Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Huffington Post censors Geoffrey Dunn's piece on Professor Scharlott's research paper, and his own findings surrounding Palin's highly suspicious pregnancy.


"If you control the media, you control the message."
Courtesy of Politico:

Huffington Post appears to have drawn the line on acceptable political debate to exclude theories about the nativity of Sarah Palin's youngest son.

Palin critic Geoffrey Dunn, who has contributed a long line of attacks on the former Alaska governor to the site, published his version of the "Trig Truther" theory to Business Insider today, after Huffington Post turned the blog post down.

"We did pass on a submission by Geoffrey Dunn about Trig, as it ran counter to our policy against conspiracy theories," Huffington Post spokesman Mario Ruiz confirmed in an email.

I know I shared with all of you a long time ago that I was told point blank that I would NEVER get on the pages of the Huffington Post if I did not drop the Palin pregnancy story. (It should probably be noted that I have never expressed interest in posting there, but the person I was talking to had just been accepted and was very excited.)  My response at the time, and ever since, has been that this is a very important topic which could result in serious repercussions throughout both the political and media world, and it absolutely MUST be pursued.

As everybody knows I have NEVER been asked to write anything for Huffpo, regardless of how well written and researched my posts were. What is not as well known is that outside journalists and authors have consistently been warned away from me in order to keep the story from spreading beyond the blogs. (By the way a LOT of them did not listen. Shhh, don't tell anyone.)

What I find particularly troubling is that in the last week or so the Huffington Post has had MULTIPLE front page stories covering Donald Trump and his Birther claims directed against the President of the United States, yet not a word about Sarah and her infinitely more suspicious pregnancy and birth story, which has also been circulating all over the Internet recently.

I guess it kind of makes Professor Scharlott's claim of a "Spiral of Silence" around Sarah Palin and her "pregnancy" seem all that much more likely.  Doesn't it?

BTW for any of you who have NOT read Geoffrey Dun's excellent piece, please click here and do so immediately.  And then perhaps go over to Huffpo and tell them what a great article they missed out on.

149 comments:

  1. On the one hand, this is a good example of Scharlott's "Spiral of Silence."

    On the other hand, I have a sense that it's also high level opportunism. While Palin still is a draw for the MSM, they'll keep her name viable. BUT, after a certain point -- the point of no return-- the truth about babygate may become a dominant narrative. THEN, Huffpost and other "gate keepers" will switch sides and have endless stories "revealing" the truth and "exposing" Palin. Ho Hum....Even now, Huffpost is becoming a sensationalist rag.

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  2. onething1:44 PM

    Wow, I really like the Huffington Post but this is very disappointing. I thought journalism is about truth. How can they say that certain things are outside the realm of what they are willing to discuss? I wouldn't really describe it as a conspiracy theory. And why would they go to the lengths of trying to prevent other journalists from working with Gryphen? Something smells wrong about this, and I WOULD call it conspiracy!

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  3. Anonymous1:44 PM

    I have not visited the Huffington Post for months, and I never will. The last two times I was there, it was clear from the comments that are allowed in that it is nothing more than a corporate whore and shrill for the Rethuglican Party now.

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  4. Nikogriego1:46 PM

    Huffington Post's policies around "conspiracies" are absurd. Several years ago I was informed by their editors that they will not publish any stories or comments having to do with conspiracies whatsoever. This was in response to my attempt to post an otherwise appropriate (according to guidelines) comment regarding the troubling and unresolved events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the tremendous inconsistencies and outright lies of the Official Conspiracy Theory (the US Government's Story). I tried then to point out that conspiracy theories happen all the time, and the crime of conspiracy is prosecuted regularly by State and Federal Governments. And that the official story of what happened on 9-11 is a "conspiracy" theory, i.e. that a group of men (at least one of whom was allegedly in a cave) agreed in secret to commit a criminal act and then carried out the plan, but the HuffPost regularly publishes stories containing that conspiracy theory. HuffPost is not a liberal, progressive publication. It is a left-wing gatekeeper, attempting to divert attention from important stories to other stories it wants the public to focus on. Therefore the lack of Palin birth stories and the abundance of Obama birth certificate stories. Arianna Huffington is no progressive.

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  5. Anonymous1:47 PM

    No conspiracy stories on HuffPo? Hell, half their stories are conspiracy related. Most of their political stories are about Republican and Tea baggers. They still have a Sarah Palin page. They have ran numerous Obama "birther" stories. I've quit reading it. I removed the AP off my iphone, too. Time to boycott it and let them know our displeasure.

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  6. Enjay in E MT1:48 PM

    Altho I do still comment on HP - it certainly doesn't carry the
    'class' or reputation it did even a year ago.

    Geoffrey Dunn's piece (and HP refusing to post it) is a prime example of why the journalism failed the citizens of the US.

    As Fox is called FAUX - HP should be called HYPE (A media circus)

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  7. The Huffington Post has become almost useless and the dishonesty about not posting conspiracy theories is sickening. They use lying sensationalized headlines all the time to draw people to read a post.

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  8. AKRNC1:50 PM

    I'm not surprised they passed on the article. The tone of everything they publish has changed over the last few months. However, the hypocrisy is overwhelming when it comes to Arianna and Huffpo considering they never hesitate to publish all the crap Palin, Bachmann and the rest of the RWNj's spew about President Obama. When they added that piece of crap, Breitbart, a well-known liar and racist, I knew it was no longer a place to bother to turn to for any info. I refuse to give them any additional web hits. They can all go to hell, just as Breitbart was screaming at the union supporters, telling them that they were dividing the country. All of these idiots, Palin, Breitbart, Arianna, etc. should be pictured next to "hypocrite" in the dictionary.

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  9. Marleycat1:52 PM

    HP has been jerking everybody around for quite some time. They are not worth reading if you want real news. Don't read them. BTW, time for Democrats and Progressives to understand political reality and come together, because the alternative to President Obama - TP, RWNJ's, and Republicans is much worse. I give them this - they know how to plan a coordinated attack on the left and stay on message. They have been carrying on an all out assault on everything this country stands for. I am not always happy with everything our President has done - but he is not GOD, and he can't wave a magic wand. It is imperative all 'Real' Americans unite around the best President we've had in a long time. As I said - HP is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and biggest promoter of Palin lies. They are not a liberal blog and they're not impartial or moderate.

