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Arianna Huffington — A Koch Sisterhooder

March 7, 2011 at 12:23 AM 2 comments

Arianna Huffington — who, full disclosure — I have met and partied with — is out with a new book titled, Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream:

Meanwhile, after selling her Huffington Post blog to AOL for $315 million two weeks ago, Arianna had this to say about bloggers who helped propel her site into the stratosphere (writing, free of charge, I might add):

She argued that blogging on the Huffington Post is equivalent to going on Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart or the “Today” show to promote their ideas.

And, she said, there are plenty of people willing to take their place if they do.

“The idea of going on strike when no one really notices,” Huffington said. “Go ahead, go on strike.”

Meanwhile, writers at the Guardian are boycotting the site and they’ve got the knives out:

Huffington has brilliantly and gracefully exploited at least hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of otherwise bright and qualified professional writers. She is revelling in both wealth and celebrity, having been lifted by the combined efforts of this army of the uncompensated. Brava, Madame Capitalist. But as a very public voice, she has suddenly morphed from being a soul sister of progressives into a Koch sister, contributing to nothing so much as that betrayal of the middle class.

I’m too tired to comment.  I’m afraid I might write something I’ll regret.

Flames are coming out of my eyes, smoke is coming out of my ears and my hair is on fire.

Later.

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