The slimy evolution of Arianna Huffington.
There are too many places one could cut and paste in The New Republic's slam of Ms. Huffington - The Puffington Post - to encourage a reader here to click there. I'll skip it. Just click here and read it. It's long and if you don't have time now bookmark it for later.
Huffington's creepy rag The Huffington Post has always been among the most empty "post traditional media" creations - I suppose because its owner is so obviously empty of anything except the ability to superbly repackage her own mediocrity. She is, in fact, superbly mediocre. Her long trudge from anti-feminism to the Newt loving D.C. cocktail circuit, to the weird stop overs in the New Age clown room, to hitching a ride on the Obama Adulation Express is not so much a story of growth or evolution - as it is the tale of a shrewd barnacle.
I hold fast to something I said about myself once in talking about a failed romance:
People make the same mistakes over and over again - until they make them perfectly.
Friends remind me of this momentary flash from me - and I've since applied it to other, broader realms. It may well come in handy as the BHO years progress. We certainly seemed to have made the same mistake perfectly in electing Obama. Everything we could have fallen for, like clockwork, we fell for. At least 52% did anyway. It was quite a sight to behold as it unfolded.
As a social and political commentator, Huffington now represents the perfect mistake of a shallow, attention deficit afflicted, media driven pop culture. She skips across the surface of everything and on occasional dives seizing on just enough truth to appear as if she, herself, has some depth. Anderson Cooper may give her a run for her money here. But he as only created himself once. Huffington, by my count, is on her fourth self re-creation. In all incarnations her work is vapid and shallow. After the public sours on Obama one wonders who she'll be. A trip back to the Right? Who knows.
She should not be trusted in any of her roles: Republican, Libertarian, Liberal or ________.
Huffington's creepy rag The Huffington Post has always been among the most empty "post traditional media" creations - I suppose because its owner is so obviously empty of anything except the ability to superbly repackage her own mediocrity. She is, in fact, superbly mediocre. Her long trudge from anti-feminism to the Newt loving D.C. cocktail circuit, to the weird stop overs in the New Age clown room, to hitching a ride on the Obama Adulation Express is not so much a story of growth or evolution - as it is the tale of a shrewd barnacle.
I hold fast to something I said about myself once in talking about a failed romance:
People make the same mistakes over and over again - until they make them perfectly.
Friends remind me of this momentary flash from me - and I've since applied it to other, broader realms. It may well come in handy as the BHO years progress. We certainly seemed to have made the same mistake perfectly in electing Obama. Everything we could have fallen for, like clockwork, we fell for. At least 52% did anyway. It was quite a sight to behold as it unfolded.
As a social and political commentator, Huffington now represents the perfect mistake of a shallow, attention deficit afflicted, media driven pop culture. She skips across the surface of everything and on occasional dives seizing on just enough truth to appear as if she, herself, has some depth. Anderson Cooper may give her a run for her money here. But he as only created himself once. Huffington, by my count, is on her fourth self re-creation. In all incarnations her work is vapid and shallow. After the public sours on Obama one wonders who she'll be. A trip back to the Right? Who knows.
She should not be trusted in any of her roles: Republican, Libertarian, Liberal or ________.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
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