Candy Crowley

Alan Colmes Fail: Record Shows CNN Candy Crowley Is No Republican
By Tim Graham | October 15, 2012 | 5:45 PM EDT

Of the four liberal-media moderators selected by both parties at the Commission for Presidential Debates, CNN's Candy Crowley is the fairest. She's a longtime political-news pro, but that doesn't mean that in her long tenure at CNN, she doesn't have a "paper trail" (video trail) of liberal bias.

On Fox News this afternoon, James Pinkerton cited MRC’s research [see below] and said “I think things look pretty good for Obama.” Alan Colmes shot back, “Didn't the New York Times profile yesterday show that Candy Crowley was likely a Republican and worked for Dole or something? Colmes was oh, so wrong.

Time: Candy Crowley's 'Moderator Role Under Scrutiny – Before the Debate'
By Noel Sheppard | October 15, 2012 | 12:50 AM EDT

With less than 48 hours to go before Tuesday's presidential debate, the moderator's role is being questioned because of things Candy Crowley has said on CNN.

Time's Mark Halperin reported late Sunday:

Daily Kos Week in Review: Boxing Day
By Tom Johnson | October 6, 2012 | 6:38 AM EDT

This past week's presidential debate put at least two Kossacks in mind of throwing punches and caused another to reflect upon which group Republicans hate more: women or those who pay no income taxes.

And why do leftists hate all the liberal debate moderators, like first-timer Candy Crowley of CNN? As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

CNN's Candy Crowley: I Take Advantage of the Tax Code Just Like Romney
By Noel Sheppard | September 23, 2012 | 9:44 AM EDT

CNN's Candy Crowley on Sunday oddly went counter to the liberal media meme concerning Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's taxes.

In a State of the Union discussion on the subject with Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Crowley actually said, "It is the IRS system and he took advantage of it which I do, which I assume both of you do" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Newt Gingrich: 'Bounce Obama’s Getting Coming Out of the Convention Is 80 Percent Bill Clinton'
By Noel Sheppard | September 9, 2012 | 10:14 AM EDT

"The bounce Obama’s getting coming out of the convention is 80 percent Bill Clinton."

So said former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrch on CNN's State of the Union Sunday.

CNN Analyst Ridicules 'Sledgehammer' GOP Platform on Abortion
By Matt Hadro | August 29, 2012 | 1:55 AM EDT

CNN keeps playing up the controversy that supposedly is the Republican Party's platform on abortion – even though it resembles the language from the 2004 and 2008 platforms.

"The platform has this really sledgehammer view that all abortions are going to be outlawed, even for rape or for incest, and even for health of the mother," said political analyst David Gergen during Tuesday night's coverage of the Republican Convention.

The Media vs. the GOP: Intolerant, Anti-Women, and Always Too Conservative
By Rich Noyes | August 27, 2012 | 9:02 AM EDT

Bad weather may have forced Vice President Joe Biden to skip his plans to make mischief at this week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, but Democrats don’t have to worry: the liberal “news” media have been “counter-programming” GOP conventions for decades.

It doesn’t matter whether the nominee is a conservative like Ronald Reagan, or a moderate like John McCain — network reporters always seem to scold the delegates and platform as too conservative, hostile to women, anathema to blacks, and an all-around turn-off to voters. [Below the jump: Video montage of the media's anti-GOP bias, 1988-2008]

Malkin: Debate Moderators for Obama
By Michelle Malkin | August 22, 2012 | 6:32 PM EDT

Can we stop calling the hosts of the presidential debates "moderators"? They're left-erators. It's time for the old media godfathers to end the pretense that they're fair and neutral observers of the American political scene. And it's time for the GOP to stop perpetuating these rigged exercises in futility.

Last week, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced the names of 2012's chosen referees: CNN's Candy Crowley, PBS's Jim Lehrer and CBS's Bob Schieffer will preside over the three presidential debates; ABC's Martha Raddatz will host the sole vice presidential debate. While the debate panel trumpeted the gender diversity of its picks, the chromosomal diversity is far outweighed by the political uniformity, class conformity and geographical homogeneity of the group.

CNN's Moderator Candy Crowley: A Political News Pro, But Still Liberal in the Media-Elite Mold
By Tim Graham | August 15, 2012 | 8:50 AM EDT

Affirmative-action lovers were thrilled that CNN's Candy Crowley would be the first female to moderate a presidential debate since Carole Simpson's sneering turn in 1992. Crowley deserves the opportunity after being in the field of political news for decades, and is the closest thing the current crop of moderators has to a Tim Russert type in being able to question firmly both sides of the aisle.

However, Crowley still fits within the CNN media-elite mold of liberalism, and not just with her unfortunate channeling of "some Republicans" on Saturday who anonymously felt the Paul Ryan pick "looks a little bit like some sort of ticket death wish." Below are a list of some of Crowley's more liberal moments on the CNN airwaves:

CNN's Candy Crowley Claims Some GOPers Think Ryan Pick ‘Some Sort of Ticket Death Wish’
By Noel Sheppard | August 11, 2012 | 12:07 PM EDT

As NewsBusters has been noting all Saturday morning, now that Paul Ryan has been chosen as Mitt Romney's running mate, the goal of the Obama-loving media is to rip him to shreds.

Doing her part Saturday was CNN's Candy Crowley who claimed some Republicans (unnamed, of course) think this "looks a little bit like some sort of ticket death wish."

[[Editor's Note: Since the townhall debate format debuted in the 1992, the media moderators have favored left-wing question 2 to 1 over conservative ones. Get the facts here.]]

CNN Uses Aurora Shooting to Force Anti-Gun Agenda on Viewers
By Matt Hadro | July 24, 2012 | 5:45 PM EDT

CNN used Friday's tragic shooting to force the gun control debate back into headlines this past weekend, and multiple network anchors made a blatant liberal push for further gun regulation.

The advocacy began just hours after the atrocity, despite both President Obama and Mitt Romney abstaining from politicking on the day of the massacre. "America has got to do something about its gun laws. Now is the time," CNN's Piers Morgan tweeted hours after the shooting.

CNN Hits Dems From the Left on Gun Control
By Matt Hadro | July 23, 2012 | 4:15 PM EDT

CNN pushed for more gun control on the very day of the Aurora shootings – to the dismay of media critic Howard Kurtz – and host Candy Crowley continued the fight on Sunday and Monday.

In her Monday report, Crowley stressed the lack of "courage" – borrowing from a one gun control advocate – in today's Democratic Party to pursue firearms regulation. And when Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) noted the lack of outrage over gun violence, Crowley agreed, "She's right."