10-16-2012, 09:32 PM
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President Obama started to protest ? drilled as he was by his advisers not to let Romney get away with speaking mistruths. But, in the flash of an instant, Obama must have thought to himself: "Whoa, he doesn't know that he is about to lie."
Obama held his tongue. "Please proceed, Governor," he said.
Romney did proceed, and with smarmy relish told a cynical and politically-motivated lie ? one of those Republican echo chamber lies that are easily disprovable in the real world but repeated on Fox "News" so often that politicians feel comfortable repeating them as well. The lie goes something like this: President Obama refused to "admit" that Ambassador Stevens had lost his life in a terrorist attack, whereas Romney had jumped to that conclusion immediately (I suppose that this qualifies me to be president, because it was my first guess too).
Of course, Obama did call it a terrorist attack the day after it happened. I knew that. And, I thought to myself, "Here we go again, the fact-checkers will chew Romney up after the debate." But then something unexpected happened. CNN's Candy Crowley made a courageous choice as moderator. She injected the historical record into the debate, and confirmed what Obama was implying with his body language: Romney had just lied.
As it happened, the most significant moment in Crowley's career as a journalist was one of many tonight during which she was being talked over, in this case by Romney. This gave the President a chance to say, "Can you repeat that, Candy?"
She did repeat it. And for me, the debate was over.
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