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December 01, 2010

Oh No: Kathleen Parker Storms Off Set Of Parker/Spitzer
— Ace

Have to mention it.

We liveblogged the first show and it was pretty clear that Kathleen Parker 1, had nothing much to say except about her One Big Topic of Sarah Palin (and nothing new there, either), and, even if you're whoring for ratings, you can't talk about her every night, can you?, and 2, was a wallflower without any command of the studio and without the sort of aggressive confidence needed to be a broadcaster.

She wilted on stage. She was a ghost. A big nothing. As bad as the show was, I have to agree with (I think) S.E. Cupp who said that Spitzer seemed more like a natural broadcaster, someone firmly in his element of talkin' on TV bark-bark-bark.

Parker seemed like, well, a second-rate writer doing her best work with her keyboard (and not very good work there, either).

The NY Post claims she stormed off the set, angry about her second banana role.

Well, dear, you have to talk to be heard, don't you? This isn't third-grade math class. The teachers aren't there to spend extra effort trying to cajole the girls to raise their hands and answer questions.

You're a big girl now, aren't you? Either get off TV or start talking on TV but don't whine that the guy doing what he's supposed to do on TV (fill up the air with words) is doing his job properly.

You need to bring a little more to the table than "dead air," darlin'.

Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker actually stormed off the set of the "Parker Spitzer" show during a pre-taping a few weeks ago -- furious that her co-host is continually allowed to take charge of their nightly CNN chat-fest, the insiders said.
Although still fuming, Parker did return to wrap up the segment, they said.
But she's angry that the show's producers are allegedly doing nothing to play up her strengths on the ailing show, the sources said.

Her "strengths," from that first show I saw, seem to be limited to asking sorority-girl party-game questions of her guests, like "When did you lose your virginity?" She didn't ask that one -- but it was that type of irrelevant, let's-have-a-giggle-party sort of question.

She wants the show to have more of that sort of thing, I guess. Sure. That'll save the show. An aging den mother asking people what color underwear they hope they'll be wearing when they die. Ratings gold.

Some staffers said Spitzer -- the hard-charging, former state attorney general who resigned as governor in 2008 after admitting to patronizing prostitutes -- thrust himself up front and center right out of the gate, leaving Parker without a chance.

Right, he should have been a wallflower and quiet as a mouse to let the other wallflower get in her wallflower mumblings.

But other insiders said the Pulitzer Prize-winning Parker has only herself to blame.
While Parker -- a conservative, nationally syndicated newspaper journalist -- is widely respected, she's no TV personality, critics said.

She's also no conservative, NY Post.

"Her weaknesses are felt internally," a source said.

Anyway, she's whining to the show's executive producer that the format has to be changed to allow the quiet, uncomfortable-on-camera mumbler more of the spotlight. Like maybe she could do a cooking segment or something.

By the way, I am writing a big, super-long post. I'm not slacking. I'm just fixated on this one post.

Posted by: Ace at 11:05 AM | Comments (88)
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1 Gee, CNN, great choice for a host. Who did she blow?

Posted by: nickless at December 01, 2010 11:08 AM (MMC8r)

2 Stay tuned for 'Behar-Spitzer.'

Posted by: nickless at December 01, 2010 11:09 AM (MMC8r)

3 I cannot believe Eliot Spitzer would treat a woman poorly!

Posted by: Kathleen Parker at December 01, 2010 11:09 AM (WcxzO)

4 Clearly Kathleen Parker needs to hire a media consultant, someone who knows how to make a conservative woman not only watchable but fascinating and who has a track record of pulling in big TV ratings numbers.

But the big question is, will Sarah Palin take the job?

