CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield Mistakenly Condemns Eagles’ Guitarist Joe Walsh | Hilarity ensues

[Fred Sanders]

http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/cnns-ashleigh-banfield-mistakenly-condemns-eagles-guitarist-joe-walsh/252622

"CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield blasted former Republican congressman Joe Walsh on Twitter Thursday afternoon, saying “there’s a reason you’re an EX congressman. How dare you call for beheadings of fellow Americans. Despicable.” Banfield was reacting to Walsh’s comment–also made on Twitter–that he hoped “when the Islamists next strike they first behead the appeasing cowards at CNN, MSNBC.”

Unlike a 2012 confrontation between Banfield and Walsh that happened live on CNN, this back-and-forth played out on Twitter, and that led to some confusion.

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Banfield sent her message to @JoeWalsh, which is actually the Twitter handle not of the former GOP congressman, but guitarist Joe Walsh of The Eagles."

“What did the Eagles’ guitarist ever do to you,” a Twitter user named T. Beckett Adams asked Banfield. Others simply responded with Eagles lyrics, suggesting Banfield “take it easy” and saying of Walsh that “life’s been good to him, so far.”

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Setting up the opportunity to mock both CNN and the ex GOP Congressman with the potty mouth and potty brain.

[samsingh]

1. it's pretty sick for joe walsh to hope for a competitor to be beheaded

but it's more of the fox slime

[Fred Sanders]

2. I know. How is that not the headline, the hate speech of ex GOP Congressman Joe Walsh?

Where is fellow CNN Anchor-critters outrage at the real insane Joe Walsh?
If hate speech is to be met with more speech then we better get on it.

The whole thing makes me sick of the instant outrages and instant judgments made by media, and how they attack without any research to serve their own narcissism.

Besides, Joe, not the guitarist, retweeted that he was just joking, so CNN will surely make this whole revealing episode disappear.

PS. The Twitter feed of Joe Walsh, ex GOP congressman, is full of pure hate...enter with caution.

[tanyev]

3. If only there were a quick and easy way for a journalist to research that kind of thing.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Yes, what in the Google could it be? For a "journalist"? Talking puppets, they have that problem.

[cemaphonic]

5. "c'mon man, it's been a rough night, and I hate the fucking Eagles!"

[Fred Sanders]

7. Joe Walsh apparently plays a mean guitar and is also just plain mean, to journalist Ashley Bancroft.

[NightWatcher]

6. I heard he had spent the last year Rocky Mountain way

and that he couldn't get much higher. So there's no way that he could have been posting such nastiness on twitter at the time.

[Fred Sanders]

8. How would a journalist like Ashley ever know that?

[seveneyes]

9. He is more of an outlaw from the James Gang

Black man forget the hate
That's been around for so long
White man you've got to know
That sometimes you've been wrong

[tritsofme]

10. This moron was my congressman for 2 years.

I see he is still up to the same nonsense.

Tammy Duckworth has been such an amazing upgrade, by several orders of magnitude.