October 11th, 2012

Candy Crowley: What she will look for in second presidential debate

The next debate moderator CNN’s Candy Crowley tells about what she will look for in the second debate, “When you go into a debate, you don’t want to ask questions that anybody can Google.  You want to see what new frontier you can open up that’s meaningful.  You don’t want to go into especially the Greek debt crisis, no offense to the people who want to hear about the Greek debt crisis, but I mean, in general, you think most people aren’t going to kind of form their opinions about that.

So you want to open a fertile field, but you want to open a new one.  So you know, it’s what I did in the first presidential debate, was sit around and say, OK, this one, answer, we’re not going to get — you always know when you interview a politician.  There’s only so far they’re going to go.  You know when you’ve hit the limit of the information they’re going to give you.  And it becomes kind of a rabbit hole you run down.  You don’t want to do that and waste the time.”