Arianna Huffington, having proven over and over that she does not know the meaning of the phrase, “Get off the stage before the lights dim,” is still shaking and moving for the hot shots at the Democratic Party.
Like a dubious mushroom in some curdled ideological soup, Ms. Huffington continues to float to the top wherever the thin broth of quisling yearnings is ladled out into the trough. This weekend she is scheduled to blight The Los Angeles Times Book Festival with her rollicking sidekick Robert Scheer in a couple of panels whose insights will likely be as numbing as having sixteen inches of rebar nailed down the middle of your spine.
But what kind of a person is this Macedonian Medusa? What kind of person is this Holistic Harridan whose every thought and deed and word simply overwhelms the insane intellectuals of America with nuance and sang-froid. She is.... in a word -- "Amazing."
But don’t take my word for it. Take instead the well-chosen words of a close friend and confidant of Arianna the Huff, Tony Newman, “a bearded 33-year-old originally from the Bay Area who is now the communications director of the Drug Policy Alliance, an organization that Ms. Huffington has worked closely with to end the war on drugs.”
Mr. Newman called his friend Ms. Huffington an "amazing woman.""...it's not time to f---ing remodel." Ah yes, the party of Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Kennedy, Coretta Scott King ... and now F---ing A. Huffington. The devolution continues. Next stop, Courtney Love. Posted by Vanderleun at April 19, 2004 11:11 PM | TrackBack"Not only is she a great writer, she’s a great organizer," he said. "She basically pulled together a whole f---ing range of people tonight—super big shots, grassroots organizers. She’s a connector. You know what, she did it incredibly well when she was conservative and worked with Gingrich—ouch! But we have respect, ’cause she knows how to f---ing do it, and now that she’s willing to come over …. "
"Arianna put together an important segment," he said. "She put together activists in the f---ing media world. She pulled together activists working together on issues like drug-policy reform like myself. She pulled together these people and said, ‘You know what? Basically the house is on fire,’ I heard her say, ‘it’s not time to f---ing remodel.’
Basically, the f---ing state of the world is in our hands. There is something exciting about that. We got seven months: We gotta f---ing bring down George Bush. This guy is a drunk driver behind the wheel and he is going to take us off the cliff. We gotta f---ing remove the f---ing drunk driver, man. This shit, this is f---ing serious. You know, Arianna is gonna continue doing her thing. She’s going to go to f---ing cities around the country, she’s gonna talk to local media, she’s gonna talk to campuses. She’s f---ing articulate. She can articulate our vision." --- New York Observer
