Clooney said it, but he didn't blog it.

[Brazenly Liberal]

Oscar-winner George Clooney may make politically provocative films like "Syriana." But he doesn't write politically provocative blogs.

So imagine his ire when Arianna Huffington used some of his recent answers to political questions in a way that makes it look as if he wrote one for her Huffington Post blog site.

http://stylescenes.latimes.com/fashion/2006/03/_oscarwinner_ge.html

[fooj]

1. Dumb move, IMO.

Very dumb move.

[Brazenly Liberal]

2. And so unnecessary!

She had his permission to quote him, so why not have one of the squidzillion and three people writing for her do a blog and include the quotes? :wtf:

[Totally Committed]

3. This just hit Yahoo! --

Clooney, Huffington Clash Over Blog Posting
by SOLVEJ SCHOU, Associated Press Writer Wed Mar 15, 10:20 PM ET

LOS ANGELES - It's George Clooney versus Arianna Huffington in a standoff worthy of "Good Night, and Good Luck." The newly minted Oscar winner says he did not write a blog posted Monday on commentator Huffington's Web site, though he gave her permission to use a compilation of his critiques of the Iraq war from interviews with Larry King and London's The Guardian.

"Miss Huffington's blog is purposefully misleading and I have asked her to clarify the facts," Clooney, 44, said in a statement issued Wednesday. "I stand by my statements but I did not write this blog."

Huffington has denied any wrongdoing. A rebuttal on her Web site claims she and her staff initially compiled a "sample blog" for Clooney from his interview answers because he wasn't sure how a blog worked. Huffington said that after she sent Clooney the sample, a film publicist e-mailed her and three days later approved it, without any changes."This was an honest misunderstanding," she wrote. "But any misunderstanding that occurred, occurred between Clooney and the publicist. We based our decision to post on the unambiguous approval we received in writing."

Clooney's publicist Stan Rosenfield disagreed."It's not a misunderstanding, it's misrepresentation," he said. "She knows what she was doing. She was saying to people that she had George Clooney's blog and was printing it. George Clooney does not make statements. He answers questions." Rosenfield said Clooney had requested an addendum of clarification to the posting.

Entire Article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/clooney_huffington

TC