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Kathleen Parker Is Out At CNN

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After months of turbulence at CNN’s Parker Spitzer, the network will drop co-host Kathleen Parker from the show, according to sources and a memo released to CNN staff. Eliot Spitzer will continue with the show. “I wish Kathleen all the best in continuing on with her spectacular career. It has been a joy working with her as a teammate, and I continue to be a huge fan of the wisdom that jumps from her written work and the wit, charm and insight she brings to all that she does,” said Spitzer in a statement.

According to CNN chief Ken Jautz, the new show will feature Spitzer in an “ensemble format” of contributors and be called In the Arena. The new show debuts Monday.

Jautz says Parker “decided to leave the program to focus on her writing, and we have decided to take the show in a new direction.” Parker released a statement that called this “a good time to move on,” and makes no mention of Spitzer:

After bringing viewers a new 8pm show on CNN, I have decided to return to a schedule that will allow me to focus more on my syndicated newspaper column and other writings. While I am extremely proud of the show we created, and the subject matter and level of discourse Parker Spitzer promoted every night, it was a difficult decision to scale back my column a few months ago and, with the show going in a new direction, it is a good time to move on. I want to thank the viewers who have been so kind with their comments and support. I will continue to appear to contribute and analyze occasionally on CNN and look forward to continuing my relationship with CNN and the many talented individuals I have worked with here.

Here’s the memo:

TO: CNN Staff

FROM: Ken Jautz

DATE: February 25, 2011

I want to share with you some news today regarding our 8pm show. Kathleen Parker has decided to leave the program to focus on her writing, and we have decided to take the show in a new direction. We will be adopting an ensemble format with several newsmakers, guests and contributors joining Eliot Spitzer each night. The new program will be called, “In the Arena,” beginning Monday. E.D. Hill and Will Cain will join the program as well others within and outside the CNN family.

We have been pleased with how the 8pm hour has become a centerpiece of substantive, policy-oriented conversation, and we are looking forward to building on that with this new format. Simply put, the new program will look beyond the headlines to analyze and discuss the most important stories of the day. The program will provide context and analysis through balanced and thoughtful discussions and interviews with a wide range of guests and newsmakers who cumulatively represent various points of view.

Kathleen will continue to appear on CNN occasionally to provide her insights and commentary. We thank Kathleen for her hard work and all that she has done to help us launch our new 8pm program. We respect her as a colleague and appreciate her perspective and contributions.

Ken

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  • tatboy

    Oh THIS will help their ratings…

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    he refused to wear a condom

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    Thanks to his last paid “escort”, we all know how Client #9 treats women, so PHONY conservative parker really has nothing to complain about. If she didn’t want to be spanked, she should never have agreed to sit next to #9.

  • sean_m

    Eliot Spitzer has a TV show. Only on CNN. lol Maybe if I cheat on my wife with a hooker they’ll give me one.

  • Alz

    Man, these liberals at CNN just keep digging a deeper hole.

  • ohwell

    sean_m said:
    Eliot Spitzer has a TV show. Only on CNN. lol Maybe if I cheat on my wife with a hooker they’ll give me one.

    They gave a former alcoholic, Glenn Beck, a show. So why not Eliot?

  • Ambrose

    Now that this bitch has been shown the road, I will watch the new show. She is a right-winger who speaks as if she’s got hair stuck between her teeth.

  • greg454

    I’m sure her millions of fans will be devastated.

    DEBBIE SCHULTZ (DNC-FL) WANTS YOU TO STOP SAYING “OBAMACARE.”
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/02/debbie-schultz-wants-you-to-shup-up-and.html

  • BatBoy

    I’m back from the bathroom where I just gagged and threw up.

    Why you might ask?

    I read this… ” “I wish Kathleen all the best in continuing on with her spectacular career. It has been a joy working with her as a teammate, and I continue to be a huge fan of the wisdom that jumps from her written work and the wit, charm and insight she brings to all that she does,” said Spitzer in a statement.

    Client # 9 got his wish!

  • TangledThorns

    Parker is nothing, good riddance to her.

  • Harry Flashman

    Oh, good.

    More liberal think-tank programming. Its worked so well so far. Just look at those ratings in the other programs! Or, um, not.

    Way to think things through, CNN.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    If a tree falls in the forest, does anyone hear it?

