The tweet of the day (via @ExposedLiberals):

CNN now stands for “Client Number Nine.”

Jonah has more over in the Corner on CNN’s Spitzer and Parker hires:

This popped into my head when I read thew news that Kathleen Parker will be joining Elliot Spitzer as the host of a new CNN show. When I heard the news that Spitzer was getting a job at CNN at all, I sighed and assumed it was because he and Jeff Toobin hang out at the same clubs.
Now I like Kathleen. She’s smart, she’s very nice. I have very strong and quite negative opinions about how she has shot to prominence in recent years by bee-bopping and scatting all over conservatives (Oh those dreadful emails from Palin supporters!). I don’t really hold that against her. She’s a lovely writer and I’m sure she’s sincere. It just annoys me that liberal editors and producers are eternally over-impressed with such stuff.
Which brings us back to her new show with Spitzer. I have no doubt that Spitzer will start by trying to fix his image as client number 9 and his well-earned reputation for being a jerk of galactic proportions. But I predict that as we get closer to the midterm elections (how can anybody predict any CNN show will last until 2012?), Spitzer will return to type and become a whip-smart, wildly partisan, lawyerly jerk. No doubt Parker will be the more attractive and likable. But she will also play the role of a more charming David Gergen (More charming than Gergen?!? I know it sounds impossible) who, with a smile and a heavy heart ends up apologizing for conservatives more than defending them.

Well, this isn’t the first hire by CNN of a television personality with a troubled past. Just Google “Rick Sanchez Hit and Run.“