CNN admits that Crowley’s disregard of the rules was intended to help Obama

If authentic, CNN’s memo explaining why Candy Crowley permitted President Obama to speak four minutes more than Mitt Romney during Tuesday’s presidential debate is devastating to that network:

On why Obama got more time to speak, it should be noted that Candy and her commission producers tried to keep it even but that Obama went on longer largely because he speaks more slowly. We’re going to do a word count to see whether, as in Denver, Romney actually got more words in even if he talked for a shorter period of time.

One of Crowley’s main jobs as moderator was to enforce the rules that were established for the debate. The rules established time limits, not word limits.

Via Powerline

Crowley had two jobs at the debate.  The first was to be sure that Obama had time to make his arguments and to prevent Romney from making his but cutting him off.  The second was to ambush Romney on the issue of Benghazi and "terrorism."  Since she knew the questions in advance, in fact had picked the questions, she knew how that part of the debate was going to go and was ready to rally to Obama's defense.