Huffington Storms NYC With New Book, Skewering McCain as a 'Pandering Pawn of the Right'

[babylonsister]

http://www.alternet.org/story/85312/?page=entire

Arianna Huffington Storms NYC With New Book, Skewering McCain as a 'Pandering Pawn of the Right'

By Don Hazen, AlterNet. Posted May 15, 2008.

Huffington blasts corporate media and lampoons McCain. She tells all in an interview with Grit TV's Laura Flanders and AlterNet's Don Hazen.


With the timing that PR people drool over, Arianna Huffington hit New York City in a mad dash of media attention and activities this past Friday to promote her new book with the mouthful of a title: Right is Wrong -- How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe (And What You Need to Know to End the Madness).

Just as Huffington was arriving in New York, she revealed -- on her blog, of course -- that John McCain bashed George Bush something nasty at a dinner party in L.A. in 2000. And that night McCain went so far as to insist that he didn't vote for the Bush Leaguer in that election. The New York Times and other media ran with the story, and it was a marvel to watch as Huffington, always multitasking, handled the press on McCain while effortlessly hammering away on the themes of her book. With the book's last chapter titled: "John McCain, Hijacked by the Right," it all made for a nice, neat package.

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Huffington is arguably the most influential progressive on the media scene (ironic, given her roots as a rehabilitated Republican) -- perhaps not among core progressive loyalists, but certainly in terms of her ability to take progressive messages, facts and figures and use the media to reach audiences outside of the progressive base. One of the reasons Huffington is so important is that both she, and the powerhouse Huffington Post that she has been instrumental in creating, are 24/7 media players, constantly pushing back against right-wing disinformation and the corporate media's increasing penchant for promoting right-wing talking points.

The political battle is constant, and Huffington and Huff Po., operating at a high level of messaging and thinking, are persistently pushing back against the huge and highly funded corporate, conservative media empire, which includes Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, most of the top 20 radio talk shows, and much more. Huffington Post’s pushback capacity is incredibly important. Many progressive media players and funders don't fully grasp how much of the media battle requires swift and powerful response in order to hold the line against conservatives.

It is only in the last few years that there has been an effective and muscular pushback capacity against the right-wing noise machine -- and it is through Huffington, joined by MoveOn, the progressive blogosphere, Media Matters, Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films, Think Progress and a core of crack journalists like Mother Jones' David Corn, Salon's Glenn Greenwald, the blogger columnist David Sirota, and others, that we have gained traction in the hand-to-hand combat that has become the battle for America's hearts and minds. And there is no mistaking it. Arianna Huffington sits at the top of the this potent new capacity.

[sam sarrha]

1. i read a story about McLame's trip to Iraq by army medical people, he talked to the walls, didnt

know where he was and wet himself..

[babylonsister]

2. Wet himself? Are you kidding? Can you remember who wrote that? nt

[sam sarrha]

3. it is hearsay, and lots of old guys are incontinen, especially after surgery, i quit say'n he was so

senile he couldn't stand up to walk to the podium to give a speech without crapping in his pants.. i hate those F'n Fascist cleptocratic psychopaths so bad i sometimes insult the innocent too..

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