  • srgntpep

    Just call it “News with a Scumbag!” Or maybe invite Charlie Sheen and call it “scumbag and crazy!” Although I’d probably watch that…

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Hey Eliot, does this help your public image as a SEXIST? lol
    ————————————————-

    Other News:

    Carney just said, I kid you not, “…It is clear that Col. Gadaffi has lost the confidence of his people”!
    Ya think? – That tends to happen when you hire gangs of African mercenaries to gun them down in the streets!!

    Does the WH get cable?

  • Harry Flashman

    Just to clarify my last, I don’t even like Parker who is a classic “RINO” and panders to whichever audience she happens to be playing at the time.

    This was a two-flusher. The all-liberal-all-the-time isn’t winning them any time slots. They should have flushed twice and started over with a nice, clean bowl.

    Just sayin’.

  • BatBoy

    greg454 said:
    DEBBIE SCHULTZ (DNC-FL) WANTS YOU TO STOP SAYING “OBAMACARE.”
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/02/debbie-schultz-wants-you-to-shup-up-and.html

    The article read…in part….Obamacare is the new n-word according to that sexy socialist blond, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla).

    calling Debbie Wasserman Schultz sexy – was this written by a blind person?
    If you want sexy. political women, you would be better to choose… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-JCnnyxkGI&feature=related – Just saying!

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Parker’s attempts to ingratiate herself to the mainstream media by constantly dumping on other conservatives didn’t really pan out like she’d hoped. Note to other “conservative” pundits who think they can go this route: It may initially accelerate you, but you’ll come crashing down quickly with a tarred name.

  • Scrub

    and there she blows

  • JoeRemi

    BatBoy said:
    The article read…in part….Obamacare is the new n-word according to that sexy socialist blond, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla). calling Debbie Wasserman Schultz sexy – was this written by a blind person?If you want sexy. political women, you would be better to choose… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-JCnnyxkGI&feature=related – Just saying!

    Geez, dude, those are some weird pics. The first one of Palin is BIZARRE.

  • jerrybobphil

    Move the show to 9pm and call it Client #9 at 9. The title writes itself.

  • bayroad22

    Great and goodbye! now maybe CNN can have an intelligent conversational show without the need to do fluff pieces so Kathleen can participate. hopefully, this will be an answer to those crazy wingnuts CNN has been hiring–Eric Erickson et al–to bloviate their teatard opinions with John King and Wolf B.

  • tiredocrapp

    I’m a “Lib” and I hate to see her go….I like to hear both sides of a story, or both opinions. She didn’t have a chance. Sad. Not all of us “libs” like womanizing, hooker lovin’ idiots. :)

  • janelasdedeus

    I can’t watch him without wondering if he’s wearing socks.

  • milynily

    Gives new meaning to good guys finish last.

  • Hugo Daun

    BatBoy said:
    If you want sexy. political women, you would be better to choose… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-JCnnyxkGI&feature=related – Just saying!

    EWWWWWWW!

    Dude, you should just keep your personal spank-bank to yourself…

  • ModerateMan

    CNN’s lineup:

    American Morning with Kiran Chetry – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Kyra Phillips – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Suzanne Malveaux – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Ali Velshi – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Brooke Baldwin – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    The Situation Room: Wolf Blitzer – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    John King, USA: – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    The Arena: Spitzer – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    Piers Morgan Tonight LIVE: – LIBERAL WHO WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR OBAMA IF CITIZEN

    Anderson Cooper 360°: – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    THIS is your “straight down the middle” cable news source.

  • same2u

    TeaPartyPatriot said:
    Thanks to his last paid “escort”, we all know how Client #9 treats women, so PHONY conservative parker really has nothing to complain about. If she didn’t want to be spanked, she should never have agreed to sit next to #9.

    From a purely Libertarian point of view what is worse: a married man making sexual advances toward a junior employee on his staff, or a married man making an unlawful payment to a hooker for sex?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Add Charlie Sheen to the show. Hooker heaven.

  • ModerateMan

    same2u said:
    From a purely Libertarian point of view what is worse: a married man making sexual advances toward a junior employee on his staff, or a married man making an unlawful payment to a hooker for sex?

    A Libertarian could dislike both. But he would think the government should not be involved with a moral judgement of two consenting adults..

  • Moderate

    Looks like CNN is going far left so they can compete with MSNBC head to head.

  • An Idea

    Oh crap !

  • lucky5

    I can’t wait until his new show starts.

  • WCinWI

    Like I said, the only way the show is going to be successful is if they have Spitzer vs. Loesch.

