Lazy Candy Crowley

[Joanne98]

CNN's Candy Crowley has been covering DC and Capitol Hill for years. But, she's off-base and way out-of-touch on what's going on at the Town Hall meetings this summer. In a report today on the protests, she said, "Republicans are also encountering angry voters but Democrats seem to be getting the worst of it and they accuse Republican operatives of sending protesters to their Town Hall meetings, but even if there is any truth to that charge.....the reality is that poll after poll shows that americans are divided about obama style health care reform." Watch her and note the tone.


See, to Candy, this is the usual back and forth of politics. Republicans count on that kind of lazy reporting. That way, the GOP-supported thuggery looks like part of the give and take of politics instead of the extreme behavior that it is. And, Crowley is enabling it.

I'd strongly suggest Candy or her producer watch Rachel's piece from last night. Or, if she doesn't want to watch a competitor, Candy could read Greg Sargent's piece, Anti-Reform Group Takes Credit For Helping Gin Up Town Hall Rallies, because Candy would see that the right wing groups are taking credit for the protests:

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http://www.americablog.com/2009/08/cnns-crowley-dismisses-fact-that-right.html

[Supersedeas]

1. and I'd dispute factually her conclusions about 'poll' numbers

[eleny]

2. I don't think she's lazy, I think she has a right leaning agenda

She knows better since she no doubt has seen the memo that has been used to orchestrate the disruptions.

This is what I believe.

[OHdem10]

3. Candy is a Republican. Much of the time she tries to play it

down the middle.

[PCIntern]

4. she had a wicked crush on Dubya...

on that campaign bus for weeks and weeks...Yuck!

[Peacetrain]

12. Ah yep, she most certainly is to the right

[Kahuna]

5. CNN gets their news from Drudge. They have admitted it. nt

[Kingofalldems]

6. Candy a dishonest repub? I am shocked!

[orleans]

7. what an asshole. saw her the other day--she looked like she lost weight

and had more make-up on her than i've ever seen. i thought: new image? apparently NOT!

[XemaSab]

9. She's trying to morph into Katherine Harris

:scared:

[orleans]

16. lol! you could be right, come to think of it. n/t

[monmouth]

13. Rush got his diet from Candy. Rush says people are jealous now

of him and his looks, just like they're jealous of Sarah....Ugh... I'm kidding about Rush getting his diet from Candy, just felt snarky.

[City Lights]

8. She's been off-base and out-of-touch for years.

I can't remember a time when she wasn't.

[WCGreen]

10. Really, she must have naked pictures of someone to still be

considered a "journalist"...

But then again, are any news readers on the cable really journalists?

[City Lights]

11. I'll never forget the look on her face when she announced that FL was removed from Gee Dubya's

column and into the "Too close to call" column back in 2000. She looked like she'd just seen the carnage from a train wreck. :grr:

[redqueen]

14. Why do people persist in thinking this kind of BS 'reporting' is due to laziness?

Is it just me?

Operation Mockingbird ring a bell with anyone? (Yeah yeah I know... it was supposedly ended... but so was TIA... before it was repackaged and restarted in other ways.)

[Cha]

17. She may be lazy but she knows she's reporting

misinformation..she gets her orders from headquarters and being a good little mediawhore..well..

[medeak]

15. PUKE! she's on lou dobbs defending town hall meetings!

THAT FUCKING DOES IT!!! AM SO FUCKING DONE WITH CNN !!!!

[bullwinkle428]

19. I caught some of that garbage on one of the TVs at the gym after work -

she made sure she came across as oh-so-serious when discussing the "sincere nature" of the protests!! :banghead:

[medeak]

21. she's lost a lot of weight? Did she have surgery? n/t

[FourScore]

18. I've never understood why she still has a job there.

She's AWFUL!!!

[medeak]

20. DITTO! barf! and her college credentials aren't impressive n/t

[Hekate]

22. "One the one hand, the Jews say there was a Holocaust, but to be fair, the Nazis deny that claim"...

False equivalency at its best is how much of tv "journalism" is practiced in America today. x(

Hekate

[JDPriestly]

24. As I was told by someone in Austria long ago, the children

here (meaning in Austria) are hearing the "other side" of the story of the occupation of Vienna by allied troops in Austria. What "other side"? I'm serious. I was actually told that by one of my childrens' teachers.

[Skittles]

23. she's a rightwing whore

she's just doing her job