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Spitzer's new gig: Slate
Michael Calderone's Blog —
Eliot Spitzer -- recently writing in the Washington Post and mulling a book deal -- now has another publishing gig to rehabilitate his image. The Observer reports he'll become a Slate columnist.
"He's going to be doing a regular thing," said Jacob Weisberg, the editor-in-chief of the Slate Group. "It'll be heavily about the financial crisis and fixing financial markets and the economy generally."
The column will be titled "The Best Policy."
Mr. Weisberg said that he was lobbying him to do it for months. Cliff ...
The Spitzer rehabilitation
Ben Smith's Blog —
He's writing a policy column for Slate.
I recently floated the notion of Paterson appointing Spitzer to the Senate Senate, which mostly got me mocked in New York.
But I'm honestly not sure his rehabilitation can be purely intellectual like this. His fall wasn't. It's hard to see how he completes the (natural, banal) cycle back into the public eye without giving soft-focus interviews about ihs personal transgressions until we're thoroughly bored by them.
VIA for Thursday, December 4
AMERICAN DIGEST —
... Meet Slate's New Columnist: Eliot Spitzer "The column will be titled: The Best Policy." Rats, we were sorta hoping for "The Best Poontang." ...
How Are the Mighty Filing
Opinionator —
Who’s next, Plaxico Burress?“Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer will write a new column for Slate ,” reports The New York Observer. The column will appear every other week and it’ll be about government, regulation and finance. “He’s going to be doing a regular thing,” said Jacob Weisberg, the editor-in-chief of the Slate Group. “It’ll be heavily about the financial crisis and fixing financial markets and the economy generally.” (You can see the former governor’s first effort ...
Spitzer's rehabilitation continues
Political Animal —
... at the time that Spitzer has spent enough time in the penalty box, and given his background in cleaning up Wall Street and combating its excesses, Spitzer should be allowed, if not encouraged, to make a public contribution to the discourse. I'm glad Slate ...
New Republic Gives Atonement Advice for Eliot Spitzer
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... The sober tone of the biweekly column, and its decidedly not-salacious subject matter--"It'll be heavily about the financial crisis and fixing financial markets and the economy generally," Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg told The New York Observer--suggest that, less than nine months after he resigned as governor of New York following revelations that he paid for sex with prostitutes, Spitzer seeks to regain respectability. He wants people to take him seriously and listen to his ideas. He wants to insert himself into the great debates of our time and ...
Newsbusters: AOL is lying about the Playboy Rape List firing.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... , & Slate***. And oh, yes: she wants you to know that Playboy is disgusting. The exact quote is “Everything they do degrades women!” ...
