Wait, when did Ashleigh Banfield come back?

[Drunken Irishman]

She's on CNN right now. Wow, I missed her.

[freddie mertz]

1. Agreed.

Is she really back now?

MSNBC treated her horribly.

For telling the truth.

[me b zola]

2. I've been seeing her for a few weeks now

I don't see her everyday, but this is about the 3rd time that she's been a guest. I absolutely love seeing her.

[BlooInBloo]

3. For any who don't know the WTF Happened To Ashleigh Banfield story...

Welcome to another episode of What Digby Said:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/truths-consequences-by-digby-since.html

I made terrible fun of Banfield. She seemed to me to be the personification of the infotainment industrial complex, a reporter better known for her stylish spectacles and blond highlights than her journalistic skills. She was their girl hero, a Jessica Lynch of TV news, constructed out of whole cloth in the marketing department of MSNBC. But I was wrong about her. It's true that she was a cable news star who was created out of the rubble of 9/11, but her reporting that day really was pretty riveting. Her stories from Afghanistan were often shallow, but no more than any of the other blow dried hunks they dispatched over there, and they were sometimes better. Still, she symbolized for me the media exploitation of 9/11 and the War on Terror Show and I was unforgiving.

And then Banfield gave this speech on April 24, 2003:
http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/landonlect/banfieldtext403.html

She was instantly demoted by MSNBC and fired less than a year later.

Check out the speech.

[truebrit71]

6. That was some speech...no wonder she was canned....

...Too bad MSNBC won't have her back...

[Cha]

7. Ashleigh can be proud

of herself.

[PufPuf23]

9. WoW Banfield is smart and has a good heart

Thanks for the link to her speech.

[JaneQPublic]

4. That leave the door open for the return of Rita Cosby...

...or, as Randi Rhodes called her, "Throaty McHuskington."

[DrToast]

5. LOL

...or, as Randi Rhodes called her, "Throaty McHuskington."

That's pretty funny. Although I've always thought Rhodes was pretty "throaty."

[SoCalDem]

11. Rita the news-hound..she stops at NOTHING to "get the story"

[ejpoeta]

12. uugghh!! that woman was annoying!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. it's now safe for her to do so

[H2O Man]

10. True TV,

formerly known as Court TV, has her on daily during the week. She co-hosts a two hour show.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

13. I'd be willing to turn on the tv if I knew she was on it.

I've missed her these past few years.

[watercolors]

14. Love to see her replace Mika!!

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