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CNN hires ex-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer as host
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Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is apparently sufficiently removed from the scandal that ended his political career to be a cable news host.CNN announced Wednesday (June 23) that Spitzer and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Kathleen Parker will take over the 8 p.m. ET spot from Campbell Brown, whose show is being canceled thanks to low ratings. The untitled new show is scheduled to premiere in the fall.
The network is touting the new show as a "spirited" roundtable show that will feature conservative commentator Parker squaring off against the famously progressive Spitzer. CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein says the new show will offer "a lively roundup of all the best ideas" rather than a "narrow, predictable point of view."
Spitzer has been working on his TV chops recently, filling in as a host on MSNBC and making a number of guest appearances on CNN. He was elected governor of New York in 2006 but resigned two years later following a prostitution scandal.
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This is one of the many reasons CNN's rating suck. Do they really think they can rehab this jerk?
Sure ! Let's reward the low-lifes by giving them a high paying tv job !
This jerk made all of us New York residents suffer. We elected him based on all kinds of great promises, then he turned into a total ***, sort of like Obama. I am blocking CNN from my TV. They have nothing worth my time now, not that they did anyway. Sad that the once great CNN has become this. Sort of like their Headline News network which is now like a TV version of a trashy tabloid.
Thats great, just goes to show you our state ran television is working..
I am done with CNN. Just when you think they've hit rock bottom, they do this.
Scandal aside, Spitzer is one of our most articulate public officials, and I'd consider watching the show (and I don't watch news television).
CNN is really desperate, they are down to an audience of what five?
people putting down cnn for being gossip news while they are on a gossip site almost as hyprocritical as elliot spitzer
So you who are "disgusted" with CNN
are going to watch - -What, FAUX
NEWS with Rupert Murdochs army
of liars, nazis, and KKK enthusiasts? If the viewing public
really cared about the important
issues of the day we would have
relevant television, radio and print media. Listen now: where
Spitzer put his little pee-pee should not be anyone's business other than his, Mrs. Spitzer, and his willing partner. WHY
DO WE CARE about the sexual habits of people with whom we have no kind of personal relationship? We are so easily
manipulated by those who want
us to ignore the issues that
do affect us.
Grow up.
@Ann Wood - yes, we DO care about the sexual habits of elected officials because no matter what you think about it, prostitution is ILLEGAL and we don't want our elected officials doing illegal things, at least not where we can see it.