Posted by: stuiec at December 01, 2010 11:10 AM (chhYn)

5 >> I'm not slacking. I'm just fixated on this one post new Ewok pr0n site I found on "vacation."

fixt

Posted by: Andy at December 01, 2010 11:12 AM (5Rurq)

6 She should ask her guests what kind of tree they would be, if they were a tree.

Posted by: toby928™ at December 01, 2010 11:13 AM (S5YRY)

7 She's just mad Sarah Palin could do a better job.

Posted by: rdbrewer at December 01, 2010 11:13 AM (ZzF6C)

8 Hey Kathleen! Tits or GTFO!

Posted by: EC at December 01, 2010 11:13 AM (mAhn3)

9 When she's at her angriest is the perfect time to say, "Kitten, while you're up, could you fetch me a coffee? Thanks, Doll."

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 01, 2010 11:13 AM (eQrQ9)

10 Huh, got screwed dealing with Spitzer. What are the odds?

Posted by: AoSHQ's DarkLord© at December 01, 2010 11:13 AM (GBXon)

11
Jimmy Wales is laughing right now after reading "widely respected."

Posted by: Soothsayer & Jimmy Wales at December 01, 2010 11:14 AM (uFokq)

12 The "Coulter-Spitzer Barbecue" has a nice, rhythmic flow. I'd like to see how he handles that.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at December 01, 2010 11:14 AM (70OJl)

13 That's OK, she's always welcome at the National Topsider.

Posted by: Rich Lowery at December 01, 2010 11:14 AM (K/USr)

14 thrust himself

Well that's not unfortunate phrasing or anything.

And, why do we care, again?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 01, 2010 11:15 AM (8y9MW)

15 It is kinda fun, though, to see one of the "credentialed elite" shown up for being a dummie.

Posted by: JorgXMcKie at December 01, 2010 11:15 AM (QgVMV)

16 CNN you say? SO if a tree falls in the forest but nobody is there to see it.........?

Posted by: nevergiveup at December 01, 2010 11:15 AM (0GFWk)

17 We all knew Spitzer liked to be the dominant one.

Posted by: nickless at December 01, 2010 11:15 AM (MMC8r)

18 "Her weaknesses are felt internally," a source said.

Does this mean she has poor bladder control?
^{Guess she would feel that externally, so, no.}

Posted by: Whitney Houston at December 01, 2010 11:16 AM (QgmBR)

Why do you think they hired you, dummy? So Spitzer won't wander off in mid show looking for a piece of tail. Hey, it's CNN, just sit there and prove every blonde joke right. In fact, here's one for you:

Why did the blond starve to death in the shower?

"Lather, rinse, repeat".

Posted by: bigred at December 01, 2010 11:16 AM (cX9pO)

20
She should be more like Larry King and wear suspenders.

Posted by: Soothsayer & Jimmy Wales at December 01, 2010 11:16 AM (uFokq)

21 Posted by: JorgXMcKie at December 01, 2010 03:15 PM (QgVMV)

The problem with that logic is that people would have to see it. Therein lies the problem...

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 01, 2010 11:16 AM (8y9MW)

22 The "Coulter-Spitzer Barbecue" has a nice, rhythmic flow. I'd like to see how he handles that.

Coulter-Kinsley would be a hoot.

Posted by: toby928™ at December 01, 2010 11:16 AM (S5YRY)

23
It's obvious who will replace her, isn't it?

Yep.

Mega McCanns

Posted by: Soothsayer & Jimmy Wales at December 01, 2010 11:17 AM (uFokq)

24 Am I the only one who read the post, saw the word "whoring" and was disappointed to see that Spitzer's whores weren't actually included in the shop?

Posted by: SnowSoul at December 01, 2010 11:17 AM (7kgOh)

25 Posted by: Whitney Houston at December 01, 2010 03:16 PM

Get off me you stupid crack addicted sock.

Posted by: huerfano at December 01, 2010 11:17 AM (QgmBR)

26
I'll bet my left nut McCanns already has the gig and that's why she took a shot at Sarah Palin.

Or perhaps it was her shot at SP that sealed the deal.

Posted by: Soothsayer & Jimmy Wales at December 01, 2010 11:18 AM (uFokq)

27 Posted by: LC LaWedgie at December 01, 2010 03:14 PM (70OJl)

I would pay to watch that.

