Ashleigh Banfield Chided Over Criticisms

Reuters ^ | April 29, 2003 | Hollywood Reporter

[Mister Magoo]

Well, I suppose Banfield is posing herself as an Arabist. I think we all understand what the Arab point of view is. They hate Israel. They want Israel destroyed. Israel isn't going away. Until and unless the Arabs understand and accept that fact, there will be problems in the Middle East.

[BibChr]

I see.

He's concerned news-trolls are made to look bad.

He doesn't care how it makes the soldiers or commander-in-chief look.

Why am I not surprised.

Dan

[JennysCool]

Airhead, meet woodshed.

[DrNo]

"On a more macular level, there's some sort of demystification here

What the hey is a macular level?

[cars for sale]

this bimbo is disgusting to the core
a self important whore w/o a clue

add Edie Magnun9pMSNBC) and Jeane Meserve(CNN) to the
same exacting list.......

[martin_fierro]

Ashleigh Banfield:

The triumph of form over substance.

[martin_fierro]

What the hey is a macular level?

I dunno, but I suspect I subsist on a Big Macular level. <|:)~

[bourbon]

"On a more macular level, there's some sort of demystification here -- not only for the media but for the military and what the other institution is about,"

Typical pseudo-intellectual claptrap from the media.

Ashleigh, please do us a favor and go back to Canada ASAP. Oh, and take Peter Jennings with you please!!!!

[William McKinley]

"It's crucial to our security that you are interested in this," she said. "Because when you are interested, I can respond"

Sounds like she thinks it is crucial to our security that she be able to respond.

Typical narcissist.

[ConservativeConvert]

Ashleigh Banfield is a whore in the temple of moral relativism. Last year she gave a report on the warm and fuzzy feeling she got upon being welcomed into the homes of Palestinian terrorists..."they are real people just like you and me." I fired off a letter and lo and behold...she read it on air the following evening live from Ramallah in front of the bombed out ruins of Arafat's headquarters. After she made some kind of convoluted association between Palestinian terrorists murdering innocent Israeli civilians and journalists caught in IDF crossfire, I wrote her off as a moron.

[okie01]

While Miss Ashleigh was lambasting her industry for "covering up" the blood and guts of war, I wonder if she made passing reference to CNN's "covering up" the blood and guts of a brutal dictatorship.

Or did she agree that it was "more important" to keep a Baghdad bureau on the masthead than to tell the truth...

[bourbon]

mac·u·la
n. pl. mac·u·lae (-l) or mac·u·las

1. also mac·ule (-yl) A discolored spot or area on the skin that is not elevated above the surface and is characteristic of certain conditions, such as smallpox, purpura, or roseola. 2. a. An opaque spot on the cornea.
b. The macula lutea.

Old people sometimes get an eye disease called "macular degeneration."

I think what this idiot Banfield was trying to say was "on a macro level."

[TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa]

Burn her, Burn her, shees a witch.

How do you know she's a witch.

Look at her glasses.

[Benrand]

we need to get a crane shot in here...

[genew]

I wrote her off as a moron.

It was generous of you in the extreme to give her the benefit of the doubt.

[Slainte]

I think what this idiot Banfield was trying to say was "on a macro level."

Perhaps, but there's something deliciously Freudian about her using 'macular'instead.

[beaversmom]

I understood Banfield's point of view one night when I saw her interviewing a group of Israeli teenagers and Palestinian teenagers together. The hatred and bias shown by Banfield toward Israel was transparent.

[vrwinger]

"Macular" was the word choice of the CBS News correspondent Mark Strassman, not Ashleigh Banfield's...

On a related note, how far has her stock fallen? She was THE face of 9/11 covergae on MSNBC, and just a year and a half later, she's reporting from Kentucky during GWII... LOL!