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The upcoming Eliot Spitzer / Kathleen Parker 8pmET CNN show now has an executive producer - one of the original CNN employees and currently EP of Fareed Zakaria 's weekend show. Liza McGuirk takes over - and that may give an indication of just how un- Crossfire -like the show will end up.

Network vet will move from Fareed Zakaria's show to primetime hour co-hosted by Eliot Spitzer...

The more we watch these powerful folks in politics, the clearer it is that many of their actions can be explained by “rationalization,” the term we all learned back in our basic Psychology 101 course. For example, when Charlie Rangel is accused of not paying his taxes after having written much of the tax code, or Eliot Spitzer consorts with prostitutes after he wrote and enforced many of the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A decades-old proposal for a casino in the Catskills took a major step Monday with Gov. Eliot Spitzer 's agreement for the St. Regis Mohawk tribe to build and operate a gaming center at Monticello Raceway.

THE ISSUE: Melindia LeGrand's practice of dressing as a nun to collect money. *** Melindia LeGrand has a subpoena with her name on it for panhandling for phony charities ("Hunt for Nun on Run," July 27). At this point, she is innocent until proven guilty, but she is under investigation...

Filed under: News , Politics , Race and Civil Rights Will New York Gov. David Paterson ever stop torturing the people of the Empire State with his dopey actions and statements? The latest example came this week when the "Accidental Governor" told a radio interviewer that he now regrets dropping out of the race for a full term as governor . Paterson's new found bravado comes by way of a judge's ...

An independent counsel investigating Gov. David A. Paterson’s actions after an aide’s confrontation with a girlfriend found “errors of judgment.”

Mike OvitzWhat happened: Back in 1996, then–Disney President Ovitz, the talent agent previously known as "the most powerful man in Hollywood," was fired 454 days after being hired by his friend Michael Eisner. The closest explanation came when a Disney director said Ovitz was fired for his "management style," but he was understood to have fallen out with Eisner.What he got: An incredible $140 ...

Jefrrey Toobin of the New Yorker is out with a big profile of Chuck Schumer today (requires a subscription) and weighs in on the question of whether or not New York's senior senator is in fact an honest-to-goodness liberal. On the one hand, Toobin says, that with the departure of Hillary Clinton and Eliot Spitzer, Schumer is the most nationally prominent New York Democrat, and "In this role, he ...

"I've seen Eliot Spitzer on TV a lot," says Robert Thompson , "and if someone were to say, 'Name ten thousand people that you think might be O.K. on television,' Eliot Spitzer's name would not be on that list."