    Who’s gonna attract the conservatives? Will Cain? HA!

  • same2u

    ModerateMan said:
    But he would think the government should not be involved with a moral judgement of two consenting adults..

    In my example I intended to say “unwanted sexual advances” by a person of authority at work. Feel free to revise your answer as needed.

  • Alz

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Add Charlie Sheen to the show. Hooker heaven.

    That’s hilarious!

  • WCinWI

    same2u said:
    In my example I intended to say “unwanted sexual advances” by a person of authority at work. Feel free to revise your answer as needed.

    Sin is sin.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    ModerateMan said:
    CNN’s lineup: American Morning with Kiran Chetry – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA CNN Newsroom: Kyra Phillips – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA CNN Newsroom: Suzanne Malveaux – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA CNN Newsroom: Ali Velshi – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA CNN Newsroom: Brooke Baldwin – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA The Situation Room: Wolf Blitzer – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA John King, USA: – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA The Arena: Spitzer – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA Piers Morgan Tonight LIVE: – LIBERAL WHO WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR OBAMA IF CITIZEN Anderson Cooper 360°: – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA THIS is your “straight down the middle” cable news source.

    Good info MM, going into the file.

  • WCinWI

    KP learns that when you make your first show about Palin, everything else goes downhill from there.

    Palin: 1
    Parker: 0

  • writernotabene

    ModerateMan said:
    CNN’s lineup:

    American Morning with Kiran Chetry – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Kyra Phillips – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Suzanne Malveaux – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Ali Velshi – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Brooke Baldwin – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    The Situation Room: Wolf Blitzer – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    John King, USA: – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    The Arena: Spitzer – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    Piers Morgan Tonight LIVE: – LIBERAL WHO WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR OBAMA IF CITIZEN

    Anderson Cooper 360°: – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    THIS is your “straight down the middle” cable news source.

    Two points: 1) How do you know what the voting records and political affiliations are of these people? and 2) Ali Velshi is a Canadian citizen whose hometown is Toronto, thus not able to have voted for President Obama.

  • WCinWI

    writernotabene said:
    Two points: 1) How do you know what the voting records and political affiliations are of these people? and 2) Ali Velshi is a Canadian citizen whose hometown is Toronto, thus not able to have voted for President Obama.

    If true, why is CNN denying an American the opportunity for an American-based job?

  • WCinWI
  • Joe4more

    Only a right wing ideologue would conclude that CNN is a liberal biased news station, regardless of who you think this newscaster or that one voted for.
    I usually watch msnbc, then Fox, then CNN for some balance. I find CNN to be center right on most issues.
    For all those pointing out the “liberals” on the show, I’d like to point out a few of the identified conservative regulars: Bill Bradly; Eric Erickson; Ed Rollins; three conservatives whom I disagree with most of the time, but they unabashedly bring the conservative position into the debate. They discuss those positions with the liberal counterparts on a given show. I enjoy watching the exchanges and like I said, disagree with most of the conservative positions, but still enjoy and learn from watching the debates.
    A dose of open mindedness may help those who think CNN is a “liberal bastion.”

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    “The CBS drama “The Good Wife” has raised a few eyebrows by naming Gary Cole’s character, a ballistics expert, Tea Party member, and Sarah Palin supporter, “Kurt McVeigh,” a not so subtle comparison to Timothy McVeigh, the man behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings”
    —————————————————————

    And they promoted the BIG SMEAR of Tea Party moms & dads as RACISTS!

    BOYCOTT THE GOOD WIFE!!

    Pass it on……

  • WCinWI

    Joe4more said:
    Only a right wing ideologue would conclude that CNN is a liberal biased news station, regardless of who you think this newscaster or that one voted for.
    I usually watch msnbc, then Fox, then CNN for some balance. I find CNN to be center right on most issues.
    For all those pointing out the “liberals” on the show, I’d like to point out a few of the identified conservative regulars: Bill Bradly; Eric Erickson; Ed Rollins; three conservatives whom I disagree with most of the time, but they unabashedly bring the conservative position into the debate. They discuss those positions with the liberal counterparts on a given show. I enjoy watching the exchanges and like I said, disagree with most of the conservative positions, but still enjoy and learn from watching the debates.
    A dose of open mindedness may help those who think CNN is a “liberal bastion.”

    They’re contributors, not anchors. Thus your point is moot.

