Meet the new HuffingtonAOLPost--home to Heritage Foundation bloggers

[Minnesota Raindog]

After cashing in on her cadre of unpaid chumps, er, bloggers, Arianna Huffington is using some of her newfound money to bring "distinguished fellows" from the Heritage Foundation onboard to bash "Obamacare." Nice.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ernest-istook/the-dirty-little-secret-a_b_825056.html

Ernest Istook.Distinguished Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
Posted: February 18, 2011 10:39 AM

[Dappleganger]

1. Buh-bye, HuffPo!

Last straw.

[closeupready]

2. Unbookmarking HP now.

:mad:

Further, DU should stop providing the hyperlink on the front page.

[Minnesota Raindog]

5. I just unsubscribed from HuffingtonHeritagePost emails n/t

[arbusto_baboso]

3. I've just never really trusted Arianna.

She pushed her stuffed-shirt ex-hubby for public office here in Cali and was as right-wing as they came back then. Her change of stripe never seemed genuine to me.

Seems I was right.

[MilesColtrane]

9. Anyone who could undergo such a radical ideological shift in their politics...

once they've reached adulthood, could just as easily change course again.

Huffington obviously has.

[arbusto_baboso]

17. Or the course-change was never real in the first place.

Either way, she's revealed her true colors for all to see.

[Raksha]

Her change seemed genuine to me. I can't tell if it was real but superficial,

or if she was faking it all along. Not that it really matters...her taking Heritage Foundation money tells me all I need to know.

[TomClash]

4. I dropped HuffPost the day after Arianna's heist

Peddle a free or cheap army of decent enough writers with a glossy format to liberals, pass go and pocket a cool $100 million, no questions asked, from the byte boys. Not exactly the Madison teachers shivering in the cold, is it?

[RagAss]

6. I fart on Huffpo

[joeybee12]

7. I don't know why anyone ever trusted ariana...she's a repuke at heart...

out for the money...married a gay man, plagarized a book, anything for money has always been her motto.

[Uzybone]

8. hehehe...Arianna has always been transparent

too bad it took so long for the scales to fall from folks eyes.

[OwnedByFerrets]

10. Very Disappointing

[OneGrassRoot]

11. Wow. Ugh. n/t

[MilesColtrane]

12. That didn't take very long at all.

[demmiblue]

13. Unfollowed on Twitter, taken off my bookmarks toolbar

:puke:

I wonder when it will turn into right wing heaven. There was already too many trolls on there to begin with.

[Puregonzo1188]

14. I guess this is the new Huffington Post.

[JoePhilly]

15. Duh!!

Ariana is who she always was.

[SoCalDem]

16. yep.. an opportunist

Arianna Huffington, born Arianna Stassinopoulos (Greek: Αριάννα Στασινόπουλου) on July 15, 1950, is a Greek-American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known as co-founder of the news website The Huffington Post. A popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, she adopted more liberal political beliefs in the late 1990s. <1> She is the ex-wife of former Republican congressman Michael Huffington.

In 2003, she ran as an independent candidate for Governor in the California recall election.<2>

In 2009, Huffington was named as number 12 in Forbes' first-ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media.<3> She has also moved up to number 42 in The Guardian's Top 100 in Media List.<4>

On February 7, 2011, AOL announced it would acquire The Huffington Post for US$315 million and make Huffington president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which will include The Huffington Post and existing AOL properties such as Engadget, TechCrunch, Moviefone, MapQuest, Black Voices, PopEater, AOL Music, AOL Latino, AutoBlog, Patch Media, and StyleList.<5>
Contents


* 1 Personal life
* 2 Career
o 2.1 California recall election participation
o 2.2 Media presence
* 3 Plagiarism claims
* 4 Awards
* 5 Bibliography
* 6 References
* 7 External links

Personal life

Huffington was born Arianna Stassinopoulos in Athens, Greece, the daughter of Konstantinos (a journalist and management consultant) and Elli (née Georgiadi) Stassinopoulous, and is the sister of Agapi (an author, speaker and performer). She moved to England at the age of 16, and attended Girton College at Cambridge University.

