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Alec Baldwin Producing Documentary on Barney Frank, 'a Personal Hero of Mine'

By Randy Hall | March 28, 2014, 7:11 PM EDT

Little more than a month after Alec Baldwin declared “goodbye to public life,” the liberal actor is back in the news after signing on as an executive producer of a documentary entitled Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank, which will d ...

Spitzer: Weiner Should Not Be Mayor of New York

By Noel Sheppard | July 29, 2013, 5:56 PM EDT

Disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer on Monday said he wouldn’t be voting for Anthony Weiner, and that the embattled sexter should not be mayor of New York City. Appearing on MSNBC’s Hardball, Spitzer was cornered by host Chris Matthews to say ...

Laughable: Eliot Spitzer Photoshops NY Times Headline in New Ad... Times Ad Watch Totally Misses It

By Tim Graham | July 26, 2013, 6:57 AM EDT

Jim Swift at Bomble.com noticed Eliot Spitzer did something amazingly sleazy with the New York Times – something the paper hasn’t noticed yet. In a new TV ad pitching himself as the scourge of Wall Street, he edited a July 9 Times subheadline to exclude t ...

CNN Tries to Rehabilitate Scandal-Tainted Eliot Spitzer (Again)

By Matt Hadro | July 18, 2013, 12:09 PM EDT

Would Eliot Spitzer be getting such a boost from CNN if he were a Republican? The former Democratic New York governor resigned in 2008 over a prostitution scandal, but less than three years later he snagged a prime-time show on CNN. On Wednesday night he ...

New York Magazine Writer Prat-Fawns Over Mrs. Weiner

By Tim Graham | July 16, 2013, 12:20 PM EDT

Isaac Chotiner at The New Republic exposed New York magazine writer Mark Jacobson as a Huma Abedin shoe-polisher. “Abedin always gets good press, but this piece takes it to a new level. As a public service, I have chosen the four silliest/creepiest tidbit ...

Whining Spitzer, Who Beat the Rap Because of Who He Is: Zimmerman Verdict 'A Failure of Justice'

By Tom Blumer | July 15, 2013, 12:59 PM EDT

On ABC's This Week yesterday, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer-- who resigned in 2008 when caught dead to rights illegally purchasing the services of prostitutes but was never prosecuted because, as announced two days after Election Day in 2008 ...

MSNBC’s Michael Smerconish Fawns over Spitzer and Pushes for Legalization of Prostitution

By Nathan Roush | July 10, 2013, 6:00 PM EDT

While serving as guest host of Tuesday's Hardball, Michael Smerconish closed the program by pushing for a legalization of prostitution.  He claimed not to see anything wrong with women selling their bodies for money, calling it “the private affairs o ...

Shock: MSNBC's O'Donnell Mocks Spitzer and Weiner Return to Politics

By Brad Wilmouth | July 9, 2013, 5:59 PM EDT

On Monday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell not only mocked disgraced former Democratic officeholders Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer for their efforts to return to political office, but he even suggest ...

ABC Again Touts Eliot Spitzer: 'Infamy Might Work to His Advantage,' Skips Dem ID

By Scott Whitlock | July 9, 2013, 12:21 PM EDT

For the second day in a row, the journalists at Good Morning America failed to identify prostitution patron Eliot Spitzer as a Democrat. Yet, in a story on the politician's comeback, reporter Claire Shipman made sure to highlight former South Carolin ...

Nothing to See Here: CNN Largely Omits Tainted Eliot Spitzer Was Once Its Prime-Time Host

By Matt Hadro | July 9, 2013, 4:09 PM EDT

CNN mentioned Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal in every single report on his comeback bid in politics on Monday and Tuesday, but hid that he was recently a CNN prime-time host in five of the seven reports. Spitzer was originally hired by CNN as a ...

Spitzer's Feeble Defense: Hey, Politicians Lie All The Time About All Sorts Of Stuff!

By Mark Finkelstein | July 9, 2013, 10:37 AM EDT

As defenses go to the charge of having lied to the people of New York about illegal activities, Eliot Spitzer's was feeble at best. Hey, politicans lie all the time about all sorts of stuff, was the essence of Client #9-turned-Comptroller-candidate&# ...

MSNBC's Smerconish to Spitzer: Was Your Resignation 'Unwarranted?' 'End' of Sex Scandal?

By Scott Whitlock | July 9, 2013, 3:39 PM EDT

  Hardball guest host Michael Smerconish on Monday was so gentle with reformed prostitution patron Eliot Spitzer that even the former governor seemed uncomfortable. Talking about Spitzer's new run for New York City comptroller, Smerconish enthused, & ...

CBS Omits Spitzer's Political Opponent Allegedly Provided Him With Prostitutes

By Matthew Balan | July 8, 2013, 3:57 PM EDT

Monday's CBS This Morning twice mentioned Kristin Davis, one of Eliot Spitzer's electoral opponents, during an interview of the disgraced former New York governor, but failed to mention that she claims to be the madam who sold Spitzer the servic ...

ABC Skips Dem Label of Prostitution Enthusiast Eliot Spitzer, NBC Hypes 'Comeback Kid'

By Scott Whitlock | July 9, 2013, 3:55 PM EDT

The journalists at Good Morning America on Monday offered an assist to liberal politicians trying to avoid being associated with the scandal-plagued former Governor of New York. While announcing Eliot Spitzer's return to public life, news reader Paul ...

Exodus From SS Obama Continues as Arianna, Spitzer Jump Ship

By Jack Coleman | June 20, 2013, 2:43 PM EDT

How many more erstwhile apologists can President Obama lose before he's rendered little more than a figurehead? Two more just joined the forlorn procession-- left-wing queen bee Arianna Huffington and disgraced former New York governor turned itinera ...