Working in retail and heading into the Holiday selling season, I've just not had the time to prepare and write the blog posts I want to write. I'd like to write an entire blog post about the amount of shear "hatred" I read in many posts, especially on the left. And Twitter? OMG!!!
I will devote a few short paragraphs to Candy Crowley's role as Moderator of the Presidential Debate this past week. President Obama won the debate, exactly as I predicted and expected. No surprise there. But why and how did Candy Crowley suddenly jump into the debate to defend President Obama with an obscure single word, out of context, factoid from a Rose Garden Speech? It revolves around one word, "terrorism."
In fact, why did President Obama, after weeks and weeks of absolute denial of ANY KNOWLEDGE THIS WAS A PLANNED, ORGANIZED, TERRORIST ATTACK during that first ten day period following the torture and murder of Ambassador Stevens (including a lengthy and tortured denial by Vice President Biden last week), suddenly remember he actually DID call it terrorism before any of the "facts" were known?
More importantly why did the otherwise objective Candy Crowley have that Rose Garden speech literally memorized? How was she suddenly able to verify Obama's obscure single use of the word "terrorism" in the middle of the Wednesday night debate?
And why did she need to "fact check" Mitt Romney instantly?
This smells bad. I have no proof, of course, but I genuinely believe there was some sort of collusion between Crowley and the President's Election Committee. I don't believe in accidents. And this was no accident. This doesn't feel right.
And it wasn't necessary. President Obama was winning on style and substance. Worse yet we now know that Candy Crowley was essentially wrong. She herself has personally "walked back" the interruption saying that Romney essentially correct.
Finally I'm bothered by the vicious attack on Ann Romney on The View today. Mitt Romney wasn't there (and he should have been). But, after the sickeningly sweet cotton candy interview of President and Michele Obama, how is it that Barbara Walters let the Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar dogs loose on Ann?
I'm going to let superb blogger Mary from FREEDOM EDEN take it from here. Read her entire post: ANN ROMNEY: THE VIEW
My history with today's top name in the news:
I need to rebuild and restore the links to the original THE WIZARD, FKAP website archives. My original webpage collection was started long before the term blog ever existed, but included a regular essay under the title The Existential Blues. All the essays and files still exist and are still on-line. I'll get the links restored and embedded in the right hand column as soon as possible.
When those link appear, you'll find I've written to and about Hilary Rosen since the early 1990's. As the head of the Recording Industry Artists of America (RIAA) she is the subject of many of my earliest essays. She has always been a tone deaf hack and in her official RIAA position, she almost single-handedly destroyed the entire music industry. She fought legal digital downloads with a single-minded (closed minded) zeal that was breath-taking to behold. If you wanted to sue Grandma for an illegal download, Hilary was your gal!
She seems incapable of independent thought, and functions mostly as an agent who does the bidding of her masters, currently the Democratic Party National Committee (DNC).
That Hilary Rosen is currently employed by CNN is an embarrassment to journalism.
Today, Hilary Rosen is in the headlines through her foolish comment about Ann Romney. Here is a summary of the latest Rosen disaster from the AP Newswires:
The multimedia furor erupted Wednesday night when Rosen said on CNN that Ann Romney, whose husband is worth millions, never had to work to pay the bills and should not be her husband's surrogate on women and the economy.
"His wife has actually never worked a day in her life," Rosen said. "She's never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of women in this country are facing."
The backlash was brutal and swift.
David Axelrod, Obama's top campaign strategist, tweeted that Rosen's comments were "inappropriate and offensive." The president's campaign manager, Jim Messina, said Rosen should apologize. And the Democratic National Committee downplayed any connection to Rosen or her firm.
Although I've written in these spaces that the Republican "war on women" doesn't actually exist, Democrats and President Obama had successfully used this fabricated issue and had gained a virtually insurmountable lean among women voters.
Hilary Rosen single-handedly turned the tide and gave the issue back to the Republicans on a silver platter. That she then tripled down on her ill advised statement, assuring that the public forgot, if not forgave, Rush Limbaugh, was stunning to behold.
Republican comments were unnecessary. We are watching a train wreck in progress.
Her apologies, two so far, were ever worse. Hilary Rosen doesn't understand the public or the issues involved. The Democrats need to drop her like the hot potato she has become. So does CNN.
