On Friday, Parker/Spitzer co-host Kathleen Parker announced that she is leaving the show. In a guest column, John Ziegler, radio host, Palin confidante, and the filmmaker behind Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted, offers his commentary on Parker’s departure from CNN.

On Wednesday, The Hollywood Reporter published an article on the relationship between Sarah Palin and MSNBC, and its role in the network’s success. In a guest column, John Ziegler, radio host, Palin confidante, and the filmmaker behind Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted, offers his analysis of the Hollywood Reporter piece, including exclusive details of Hollywood Reporter’s Q&A with Ziegler which were never printed. The views expressed in this guest column are those of John Ziegler alone.

As an outspoken and dedicated defender of Palin against a mountain of unfair media attacks over the past couple of years, I have often been amused that many of my detractors presume that I have been a strong proponent of a Palin candidacy. The reality is that I am probably one of the few people to tell her to her face (after our January 2009 interview) that she can’t win in 2012, and, in act of even greater stupidity, I have most certainly harmed my last movie among Palin supporters by publicly stating the same opinion.

The tragic events in Tucson this past weekend left the nation shaken, and sparked a divisive debate over the tone of our politics. On Wednesday, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin released a video address on the mass shooting, many hours in advance of President Obama‘s speech at a memorial service in Tucson.

In an exclusive to Mediaite, the sometimes controversial documentary filmmaker John Ziegler reviews Sarah Palin‘s new book Going Rogue saying that he was “simply blown away by it on almost every level.” He also calls it “by far best book and greatest literary achievement by a political figure in [his] lifetime,” and leaves open Palin’s future in politics.

I have signed a nondisclosure agreement with Harper Collins regarding Sarah Palin’s new book so until it comes out I am limited to discussing only what is currently in the public domain. However, I simply must respond to the Associated Press “report” on “Going Rogue.

I am pretty sure I have a unique perspective from which to comment on HBO’s just released documentary “By the People… The Election of Barack Obama.” After all, I am the creator of the only major documentary on the 2008 election (“Media Malpractice… How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted”).

Don’t listen to the current conservative “conventional wisdom”: Barack Obama, barring an unforeseen disaster, has about as much chance of being a one-term President as Keith Olbermann has of leading the primetime lineup at Fox News Channel. And a big reason we can be so sure is the media.

Last week this website reported on two rather unique and interesting stories involving me. The first dealt with my attempt to get answers from David Keene, who is the head of the American Conservative Union and CPAC. The second focused on my offer to Keith Olbermann to pay his favorite charity $100,000 if he agreed to debate me about Sarah Palin . I wish to address some of the issues that have come up in response to these news items.

Yesterday, conservative filmmaker John Ziegler confronted American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene at the ACU’s Western CPAC about comments he made about Sarah Palin, and the FedEx scandal. Profanity, threats of violence, and a “Kanye moment” ensued. In an exclusive to Mediaite, John Ziegler tells his side of the story.