Oh GAG! Who's the moran blonde lady on the overnight CNN coverage?

[PCIntern]

She's waving her arms all over the place and using phrases to describe campaigns like "bitter bitter chicken dinner" when she was talking aobut the McCain/Romney battle of 2008. She also alluded to the fact that she has a "small brain", which is obviously true...but my God...I haven't seen anyone like this in a long time...

On edit: answer below...UNBELIEVABLE!

[JI7]

1. that's ashleigh banfield who is pretty well known

i don't know why she is doing that. i never really watched her before but heard good things about her.

but she is just coming off really bad right now. i would expect this type of crap on The View or some other crap show.

[PCIntern]

2. you're kidding...

WTF happened to her? I wouldn't have recognized her in a million years...has she been programmed??

I can't believe it...

thanks for the info...I'm stunned.

[JI7]

4. she is talking like young girls who gossip about boys

and other things.

she was just amazed some guy knew some political facts. well, that's why he is on the show discussing this.

i kind of hope she really is drunk which she made a joke about being. because this is bad.

[Luminous Animal]

3. I'm thinking because she is blonde she is double plus bad.

[monmouth]

13. As a L'Oreal Blonde I'll go ahead and assume you forgot the sarcasm thingy. Of course

being "double plus bad" is just part of our landscape....sigh..

[Major Nikon]

14. I suspect she's a natural brunette

[ZombieHorde]

5. I find our culture's habit of pointing out blonde women's hair,

but not blonde men's hair, interesting. I wonder what it means. Maybe it means nothing.

[PCIntern]

6. You're right...it means nothing...

it was opposed to the anchor who has dark hair. You're ex-actly correct in this case. Congratulations to you.

[Bombtrack]

7. are you sure she wasn't saying "winner winner chicken dinner" and not "bitter bitter" ?

Because "winner winner..." is the phrase as recently popularized by Charlie Sheen in his crazy fugue state on an internet radio show, and replayed in soundbite form by the Howard Stern show an infinite number of times.

[PCIntern]

15. Maybe...but I swear she said "bitter bitter"

I gotta get those ears checked...

[Are_grits_groceries]

8. Ashley Banfield covered the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.She was severely punished by the PTB because

she "spoke against "cable news operators who wrap themselves in the American flag and go after a certain target demographic", and specifically named Fox News Channel as an example.[3] The New York Times reported that her speech angered NBC management, who rebuked her and lowered her profile.[2

What they did to her:
I was office-less for ten months ... No phone, no computer. For ten months I had to report to work every day and ask where I could sit. If somebody was away I could use their desk. Eventually, after ten months of this, I was given an office that was a tape closet. They cleared the tapes out and put a desk and a TV in there, and a computer and phone. It was pretty blatant.

The message was crystal clear. Yet they wouldn't let me leave. I begged for seventeen months to be let out of my contract. If they had no use for me, let's just part ways amicably—no need for payouts, just a clean break. And [NBC News President Neal Shapiro] wouldn't allow it.

I don't know what his rationale was—perhaps he thought I would take what I felt was a very strong brand, and others felt was a very strong brand, to another network and make a success of it. Maybe that's why he chose to keep me in a warehouse. I will never forgive him for his cruelty and the manner in which he decided to dispose of me.
—in New Canaan-Darien Magazine, January 2009[4]

Prior to joining the network, Banfield worked for MSNBC and reported from numerous overseas locations, including the Middle East and Central Asia. She received several Emmy Awards for her body of journalistic work, and criticized media coverage of the Iraq War in April 2003. She was also briefly a law and justice correspondent on Good Morning America until October 2011 and now works for CNN Early Start.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashleigh_

Banfield has more balls than most reporters and all of the cable and network executives. It took big brass ones to do and say what she did.

She has never gotten the same kind of assignments since. Banfield seems to float from place to place. She reports on a variety subjects.

I fully believe that she has been singled out and 'Dixie Chicked' by all the people who run the MSM. Blackballed all the way!

It would appear from the comments that she was less than stellar. However, I believe she is an excellent reported and journalist. She may just not give a damn right now.

[Fumesucker]

9. Banfield got blackballed big time.

That's what happens if you tell the truth in an era of universal deceit.

[PCIntern]

10. It is unbelievable...

she was unrecognizable in any way, shape, or form.

[Fumesucker]

11. Kind of goes to show what happens if you truly piss off TPTB..

And I think Banfield did just that, the one unforgivable sin is telling the unvarnished truth.

[WinkyDink]

12. Dan Rather could have warned her.

"Forged, " my arse.