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In a recent interview with The New York Times, Arianna Huffington revealed a bit of news that's not likely to show up on The Huffington Post's front page any time soon: the site is no longer "lefty" in its political bent.
That will likely come as a surprise to the massive audience of Democrats and liberals The Huffington Post has attracted over the years, who've turned the site into a powerful voice for progressive values and one of the largest online publications going.
Speaking to New York Times reporter Andrew Goldman, Huffington said that for the last three years she has been walking the post-partisan talk.
"The tag line that we’ve used a lot is 'Beyond left and right,'" she reportedly said.
The Times' writer fired back, suggesting that she was "trying to tell me that Smurfs aren’t blue" by claiming that The Huffington Post was not founded as a "lefty" publication.
"I’m just telling you that it is very clear that we have progressive views, but to call everything we’re doing lefty — it misses the whole point that American policy needs to be redefined beyond left and right," she reportedly said. "It’s a completely obsolete view of politics."
"Still, I’m amazed you’re trying to tell me that The Huffington Post wasn’t started as a lefty blog?" Goldman asked.
"I’m not trying to tell you anything," she reportedly replied. "I’m telling you things. I’m not trying, O.K.?"
The interviewer also claimed that "salacious," "boob-related" posts on Huffington's front page tend to get his clicks more than their original reporting -- a point Arianna said was "really a shame."
The published text of Huffington's interview was "condensed and edited," according to a tag below the piece.
Huffington has of late been feuding with Bill Keller, the Times' executive editor, who recently compared her business practices to "Somali piracy."
The Huffington Post has significantly more readers than The New York Times.
But in recent months Huffington has been under fire from liberals and progressives, namely due to AOL's announcement that it was purchasing the site and making Arianna the editor-in-chief of its new Huffington Post Media Group, under which all their editorial content now falls.
Some 900 of AOL's global employees were let go after the Huffington Post purchase, representing about 20 percent of its workforce. The majority were in back-office operations in India.
AOL reportedly paid $315 million for the site, sparking an outcry from a group of unpaid Huffington Post contributors who demanded to share in the proceeds.
That was a sore spot for many writers, who've targeted Huffington's business model of not paying most contributors as a factor leading to the decline of journalism. Numerous writers and a swath of readers even openly quit the site in protest, insisting that the failure to pay most contributors was a factor leading to the decline of journalism.
Challenged on this point by the Times, Huffington pushed back, saying there's no evidence to support claims that the site has negatively affected journalism.
Even after all that, Huffington came under heavy criticism yet again recently when a post by controversial right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart landed on their front page.
They defended the move, noting that it attracted an enormous number of page views, but later announced that Breitbart's posts wouldn't appear on the front page again after he made negative comments about former Obama appointee Van Jones to a different outlet.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/01/arianna-huffington-post-is-not-a-lefty-publication/In a recent interview with The New York Times, Arianna Huffington revealed a bit of... more
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Obamas Friends are Nut's ... "Sometimes you Feel like a Nut Sometimes you don't"..............................America DON'TObamas Friends are Nut's ... "Sometimes you Feel like a Nut Sometimes you... more
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Kids are instructed in an Obama propaganda video to NOT flush the toilet after urinating. Plus celebrities make these un-American pledges: “I pledge to be a servant to our President.” “I pledge allegiance to the funk, to the united funk of funkadelica.”
Click here for the story and video – unbelievable pledges:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13249171?_requestid=5883011
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Born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, Langston Hughes grew up mainly in Lawrence, Kansas, but also lived in Illinois, Ohio, and Mexico.Born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, Langston Hughes grew up mainly in Lawrence, Kansas,... more
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Later this month it's Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It's one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar, so I'd be obliged, please, if you'd all stay at home, turn off the TV and refrain from your usual activities. Ten days after that it's Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when Jews fast and spend the day in synagogue. So I've also asked my Times colleagues not to work then. And I will be mightily offended if I learn afterwards that any of them have been eating.
You might not think I am being serious. But if I was Head of Democratic Services at Tower Hamlets Council in East London, I would be. Last week John Williams e-mailed each of the borough's 51 councillors with a similar instruction.
For the duration of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, they are, he told them - every one of them, Muslim, Catholic, Jew or atheist - to behave during council meetings as strict Muslims. They are not to eat or drink; they are to break for Muslim prayers; they are to do as they are ordered by the Muslim religion.
Strict Muslims do not eat or drink between sunrise or sunset during Ramadan. Because sunset will fall during the meetings, there will be 45-minute adjournments so that councillors can break their fast and pray. And to make things easier, there will only be seven council meetings during the month.
This is, let me remind you, happening not on Karachi borough council but in Tower Hamlets in London. As far as I am aware, the United Kingdom has not yet been absorbed into the Caliphate. The last time I checked, we allow citizens to practise all religions and none. If I wish to stuff my face with chocolate during the fasting hours of Ramadan, I will. And if you wish to go out for a slap-up lunch on Yom Kippur, you can feel free.
Yet Mr Williams - he's the man with the “democratic services” label, a title so Orwellian that his existence simply had to involve promoting the opposite of democracy and service - appears to have concluded that Islamic practices must take precedence over any other practices. Instead of individual councillors being allowed to decide for themselves how they wish to behave during Ramadan, he is deciding for them.
It should come as no surprise that it is not the borough's Muslim councillors who are demanding that their non-Muslim colleagues obey Islam. As almost always, it is a caricature liberal-left non-Muslim idiot who thinks he is being racially aware who does the real harm to race relations. Respect for religious practice can only be given voluntarily. Mr Williams's prescription leads only to anger.
Later this month it's Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It's one of the... more
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Goldberg, in an interview tries to argue the rise of liberal fascism in America. Now when I saw Naomi Wolf's take on it, she was very intelligent about and actually opened my ears to what's happening in the US. However, Goldberg is using labels to assume that practically everything is fascism, right down to organic food.
Watch this humorous yet horrifying interview. Goldberg, in an interview tries to argue the rise of liberal fascism in America. Now... more
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Leftist President Hugo Chavez won re-election by a wide margin, giving him free reign for a more radical turn toward socialism and six more years to counter U.S. influence in Latin America and beyond.Leftist President Hugo Chavez won re-election by a wide margin, giving him free reign... more
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