This review by Nikki Finke tells you all you need to know about Arianna’s idiotic blog: it blows.
Judging from today’s horrific debut of the humongously pre-hyped celebrity blog the Huffington Post, the Madonna of the mediapolitic world has gone one reinvention too far. She has now made an online ass of herself. What her bizarre guru-cult association, 180-degree conservative-to-liberal 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 Web-site venture is the sort of failure that is simply unsurvivable, because of all the advance publicity touting its success as inevitable. Her blog is such a bomb that it’s the box-office equivalent of Gigli, Ishtar and Heaven’s Gate rolled into one. In magazine terms, it’s the disastrous clone of Tina Brown’s Talk, JFK Jr.’s George or Maer Roshan’s Radar. No matter what happens to Huffington, it’s clear Hollywood will suffer the consequences.
It almost seems like some sick hoax. Perhaps Huffington is no longer a card-carrying progressive but now a conservative mole. Because she 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.
Chased out of England for plagiarizing two books, she came to the US, joined a cult and married a rich gay guy. They went to Washington to depose Sally Quinn as the town’s leading Greek, failed, and then returned to California to challenge Susan Estrich as LA’s biggest liberal, failing again. Failing to secure any votes in her run for Governor, she turns to blogging to have the last nail hammered into her coffin. What a waste of carbohydrates.
UPDATE: Two good parodies, each better than the original. The Guardian’s pre-launch version, and the more urbane Huff and Blow.
Poor Arianna gets no respect.