The firestorm over the role of the moderator at the second presidential debate shows no signs of dying down. 

First came Tuesday night's event at Hofstra and before it was over there was a major controversy over whether moderator Candy Crowley should have interceded on President Obama’s behalf. 

But wait, there's more. Now we have her managing editor at CNN, Mark Whitaker, sending out an internal memo defending her performance, calling it a “superb job.”

In the memo, first made public by the website TMZ, Whitaker ignores the fact that Crowley herself publicly admitted after the debate that she wasn’t entirely correct when she said Obama did describe the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya as a terrorist act in a Rose Garden statement one day later. 

Mitt Romney said the president didn’t do it until weeks after the attack. He said on Tuesday night that the president continued to say the Sept. 11 attack that killed our ambassador to Libya and three other Americans was the result of anger at an anti-Muslim video produced in the United States and seen on YouTube.

"He did in fact call it an 'act of terror,'" Crowley said in the debate. She was referring to the part of Obama’s statement on Sept. 12 that "no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation."

When a post-debate fact check of the transcript revealed that Obama was not directly referring to the Libya attack when he described “acts of terror,” Crowley revised her own remarks conceding that Romney “was right in the main.”