CNN's Parker Mirrors Spitzer's Line About 'Fringe' in Republican Party
On Monday's Parker-Spitzer, CNN's Kathleen Parker picked up where her co-host Eliot Spitzer left off on Friday, bashing conservatives as "fringe elements" inside the Republican Party. Parker continued the Tea Party movement was the result of the GOP "catering" to such elements and that "the kooks have come home to roost."
The pseudo-conservative columnist returned to her old habit of attacking conservatives during a panel discussion with Reason magazine's Nick Gillespie and NPR contributor John Ridley minutes into the 8 pm Eastern hour. Gillespie criticized how both Republicans and Democrats handled the past decade: "It's really awful, and we had- you know, six years of Republican rule, which was awful and disastrous on every level, and everything since then has been equally bad." The writer continued with a commentary on the phenomenon of Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell selection in Delaware:
GILLESPIE: Of course, you're going to start looking in the bushes and you find people like Christine O'Donnell, who did run. I mean, she beat a nonentity- Mike Castle- everybody's like- oh, he's the great man of Delaware. Who cares? I mean, he's a life-long politician. He's a hack. He had no personality. And what she came out with and the reason she won is she was saying, 'hey, you know what? I'm going to cut spending. We're spending too much.'
Parker responded to this with her "fringe" remark about the Republican Party:
KATHLEEN PARKER: Well, let me ask you what you think of this. I would make the argument that the Republican Party has been catering to a- sort of a fringe element for a long time, trying to build the base and build a base. And now, is this the devil demanding his due? Are we finally now seeing the payback? I mean, William F. Buckley spent a lot of his time trying to marginalize who he considered to be the kooks, and now the kooks have come home to roost.
On Friday's program, Spitzer used the same "fringe" label in a similar context: "Why are there so many folks like her [Christine O'Donnell] who seem to be taking over the Republican Party? I mean, this is not Bob Dole's Republican Party anymore- thoughtful, serious people. This (sic) is people who are kind of- I hate to say it, but kind of from the fringe."
It isn't surprising that the two CNN hosts would be using identical language. Just over a month ago, on the September 8 edition of Anderson Cooper 360, both Parker and Spitzer agreed that Ground Zero mosque proponent Imam Feisal Rauf changed few minds due to his interview on Larry King Live earlier that evening. Then again, Parker is also consistent with her attacks on conservatives, as just a week earlier, on October 5, she slammed Sarah Palin as a "tease" and is on the record for admitting that she got her Pulitzer Prize for being a "conservative basher."
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I do not know much about this
Submitted by gopsteve on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:33pm.
I do not know much about this show, not even sure when to find it...but wasn't it billed as a left/right show?
But then again, their "center" is so much to the left, they would consider Mccain a hard core conservative.
CNN described it as
Submitted by sam12663 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:35pm.
a 'left /right' show because it gets knocked out nightly by Bill O'Reilly.
Hahaha... Ahhh.. hahaha..
Submitted by Thoreau on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 7:18pm.
Hahaha... Ahhh.. hahaha.. Good one. Hahahhaha.. Oh boy. It's almost bordering on pathetic.
No one cares
Submitted by sam12663 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:32pm.
what these twits have to say.
As for 'kooks', Ms. Parker need look no further than to her partner; perhaps she could ask him about his perversions.
BTW Kathleen; 'comes home to roost' has been used to death, so no points for originality.
To liberals...
Submitted by stage9 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:51pm.
what you call perversions they call normal.
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
You mean things like
Submitted by 10ksnooker on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:35pm.
client #9???
Kooks?
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 5:05pm.
How about Senate candidate Alvin Greene?
How about self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders?
How about comedian-turned-jerk Sen. Al Franken?
Those are kooks.
Just another example
Submitted by Chris Of Rights on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:42pm.
Just another example of how there's only one way to "make it" in the MSM as a "conservative".
Attack other conservatives. They'll love you then, right up until the moment you look like you might win the nomination for President. At that point, you become just as evil as any other conservative.
Why?? Why?? Why??
Submitted by jdripper on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:43pm.
Do you persist in calling Kathleen Parker a "pseudo conservative"? She is a liberal call her what she is. Conservatism is like respect it is earned not given. Until she PROVES that she is a conservative then call her what she is a liberal.
We give status to these people Kathleen Parker, David Brooks, Joe Scarborough and the rest of this ilk like Christopher Buckley as identifing them as conservatives. They are not conservatives. They are liberals trying to make a "buck" calling themselves conservatives and then slicing and dicing real conservatives.
Please stop this nonsense of calling them conservatives. Let them earn it.
Jack
Jack
Hear! Hear!
Submitted by stage9 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:48pm.
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"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
Because she's being billed as a conservative
Submitted by gopcongress on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:59pm.
The reason that she's being called a "pseudo-conservative" is because she is billing herself, or at least CNN is billing her, as a conservative. The term is only reserved for those who misrepresent themselves by name.
This is why McCain is not a "pseudo-conservative", because he never proclaimed nor accepted that he was a conservative.
But your argument has merit. Our side can make the necessary corrections as necessary and call them by their actual positions, in addition to dissing their misrepresented status.
"The news and truth are not the same thing." -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER
She just plays one on TV
Submitted by libBuster on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 5:03pm.
Parker is like a TV Doctor is to a real Doctor. She just plays a Conservative on television.
And she does a lousy job...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 11:51pm.
She is as convincing playing a Consertive on TV as Martin Sheen would be. It is not in her Liberal heart.
So I guess unless you're a sexual deviant...
