![]() ![]() One of the lead headlines on the Drudge Report late Tuesday night said, “Candy gives Obama 9 percent more time…” She fact-checked the Republican without fact-checking the Democrat. ![]() Many conservative commentators quickly trained their sights on a common enemy during the debate: Candy Crowley, the moderator. The National Rifle Association wrote in 1999 that the effect of the law had been “to ‘freeze’ the number of privately owned fully-automatic firearms at roughly 150,000, an exact figure being unavailable due to privacy protection requirements that apply to tax-based laws such as the National Firearms Act.” (See Part 479 of this chapter) or (b) Any lawful transfer or lawful possession of a machine gun that was lawfully possessed before (See Part 479 of this chapter).” It says: “No person shall transfer or possess a machine gun except: (a) A transfer to or by, or possession by or under the authority of, the United States, or any department or agency thereof, or a State, or a department, agency, or political subdivision thereof. The law, posted on the Web site of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms contains a section called “transfer or possession of machine guns.” While the sale of new fully automatic machine guns to civilians has been outlawed since 1986, older machine guns were grandfathered into the law and can be sold to civilians in certain states. “Governor Romney was fact-checked by the moderator when he denied that the president stood in the Rose Garden the day after’’ and referred to the attack as terrorism, Mr. ![]() Obama “did call it an act of terror” was a highlight of the debate. David Axelrod, the president’s top stragetist, said Ms. Sununu, the former governor of New Hampshire, flatly asserted, “The president got caught lying tonight, and he’s going to pay a penalty for that.”ĭemocrats strongly disagreed. Obama said, “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation.”īut others in his administration said for days that the evidence pointed to a spontaneous attack during a demonstration in reaction to the American-made video. Ridge said, “the president, his ambassador to the United Nations, his secretary of state and even he himself on multiple occasions talked about that incident as being the consequence of some kind of spontaneous demonstration to that ugly movie.” Bush, predicted that the most discussed moment of the debate would be “Candy Crowley’s trying to say on behalf of the president, ‘Well, you did mention terror.’” Tom Ridge, a former Homeland Security secretary under George W. Chaffetz came armed with a transcript of the president’s spokesman, Jay Carney, stating days later that there was no evidence to back up the claim the attack was preplanned, that it was most likely sparked by an anti-Islamic video. “The idea the president called out a terrorist attack in the Rose Garden - Governor Romney’s correct, the president is wrong,’’ said Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican who helped lead a House hearing into the attacks last week. Obama when he said he did just that in the Rose Garden. Obama identified the attack in Benghazi, Libya, early on as terrorism, and to scold Candy Crowley, the debate moderator, for backing up Mr. Romney’s senior advisers and surrogates flooding the spin room seemed to have one thing above all else on their minds: to deny that Mr. ![]()
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