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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 10:48 PM
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This is why Huffington Post sucks now. Pimps a DRUDGE story hours after WH says its not true &
their blaring headline is about the about the Afghan Ambassador rejecting more troops with the fact that Obama rejected the four plans treated as an after thought.

I certainly think the Ambassador story is big but I think the breaking news tonight was even bigger or AT LEAST AS BIG.

The Drudge story is on the WH granting an interview to Fox. Hours ago the WH said its not true. Huffington Post STILL has it up AND cites Drudge - fucking Drudge - as the source. Give me a friggin break, Arianna.
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msallied Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 10:55 PM
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1. I have always been curious about how HuffPo works...
Who controls the content, who can post, etc. While most of it has a discernibly left bent to it, you sometimes get oddballs like this that make you go hmmm.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 11:07 PM
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2. I'm thinking now after all this
history..that's it's a Free For All.
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msallied Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 11:09 PM
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3. Well, they certainly have their share of wingnuts in the comments...
Arianna's increasing nuttiness notwithstanding. lol
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 11:32 PM
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6. And, countless unsubstantiated articles that
turn out to be as bogus as a 3 $ bill.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 11:22 PM
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5. Just have to say ...
I for one happily welcome the very handsome Angus as my overlord!

:loveya:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 11:34 PM
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8. Sweet kitty lover..
:hi: Arugula~ Would you Rec'd this so it can get out like all those other bogus stories that sky rocket?..please:)
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msallied Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 06:55 PM
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40. Aw, thank you! He rules over us all here at the house. lol
It's amazing how he can make all of us stop what we're doing when he plays with a catnip mouse. LOL
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 11:11 PM
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4. The owner is a whack job
.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 10:54 AM
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19. How typically GOPish - accuse someone you don't like of being crazy.
I'd be appauled but you folks are so damn predictable, most people can figure out the faux outrage.

President Obama is NOT a Saint and both stories can be true? Consider that?

Tell me straight up? Do you DOUBT for one moment after all his laudatory pragmatism that Obama will cough up the approval for 30,000 more of our beloved troops to be SACRIFICED into the MIC meat grinder ... all for Privatization and Corporate Profits gleaned from weapons fo death and destruction.

But Oh, how he THINKS. Doesn't matter if he's MENSA exponential, it's IMMORAL to send more troops ONLY for MIC privatized profits.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 12:59 PM
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22. She did go all whack jobish when she encouraged Biden to Resign
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 01:03 PM
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23. Yeah, the poster didn't just accuse someone a la the "gop"
of being a "whack job". He had some history to work with.
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 10:04 PM
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43. She is not! She was wonderful in Green Acres!
:crazy:
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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 11:32 PM
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7. Not to mention their support of woo-woo "medicine" and
their retreading of tired old JFK assassination CTs on a regular basis.

The credibility gap is growing over there.
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burning rain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 12:01 AM
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9. k&r
Generally I think media-bitching is unproductive, but it's interesting to see something on HuffPo.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 12:12 AM
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10. They've been totally bizarre for months now. Bogus headlines, pushing RW hit jobs even after they
are debunked, ignoring positive Obama news.

Let's just say - its been noticeable.
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 12:58 AM
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11. Too bad so sad, The Huffington Post isn't pushing rah rah Obama stories.
The primaries are over and the truth is coming out.

Truth hurts don't it?
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 01:19 AM
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12. Pimping bogus Drudge stories is a far cry from "not pushing rah rah" stories.
Unless, like Lynn Samuels, you happen to think Drudge is the cat's meow or something.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 10:04 AM
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13. There are plenty of valid critical stories. I don't see why they undermine their credibility by
doing the other stuff but they do - which makes me just view everything they do rather skeptically.

I'm waiting for the next Arianna blog saying Michelle has to divorce Barack or else she is a warmonger without principals. I'm sure it would be the Blaring Headline for days regardless of whatever breaking news occurs. She could go on all the news channels and make it a big story about her.