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  10. Anonymous1:54 PM

    HuffPo is owned by AOL.

    Who owns AOL?

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  11. Anonymous1:54 PM

    This is a farce. They print EVERY insulting thing that Palin and Trump spew about President Obama and his family, yet protect Palin?? I have commented on their site for several years, and pointed this particular fact out. Write ANYTHING negative about Palin, and it is deleted. Someone must be paying BIG money to keep this story under wraps. Time to get the truth out.

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  12. Anonymous1:55 PM

    This is what I posted at Huffpo, it is waiting approval. Posted on
    "Top Republicans Try To Scotch Birther Theories"

    "Maybe the media, including Huffpo, should just stop reporting about and printing anything related to this issue and it would go away. People will believe what they want to believe, but with consistent and continual 'in your face' reporting, no matter what the spin, it will remain an issue. Also, I thought Huffpo had a policy regarding no posts about conspiracy theories."

    Colorado

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  13. Anonymous1:56 PM

    I stopped reading it last year, and ditched my ap a few months ago. HP = AOHELL, and that's a rightwing affair right there.

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  14. Anonymous2:01 PM

    No more Huff Puff for me. I enjoyed reading the Huff Puff for a long time, but I will read the Huffington Post no more forever.

    The Huff Puff declares any stories questioning the truthfulness of Mrs. Palin are off limts, yet they publish dozens of Obama birther stories.

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  15. Anonymous2:09 PM

    Arianna Huffington has turned into a republican and is a friend of Breitfart. Rebecca Mansour spreads her shit around there also too.

    I read recently that a huge number of bloggers were suing HP and AOL because they were not paid anything for their writings and apparently Arianna told them that they should feel honored that she let their blogs be included.

    I never read there anymore and quit posting several months ago. I had over 1200 fans but the place was horrible about posting comments hours and hours after they were made. Nasty things about President Obama was left in the comments and not removed no matter how many times they were marked as abuse tags.

    The moderators were mostly Palin panty sniffers, Arianna wrote many stories throwing off on Obama. She never wrote bad things about the republicans. She just overlooked their mistakes.

    The place has gone to hell in a handbasket. Comments on many of the blogs were left in pending which made the article seem as if no one read it. Then the same blogs moved down the page fast and off into oblivion.

    Arianna is such a dolt that she wrote an article about the way the White House was decorated after the Obamas moved in and she said a lot of ugly nasty things.

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  16. Anonymous2:10 PM

    sick of Arianna?

    BOYCOTT huffcrap

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  17. Anonymous2:10 PM

    Huffpo deletes a lot of comments that are about this crazy twit as well. Since AOL took over nothing is the same.

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  18. Anonymous2:11 PM

    So if Bernstein and Woodward had approached the Huffington Post with what ended up being a Pulitzer Prize-winning story, HuffPo would have passed because the story in question was about a conspiracy?

    Interesting.

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  19. Anonymous2:12 PM

    Fuck the Huffington Post. I used to be a regular poster up until about a year and a half ago. Now they are completely overrun with trolls and their system of moderation is bizarre, not to mention shit like this.

    I can't even stand to go to their site anymore and I know I'm not the only democrat to feel that way. Didn't we used to be their target audience?

    Bye, bye HuffPo! You've jumped the shark.

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  20. conscious at last at 1:43 pm gives one of the reasons I gave up HuffPo (which quite frankly was my "go to" site for "news" during the campaign) but no longer ... the headers there would be totally misleading, very sensationalistic, then upon reading the article you discover the material is nothing like you are being led to believe. That, and a seemingly switch to more right-leaning topics and I just did not trust the site anymore. I am glad that now more and more of my blogger friends are also giving them up.

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  21. Anonymous2:13 PM

    I haven't visited the HP in a long time. When you see misleading headlines to the point where it could be considered an outright lie, you gotta wonder what their focus is.

    I doubt Geoffry will cry any tears. The HP is a very dubious source IMO for real journalism.

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  22. And so I continue my "spiral of not going there." The brief click-through I do every few days has just gone to zero. Enough with the uneven coverage. Trump making the rounds of every media outlet he can sucker into interviewing him has made those outlets and Huffpost look like fools. Obama's birth certificate was never an issue yet they still cover it. Palin's lies about her "fifth child," whether you go for the Wild Ride or not, have not been researched or resolved. If she is a national figure, then fucking cover the story. Otherwise, shut down ALL of the birther stuff. You can't have it both ways. Seeing Squirrel On Head telling Stephanopolis that he's been "co-opted" by "Obama and his minions" make me want to shove that "hair" up Trump's fat ass. Palin is not a "victim" of the media. WE are. I have had enough. They can all go fuck themselves.

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  23. Anonymous2:15 PM

    Someone mentioned the headlines on HP. The commentor is correct that HP puts out a headline saying one thing and then you click on the story and it is the opposite of the headline.

    Arianna is just another media whore with a lot of mouth and no substance.

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  24. Logan2:21 PM

    Dunn's big mistake was not accusing Sarah Palin of being born in Kenya. Because God knows that's all one needs to do in order for our "media" (can we even still f*cking call it that?) to take you seriously.

    How can everyone be so afraid of this story? Does Sarah Palin have naked photos of everyone?

    There is zero evidence that the Obama birther story is true, yet it's everywhere. Meanwhile there are several dozen pieces of evidence proving that the Trig birth story isn't on the level, and yet no one will even ask a follow-up question about it -- let alone actually investigate and report the truth to the news consumer.

    The double-standard here -- at HuffPo and everywhere else -- is staggering beyond words.

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  25. Anonymous2:25 PM

    I was becoming less and less impressed with HP lately . I wasn't quite sure why .

    Nonetheless, I have decided to discontinue my daily routine of reading HP .

    My reason is that you possess the attributes that I value , they obviously do not.

    Keep up the good work !

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  26. Anonymous2:29 PM

    Hmm, HP runs Obama 'birther' stories ad nauseum, but someone questioning the plausibility of a 40-somethign woman with a known high-risk pregnancy, leaking fluid and hopping on two flights (among other weirdness) is strictly off limits?

    How strange indeed.

