That picture IS Arianna Huffington. I think it is a comparison of situations. Though Arianna can schmooze with the lefties all she wants now. Even at the time she was married to Michael Huffington I couldn't figure out why they were together. So different. And now he has come out of the closet. Still her marriage, and divorce, gave her 'gravitas' with the 'intellectual' left.
Well duh! I swear I thought this was a picture of the author, and in fact she ALSO looks very much like a former TV actress Fannie Flagg. Anyway, thanks for straighting me out. Boy, I thought they were so much alike they could be sisters :-)!