Here’s a story for you, Ash. Obama gives a no bid contract to a donor for a drug we already have and don’t need. We have enough for the entire US at $3.00 per dose. He is paying $255.00 per dose for the new drug to buy enough for one and a half million people.

“Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work.Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world’s richest men and a longtime Democratic Party donor.

When Siga was in danger of losing its grip on the contract a year ago, the officials blocked other firms from competing.

If there were an attack, the government could draw on $1 billion worth of smallpox vaccine it already owns to inoculate the entire U.S. population and quickly treat people exposed to the virus. The vaccine, which costs the government $3 per dose, can reliably prevent death when given within four days of exposure.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-smallpox-20111113,0,4293298.story

Some advice on your new show, Ash .

Don’t invite Mike Barnicle or Donny Deutsch on. They’ll never leave.

Hipster Kitty approves.

A little fire the little guy so we can bring in Banfield? All in the moving the deck chairs of the Titanic?

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/dozens-of-jobs-cut-at-cnn-new-york-atlanta-washington-dc-miami-la-staffers-pink-slipped_b97876#disqus_thread

Loser. Not new. Not pretty. Damaged goods.

Ashleigh was brilliant on her 2000 show…

I am looking forward to this new one…

A reminder that Ms Banfield was effectively fired/taken off the air by NBC for her critical comments towards the Iraq War in 2003, particularly ”cable news operators who wrap themselves in the American flag and go after a certain target demographic”, citing Fox News as the prime culprit, but all of them really at the time.

another bust for CNN as it continues to slide into cable news oblivion.  O”Brien is a great reporter but a so-so anchor.  Banfield is….. well, Banfield.

If CNN was smart they’d let Carol Costello handle the morning show…. she’s light years better than the others.
 

Ashleigh Banfield….uh.. wasn’t she fired by MSNBC a few decades ago??  Thought she got banished or deported back to some frozen village in Canada where she married some lazy lumberjack??CNN would do better signing someone like Obermann….at least he has some personality…really doesn’t matter though…I NEVER watch CNN!!

MSNBC better get on the ball with hiring some hotties!

They have Savanah and (although I despise her politics) Perry; and of course, rah…but they’re gonna’ have to go to the free market if they expect to catch CNN, never mind even competing with the FOX Girls.

lol

She is a very attractive woman. 

Eat me.

Bet they were glad to get rid of her.