which other Republicans will applaud me.

"I love America."

[DemonFighterLives]

31. Perfect Candy and her perfect party

You have to wonder what she is on?
I would insert eating depression and cow jokes here, but I'm too nice of a guy.
:dem:

[windy252]

32. I stopped watching the main CNN

for the most part since late 2004. Looks like I haven't missed much. And, is it just me or do they seem to pull her out of a warehouse only on election years to try and hurt the Democrats' chances?

[sutz12]

33. OMG, the gall of these people...

Dems have been TRYING for 12 years to argue real issues. What we get from Reps are character assasination and smear tactics. Add to that endless red herrings about banning the bible, and forced abortion and gay marriage.

Policy talk? What policies have been offered by the right? Tax cuts for the wealthy, corporate welfare, gay marriage bans, endless war, deconstructing Social Security.....the list goes on and on.

STFU, woman. You're toast.

[peacetalksforall]

34. When Bush falls, she will catch him. When PNAC falls, she will

catch them. She will place them right side up, dust them off, and order them to start over. Heil Cindy!

[Warren DeMontague]

35. Okay, here's another question: Bill Clinton won two elections in peacetime

George W. Bush needed terra, terra, terra and widespread election theft, and he STILL squeaked by with a the narrowest of "victories" (meaning, he actually lost twice).

So how does that translate into GOP and "Values Voter" invincibility, Candy?

[OzarkDem]

36. A bitter, unhappy, unfulfilled person

who projects her worst qualities on those she envies. Typical Repug.

[MODemocrat]

38. What a tub of lard

While we were having lunch today, my husband and I saw the banners "Broken Democrats" at the bottom of the television set, and all the talking "heads" of CNN. What's up with that?

There needs to be a warning label put up on the screen before CC comes on the air. YIPES!!!!!!!!
:puke: :puke: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: ;(

[AspenRose]

39. "Acid, amnesty and abortion?"

My gosh! Paint broad brush strokes often? Harry Reid is pro-life, last I checked. And wasn't it Bunnypants who threw around the word "Amnesty" like Lucy with Charlie Brown's football?

She might as well thrown in something about "northeasterners", "lattes" and "Volvos". Sheesh.

"Too much policy talk" = ouch, it hurts my brain to actually THINK about an issue.....I'd rather just be visceral and talk about shallow Democratic stereotypes and GOP talking points.

Yikes...they really ARE scared if this is all they've got.

[Ishoutandscream2]

92. Yeah. WTF?

Has she been talking with Falwell and the lot? What utter garbage.

[davidinalameda]

102. I want a latte now

and my pro-life, ultra-Catholic mother who hasn't voted for a Democrat since 1976 has a Volvo

[neebob]

42. Was that a whole show

or just a segment of Cafferty's usual show? Assuming he has a usual show - I don't know. I was home sick for three days last week, saw part the Broken Democrats thing on Thursday, and wondered if I need to rethink how impressed I was with Cafferty for the Broken Government special on Wednesday.

[Bluebear]

46. The hwole show whas Broken Government, and this crap led the hour

nt

[neebob]

54. Okay, then I do need to do a rethink.

I only saw the second hour on Wednesday.

[Lusted4]

43. You spelled her name wrong it's Candy Cowley. n/t

[slaveplanet]

44. delete

[davidwparker]

47. She's a tool and has no credibility. Maybe's she's trying out for Fox?

[brooklynite]

49. What exactly is the complaint here?

How many times have folks here complained that the Party doesn't hit Bush & Co hard enough on the war, ethics, etc.? And, to be blut, we -are- too wonkish on discussing issues, when (sadly enough) the audience is looking for a simple thematic message.

I saw this clip at the Gym; she was talking about the politics of the election, not our ability to govern.

[Bluebear]

58. I can't see how you were pleased by the segment.

I don't think it portrayed us at all favorably.

[Jack Rabbit]

50. That is unacceptable

No one should mind when George Will talks like that on This Week, but Candy Crowley is supposed to be an objective reporter and all we should want from her is the facts, not her opinion.

The fact is that the Democrats are ahead big in every credible poll taken. Talking about how the Democratic party stands for for "acid, amnesty and abortion" doesn't explain why this is the case; she seems to be telling us why it shouldn't be the case.

If she wants to talk like that, she should move to FoxNews.

[Beetwasher]

52. Minor Corrections

"No one should mind when George Will talks like that on This Week, but Candy Crowley is supposed to be an objective reporter and all we should want from HIM is the facts, not HIS opinion.

The fact is that the Democrats are ahead big in every credible poll taken. Talking about how the Democratic party stands for for "acid, amnesty and abortion" doesn't explain why this is the case; HE seems to be telling us why it shouldn't be the case.

If HE wants to talk like that, HE should move to FoxNews."

Otherwise, spot on!

[mitchum]

51. Broken? What? Did she sit on them?

[Beetwasher]

53. Don't You Mean "He"?

To which Cafferty says HE might be the "best writer in America".

