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Arianna's $250K Bus to Jon Stewart Rally a 'Shock' at HuffPo HQ
The Wrap ^ | 10/11/10 | Josh Dickey and Sharon Waxman

Posted on 10/11/2010 9:56:43 AM PDT by Nachum

Arianna Huffington’s surprise gift to Jon Stewart -- a convoy of shuttle buses to his “Rally to Restore Sanity” in Washington -- was an even bigger surprise to the folks at the Huffington Post. And the cost of the grand gesture -- an estimated $250,000 for 100 buses for thousands of New Yorkers -- is making some of Huffington Post’s finance executives wince, according to insiders. HuffPo’s President Greg Coleman agreed that the gesture came a surprise, but denied that there was any internal tension as a result.

(Excerpt) Read more at thewrap.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 250k; ariannas; astroturf; bus; rally
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I am shocked. Shocked I tell you
1 posted on 10/11/2010 9:56:52 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

These guys are so funny....like a submarine with screen doors.


2 posted on 10/11/2010 9:58:27 AM PDT by devane617 (November!)
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To: Nachum

Busing in the Astroturfers. Where is this money coming from?


3 posted on 10/11/2010 9:59:16 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Less than 30 days to go to election day. I'm giddier than a TV weatherman during hurricane season.)
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To: Nachum

The ruling class does a rally. This should be good. (And they thought the Florida Pubbies in 2000 were not ready for prime time, lol)


4 posted on 10/11/2010 10:00:14 AM PDT by chickadee
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To: Nachum

I guess of all the charities Ariana found the most needing...this was it (snark)


5 posted on 10/11/2010 10:01:33 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Nachum
...100 buses for thousands of New Yorkers...

Rent-a-mobs and they couldn't even fill half the area to the Washington Monument...........

7 posted on 10/11/2010 10:04:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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To: Nachum

Doesn’t ANYONE on the Left own a CAR?? They ALWAYS have to be BUSSED IN!! Even when voting, they have to be bussed in!!


8 posted on 10/11/2010 10:05:06 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Nachum
...an estimated $250,000 for 100 buses for thousands of New Yorkers...

New York. Hmmm. New York. Isn't that the state that denies military personnel the right to vote?

9 posted on 10/11/2010 10:07:07 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Less than 30 days to go to election day. I'm giddier than a TV weatherman during hurricane season.)
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To: Nachum

If the rides are free, why don’t some of us take the free ride to DC ... counter-protest, check out the Smithsonian, grab a bite to eat, go shopping, whatever, and then go back on Arianna’s dime?


10 posted on 10/11/2010 10:07:39 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Ann Archy

Buses? : I betcha this one is available...
11 posted on 10/11/2010 10:08:00 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The Spooky Dude, of course.


12 posted on 10/11/2010 10:10:12 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Ann Archy

Its one of their symbols. Public mass transportation, people relying on the system to get them where they need to be instead of the personal responsibility of climbing in your own car and taking the initiative to do it yourself. They tell you where the buses are and when they leave, remind you to be there and they will take care of everything else, just trust them.


13 posted on 10/11/2010 10:10:52 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Frantzie; bert; Nachum
Saudi money. ............ Where is that “bert” who posts on FR? He loves islam and the Saudis aka Obama’s bosses.

You should know better than personally attacking a FReeper without pinging him/her!

I did the pinging for ya!

14 posted on 10/11/2010 10:12:00 AM PDT by melancholy (It ain't Camelot, it's Scam-a-lot!)
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To: Nachum
And, Huckabee allowed Arianna to spout her views, without adequate rebuttal, on his oft-repeated show this weekend.

Had there been a person of adquate understanding and ability to articulate opposing views, she might have been exposed, but as it was, she received too much face time.

Fair and balanced it was not!

15 posted on 10/11/2010 10:12:42 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Ann Archy

If the left can get the people on busses, then they can control them...where they go, what signs they carry. They can lecture to them, lie to them.


16 posted on 10/11/2010 10:12:55 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: Nachum

Didn’t we just go through with this with the unions and the socialists? They’ll probably have just as many at their rally...maybe.


17 posted on 10/11/2010 10:14:11 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: chickadee
The ruling class does a rally.

LOL

18 posted on 10/11/2010 10:15:03 AM PDT by donna (This is the age of Republican-Feminism. We *feel right*!)
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To: Nachum

But who’s going to pay for all the boxed lunches?


19 posted on 10/11/2010 10:15:36 AM PDT by fullchroma
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To: Nachum

I am a firm believer that one should suck every cent out of these retards possible.

This crowd is like a pack of battered children in an orphanage; It is not like they have anywhere else (politically) to go.

They want to be controlled, and those communists with the brains to recognize this reality can not be held to fault.


20 posted on 10/11/2010 10:17:18 AM PDT by mmercier (the killer in me is the killer in you)
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