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<p>Arianna Huffington claims that she was banished from NBC News shows because her new book, "Right is Wrong," blasted "Meet the Press" anchor Tim Russert.</p> <p>Aside from being the anchor, Russert is also the managing editor of the show, the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and a senior vice president of NBC News.</p>

For decades, Huffington has been a political gadfly and a perennial pundit on news shows. Now she's editor in chief of the popular news and opinion Web site The Huffington Post. Huffington's politics lean left, but that wasn't the case in the mid-'90s when she was a friend to Newt Gingrich and a card-carrying member of the Republican Party.

Over the last seven years, the lunatic fringe in control of the Republican Party -- the people who believe in torture but don't believe in evolution -- have hijacked our democracy, aided and abetted by the news media. The heart of the problem is not the bias of Fox News or the blowhards on AM talk radio but a mainstream media that has completely internalized how the right frames all political debate. The right-wing message has become a part of the news media's DNA. The latest confirmation came with this week's announcement that Tony Snow, formerly a host at Fox...

One of the main themes of my new book, Right Is Wrong, is the role the media have played in allowing the lunatic fringe now in control of the Republican Party -- the people who believe in torture but don't believe in evolution -- to hijack our democracy. I document how the real problem comes not from Fox News or the likes of Limbaugh and O'Reilly, but from a mainstream media that has so internalized the Right's framing and messages they have now become a part of its DNA. And the media seem intent on confirming this point again and...

With Mike Huckabee's continuing surge, the Republican Party now has an Iowa front-runner whose religious beliefs are virtually identical to those of George Bush. He's anti-choice, born-again, against gay-marriage, and gets political advice directly from God. So why is the Republican establishment suddenly in a state of near-apoplexy about Mike Huckabee? Shouldn't they be happy? They've been cultivating evangelicals and fundamentalists for 30 years. Now they finally have a candidate who's truly part of the movement. So what's the problem? Actually, that is the problem. The evangelical crowd was fine when it was just a resource to be cynically exploited...

BLOG ALERTCommentator Arianna Huffington Makes Disparaging Remarks About Plight of Iraqi Kurds Under Saddam Hussein* Chairman of Kurdistan Development Corporation Invites Ms. Huffington to Visit Iraqi Kurdistan to Gain a Better Understanding for Herself In an appearance last night on the O'Reilly Factor, commentator Arianna Huffington, who runs the blog website, www.HuffingtonPost.com dismissed the plight of the Kurds under dictator Saddam Hussein. Huffington also attacked a television ad campaign by the Kurds to thank Americans for helping liberate them from Hussein's reign of tyranny. Huffington inaccurately stated that, "I think the Kurds were free before we invaded Iraq. But how...

ONE could almost imagine George Clooney, robed and slippered, taking to the veranda of his Italian lakeside villa and hunkering over a laptop for his maiden voyage into the blogosphere, which appeared in the form of a passionate left-wing call to arms at HuffingtonPost.com last week. ..."You gotta be a grown-up and take your hits," Mr. Clooney concluded. "I am a liberal. Fire away." But just as the great digital chinwag was taking note of the newcomer ... Mr. Clooney dropped a bomb, asserting that although the sentiments in the post were his, they were cobbled together from past interviews...

Oscar-winner George Clooney may make politically provocative films like "Syriana." But he doesn't write politically provocative blogs. So imagine his ire when Arianna Huffington used some of his recent answers to political questions in a way that makes it look as if he wrote one for her Huffington Post blog site.

While making room for a few dissenting voices in addition to a long list of lefty contributors, one has to wonder: just how big is the Huffington Post's tent? Did founder Arianna Huffington intend to include a writer who espouses the viewpoints of fringe extremist Lyndon LaRouche? Or did Air America Radio co-founder Sheldon Drobny somehow sneak in the back door? However he did it, Sheldon's now able to use the HuffPo to "mainstream" himself, since his previous associations make Arianna's site appear nearly conservative by comparison. And the site even includes the latest version of his everchanging biography. Someday,...

NEW YORK FREEPERS - do not miss this opportunity to FReep Arianna Huffington. On Nov. 10 she is receiving the Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award. Handing out photos in front of the event of Arianna in the Chevy Suburban might be mildly entertaining. Perhaps a Suburban could be in front with some graphics showing that it is Arianna's ride. Use your imagination and have some fun. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Esquire Downtown at Astor Place 445 Lafayette Street New York City Master of Ceremonies: Mario Cantone Honorees: 2005 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award...

On the way to my daughter's school this morning, I encountered the usual L.A. rush-hour road rally of elephantine sports utility vehicles, many flying American flags. Taking the cake was a massive SUV proudly sporting half a dozen -- one on each window and two on the bumper. My first thought was, how patriotic! My second was, how much more patriotic it would be to trade in the gas-guzzling leviathan for something that sips, rather than chugs, at the gas pump. Which, thinking globally and acting locally, is precisely what I've decided to do with mine. Though I don't consider ...