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  27. Anonymous2:31 PM

    There's a reason one of the nicknames is Huff Poo.

    Being unlike them as much as possible is a good thing.

    You can get rich being a corporate whore, if that is what you want to do.

    How's that money spending Arianna?

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  28. Anonymous2:33 PM

    Scarah probably got her lawyer to send a letter to HP with a warning about a lawsuit.

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  29. Anonymous2:33 PM

    Folks, forget your biases and your nuttiness for a minute and ask yourselves why huffpost won't run with this stuff.

    Here's the answer: It's not accepted widely enough and for that reason huffpost would lose bigtime if they tried to fly it. The blogs have not reached the mainstream and that's the bloggers fault, nobody else's.

    This is not some vast leftist conspiracy as Floyd Orr would suggest to prevent the truth from coming out, it's nothing more than the fact that the rumor of Trig not being Sarah's baby by birth is not popular and widespread.

    Ask an American outside of Alaska and you will get a vacant look, or if you don't get that you will get a comment such as: who cares. Trig is not running for president and Palin is of no consequence.

    So what to do? I would offer a useful suggestion but it's more fun to just play you nitwits for a little longer and so I will say, give up!

    And

    Sarah is the queen of the north. Our queen and our future president. God bless Sarah.

    That's always good for about 5 or 10 frantic profane replies! And hey, who doesn't like being the center of attention on Jesse's blog?

    Now go lie down on your mats you silly mutts.

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  30. Anonymous2:33 PM

    I do read Huffpo, because it contains interesting articles amidst movie star gossip and medical advice from quack doctors. But given all the nonsense they are delighted to publish, I should think it's odd that they're suddenly aiming to "elevate" their standards. Maybe there IS a conspiracy??

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  31. Anonymous2:34 PM

    You say this is the most important story MSM could cover and it will impact the world. That is hilarious. There's a man in DC appointing czars, hiring his friends to do dirty work, an immoral military, a ton of hidden documents, angry and violent liberals in WI, a fed govt that thinks it can sue a state... And yet you truly believe sarah palin's destruction should be #1?

    If she were a bush you'd be dead right now. If she were an obama, you be in jail right now. There are far more dangerous people who actually influence the "radical in chief" (amazing book btw) yet your goal is to take down an opinionated hockey mom?

    I guess perspective doesn't come naturally to everyone.

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  32. Anonymous2:35 PM

    How do we let Huffington Post know and do they even care??
    What fucking hypocrites. So above it all, so haughty that they refuse to do serious research. Screw them. I deleted my Huffington Post app from my IPhone yesterday and I won't be reading or posting there any more. They are sell outs. It's very simple. And now that they have been bought by AOL, they are not friends to the left, not at all.
    Arianna is full of it.in every way..

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  33. Anonymous2:37 PM

    One could do some research on Wikipedia.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianna_Huffington


    Plagiarism claims

    Huffington was accused of plagiarism for copying material for her book Maria Callas (1981); the claims were settled out of court in 1981, with Callas biographer Gerald Fitzgerald being paid "in the low five figures."[28][29][30]

    Lydia Gasman, an art history professor at the University of Virginia, claimed that Huffington’s 1988 biography of Pablo Picasso, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer, included themes similar to those in her unpublished four-volume Ph.D. thesis. "What she did was steal twenty years of my work," Gasman told Maureen Orth in 1994. Gasman did not file suit.[31]

    Maureen Orth also reported that Huffington "borrowed heavily for her 1993 book, The Gods of Greece."[28]


    This is wikipedia and so is not necessarily conclusive. Additional research might be needed to come to any conclusions.

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  34. Enjay in E MT2:37 PM

    My post to HP

    Apparently it is HP's policy to not post 'conspiracy theories' yet consistently post articles questioning President Obama's birth certificate which has been certified by the State of Hawaii, birth announcement posted in Hawaiian newspapers within days of his birth, holds a valid US passport, was born of a US Citizen and if there was a shred of evidence the GOP would have proclaimed it from the roof-tops before the 2008 Election.

    On the other hand, articles banned for questioning Sarah Palin's wild ride (birth of Trig) is a prime example of how journalism and main stream media have failed. Words from her own mouth to the press, from her speeches and her books, create an implausible story of his birth.

    Yet Geoffrey Dunn's response to the Prof. Bradford W. Scharlott article is not acceptable thereby
    proves there is a "Spiral of Silence” even on HP.

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  35. Anonymous2:38 PM

    I'm probably going to be banned from Huffpo because I just posted a link to Geoffrey Dunn's article in the comments section of yet another article about the "birthers".

    Huffpo can bite me.

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  36. Anonymous2:39 PM

    Of course huffpo is sensationalist drivel. All blogs are. All people who contribute to opinion-based reporting are hacks. Journalism from the beginning was only about what's exciting, what sells, what inspires people blah blah. It's been said George Washington had great disdain for this nonsense and fought it constantly. The worst thing to happen to the world is the internet.

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  37. Anonymous2:39 PM

    I am sorry to say that I ever read the H-Post. What a crock. Imagine convincing so many people to work for free, and sell out at their expense. I am much better informed now reading AlterNet as my progressive news portal.

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  38. angela2:41 PM

    I closed my account with Huffington Post a couple of months ago and I refuse to even follow a link there. They have a whole Palin page which sickens me.

    WTF is a conspiracy theory if not the whole Obama birther bullshit which they prominently display? People need to confront HP with this hypocritical bent.
    Lets face it—Breitbart is a friend of Arianna so that will never happen. HP counts on the hits when Sarah does something moronic.
    They'll be letting her post soon.

    Did anyone notice Becky's tweet to HP? Kinda interesting considering they always print tripe about the Quitbull and I can't imagine that they didn't this time. I'm thinking Becky and Sarah are pretty chummy with HP.

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  39. Anonymous2:43 PM

    Anyone who studies communications knows that what is taught in that field is how to make the biggest splash and how to manipulate others into thinking what they want them to think. Why did Obama rise so far so fast? Because he's a master at manipulation and deceit. Why isn't Bill Clinton written off as an immoral jackass? Because sex sells.

    It has nothing to do with truth and everything to do with sensation and what drives people.