  • ModerateMan

    Joe4more said:
    Only a right wing ideologue would conclude that CNN is a liberal biased news station, regardless of who you think this newscaster or that one voted for.I usually watch msnbc, then Fox, then CNN for some balance. I find CNN to be center right on most issues.For all those pointing out the “liberals” on the show, I’d like to point out a few of the identified conservative regulars: Bill Bradly; Eric Erickson; Ed Rollins; three conservatives whom I disagree with most of the time, but they unabashedly bring the conservative position into the debate. They discuss those positions with the liberal counterparts on a given show. I enjoy watching the exchanges and like I said, disagree with most of the conservative positions, but still enjoy and learn from watching the debates.A dose of open mindedness may help those who think CNN is a “liberal bastion.”

    Yeah, CNN brings in Eric Erickson and Ed Rollins on occasion as special guests. And I think Wolf Blizter voted for a Republican sometime in the 60′s….. so THERE is your balance. Jesus Christ.

  • BadGenome

    Joe4more said:
    Bill Bradly

    You mean Bill Bennett?

    And I’d argue that only a left wing ideologue would conclude that only a right wing ideologue would conclude that CNN is a liberal biased news station. ;-)

  • Joe4more

    WCinWI said:
    They’re contributors, not anchors. Thus your point is moot

    The producers run the content, pick the anchors and the contributors. Have you ever listened to John King? Not that one man could possibly know, with any degree of certainty, another persons inner convictions, I would guess Mr. King voted for McGrandpa/Palin

  • ohwell

    ModerateMan said:
    CNN’s lineup:

    American Morning with Kiran Chetry – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Kyra Phillips – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Suzanne Malveaux – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Ali Velshi – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Brooke Baldwin – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    The Situation Room: Wolf Blitzer – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    John King, USA: – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    The Arena: Spitzer – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    Piers Morgan Tonight LIVE: – LIBERAL WHO WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR OBAMA IF CITIZEN

    Anderson Cooper 360°: – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    THIS is your “straight down the middle” cable news source.

    For you, or the 12 morons that “thumbs up’ed” this post – where’s your PROOF?

  • notsofast

    She is only half of the problem with the show.

  • Liberty_Hound

    What channel is CNN on? Never mind I don’t care.

  • WCinWI

    Joe4more said:
    The producers run the content, pick the anchors and the contributors. Have you ever listened to John King? Not that one man could possibly know, with any degree of certainty, another persons inner convictions, I would guess Mr. King voted for McGrandpa/Palin

    No – King is just a more fair interviewer. He still seems like an Obama voter.

    And please stop being a racist.

  • WillP

    This was a good move. Kathleen Parker is a very intelligent, skillful writer. However, she is not qualified to be more than a contributor to a news opinion show.

  • Joe4more

    I was about to respond to WCinWI, but have realized you all got a lot of shit on this site. Yes I meant Bill Bennett; my comment about Mr. King was a “guess” not a conviction. You guys just wait around like hungry sharks, waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting visitor, wow!

  • Joe4more

    WCinWI said:
    No – King is just a more fair interviewer. He still seems like an Obama voter.

    And please stop being a racist.

    Racist?

  • WCinWI

    Joe4more said:
    Racist?

    Yes – When you need to call politicians or people in general names, you’re not heeding the President’s call for civility, hence are a racist. See how that works? Now you know how the Right feels when we get blindly calls racist. Hopefully you’ll pass this word along to not use this word. :)

  • Joe4more

    WCinWI: The term you’re looking for is “ageism” ; at this moment I am sticking my middle finger up and aiming it in your direction, later!

  • notsofast

    WCinWI said:
    In other news, http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2011/feb/25/responding-rachel-maddow/

    Yes, everyone is wrong except RM and MSNBC. She tried to completely obscure another one of her lies when she falsely said that a Republican had “prior” knowledge about the OK. City bombing.

  • WCinWI

    Joe4more said:
    WCinWI: The term you’re looking for is “ageism” ; at this moment I am sticking my middle finger up and aiming it in your direction, later!

    Then I will continue to call you a racist. It’s not my fault if you don’t like the tactic. I’m merely using the same tactic as your own political party.

    I do find it funny when you consider an anchor at the same level as a contributor. Funny stuff right there.

  • notsofast

    Joe4more said:
    at this moment I am sticking my middle finger up and aiming it in your direction, later!

    I’m glad to see you finally got it out of your arse, son.

