Posted on 10/05/2010 2:37:14 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – CNN's primetime talk show anchored by disgraced ex-New York governor Eliot Spitzer and journalist Kathleen Parker debuted to scathing reviews, with comments on Tuesday ranging from "unbearable" to "icky" and "obnoxious".
Spitzer, a Democrat who was forced to resign in 2008 for hiring high-priced prostitutes, and Parker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative Washington Post columnist, were hired by CNN in a bid to add some fireworks to its struggling evening news line-up.
But barely a good word could be found on Tuesday for the new "Parker Spitzer" show, which debuted one night earlier as a daily discussion about politics and other hot button issues.
The New York Times said the Spitzer scandal "cast an awkward shadow" over the pair's chemistry and gave the show an "ickiness factor" that was hard to watch.
Time magazine's James Poniewozik also felt uncomfortable, saying the show struggled to find its tone, and he called the closing "round-table" section "just vapid".
The New York Post headlined its review "Freak show unbearable to watch", while the Baltimore Sun summed up the first show as "a load of obnoxious, self-important noise."
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Not possible.
Parker-Spitzer sounds like some ambulance chasing law firm...
LOL!!!
How long before his whore comes on the show for the needed ratings bounce?
A lot of people have disdain for the prostitute’s fee but it takes a special kind of talent to take it up the butt while yelling “That’s it, big boy! RAISE MY TAXES! RAISE MY TAXES! Ooooh, YES! I love it!”
I’d watch a show with her at least two seconds longer than I’d watch a show with him.
Sneak preview of tonight’s “Parker Spitzer”: Oliver Stone calls Palin a moron.
Last night:
“Parker/Spitzer” debuts — with a critique of Palin
Heard today on one of the radio talk shows (Laura, Rush or Steve Malzberg) that she admitted to being a registered democrat!
Some conservative, huh?
So Kathleen Parker, touted as a “conservative” columnist, writes a bunch of anti-conservative columns, basically outing herself as a liberal, and wouldn’t you know it....VOILA!! She has a TV show on CNN as the “conservative” counterpart to Client # 9.
Quite the cunning stunt by Parker.
Poor Peggy Noonan, she floated this balloon in 2008, but alas her looks had faded and Parker was picked for the role.
“In April, Kathleen Parker won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary with a selection of political opinion columns.[11] On the MSNBC show Morning Joe she said that “it’s only because I’m a conservative basher that I’m now recognized.”
(>> Wikipedia)
KATHLEEN PARKER IS NO CONSERVATIVE!!!
Poor Peggy Noonan, she floated this balloon in 2008, but alas her looks had faded and Parker was picked for the role.
I know you jest a little...but you are probably right on the money.
Saying that Spitzer used prostitutes is almost like saying that an alcoholic “drinks a little”.
The sordid issue with Spitzer simply begins with the prostitutes. What is always brushed aside by the Partisan Leftist Media is the story those prostitutes told.
Spitzer had a fetish for rape. He liked to wrestle the girls into submission (while they did their best to role play fighting him off) and then have anal sex.
This guy isn’t just a little lose on the morals, he’s a major wack job.
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