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  40. Anonymous2:48 PM

    Conspiracies should never make headlines. If they were to waiver, they have no line drawn anywhere. There are already too many crazies blogging in the world today and trolling blogs. Just read some outrageous comments on IM, PG, PoG, c4p and other non political sites.

    People are insane and none of those sites listed deserve legitimate recognition. Manipulation is never good and that is exactly what political blogs do.

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  41. Anonymous2:48 PM

    After all the naked pandering to birther conspiracies with respect to President Obama, I wonder how the folks at HuffPo can even look at themselves in the mirror without disgust at their own hypocrisy.

    But what do you expect from a site started by Arianna Huffington and Andrew Breitbart. Worthless rag of a site.

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  42. Friends ... you won't miss HuffPo and yes, it may be goodbye for them. They may have just lost an entire segment of their former readership. Just keep coming to the blogs ... my faves do a really fine job of bringing me up to date on all the news I really need. And then I go to WhiteHouse.gov to get the scoop on what the Administation is doing. I don't miss CNN. I don't miss HuffPo and I don't watch network tv. If something really big happens in the world ... like the tsunami, etc., I will go to the BBC.

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  43. Anonymous2:51 PM

    There's a big difference in the media when it comes to where a child was born vs. the actual birth process. Gestation, labor, leaking fluids, etc. etc. Palin knows she's playing the feminist card to squelch inquiries about what was going on with her body at the time. But enough gifted writers including you dear Gryphen have walked that line very carefully, sensitively, and well, and the truth will come out. Thanks to everyone who has persisted in covering this story!

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  44. Anonymous2:51 PM

    Everything bad that's occurring now began in the 90s. ie China. Education. Deregulation. Bush was a figurehead. The corruption happened around him and continues today.

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  45. Anonymous2:52 PM

    huff puff who/what ?
    history!..not worth a flick of the wrist or a click of the thumb, though, I do give the mid finger salute for passing on Dunn.
    *~~~

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  46. Anonymous2:53 PM

    I'm torn between wanting to Obama re-elected and wanting to see this horrible woman fall from grace. I would love to see Sarah Palin as the republican nominee. I think most left leaning people would like to see her run.

    Has anyone noticed that the Palinbots have stopped accusing the critics of being scared that she might run.

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  47. Anonymous2:57 PM

    @2:43 - Your comment makes NO SENSE. You obviously do not work in communication.

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  48. Anonymous2:58 PM

    Recruiting trump to spew birther crap was genius on someones part. This is a man who could make anyone disappear with a snap of his fingers. Look at Bush protectors.

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  49. Anonymous3:02 PM

    I agree with others who posted here. Boycott Huffington Post. Boycotting is the best means of getting corporatists attention. Huff Post, Koch Brothers, Fox News, to name a few.

    If you want to find some good political website, I suggest this link as a jumping off point:

    http://politics.alltop.com/

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  50. Anonymous3:04 PM

    Right, high and mighty Arianna "Barack Obama is not progressive enough" Huffington started out as a Republican, and their site is guilty of everything people are noting above.

    Now that they have joined up with AOL, forget it. AOL has one of the most offensive news startup pages of all. So completely winger.

    I can't imagine what brought about this unlikely partnership, except $$$.

    Screw them, who needs them? I hope one of the big 3 MSM television networks beats everyone to it and breaks for the story first. Leaves the sorry NYT in the dust, too. NBC had a remarkably rigorous look at Donald Trump's less-than-stellar business record, last night.

    I don't trust any of them, of course, but one of them will have to make a first move at some point, when the critical mass of blogosphere and book material reaches unstoppable proportions.

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  51. angela3:07 PM

    Anon 2:43

    You sir/madam are an ass. President Obama was elected in a LANDSLIDE.
    That is a fact.

    Have you asked yourself how an idiot like George W Bush who got us into two wars, destroyed the economy and helped his friends make billions and can no longer leave the country for fear of being arrested abroad was allowed to become President? Hmmm. He was NOT elected. A partisan Supreme Court did him a favor . . . .
    And Bil Clinton didn't fuck the country like George did, just a consenting adult.

    So STFU.

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  52. Anonymous3:08 PM

    Before y'all delete HuffPo off your AP's, make sure you write a review for HuffPo at the AP store :). Tell them exactly why you deleted.

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  53. Anonymous3:12 PM

    2:33 pm: I'd say there definitely is a conspiracy, given the troll activity on this piece. Seems to be a fairly intelligent person or persons, too. HP assigned someone here for the day?

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  54. I wrote to HuffPo editors asking for an explanation of their refusal to post Dunn's piece. As other commenters have noted, they publish endless Obama birther tripe, so their high-minded excuse of not posting conspiracy theories doesn't hold water.

    I suggest that they give Palin a Pass, either because she's a woman who loves to cry "victim," or they fear the Palin-bots.

    I don't kid myself that they care what I think, but I felt like giving them a piece of my mind.

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  55. Anonymous3:17 PM

    FYI:
    Obama/family to attend 4/29 shuttle lift-off, commanded by Giffords husband. What abt u @sarahpalinusa? Afraid of a little education? #gop

    https://twitter.com/#!/WarpdElfAtYrSvc/status/60842182067752961

    PMom_GA

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  56. Here is the best replacement for HP:

    http://fucorporatemedia.com/

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  57. Anonymous3:23 PM

    Yep, I expected the Huffington Post not to post Mr. Dunn's piece. It is not a surprise to me. HP needs Palin for click$$$. The fake pregnancy story will be the end of Palin and HP knows it.

    Arianna Huffington is a Republican operative who used progressives for financial and political gain. Immediately after they started bashing Obama with half truth articles, I stop visiting.

    Thousands of progressives left HP, especially after Arianna sold HP to AOL.

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  58. Anonymous3:30 PM

    Gryphen, I literally can't tell you how pleased I am that you are pursuing this. I was and remain livid over HP's hypocrisy and close-mindedness.

    This is the email I sent, (I know it's far too lengthy but dammit I was/am PO'd) feel free to copy any & all...let The Huffington Post and Arianna herself know that we can and WILL take our readership elsewhere.

    ---
    To: Arianna@huffingtonpost.com, iPad@huffingtonpost.com

    Dear Ms. Huffington and Huffington Post:

    I am shocked and very disheartened about your recent decision to disallow any coverage of Sarah Palin's "pregnancy" with Trig Palin, especially as it relates to one of your most gifted and talented writers- Geoffrey Dunn.

