The leftwing Huffington Post is now the world’s most authoritative blog, according to Technorati.
In the election runup, although publicly known, I wonder how many people realize that the Huffington Post is named after a power obsessed, failed Democrat who was actually a former Republican extremist .
The ‘Huffpo’ has a proprietor who once campaigned as a Republican to the religious right for the dismantlement of welfare because “big government cheats people out of the spiritual rewards of giving to the needy”; who made her fortune from a divorce settlement after marrying a man she knew was gay; who was a follower and financial supporter of a strange religious cult and who paid less than a thousand dollars in tax in a year she campaigned as a Democrat against ‘fat cat’ tax avoiders, while living in an ostentatiously kitsch 6,000 sq. ft. LA mansion.
(I have just finished updating her Wikipedia entry, should you want details)
Arianna Huffington’s political vacillation is statistically unlikely. To paraphrase Wilde, given that it has tended to be in her personal interest – it looks like carelessness.
It is ironic and sad that in an election year, the Left’s most prominent outlet in the Blogosphere is a site run by someone who represents exactly the same cynicism as the media outlet it rails against – Fox News.
I actually did know that. 🙂 Learned it during an interview of her by Henry Rollins.
I don’t presume to speak for “the left” but I think Daily Kos is probably more influential when it comes to “the left” than HuffPo which I imagine owes a great deal of its page rank dominace to the fact that it reports (without political bias) on a wide variety of non-electoral topics (many sensational) that draw in readers regardless of their political affiliation.
Fox News, on the other hand, seems to have a hard time reporting on a water-skiing squirrel without mentioning the insidious liberals intent on subjecting that squirrel to the homosexual agenda.
Where in the Hell did this caustic witch, Arriana Huffington come from? I think it started by her getting a bunch of money from a divorce. How come she spews her distorted views with such impunity? She’s harder to listen to than Fran Dresher, and has less relevant things to say! Why isn’t there an equally powerful opposing blog site on the internet? We sure need one.