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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 ...
Kathleen Parker Splits 'Parker Spitzer'; Instant Reactions
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsAfter just four months, Kathleen Parker is leaving the CNN talk show "Parker Spitzer." Starting Monday, the program will go by "In the Arena," and feature Eliot Spitzer and a cast of guests, including E.D. Hill and Will Cain, along with "others within and outside the CNN family," CNN executive Ken Jautz said. Parker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at The Washington Post, said in a statement that she will refocus on her "syndicated newspaper column and other writings." She also plans to make occasional appearances on CNN. The New York Times' Brian Stelter gave an early reading of the ...
Kathleen Parker Leaving CNN Show With Spitzer
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- CNN's prime-time talk show "Parker/Spitzer" is no more with the departure of Kathleen Parker. Her partner, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, will remain in the time slot in a new show called "In the Arena," working with E.D. Hill, Will Cain and others. CNN described Parker's exit as a mutual decision. The show that matched the liberal former governor and conservative syndicated columnist debuted last fall and started slowly in the ratings. Parker said that she wanted to concentrate on her writing and that "with the show moving in a new direction, it was time to move on. ...
'Parker/Spitzer,' E.D. Hill and Our Toxic Rhetoric: Is 'Rudeness Rewarded' CNN's Motto?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyThis New York Post story about how Kathleen Parker is soon to be dumped from CNN's "Parker/Spitzer" may or may not be right. And it may or may not have come straight from...Eliot Spitzer, even if it does put me in mind me of all those gossip items Donald Trump used to hand-plant in the New York tabs about the various models who were supposedly chasing him. (According to show "insiders," the producers of "Parker/Spitzer" just "love the job Spitzer has been doing," are "standing behind Eliot," and "really like him," too.) But if there's any truth at all to rumors that the network may replace ...
'Morning Joe' and Eliot Spitzer Know How to Keep Women Quiet
By Joanne Bamberger - Politics DailyIn her book "All Things at Once," Mika Brzezinski recalls fondly that getting her gig on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" was like being "back at the Brzezinski family dinner table, fighting to make myself heard." We all know families where everyone must fight to have their voice register above the mealtime din. While news talk shows aren't the on-air equivalent of that family dinner table, two high-profile newswomen may as well be kids eating meals in their parents' homes again, because they're having a hard time getting a word in edgewise as they co-host shows. On "Morning Joe," the show's namesake, ...
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 ...
Kathleen Parker Admits to Leading the 'Assassination' of Sarah Palin
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyIn a rare moment of candor, Kathleen Parker, columnist and co-host of CNN's "Parker Spitzer," admitted she led the "assassination" of Sarah Palin -- targeting her as a lightweight who had no business running for vice president in 2008. Here's a brief excerpt of the conversation (video below): Jon Ziegler: You essentially took part in the assassination of Sarah Palin, 1.0. Parker: Actually, I did not take part in it. . . . I led it. Truth be told, Parker's wildly premature attempt to "strangle the baby in the crib," so to speak, was not an example of prescience, but -- as she acknowledged ...
'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 ...
Aaron Sorkin Calls Sarah Palin 'Jaw-Droppingly Incompetent'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyTo promote his new movie, "The Social Network," screenwriter and producer Aaron Sorkin appeared on the first episode of CNN's "Parker Spitzer" Monday night. In the process, he made some pretty harsh political statements, including calling Sarah Palin an "idiot." Sorkin went on to say that the former Alaska governor is a "remarkably, stunningly, jaw-droppingly incompetent and mean woman." (Hmm. Is this the way to promote a movie?) Sorkin seemed to realize that his comments were probably not prudent as marketing strategy. He joked that he "actually went on TV and lost ticket buyers." You ...
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