Media Matters - Candy Crowley

Media Matters - Candy Crowley http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/candy_crowley This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Candy Crowley en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America Numerous media outlets reported McCain's attack on Obama over public financing without noting McCain's loan http://mediamatters.org/items/200806200011 Numerous media outlets have reported all or part of Sen. John McCain's statement rebuking Sen. Barack Obama for his decision to forgo public financing in the general election without mentioning that during the primary, McCain signed a loan that could have forced him to remain in the race -- even if he had no chance of winning -- in order to be eligible for public matching funds to repay the loan. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806200011 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:46:17 EST Predicting McCain will attack Obama over public financing, CNN's Crowley did not report that McCain may be breaking the law http://mediamatters.org/items/200806190002 On CNN's American Morning, reporting on Sen. Barack Obama's decision to opt out of public financing for the general election, Candy Crowley asserted that "you can expect that [Sen. John McCain] will hit Obama on two scores: One, you went back on what you said you would do; and two, this is not how to reform Washington." But Crowley did not report that McCain may actually be breaking campaign finance law. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806190002 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:59:05 EST CNN's Crowley, Fox News' Rosen cite McCain attacks on Obama's Iraq knowledge without noting McCain's misstatements about conditions in Iraq http://mediamatters.org/items/200805290002 CNN's Candy Crowley uncritically reported that Sen. John McCain is "continually suggesting Obama wants to surrender in Iraq without knowing what's happening there," and Fox News' James Rosen said, "Obama's absence from the war zone over the last two and a half years, McCain argued, has left the first-term senator divorced from the reality that now prevails on the ground in Iraq." However, neither Crowley nor Rosen mentioned any of the misstatements McCain has made that have raised questions about whether McCain himself "know[s] what's happening" in Iraq. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805290002 Thu, 29 May 2008 14:36:31 EST CNN has yet to note that, notwithstanding McCain's criticism of Obama, McCain reportedly doesn't expect Al Qaeda in Iraq would "be taking a country" if "we left" Iraq http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230003 After airing several reports in February highlighting Sen. John McCain's assertion that "if we left [Iraq], [Al Qaeda in Iraq] wouldn't be establishing a base ... they'd be taking a country," CNN has yet to follow up by noting that McCain reportedly does not believe that assertion. According to The New York Times, "[f]ew, including Mr. McCain, expect Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia [Iraq], a Sunni group, to take control of Shiite-dominated Iraq in the event of an American withdrawal." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230003 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:00:46 EST CNN's Blitzer asserted Petraeus and Crocker are not "political appointees" -- but Bush appointed both to current positions http://mediamatters.org/items/200804090012 On The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer said: "General [David] Petraeus is a career military officer. Ambassador [Ryan] Crocker is a career diplomat, a foreign service officer. It's not as if they're political appointees by the Bush administration in which they can sort of, you know, roll up their sleeves and really go after them." In fact, both Petraeus and Crocker were nominated for their current positions by President Bush. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804090012 Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:57:25 EST CNN's Crowley repeated accusation that Obama "distort[ed]" McCain's "100 years" remark, without reporting what McCain actually said http://mediamatters.org/items/200804020008 On The Situation Room, Candy Crowley stated that Sen. Barack Obama "accus[ed] [Sen. John] McCain of wanting to be in Iraq for another 100 years." She then reported "that is a distortion of what McCain said, and they push back very hard -- the McCain campaign -- when they hear this." In fact, during a January 3 town hall meeting in New Hampshire, McCain said a U.S. military presence in Iraq for the next 100 years would "be fine ... [a]s long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804020008 Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:49:16 EST CNN's Crowley again defines liberals by purported choice of caffeinated beverage http://mediamatters.org/items/200802110010 CNN's Candy Crowley said that the "affluent, well-educated white voters" who were part of Sen. Barack "Obama's voting bloc" were the "so-called latte liberals." This statement recalls her reported 2004 suggestion that green tea is unfamiliar to "most of America" after John Kerry requested it in Iowa. Similarly, on Fox News, U.S. News & World Report's Michael Barone suggested that Obama would do well among "latte liberals." Alan Colmes then challenged Barone's description: "[A]re there latte conservatives?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200802110010 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:48:23 EST CNN's Blitzer, Crowley claimed Obama "in sync" with Bush on Pakistan http://mediamatters.org/items/200708020010 http://mediamatters.org/items/200708020010 Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:18:14 EST CNN's Crowley on Dems' "old message": "[W]e don't support the troops and we're not tough on national security" http://mediamatters.org/items/200702270013 http://mediamatters.org/items/200702270013 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:37:41 EST AP, CNN, The State reported McCain's Roe comment without noting McCain's history of flip-flopping on overturning Roe http://mediamatters.org/items/200702200008 http://mediamatters.org/items/200702200008 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:02:07 EST CNN's Crowley uncritically aired Corker's false statement that he "never said a negative word about [Ford's] family" http://mediamatters.org/items/200610250010 CNN's Candy Crowley uncritically aired Tennessee Republican Senate candidate Bob Corker's false claim that he has "never said a negative word" about the family of his Democratic opponent, Rep. Harold Ford Jr. In fact, Corker has "question[ed]" Ford's father's employment as a lobbyist, and Corker's campaign has repeatedly attacked Ford's family as the "Ford Political Machine." http://mediamatters.org/items/200610250010 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:54:45 EST CNN's Crowley asked Shuler if he is "a Nancy Pelosi Democrat," but CNN has yet to ask Republicans if they are "Denny Hastert [or George Bush or Dick Cheney] Republicans" http://mediamatters.org/items/200610250003 http://mediamatters.org/items/200610250003 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:32:28 EST CNN's Crowley dredges up anti-Democrat clichés, asserts: "If Democrats do sweep into power this year ... it will be through no fault their own" http://mediamatters.org/items/200610200018 During a segment that looked at the Democrats' prospects in the upcoming midterm elections, CNN's Candy Crowley devoted her report to reinforcing negative stereotypes about the Democratic Party promoted by Republicans and repeated in the media. http://mediamatters.org/items/200610200018 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:54:43 EST GOP strategists christen "Democrat [sic] Party" -- and the media comply http://mediamatters.org/items/200608160005 Several media figures, including news reporters, echoed Republicans by employing the word "Democrat" as an adjective to refer to things or people of, or relating to, the Democratic Party. http://mediamatters.org/items/200608160005 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:41:15 EST CNN's Cooper and Crowley: Lamont victory shows that centrists cannot win Democratic primaries http://mediamatters.org/items/200608090003 Discussing incumbent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's defeat in the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary, CNN host Anderson Cooper and senior political correspondent Candy Crowley both suggested that the election result shows that "moderates" or "centrists" cannot win a Democratic primary race. Their assertions are based on a false premise: that on the issue on which challenger Ned Lamont primarily ran -- the Iraq war -- Lamont's view that the United States should withdraw is one held only by liberals, and that Lieberman's opposition to withdrawal is the "centrist" position. http://mediamatters.org/items/200608090003 Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:28:21 EST