NYT: A Boldface Name Invites Others to Blog With Her ['The Huffington Post']

New York Times ^ | April 25, 2005 | KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

[Keith in Iowa]

WGAS what any Hollyweirdo thinks about politics and current affairs? Their closest connection to reality is reading words someone else wrote. They live in a world of perpetual make-belive. Despite all this, that Itchbay Huffington will probably make a load of money. Sad.

[wagglebee]

Can we ask her how it feels to be so repulsive that she turned her husband into a homosexual?

[JustaCowgirl]

A Boldface Name

More like a blowface name.

[Army Air Corps]

"Among those signed up to contribute are Walter Cronkite, David Mamet, Nora Ephron, Warren Beatty, James Fallows, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Diane Keaton, Norman Mailer and Mortimer B. Zuckerman."

Oh, isn't this just lovely. Walter "Hanoi Hank" Cronkite, Warren "Airhead" Beatty, the skank Maggie Gyllenhaal, and others are going to add their two brain cells' worth to the blogosphere.

[Incorrigible]

But unlike the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post will be interactive, offering news as well as commentary from famous people and allowing the masses to comment too, although not always directly with the celebs.

OK, whose got the over/under on how many days her "blog" will withstand the withering criticism of truth (care of FReeperdom) before they shut down the "interactive" part "allowing the masses to comment".

BwaHaHaHaHa

I give it 5 days before the interactive participation is shut down.  This includes massive censorship of a DUmmie scale.

[wai-ming]

During the Clinton impeachment days, Arianna had a web site called "Resignation.com" (She was trying to get Clinton to resign, believe it or not.)

Does anyone know what happened to that website, and to Ms. Huffington? Wasn't she originally a conservative?

[West Coast Conservative]

Maggie "America Deserves 9/11" Gyllenhaal

[ml/nj]

the most creative minds

Arianna is an airhead.

What, exactly, has she "created"?

ML/NJ

[West Coast Conservative]

Yep. I was thinking the same thing. Once her blog gets FReeped, they will shut the interactive part off. Then it will just be some Drudge clone with the worthless opinion of Hollywood actors.

[libs_kma]

"Get ready for the next level in the blogosphere. Arianna Huffington, the columnist and onetime candidate for governor of California, is about to move blogging from the realm of the anonymous individual to the realm of the celebrity collective."

Freaking get over yourselves already. Haven't they figured out that conservatives already know that they're not the sharpest knives in the drawer? Now they want to put it all out there and prove us right every single day?

Bring it on Demwits!

Know what the difference is between a liberal and a puppy?

A puppy stops whining when it grows up.

[LdSentinal]

"In the Fox era, everything we can do on our side to even things out, now that the media is either controlled by Rupert Murdoch or is so afraid of Rupert Murdoch that they behave as if they were controlled by him . . ."

Oh brother . . .

[Army Air Corps]

Since this article mentions Walter Cronkite (useful idiot), then I shall post of picture of the flag of the Republic of Vietnam that he and other MSM whores helped to destroy.

[Uncle Hal]

Its nice she has lined up a lot of conservatives to post blogs on her site. All the publicity she is getting reminds me of all the free press Air America got when they started to broadcast. Certainly did not do them any good.

[SpaceBar]

The Big Lie with all of this Hollywood "elite" nonsense is that these people along with the likes of Huffington think they "think deeper" than say someone who unloads palettes of mac n' cheese at 3:30 AM. They don't represent anything intellectual, they represent rich people with over-inflated egos. Nothing more. People in the entertainment industry confuse the money they make with their importance in the overall scheme of things.

[Bars4Bill]

"This gives me a chance to sound off with a few words or a long editorial," said Mr. Cronkite, 88, the longtime "CBS Evening News" anchorman. "It's a medium that is new and interesting, and I thought I'd have some fun."

More fun than you can imagine, Cronkite. Hot damn.

[Army Air Corps]

There was a time when she espoused conservative beliefs, but she has gone of the reservation/her meds a long time ago. She became a whore for media attention and it warped her brain.

[B Knotts]

Arianna Huffington, the columnist and onetime candidate for governor of California, is about to move blogging from the realm of the anonymous individual to the realm of the celebrity collective.

So she thinks.

I doubt people will bother to read her rubbish.

In the blogosphere, she and her elite media pals are no longer in control.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping!

Cronkite and other media whores mentioned.

[CaptainK]

She was conservative when her Huffington husband was a Republican. His coming out coincided with her newfound liberalism.