You knew this was coming. From the New York Post:
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.
Hooker-loving Spitzer is thisclose to a deal to co-host an 8 p.m. talk show, sources said. Morgan — a former editor of Britain’s Daily Mirror being groomed to replace Larry King — was caught up in a scandal in 2000 after he bought shares in a company before his paper touted them as good buys. He quit in 2004 after printing fake photos of Iraqi prisoners being tortured by British soldiers.
Good grief:
Let a Republican so much as utter the word “macaca” and his career is over. But for a Democrat — even one as nasty as Eliot Spitzer — there is never any penalty for failure, just a breif stopover in purgatory or purdah before the inevitable rehabitlitation sets in, usually in the form of his own television show.
Must be grand.