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CNN's "Parker Spitzer" debuts to scathing reviews ("unbearable" "icky" "obnoxious" "vapid")
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 10/5/10 | Jill Serjeant

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; eliotspitzer; enemedia; kathleenparker; parkerspitzer; spitzer
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1 posted on 10/05/2010 2:37:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Bring back Sanchez.


2 posted on 10/05/2010 2:39:14 PM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: NormsRevenge

for balance they should add a conservative.

Maybe Coulter, Steyn, Malkin or Limbaugh?


3 posted on 10/05/2010 2:39:45 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: Carley

lol


4 posted on 10/05/2010 2:40:08 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: NormsRevenge

And in cable news they came in last...numbers are out.

I’m doing the happy dance.

CNN the most Distrusted name in ‘news’!


5 posted on 10/05/2010 2:40:33 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: NormsRevenge
And now for our next guest . . . .


6 posted on 10/05/2010 2:40:41 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: NormsRevenge
"unbearable" to "icky" and "obnoxious".

OK...so much for Client #9...what about the rest of the show?

7 posted on 10/05/2010 2:43:31 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: NormsRevenge

They should have named the show “Client # 9”


8 posted on 10/05/2010 2:43:48 PM PDT by PMAS
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To: NormsRevenge

All those people at CNN, and they can’t come up with something people want to watch.


9 posted on 10/05/2010 2:43:48 PM PDT by pallis
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10 posted on 10/05/2010 2:45:40 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Carley
Bring back Sanchez but team him up w/Iampoor. That would be a shot of 150 proof booze compared to the weak Parker whine Spritzer. Better still, put all four of them together and watch the CNN flame flicker out even faster.
11 posted on 10/05/2010 2:46:18 PM PDT by JPG (Sarah Palin says: "Buck-up or get out of the truck.")
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To: NormsRevenge

The reviews are exactly how I’d describe almost every lib talking head show out there.

And really, could they not find a better name than “Parker Spitzer”? It sounds like a disease. (perhaps it was a Freudian pun on the part of the marketing department).


12 posted on 10/05/2010 2:47:12 PM PDT by workerbee (FAIL, BABY, FAIL!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Do you think someone at CNN is trying to sabatoge this effort?

“See, we tried being more balanced; having a liberal and conservatvie on at the same time and it bombed. So, let’s go back to what we were doing before.”

I didn’t think they were taking it serious when then put Parker on (a liberal that calls herself a conservative). Now I know they aren’t serious.


13 posted on 10/05/2010 2:47:55 PM PDT by Brookhaven (The next step for the Tea Party--The Conservative Hand--is available at Amazon.com)
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To: NormsRevenge
"Parker Spitzer" made its debut after two weeks of turmoil at CNN, which pioneered 24-hour TV news in the 1980s and has clung to its nonpartisan approach.

nonpartisan to Reuters, that is...

14 posted on 10/05/2010 2:48:22 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: NormsRevenge

15 posted on 10/05/2010 3:00:41 PM PDT by relictele (Me lumen vos umbra regit)
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To: NormsRevenge; abb

Your excerpt failed to record a couple of great quotes, notably:

Of course, anything that bad just has to be good, if you get my drift

Therefore, we can expect that more people will tune in tonight.


Abb:

Ping to an wretchedly unwatchable broadcast from your utterly lost nonpartisan approach friends at Chicken Noodle News.

16 posted on 10/05/2010 3:02:22 PM PDT by Zakeet (Like the wise Wee Wee said, "We can't be broke ... we still have checks in the checkbook.")
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To: NormsRevenge

The name alone is sounds like the violation of a woman.

Park her, Spitz her...


17 posted on 10/05/2010 3:03:41 PM PDT by Al Gore Vidal
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To: NormsRevenge
"Parker Spitzer" would sound like part of the punchline to a dirty joke even if Eliot Spitzer hadn't become America's best known user of prostitutes.

But since he is it makes the ickiness of the title all the more obvious.

18 posted on 10/05/2010 3:04:55 PM PDT by x
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To: NormsRevenge

The very idea of hiring either one was a ghastly idea.


19 posted on 10/05/2010 3:08:02 PM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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20 posted on 10/05/2010 3:10:29 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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