  • WCinWI

    notsofast said:
    Yes, everyone is wrong except RM and MSNBC. She tried to completely obscure another one of her lies when she falsely said that a Republican had “prior” knowledge about the OK. City bombing.

    And Joe4More. He’s never wrong either. :)

    I’m waiting for Matthews to be committed. That will truly be an awesome day. Not for him, of course. :)

  • notsofast

    WCinWI said:
    And Joe4More. He’s never wrong either. :)

    For your file when a lib says MSNBC doesn’t lie:

    Rachel Maddow Falsely Claims Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year

    “”Despite what you may have heard about Wisconsin’s finances, the state is on track to have a budget surplus this year.”- Rachel Maddow on Thursday, February 17th, 2011 in a segment on her television talk show
    “There is fierce debate over the approach Walker took to address the short-term budget deficit. But there should be no debate on whether or not there is a shortfall. While not historically large, the shortfall in the current budget needed to be addressed in some fashion. Walker’s tax cuts will boost the size of the projected deficit in the next budget, but they’re not part of this problem and did not create it.
    We rate Maddow’s take False.”
    http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2011/feb/18/rachel-maddow/rachel-maddow-says-wisconsin-track-have-budget-sur/
    “Rachel Maddow lies: Fox had absolutely nothing to do with the Shirley Sherrod story”

    July 26, 2010 • 28 comments
    Maddow Falsely Blames FOX for Shirley Sherrod Incident
    Smug, smirking, smarmy Rachel Maddow took what passes at MSNBC as an in-depth look at the Shirley Sherrod incident and laid the entire blame at the feet of Fox News. Of course, she was lying, but that was probably Fox News’ fault, too.

    Turns out that Fox never mentioned the story until after Sherrod had already resigned her position with the USDA. And that is proven by the very clips that Maddow used to condemn Fox.
    Maddow Falsely Claims Politician Had Advance Warning of Oklahoma City Bombing

    Megan McArdle – Megan McArdle is the business and economics editor for The Atlantic. She has worked at three start-ups, a consulting firm, an investment bank, a disaster recovery firm at Ground Zero, and the Economist.

    Oct 20 2010, 11:31 AM ET
    Whether this was poor fact checking, or sloppy wording, with Maddow meaning to say that he got notice of militia involvement before the media, the implication of what she actually said is that he knew about the attacks before they happened. I hope Maddow will correct this implication quickly.

    Rachel Maddow says Fox News ‘said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Barack Obama’
    Maddow would have been correct if she had simply said that Fox’s coverage was more extensive and hyperbolic than other networks. But her claim that Fox News “said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Barack Obama” is not supported by the transcripts we reviewed.

    In reality, Fox’s coverage focused on legal, racial and media-related issues, rather than the electoral impact on Obama. SO WE FIND HER CLAIM FALSE.

    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/feb/09/rachel-maddow/rachel-maddow-says-fox-news-said-new-black-panther/

  • OxyCon

    Rick Sanchez was right! (tongue in cheek).
    Btw, “Client # 9″ would be a great name for the show. Or how about “The Black Socks Diaries”.

  • glenn113

    The entire crew at Fox aren’t as sharp as Elliot Spitzer.

  • notsofast

    glenn113 said:
    The entire crew at Fox aren’t as sharp as Elliot Spitzer.

    Yeah, that’s because Elliot’s head could fit into a pencil sharpener, and I guess in your world, the ex. Attorney General, then Gov. getting caught up in a prostitution ring after prosecuting people for the same thing makes him brilliant.

  • libra blue

    “Kathleen Parker has decided to leave the program to focus on her writing, and we have decided to take the show in a new direction. ”

    CNN lies. Are their viewers really that gullible? Parker was dumped, but the show was a loser from the start.

  • same2u

    libra blue said:
    “Kathleen Parker has decided to leave the program to focus on her writing, and we have decided to take the show in a new direction. ”

    CNN lies. Are their viewers really that gullible? Parker was dumped, but the show was a loser from the start.

    So what is the Andersen Cooper angle to all of this? Inquiring minds want to know.

  • uglyflamingo

    ModerateMan said:
    CNN’s lineup:

    American Morning with Kiran Chetry – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Kyra Phillips – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Suzanne Malveaux – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Ali Velshi – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    CNN Newsroom: Brooke Baldwin – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    The Situation Room: Wolf Blitzer – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    John King, USA: – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    The Arena: Spitzer – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    Piers Morgan Tonight LIVE: – LIBERAL WHO WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR OBAMA IF CITIZEN

    Anderson Cooper 360°: – LIBERAL WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA

    THIS is your “straight down the middle” cable news source.

    evidence or rightwing mccartyism?

