Can CNN's new hour of politics succeed if the hosts won't bicker?

[liberal N proud]

Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, CNN's duo of civil dispute

They are, somewhat self-consciously, an odd couple, the Northern pol and the Southern belle, the prosecutor and the journalist, the man trying to recover from disgrace and the woman graciously forgiving his sins.

"I bring the everyday American perspective to the table," says Kathleen Parker. "I get 'em. I've been living with them."

"I'm not gonna concede that we aren't real Americans up here in the big urban," says Eliot Spitzer.

"I'm not saying New Yorkers aren't. I'm just saying you aren't."

They are sitting with two producers in a small CNN office at Columbus Circle, hours before their 16th rehearsal of the prime-time show that launches Monday night. All the attention has been on the former New York governor, who resigned two years ago, and it is clear that Parker, the right-leaning columnist syndicated by The Washington Post, is, in television terms, his escort back to polite society.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/03/AR2010100304180.html?wpisrc=nl_pmheadline

[FrenchieCat]

1. I won't be watching.......

so that's that.

[WeekendWarrior]

2. I like Spitzer and

I don't really give a damn who he slept with or how many prostitutes he hired. Unless he was spending public funds to pay for them (was he?), I don't think what he did was a sin, so there's really nothing to graciously forgive.

[Submariner]

3. Never forget this Douche-bag's take on Liberals and Iraq

April 13, 2003|By Kathleen Parker, Sentinel Columnist

What was that whimpering sound? Oh that. It's just the "Yes, but" crowd formerly known as the "antiwar pundits." Ignore them.

Saddam's statue had barely hit the ground in central Baghdad before America's armchair doomsayers began harrumphing a new caveat in which to couch this unseemly turn of events. One might almost think they didn't want Saddam to fall.

You couldn't help noticing the careful balance the antis tried to strike between reluctant admission and preachy admonition. The formula goes something like this: "Yes, we defeated Iraq, BUT . . . let's not get too carried away, it ain't over yet."

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2003-04-13/news/0304120055_1_sparta-iraq-dowd