CNN's Crowley: NY 23's Hoffman the Choice of 'Tea Bag Partyers'?

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By Matthew Balan (Bio | Archive)
November 2, 2009 - 18:14 ET
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CNN’s Candy Crowley made an oblique reference to her colleague Anderson Cooper’s infamous “teabagger” remark on Monday’s Situation Room. As she reported on the race in New York’s 23rd congressional district, Crowley referred to Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman as “the choice of many on the right, including Sarah Palin, former House leader Dick Armey and ‘tea bag partyers’” [audio clips available here].

The CNN political correspondent detailed the different key races up in the November 3 election at the top of the 5 pm Eastern hour, including the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial campaigns. She closed her report with the New York contest: “And by way of marquee races, it’s hard to beat the soap opera of New York’s 23rd congressional district, where the Republican moderate dropped out over the weekend, leaving the race to a conservative, Doug Hoffman, the choice of many on the right, including Sarah Palin, former House leader Dick Armey and ‘tea bag partyers.’”

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After playing a clip from former House majority leader Dick Armey, a leader in the Tea Party movement, Crowley, along with anchor Wolf Blitzer, highlighted the battle between the conservatives and the moderates in the Republican Party, just as their colleagues at CBS and ABC had done earlier in the day.
Candy Crowley, CNN Political Correspondent | NewsBusters.orgCROWLEY (on-camera): As for who might be despondent and who might be elated following Tuesday’s elections, one of the things you can look for, Wolf, is that this Tea Party group, these conservatives, are very jazzed at this point having forced really this Republican establishment candidate out of the race in 23. They are already talking about the races they want to take on in 2010, so it occurred to me that the Republicans could win all three races and still really have a big problem on their hands as to how they are going to navigate between the right of their party and the more moderate wing.

BLITZER: There’s concern they would push out the more moderate Republicans who in the big elections might have a better chance of getting elected than those more on the right.

CROWLEY: Exactly, exactly.

BLITZER: Candy, thanks very much.

—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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I don't care anymore...they

November 2, 2009 - 18:26 ET by bigtimer

I don't care anymore...they can attempt at their insults all they want...they just don't realize this is backfiring in their mugs.

Pow...Right in the Kisser!

'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart

Please, bt. Candy Crowley?

November 2, 2009 - 20:02 ET by Chris Norman

Please, bt. Candy Crowley? "Kisser"? Blehhhhhhhh! :)

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

shhhh... it's secret code...

November 2, 2009 - 22:11 ET by Mitch NJ

for meet me at the motel 6 after the show.

Exactly what I was going to post.........

November 3, 2009 - 07:14 ET by old cro

Their insults are simply a quick way to verify their ideology, they don't get a rise out of me, either.

BLITZER: There’s concern

November 2, 2009 - 18:38 ET by motherbelt

BLITZER: There’s concern they would push out the more moderate
Republicans who in the big elections might have a better chance of
getting elected than those more on the right.

Just like John McCain, right? 

Exactly WHERE is the concern, Wolf?  Who has voiced that concern other than you and your liberal media buddies trying to plant the idea?

Wolfie keeps pushing that line that to get elected Republicans have to be more like Democrats.
Why does Blitzer think we are so stupid that we will buy that line again and again?

Any Republican who believes it and goes the McCain route deserves the same fate as his.

 

mb... You're right on the

November 2, 2009 - 18:55 ET by bigtimer

mb...

You're right on the $$$.

'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart

I wonder ... Do these

November 2, 2009 - 18:43 ET by 10ksnooker

I wonder ...

Do these liberals know we know they are members of the party of the KKK? 

What? They thought Lincoln formed the KKK?

Better to be a member of the tea party than the KKK party.HAve Democrats ever apologized for their KKK and the acts of terror they brought down on America?

Don't get it

November 2, 2009 - 18:55 ET by obageegee

They just don't get it. There is an active revolt going on in this country right under their noses. 

I KNEW we shouldn't have kept...

November 2, 2009 - 20:21 ET by heldmyw

I KNEW we shouldn't have kept those tea parties a secret!

See, if they'd heard about them, and saw the turnout of nice, normal, pissed-off American Citizens, they might have had a clue this was coming!

But noooo.  We had to keep them out of the media.

Right?

 

held... You've got me

November 2, 2009 - 20:24 ET by bigtimer

held...

