A TV Talk Show for Hillary?

Hillary Clinton reportedly is considering a new career as a television host.

Best-selling author and journalist Ed Klein said through Ed Klein Confidential that a source told him she is “talking very seriously about the idea of having her own television show.”

Clinton thinks being the host of a popular TV show would energize the Democratic Party base and her tens of millions of fans.

Clinton thinks being host of a popular TV show would energize the Democratic Party base and her tens of millions of fans, according to Klein and his source. “As a TV host, she’d discuss the issues of the day from a progressive point of view, have top guests and interview world leaders and progressive thinkers,” Klein wrote on his blog.

His anonymous source insists Clinton is determined to “not to fade into the background. She intends to stay in the limelight.”

Will anyone watch such a program? She is “convinced she’d get fabulous ratings,” Klein said his source told him.

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But liberal programming on TV and especially radio has not rated well. And she is a spent force politically, whose last big public moment was not being able to muster the strength to give a concession speech on election night. She waited until the next morning to do so — and for all who watched, it was an uncomfortable affair.

Moreover, her experiences are mostly with the upper echelon of political celebrity. So there are questions as to whether she could show the compassion and understanding of Americans’ plight sufficiently to deliver a successful and relatable television program.

Then there’s the charisma issue. Clinton admitted during the campaign that she simply didn’t have the star power or the talent for politics along the lines of her husband or even former President Obama. However, she has spent nearly 40 years in the spotlight — so stage fright should not be a problem.

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It’s risky, though. The Clintons can’t afford another flop. After their losing campaign and the collapse of the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation — in other words, her ability to deliver government favors — the Clintons’ reputation for the ability to move the public needle is under assault.

She probably would draw well early, but audiences are fickle; there is a real chance she could crash and burn when the novelty wore off and people were left with trying to like her as a person. That was a difficult task for many during the presidential race.

Political success is measured by elections, but success on TV is measured by ratings — and ratings can be brutal daily measurements if the star of the show does not inspire. Plus, is another liberal commentator what audiences are clamoring for? Fox News dominated the ratings for election coverage, much more so than such left-leaning networks as MSNBC and CNN.

Worse, Klein said his source told him Hillary’s people would have to be in complete control of the show’s content. This means the program would be a meticulously engineered and choreographed product designed not to stir ratings as much as to serve as Clinton’s propaganda machine — prepping her image for a possible third presidential run.

Then there’s the matter of the Clinton donor who recently suggested she’s “50-50” on a run for mayor of New York City. The incumbent, Bill de Blasio, has enraged public employees, mismanaged resources, and developed a reputation for being difficult, impractical, and ineffective.

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But Clinton has proven she can lose almost any election: She had more than twice the money of Donald Trump, and she had a lifetime of high-profile experience and more money when she lost to Barack Obama in 2008. Not even her raft of celebrity friends, who seemed to turn up at every campaign stop toward the end, could boost her popularity.

This would be a last shot a relevance, a last chance to prove her ideas worked. And her confidante, Huma Abedin, knows what it takes to run for mayor of New York City because her own soon-to-be-former husband Anthony Weiner did so.

At some point, the tilting at windmills, the desperate drive for one last moment in the spotlight, has to end. Hillary Clinton is not a TV host. Potential projects like this only serve to prove she doesn’t have what it takes to lead the country — and her sycophant friends don’t know when to stop giving her bad advice.