{"id":12654,"date":"2020-10-09T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12654"},"modified":"2020-10-09T00:37:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T07:37:26","slug":"the-full-crowley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-full-crowley\/","title":{"rendered":"The Full Crowley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second presidential election debate&nbsp;between President&nbsp;Barack Obama&nbsp;and Republican presidential nominee&nbsp;Mitt Romney on October 16, 2012, CNN moderator Candy Crowley sensed that Obama, coming off a dismal initial September 26 debate, was again floundering.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romney was driving home the valid point that the Obama Administration had inadequately prepared the American mission in Benghazi for likely terrorist attacks. And such laxity resulted in a horrific attack and the deaths of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet in the wake of the attacks, Team Obama denied that the killing of four Americans was indeed an act of terror. Instead, it fed the public a transparently but politically correct false narrative of a spontaneous riot in reaction to a video posted by a purported right-wing Egyptian residing on American soil.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet in the debate, Obama retorted: \u201cThe day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we\u2019re going to hunt down those who committed this crime.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/10\/04\/the-full-crowley\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness In the second presidential election debate&nbsp;between President&nbsp;Barack Obama&nbsp;and Republican presidential nominee&nbsp;Mitt Romney on October 16, 2012, CNN moderator Candy Crowley sensed that Obama, coming off a dismal initial September 26 debate, was again floundering.&nbsp; Romney was driving home the valid point that the Obama Administration had inadequately prepared the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3i6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":378,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-the-debates-taught-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":12654,"position":0},"title":"What the Debates Taught Us","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 31, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The president of the United States in the last debate chose to go on the attack against his challenger, Mitt Romney \u2014 and once again largely failed to convince the American people that he was the more presidential alternative. 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