mmmmmm.....jimmmy fallon...... oh sorry.
An excerpt from the WSJ
As if by design, and perhaps as an act of mercy to the viewers, MSNBC has deployed a woman for this war who is the perfect anti-Amanpour. I write of Ashleigh Banfield, who anchored MSNBC's news program, "A Region in Conflict," at 9 p.m. EST every night from Islamabad since before the bombing began. (She has just returned to Washington to anchor her show from there.) Ms. Banfield, a fine-boned lady with large, titanium glasses -- rumored, the tabloids tell us, to have cost $400 -- has no expertise of this, or any other, war zone. Nor is she of a hectoring disposition. And after a brief flirtation with flak-wear, she now dresses in simple cotton shirts.
But most gratifying has been her unwillingness to pose as The Omniscient One. Hers has been a complex learning process, and viewers have climbed the curve with her, watching with satisfaction her growing ease with the material -- genuine, rather than feigned. And unlike Ms. Amanpour, she isn't playing herself: She even went to the extent of dying her blond hair brown, an event that made news in its own right. "Banfield's a Brunette for Pakistan Coverage," USA Today told us on Sept. 26, presumably the day after she had visited her colorist, in the first of numerous references to her self-proclaimed determination to "blend in" with the natives in Pakistan.