    Perhaps the hundreds of millions from AOL have blinded you to reality and the open minds you've claimed all these years?

    I will be deleting my NewsGlide iPad app immediately. I will be deleting my iPhone Huffington Post app immediately. I will be closing my user account with Huffington Post. Not only that, I will be proclaiming far and wide that Huff Post has tipped its newly Republican hand since the AOL buyout.

    The proof is in the pudding here- Huff Post has reported on and encouraged discussion about all manner of political scandals and conspiracies. Including recent and extremely prolific coverage concerning the conspiracy regarding our sitting president's birthplace.

    Despite this conspiracy being debunked completely, in the face of ironclad proof of Obama's birth locale...you still allow vigorous discussion and presentation of this rumor. Yet Sarah Palin's pregnancy with Trig, about which there are real and valid questions, remains so taboo you disallowed one of your most respected writers from even covering it.

    When the truth comes out in full, Huffington Post will heartily wish they had not been abusively coercive in shutting down Mr. Dunn. When the reality of THIS "conspiracy" is brought about, you'll be sorely regretting having actively ignored bloggers like Jesse Griffen of The Immoral Minority.

    When the TRUTH comes out, and thanks in large part to people like Geoffrey Dunn...it will...The Huffington Post will realize that participating in the very "Spiral Of Silence" Mr. Dunn wished to shed light on...was not at all worth it.

    Disappointed beyond measure,
    ******* Burke
    A FORMER HuffPost Participant...and CURRENT Alaskan who wants the truth about Palin to be heard in the media

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  59. Anonymous3:38 PM

    This is not a be-all, end-all list, but everyone should access this when they are wondering who owns what or who.

    http://www.cjr.org/resources/

    It covers the major media companies, magazines and their websites. Funny how so much of it is in so few hands really. Well, more scary than funny, but it sure explains a lot.

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  60. Anonymous3:38 PM

    You mentioned previously that HP wasn't too keen on the Tri-G biz and I've been curious too why they declared an embargo but forged full speed ahead with the Obama birther story. They also covered every other $P article and at times had her in 5 places. I posted replies to a couple Tri-G comments, mostly related to how she may have arrived at his name. Well all of a sudden I lost my badges and about 30'fans'. Not that I cared that much about the whole badge thing but it struck me as odd when it happened. Other commenters mentioned losing 'fans' but attributed it to many folks leaving HP after the AOL deal.

    Something very odd about them choosing to firewall this story especially the whole endangerment angle if she was indeed pregnant.
    The tr0ll patrol over there has gotten out of hand and I can appreciate that HP wants to appear more non-partisan but there's little chance of the opposing viewpoints coming to any sort of agreement.

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  61. Pay attention people! HP is slowly becoming a Repub rag. I was a huge fan and have noticed since Arrianna sold out the change of tide. Don' believe me? Just scroll down and scan the headlines -- there are more negative headlines about Obama than anything else. Especially from Ms Huffington herself! She has done more to smear Obama than FOX News. Her 3rd world crap and "middle America, Obama's just not into You", etc. is not from a progressive but an undercover republican. By next year I predict HP will become more conservative than FOX.

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  62. Anonymous3:44 PM

    I'm boycotting they steal all their stories anyway you can get anything they publish elsewhere

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  63. Anonymous3:46 PM

    Who owns AOL?

    According to:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=AOL+Major+Holders

    Major Holders Get Major Holders for:
    Breakdown
    % of Shares Held by All Insider and 5% Owners: 0%
    % of Shares Held by Institutional & Mutual Fund Owners: 88%
    % of Float Held by Institutional & Mutual Fund Owners: 88%
    Number of Institutions Holding Shares: 317

    Major Direct Holders (Forms 3 & 4)
    Holder Shares Reported
    TIME WARNER INC. 0 Dec 9, 2009
    ARMSTRONG TIMOTHY M 876,511 Feb 11, 2011
    MINSON ARTHUR T. 116,369 Feb 15, 2011
    PARKER IRA H 115,385 Dec 31, 2009
    JACOBS JULIE M 87,935 Feb 15, 2011

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  64. Anonymous3:55 PM

    I sent Huff Po an email accusing them of blatant hypocrisy on the issue of conspiracies.

    Then, I deleted my account. There, I feel better.

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  65. This is what I commented on HP:

    George Stephanopoulos And Michele Bachmann 'Settle' The Obama Birth Certificate Issue
    Commented Apr 20, 2011 at 18:28:07 in Politics
    “So here we have a brew - ha ha ha about MB and the birth certificat­e but HP declines to post blogger Geoffrey Dunn's post about Sara Palin's own birth certificat­e issue:
    http://www­.politico.­com/blogs/­bensmith/0­411/HuffPo­st_bans_Tr­ig_Truther­s.html
    Double standard much????”

    It will be hard, but I'm going to go cold turkey on HP. I'll just have to get my daily fixes on other sites. Let's make a list of alternative sources for news (and gossip).

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  66. Anonymous3:57 PM

    I was a daily reader of the Huffington Post, but I will read it no longer.

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  67. Anonymous3:57 PM

    I was going to list about ten complaints about the HuffPo but everyone here has already done a great job and covered all my points.

    Instead I'll mention that for news I use alternet, BBC, and AlJazeera English. IM, of course, is my go-to blog. About ten times a day. lol

    Also, this is a good time to plug the book I'm almost finished with. Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges is amazing. An indictment of the corporate culture we have been manipulated into. The destruction of our educational system, media, business, and politics. It's a huge eyeopener and helps to make sense of what is going on. I hope he has some answers at the end.

    Just one warning - Chapter 2 is about the pornography industry. Now, I'm no prude but I guess I was pretty naive about how much this industry has changed. The chapter is graphic and VERY disturbing - downright chilling. It haunted me so much I couldn't sleep that night.

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  68. Anonymous3:59 PM

    If they don't post about conspiracy - WHY are they always posting about the Presidents birth certificate!!!