SHE TAKES HER CHEVY TO THE LEVY A fellow Freeper with the handle, Doug From Upland, has stumbled upon Arianna Huffington being driven to a “green car” event in a BIG, HONKING, CHEVY SUBURBAN. Apparently, Michelle Malkin has picked this up. But obviously the final word has yet to be written, Mr Global Content. Or as we conservatives say about you, think and act globally. C Buskuhl CT Freedom's Coast Watcher MARK REPLIES: Of course. One of the principal characteristics of the elite left – Arianna, Barbra Streisand, John Kerry - is that they need the private jets and big...

MIDI - MONEY FOR NOTHING - 2nd version I want my...I want my SUV Just get it...no one will ever see I want my...I want my SUV Just get it...no one will ever see 2:05 I am an elitist, I know how to do it...I get to ride inside an SUV I'm not challenged, I know how to do it...my leftist pals will give a pass to me I'm so clever, I know how to do it...little folks are really dumb I will tell them what to do, 'cause I have power I will show the neo-con scum Because...

(Too bad Lloyd Grove didn't write this about six days later. He could have had more to say about Arianna.) ================================================ SUV-hating agent drives odd bargain Hollywood superagent Ari Emanuel - the model for Jeremy Piven's character in the HBO hit "Entourage" - was a major player in the Detroit Project, the controversial media campaign that equated driving gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles with aiding and abetting terrorists. Emanuel was joined in the anti-SUV crusade by liberal pundit Arianna Huffington, "Kill Bill" producer Lawrence Bender and environmental activist Laurie - wife of Larry - David. But that was a couple of...

Doug From Upland's siting Arianna Huggington and Al Gore exiting large vehicles at a conference on the environment in San Francisco has set the blogs afire. But there are legitimate uses for large vehicles. Really there are. The I just don't think one person driving the LA freeways in one because the want to win a collision contest at the expense of the unfortunate person they might collide with isn't one. Neither is having bigger, always spinning wheels than your neighbor. Neither is because you get a tax writeoff for a vehicle you use only for commuting and driving to...

MIDI - LAST KISS (oh where oh where can my baby be....remember?) On her way to the Sierra Club...it will turn into quite a flub Miss Arianna really hates SUVs She talks the talk but will she also walk it...I guess we'll see There's her plane touching down, it's at SFO The keynote speaker's set to go They get her bags, where's her ride And on which limo did they decide There at the curb is a big black machine She knows it is not very green But she gets in the SUV Can we all say, HYPOCRISY? Oh...

MIDI - Y M C A Liberals, you're so easy to mock I say, liberals, what you say is a crock Limo liberals, in your mouth stuff a sock Because we don't want to hear it Liberals, we have our eyes on you I say, liberals, we have watched what you do Phony liberals, all your hubris shines through From you we don't want to hear it Hey, Arianna, just S T F U It is about time you S T F U You have your stained blue dress, it's a big SUV Can you say it? HYPOCRISY! Yes,...

SIERRA CLUB NATIONAL CONVENTION & EXPO Yes, on this 9/11 weekend, I went under deep cover at the Sierra Club Summit in San Francisco, California. Highlights --- - I the flight up to SF, I sat next to a dentist who came here from Canada...yes, he is a conservative...Canada, I guess, exports them because they cannot stand the stinking socialist tax-grabbing country - Algore speech on Friday...global warming...everything is Bush's fault...he quoted Lincoln and Churchill...we can save the planet but must have an unprecedented response...we won two wars at the same time in Europe and the Pacific...we stopped communism...

DRIVING MISS ARIANNA By Michelle Malkin   ·   September 17, 2005 08:14 AM The HuffMobile Reader Doug, who posts at FreeRepublic.com, sent this photo, which he took while covering the Sierra Club's national summit in San Francisco last weekend. The handsome, full-size sport utility vehicle pictured above is a Chevy Suburban. It was sent by the anti-SUV environmental puritans of the Sierra Club to pick up fellow, eco-zealot Arianna Huffington, who gave rousing, Bush-bashing, closing remarks at the eco-summit. Yes, Arianna "Why I Drive a Toyota Prius" Huffington. Yes, Arianna "SUV drivers enable terrorism" Huffington. I interviewed Sierra Club national spokesman...

Green pacifict geeks should do as hypocrite high-rollers AlGore and Arianna say, not as they do. Both were in San Franciso last weekend at a Green vehicle event pitching hybrid cars (gas/electric combination) yet both were chauffered in BIG GAS-GUZZLING, GLOBAL-WARMING SUVs. They really stepped in this one and DFU has documented it well--and got the word out to MANY talk shows in addition to Mr. KABC including Tony Snow, Mark Levin, Michael Graham, Melanie Morgan, Roger Hedgecock and Al Rantel. And, a major syndicated Conservative columnist has responded to DFU's email and is trying to get some answers from...