Posted on 03/21/2008 3:09:31 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
PORTER BERRY, FOX NEWS: Ms. Huffington, how are you? I'm Porter Berry from "The O'Reilly Factor." I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about the Web site. Some of the stuff you have on the Web site, some hate speech. One person commented talking about Tony Snow. They said quote, "His cancer will return and he will die a very painful death." Excuse me, one of your bloggers on the Huffington Post said, what comes around, goes around. Do you want to comment on that? One of them said, I am sick to death of this jackass, talking about Tony Snow.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, HUFFINGTONPOST.COM: You know what? I think you need to learn something about the Internet. The comments that appear there are taken down immediately.
PORTER BERRY, FOX NEWS: This was posted on the middle of February and was up yesterday. Here is what someone said about Nancy Reagan, "Like her evil husband, she has lived for far too long, here is hoping the hag suffers for several weeks and croaks in the tub." Ms. why you allow this kind of hate speech?...
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...O'REILLY: There you go.
Joining us now from Washington Amanda Carpenter, national political report for townhall.com. Huffington put a blog today that said, quote, "I find it laughable to be lectured on hate speech by Bill O'Reilly who has done as much if not more than anyone in the media to debase the public dialogue. He spews hate as readily as he breathes. It is his life blood."
Arianna Huffington. Despicable woman, would you agree?
AMANDA CARPENTER, TOWNHALL.COM: She certainly is making some money off this kind hate speech right now. I am not surprised to see she would not take it down as readily as she might expected her to.
O'REILLY: How much money is she making?
CARPENTER: Right now "Fortune" magazine reported last November that this year in 2008, she is expected to make between $4 million and.$7.5 million through the rest of this year.
O'REILLY: That is gross on the Web site?
CARPENTER: It doesn't go directly with her. She is backed by a couple of venture capitalist firms. I have ready she has gotten up to $11 million in venture capital backing so she gets a percentage, and I am guessing is a good amount since her name is on the masthead.
O'REILLY: Can we unmask the money behind it, Amanda? Is it possible to know who is funding this hate site? Can we find that out?
CARPENTER: Most of the money they generate now is coming from ad sales. If you click a Web site, you see certain advertisements at the top of the masthead or on the side of it. The community she has is very attractive to advertisers because they know exactly what type of people that are going to be reading that site.
O'REILLY: OK, who is advertising? Who have you seen?
CARPENTER: I saw an advertisement for a Lexus hybrid.
O'REILLY: Lexus hybrid.
CARPENTER: I also saw a shoe advertisement, a shoe that's called a croc which I kind of consider the modern-day Birkenstock.
O'REILLY: You sure that wasn't a critique of the Web site? The Croc? It's a shoe.
CARPENTER: It was for the shoe.
O'REILLY: Is that all? Just Lexus hybrid and the Croc shoe?
CARPENTER: They actually have an impressive ad package. What they use is a combination of Google ads, blog ads, they have an in-house advertising team that may seek out certain advertising to place next to a certain kind of post. Like last week, Barack Obama chose the site to publish an exclusive response to the Reverend Wright situation. It is possible they may have placed an ad next to it because the advertiser may have known it would be high traffic and would want to target someone who might be sympathetic to Obama.
O'REILLY: You work for townhall.com, another Web site, correct. If someone on townhall said, I want Nancy Reagan to die, but I want her to suffer, I want Tony Snow's cancer to come back so he dies, what would your Web site do?
CARPENTER: It would be flagged as abusive. We have certain kind of flags in the comment sentence. As does Arianna Huffington's Web site and I am sure it would be taken down immediately.
O'REILLY: But it is not on Arianna Huffington's Web site as Porter Berry said, this stuff is still there. She says it is down, but it is not. She does not tell the truth.
CARPENTER: It actually would not be in her interest to have an aggressive moderation policy. But it is the very far left wing.
O'REILLY: That's what she's selling. So all and all, she is making money off of it. After her divorce, she got a lot of money from her ex- husband. She does not really need money.
CARPENTER: The oil baron husband.
Arianna Huffington, just another soul corrupted by greed, but at least the results of this greed are posted for everyone to see.
Jim-Rob has rules for his site.
Huff-Po does not. Her vile little minions should be ashamed. She only became a Democrat because it was expedient for her to do so. She’s the biggest hypocrit in the blogosphere.
Hey lady, don't you be touching my Crocs.
Arianna Huffington married a rich guy just the same as Mrs. Spitzer. They both escaped the fate of Mr. Spitzer’s playmates. Hey, that’s just like that other ol’bag, Geraldine Ferraro.
Arianna Huffington married a rich guy just the same as Mrs. Spitzer. They both escaped the fate of Mr. Spitzer’s playmates. Hey, that’s just like that other ol’bag, Geraldine Ferraro.
Arianna Huffington is proud to be confronted by THE FACTOR. She is so not worth as much as a kleenex after a sneeze.
Rush played a clip of arianna yesterday, suggesting that 8 seconds of the “Green Acres” theme song precede her.
I believe Ms. Huffington married more like Mrs. McGreavy than Mrs. Spitzer.
Or maybe a variation on a theme eh ~ I doubt we are done with the Spitzer story.
I thought the same, wasn’t her ex hubby gay?
I don’t know how happy he was, but he was a swish.
I for one am thankful she became a flaming liberal. I hated listening to her screechy voice when she was with Fox News.
LOL I have not heard swish used in years...
Yep - ol’ Mikey was, ahem, “not what he seemed.” He moved to California and tried to play carpetbagger for Dianne Feinstein’s seat and the voters kicked him back to Texas. I guess Huff-Po figured if she wasn’t going to be able to play the Grande Dame in Washington, no need to stick around.
My personal favorite example of Huff-Po hypocrisy was her lecturing everyone on using hybrid cars. She was, I believe, on Sean Hannity’s show lecturing the rest of us peasants on combatting global warming. Sean pointed out that she traveled around on a private jet to Washington, and wasn’t that a waste of resources.
Her reply, “well, the jet was going there anyway....”
Michael promptly decided that being a mere congresscritter wasn't enough to satisfy his ego, so he tried to knock DiFi out of her Senate seat. She cleaned his clock.
In the meantime, the congressional seat he vacated was won by Walter Capps, a UCSB professor of "Religious Studies". Poor Walter died not long after being elected, and was replaced by his widow, the terminally inspid Lois Capps. This still rankles me. Bob Lagomarsino was a darned good congressman. I've often felt that Arianna was the ambitious one. Don't know (and don't care) whatever became of Michael after he outed himself.
When Miss Huff was running for CA governor, it was hilarious to watch her flounder in debate. An idiot - and yet, smart enough to milk her site for millions.
Did you see her the time she knocked over the microphone when Arnold was filing his re-election papers? What a twit.
I heard that. I thought it was one of the funniest/nastiest things I've ever heard him say.
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