CNN anchor who pulled Obama's butt out of the fire during 2012 debates gets award for excellence

soopermexican | 8:35 AM on March 06, 2014

Let’s all take some time to remember back when we still had hopes that Barack Obama would be a one-term president, and how those hopes were dashed by a lapdog media willing to do whatever was necessary to keep him in office. It was during the first presidential debate that CNN’s Candy Crowley jumped into the fray to lie for Barack Obama when GOP nominee Mitt Romney rightly said Obama did not call Benghazi “terrorism” the day after the attack. Remember?

Here’s the full transcript of Obama’s Rose Garden remarks. Romney was right. Crowley was wrong. CNN host Anderson Cooper admitted it. Even Crowley herself sorta admitted it, acknowledging that Romney was “right in the main.”

Let it never be said that the press doesn’t take care of its own:

Candy Crowley of CNN receives Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism @shorensteinctr pic.twitter.com/6Gtv3zFPwh

— Nancy Palmer (@npalmerrothman) March 6, 2014

@SooperMexican @gwenifill @crowleyCNN an award very undeserved goes to a phony journalist who should've been fired after the 2nd 2012 debate

— Deplorable Gary (@redpens68) March 5, 2014

This is the most ridiculous mockery of the profession of journalism since, well … since someone gave a similar award to Andrea “deceptively edited video” Mitchell:

Congratulations to Andrea @Mitchellreports for winning @PressClubDC Fourth Estate Award tonite! http://t.co/Iu9t5dbqFg

— Judy Woodruff (@JudyWoodruff) October 5, 2013