Salon: "Liberal" news site HuffPo promoted Breitbart...until he insulted one of Arianna's friends

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 17:50 ET
War Room
The stupid saga of Andrew Breitbart and the Huffington Post
By Alex Pareene

http://www.salon.com/news/huffington_post/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/03/24/huffpo_breitbart



So! Arianna Huffington -- recently put in charge of all the "content" at AOL following the dial-up ISP's acquisition of her former "liberal Drudge" Internet newspaper -- gave a blog to her old friend Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart helped build the HuffPo, back when he was just another loudmouth Hollywood conservative and not the even louder-mouthed full-tilt culture warrior he is today (thanks in part to training at places like the Claremont Institute). Hundreds of people -- many of them idiots, frauds, and liars -- have blogs at the HuffPo. But the HuffPo actually promoted Breitbart's writing on the front page of the site.

Now, Mr. Breitbart is not just a conservative pundit. He is a crusading propagandist who publishes a wide variety of untruths and smears across his "Big" websites. He is not guilty of having the wrong opinions, he is guilty of being a shameless, race-baiting bully.

So various whiny liberals complained, like always, and the Huffington Post bravely promised to continue promoting the stupid nonsense from Arianna's old friend, in the name of democracy and the free exchange of ideas. ("Ideas" like "NPR and the White House are collaborating to spread the false idea that the Tea Parties are racist" and "the White House is lying about its visitor logs and specifically including the names of famous people in order to embarrass Andrew Breitbart.") ColorOfChange.org organized a petition, the HuffPo dismissed its complaints.

Complaining about the Huffington Post publishing awful, offensive garbage seldom works, because some of that garbage is profitable and some of it is just stuff that Arianna herself seems to like. And Huffington herself is too busy spending big bucks bringing big names to AOL/HuffPo while shuttering dozens of existing titles and letting various less impressive content-providers go to care if a bunch of liberals are mad at her site.

[RufusTFirefly]

1. The revenge of Van Jones

Who would've thunk it?
My favorite unfairly ousted Obama Administration appointee indirectly led to the demotion of Breitbart. I'll take it!

(In a fair world, Jones would be a Presidential candidate not just a failed Presidential appointee. But this is Corporate America not democratic America. It'll never happen.)

[tularetom]

2. Why is AOL still around?

For that matter why is the Huff'n'puff post still around?

I knew that site was circling the drain when Howard the Duck Fineman jumped from the sinking ship at Newsweek to become their political correspondent.

Maybe when AOL goes down the crapper it'll take Arianna and her vanity website with it.

[Bolo Boffin]

3. And you know that little demon Breitbart is just cackling.

He knows what he did. He gets more from embarrassing Huffington into dropping him than he would from staying on the HuffPo front page.

[TomCADem]

4. Even the "Liberal" Media Outlets are Corporate...HuffPo Publishes All Types

Can you imagine Fox News providing a forum for real liberal? They dropped the pretense when they got rid of Alan Combs.

[chollybocker]

5. Those two deserve each other.

Can two whores work the same corner? Stay tuned.... :eyes:

[Enthusiast]

6. I used to read and post

on the Huffington Post. I unsubscribed. There were enough outlets for FAR right wing propaganda without HuffPo adding to the mix. I am done with them. I hope they fade into nothingness.