Will Candy Crowley be fired or ostracized for daring to fact check Romney on the spot?

[yurbud]

It is so rare for the MSM to do that, let alone to a pol's face (unless the happen to be wrong AND bucking the conventional inside-the-beltway wisdom...or just the bucking part).

I wonder if she is going to be moved to the progressive ghetto at MSNBC or CNN will stand by her.

It would have also been nice if she had interrupted Romney and said, "Even if he DIDN'T say 'act of terror' for two weeks, SO THE FUCK WHAT? Why do those magic words matter so much to you? If he doesn't invoke the terrorist boogeyman, are you worried people won't be adequately terrorized here?"

But that really would cost her her job.

What, if any, will be the consequences for her daring to do real time fact-checking?

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	No consequences. CNN will ride out the right wing caterwauling
	10 (83%)
	Meet your new MSNBC host
	0 (0%)
	A slot on the ever shrinking progressive talk radio
	0 (0%)
	podcasts & blogging
	0 (0%)
	a public change apology and a new job as house broken liberal at Fox News
	2 (17%)
	other
	0 (0%)
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[amborin]

1. can you assemble emails or links so people can email their praise?

[crunch60]

14. good idea, I ill email CNN , could we get some links? nt

[yurbud]

2. if there are no consequences, I would bet this breaks the back of MSM fear of the right wing press

they might not stray far from prescribe frame of issues, but they at least won't cower before the right like they have up to this point.

[HuckleB]

3. She did her job. Lehrer failed to do his job.

Yet, no one is calling for Lehrer's neck.

This is just ridiculous.

[ananda]

4. As crazy as it is..

.. didn't PBS endorse Romney?

[HuckleB]

13. I don't think PBS does endorsements.

[julian09]

5. They would send her to FOX with the other former 8 former CNN hosts.

[yurbud]

7. then they would put her through the Alan Colmes Manchurian Candidate process

until she learned her place.

"I cannot contradict a Republican...I have no evidence, only emotions for my belief...Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are intellectuals who can best me in any argument..."

[graham4anything]

6. She has much power. She will never be fired.

but she gained a little cred with the democrats...

never in the past has she been nice to democrats and nothing she said was wrong

[yurbud]

9. nothing she said was wrong--which unfortunately is what made it so exceptional

the usual even-handed and non-judgmental approach to these things makes it look like the candidate are being honest and have equally valid points, which gives a tremendous advantage to liars.

[WinkyDink]

8. Not yet. ;-)

[yurbud]

10. Thanks, Ms Crowley.

[Honeycombe8]

11. What's not shown on tape, but which she did, was ALSO verify Romney's claim that it was 2 wks

before the administration stated it was a planned attack, or whatever they said.

[noel711]

12. I never liked her, but I give her props...

for being uncharacteristically professional at her moderating job.

In the past she's pissed me off, but now I am willing to
admit she was good; not Raditz good, but better than I expected.