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Will Eliot Spitzer be a good fit as a columnist for Slate?

Former NY Gov. Eliot Sptizer will pen a bi-monthly column for Slate.com, focusing on government, regulation, and finance.

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Yes

Hamilton Nolan
Blogger, Gawker

“[the column titled "The Best Policy"] will almost certainly be very informative...and very boring. Because really, do you think Spitzer's going to run down his hooker stories...in Slate?...They should have gone after Ashley Dupre as a columnist instead. "THE SEX POLICY." It's a win-win.”

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Quoted 1 year, 9 months ago by johncapello

Jacob Weisberg
Editor, Slate Magazine

“He was very receptive to the idea. I don't portray this as something we had to coax him into. He's got a lot to say and he was very receptive to writing on the subject.”

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Quoted 1 year, 9 months ago by brownlu

No

Ben Smith
Blogger

“I'm honestly not sure his rehabilitation can be purely intellectual like this. His fall wasn't. It's hard to see how he completes the (natural, banal) cycle back into the public eye without giving soft-focus interviews about his personal transgressions until we're thoroughly bored by them.”

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Quoted 1 year, 9 months ago by brownlu

General Comments

Jacob Weisberg
Editor, Slate Magazine

“It'll be heavily about the financial crisis and fixing financial markets and the economy generally.”

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Quoted 1 year, 9 months ago by brownlu

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