Heck, they could even do a one night, pay-per-view special:

**Coulter**
**Spitzer**
**The Beat Down!**

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 01, 2010 11:18 AM (8y9MW)

28 Yeah, let's have her replaced with Coulter or Mark Steyn (it doesn't have to be a chick, right?)

Posted by: joeindc44 at December 01, 2010 11:21 AM (QxSug)

29 "Her weaknesses are felt internally," a source said.

I felt Spitzer's flacidness internally.

Posted by: One of Spitzer's prostitutes at December 01, 2010 11:22 AM (TpXEI)

30 26
I'll bet my left nut McCanns already has the gig and that's why she took a shot at Sarah Palin.

You may have a point. Parker's and Meggie Mac's writings are of similar ie poor quality, so replacing Kathleen with Meggie wouldn't necessitate a very big change in show format.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 01, 2010 11:22 AM (9hSKh)

"It's obvious who will replace her, isn't it?

Yep.

Mega McCanns"

How 'bout just a hamster in a hamster ball in a box on a chair?

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at December 01, 2010 11:22 AM (HaYO4)

How 'bout just a hamster in a hamster ball in a box on a chair?

The hamster had standards about working with Spitzer.

Posted by: nickless at December 01, 2010 11:23 AM (MMC8r)

33 She should be treated just as fairly and considerately as she treated Sarah Palin. Not because of Palin love, either. Just in principle.

Posted by: rdbrewer at December 01, 2010 11:24 AM (ZzF6C)

34 Joe Scarborough did a pretty good Olbermann impression on his latest attack on Palin. Maybe he was demonstrating his bonefides to move to primetime.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at December 01, 2010 11:24 AM (RkRxq)

35 "Gee, CNN, great choice for a host. Who did she blow? Posted by: nickless at December 01, 2010 03:08 PM (MMC8r)" Eliot Spitzer? Seems like the obvious suspect . . .

Posted by: tsj017 at December 01, 2010 11:25 AM (4YUWF)

36 The hamster had standards about working with Spitzer.

Hey, is that douche stealing my schtick now?

Posted by: Richard Gere at December 01, 2010 11:25 AM (8y9MW)

37 Meh, who cares?

Lets talk about space aliens!

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at December 01, 2010 11:25 AM (nB/2f)

38 The chicken is safe! The chicken is safe!

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at December 01, 2010 11:25 AM (RkRxq)

Dear Sarah:

About those insults... um... you know when I got onto you for quitting? Well, um...

Posted by: Kathleen Parker at December 01, 2010 11:26 AM (ZzF6C)

40 Two words: Christine O'Donnell

Posted by: ken at December 01, 2010 11:26 AM (/vfgp)

41 How about Palin Chews Parker Up and Spitzer Out!

Posted by: USS Diversity at December 01, 2010 11:27 AM (RWtqz)

Do they just give out Pulitzers like government cheese these days?

Dowd, Friedman, Parker-Geez.

Posted by: Dlsada at December 01, 2010 11:28 AM (SiN52)

43 Posted by: ken at December 01, 2010 03:26 PM (/vfgp)

Okay, that would be priceless. As opposed to "worthless" which currently describes the show.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 01, 2010 11:29 AM (8y9MW)

44 I might just have to print this story, and rub it all over my naked body.

Posted by: Unclefacts, Confuse A Cat, Ltd. at December 01, 2010 11:29 AM (eCAn3)

45 Good! It's about time this insane voice of the FAR right left the airwaves!

Posted by: Charles Johnson at December 01, 2010 11:30 AM (731X/)

46 Replace her with Michelle Malkin. That would be quite the joust.

Posted by: Doodad Pro at December 01, 2010 11:31 AM (fNQUw)

47 They could run dead air at that time and would anyone know the difference? I mean their 4 viewers might wonder what's going on but then nod off again.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 01, 2010 11:32 AM (1Jaio)

48 44 I might just have to print this story, and rub it all over my naked body.

In "honor" of Spitzer, will you keep your socks on?

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 01, 2010 11:32 AM (9hSKh)

49 She has nobody to blame but herself for getting into bed with a whore monger.

What did she think? The former joo AG and governor of NY was going to be shy?

