Even though this might end forever Candy Crowley’s attempt to join computers with me…it is Candy Crowley who should check the transcripts — the president was wrong.
That moderator intrusion was the big focus of the spinmeisters.
Romney spokesman John Sununu said told me the moderator and the President were “dead wrong.”
“The President threw the world out in his statement at the Rose Garden but never said it was an act of terrorism. And two weeks afterwards the President said, not in a news conference, not in a passing comment but went to the UN and at the UN, six times blamed it on the video. It was the most dishonest statement I have ever heard by a president in a presidential debate.”
I asked him about the Crowley interruption:
“Candy was wrong and Candy had no business doing that and she didn’t even keep the time right.”
The controversy is about a speech the president made on September 12, 2012.
The day after the terror attack in Benghazi, President Obama gave a Rose Garden Speech of 801 words.He mentioned the word terror once near the end of his speech but it was not in description of the horrible attack. When he referred to Benghazi, he said:
- An attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi.
- this outrageous and shocking attack.
- attack
- terrible act
Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts.
Eventually he said the “T” word in a general way:
No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.
But the question is, was he talking about that specific attack? It didn’t seem so because he went on to say:
We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.
Words are important, especially for this president. If he wanted to call the attack terrorism he would have, but he avoided calling the Benghazi attack “terrorism.” And John Sununu was correct: Candy Crowley, my sometimes stalker, was way out of line.
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