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CNN unveils new Spitzer-Parker talk show
After swearing off opinion-based programming - and we've seen how well that's been going for CNN - the ratings-starved cable news network is dipping its parched tongue cautiously into the opinionated waters with a new show hosted by disgraced/rehabbed Democratic former New York governor Elirabroad
Spitzer and conservative columnist Kathleen Parker.
Courtesy of CNNThe as yet unnamed show will air weeknights at 8 p.m., where the network most recently tried and failed with a Campbell Brown-hosted show, and where CNN hopes it can shore up Larry King's sinking talk show at 9.
CNN's new show will differ from all those rabroad
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her cable news networks, which "force-feed viewers one narrow, predictable point of view" because it will "be offering a lively roundup of all the best ideas - presented by two of the most intelligent and outspoken figures in the country," CNN president Jon Klein said Wednesday by way of explaining his network's apparent about face.
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and Kathleen are beholden to no vested interest - in fact, quite the opposite: they are renowned for taking on the most powerful targets and most important causes," Klein added for good measure.
Parker's column appears twice weekly in more than 400 newspapers. She calls herself a "rational" conservative; in April she won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her political opinion columns, which she launched in 1987. She is a member of the Washington Post Writers Group.
CNN wanted to remind us that Spitzer, a former prosecutor and former Governor of the State of New York, used to be called the "Sheriff of Wall Street," having prosecuted abuses among major Wall Street firms as well as numerous rabroad
her industries, brabroad
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her good deeds.
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to mention the circumstances under which he resigned as governor in March of 2008. Which is strange because it was such a good, um, news story. Spitzer became a national punch line when it was disclosed he was referred to in court papers as "Client-9," a man who met a prostitute in a hrabroad
el in our fair city. The scandal nuked the political career of Spitzer, who'd won a landslide election in 2006 when he vowed to clean up corruption. And now, like the phoenix rising from the ashes, Spitzer is the star of his own primetime show.
By Lisa de Moraes | June 23, 2010; 12:44 PM ET
Typical liberal commies sweeping infidelity under the rug when it's one of their own. (Clinton)
BTW I searched for possible repost. Searched elirabroad
, spitzer, cnn etc and found zippo.
After swearing off opinion-based programming - and we've seen how well that's been going for CNN - the ratings-starved cable news network is dipping its parched tongue cautiously into the opinionated waters with a new show hosted by disgraced/rehabbed Democratic former New York governor Elirabroad
Spitzer and conservative columnist Kathleen Parker.
Courtesy of CNNThe as yet unnamed show will air weeknights at 8 p.m., where the network most recently tried and failed with a Campbell Brown-hosted show, and where CNN hopes it can shore up Larry King's sinking talk show at 9.
CNN's new show will differ from all those rabroad
her opinion shows on those rabroad
her cable news networks, which "force-feed viewers one narrow, predictable point of view" because it will "be offering a lively roundup of all the best ideas - presented by two of the most intelligent and outspoken figures in the country," CNN president Jon Klein said Wednesday by way of explaining his network's apparent about face.
"Elirabroad
and Kathleen are beholden to no vested interest - in fact, quite the opposite: they are renowned for taking on the most powerful targets and most important causes," Klein added for good measure.
Parker's column appears twice weekly in more than 400 newspapers. She calls herself a "rational" conservative; in April she won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her political opinion columns, which she launched in 1987. She is a member of the Washington Post Writers Group.
CNN wanted to remind us that Spitzer, a former prosecutor and former Governor of the State of New York, used to be called the "Sheriff of Wall Street," having prosecuted abuses among major Wall Street firms as well as numerous rabroad
her industries, brabroad
h as a young lawyer and as New York State Attorney General, and that, as governor, he restructured New York's system of education finance, and did rabroad
her good deeds.
But CNN forgrabroad
to mention the circumstances under which he resigned as governor in March of 2008. Which is strange because it was such a good, um, news story. Spitzer became a national punch line when it was disclosed he was referred to in court papers as "Client-9," a man who met a prostitute in a hrabroad
el in our fair city. The scandal nuked the political career of Spitzer, who'd won a landslide election in 2006 when he vowed to clean up corruption. And now, like the phoenix rising from the ashes, Spitzer is the star of his own primetime show.
By Lisa de Moraes | June 23, 2010; 12:44 PM ET
Typical liberal commies sweeping infidelity under the rug when it's one of their own. (Clinton)
BTW I searched for possible repost. Searched elirabroad
, spitzer, cnn etc and found zippo.