Clarke will be overexposed and so very irrelevant to all except the Democraps by October (or yesterday, by my calendar).
"Clarke will be overexposed and so very irrelevant to all except the Democraps by October (or yesterday, by my calendar)."
Unfortunately, when this happens, people like Clarke become the heroes of the Colleges and end up with long lists of paid talks to the liberal professors and students.
If you live near a college or university that brings in the paid outside speakers, get a list of who came last year and is scheduled this year. Most are forgotten has beens way past their 15 minutes of fame.
Here is another liberal who will hustling the campus guest speaker venue:
http://209.157.64.200/focus/news/1105567/posts Banfield gets NBC's bad news (Ashleigh's been fired)
New York Daily News ^ | 3.26.04 | Lloyd Grove
Posted on 03/26/2004 8:25:18 AM PST by mhking
Onetime cable television star Ashleigh Banfield - a publicity magnet even before she achieved celebrity in the aftermath of 9/11 - is out at NBC News.
The 36-year-old former rock singer - once a fashion icon for her blond tresses and her ever-present on-air glasses, but whose career took a slide after she dyed her hair dark brown - joined the network's MSNBC outlet four years ago, and has been working without a contract since late January.
"Regrettably, we were unable to agree on a new assignment for her," an NBC News spokeswoman told me yesterday. "We thank her for her hard work and wish her well."
The native Canadian was a controversial figure at NBC, where detractors spread rumors of diva-like behavior and sniped at her supposed journalistic deficiencies.
Banfield didn't try to butter up colleagues and supervisors, and instead cast herself as an enemy of the Establishment. She once showed up for anchor duties at MSNBC's Secaucus studios in New Jersey sporting a T-shirt that shouted, in garish glitter: "Starf--r."
But on camera, the message was discreetly concealed by a conservative jacket.
On Sept. 11, 2001, her dramatic reports from Ground Zero won her star status and her own nightly live show from Afghanistan and Pakistan, "A Region in Conflict" (for which she wore a burka and dyed her hair) and, later, "Ashleigh Banfield: On Location."
But in due course, her star dimmed.
Banfield's manager, Alfred Geller, told me: "Since her contract expired, we have been exploring with a variety of NBC components the possibility of future activity that would include cable and network. At the end of these explorations, we were mutually unable to come to an accommodation that was okay with everybody. It didn't work. Life marches on."
Geller said Banfield, who didn't return my calls, is looking at syndication, as well as other network and cable television possibilities. "She will be just fine, thank you very much."