Is it a bad thing when you get fired from the worst show on the worst network on television?

CNN ousted Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Kathleen Parker from its show "Parker Spitzer," that she co-hosted with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the cable network said today.

CNN executive Ken Jautz told staff members of the change this afternoon, saying the show will be redubbed "In The Arena."

The Post's Page Six reported today that Spitzer had told friends Parker "will be gone within a week."

Kathleen Parker has recalled for us the fate of the left-wing media complex's tame conservatives--unceremoniously dumped and forever looking for relevance. She and the erstwhile bow-tied Tucker Carlson might want to do lunch.

Yet getting fired from Parker-Spitzer is like getting kicked out of the hole and being made to climb the ladder back to ground level--not a bad thing.

The scuttlebutt has been that CNN executives felt that Parker had little or no chemistry with disgraced former Governor Elliot Spitzer, which is undoubtedly true, but it begs the question--what woman would? Totally a-holes with no respect for women tend to have that problem.

Can CNN make a silk purse out of Spitzer's ears? I don't see it happening. The most obvious model is Keith Olbermann, but what CNN execs seem to have misunderstood is that Olbermann drew an audience by virtue of his generally acknowledged broadcasting talent and viewers simply overlooked his narcissism and misogyny. Spitzer boosters seem to think the character flaws are the draws, and the talent incidental to the formula.

Good luck with that.