Arianna Huffington is an idiot
I've never liked Arianna Huffington for a couple or reason. First, her voice just makes me climb the walls. I don't know what it is about it, but i just cringe when I hear it. Second, her only claim to fame is that her ex-husband spent a lot of money in a failed bid for Senate and then exited the closet as a bisexual.
Anyway, Huffington made news in the blogosphere this week when she cobbled together things actor George Clooney said in an interview on "Larry King Live" and other public statements, and posted them on the Huffington Post as an essay under Clooney's byline. Clooney, who knows more about basic journalistic standards than Huffington (not a high bar, I know), immediately told Huffington to knock it off. Huffington also got a lot of flak from others in the blogosphere, and has now come out with a non-apology apology.
Buzzmachine's Jeff Jarvis has said it best:
Blogs are people and the blogosphere is a conversation. If you’re not really writing your blog, if you’re having or allowing someone to do it for you, then you’re gaming me, lying to me, insulting me. In this little drama, we are Roxannes, Clooney is the dashing Christian de Neuvileette, and Arianna is Cyrano de Bergerac … or perhaps Pinocchio. The highest virtue of citizens’ media and the open age is transparency and this was not an act of transparency. I urge you, Arianna, to recant and set a new policy: Tell me who wrote what I read.
At least, I trust that that is what Jeff Jarvis said, you can't be too sure nowadays.
*NOTICE* Everything in this post was written by me except where otherwise indicated.
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I completely agree with you on her voice -- Chubacka on female hormones. Whenever Hannity has her on his show (for godsake I don't know why) I just turn off the radio completely. Nails on a chalkboard!
Arianna Huffington is a complete ******* whose only claim to fame is that she spread her legs for some political hack and then got air time despite her god-awful accent that most people can't understand and really don't want to. She's about as stupid as that moron Lisa Douglass from Green acres and a lot less appealing. She runs a close second to Paris Hilton and The International Dimwit ("Princess Diana") in The World Stupid Olympics and I for one would like NEVER to have to listen to her again!!!
[Edited for language. That's not tolerated around here.]
I'm delighted to see that someone else dislikes the morone Arianna Huffington almost as much as I do. My first issue with her is that she is a complete idiot! Her voice is my second issue. Why hasn't someone stopped this washed up old sea hag? As soon as her feeble mind comes up with an idea (never original) she writes another book and is once again pushing and clawing to garner some attention for her latest pathetic attempt.
Someone please stop this annoying old hag!
She is a media creation who gets more attention than than a serial killer. I can't stand her accent, her pretentiousness, and her being a blabbermouthed fool who worked some foolish man to death.