THE CANDY MACHINE – AT 9:24 A.M. ET:  Isn't it remarkable?  Two days after a presidential debate, and the main topic of conversation is the moderator.  Maybe that's what Candy Crowley dreamed about.

She was all full of herself before the debate, insisting that she had an important role to play.  There was uneasiness in many quarters about her self-aggrandizing comments.

And in the debate itself, she was no potted plant.  She was a flower, blooming for Obama. 

But maybe she carried it too far.  Maybe her performance was a major episode in America's disenchantment with the main stream media.  From Jeffrey Lord in American Spectator:

She got it wrong.

She interfered.

She took a side.

Candy Crowley may finally have done something else as well: so visibly tipping the scales of media bias that the end result makes Mitt Romney the next president.

Taken all together, CNN's Candy Crowley, in her zeal to intrude on the presidential debate and save President Obama from himself, may just have provided the televised moment that finally sparks a revolt against the four years of fawning coverage of President Obama.

Becoming to the liberal media what the Tet Offensive was to Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War.

For four years the mainstream media has done everything in its power to portray Barack Obama as the Second Coming, the messiah, or, in the immortal words of one-time Newsweek honcho Evan Thomas, "God." Chris Matthews described thrills down his leg. Katie Couric purred in a sycophantic Obama interview with hard hitting questions like this:

You're so confident Mr. President, and so focused. Is your confidence ever shaken? Do you ever wake up and say "damn, this is hard"?

Tuesday night Candy Crowley became the latest -- and perhaps the most important -- example of what Fox's Bernard Goldberg called in his book title A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media.

COMMENT:  A recent Pew survey reported that 60% of the American people no longer trust the mainstream media.  The media doesn't seem to care.  It is inconceivable that Crowley didn't realize she was tilting the debate on Tuesday night.  Indeed, some commentators believe she did real damage to Romney toward the end when she corrected him on a factual point – which she got wrong – then kept interrupting him.  But in the precincts where Crowley travels, she is no doubt a heroine.  And that's what counts.  Their world.  The world of the sixties.  Why grow up when you don't have to?

October 18, 2012