Arianna Huffington's AOL deal sparks accusations of a political sell-out

I guess once a republican always a republican.....

Good for Arianna for making money, she has shed her skin before to change appearance and will do it again. It is not what I thought she was about but if money makes her happy okay then. AOL has bought a false representation. The views are falling, I as well as many others have left and aren't going back. The discussion that brought me there is already diminished and it is becoming an entertainment stories aggregator . This will not displace enough internet to keep it afloat. AOL will find it could have done by itself for a lot less money. Perhaps the good will be that AOL fails.
I do wonder what her next incarnation will be, conservative, pro business, American Patriot, I an sure liberal is out of the loop for a while.

I think that is to early to throw Arianna out of the bus she is a Progressive.And about the money the Huffington became an asset she deserves that and more.Lets see what she does .Ok look we got MSNBC,CURRENT(near to come Keith O.),........etc,lets give her a chance I hope we will benefit from this.For a much stronger PROGRESSIVE MEDIA "To early to judge" thats my opinion.And about the bloggers I think they will benefit too they already are they r angry bacause they did not get any money,(we can not look like the righties complaining about the public employes for having good benefits) so they want Arianna to send everybody a check? she will end up with nothing and thats unfair lets debate this with comon sense.If she is there for our movement than is all for the good.And by the way A POLITICAL SELL OUT? come on we know better than this,what about if CURRENT does something like this?

This is so unfortunate. While I've always loved Arianna, I can't say I feel good about this decision...

Can we move on please? A sell out is a sell out by any other name we choose to call it. HuffPo is now a right wing controlled media commodity. She cashed out and bully for her. This gives others the opportunity to step in and benefit from taking HuffPo's original spot. End of case.

HuffPo advocates for and allows for pointless censorship. Though I appreciate Arianna using her pulpit to seemingly stick up for the working classes, I believe HuffPo has failed to live up to that standard. It's become a cesspool of infotainment!

Arianna Huffington and AOL both wholly rely on the naivete of its contributors and customers as a business model.
The union of Huffington Post and AOL is a marriage of hollow souls made in hell.
Put succintly in a recent New Yorker article:
"The company (AOL) still gets eighty percent of its profits from subscribers, many of who are older people who have cable or DSL service but don't realize they need not pay an additional twenty-five dollars a month to get on-line and check their email."
"The dirty little secret" a former AOL executive says, is that 75% of the people who subscribe to AOL's dial-ups service don't need it."

Tim Armstrong, the super salesman hired to turn the collapsing business of AOL around, made a rational grab at this shiny internet lifeline of HuPo, but it's not tethered to anything.
Circulate that.
Let them both disappear beneath the waves of real knowledge about their characters and practices.

Disingenuous to be sure !!

Arianna is a hypocrite. Straight up. Anyone who has followed her career or at the very least listened to her guest appearances on Bill Maher or MSNBC are familiar with her diatribe about the conservative elite and her so-called concern for the dwindling middle class. It seems that every couple of decades she switches allegiance when it’s suitable, financially, for her.

I've been one of the continuous chattering class on the Post. I was not a little upset with the sale. It has changed my opinion of Arianna, but I suppose she has the right to be opportunistic like the rest of that class level of people. I do feel deceived and sad about it, the sale, though.

why do people buy these web sites for 50 million, 500 million. Didn't everyone leave myspace as soon as Fox bought it for a billion bucks? Stop selling out!

Where does AOL come up with $315 mil?
There can't be that many morons out there paying for internet.
But then again there are republicans.

Queen of anything ? I really had not noticed her . I never visited the site . Will not miss her . Another inane celebrity .

Obama did the same thing.

HuffPo has become a right-wing tabloid,, filled with crap. Arianna is a whore who got her $315 million, and I hope she goes down as the hypocrite she has become. Everyone has their price to sell their soul, and I guess hers was $315 million.

This site is far more open, liberal, fact-filled and fun. I love it here. HP is DEAD to me. It's starting to read like Yahoo News–just more lies and corporate blather and propaganda, disguises as news. And the few bloggers who are paid, and their lame defense of Arianna's sale of HP is just, well, LAME!

Maybe Worianna can get some GOP to work for free over at HuffPo since they want to take away everyone else's right's and she doesn't like to pay anyone. That sounds like a typical conservative too me. She turned out to be nothing but complete BS she used the liberals to pump up her website and then turned on me. She deserves no respect. After all, this is the same women that told everyone to "Move their money" and yet she was taking corporate money in the other hand.

This should catch the eye of a lot of we ex-Huffpo users. AOL was allways shady and bised with their terms of condititions. This is true that she is a sellout and many of us will never go back. I have mentioned myself that anything from Huffpo is no longer reliable, and it isn't.

As far as paying for journalism, it will never happen. Now that she has an endless pool of corporate money and sponsers, Huffpo can safely degenerate to a gossip blog which is pretty much what it is now.

Another story about Palin or Brittney, Obamas dog or Lady GaGa's fashion secrets, and BLA BLA BLA,,,,.

Huffington no longer needs the ones that made her site so successful. She has $315m reasons not to.

"she announced that the HuffPo was being sold to web giant AOL for $315m"

To paraphrase The Social Network:
315 million dollars isn't cool Arianna you know what's cool? A billion dollars!