CNN Dismisses Republican Criticism Of Moderator Candy Crowley: Romney ‘Did Not Have As Good A Night’

CNN Managing Editor Mark Whitaker, in an email to staff on Wednesday, congratulated the network’s own Candy Crowley for her job moderating this week’s presidential debate and dismissed the criticism of her as coming from Romney supporters because “their man did not have as good a night as he had in Denver.”

Republicans and Romney surrogates are not pleased that Crowley fact-checked the Republican nominee mid-debate during an exchange focusing on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Seeking to capitalize on the administration’s meandering statements since the attack, Romney claimed the president waited two whole weeks before labeling the violence an act of terrorism. Obama asserted, correctly, that he’d called the incident an act of terror during his Rose Garden remarks the day after the attack.

“He did, in fact, sir, call it an act of terror,” Crowley interjected during the debate.

“The reviews on Candy’s performance have been overwhelmingly positive but Romney supporters are going after her on two points, no doubt because their man did not have as good a night as he had in Denver,” Whitaker wrote in his memo, obtained by TPM. “On the legitimacy of Candy fact-checking Romney on Obama’s Rose Garden statement, it should be stressed that she was just stating a point of fact: Obama did talk about an act (or acts) of terror, no matter what you think he meant by that at the time.”

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