    Guess I'll have to stop going to Huffington Post - I cut way back already and this just makes it easier to stop all togegther

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  69. Anonymous4:02 PM

    Major Direct Holders (Forms 3 & 4)
    Holder Shares Reported
    TIME WARNER INC. 0 Dec 9, 2009
    ARMSTRONG TIMOTHY M 876,511 Feb 11, 2011
    MINSON ARTHUR T. 116,369 Feb 15, 2011
    PARKER IRA H 115,385 Dec 31, 2009
    JACOBS JULIE M 87,935 Feb 15, 2011

    ***

    Time Warner = Ted Turner

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  70. Anonymous4:03 PM

    I have stopped reading HuPo for a while now. Having Breitbart writing for them and not paying the bloggers were the last straw.
    Besides that and all the sensational, inaccurate headlines, they often have 4 to 6 Palin stories (including Bristol's) at the front page and even more on the Politics page, mostly quite useless things like "Palin lashed out on..." (which happened almost daily) or "Bad news for Palin?"(they only look at Palin number in each poll). They are all for page view.
    Anyway, I am through with them.

    Meg

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  71. Anonymous4:10 PM

    Once, I was working in a media company. Arianna needed a new assistant, and had a connection to this company. I said I might want to be interviewed for the position as her ass't, and EVERYONE there said "No, no, no, no. You will not be a good fit. She has a huge ego. We do not want to put you through it." So I didn't apply.

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  72. Anonymous4:12 PM

    anon @ 3:12, for fuck sake get a grip. I'm a Palin hater too and I've been posting here for probably three years. This is not some stupid conspiracy to cover up for Palin. It's nothing more than HP not wanting to run with the truth about Palin's faked pregnancy because it won't be accepted well. Nothing more! If you fucking whackjobs would finally realize that you haven't made the point then you could maybe start to do something more constructive than just yap like a bunch of yapper mutts.

    Jeeeeeeezzzz, fukking Kochsucking krist, smarten up!!!! Todd Palin has been caught porking a hooker and you people let it go! That's the definition of stupid!

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  73. HuffPo sucks. Ben Smith is a shill for the establishment.

    I ran Geoffrey's post yesterday - with his encouragement. Firedoglake is running it right now. I'll be hosting Geoffrey at firedoglake's book salon on Saturday May 7th at 2:00 Alaska time. Come join us.

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  74. Anonymous4:28 PM

    So much of this stuff is nothing more than getting ratings for the media. The Republican party will shred Trump apart in the next two-year period (if he doesn't quit first as to looking like a Presidential candidate!) - getting into his financial info, bankruptcies, marriages, etc. They will do the same w/Palin should she indicate she is going to rear her ugly head on the Independent ticket.

    I'm going to spend my summer reading the three new books coming out about Palin and stay away from the media and blogs....

    Bet when I come back - say in a year - it is going to be even more interesting if these two idiots are still the headliners.

    Yea, President Obama!!!! I know he will continue doing the wonderful job he has during the past two - especially with the crud he inherited. Remember, the wars under the Bush Administration were NOT in the budget and President Obama put them there giving a clear picture of what they were/are costing us! Please cut the 'defense' part of the budget, OR just get us out of the wars.

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  75. Anonymous4:38 PM

    HuffPo sold out about ten months ago. There's no where to turn for true progressives so that's why I make IM my #1 daily read. (thinkprogress is still pretty good though, too.) I like intelligent and thought-provoking discussions so I always look forward to reading what Gryphen's readers write.

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  76. onething4:39 PM

    Wow, y'all have opened my eyes a bit about huffpo. Where do progressives go for news?

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  77. DetroitSam4:46 PM

    I hope all you who view the Huffington Post have noticed that in the past two years there has been a high level oc censorship going on there.

    You cannot call out the excuses for journalist in what passes for the main stream media at HP. Comments censored.

    There are so many pages about Sarah Palin that one begins to wonder if she owns HP. And you certainly cannot make anything but glowing comments about Palin. Anything else, comments censored.

    If you post an article from a black owned site with a link to that site, comments never shows up. EVER.

    There are four black sites linked on HP but two of them have been defunct for over two years. But there are several links to right-wing sites and she is happy to post clap-trap from right wingers, especially if they are trashing President Obama.

    I stop posting and evening viewing there many months ago.

    AH is morphing back to her right-wing roots when she was an accolyte of the Newt.

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  78. Anonymous4:58 PM

    I've been part of HuffPo for a while now, too. This blatant hypocrisy of bullshit crosses the line.

    What pussies. I swear.

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  79. Anonymous5:05 PM

    4:02 - Sorry, Ted Turner no longer controls Time Warner. He says he cannot afford to buy back his shares. He had major disagreements with the new management and with AOL.

    He hates Murdoch of NewsCorp.

    So, though you may issues with him, don't blame him for Time-Warner or AOL-HuffPo.

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  80. Anonymous5:09 PM

    Make it so, Number 1 -- it has been done. Screw you, HuffPo. Your hypocrisy is beginning to mirror that of Palin's.


    "Hi, Soapydog.
    You have successfully closed your account with The Huffington Post. We'll miss you!
    If you want to sign up again later, you may do so here."

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  81. this was the last straw: i am going HP-free, today was my first day.

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  82. Anonymous5:12 PM

    Gryphen very politely made reference to someone who advised him that to get posted at Huffington meant no Trig birther stuff. I can guess at the identity of the person who offered the advice, wanting to be taken seriously as a credible author. That person's own blog did not allow chit chat about Palin children, until they actually ended up in the news of their own accord.

    The problem with writing about Trig is that people think that attack is lodged against the innocent little boy who did not have any choice in his parents. What people write about is how it appears that his birth to an unwed teen aged girl was covered up. That wouldn't be the first time that a mother covered for a pregnant daughter, adopting her kid as her own. Example: Bobby Darin.

    If the matter was personal and kept within the family, it doesn't matter to anyone. When the situation is used as the credentials for the political candidate mother, then the matter deserves to be written about. If a candidate misrepresents facts about their life, that IS fair game.

    We have recently seen that the much beloved book, "Three Cups of Tea" contained material that was not factual. If it was only a book, and people could choose to read it or not, that would be one thing. But, there was a charity associated with the book, and people gave money to the charity, mislead by incorrect statements. That's a different matter.

