Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, CNN's duo of civil dispute
They are, somewhat self-consciously, an odd couple, the Northern pol and the Southern belle, the prosecutor and the journalist, the man trying to recover from disgrace and the woman graciously forgiving his sins.
"I bring the everyday American perspective to the table," says Kathleen Parker. "I get 'em. I've been living with them."
"I'm not gonna concede that we aren't real Americans up here in the big urban," says Eliot Spitzer.
"I'm not saying New Yorkers aren't. I'm just saying you aren't."
They are sitting with two producers in a small CNN office at Columbus Circle, hours before their 16th rehearsal of the prime-time show that launches Monday night. All the attention has been on the former New York governor, who resigned two years ago, and it is clear that Parker, the right-leaning columnist syndicated by The Washington Post, is, in television terms, his escort back to polite society.
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