Er, Josh, perhaps you need to get up to date on CNN’s most up-to-date admission that President Obama’s “act of terror”/Rose Garden claim wasn’t — to use Anderson Cooper’s words — as “cut and dry” as the spinner-in-chief and his media wing lady made it out to be.
Crowley: Romney was "right in the main" but "picked the wrong word." http://t.co/4IudNTs5
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) October 17, 2012
Anderson Cooper just said the "act of terror" line was "not cut and dry" as Crowley said it was. #debate @CNN
— Liz Carter (@lisbethcarter) October 17, 2012
After the debate, moderator Candy Crowley backtracked and said Mitt Romney was right "in the main" on Libya. http://t.co/RHgR1wkA
— The Neshoba Democrat (@NeshobaDemocrat) October 17, 2012
Video via Free Beacon:
Newsbusters adds:
“It was one of those moments and I could even feel that here, you know, when you say something you’re not expecting,” Crowley insisted, admitting she simply couldn’t help herself from unprofessionally inserting herself into a heated dispute that Obama and Romney were having on Libya.
This is an almost literal confession of knee-jerk liberal media bias.
Bitter clinger:
.@joshtpm So you're saying if Obama says "terror" anywhere in his speech, that counts. A master of context, you are.
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) October 17, 2012
@politicalmath <— "but, but, but …"
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 17, 2012
I think it's pretty funny that, when I ask a journalist to provide his readers context, he responds like a 5 year old http://t.co/F3DXYV4C
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) October 17, 2012
Heh:
.@politicalmath My best friend's dog is more of a journalist than that guy.
— Owen W. Brennan (@OwenBrennan) October 17, 2012
Oh, look. Another Candy Crowley costume-stealer:
I now understand the RWNJ argument re Libya: Obama lied, Crowley lied, transcript lied, and Romney never lies. #current2012
— David Shuster (@DavidShuster) October 17, 2012
Poor dear:
https://twitter.com/ironelbow/status/258428877439913984
Even Politico’s Mike Allen points to Obama calling Benghazi “senseless acts” in the Rose Garden statement and notes that “act of terror” referred to 9/11:
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