    When people cast their votes for a pro-life candidate, they deserve to know if that candidate is honest or using an innocent child as a prop. The more stories that come forth, such as a trooper seeing the pregnant governor stuffed into a tight pair of jeans when she was supposed to be 6 months pregnant, that is a issue that lets us decide if the story that she told (and which authenticates her political point of view) is true. It is not, and the public deserves to know the truth. No one is attacking the innocent child who was presented to a cheering crowd as the certificate of her qualifications. We are attacking the qualifications, and misrepresentation. That's was what is a good newspaper, magazine or other medium is supposed to report.

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  83. Anonymous5:12 PM

    There's no where to go for progressives? Huh? The media is generally in democrats pockets. They get more passes than anyone else. Violence from liberals is ignored which is outrageous. Look to WI for the biggest example.

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  84. Anonymous5:14 PM

    I stopped visiting Huffingtonpost when they started dragging Obama through the mud right after he was elected. Good places for progressive news:

    talkingpointsmemo.com
    dailykos.com
    thinkprogress.org

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  85. onething5:22 PM

    "Here's the answer: It's not accepted widely enough and for that reason huffpost would lose bigtime if they tried to fly it. The blogs have not reached the mainstream and that's the bloggers fault, nobody else's. "

    That is the absolutely most idiotic post I have yet seen. You are kidding of course, so I wont dignify it with an answer.

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  86. Anonymous5:28 PM

    It was profitable to spin a domestic bliss tale for Tiger Woods. It's profitable to bury Palin's stupidity and lying.

    Huffpo is just a weak parody of independent journalism. The self-importance of story selection just reflects their delusion that huffpo matters. The click rate is in a death spiral over there.

    No sweat about not making it to hallowed pages of huffpo. It'll be gone within the year anyway. And, G will still be here.

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  87. OT, but does this court case involve THE Bill McAllister?

    http://www.courtrecords.alaska.gov/pa/pa.urd/pamw2000.o_case_sum?58600054

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  88. Anonymous5:29 PM

    I've had comments denied for mentioning Babygate and Trig truthers, on a story about Birthers, no less. If it's okay to give coverage and credibility to Birthers, why isn't it okay to do the same for Trig truthers?

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  89. I know Arianna Huff-n-Puff personally. She is a cut-throat, back-stabbing bitch. Was once a die hard RepuKKK, turned die hard Democrat, and now back to a die-hard RepuKKK. She goes where the money is and has no allegiance to anyone. Being that she is currently a RepuKKK, she despises Obama and adores Palin. Just read her latest article. Slams the hell out of Obama. Do NOT ever trust her. I did and got burned big time.

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  90. Anonymous5:39 PM

    HP has been a sensational rag for at least two years. I thought Mr. Dunn was well aware of that. All about $$, and to hell with the facts.

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  91. Anonymous5:44 PM

    I had left Huff Post a while ago because I thought it was becoming too right leaning and too tabloid. When they were bought by AOL, I was pretty sure the transformation to a right-wing polemics-spouting would be completed shortly. If you've spent any time on AOL, you can see how conservative they already are.

    The hipocrasy of allowing "conspiracy theories" about the President be discussed, but not allow anyone to question Trig's birth story is ridiculous, but so very normal in right-wing world. I'm glad that "Buisness Insider" has taken up the gauntlet.
    ~physicsmom

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  92. @colacarat. Think so. That's his wife's name. Very sad.

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  93. justafarmer5:49 PM

    Another site you may want to visit is PlanetPOV. Many MANY long-time HuffPo commentators and bloggers have moved there.

    http://planetpov.com/

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  94. Anonymous6:03 PM

    Newt and Arianna were and are BFF and Republicons.

    Here's a link to Gawker, a picture of Arianna partying it up with Newt and friends in 2009

    http://gawker.com/#!5622965/arianna-huffington-makes-nice-with-mosque+hating-republicans-jews?comment=28183092



    Internet empress Arianna Huffington is in Amalfi, Italy, apparently, mixing it up with Newt and Callista Gingrich, mega-entertainment lawyer Allen Grubman and his wife Deborah, and Barbara Walters. Proof fancy yacht vacations really are out of fashion for the super-rich?

    Gawker has a link to details of the yachts she vacations on.

    http://gawker.com/#!5315561/arianna-huffington-yacht-hopper-crowdsources-her-59th-birthday-party

    Huffington is known to spend part of the summer on David Geffen's boat with a rotating cast of celebrities. Other times, it's Larry Ellison's boat. That would explain her cavorting around the Mediterranean this year. (UPDATE: Geffen owns a share of Ellison's boat, we're told, so we're talking about the same yacht in both cases.)

    That Yacht is the Rising Sun. 453 feet in length.

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  95. LoveAndKnishesFromBrooklyn6:10 PM

    Janet in Texas--

    x2. It's something I've suspected for a long time, especially when AH started bashing the President within a few months of his inauguration, and posting loads o' kissy-kissy love for Teflon Tessie. One day I think I counted six adoring articles on the front page alone, all with very flattering pix, while they posted wonky photos of President Obama. And the commenters were pointing this madness out in the Palin posts!

    Remember (also, too) that Breitbart was a co-founder of HuffPo, right along with Arianna. That's progressive cred for you--not! Now if you click on the news headlines on the aol.com site, it brings you right over to HP--along with the usual aol RW fan club.

    You don't need HP, Gryphen--you have many, many faithful readers, and your posts will continue to fan out to other widely-read blogs as well.

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  96. Anonymous6:11 PM

    Phil Munger, isn't Ben Smith w/ Politico?

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  97. Anonymous6:22 PM

    I'm done with HuffPo. I've worked in magazines for 15 years and I can easily sniff out what's happening there. AOL wants more advertisers, and advertisers want more "mainstream" content. It's the recipe for ruin of many a publication.

    I say screw 'em. Palin's lies will be revealed with or without their help.

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  98. Anonymous6:23 PM

    I closed my accounts at Huffpo a while ago. I don't even bother to read there anymore. Crazy censorship, crazy headlines.

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  99. Anonymous6:24 PM

    Ditto: I too HAVE NOT read that crappola at the HP for over a year! After the 2008 election; they went WAY too soft on 'politicians' and had way too much soft ball sheeit on Scary Pay-me...

    Arianna is a effing sell-out!

    I wonder what lefties still think that is a viable news source?