HE has officially crossed from "political reporter" to "RNC talking head". :shrug:

[Justice Is Comin]

55. Wide load incoming....beep...beep...beep

[tlsmith1963]

56. I Can See Rove's Hand in This

It's just too obvious. He must have coached her, but geez, this stuff is just getting sooooo old.

[Cha]

59. Can she get any

uglier? I hope she has to eat her fucking crow fricasseed.

[Name removed]

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[Bluebear]

62. "the Democratic party is seen as the party with no backbone..."

Maybe in Coweta, Oklahoma.

[bridgit]

65. welcome to du, GeorgForster...

here's hoping you stick around a time or two :kick:

[bridgit]

63. i must say Candy is rather taking up the whole screen these days...

but she's some four years late to this stale, tired old republican ass kissing party isn't she; as for Cafferty's comment i could see that if he were talking sci-fi or "my dog's bigger than your dog" commercials, cause she's completely of sync & step with the pulse out here imo

"Two: Too much policy talk"?!? oh really...

dems don't talk policy and CNN says dems don't have a plan so they now have what? to much of a plan? i've had a belly full of CNN trying to make an up/down, in/out, right/left, back/forth, salt/pepper dog fight out of a u.s. mid-term election Crowley & CNN both can take a flying leap so far as i'm concerned :thumbsdown:

[Malikshah]

67. Candy laughing at the Dems.... complete with photo image.

A vile creature she has come to be.





http://www.jedisaber.com/SW/sounds/ROTJ054.wav
Click link for laugh

[Hawkowl]

70. HAHAHA!!

Thanks for the LOL!! Priceless!

[Blackhatjack]

68. Totally Useless As A Political Analyst, So Partisan In Her Views...

She has never said a kind word about anything Democrats have accomplished.
I always assumed she was hired by CNN to 'counter' real political analysis, since most of what she says is without independent evidence to support what she says.

[upi402]

71. can't say what I think

but god am I ever THINKING it.

Corporate
News
Network

They crossed the line to being a propaganda organ of the Republicans after Turner sold it.

[Az_lefty]

72. yea, I'm sure people are going to take that gal seriously...

:puke:

[w4rma]

73. Good grief. Has she gotten fatter? (nt)

[Chulanowa]

74. Is an amorphous blob one to be talking of "backbones"?

The party of acid? Well I tell you what, Tubbahunny, I'd much rather be watching a nice LSD-generated mental television show than listen to you. It's bound to make far more sense anyway. Watch!



See? Made a lot more sense than anything Candy (what is she, a stripper?) ha said... ever.

[Senator]

75. Sorry, the truth hurts -- I'm glad she "de-euphemized" the reality

And in fact, I think she hated doing so. Afraid she might ruin the oldest GOP joke in DC: "Gosh, for a minute there I thought they might actually DO something."

It could even be that Jack "reworked" the copy himself for her to read, since he had the last word as editor on his special. The comment about her writing could have been a barb, or an olive branch.

But denial of reality only helps the Dem members of the DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy in their rationalizations for inaction.

And enabling them in this only helps the neofascists.

--

[Lasher]

76. Media Matters has a writeup and video clip on this

CNN's Crowley dredges up anti-Democrat clichés, asserts: "If Democrats do sweep into power this year ... it will be through no fault their own"

Summary: During a segment that looked at the Democrats' prospects in the upcoming midterm elections, CNN's Candy Crowley devoted her report to reinforcing negative stereotypes about the Democratic Party promoted by Republicans and repeated in the media.

Reporting from Asheville, North Carolina, during the October 19 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, CNN senior political correspondent Candy Crowley presented a segment looking at the Democrats' prospects in the upcoming midterm elections that was devoted entirely to reinforcing negative stereotypes about the Democratic Party that have been promoted by Republicans and repeated in the media. For instance, Crowley asserted that Democrats have been "on the losing side of the values debate, the defense debate and, oh yes, the guns debate"; suggested that Democrats are out of touch with mainstream Americans because " Al Gore and John Kerry lost every Southern state and most of the mid- and interior West"; and aired only negative opinions of the Democratic Party, such as an Asheville resident who called the Democrats "losers." At no point during the segment did Crowley say, air, or quote anything positive about Democrats.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200610200018 No hippos were harmed during the filming of the video clip

[spooky3]

83. MMFA is excellent. I am disappointed in Cafferty.

I could not believe his failing to challenge anything she said, and then held all incumbents equally responsible for what he's unhappy about. Hey, Jack, who is in control of the White House and both houses of Congress--and your own network? I guess I'll return him to my "curmudgeon" category--someone who likes to attack just to get ratings, rather than someone who sizes up the evidence, draws appropriate conclusions, and demands answers and change.

[tavalon]

77. Man, Candy, you need to put down the spoon

and shut the fuck up!

