Ashleigh Banfield on CNN skewering Hobby Lobby for investments

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Of HL's retirement funds into the same companies that make the birth control methods that HL claims to object to. Her guest is pointing out that HL could have instructed their investment management to not invest in those companies. Both women are being very critical of Hobby Lobby's owners.

No link - it's on right now.

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1. Right Wing Hypocrisy on parade - good on them for calling the Hobby Wankers out

Hypocrisy is not just a Hobby for right wingers -- it is at the core of their being.

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2. I think many in the media are getting tired of the hypocrisy

Banfield is not the best reporter around - but I have a special place for her in my heart. On September 11, 2001, I watched her on the streets near the towers as they fell. She was then working for MSNBC:

In early 2000, Banfield was hired by MSNBC. According to The New York Times, she "fit nicely with MSNBC's positioning as the news network of choice for younger viewers" and network executives "also liked her frosted blond hair and trademark Clark Kent-style glasses."[4] Before joining the network, she worked at KDFW-TV in Dallas, where she won an Emmy Award.[4] She also hosted MSNBC Investigates, worked at NBC News, and became a host of HomePage along with Gina Gaston and Mika Brzezinski.[5]

On September 11, 2001, Banfield was reporting from the streets of Manhattan amid a cloud of debris from the collapsing World Trade Center. She was reporting a few blocks north of the site when 7 World Trade Center collapsed behind her. After the initial reporting of the tragedy had ended, Banfield received a promotion, as MSNBC sent her around the world as the producer of a new program, A Region in Conflict. They also launched a heavy ad campaign that centered around Banfield, labeling her, "The One."[6]

During the conflict in Afghanistan, Banfield interviewed Taliban prisoners, and visited a hospital in Kabul. Later entries covered her travels from Jalalabad to Kabul, as well as other experiences in Afghanistan. In Pakistan, she interviewed Father Gregory Rice, a Catholic priest in Pakistan, and an Iraqi woman aiding refugees. After A Region in Conflict, she received the 10pm timeslot with the show Ashleigh Banfield on Location.

In April 2003, in a speech at Kansas State University, Banfield raised concerns regarding media coverage of the conflict in Iraq. She also spoke against "cable news operators who wrap themselves in the American flag and go after a certain target demographic" and specifically named Fox News Channel as an example.[7] The New York Times reported that her speech angered NBC management, who rebuked her and lowered her profile.[4]

I was office-less for ten months ... No phone, no computer. For ten months I had to report to work every day and ask where I could sit. If somebody was away I could use their desk. Eventually, after ten months of this, I was given an office that was a tape closet. They cleared the tapes out and put a desk and a TV in there, and a computer and phone. It was pretty blatant. The message was crystal clear. Yet they wouldn't let me leave. I begged for seventeen months to be let out of my contract. If they had no use for me, let's just part ways amicably—no need for payouts, just a clean break. And Neal {Shapiro, the News President of NBC} wouldn't allow it. I don't know what his rationale was—perhaps he thought I would take what I felt was a very strong brand, and others felt was a very strong brand, to another network and make a success of it. Maybe that's why he chose to keep me in a warehouse. I will never forgive him for his cruelty and the manner in which he decided to dispose of me.
—in New Canaan-Darien Magazine, January 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashleigh_Banfield#Professional_career

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3. I read an article about this about two months ago.

The article stated that there are investment groups who sole purpose is for religious groups who wish to avoid investing in companies that produce products that go against their religious principles. Not only does Hobby Lobby avoid utllizing those types of investment companies, they activily invest in companies whose business products go against their religious priciples but who enrich their bottom line. Just goes to prove that Hobby Lobby's religious principle is the almight dollar, just like every other corporation.

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4. AND most of Hobby Lobby's crap comes from China

Where birth control and abortion are mandated by the government. Hypocrisy is a synonym for right wing Christianity in my opinion.

I don't understand why the M$M acts as though any of this is new news - the information has been out there since Hobby Lobby filed their suit. At least it is finally making it into public awareness - maybe that will push more people to boycott the company.

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6. It actually makes me wonder how long she's got at CNN, then, considering how she was

treated by NBC for speaking out like this. The folks high up there in the network executive suites (where there's ironically such a wide open view from their fancy upper-floor offices) don't like liberal cage-rattlers.

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7. This is the way to take Hobby Lobby down.

Get the right wing Christians that are their most fervent supporters to understand that Hobby Lobby is a MASSIVE HYPOCRITE that does not deserve their business. Hobby Lobby DOES support birth control and abortion via their investments and business practices. This is not an opinion, it is a PROVABLE fact.

Please boycott Hobby Lobby wingers. They don't deserve your business.

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8. religious principle my ass

This is and always was about a company run by far right wingers that wanted to stick it to Obama for the ACA. They don't care about what the investment firms invest in because that makes them MONEY.