CNN anchor shamelessly, excessively apologizes for video casting Hillary in bad light

9:15 AM 01/28/2014

Brendan Bordelon

CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield wanted her viewers to know she was so, so sorry, after a clip aired on Monday appeared to show Hillary Clinton laughing about the murder of four Americans during the Benghazi terrorist attack. “That is our mistake,” she declared. “She was not laughing. Let’s be very clear that the secretary of state was not laughing.”

The clip in question showed Hillary Clinton expressing regret over the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans during an attack on American compounds in Benghazi, Libya in 2012. In a sudden video shift, the former secretary of state went from mournful over Stevens death to laughing over a question on her 2016 presidential prospects.

Most viewers would be expected to notice the tape shift, correctly inferring that the comments occurred during two different parts of the interview. But Banfield’s sense of journalistic integrity compelled her to spell it out.

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I'm not so sure that I would characterize this as shameless or excessive, but a fair explanation.

But would the same have been done for say...Ted Cruz?

Hayell no!

That disparity is what qualifies this as shameless.