After graduation, she moved to London and lived with the journalist and broadcaster Bernard Levin, whom she had met while the two were panelists on the TV show Face the Music. In 1980, because of Levin's refusal to get married, she broke the relationship and moved to the United States. After Levin's death in 2004, she called him "the big love of my life, <…> a mentor as a writer, and a role model as a thinker".<6>

Huffington met her future husband Michael Huffington in 1985. They were married a year later. They later established residency in Santa Barbara, California, in order for him to run in 1992 as a Republican for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he won by a significant margin. Arianna campaigned for her husband, courting religious conservatives, arguing for smaller government and a reduction in welfare. In 1994, he narrowly lost the race for the U.S. Senate seat to California to incumbent Dianne Feinstein.<7>

The couple divorced in 1997, and in 1998, Michael Huffington revealed that he was bisexual.<8>
.............................................
She put the flip in flip-flop

She found a way to make money from "donors" her whole life..

nothing new from her..

[Aerows]

18. I was there for several years

I refuse to even click on a link. I had a LONG established history with HuffPo, but I can't stomach visiting now. They are off my RSS feeds, and everything else. I was a fairly distinguished member there, with over 12,000 posts and 1100+ members.

I wouldn't visit now if you paid me.

[Aerows]

19. The cadre of chumps

are walking away.

That's why she took cash - she knew it wouldn't stand when the people that built the site with commentary walked away.

I don't regret it, exactly. I learned a lot, and met some great people. They just all detest Arianna Huffington now, and HP, so she is welcome to attempting to stir the pot with the airheads that go there.

The professionals, business owners and journalists have fled en masse.

Expect her to do something drastic and controversial to get readership in the next 3 months, probably within the first month, but she doesn't have journalists to do it. She fucked all the journalists over, and screwed the professionals at the end, too.

[blondeatlast]

20. NEVER say "Heritage Foundation" without preceding it with TAX-EXEMPT.

This PSA was brought to you by Ms. @Last.

[starroute]

21. So this would be the Ernest Istook who got $1000 from Jack Abramoff

That was back when he was in Congress, of course. His former chief of staff pleaded guilty to his role in the Abramoff scandal in 2008.

So the guy is not only ultra-conservative but also kind of sleazy. Nice going, Ariana.

[Ramulux]

22. Beginning of the end

There is no defending this shit.

[The Backlash Cometh]

23. Did AOL just co-opt a liberal blog by buying off Arianna?

[and-justice-for-all]

24. That is an atrocity....so sad for HP...nt

[madmax]

25. Wonder if Bill Maher will still kiss her ass next

time he has her on the show. I'd like to her back again and have him call her out on this bullshit.

[tpsbmam]

26. Well, my first comment hasn't gotten approved (LOL), let's see if my second does.

Here's my first:

“Why am I thinking about the Winston Churchill quote: "Madam, we've establishe­d what you are, now we're just negotiatin­g your price."

Evidently Huffpo has found that price. Heritage Foundation­, indeed.

Single payer, only way to go.

Comment will be yanked in....”

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Here's the second. This one may actually go through -- it's not calling Ariana a high-priced hooker. LOL

(If you didn't remember, Istook got all hot & bothered over ads on the DC metro that advocated for legalizing pot & taxing it. He actually got a law passed that banned that kind of ad from any transportation getting federal money.


We could be funding health care for all with the monies the U.S. would have earned off of legalizing marijuana & taxing it. Too bad silly right-wing­ers got all hot and bothered about the idea of it...enoug­h to infringe on first amendment rights to advertise the idea of legalizati­on & taxation. Ah, just think. A country with sensible marijuana laws, one that isn't filling private prisons with young people over a drug that's safer than many legalized drugs (opioids, benzodiaze­pines, sedative-h­ypnotics, tobacco, alcohol just to name a few) and allllll that potential tax money up in smoke. And a country that provides health care for all citizens, as every industrial­ized country does and many "third world" countries, too. But no, we get ridiculous articles by "a distinguis­hed fellow" (an oxymoron if ever there was one when paired with Ernest Istook's name) from the disreputab­le Heritage Foundation­, a wholly own subsidiary of the Koch brothers. Spare me. I'm adding you to the very long list of people to ignore -- you're right up there with Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber. Such fitting company,

[bluesmail]

27. She was married to an R who ran for governor of California

then a scandal happened.

[thereismore]

28. I can't believe Howard Fineman quit his job to become HuffPo paid reporter, just days

before they sold out. He must be kicking himself now.

[muriel_volestrangler]

29. He's been blogging there since May 2010; this is his 19th article there

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ernest-istook

I can't understand why so many of you thought at all highly of the Huffington Post before the AOL buyout.