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Well this should be an interesting combination:

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Kathleen Parker will co-host a new hour long CNN primetime news program starting in the fall as the nation prepares for the 2010 midterm election, the network announced Wednesday morning.

The yet-to-be-named “roundtable discussion” program will air at 8 p.m. ET replacing Campbell Brown.

CNN isn't hiding their intentions either:

“Other cable news channels force-feed viewers one narrow, predictable point of view; in contrast, CNN will be offering a lively roundup of all the best ideas – presented by two of the most intelligent and outspoken figures in the country,” Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S., said in a statement released by the network. “Eliot and Kathleen are beholden to no vested interest – in fact, quite the opposite: they are renowned for taking on the most powerful targets and most important causes.”

Color me crazy, but this could just work out. People have been force to one side or the other at the 8pm hour. I'm one of those people who love hearing both sides, and this show should give us a chance at that.

I know I'll give it a chance.

There is one big question that remains. Now that MSNBC will have a new show on at the 10pm hour, hosted by Lawrence O'Donnell, will this new CNN show end up hurting Olbermann? As it is now people could watch the CNN show then catch Olbermann at 10. Once O'Donnell's show starts, then people would have to wait until 11pm to catch the Olbermann rerun, and that is local news time for a lot of people.

Ever since those horrid attacks on London’s busy streets
this past week, numerous people have strongly criticized the G8 summit for not
putting terrorism on their agenda. They feel it should have been the top
priority for the leaders of these eight nations.

Perhaps I can shed some light on why terrorism had no need
to be in the G8 summit.

We all know that the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism
have come under heavy scrutiny lately. We hear questioning and opposition of the
administrations plans everyday. These even prompted the President to address the
nation in a primetime speech a couple weeks ago. But while there is all this
criticism out there, the President and his administration strongly stand by
saying we are making excellent progress and the wars are going well. If the war
on terrorism and in Iraq is doing so good, then right wingers should have no
reason to cry because the G8 did not put it on their agenda. This would have
been counter productive and taken away from the more important issues of global
warming and poverty in Africa.

Poverty in Africa claims more lives every day than
terrorism has claimed. It is an epidemic that is growing at an alarming
proportion. The simple fact is if the leaders of the eight richest nations in
the world ignored this, they would be as guilty as the terrorists when it comes
to taking lives. The shear number of lives this poverty claims should be merit
enough to put it above terrorism on any agenda.