Axe the guys on Wall Street how shy this asshole was.

Posted by: Kemp at December 01, 2010 11:32 AM (JpFM9)

I know it's been said a million times, but it's funny how Parker went from the most obscure writer at Townhall.com to a high profile "respected conservative" months after she decided to devote her life to bagging on conservatives.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at December 01, 2010 11:32 AM (plsiE)

51 In "honor" of Spitzer, will you keep your socks on?

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 01, 2010 03:32 PM (9hSKh)

Of course, I never do tribute work half assed.

Posted by: Unclefacts, Confuse A Cat, Ltd. at December 01, 2010 11:33 AM (eCAn3)

52 Sarah Palin is a no-talent hack.

Oh, wait. That's me.

Posted by: Kathleen Parker at December 01, 2010 11:34 AM (WcxzO)

53 It's not fair the a mean ole rich joo boy would gang up on a good ole converse college sorority girl.

Does CNN have no shame?

Posted by: Kemp at December 01, 2010 11:36 AM (JpFM9)

So Parker's complainging of an ex-governor who is talking his way through a gig? That's rich baby.

Posted by: journolist at December 01, 2010 11:36 AM (LwLqV)

55 (it doesn't have to be a chick, right?) Posted by: joeindc44 at December 01, 2010 03:21 PM
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Please report to re-education camp asap

Posted by: Randy Madcow at December 01, 2010 11:38 AM (WcxzO)

Don't get me wrong, I love the ladies. I mean they rev my engines, but they don't belong in the newsroom.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 01, 2010 11:39 AM (QMtmy)

Don't get me wrong, I love the ladies. I mean they rev my engines, but they don't belong in the newsroom.

Posted by: Dr. Va

Word. They should be the news, not read it.

Miss Vavoom, take a letter.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 01, 2010 11:40 AM (R2fpr)

58 56: And you've never fantasized about bending Megyn over the news desk?

Posted by: AoSHQ's DarkLord© at December 01, 2010 11:41 AM (GBXon)

59 Someone needs to tell her that there's no shame from retiring from broadcasting while your tits are still half-assed perky.

Posted by: Soona at December 01, 2010 11:45 AM (xhelF)

Parker had a column about a week ago in which she complained that people were tired of the bickering tone and partisan bashing in politics, and now want someone moderate who could provide more amicable and reasonable bi-partisan leadership.

Funny, how an acerbic, vitriolic tone was never mentioned as a problem when the Democrats were raging daily about Bushitler. It only seems to be an issue when Republicans are complaining.

Bad enough when Democrats are hypocritical and project constantly. But I'm getting sick of the (so-called) conservatives and moderates who bitch and moan only about the failings and "incivility" of Republicans or conservatives and are quiet as mice about the Democrats.

Posted by: RM at December 01, 2010 11:46 AM (1kwr2)

61 Of the countless CNN shows one could criticize, how does this pitiful bit of fluff make the cut? Are either of these two twats providing significant aid to terrorist groups?

Posted by: Jack's androgynous confusion at December 01, 2010 11:46 AM (F/4zf)

62 58 56: And you've never fantasized about bending Megyn over the news desk?

Better her than me!

Posted by: The Chicken at December 01, 2010 11:46 AM (JpFM9)

63 What's it going to take to make them stop describing Parker as conservative?

Posted by: Moi at December 01, 2010 11:46 AM (Ez4Ql)

64 63 What's it going to take to make them stop describing Parker as conservative?

She'll have to blow me.

Posted by: Mel at December 01, 2010 11:47 AM (JpFM9)

65 Do they just give out Pulitzers like government cheese these days?
Posted by: Dlsada at December 01, 2010 03:28 PM
____________________
No Dlsada; I believe it's Nobel prizes that are being given out like government cheese these days.

Posted by: alwyr at December 01, 2010 11:47 AM (w2++y)

66 "furious that her co-host is continually allowed to take charge of their nightly CNN chat-fest, the insiders said." So I guess we can assume that in Spitzer's $4000 per gig whoring, he wasn't the submissive.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 01, 2010 11:55 AM (GMa8/)

67 62 58 56: And you've never fantasized about bending Megyn over the news desk?

