Off On A Tangent

Banfield rising MSNBC correspondent may be next TV reporter catapulted to stardom by big story.

The trade weekly Electronic Media has already latched onto Banfield, proclaiming that she's "clearly going to be the media darling of Operation Enduring Freedom."

... she's an abundantly willing candidate to replace Katie Couric on the "Today" program, if Couric leaves NBC or lands her own talk show on the network.

Go Ashleigh!