The LA Weekly really, really, really thinks Arianna Huffington’s blog is stupid. Some choice quotations: 

She has now made an online ass of herself. What her bizarre guru-cult association, 180-degree right-to-left conversion, and failed run in the California gubernatorial-recall race couldn’t accomplish, her blog has now done: She is finally played out publicly. This website venture is the sort of failure that is simply unsurvivable.Perhaps Huffington is no longer a card-carrying progressive but now a conservative mole. Because she has served up liberal celebs like red meat on a silver platter for the salivating and Hollywood-hating right wing to chew up and spit out.And so on. And it turns out that Arianna didn’t tell her celebrity content providers that the person responsible for putting the blog together was a guy who wrote a book called Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon - The Case Against Celebrity. Some of them, apparently, are a little irked.

And so on. And it turns out that Arianna didn’t tell her celebrity content providers that the person responsible for putting the blog together was a guy who wrote a book called . Some of them, apparently, are a little irked.The editorial blurb on Amazon describes the book thusly:

Not since Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons have two journalists (Breitbart feeds stories to Internet scandalmonger Matt Drudge and Ebner wrote for Spy) gathered more mean-spirited gossip about celebrities they condemn as sick and depraved. This diatribe is so unrelentingly negative that it loses all power to persuade. Breitbart and Ebner cover a variety of subjects they stand against, among them celebrities voicing their political views, a woman’s right to choose, single motherhood and celebrities adopting children. In a chapter devoted to anonymous nannies discussing disrespectful kids of anonymous movie stars, the authors suggest mandatory Norplant and vasectomies for Hollywood parents.

Wow, it looks like I’m going to have to question Ariana Huffington’s otherwise spotless leftist credentials. Who will save us now?

Posted by B. W. Ventril in Reviews

 

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