I watched Candy Crowley say she wouldn't judge then spent the next 3 minutes bashing Obama for ticky-tacky crap and trying to exonerate McCain from blame. It was stunning.

Cindy Crowley is about herself as she likes to portray herself as an election guru....but in reality she is somewhat "dim" in her intellect and unable to preform effectively. Once a tool, always a tool...

I watched it as it happened a bit of a train wreck and I thought her head might explode as she tried to spurt it all out intelligently... I was almost as uncomfortable watching it as I am anytime I see McCain try to make a point.

The lies just keep on coming. Did you know John McCain invented the phone. Screw that Bell guy.

No, really, he did, just ask Douglas Holtz-Eakin:

Asked what work John McCain did as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate's top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry.

"He did this," Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his BlackBerry. "Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce committee so you're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that's what he did."

Al Gore, call your office.

(h/t The Politico)

I happened to be watching at the same time and my reaction was exactly the same. "If that's not your job then what the f**k is your job."

Another member of the MIM...Morons In Media.

Campbell Brown was doing the same thing on the 8:00 show last night . . . .

The saddest part was that, to his eternal credit, Anderson Cooper, kept prefacing his remarks to everyone with "tomorrow we will deal with Sen. Obama's campaign) and yet, Candy felt it necessary to be so preemptively vehement about talking solely about the Obama campaign, in a show focused on the egregious McLame. Pathetic.

"Cindy Crowley" : NICE!

What gets me is the accepted rationale that news coverage neeeds to be "balanced." Someone needs to point out to Crowley and her pals that news coverage should be OBJECTIVE.

It is really time for a holy war against the biased media. It needs to come from the people. We need to organize mass responses to this kind of clap trap and make them understand that there will be a very heavy price to pay.

If Crowley has put in 10 positive reports about Obama all political season, I'd be surprised. I don't know why you are.

This is what encourages some to think "they're all crooks."

The devil, he's in the details. Some are more crooked than others. Some not even crooked.

We need to write to this woman and remind her that the press is obligated to report 'the facts' and they could better do this by not taking money for and allowing advertisements that they knows to be lies. This is being political, involving themselves in the lie. They do not get to 'distance' themself from the lies. It does not matter who the candidates are their advertisements need to be factual. We have to pus the media to do their job and stop them from playing victim ad rolling over on their responsibilities. Does anyone know how to write to this woman?

If you remember, Cindy Crowley was assigned to the Bush campaign, and she found him so "charming", which, at that point, she lost all credibility. Since that time, she has become a useless mouthpiece and she does a HUGE (for Tena) disservice to CNN on all levels. She needs to STFU.

Sarah Palin is thinner and is in better shape than Hillary. Therefore, according to the "meoww" contingent of progressive women thinkers on this thread - Sarah Palin is more credible when speaking about political matters.

Give me an effin' break!

I'm concerned that the attempt by the MSM to remain fair and balanced causes them to glaze over the obvious that has been occuring recently with the unadulterated BS coming out of the Repubs.
The MSM is supposed to be the ref and the line that has been crossed (ask Karl Rove) demands they pull the whistles out of their pockets and call them on their fouls. CNN especially has become painful to watch there has been a clear distinction in the level of BS flowing downhill to one side and when the media ignores it don't they then become complicit?
It's time they became journalists and take some responsability.

Oh, "I don't like taking advice from someone who is morbidly obese" (reason for such obesity not important) - doesn't address acceptance of someone's credibility in any way . . .

Sorry, I stand corrected.

And, CT Voter - My goal in life is to someday be as stunningly insightful and polite as you think you must be.

Unfortunately I've begun to think that the McCain campaign has effectively pulled it off... they've convinced "mainstream" and low-informatin voters that the "Liberal Media" are all in the tank for Obama - and so McCain & Palin Lie and can continue to lie because the only people who can call then on the Lies are the Obama Campaign and the Liberal Media, who (by their having been defined on conservative terms as biased against their candidate) have no standing to object or call foul anymore....

They've played the Refs and it appears to be working.

Now you have McCain defining "fundamentals" as "the workers" and trying to steal populism along with "change" - Next thing you know they'll blame the downturn on fear of a Liberal Presidency (bet on it).

Anything at all to keep the conversation AWAY from themselves and GOP policies...

And it seems to be working...

this is all just a symptom of a problem deeply entrenched in the fabric of our culture called white privelege.....maybe it can help educate some folks who don't understand the concept of white privelege.....which is the result of over 200 years of white supremacy being legally enforced as the law of the land.....(if you assume the country was founded in 1776)....this is what many people of color feel is inherent in the very fabric of our society, and why it boggles our mind that whites can't see the double standard for themselves...although to the reader's of this site's credit it appears that many of you do....

This is Your Nation on White Privilege
By Tim Wise
9/13/08

For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a "fuckin' redneck," like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll "kick their fuckin' ass," and talk about how you like to "shoot shit" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're "untested."

White privilege is being able to say that you support the words "under God" in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me," and not be immediately disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the "under God" part wasn't added until the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.

White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you.

White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was "Alaska first," and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's being disrespectful.

White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you're somehow being mean, or even sexist.

White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a "second look."

White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.

White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good church-going Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.

White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a "trick question," while being black and merely refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.

White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a "light" burden.

And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren't sure about that whole "change" thing. Ya know, it's just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.

White privilege is, in short, the problem.

What did Candy have to say in '04 about the Swift Boat ads?

I saw this, and it ain't like that.

It was Lou Dobbs asking her leading questions. It was all she could do to keep from laughing in his face. It was Dobbs pushing to get the "both sides do it" meme.

Why all the hubub?

CNN has no capacity to actually report anything...

That network and that "reporter" are just more opinion shills masquerading as a sources of journalism.

One might as well ask Rove for an honest opinion.

Candy Crowley has no capacity of determining what actually constitutes a fact.

Follow this thread and watch in awe as we stop talking about McCain's lies and turn instead to the weight problem of a CNN talking head. You people deserve whatever comes to you. Seriously.

I stopped listening to anything Crowley said when she groaned about how elitist (I don't remember the synonym she used) John Kerry was for ordering green tea in a restaurant. She obviously doesn't care enough about health issues to know that green tea is a recommended beverage for men who have been treated for prostate cancer, so she mocked his choice because "regular" people would never order green tea and "regular" people wouldn't even know what green tea is and "regular" people have a problem with snobs like John Kerry coming into their town and asking for green tea.

It's her way. People who don't chow down like "regular" people don't deserve to be president, and she equates her personal dietary preferences to "regular" -- you won't catch Candy ordering green tea when there's a milkshake around.

Some time during the last 28 years journalism became a four letter word. Now everyone who isn't on Faux News is afraid to point out facts, and inconsistencies.

Neutering used to be a procedure that was only done on canines.

As a rather short man, I am not prone to disparaging others on the basis of appearance...I've spent a lifetime being pre-judged (I noticed that while a movie like Shrek, which I enjoyed, went out of its way to avoid offending the over-weight, it certainly made a lot of "short" jokes) because I am no taller than Muggsy Bogues or Richard Dreyfuss.

Bot Ms. Crowley tests my forbearance. I dislike her so much that I usually mute the TV whenever she comes on. Her weight doesn't help, but that is not what really offends me. She has an inner ugliness that is reflected in the way she contorts her face when she speaks, and her words reflect a soul that is shallow and mean, an intellect that is mediocre, and an arrogance all the more annoying because it is so unmerited.

I'd give a good deal to hear what Jack Cafferty, who seems to have his head screwed on right, actually thinks of her.