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She made her partisan views clear in 2000 and was a real annoyance to me when watching MSNBC. Her fall from grace is pretty amazing, she was the focus of the MSNBC ad campaign for a while there. She also made some outlandishly stupid comments at a college not too long ago, if I recall correctly. I don't think schadenfreude is a very positive emotion, but in this case, well....

On 4/24/03, Ashleigh Banfield made a speech at Kansas State University, which resulted in her being reprimanded by her bosses at MSNBC in what was characterized as "A trip to the woodshed." In the speech, she criticized MSNBC for hiring Michael Savage, mentioned that Fox News had taken viewers away from MSNBC and CNN and criticized the news media for wrapping themselves in the American flag and patriotism. It was a foolish move for her to publicly criticize her employer, and in doing so, she sabotaged her own career at MSNBC.