Submitted by stage9 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:49pm.
or a marxist atheist like liberals, you're "fringe" in the eyes of Parker.
Thank you. I take that as a compliment.
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
Yet another example...
Submitted by ontheright on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 5:04pm.
...of the "irrelevance brigade", marching to the beat of their socialist drummers...or should we say, handlers.
The sound of collective "flushing" of the Demwits AND the MSM will be deafening in the not so distant future...
Remember in November!
oTr
Waste of Time...
Submitted by bigtimer on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 5:13pm.
Wouldn't and haven't wasted one minute of time to watch either one of these empty-suits...both leftist sock-puppets...they would have to have a guest on that I very much wanted to see put them to shame...which wouldn't be that hard to do either.
CNN struck out ...again!
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Btw...these Two Peas in a Pod
Submitted by bigtimer on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 5:22pm.
Btw...these Two Peas in a Pod haven't seen anything yet if they think this is bad...conservatives/Tea Party Patriots and other groups are just getting started...it's hilarious they think this is the fringe...RINOs better be aware as well...this isn't a passing fad, we want our country back, and we will win.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Cant win for losing
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 5:26pm.
First they say the GOP is not an inclusive party or they are not inclusive enough, and now they say the GOP is too inclusive. Cant win for losing. WE NEED SPELL CHECK BACK
CNN's "Succubus-Incubus"
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 5:47pm.
Can't wait to see the demon spawn these two are going to produce.
ps - Holy Mother of Pearl, please fix the code so the left/right arrow keys work in the subject line!
Give up the charade
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 6:50pm.
They should give up the charade. They have two liberals here. Have they disagreed on anything yet??
How can anyone take this show seriously?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 8:15pm.
Maybe they should do a show on victimless crimes.
While they're at it, why don't they book Woody Allen and Roman Polansky (via a remote hookup in Switzerland, also known as a non-extraditable sovereign nation) on, oh, I don't know, how about child molesting?
CNN - Clueless Narcicistic Nincompoops
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 8:52pm.
Well, it's definite.
CNN is trying to be just like MSNBC.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
It just gets worse at CNN. Really bad numbers Monday.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 10:36pm.
Parker Spitzer or PS 322,0000 total viewers.
Larry King 196,000 total viewers.
How do you profitably run a national TV network with not even 1% of America watching?
Red Jeep.... If I may piggyback off your post, the
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 2:47am.
311,000 total viewers watching Parker/Spitzer Monday, Oct.11 was less than the 508,000 watching HLN's Nancy Grace, the 463,000 who watched HLN Issues, and the 344,000 who watched HLN's Showbiz Tonight.
TVNewser reports that Larry King, who follows Parker/Spitzer, had the worst ratings in ten years.
Left-leaning CNN is getting what it deserves.
A mental image.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 7:43am.
322,000 watched Parker Spitzer. That is about the size of Bakersfield California. So imagine a National TV show that's total audience is equivalent to one city in the country watching and the rest not.
Larry King's 196,000 is equivalent to the size of Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Local TV stations in NYC which has a population of 8 million+ probably have more viewers than CNN.
The New York Times sells almost a million newspapers a day.
Plus CNN is part of basis cable service in many parts of the country and they still can't get an audience.
Radio commercials
Submitted by jawebster1 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 11:56pm.
Today, while listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, I was subjected, all day long, to radio commercials promoting the new Parker-Spitzer show. I noticed the commercials tried to make him sound Conservative and also emphasized her Conservatism, no doubt because whoever produced the commercials, wanted the two of them to appeal to Conservative talk show radio listeners, of which, I am one. I don't think they fooled anybody and especially, not me. We all know that he is disgraced former Liberal politician and even though she is billed as a Conservative, we also know that she is as Liberal as he is. I think whoever is paying for these ads is wasting their money.
Client
Submitted by Caringwhiteguy on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 4:10am.
C = Client
N = Number
N = Nine
Clever!
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 7:24am.
Lol funny.
do you mean this Kathleen Parker?
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 5:21am.
BA and MA in Spanish? With client #9 (we know his credentials) she makes a great pair!
On Larry King Live she said of President Barack Obama: "I'm a big fan of Barack Obama as he came into office, and was not one of those Republicans (does she mean to imply she was more tha a RHINO?) who wanted him to do badly. I didn't want him to fail."
Parker does not believe that President Bill Clinton should have been impeached; at the same time, she believes Anita Hill's allegations against Clarence Thomas.
Recently she wrote that the best explanation for Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally is that he is a former alcoholic and that in organizing the event he was displaying the "grandiosity of the addict."
In one of her columns, Parker called Tea Party protesters teabaggers.** (look it up!)
She referred to evangelical Christians in another column as "gorillas," "low-brows," and "ooggedy-boogedy."
Neither of them intellectual
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 7:37am.
Neither of them intellectual heavyweights.
The Kat-Spit show is already
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 7:37am.
The Kat-Spit show is already in trouble regarding ratings and CNN is publicly stating that they are waiting to see if it will develop an audience. I don't think it will.
Good God, Kathleen! End this
Submitted by Van Halen on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 9:24am.
Good God, Kathleen! End this 'I'm a brilliant thinking Conservative' charade already! You're not fooling anyone. Your show is All Palin All The Time! Do you stop at HuffPo, home of the Palin haters before you do your show prep? What a disgrace. No wonder your ratings are spiraling down the toilet.
And the worst of it is that you two have the audacity to talk about kook fringe elements in a party when, ahem, one of you was screwing prostitutes and the other one is a prostitute for the Progressives.
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