Eliot Spitzer, Pulitzer Prize Winner Kathleen Parker to Host CNN Show
Tom Diemer
Correspondent
Posted:
06/23/10
What a pair! CNN announced Wednesday that disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer will co-host a prime-time news program this fall with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Kathleen Parker.
The roundtable-format program will air at 8 p.m. EST, replacing Campbell Brown's show.
Spitzer resigned as governor of New York in 2008 after he admitted to consorting with a call girl at a Washington hotel. As governor and New York attorney general before that, he was known as an aggressive liberal crusader with an abrasive, in-your-face personality.
Parker describes herself as a "rational" -- read moderate -- conservative. She won the 2009 Pulitzer for commentary and her columns appear in 400 newspapers. CNN quoted Parker describing Spitzer as "one of the nation's most brilliant, fearless and original thinkers. With Eliot Spitzer as my co-host, Wall Street and Main Street will finally meet. It can't be boring."
The roundtable-format program will air at 8 p.m. EST, replacing Campbell Brown's show.
Spitzer resigned as governor of New York in 2008 after he admitted to consorting with a call girl at a Washington hotel. As governor and New York attorney general before that, he was known as an aggressive liberal crusader with an abrasive, in-your-face personality.
Parker describes herself as a "rational" -- read moderate -- conservative. She won the 2009 Pulitzer for commentary and her columns appear in 400 newspapers. CNN quoted Parker describing Spitzer as "one of the nation's most brilliant, fearless and original thinkers. With Eliot Spitzer as my co-host, Wall Street and Main Street will finally meet. It can't be boring."