Eliot Spitzer is joining the ranks of unemployed Americans. Just a few days after Current TV was sold to Al Jazeera, Spitzer has terminated his employment with the station. Viewpoint, his primetime talk show, will now be hosted by someone else.
More New York City voters would rather see Eliot Spitzer, driven from the governor's mansion over a prostitution scandal, and, Anthony Weiner, driven from Congress by sending gross pictures on Twitter, enter next year's crowded mayoral race, than see Alec Baldwin, hilarious star of 30 Rock and Words With Friends plane outbursts jump into politics.
"Look, my mom watches, she's happy. I've got a bunch of friends who love it," he said.
Throwing support behind protesters, Elliot Spitzer urged Obama to sack Tim Geithner
A Wall Street executive says Spitzer wrongly accused him of price-fixing
Plus: NBC has a new White House producer
And nary a reference to former co-host Kathleen Parker
The former New York governor's "In the Arena" is no more
Other figures include Sarah Palin, Timothy Geithner, and Balloon Boy's dad
If he wants to run New York City, he probably ought to register to vote there
The syndicated columnist's new book has a provocative title, but other details are scarce
Former NYSE chair Dick Grasso says if enemy Eliot Spitzer is running, so is he
The scandal-stained former politician can't stay out of the public eye
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