Romney Criticizes 2012 Debate Interference by CNN"s Crowley

Mitt Romney has finally broken his silence about the role CNN’s Candy Crowley played during a debate between himself and President Barack Obama during the 2012 election campaign.

Answering a question on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show Monday about whether Crowley was wrong to interject and back Obama’s version of his administration’s talking points on Benghazi, Romney responded, “Well, I don’t think it’s the role of the moderator in a debate to insert themselves into the debate and to declare a winner or a loser on a particular point.”

He continued, “And I must admit that, at that stage, I was getting a little upset at Candy, because in a prior setting where I was to have had the last word, she decided that Barack Obama was to get the last word despite the rules that we had.”

In the days after the attack on the U.S. mission that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, the administration did not point to terrorism in its talking points.

“So, she obviously thought it was her job to play a more active role in the debate than was agreed upon by the two candidates, and I thought her jumping into the interaction I was having with the president was also a mistake on her part, and one I would have preferred to carry out between the two of us, because I was prepared to go after him for misrepresenting to the American people that – the nature of the attack.”

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Candy Crowley Asks Rand Paul If He’d Consider Becoming a Democrat

Does Candy Crowley work for CNN or the Democratic Party?

It was tough to tell Sunday when after the State of the Union host asked guest Rand Paul (R-Ky.) if recent polling indicated the beginning of the end of the Republican Party, she actually asked him if he’d ever consider becoming a Democrat (video follows with transcript and commentary):

During her conversation with Paul, Crowley predictably showed a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showing Republicans taking the brunt of the blame for the recent government shutdown.

“Do you think, as many have now started talking about, and I grant you a lot of them are Democrats, that there has been irreparable harm done to the Republican Party?” asked Crowley. “People talking about how this is the beginning of the end of the Republican Party as we know it.”

So now this CNN host is even admitting that she’s using Democrat talking points on a Republican guest.

Paul just laughed and said, “I think our demise is a little bit overstated. I would say that both parties are going to catch a lot of blame on this.”

Crowley pressed, “Do you agree that Republicans are taking a lot?”

“Well, I think both are,” responded Paul, “and I think Democrats who think this is a parlor game, who think this is fun, here’s what the Democrats think. They think we’ll send a bunch of government workers out there to close off the roadside viewing of Mt.Rushmore because that is funny. I don’t think it is funny, and I think that Democrats and Republicans are going to catch blame.”

Then came the money question from Crowley.

“Do you see yourself at any point in the future being anything other than politically a member of the Republican Party?”

Paul once again laughed and said, “You mean, you’re implying a third party or some other party?

“Or if you wanted to become a Democrat,” Crowley actually clarified. “There are lots of sort of parties out there. Just wonder if you see yourself being anything other than a Republican?”

Paul once again laughed and responded, “No. I’ve always been a Republican, and I’m one of those people who actually is a real lover of the history of the Republican Party from the days of abolition through the days of civil rights. Republican Party has a really rich history. In our state, I’m really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crowe in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can’t imagine being anything else.”

Bravo, Senator.

As for Crowley, CNN really needs to consider putting a D next to her name whenever it appears on screen because her behavior lately indicates that at this stage of her career, she’s nothing but a Democratic shill.

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CNN"s Crowley: Hillary Doc "Makes it Very Difficult For Me"

Candy Crowley’s not ready to pull a Chuck Todd on her network – yet.

While Todd blasted NBC for its plans to air a mini-series about Hillary Clinton close to her possible 2016 presidential run, calling it a “total nightmare” on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Crowley couched her words.

She told Politico that while a branch of CNN producing a documentary made her “life more difficult,” CNN and CNN Films are separate entities with no influence on each other’s content.

“This is a commissioned documentary from people who are not in the employ of CNN,” Crowley said. “It’s not me. It’s not Wolf Blitzer. It’s not John King. It’s an outside documentary group. But we’re with CNN and so this is not a story where the nuances are well-received, particularly by Republicans.”

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has threatened to pull GOP primary debates from both CNN and NBC should they proceed with their plans, something Media Matters and Chuck Todd agreed with.

But Crowley suggested that Priebus was using the documentary and miniseries to reduce the number of GOP primaries after the 2012 election left eventual Republican candidate Mitt Romney bruised and burnt out before his presidential campaign even started.

On the other hand, Crowley said, “airtime is airtime,” so any Clinton publicity could be good publicity for her presidential campaign. “Politically, it makes it very difficult for me,” she said. “But I also think it is being used by the chairman.”

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