Debate Commission Co-Chair: Yeah, Candy Crowley Was a ‘Mistake’

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In a lecture to conservatives at the Las Vegas Country Club, Frank Fahrenkopf, co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, admitted that the selection of CNN’s Candy Crowley to moderate the second presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney in October 2012 had been a “mistake.” Crowley stirred controversy by intervening in the town… Read more »

Oh yeah, the debt ceiling. Yawn.

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No matter how hard I try, I just can’t get worked up about this: President Barack Obama made a demand of House Speaker John Boehner near the end of their first White House meeting on the fiscal cliff: Raise the debt limit before year’s end. Boehner responded: “There is a price for everything.” And with… Read more »

Um . . . Heck Yeah We Are the Latter

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The hand wringing continues about the 2012 loss. This time it has moved to “conservative media.” Included in the Buzzfeed article is this: John Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary and a prolific tweeter, rejected the notion that Obama’s reelection represented a failure of the conservative media. But he said that as the GOP tries to… Read more »