Eliot Spitzer Disses Cable News Before Hosting One Last Liberal Constitutional Panel
Eliot Spitzer used his last day at CNN to take a shot at cable news and decry the debt ceiling debate as a “new low for American politics” – although he himself was embroiled in an ugly scandal as governor of New York only three years ago. And he made sure to include a lengthy Constitutional conversation with two of his favorite guests, liberals Fareed Zakaria and Simon Schama. Schama, a professor of History at Columbia University, has criticized the Tea Party's reverence for the Founders' “infallibility,” and snorted that they believed the Constitution to be “quasi-biblical revelation.” The Columbia University professor wrote in a June 26 Newsweek piece that “True history is the enemy of reverence.” [Video below the break.] Zakaria, as NewsBusters has been reporting, has insisted that the Constitution needs to be updated to the 21st century. The CNN analyst has especially found fault with the Second Amendment – which he derided as a “grammatical mess” – and with the “undemocratic” state representation in the Senate.
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