“Eliot Spitzer” on The Daily Caller

Tonight at 7 p.m., New York Attorney General and Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Cuomo will debate “angry as hell” Republican candidate Carl Paladino — and Charles Barron of the Freedom Party, and Kristin Davis of the Anti-Prohibition Party, and Howie Hawkins of the Green Party, and Warren Redlich of the Libertarian Party, and even Jimmy McMillan of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party. (more)

Because I’m such a strong advocate of the legalization and taxation of marijuana, people are always surprised to find out that I’m not — nor ever have been — a user. My advocacy comes from an economic perspective and a deep belief in personal freedom. (more)

Academy Award winner Alex Gibney’s film “Client 9,” a propaganda whitewash of the facts surrounding New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s fall from power, took another beating last week when gorgeous call girl Irma Nici said she had participated in multiple trysts with the disgraced former governor. Nici confirmed Spitzer’s penchant for wearing black knee socks while having sex. (more)

At the risk of being branded racist, this can easily be defined as a case of the pot calling the kettle black. (more)

Has scandal made Eliot Spitzer a funnier guy? Backstage before taping his new TV show with Kathleen Parker last week, he kept the hair and makeup women at CNN in stitches, reports The Post’s Mandy Stadtmiller. Handing over newspapers for safekeeping, he said, “Just don’t throw that stuff out . . . not because I read it. I just want to carry it so they think I read it.” (more)

New York (CNN) – A former madam who claims to have provided prostitutes to former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer says she is running as an independent candidate for governor. (more)

It’s summertime, when a cable television host’s thoughts turn to himself. Yes, this was an unusually self-absorbed week for Keith Olbermann,  which is a bit like saying this was an unusually slimy week for John Edwards – it’s *really* saying something. (more)

Now that CNN has settled on new hosts for its 8 p.m. Eastern hour — making the “innately controversial decision,” as CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein put it, to pair former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer with conservative columnist Kathleen Parker — attention is shifting back to the network’s next task. (more)

Reporting from New York — Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker want to clear up something from the outset: They have no intention of hosting a predictable political debate show. (more)

Eliot Spitzer is going from the dog house to CNN’s house. (more)

Ted Turner must be flinging his remote at the wall in despair. CNN, the cable network he founded, is poised to turn its prime-time schedule over to two disgraced public figures, ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer and former British tabloid editor Piers Morgan, in its desperate bid to restore lost ratings. (more)

News reports suggest that CNN may be planning to hire disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer to replace the departing Campbell Brown. Should CNN now be called the Criminal News Network ? Let’s remember that Spitzer violated the Mann Act, which prohibits transporting a woman across state lines for the purposes of prostitution – a crime for which a Republican New York State supreme court justice was charged, convicted and jailed in 2009. (more)

It has become alarmingly apparent that pop culture is more important than substantive news reporting. Infamy, which allows vapid “stars” or dubious “celebrities” to insert themselves into the public discourse, has become commonplace. (more)

CNN seems to have a case of amnesia. (more)

It seems an odd strategy for a White House that has carefully managed the roll-out for its Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan. (more)

In the high-stakes poker game of Washington DC power-politics, Democrats are holding a pair of deuces, but telling Republicans they’ve got a Royal Flush.  Poker is all about bluff, and bluster, and unfounded confidence.  And the rules governing politics aren’t much different.  So, good for the Democrats.  What’s upsetting, though, is that the Republicans are ready to fold, despite holding a Full House, aces high.   It’s pathetic.  And at this particular table – where the minimum bet is the future of America’s free market system – it’s unacceptable. (more)

Guggenheim, the early political auteur, who helmed films for the Kennedy brothers, has found a successor. His name is Alex Gidney. (more)

So, the new book, “Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media’s Attack on Christianity,” comes out on Tuesday, April 27. You’ll understand if I use this opportunity to share with you, my beloved diary readers here at The Daily Caller, some exclusive highlights. In particular, the really, really funny ones. (more)

The elaborate foreplay of contemplating a run for high office gives pundits, cable-TV hosts, and even conceited bloggers (such as neoliberal, knee-jerk counter-intuitivist Mickey Kaus, eyeing Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat from California) the opportunity to preen their opinions even more and practice the false humility of pretending to answer a clamor that is mostly in their heads. Lou Dobbs, the former CNN heavyweight host who frittered away a rock-solid image with intemperate flare-ups and kooky talk about immigrant-borne diseases and Obama’s birth certificate, claimed he was being wooed by prominent nobodies to consider the presidency, then dialed down such speculation. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews toyed with our affections, hinting at a Senate run in Pennsylvania against Arlen Specter, though that fancy seems to have whiffed into smoke. The post–Eliot Spitzer, post–Hillary Clinton disarray in New York State encouraged a spate of alpha males to lace up their racing shoes for a possible sprint at the U.S. Senate seat held by Kirsten Gillibrand, whose freshman status and cream-puff cheeks give the impression of a soft target there for the taking. Up popped Harold Ford, a smooth operator whose knowledge of his adopted state seemed scanty but who knew the best places in town for power breakfasts and manicures. Although Ford served in Congress for his home state of Tennessee and lost a Senate bid after a racy, racist smear ad hinted he was a “playa” (“Call me,” winked a saucy blonde), he is probably more familiar to New Yorkers as a frequent guest on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and similar Socratic forums where his sensible, centrist moderation is catnip. Political pietists worship at the sacrificial altar of bipartisanship, prizing those who “reach across the aisle” even if no hand is reaching back. For many Democrats, however, “centrist” is a euphemism for sellout (see Joe Lieberman, consider his trespasses), and Ford’s slinky facility for slipping into and out of positions (opposition to gay marriage, for instance) made him too obvious a quick-change artist. He eventually heeded the roar of indifference from the public and scratched himself from contention, while insisting he could have beaten Gillibrand. (more)

With the 2010 elections little more than six months away, one thing is clear. After Election Day, New York will have a new governor. (more)