Watch Joe Walsh Shout ‘Ashleigh’ At Ashleigh Banfield Ten Billion Times

[Swede]

Charming Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh went on CNN today for an interview with anchor Ashleigh Banfield, of “getting demoted for criticizing network news coverage in the build-up to the Iraq War” fame. The subject was Walsh’s very mild recent comments about how double-amputee Iraq veteran and congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth won’t shut her dang mouth about her service, and therefore isn’t a Real Hero. What’s the problem, Banfield? And then she destroys him while he shouts her name for a number of minutes. We’re gonna miss Joe Walsh in January.



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[Bolo Boffin]

1. You would think a modern politician would develop a filter

"Geez, I've said her name like ten or twelve times here. I need to stop and just smile."

No, not Joe Walsh. I'll bet he's complained about how all his ex ever talks about is child support and raising the kids these days.

[Confusious]

9. It's not about that

It's about interrupting so she can't get a statement in that makes him look bad.

Plus no respect for anyone else.

[Bolo Boffin]

12. The OP is not about how many billions of times Joe Walsh said Ashleigh's name?

And I disagree that my comment isn't relevant. Normal people figure out, hey, I might be acting like an ass and I just need to shut up and smile -- which would have let Ashleigh get in a statement a little more often. But not Joe Walsh.

[Confusious]

30. I didn't say it wasn't relevant

I just think there's more to to it.

I agreed he's a jerk. "no respect for anyone else."

I probably shouldn't have said it's not about that. I just didn't catch where you implied he was a jerk. or that he has no self control. or no clue. one of those.

[Bolo Boffin]

31. Ohh, I see.

Yes, I certainly meant Joe's a frickin' heel. Or more.

[Peregrine Took]

2. This is a trick that many talk show hosts use - especially wingnuts.

They say your name over and over and over. Its a super annoying distraction 'used to interrupt the caller when they are making an important point in their argument which the moronic host does NOT want to allow the audience to hear.

It is a loathsome thing to do.

They did it all the time on WLS AM in Chicago back in the day when I could stand to listen to them which I stopped doing about a year ago.

[pinboy3niner]

3. One count had him repeating 'Ashleigh' 92 times

Despite his attempts to bully her, Banfield was armed with a sheaf of papers listing news articles about all the policy issues that Duckworth actully had been talking about during the campaign, refuting Walsh's claim that "all she talked about"" was her service.

Walsh came on expecting to bully Banfield and dominate the segment with a self-serving monologue, and Banfield was having none of it. She handily and effectively refuted his false claims with the facts.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Ashleigh is all this guy talks about

The next interviewer should ask him: "you state that all Ms. Duckworth does is talk about her military record. Why is it that all you talk about is Ashleigh Banfield? How is Ashleigh Banfield related to your campaign?"

[pinboy3niner]

8. !

Excellent!

[jenmito]

5. He did it with Chris Matthews, too:

[tallahasseedem]

10. I remember watching that!

This guy grates on my nerves...he can't be voted out soon enough!

[jenmito]

15. Yup-I remember that even the CNBC guy who does the Market Wrap on Chris's show kept repeating

Chris's name as he was tossing back to him. It was so funny!

[PatSeg]

11. Can you imagine being married to him?

He probably did the same thing with his ex-wife.

[jenmito]

16. No way!

I'm sure that's his MO for EVERYONE he argues with.

[PatSeg]

20. I've known men like him

Go into any neighborhood bar in the Chicago area and there's a Joe Walsh in there driving customers out the door.

Actually I think I WAS married to a Joe Walsh. He made me hate the sound of my own name.

[Jamaal510]

26. All I got from that video was "hey Chris, hey Chris, hey Chris, hey Chris,

hey Chris, hey Chris, hey Chris, hey Chris, hey Chris, hey Chris, hey Chris, hey Chris."

[obamanut2012]

6. I love Ashleigh Banfield so much!

[PatSeg]

7. That's what he did to Chris Matthews

It was the first time I'd ever seen him and it was so bizarre. There is something seriously wrong with this man.

[jenmito]

17. Yup-I posted the video of it at post #5. n/t

[PatSeg]

21. I know

We were evidently typing at the same time!

That was an unforgettable moment on Hardball, right up there with Michele Bachmann's call to investigate members of Congress for being "Unamerican".

[KharmaTrain]

13. The Dude Is A Classic Misogynist...

I rarely see him try to bully men, it's almost always women. Be it his wife who got a divorce on grounds of mental cruelty and the douchenozzle continued to ruin her life with withholding court mandated child suport. He made a bunch of sexist comments regarding Melissa Bean in '08 and now is trying to diminish Col. Duckworth's service. Finally he's gotta try to brow beat Banfield like he's scolding a child. The shitstain is a total boor...

[chowder66]

14. Lay off the bath salts Joe. nt

[Botany]

18. He (Walsh) really is quite mental

I talked to one of Walsh's aids once and he was bone stupid and a tea party
idiot and told me that President Obama was only an assistant professor of
Constitutional Law @ the University of Chicago.

Some good Joe Walsh

[five_horizons]

19. If he had a nickel for every time he said "Ashleigh"

he might be able to pay his child support.

[Aerows]

22. I think less of this idiot

the more I see of him, and I have neither seen very much of him and didn't think much of him to start with.

What a moronic, condescending asshole.

[Marie Marie]

23. Ashleigh, Ashleigh, Ashleigh, but Ashleigh, Ashleeeeee, Ashleigh

Wait Ashleigh, Ashleigh, Ashleeeeee, but Ashleigh, Ashleigh, Ashleigh, Ash-Ashleigh, Ashleigh, Ashleeeeeee, Ashleigh, Ashleigh, Ashleeeee.

There, recapped for those who don't want to have to look at this dead beat Dad piece of shit.

[meow2u3]

25. He sounds like he's auditioning for a part in "Gone With the Wind"

Only his brain is gone with the wind.

What is he? drunk?

[quinnox]

24. in other words, he is saying "stop telling the truth about me you

bitch!" that is what is meant by him saying the name over and over. Where does the republicans find these slimeballs? They seem to produce them in a factory or something.

[UTUSN]

27. What a p.o.s. the jerk dude is. n/t

[longship]

28. If I told you once, I've told you a million times

Don't exaggerate!

[JI7]

29. McCain didn't talk about his service ???????