It seems that this year the Presidential debates are not just about the two candidates, but also the moderators. After Tuesday night's debate at Hofstra University, moderator Candy Crowley immediately was criticized for defending President Obama when Governor Romney questioned his speech immediately after the Benghazi attacks.
On ABC's "The View" Crowley says that her intention was not to side with a particular candidate, but to keep the pace moving and preventing the debate from wandering off point. Crowley told the ladies on the show that she just "did not want to get to 'so is your mother' kinda thing," as reported on ABC News.
When asked what her response was to all the media criticism she was getting for her comments she said I'd ask them (media) to listen to what I said after the comments."
To Crowley's defense she did correct both candidates, after telling Romney that Obama did in fact use the phrase the "act of terror" during his speech at the Rose Garden immediately after the attacks in Benghazi, which claimed the lives of four Americans including the U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, Crowley also said that Romney was correct to point out that it did take the administration two weeks to confirm that it was an act of terrorist and not spontaneous violence.
After a question regarding the attacks, Obama iterated that he called the attacks "acts of terror" in a speech right after the incident. Romney pointed questioned Obama "Did you really call it a terrorist attack, did you?" After Romney's confrontation things got heated when Obama responded "read the transcript."
Crowley interjected correcting Romney, but then also confirmed that Romney was correct in stating that it did take the administration two weeks to accurately describe the motive behind the incident.
The CNN political correspondent remains unapologetic about her comments saying "People are going to look at this through the prism they look at it through."
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