CNN & Ashley Banfield goes to bat for Mitt Romney

[Dawson Leery]

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2012/05/cnns-ashleigh-banfield-plays-lackey-for.html

"WTF, CNN? The "news" channel's Ashleigh Banfield today had Ben LaBolt from the Obama campaign on her show. She apparently decided that President Obama's ad about Mitt Romney's Bain Capital profiting off of the misery of bankrupt businesses and laid off workers was a little too potent for her corporate overlords to swallow."

[Pirate Smile]

1. Politico gave her three Pinocchio's for her performance.

Three Pinocchios for CNN's Banfield


Quick note on that last post: While CNN's Ashleigh Banfield was grilling Obama campaign press secretary Ben La Bolt over the campaign's latest ad -- the anti-Romney, anti-Bain Capital spot -- she said the Washington Post gave the ad "one Pinocchio, which is 'a big fat lie.'"

In fact, the Washington Post's Fact-Checker defines "one Pinocchio" as "Some shading of the facts. Selective telling of the truth. Some omissions and exaggerations, but no outright falsehoods."

And here is what the Fact Checker actually ruled, which Banfield did not mention: "Bain Capital was clearly involved in the company’s decisions to greatly add to its debt load — decisions that were made while Romney was actively running Bain. That debt load may have contributed to the company’s failure to weather a steep decline in steel prices, but it was not the only factor that led to the company’s bankruptcy filing. The ad fails to make clear that the Kansas City plant was already facing hard times, and Bain Capital’s investment may have represented its best chance for survival."

Lot of gray area here, but far from a "big fat lie." On that point, I give Banfield three Pinocchios.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/05/three-pinocchios-for-cnns-ashleigh-banfield-123558.html

[Dawson Leery]

2. Here:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/05/three-pinocchios-for-cnns-ashleigh-banfield-123558.html

[Pirate Smile]

3. Ha - Thank you. I was grabbing it at the same you gave it to me.

[butterfly77]

4. She does it every morning..

and so does Anderson cooper he was just at it, him and Ari Fleischer doing a tag team on a Democrat about the Obama interview tonight.

[Thrill]

5. It appears the once sane people on cable news

have gotten their marching orders.

[Dawson Leery]

6. Obviously.