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Drudge Team May Break Up
DiscovertheNetwork.org ^ | April 4, 2005 | Richard Poe

Posted on 04/04/2005 7:29:11 AM PDT by venizelos

Andrew Breitbart – long the number two man at the Drudge Report – is rumored to be working behind the scenes with Arianna Huffington's new Webzine, the Huffington Report, according to Washington Times "Inside the Beltway" columnist John McCaslin.

The Huffington Report is scheduled to launch sometime this month, and will cater to the radically chic. Its liveliest feature promises to be a group blog where movie stars, New York media mavens, Hollywood film moguls and other wealthy proponents of class struggle and proletarian solidarity can sound off on politics (see "Arianna Huffington Launches Group Blog for Celebrity Leftists"). In the Washington Times of March 31, John McCaslin writes:

"It might have conservative-turned-liberal pundit Arianna Huffington's name attached to it, but we're told that Matt Drudge sidekick and story contributor Andrew Breitbart is the brains behind the soon-to-start blog, Huffington Report.

`There's a lot of rumors out there that I cannot confirm or deny,' Mr. Breitbart said yesterday."

That's what we call a non-denial denial in the news business. If indeed Breitbart is slated to edit the Huntington Report, it seems unlikely that he will stay with Drudge.

Since 1999, Breitbart has worked fulltime for the Drudge Report, in a capacity that is probably more accurately described as co-editor than mere "sidekick and story contributor." His departure would certainly be a blow to the Drudge Report.

Breitbart and investigative reporter Mark Ebner co-wrote the Tinseltown exposé Hollywood Interrupted, published last year by John Wiley & Sons.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andrewbreitbart; ariannahuffington; drudge; huffingtonreport; mattdrudge; mccaslin; richardpoe
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To: Lurking in Kansas

Is huffingtondummydumdum a Democrap or a Republican this week?

Hell, This witch switches parties as often as she does fat bald companions and tampons!


61 posted on 04/04/2005 9:48:04 AM PDT by Beat Up A Democrap Today ?
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To: venizelos

Talk about DOA.

Crap! I'd become a dues paying member of DU before I'd log onto AH's website. The woman is brain-dead and has no detectable soul.


62 posted on 04/04/2005 9:56:30 AM PDT by mercy (never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over a year now)
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To: Beat Up A Democrap Today ?
Is huffingtondummydumdum a Democrap or a Republican this week?

Hell, This witch switches parties as often as she does fat bald companions and tampons!

She is loyal to only one party, the Green party, as in $$$$.

63 posted on 04/04/2005 10:14:28 AM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty hereā€¦ move on.)
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To: lainie

Drudge ping!


64 posted on 04/04/2005 10:33:08 AM PDT by cibco (Xin Loi... Saddam)
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To: cibco

Thanks for the ping! Anybody jumping to Arianna's ship needs to have his head examined...yuck. Wonder what this will mean for Matty Matt?


65 posted on 04/04/2005 10:57:51 AM PDT by lainie
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To: venizelos

I don't know what the pay is but it would be a huge mistake to hitch your wagon to Zsa Zsa Huffington. She's Theresa Heinz-Kerry with a different accent.


66 posted on 04/04/2005 11:04:00 AM PDT by Tall_Texan (If you can think 180-degrees apart from reality, you might be a Democrat.)
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To: venizelos

"There's a lot of rumors out there that I cannot confirm or deny,' Mr. Breitbart said yesterday."

"That's what we call a non-denial denial in the news business..."


Actually, to me it sounds more like a denied non-denial..... but, maybe that's just me??? :)


67 posted on 04/04/2005 11:05:46 AM PDT by Hand em their arse
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To: Willie Green

Drudge is a fool for pulling the FR link. His is the best way to fish for articles for discussion.


68 posted on 04/04/2005 11:46:57 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: lainie

she will try and pull the msm to switch from Drudge to her.

She will probably copy his very efficient homepage.


69 posted on 04/04/2005 11:48:20 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: venizelos

Dudge get's half his material here at FR, shouldn't affect him at all.


70 posted on 04/04/2005 11:51:20 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: longtermmemmory; hole_n_one; TechJunkYard; Cheapskate; SevenofNine; BradyLS; mylife; A CA Guy; ...

longtermmemory, that's what I'm thinking too.

ping for the Sunday night Drudge listeners...


71 posted on 04/04/2005 12:22:07 PM PDT by lainie
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April 24
Mark Ebner and Andrew Breitbart, will sign and discuss "Hollywood Interupted," "Insanity Chic In Babylon" and "The Case Against Celebrity," 3p.m. Peppertree Bookstore & Cafe, 622 North Palm Canyon, Palm Springs. 325-4821

These anti-celebrity-culture books keep coming out. Never heard of Mark Ebner.

72 posted on 04/04/2005 12:37:13 PM PDT by lainie
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To: venizelos

Link to the original McCaslin Washington Times piece

Eat the Press
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050331-124027-5740r.htm


73 posted on 04/04/2005 12:37:59 PM PDT by lainie
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To: bigjoesaddle
Can someone tell me Arianna's history? I know she was on the right, now shes on the left, what was she before that? A reporter, a columnst, a left coast elete, what?

