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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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To: NormsRevenge
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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.)
To: NormsRevenge
for balance they should add a conservative.
Maybe Coulter, Steyn, Malkin or Limbaugh?
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posted on
10/05/2010 2:39:45 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: Carley
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posted on
10/05/2010 2:40:08 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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’!
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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.)
To: NormsRevenge
And now for our next guest . . . .
To: NormsRevenge
"unbearable" to "icky" and "obnoxious".OK...so much for Client #9...what about the rest of the show?
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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)
To: NormsRevenge
They should have named the show “Client # 9”
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posted on
10/05/2010 2:43:48 PM PDT
by
PMAS
To: NormsRevenge
All those people at CNN, and they can’t come up with something people want to watch.
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posted on
10/05/2010 2:43:48 PM PDT
by
pallis
To: NormsRevenge
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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 -)
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.
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posted on
10/05/2010 2:46:18 PM PDT
by
JPG
(Sarah Palin says: "Buck-up or get out of the truck.")
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).
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posted on
10/05/2010 2:47:12 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(FAIL, BABY, FAIL!)
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.
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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)
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...
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
10/05/2010 3:00:41 PM PDT
by
relictele
(Me lumen vos umbra regit)
To: NormsRevenge; abb
![](http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/NewsletS06/Baber06_files/image002.jpg)
Your excerpt failed to record a couple of great quotes, notably:
- 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.
- Dan Kennedy of Britain's Guardian newspaper said Parker Spitzer did nothing to reverse the notion that CNN is utterly lost ... parts of the show were "wretchedly unwatchable"
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.
![](http://michellemalkin.cachefly.net/michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/obacnn.jpg)
Abb:
Ping to an wretchedly unwatchable broadcast from your utterly lost nonpartisan approach friends at Chicken Noodle News.
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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.")
To: NormsRevenge
The name alone is sounds like the violation of a woman.
Park her, Spitz her...
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.
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posted on
10/05/2010 3:04:55 PM PDT
by
x
To: NormsRevenge
The very idea of hiring either one was a ghastly idea.
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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!)
To: Zakeet
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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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