  • uglyflamingo

    notsofast said:
    For your file when a lib says MSNBC doesn’t lie:

    Rachel Maddow Falsely Claims Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year

    “”Despite what you may have heard about Wisconsin’s finances, the state is on track to have a budget surplus this year.”- Rachel Maddow on Thursday, February 17th, 2011 in a segment on her television talk show
    “There is fierce debate over the approach Walker took to address the short-term budget deficit. But there should be no debate on whether or not there is a shortfall. While not historically large, the shortfall in the current budget needed to be addressed in some fashion. Walker’s tax cuts will boost the size of the projected deficit in the next budget, but they’re not part of this problem and did not create it.
    We rate Maddow’s take False.”
    http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2011/feb/18/rachel-maddow/rachel-maddow-says-wisconsin-track-have-budget-sur/
    “Rachel Maddow lies: Fox had absolutely nothing to do with the Shirley Sherrod story”

    July 26, 2010 • 28 comments
    Maddow Falsely Blames FOX for Shirley Sherrod Incident
    Smug, smirking, smarmy Rachel Maddow took what passes at MSNBC as an in-depth look at the Shirley Sherrod incident and laid the entire blame at the feet of Fox News. Of course, she was lying, but that was probably Fox News’ fault, too.

    Turns out that Fox never mentioned the story until after Sherrod had already resigned her position with the USDA. And that is proven by the very clips that Maddow used to condemn Fox.
    Maddow Falsely Claims Politician Had Advance Warning of Oklahoma City Bombing

    Megan McArdle – Megan McArdle is the business and economics editor for The Atlantic. She has worked at three start-ups, a consulting firm, an investment bank, a disaster recovery firm at Ground Zero, and the Economist.

    Oct 20 2010, 11:31 AM ET
    Whether this was poor fact checking, or sloppy wording, with Maddow meaning to say that he got notice of militia involvement before the media, the implication of what she actually said is that he knew about the attacks before they happened. I hope Maddow will correct this implication quickly.

    Rachel Maddow says Fox News ’said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Barack Obama’
    Maddow would have been correct if she had simply said that Fox’s coverage was more extensive and hyperbolic than other networks. But her claim that Fox News “said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Barack Obama” is not supported by the transcripts we reviewed.

    In reality, Fox’s coverage focused on legal, racial and media-related issues, rather than the electoral impact on Obama. SO WE FIND HER CLAIM FALSE.

    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/feb/09/rachel-maddow/rachel-maddow-says-fox-news-said-new-black-panther/

    big load of bull.

  • uglyflamingo

    Everyone who opposes me is either a RINO, a Liberal, or part of the George Soros Conspiracy. -RIGHTWINGER

    Everyone who opposes me is an infidel and/or part of the Zionist Conspiracy. -Radical Muslim

    similar?….I think so.

  • uglyflamingo

    oh yea FOX is Truth and Beck is my messiah.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Matthews is on calling on GOP leaders to denounce the guy who yelled about shooting at a town hall meeting…yet not a word from Matthews – or the DISCREDITED LeftStream Media – about a Democratic CONGRESSMAN who called for blood-in-the-streets over the union debate.

    This is the rank hypocrisy and deceit that IS the Democratic Party!

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    O’Reilly just Busted the Public Union Debate apart.

    Turns out over 2 million Fed Employees DON’T have collective bargaining, except for something minor, and the law for this was enacted under Jimmy Carter w/ Dem. House & Senate!!

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    welcome back ko

    spitzer? i didn’t even parker!

    http://foknewschannel.com/

    you’ve been gone to long keith

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    The page title is somewhat unfair and arguably false.

    The idea of Spitzer taking the show alone has been trial-ballooned at least three times and as far as I’m aware, every commentator has said that as structured, the show lacked flow, Parker wasn’t as forceful as Spitzer and that he could carry the show alone.

    If every time the world is asked, they say that your skills aren’t being properly showcased and you’re an unnecessary component to a working structure, it behooves both the employee and the management to find a graceful way to reach a mutual conclusion.

    IOW: Parker wasn’t fired. She was being overshadowed by Spitzer; the format wasn’t right for her skills and for her happiness and the success of the show, it was time to make a change.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    sean_m said:
    Eliot Spitzer has a TV show. Only on CNN. lol Maybe if I cheat on my wife with a hooker they’ll give me one.

