CNN's Crowley cropped Obama quote, omitting his assertion that "[w]e're going to have to fight" every day until election
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SUMMARY: On Anderson Cooper 360, Candy Crowley asserted: "The polls nationwide and in the battlegrounds suggest if the election were held today, Barack Obama would win. They feel it in the crowds, and he feels it, too." Crowley then aired a clip of Obama stating, "I feel like we've got a righteous wind at our backs." But Crowley left out the rest of Obama's statement: "[B]ut we're going to have to work. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to fight for every single one of those 13 days to move this country in a new direction."
During the October 22 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, correspondent Candy Crowley asserted: "The polls nationwide and in the battlegrounds suggest if the election were held today, Barack Obama would win. They feel it in the crowds, and he feels it, too." Then, purporting to support her claim that Obama thinks he would win, Crowley aired a clip of Obama in Leesburg, Virginia, stating, "I feel like we've got a righteous wind at our backs." But Crowley left out the rest of Obama's comments, which undermine her suggestion that Obama was giving any thought to a hypothetical election to be held that day or that he was assuming victory. As Media Matters for America noted in pointing out The Washington Post's omission of Obama's further comments, Obama followed his "righteous wind" comment by saying, "[B]ut we're going to have to work. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to fight for every single one of those 13 days to move this country in a new direction."
Here is what Obama actually said (compiled from a Breitbart.tv video clip of the first part of Obama's remarks and an MSNBC video clip of the second part):
And in 13 days, if you'll stand with me, then I know that we can win Virginia and we can win this election and we can finally bring the change we need to Washington. Now, that's the good news. I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here, but we're going to have to work. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to fight for every single one of those 13 days to move this country in a new direction.
From the October 22 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360:
CROWLEY: The polls nationwide and in the battlegrounds suggest if the election were held today, Barack Obama would win. They feel it in the crowds, and he feels it, too.
OBAMA: I feel like we've got a righteous wind at our backs.
CROWLEY: Still, nobody knows better than John McCain that politics can surprise. He returned to New Hampshire this morning, the state that resurrected his primary campaign.
Why show the whole context when cropping it gives you something to talk about and some meme to push? This is the news media folks. They thrive on controversy. If it doesn't happen naturally, they'll manufacture it.
From what I have seen over the years, in Crowley's case it is not so much controversy as it is anti-Democratic bias that she thrives on.
Meanwhile, the only wind Candy Crowley feels at her back are the gaseous pulses of her own flatus.
She choked on her Repub "grants" saying the word "win."
Damned rabid left-wing smear site MMFA! Always pointing out how the media is uniformly cropping quotes and taking the exact same words out of context, as if there was a pattern to it.
I still remember how terrible she was during the last Presidental election. She tried to make a big deal about Kerry drinking green tea. She is nothing but a hack.
A few months ago Crowley said she was reporting from Springfield,Mo.when she was in Springfield,Ill.just before the Democratic Convention.I see the Republicans have changed the ealy voter centers hours to limit them to 8 hours a weekend.Obviously an intent to disenfranchise more voters.Some have waited 5 hours to vote earlier.?In some nations you don't get to vote for anything and some people in the U.S.will wait for hours to buy xmas presents&concert tickets.Rachel Maddow reported on this Florida Jim Crow-Poll Tax form of Disenfranchisement.
Crowley: "nobody knows better than John McCain"
Wow, could she be any more partisan?!
Crowley drank the McCain koolaid in 2000 and it's so obvious she has not dried out from it since. She is still starry eyed over the 2000 straight talk and cannot see the real and new mcCain.
She's also been down on Obama since the start. In the primaries it was Hillary who she favored and showed it.
Now it's McCain.
she doesn' t like obama at all.
Obama has done the righteous wind at our back since the beginning of the primaries, let alone the general campaign.
So it was edited into a little sound bite, what else is new?