I do see that by this morning they had finally changed the headline.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 01:12 PM
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27. The poster is blinded by hate..it's
a pity.
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Yes We Did Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 12:42 PM
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20. You must be on the wrong website...
...just saying.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 01:08 PM
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26. Oh, you like drudge? I should have guessed when you agreed
with that OP yesterday that was tombstoned for posting hate articles on President Obama.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 01:45 PM
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28. Who got tombstoned?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 02:45 PM
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31. ..
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 02:41 PM
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30. So you validate Drudge by assent.
The hate for all things Obama is eating you up.
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 02:57 PM
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34. yeah but it makes me smile. they have 7 years left to grind their teeth into dust
:)
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 02:55 PM
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33. you'll go so far as to support matt drudge stories to justify your continuing poutrage?
:rofl:
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hileeopnyn8d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 10:29 AM
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14. Arianna
started HuffPo with Andrew Breitbart, it doesn't surprise me that now that Democrats are in power, it has become an extension of Drudge & Breitbart.com.

She's no liberal, she's a greedy opportunist. The last time there was a Democrat as President she spent 8 years disparaging him. This should be no surprise, but since we were so eager to lap up every negative story about Bush, we bought it. Hook, line and sinker.

We're idiots. Fucking puppets all of us. On both sides, right and left.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 02:46 PM
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32. You live you learn.
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hileeopnyn8d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 10:29 AM
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15. dupe
Edited on Thu Nov-12-09 10:34 AM by hileeopnyn8d
What's up with all the dupes today?
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hileeopnyn8d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 10:30 AM
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16. Ugh!
Edited on Thu Nov-12-09 10:32 AM by hileeopnyn8d
Dupe post.
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impik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 10:46 AM
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17. There's no difference between Drudge and Huffington Post
Both stinking rags. I stopped visits HP a long time ago. Arianna Huffington' hate of president Obama makes my blood boil.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 10:48 AM
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18. Massive Fail!
:eyes:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 01:06 PM
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25. Why is it a "massive fail"? Because you like drudge so much?
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 02:59 PM
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35. they like anthing that spews anti-obama rhetoric.even if it's matt drudge lies.
funny innit?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 09:35 PM
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42. Or even if it's
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TheKentuckian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 12:54 PM
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21. I gotta rec n bumb for ya (nt)
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Aramchek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 01:04 PM
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24. innate Repuke tendencies are hard to overcome for some
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 01:49 PM
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29. I don't even go to their site any more...
It is so full of ads, etc, it takes forever to load and when it finally does it is even more full of crap stories and, in some cases, full out lies.

It sucks big time!
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Life Long Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 03:15 PM
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36. People are led like sheep by this stuff everyday.
The same people that lead you like sheep are the same people who tell you something is unproductive. The same people that tell you to move on are the same people that caused the mess.

Who tells us to move on and who tells us what is today's story? It might be the smaller picture but it causes a bigger problem. People are really led around like sheep including myself.
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 04:16 PM
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37. Gotta love the Arianna Huff n' Puff... n/t
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 06:39 PM
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38. I can't read it cuz it takes HOURS to load each paragraph or pic
could you be a little more scripty flashy? didn't think so...
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Engineer4Obama Donating Member (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 06:44 PM
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39. I quit visiting a while ago
I refuse to give that tabloid any additional web traffic. I wonder myself if it was always this bad or if I had blinders on when it was Bush they were sensationalizing. The story on Kerry "betraying us" on the public option that was immediatly refuted and yet stayed up for hours with no correction was what really brought they way the site works to light for me. The "Biden should resign opinion" was just the last straw.

I know I'm just one person that its just a few less unique IPs visiting the site but if it becomes a trend maybe Arianna will realize her readers care about journalistic integrity and accuracy in reporting (and headlines!).
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ncteechur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-12-09 07:48 PM
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41. that is where big ed gets his info--has roy sekoff on all the time
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-13-09 12:01 AM
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44. HuffPo continues it's slide into Bizzaro World.
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