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'Parker Spitzer' TV Talk Show Breaks Up: She Goes, He Stays
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – Kathleen Parker, a prominent political commentator, is leaving CNN's "Parker Spitzer," the much-ballyhooed prime-time talk show she co-hosted with Eliot Spitzer, the formerly disgraced governor of New York. Parker, 58, a Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion writer, said in a statement Friday night, "I have decided to return to a schedule that will allow me to focus more on my syndicated newspaper column and other writings." Parker writes a politically moderate op-ed column for The Washington Post that is syndicated nationally. Related Stories 'Parker ...
Eliot Spitzer, Client 9: Doomed by the 'Lucky Sperm Club'?
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyIn an interview early in Alex Gibney's recently released political documentary, "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer," a member of Spitzer's inner circle tells Gibney that the former New York governor and disgraced Democrat hails from "the Lucky Sperm Club." (Poor Spitzer can never completely redirect his image away from lurid sexual tawdriness. His cooperation with film producers about the scandal merely moves it to the background.) The film tracks the period between Spitzer's successful campaign for governor in 2006 through the Emperors' Club VIP prostitution ring bust in 2008 (but ...
'Parker Spitzer' TV Talk Show Marriage Is on the Rocks
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK -- The much-ballyhooed CNN prime-time talk show starring Eliot Spitzer, the formerly disgraced governor of New York, and the brainy political writer Kathleen Parker has hit bottom. Parker, cast in the stand-by-her-man role on the show, occasionally throwing in a word or two, is fed up playing second fiddle to the motor-mouth Spitzer, who sucks up all the air during the 8 p.m. Eastern "Parker Spitzer" hour, the New York Post reported Wednesday, quoting unidentified sources. Word has spread in the gossip media that Parker, 58, a Pulitzer Prize winner, walked off the set during a ...
Wronged Wife of Chilean Miner Out-Classes Jenny Sanford
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyMarta Salinas, the Chilean miner's wife who stayed home to watch her husband Yonni Barrios' miraculous rescue on TV (so he could greet his mistress), out-classed Jenny Sanford in the cheated-on-wife category. Senora Salinas' husband was the 21st in the line of men who one by one came up a straw tube Wednesday to a very different world than the one they tunneled away from last August. Television crews, book agents, long lost family members and a watching world were there to greet them. Their extraordinary grace after spending more than two months trapped half a mile underground (the first 17 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Spitzer Open Thread
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFor you sex-scandal junkies out there, here's a trove of Political Machine's coverage of Eliot Spitzer's comeuppance. Denise Williams: It's All Silda Spitzer's FaultDave: Spitzer Toughing it Out?Faye Anderson: Superdelegate No. 9Tommy Christopher: Hillary Should Condemn Spitzer ASAPYours Truly: Mrs. Spitzer Stands By Her ManAnd the latest from AOL News: Spitzer Spending Eyed in Sex ScandalLooks like the ax will fall any minute now. We want to hear how you feel now that 24 hours have passed. Binge and purge. ...
It's All Silda Spitzer's Fault
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyOr so says crazy-ass Dr. Laura Schlessinger on the Today Show with Meredith Vieira this morning. As if being being the wife of a scuzzbucket and mother of three teenaged daughters isn't rough enough under these circumstances. (via HuffPo) VIEIRA: Do you think women play any role in this, Dr. Laura? SCHLESSINGER: It's interesting. what you said about what men need -- men do need validation. When they come into the world they're born of a woman. Getting the validation from mommy is the beginning of needing it from a woman. When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings ...
Mrs. Spitzer Stands By Her Man
By David Knowles - Politics DailySometimes it's hard to be a woman, Giving all your love to just one man.You'll have bad timesAnd he'll have good timesDoing things that you don't understand...--"Stand by your Man" by Tammy Wynette At this point, it has become something of a cliché in our cultural imagery: A disgraced male public official at a news conference taking his lumps for a newly unearthed sexual indiscretion while his baffled yet supportive wife stands at his elbow, struggling to put a public face on the many emotions roiling beneath a calm exterior. Many viewers to our latest reality-television episode, starring ...
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