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Ashleigh Banfield!

April 6, 2008
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Ashleigh Banfield
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Ashleigh Banfield Pictures Photos

OMG!

Remember this chick?

On September 11, 2001, she spent the entire day reporting live from the streets of Manhattan, nearly suffocating in debris. She was immediately a household name, etched into the national consciousness. After that, she spent years reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan, interviewing Taliban prisoners and refugees.

You guys wanna know what she’s doing now????

She’s hosting a celebrity gossip show for CourtTV!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!

In fairness, she was fired from NBC shortly after she went on the record with her concerns about the unfair media portrayal of the war in Iraq, blasting the “cable news operators who wrap themselves in the American flag and go after a certain target demographic” (Fox News, this means you). And I love that she had the courage to do that, and I respect her tremendously for it. So I’m not going to give her too hard a time with this, but let’s just say I managed to figure out that celebrity gossip is the place to be without having to spend two fucking years in the Middle East.

Here’s Ashleigh supporting the 5th annual National Love Our Children Day in NYC.

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  • Having the courage to state your convictions in a society of sheep that follow any thing that moves comes with a heavy price, but, at least, she’ll never have to fear looking into a mrror.

  • I really admire her guts to speak up knowing it would probably jeopardize her career in news casting. Wish her all the best!

  • I remember watching her coverage on 9/11 … She was interviewing a terrified pregnant woman when the second tower collapsed.. She shoved the woman out of the way and barked at her camera man
    “ARE YOU GETTING THIS” .. I was irreversably turned off at the time.
    When I saw her covering live trials on Court TV .. I was furious! She’s NOT a lawyer.. Who gives a shit what she thinks!
    Rant over .. No wait not yet .. Why doesn’t she fucking get contact lenses or lasik? Her glasses make her look even more UGLY!

  • Ashley’s downward drop started not with her speaking out about the media (go girl!) but when she dyed her hair brown and (I believe) wore a headscarf to better “blend in” in Afghanistan. Lots of flak for that. Then, the media-blasting hara-kiri.

  • i went to school with A. and let me tell you- she won an award for being such a great debator! She was also a very mean racist bitch who I still have hateful feelings for- so! Shes still a nasty person most likely- she did a few interviews in the 90’s in the middle east….no wonder we’re at war now. whotta A-hole she was!

  • I met Ashleigh in Banff when she worked with Calgary 7 News. We kept in touch for a while after that. I was excited to see her career flourish, and I’m proud of her for standing up for what she believes in. I never wanted to think of her as a sheep, and I don’t. By the way… she’s still pretty HOT!!!

  • she is the most intellectual and beautiful news woman ever they made a huge mistake firing talent like her!!!

  • u r one of a kind i will never have , u r the most attractive beautiful. i had to look u up after watching u on cele-gossip

  • I don’t care what Ashley was before – she is a very intelligent woman who tells it like it is. Too bad there aren’t more women like her. I would love to know where she gets her glasses – they are so attractive.

  • She is just so fine. I was almost crazy about this chick lucky for me I found someone finer or this is no telling what I would have done:) Nothing really but man she was the women of my dreams,