From Real Clear Markets this morning, Steve Malanga has a good piece on Spitzer, pre-CNN announcement. An excerpt:

Although Spitzer’s escapades with high-priced call girls brought his career crashing down in 2008, the financial crisis that began to unfold just a few months later proved an unexpected platform for the man who once referred to himself as a “f***king steamroller” to resurrect his career with astonishing speed. Amid calls that we needed Spitzer to tame Wall Street, Slate gave him a column, he started appearing as a regular guest on radio and TV shows about the crisis, and now he is apparently being considered by CNN to co-host a prime-time nightly news and opinion show. Ever the humble one, Spitzer has privately admitted to friends that he’s not quite ready to tackle public office again, though at this rate anything seems possible.
Yet the media portrait of Spitzer is largely a myth which ignores his many failings, including not only ethical lapses outside of the call girl episode, but also his largely ineffective tenure as attorney general and his stint as governor, which was mercifully cut short by the scandal even as Spitzer’s own party was manhandling him in Albany.

And now that myth has his own show on CNN.