    In Louisiana you can be a US Senator. Even after the public finds out.

  • Sidhekitten

    Maybe “Client Number 9″ needs a pro to challenge him, like the woman who serviced him. Nah, she has standards, he doesn’t. After all, at least she provided a valuable service, this clown was just another politician.

  • Glackin

    Spitzer was in the wrong party. The GOP has two adulterers in the Senate. One screwed a staffer’s wife, the other paid for it in DC and La. Apparently in the GOP as long as it’s not a boy you’re okay. They even got a guy gives lectures on morality who had one wife sign divorce papers in her hospital bed so he could marry his mistress. Talk about your class acts.

  • felixw

    How clueless can they be at CNN? Does anyone think Eliot Spitzer is going to turn this ratings disaster into a success? This is easier to predict than the result of the USA – Angola basketball match at the Barcelona Olympics. Spitzer will sink, and CNN will go down the tubes with him.

    Then again, maybe CNN has simply resigned itself to the fact that it attracts one-fifth the audience of Fox. I guess if you value political correctness over journalism, you need to pay the price in the ratings.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    felixw said:
    How clueless can they be at CNN? Does anyone think Eliot Spitzer is going to turn this ratings disaster into a success? This is easier to predict than the result of the USA – Angola basketball match at the Barcelona Olympics. Spitzer will sink, and CNN will go down the tubes with him.

    Then again, maybe CNN has simply resigned itself to the fact that it attracts one-fifth the audience of Fox. I guess if you value political correctness over journalism, you need to pay the price in the ratings.

    If political correctness means not horseshit and journalism means horseshit, you’re dead on.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    felixw said:

    Then again, maybe CNN has simply resigned itself to the fact that it attracts one-fifth the audience of Fox. I guess if you value political correctness over journalism, you need to pay the price in the ratings.

    Argumentum ad populum: Fox gets the best ratings, so hence they are the best journalists.

  • Michael_T

    Whether it’s Lou Dobbs, Kathleen Parker or someone else, it always makes me laugh when the press release suggests, “They are leaving to pursue other interest – or words to that effect.”

    We all know that’s corporate-speak for, “We decided to go in a different direction and they are not part of our plans.”

    I know they are trying to save face for the person fired. But all too often CNN and others just look phony and worthy of ridicule.

  • Michael_T

    Joe4more said:
    The producers run the content, pick the anchors and the contributors. Have you ever listened to John King? Not that one man could possibly know, with any degree of certainty, another persons inner convictions, I would guess Mr. King voted for McGrandpa/Palin

    I second that … about John King.

    Other MSM types who at times could hardly conceal their preference for McCain were Howard Kurtz, Tom Brokaw and David Gregory. Even Chris Matthews was a huge fan of “war hero” McCain until later in the campaign.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Michael_T said:
    Whether it’s Lou Dobbs, Kathleen Parker or someone else, it always makes me laugh when the press release suggests, “They are leaving to pursue other interest – or words to that effect.”

    We all know that’s corporate-speak for, “We decided to go in a different direction and they are not part of our plans.”

    I know they are trying to save face for the person fired. But all too often CNN and others just look phony and worthy of ridicule.

    As I implied in my comment, I sincerely doubt that Ms. Parker wanted to stick around when every week there would be a rumor or trial-balloon of her leaving and pretty much everyone would say that though there’s nothing wrong with her, it’d be alright for her to go.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    Michael_T said:
    Even Chris Matthews was a huge fan of “war hero” McCain until later in the campaign.

    Tingles has a lot of trouble with sustained attention, so he may have inadvertantly switched to Obama after his left leg began to twitch.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    TeaPartyPatriot said:
    PHONY conservative parker really has nothing to complain about. If she didn’t want to be spanked, she should never have agreed to sit next to #9.

    Yes, Parker had a PMS career re-do in her early fifties from right-center to left-center & from Orlando to the WaPo where she garnered [are there any other kind?] a phony Pulitzer for skittering leftward by about five notches. She has the personality of a fake housewife of Orlando, who meets a condom-hating macho male a$$hole able to spew and defecate and ……. you get the picture … all at the same time on whatever opponent he chooses—-man, woman or dog.

    CNN has no reason to exist except in airport lounges to keep you reading a second-rate novel.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    ohwell said:
    They gave a former alcoholic, Glenn Beck, a show. So why not Eliot?