[Hubert Flottz]

78. A large monster is approaching the Capitol of Umerikkka...more

at 11:00...

Edit...My caption of the OP's photo

[DFW]

80. A Republican poster child

That photo should be put out there as a role model for all
upcoming female journalists. Say, "some day, you could
become THIS!"

That should suffice to give anyone pause about following her
example.

Actually, my take is that she was always in the right's pocket,
but only Republican desperation has brought her to reveal "what
lies beneath," and it isn't pretty (in either interpretation).

[Mike Nelson]

81. She looked like she's beginning to rot...

This is her last gig... nowhere yo run after CNN smacker.

[pecwae]

82. What, no grief about using the f** word?

There was a thread admonishing DU'ers for using that word with regard to Hastert.

[The Count]

84. Too much policy talk?? I thought they had no plans. Confused here, Dolce.

I remember her - for ever - since her grunts during the Florida recounts in 2000. That's when all of the tools showed their red ass for all to see, and hers was particularly large.

[Hubert Flottz]

86. I'd believe "Candy Crowley on overloaded broken springs in her new

Caterpillar 797 truck"

[Pastiche423]

87. I've never seen her before

(I don't have cable.) Is that photo real?

[greeneyedboy]

88. thank you for your concern, troll. bye!

[Rex]

89. I am sorry Ozzy, but

Candy Crowley, what went on in your head
Candy Crowley, did you talk with the dead
Your life style to me seemed so tragic
With the thrill of it all
You fooled all the people with magic
You waited on Satan’s call
Mrs. Charming, did you think you were pure
Mrs. Alarming, in nocturnal rapport
Uncovering things that were sacred manifest on this Earth
Conceived in the eye of a secret
And they scattered the afterbirth
(solo)
Candy Crowley, won’t you ride my white horse
Candy Crowley, it’s symbolic of course
Approaching a time that is classic
I hear maidens call
Approaching a time that is drastic
Standing with their backs to the wall
Was it polemically sent
l wanna know what you meant
I wanna know
I wanna know what you meant

[Gabi Hayes]

90. Mr. Creosote and his fiancee:

[Arugula Latte]

91. Party of acid?

:rofl:

Oh, yes, we all know that SCORES of Democrats have run on campaign platforms of "LSD for All!" Yes, that's the winning slogan for us Democrats!

Jesus! This reads like a SNL skit.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

93. Alliteration is fun!

Yes, the party of "acid, amnesty and abortion." Certainly Ms. Candy has a history as a Democrat, which her allusion to "acid" indicates. Perhaps an LSD experience-gone-awry turned her into the steaming-mad Republican goon she is today?

Why not "the party of heroin, healthcare, and homosexuals"?

Or "gays, gangsters and god-haters"?

Wow, what a great writer -- the "best writer in America", in fact, just like Cafferty said! AND a member of the "best political team on television", like Wolf Blitzer tells me!

[Gabi Hayes]

94. hey! love that countebias website, and this one, in particular:

Interview with the teacher who compiled Bush's summer reading list. hilarious!

http://www.counterbias.com/739.html


How did you come to help the president with his reading choices?

I was approached by people working for the president. I was very happy to do it and, as I was not teaching summer school this term, I had the time.

Q: Why “The Stranger”?

A: “The Stranger” is a book I assign to all my students. It also fit in very well with both of the president’s two most important ground rules: That the books assigned be neither “too long” nor “too faggy.”

Q: Looking over the list as it currently stands, it seems to be weighted toward books that are normally first read in high school, as well as towards books about baseball. Are there any special reasons for that?

A: It’s quite refreshing that a man of the president’s age and station in life has remained down-to-earth enough to read with an open mind what some would characterize as “high school” books. Also, in fairness to the president, he attended Phillips Academy in Andover, MA (one of America’s premier boarding schools) in the early 1960s, before many of the works we think of today as staples of an American high school education became the mainstays on the syllabus that they now are.

For example, “The Catcher in the Rye” was only published in 1951. However, the president has expressed an especially keen eagerness to tackle that one, particularly since he found out its protagonist is a youth dismayed by the “phoniness” of an exclusive eastern prep school from which he has just been expelled.

[krkaufman]

95. Cafferty gets FAR too much credit for his occasional rants ...

... against the Bush Admin and Congress. He's a clueless hack, only able to see the most obvious of that which is put before him.

[Moloch]

97. God why don't they ship that fat, disgusting pig

over to foxnews.

I don't even watch cnn anymore because of her and wolf blitzer.

[leesa]

99. She was having trouble coming up with words that started with 'a', huh?

She wanted to get abortion in there and all she could come up with was 'acid' and 'amnesty'?!? Isn't Dubya the one that wants amnesty?

It's hard to fathom that this freak has an advanced degree.

[mmonk]

101. Take a hike Candy Cowley

chew your cud someplace else, preferably with your party of fear, theft, and torture (such wholesome values).