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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTucker Carlson: Crowley’s fact check was like Abraham Lincoln’s assassination
Could they get any more ridiculous?
"Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson says that Candy Crowleys real-time fact check of Mitt Romney during Tuesday night presidential debate was so devastating that it can be compared to John Wilkes Booths assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
During Tuesday nights second 2012 presidential debate, Crowleys instant fact check had briefly stunned the GOP hopeful by undermining his claim that President Barack Obama had not initially referred to the recent attacks in Libya as acts of terror.
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For most of the play, John Wilkes Booth set there politely, but it was the moment when he didnt that made history, Carlson explained, referring to Crowleys fact check of Romney. And I thought this was the definitive point in this debate.
This changed the debate, this is exactly what moderators are not supposed to do, he added. This is kind of serious. Theres only three weeks and we want to know what these guys are like and she prevented us from learning.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/18/tucker-carlson-crowleys-fact-check-was-like-abraham-lincolns-assassination/
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)What a steaming pile.
Dem2TheCore
(220 posts)she exposed exactly what Romney is.
I love the Republican reaction to Crawley. It's hurt dog squealing!
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Dem2TheCore
(220 posts)Fucker Carlson is making a comeback? I thought Jon Stewart killed off this twerp years ago.
mikeytherat
(6,829 posts)that this is 1,000,000 times worse than all of those combined." - Kent Brockman, The Simpsons
mikey_the_rat
Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)What a ridiculous analogy. A president getting killed as opposed to a liar being corrected? 'Nuf said.
ProfessorGAC
(65,060 posts)Booth wasn't sitting there politely through most of the night. He was skulking and slithering about trying to avoid attention and detection.
So, not only is it ridiculously overstated, but it's just flat wrong.
GAC
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)strongermessage
(284 posts)Tucker Carlson is an insignificant twit who had to create his own medium in order to spew his useless drivel.
Lisa D
(1,532 posts)is proof of how devastating that debate moment was for Romney & the republicans.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Actually, it was more like stopping the assassin's bullet.
Frankly, she did it to get him to finally sit down and shut up. It was his umpteenth attempt to hijack the debate by interrupting and going on and on and on. The only way she could get him to stop bullying her (and the other candidate) was to tell the truth. And for that she gets compared to the nation's most reviled criminal.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)lie, and expect the lie to stand until America turns off the TV and goes to bed. They're not upset that Mittens is a fucking liar. They're upset that their strategy, for just one time, DID NOT WORK and actually blew up in Mitt's face.
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)Bursting their reality bubble is a capital offense.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)It's about time someone did it.
LeftinOH
(5,354 posts)and "assassinating" someone... I can see his analogy here (sort of), but Tucker's still an idiot.
ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)What a tool.
So Candy correcting the record live during the debate is some kind of a treacherous, treasonous, murderous act? No Tucker, if she knew the truth and chose to remain silent during that exchange with Romney and the President, that would have been akin to murder. (Actually, it would have been a dereliction of her journalistic duty, not murder. I was just trying to make a point...lol!)
Tucker Carlson is the new Douchebag of Liberty. Robert Novak would be proud.
ecstatic
(32,707 posts)Candy affirmed Pres. Obama but she also slipped in a life saver for Robme (and she's making sure to emphasize that on every interview she goes on). Regardless, the reason why it was a win for Obama and not Romney is because the AUDIENCE cheered, along with the rest of America who HATES Romney (despite all the misleading polls that say otherwise). Repubs can't handle the fact that America does not like Romney.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,840 posts)No, Tucker, most learned Romney is a lying douche-bag. You of course already knew that because you both regularly show up for the club meetings.
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)His poor mom.
And what Candy did is the very definition of moderate. While I am not a huge fan of hers, she did a good job but it will be her last debate. The GOP will never agree to her again. In fact, bet none of the moderators this year will be acceptable again.
MjolnirTime
(1,800 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)Man is in a perpetual state of the vapours. Someone please get him some smelling salts.
Johonny
(20,851 posts)Crowley's debate had the TV ratings Tucker imagines his shows had. Every cable network thinks Tucker is a great hirer... but they have all been wrong. The guy is ratings poison because he isn't smart, funny, charismatic, blow hard, crazy... there is no reason to watch, listen or think about this man. Rating prove, it is impossible to be interested in Tucker Carlson.
Stinky The Clown
(67,807 posts). . . . . The Nation's Most Irrelevant People Who Pathetically Try To Stay In The Public Eye.
Current standings have Rick Perry in First Place, Marsha Blackburn in second place, followed by Carlson, Pataki, and Sarah Palin.
http://www.stinkytheclownisalwaysright.com
Enrique
(27,461 posts)like Stephen Colbert. If so, it's pretty funny.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)Jon Stewart is to thank for why this idiot stopped arguing on Crossfire all those years ago.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Deal with it asshole.