Better her than me!

Posted by: The Chicken at December 01, 2010 03:46 PM (JpFM9)

beat me to it!

No. Beat me to it.

Really.

Beat me.

Posted by: tangonine at December 01, 2010 11:56 AM (x3YFz)

"By the way, I am writing a big, super-long post. I'm not slacking. I'm just fixated on this one post."

What's the over-under on it being about Palin?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at December 01, 2010 11:56 AM (fLHQe)

69 Sorry. Odds, what are the odds?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at December 01, 2010 11:59 AM (fLHQe)

70 Spitzer took the job to be himself, a pushy obnoxious dickface that looks like he forgot his dentures.
Kathleen's role was to be a "respected conservative"?
Wrong on both counts, and she thought she would have conservative opinions to offer every night. Talk about delusional.
Take your Wurlitzer and take a fucking hike honey.
Or Pull-itzer.

Posted by: ontherocks at December 01, 2010 12:15 PM (HBqDo)

poor Kathleen someone's always stealing her thunder.

it's not fair I tell you, all those dinner parties spent impressing all the right people have been wasted, wasted do you hear?

Posted by: People for the Eating of Tasty Aliens at December 01, 2010 12:23 PM (ehKDD)

72 I'd watch this crappy gab-fest if Kathleen would perform fellacio on air. Not with Spitzer either.

Posted by: nikkolai at December 01, 2010 12:23 PM (ZKaMo)

73 sock puppet be gone

Posted by: Shoey at December 01, 2010 12:25 PM (ehKDD)

I actually watched that show once.

Yep.

Once.

In a hotel room.

In Flagstaff.

Yes, it's a boring town.

Posted by: evening glass at December 01, 2010 12:38 PM (GzZVw)

So what? Many of her dozens of viewers "stomped off the program" with their remotes long before she did.

Posted by: sherlock at December 01, 2010 12:49 PM (Xq2WY)

76 There's something too funny about someone whose claim to fame is attacking a woman who doesn't give good extemporaneous TV being such a miserable failwhore at the same exact thing.

Posted by: Abe Froman at December 01, 2010 12:53 PM (uZJOg)

I think we could easily name plenty of conservative women who could replace Parker and not only assert herself on the show but completely flip the dynamic to wear Spitzer is the meek one who can't get a word in edgewise. CNN doesn't want that though. Parker is their perfect idea of a conservative. The meek little one that will sit back and let the liberals talk. And only talk when she's in agreement with them.

Posted by: buzzion at December 01, 2010 01:02 PM (oVQFe)

78 Hmm, SE Cupp was mentioned earlier, also. That would be interesting. Not near as much fun as Coulter, or the hamster in a ball.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at December 01, 2010 01:40 PM (UEEex)

She's also no conservative, NY Post.

Pick me Pick MEEE! I'm a conservative and a Blue Blood!

Posted by: sMegham McPain at December 01, 2010 01:41 PM (J74Py)

80 Kathleen Parker wishes she was Sarah Palin.

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Posted by: Emu Boots at December 01, 2010 06:05 PM (fbf0W)

83 CNN doesn't actually pay her to do the show. They give all of the money to Spitzer and he leaves her twentys on the night stand.

Posted by: Have Blue at December 01, 2010 08:20 PM (mV+es)

84 nikkolai at 72 - Your comment made me think of the joke, (the punch line being) "Now when ever a young lady asks me, 'What is the church's attitude on felatio?' I say, 'Well I would tell you - if I knew what felatio was.' "

Posted by: Have Blue at December 01, 2010 08:29 PM (mV+es)

85 Kathleen:

You can't have your pudding if you don't eat the meat.

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87 Parker took a job with an ego maniac who has a strong preference for expensive hookers... what did she think was going to happen? BJ's on break, or big pay for little amounts of work.. same deal either way. no sympathy for this gal.

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