    Hey, ditz lady, Glenn is reformed and Spitzer is a flaming a$$hole macho p***k who obviously fascinates people on the libtard left.

  • flagringo

    CNN has no redeeming social or journalistic value…they have made a decent attempt of hiring anchor babes that approach the “hotness” of Fox Babes…overall, CNN stays irrelevant

  • Pablo

    Glackin said:
    Spitzer was in the wrong party. The GOP has two adulterers in the Senate. One screwed a staffer’s wife, the other paid for it in DC and La. Apparently in the GOP as long as it’s not a boy you’re okay. They even got a guy gives lectures on morality who had one wife sign divorce papers in her hospital bed so he could marry his mistress. Talk about your class acts.

    Your last president was poking interns with cigars in the Oval Office. Your last VP candidate made a love child with a paid staffer while on the Presidential campaign trail, and with a wife dying of cancer. He’s about to find himself indicted. Spare me your sanctimony.

  • felixw

    Publius219 said:
    Argumentum ad populum: Fox gets the best ratings, so hence they are the best journalists.

    Think a little further, and ask why the networks who slavishly follow political correctness are losing their audience. Ask yourself why news sources who censor news stories are losing their audience.

    Yesterday, I spoke to a father whose son is fighting in Afghanistan, and he said that he tries to follow the battles and casualties in Afghanistan, but HE CAN’T FIND ANY COVERAGE IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. And why is that? Hey, it’s quite simple to answer that question — when Bush was President, the media gave maximum coverage to soldiers dying in battle, but when the anointed one Obama became President, the media stopped covering stories that might reflect badly on him. In fact, the bloodshed in Afghanistan is worse now than ever — it’s just that networks like CNN don’t want to tell you that. And that is just one of MANY stories that now fall off the radar screen during Democrat administrations.

    This is why CNN has lost most of its audience in the last few years. News outlets that don’t cover the news add no value. Anyone with any sense, and a real desire to find out what is happening in the world, has left them for the few news sources that tell what is actually happening in the world.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    felixw said:
    Think a little further, and ask why the networks who slavishly follow political correctness are losing their audience. Ask yourself why news sources who censor news stories are losing their audience.

    Yesterday, I spoke to a father whose son is fighting in Afghanistan, and he said that he tries to follow the battles and casualties in Afghanistan, but HE CAN’T FIND ANY COVERAGE IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. And why is that? Hey, it’s quite simple to answer that question — when Bush was President, the media gave maximum coverage to soldiers dying in battle, but when the anointed one Obama became President, the media stopped covering stories that might reflect badly on him. In fact, the bloodshed in Afghanistan is worse now than ever — it’s just that networks like CNN don’t want to tell you that. And that is just one of MANY stories that now fall off the radar screen during Democrat administrations.

    This is why CNN has lost most of its audience in the last few years. News outlets that don’t cover the news add no value. Anyone with any sense, and a real desire to find out what is happening in the world, has left them for the few news sources that tell what is actually happening in the world.

    What’s the old saying about idiots dragging you down to their level and then beating you with experience?

  • Arkansas Steve

    Publius219 said:
    What’s the old saying about idiots dragging you down to their level and then beating you with experience?

    Good quote Publius!! Thumbs UP.

    By idiots, I’m assuming you meant “liberals”.

  • david r

    She stunk on ice.

  • J Baustian

    Now I will never have an opportunity to watch the Parker-Spitzer Show.

    Boo hoo.

  • http://Mediaite.com uggugg

    It’s not the economy stupid; it’s the fact that we don’t have enough businesses to put people to work. Today’s businesses formed a Cartel like the OPEC Oil gangsters. This legally kills all competition. They do this to monopolize production and services to horde everything for the few who belong to the Cartel. Wise up you educated dummies; real management could have caught this long before the economic debacle this same group created.

  • Nachi

    Michael_T said:
    I second that … about John King. Other MSM types who at times could hardly conceal their preference for McCain were Howard Kurtz, Tom Brokaw and David Gregory. Even Chris Matthews was a huge fan of “war hero” McCain until later in the campaign.

    We know we’ve hit bottom when we hear the likes of “Ace” McCain being called a “war hero.” 2.3 total hours of combat – constant refusal to follow SOP. (See “Naval Archieves.”)

  • CAconservative

    After watching her and Spitzer debating with John Ziegler, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them both go.

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