You've got me laughing ....that was a great zinger to the majority of the msm.

'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart

Crowley looks like she has a

November 2, 2009 - 23:54 ET by gmaniac1

Crowley looks like she has a permanent tea bag expression on here face, except it looks like she had a fire on her face as well and someone put it out with an ax.

X

November 2, 2009 - 18:57 ET by serfer62

He's got a point, McCain should run again...but as a Kommiecrat.

Why would Candy's

November 2, 2009 - 18:58 ET by GN

Why would Candy's comment be some sort of special reference to Anderson Cooper's tea bag joke?  He did not coin the term for tea party protesters and there were many other news people on TV making tea bag jokes before him and in a much much bigger and more direct way than him, as Newsbusters' own media coverage has recorded.

 The only people who pair tea bagging and Anderson together in a special exclusive match have done it from a bigoted fixation on his sexuality and the idea dirty things must mean gay things.

Sorry Ms. Crowley

November 2, 2009 - 19:03 ET by Joe Camel

Sorry Ms. Crowley, you would not be allowed to tea bag me, well neither would Wolf..maybe you do him while no one is looking, Funny how you folks continue with the language. Must be some fascination you have.

she can't even get that right... oh my...

November 2, 2009 - 19:15 ET by wizardjr

But then what do you expect...??

Well then, that's what you got if you actually tuned in to Bull Shitzer's broadcast.

 

I guess they're going to

November 2, 2009 - 19:41 ET by GregE

I guess they're going to have to have someone explain the Boston Tea Party to them.  Boston was the one history discusses, though there were many.  Apparently the media still doesn't know.

Women named "Candy" should

November 2, 2009 - 19:45 ET by HockeyKid

Women named "Candy" should be careful about throwing around the double entendres. 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Man...

November 2, 2009 - 19:48 ET by Fuzzlenutter

 Candy looks like Mr. Ed's date for the prom...

Crowley's lost A LOT of weight!

November 2, 2009 - 22:25 ET by motherbelt

That was the first thing I noticed when I saw her picture there....

Here she is before the weight loss

Yeah, I have been saying for some time

November 2, 2009 - 23:09 ET by doug1950

she hardly looks like a "Candy" anymore. She may have been "Candy" material several decades ago but today she looks more like a bag of marshmellow peeps that got left on the truck dashboard in the hot sun and all the little eyes have run together.

BLITZER: There’s concern

November 2, 2009 - 20:14 ET by MidAmerica

BLITZER: There’s concern they would push out the more moderate Republicans who in the big elections might have a better chance of getting elected than those more on the right.

  1. Eisenhower (moderate) to the right of Stevenson
  2. Kennedy (moderate) similar to Nixon
  3. Johnson (moderate) to the left of Goldwater
  4. Nixon (moderate) to the right of Humphrey
  5. Nixon (moderate) to the right of McGovern
  6. Carter (left wing) to the left of Ford
  7. Reagan (right wing) to the right of Carter
  8. Reagan (right wing) to the right of Mondale
  9. Bush I (moderate) to the right of Dukakis
  10. Clinton (moderate/left) to the left of Bush I
  11. Clinton (moderate/right) to the left (somewhat) of Dole
  12. Bush II (right wing) to the right of Gore
  13. Bush II (right wing mostly) to the right of Kerry

  14. Obama (elected as moderate/left) similar to McCain

  These are my recollections but if you look at the relative comparisons a candidate is much more likely to be elected if they are the candidate to the right.  The only times a leftist candidate has won is when voters were voting against the Republicans, that would be Johnson, Carter, Clinton and Obama.

Keep it up Wolf!!!

November 2, 2009 - 20:25 ET by Nearly Nobody

Every time they say “teabagger” someone else turns to conservatism.

CBC

I'd rather be a tea bagger

November 2, 2009 - 20:26 ET by Vonu

 

Than a tea baggee, like olberman, for example.

All of these liberal

November 2, 2009 - 21:22 ET by mostlymoderate

All of these liberal propagandists are afraid.  It scares the hell out of them that the GOP might actually clean out the RINO's.

Anderson "the pooper" Cooper

November 2, 2009 - 21:24 ET by nadadhimmi

Anderson "the pooper" Cooper is the real Teabag Partyier here. And Candy Crowley is a faghag. Cooper has had teabags in his mouth both literally and figuretively hundreds of times. He preffers it you see.