**Candy Crowley Fact-Checks Mitt Romney: Obama 'Did In Fact' Say Libya Attack Was Terrorism** This was my favorite part of the debate last night. The moderator (Crowley) understood that her job was not to simply ask questions (or have the audience ask them) and allow the two candidates to respond however they pleased. She also had a responsibility to correct the candidates or ask follow-up questions when she knew that they were either lying, dodging, or simply wrong on the facts. In this case, Mitt Romney was not telling the truth. Whether he knew it or not makes little difference. I especially love how President Obama, knowing where Romney was going with this, said, "Please proceed, governor." He let Romney walk right into it, and Crowley took it from there. This required an amazing amount of courage on Crowley's part. If she had been wrong, she would never -- ever -- have lived it down. It would have followed her for the rest of her life. **All journalists should be proud of the job she did.** This should be a lesson to Mitt Romney, and he needs to learn it fast, because he's only got one debate left. Lying, whether intentional or not, is not acceptable when you are presenting your case to the American people. The first presidential debate was filled with statements from Romney that all reputable fact-checkers rightly exposed as having been either false or half-true. The problem, during that debate, was that we had a moderator (Jim Lehrer) and an opponent (President Obama) who were unwilling to call Romney out. That was not the case last night.
