MSNBC Really Hard Up for Talent

I guess when your network doesn't have any ratings you're pretty much willing to put anyone on the air.

Lights, camera ... Spitzer?

After years of being interviewed about his political successes - and glaring failures - Eliot Spitzer was on the other side of the microphone on Thursday.

Spitzer surprised regular MSNBC viewers who tuned into "The Dylan Ratigan Show" - and instead saw the former governor filling in as the guest host.

"Eliot has been a frequent guest on Dylan's show and has provided our viewers with terrific insight into the financial crisis. With Dylan off today, it was the perfect opportunity to have him co-host the hour," said MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines.

Spitzer was forced out of office by a prostitution scandal less than two years after taking office.

The Democrat who won the 2006 governor's race in a landslide said in a recent interview he feels "unceasing agony" about not being "where [he] would like to be" - that being finishing up his first term as governor.

Spitzer quizzed his guests on everything from the Wall Street bailouts to the future of the Republican party.

Some addressed Spitzer, who wore a pinstriped suit and blue tie, as "Eliot," while others stuck with "Governor."

Posing a question about the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, Spitzer asked, "Isn't this just the minor leagues showing up at this thing? You know, the big guns are holding their fire, saying, 'We don't want to go near the crazies that the Tea Party represents anymore?"

That got a laugh out of the Washington Post's Jonathan Capeheart: "That's an interesting way to put that question," he chuckled.

Spitzer obviously fits right in with the far-left kooks over there with his sneering condescension towards tea partiers.

Thanks to Hot Air for the link.