The Financial Times has Simon Schama interview Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post. It's quite fawning. Schama might be angling for a coveted spot in the "Most Obsequious Interviews of 2010" Anthology. I was particularly amused by this bit, discussing Ms. Huffington's support for the Stewart/Colbert Washington Mall rally last month, for which she supplied a fleet of buses:
For Huffington the latest rally was "not just an exercise in point and counterpoint" but "something much bigger": a call to restore the civil society she wants to see replanted in an America polarised between destructively competing demonologies. […] The Huffington Post fleet was a vindication of everything its founder is trying to do to detoxify American politics.I sometimes read the Huffington Post, so I know that their preferred method for bringing detoxified civility to politics consists of:
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Deeming
Sarah Palin a "patriotic traitor" (along with "Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity,
Rush Limbaugh, the teabaggers, the birthers, and the deathers.")
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Revealing
that "I get happy every time one of you faux-macho shitheads
accidentally shoots another one of you in the face." (And, apparently
non-ironically, calling Sarah Palin "deranged".)
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Asking
us readers to think of
Ann Coulter
"as Ophelia with her violetless garlands, crossed with a real fucking
hack." (This was a response to Ms. Coulter's column on the
death of her father.)
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Fingering Republicans as "the real enemies".
Not to mention the axis of evil.
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Accusing the Dubya Administration of stealing the 2004
election. (And then calling these successful
thieves, somewhat contradictorily, "cretins".)
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And trashing,
in an article by Ms. Huffington herself,
Mary Matalin's sins in
jewelry, clothes, and makeup. And then revealing that
she considered Ms. Matalin to be "nasty". (Also apparently meant to be
non-ironic.)
(Original link via the Weekly Standard.)