I know I've read about her bio before she came on the national scene but I can't recall at the moment what it was. What I do remember is that she was a conservative writer who took stands I agreed with. In fact, remember the Arlington Cemetary scandal during clinton's administration? Arianna Huffington (along with Insight Magazine, which broke the story) was instrumental in uncovering Larry Lawrence's fabricated military record which led to his being disinterred from Arlington.

Anyway, shortly after that episode, I vividly recall seeing Arianna appearing on some program telling how she had attended that Renaissance Weekend the clintons so famously attended every New Year's weekend. Arianna had brought her daughters. She was absolutely rhapsodic over how charming and brilliant clinton was. She's never been the same and gotten progressively (pun intended) worse since that point.

I also recall long ago she popped up on FR to say she had started a new website and linked to it. Nobody seemed to care.

74 posted on 04/04/2005 12:51:52 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: TomGuy; venizelos
TomGuy wrote: "What is a 'radically chic'? I guess if I have to ask, I ain't? LOL"

What is Radical Chic, you ask? Radical Chic is one of the funniest most critical peeks into the nosebleed section, that is, the place where Arianna types cavort. The book was written after a dinner party with the Leonard Bernsteins by Tom Wolfe.

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
by Tom Wolfe
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1970
"A notable piece of reportage . . . Radical Chic
will never be the same." —Playboy


"...Felicia is remarkable. She is beautiful, with that rare burnished beauty that lasts through the years. Her hair is pale blond and set just so. She has a voice that is "theatrical," to use a term from her youth. She greets the Black Panthers with the same bend of the wrist, the same tilt of the head, the same perfect Mary Astor voice with which the greets people like Jason, John and D.D., Adolph, Betty, Gian-Carlo, Schuyler, and Goddard, during those aprés-concert suppers she and Lenny are so famous for.

What evenings! She lights the candles over the dining-room table, and in the Gotham gloaming the little tremulous tips of flame are reflected in the mirrored surface of the table, a bottomless blackness with a thousand stars, and it is that moment that Lenny loves. There seem to be a thousand stars above and a thousand stars below, a room full of stars a penthouse duplex full of stars, a Manhattan tower full of stars, with marvelous people drifting through the heavens, Jason Robards, John and D. D. Ryan, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Schuyler Chapin, Goddard Lieberson, Mike Nichols, Lillian Hellman, Larry Rivers, Aaron Copland, Richard Avedon, Milton and Amy Greene, Lukas Foss, Jennie Tourel, Samuel Barber, Jerome Robbins, Steve Sondheim, Adolph and Phyllis Green, Betty Comden, and the Patrick O'Neals . . . "

". . . and now, in the season of Radical Chic, the Black Panthers. That huge Panther there, the one Felicia is smiling her tango smile at, is Robert Bay, who just forty-one hours ago was arrested in an altercation with the police, supposedly over a .38-caliber revolver that someone had, in a parked car in Queens at Northern Boulevard and 10th Street or some such unbelievable place and taken to jail on a most un-usual charge called "criminal facilitation." And now he is out on bail and walking into Leonard and Felicia Bernstein's thirteen-room penthouse duplex on Park Avenue.

Harassment & Hassles, Guns & Pigs, Jail & Bail—they're real, these Black Panthers. The very idea of them, these real revolutionaries, who actually put their lives on the line, runs through Lenny's duplex like a rogue hormone. Everyone casts a glance, or stares, or tries a smile, and then sizes up the house for the somehow delicious counterpoint . . .

Deny it if you want to! But one does end up making such sweet furtive comparisons in this season of Radical Chic . . . There's Otto Preminger in the library and Jean vanden Heuvel in the hall, and Peter and Cheray Duchin in the living room, and Frank and Domna Stanton, Gail Lumet, Sheldon Harnick, Cynthia Phipps, Burton Lane, Mrs. August Heckscher, Roger Wilkins, Barbara Walters, Bob Silvers, Mrs. Richard Avedon, Mrs. Arthur Penn, Julie Belafonte, Harold Taylor, and scores more, including Charlotte Curtis, women's news editor of The New York Times, America's foremost chronicler of Society, a lean woman in black, with her notebook out, standing near Felicia and big Robert Bay, and talking to Cheray Duchin..." End excerpt, link to Radical Chic excerpt online

75 posted on 04/04/2005 12:52:16 PM PDT by bd476
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To: longtermmemmory

None of the freepers who recently left would have any affinity for or desire to associate with the likes of Arianna Huffington.


76 posted on 04/04/2005 12:54:35 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: lainie

Gwyneth Paltrow is going to blog at that site?!

LOL


77 posted on 04/04/2005 12:57:07 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: lainie

Thank you for the ping, Lainie. Kind of amusing when you think about it.


78 posted on 04/04/2005 12:57:52 PM PDT by bd476
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To: cyncooper
None of the freepers who recently left would have any affinity for or desire to associate with the likes of Arianna Huffington.

Why wouldn't they?
LOL! Every single one of 'em share the same affection she has for social conservatives.

79 posted on 04/04/2005 1:12:57 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: venizelos

hey, when Conservatives won't pay attention to you, and you are a camera whore, just switch political affiliation.


80 posted on 04/04/2005 1:15:38 PM PDT by Casloy
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