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'Parker Spitzer' Shows Promise (When You Don't Have to Avert Your Eyes)
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyCNN calls its new prime-time show "Parker Spitzer," but it's really all about Eliot Spitzer and his rehabilitation, with columnist Kathleen Parker playing his combative but supportive television wife. All I can say after watching the premiere Monday night is that James Carville and Mary Matalin do it better, but the format has promise -- or rather some aspects of it do. Spitzer calls himself a recovering politician, which means he still loves the sound of his own voice, and in the show's "Opening Argument," he advised President Obama to fire Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, concluding ...
Washington in 60 Seconds: Kathleen Parker's CNN Pay Almost Doubles Spitzer's
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyGood morning, Capitolists! We're happy to report that the Year of the Woman continues with news this morning that Australia is getting its first female prime minister and Kathleen Parker is getting paid a lot more than Eliot Spitzer for their new CNN show. All that and the day ahead in Washington await you in the next 60 seconds: - Iran, Extenders and Campaign Finance on the Floor. If you're following the action on the House and Senate today instead of the World Cup, buckle up for a day of debate on the House side on the DISCLOSE Act, a bill to dial back the Supreme Court decision letting ...
Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo: Second Comings -- but on Separate Tracks
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyYou've got to give it to two of the most outsized egos in New York politics: They know how to make comebacks. Eliot Spitzer, 59, the former New York governor, is up from a sex scandal two years ago. Andrew Cuomo, 52, who will likely become the state's next governor, is up from a political debacle in 2002. Both are driven, passionate, aggressive, brassy, secretive, manipulative and arrogant. Insiders use more vulgar terms to describe the two heavyweight Democrats, who, of course, have no lost love for each other. Their lives may be parallel but not their fates. On Saturday, Cuomo made ...
Eliot Spitzer Re-emerging From Sex Scandal as Cable News Pundit
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyEliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York, is on the comeback trail, but his re-emergence isn't about running for public office. Rather, Spitzer has surfaced as a cable news political pundit. The New York Times reports that Spitzer has held informal conversations with CNN about becoming a regular contributor to the news channel. Anything but shy, he is already a budding political analyst who has made frequent appearances on rival MSNBC, even filling in as an anchor. CNN has an anchor spot open weeknights at 8, but there is no indication that Spitzer is under consideration for ...
Elena Kagan Bio: 10 Little-Known Facts, From Socialism to Spitzer
By Patricia Murphy and Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyAs a college student in the 1970s and '80s, she was deeply interested in the roots of socialism. Her net worth exceeds $1 million. She calls Eliot Spitzer a personal friend. Those and other little-known facts about Elena Kagan were revealed Tuesday when the Senate Judiciary Committee released thousands of pages of information about her and her nomination to the Supreme Court. Along with a 200-page questionnaire, the committee release articles, speeches, letters and e-mails from Kagan's past, including her time as the dean of Harvard Law School and the solicitor general of the United States. ...
Eliot Spitzer Says He Won't Run for Office Again
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyFormer Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York, who stepped down in disgrace two years ago after admitting to an appetite for high-priced prostitutes, says he has no plans to run for elected office again. "I don't have any thoughts about running for political office right now," Spitzer told New York's WPIX-TV. "It's not what I am doing. People have been encouraging me to run for office. I am flattered, and I'm thankful. It feels nice, but it's not happening." Spitzer has increased his media presence lately, writing editorials, lending his opinions to cable's talking-heads shows and even cooperating ...
Silda Wall, a.k.a. Mrs. Eliot Spitzer: 'I Wasn't Adequate'
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyEliot Spitzer's possible political comeback is way down the page on my list of alliterative alternatives about which to worry; I do not give even a tiny little half-hoot. Still, this line in a Washington Post story about "Rough Justice," Peter Elkind's new book on New York's former governor, does make me want to fix Mrs. Spitzer up on a date: "The wife is supposed to take care of the sex. This is my failing,'' Silda Wall is quoted as saying, in reference to her husband's hooker habit. "I wasn't adequate." Of course, right-thinking feminists know that's not true – and though it's ...
Eliot Spitzer's Downfall: A Conspiracy or Just Dumb Lust?
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyWas former Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York -- who was toppled in 2008 by a passion for pricey hookers and since reborn as a ubiquitous media presence -- the victim of his many Wall Street and Bush administration enemies? Or was he just a hypocritical, self-righteous, white-collar crimebuster who dropped $100,000 at an escort service coincidentally under federal wiretap? Tales of conspiracy theories, quickie sex, family betrayal and spectacular career implosion are in "Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer," by Peter Elkind. And as the author explains in a 2,500-word excerpt in ...
Eliot Spitzer on Marriage, Hookers and What's Next
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(March 4) -- Two years after Eliot Spitzer went from crusading New York governor to the Emperors Club's notorious, black socks-wearing Client Number 9, he admits he has "nothing left to lose" -- except the apparent forgiveness of his stoic wife, Silda. In a new interview with Time magazine, Spitzer says his marriage is on the mend, or at least as much as it can be when you are Eliot Spitzer. "I don't know if you can ever mend something like this, in the sense of repair the canvas so that you never see the tear in the fabric," he said. "I'm incredibly lucky to be with a woman who is willing ...
Scandals Break (and Break and Break) in New York
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsNEW YORK (March 3) -- Political scandals are piling up at an astonishing pace in New York, even by the standards of a state distinguished for dysfunction. Within just a few hours today, three scandals involving New York politicians emerged, each with its own twist. Gov. David Paterson, who is holding onto his seat as serious allegations that he intervened in a domestic abuse case on behalf of an aide are investigated, faced a separate set of charges for allegedly accepting free World Series tickets. Rep. Charles Rangel, who has been accused of a variety of ethics charges involving taxes, ...
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