    All you main stream media idiots need to grow a pair!

    WHY is NO mainstream media outlet at least POINTING OUT that regardless of the truth of "BabyGate" that if she DID actually BIRTH Trip, she is severely mental because of the scenario of a late term natural abortion method like Louis CK pointed out OR it is the biggest con in politics in a long time...implicating the McLame campaign.
    WHY IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD MEDIA?!

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  100. Anonymous6:28 PM

    6:03, Barbara Walters too? That explains the fawning interviews.

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  101. Anonymous6:34 PM

    2:33. Classic Mansewer.

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  102. Anonymous6:45 PM

    LoveAndKnishesFromBrooklyn

    Fanned and Faved

    Oh wait.....

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  103. scarlet/oregon6:46 PM

    Just cancelled my membership &
    Emailed this to info@huffingtonpost.com

    Huffington Post was my 'go to' site for the last 3 years and then I noticed it slowly turned into an Enquirer style scandal sheet with headlines that didn't match the storylines. Then the comment sections that took forever to process replies with some never showing up.

    People like Trump and Breitbart with their conspiracy theories seem more favorable to Ms. Huffington and AOL than those of a 'real' writer like Geoffrey Dunn who gets censored for the same thing, but with intelligence and integrity that is lost on the other two 'wanna-be's'.

    So go on without me scanning through headlines of Kardashians & Palins & TLC style trash while trying to find newsworthy Posts written without fear of reprisals.


    Just curious if the story going around is true that the Koch Brothers have bought up AOL? It would clear the air concerning HP's leanings these days.

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  104. Anonymous6:47 PM

    Gryphen,

    It is an honor to be rejected by Puffpo/tabloid/shamelss intellectual extortionists such as the Huffington Post, which is is a joke and will be remembered as poet laureate Colly Cibber is today-that is forgotten.

    Anyone who still contributes to A. Huffington's ego and purse is foolish after her sellout to AOL.
    She does not produce or support journalism and has exploited without remorse many talented people to get where she is. She is an intellecual lightweight who once studied a little Existentialism and married a rich man.

    A true American "success' story in the tradition of P. T. Barnum, et al.

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  105. Anonymous6:47 PM

    @ colacarat

    That is the full name and mi used on some of the state emails that have been published.
    That is also his wife's name.

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  106. Punkinbugg6:57 PM

    BOTH SIDES still want her out there.

    The (R)s want her to raise sweaty, crumpled twenties.

    The (D)s want her to keep actual pols like Romney and Pawlenty obscure and frustrated.

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  107. Anonymous7:00 PM

    Keep in mind that Huffington's ex husband (whos last name she still uses) is a very wealthy bi-sexual former congressman (republican!!) She might be looking at a money train coming to a screeching halt if she jumps on the Palin lied bandwagon.

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  108. Punkinbugg7:15 PM

    "The Moderate Voice" has posted an article about Babygate. It was apparently a bold move for that site.

    http://themoderatevoice.com/106715/two-years-on-why-the-sarah-palin-birth-hoax-story-wont-shouldnt-go-away/

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  109. Anonymous7:20 PM

    Oh, and I should have added to my last post: Sarah is our queen of the north and our next new president.

    God speed Sarah and God bless her beautiful lovely family.

    You twits are beyond belief.

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  110. Puffington Host7:22 PM

    The truth about HuffPo would make a wonderful expose !

    Adrianna whipped and punished her staff into creating the site's image as a "Progressive Haven" for its authors, readers and commenters.

    Turns out that the truth is --

    * writers receive no pay

    * censorship of comments is rampant and based on what the "moderators" are instructed to muzzle (for example, any mention of the mid-January incident when Adrianna tussled with airport police after refusing to turn off her Blackberry during her flight)

    * HuffPo's content is dependent on Ms. Huffington's on-going political and/or financial needs (for example, comments were censored even more oppressively for the month or two before the AOL merger was announced)

    * it appears that some "puff pieces" are posted only to promote the writer or his/her product and are especially policed for dissenting comments

    For example, see if YOU can get a comment posted which slams author Dal LaMagna for crying about his $250k stock market loss without ever mentioning that he's a multi-millionaire or considering what losing $250k meant to the millions of newly-impoverished citizens:

    http://tinyurl.com/3pkg5qj

    It's time HuffPo was exposed as the gigantic sham it really is !

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  111. "Phil Munger, isn't Ben Smith w/ Politico?"

    Yes. gryph quotes above from Smith's article about Dunn'd HuffPo rejection.

    Smith was typically dismissive of this whole subject in his post.

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  112. Anonymous7:31 PM

    Truthout and reader supported news are good sources and send emails with the headlines.

    CLG (citizens for legitiamte government) used to be better before they went totally radical. They also send an email with headlines.

    They are not run by or for heiresses.

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  113. Anonymous8:04 PM

    This blog is not mainstream because the Trig birth story is holding you back. Yet I am here reading it and reading all the comments. My North Star drama queen also reads and reacts to your blog. She even whines about it on national TV, She even credits you as part of her reason for resigning from the governor´s office. If you are irrelevant, what does that make me? Perspective does not come easy for some of us, you know.

    LMAO!

    (Hi, sarah. How´s life?)

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  114. Anonymous8:05 PM

    Picture of Arianna Huffington with Darryl Issa.

    Enough Said!

    http://theobamadiary.com/2011/01/22/nice-company-you-keep-arianna/

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  115. Anonymous8:11 PM

    After the crosshairs on the map and the AZ tragedy, the MSM should have called Palin out properly and not given her a pass and then they should have stopped reporting on her.
    That should have been the end of her career in the news. I say "career in the news" because getting in the news seems to be the only thing she works at.

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  116. Anonymous8:18 PM

    2:34PM. Violent in WI. Surely, you jest. I'm from WI, and I can tell you that, although miffed, the teachers, students, firefighters, nurses, highway patrol officers and police that I've met while protesting are the least violent people.

    You seem to forget that we don't bring AK-47s to rallies, only our signs

    Nice try, Bot!

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  117. Anonymous8:19 PM

    4:39pm...

    BBC, NPR, Immoral Minority

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  118. Anonymous8:22 PM

    Just cancelled my HuffPo account, and told them why. Maybe they'll notice...

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  119. Anonymous8:24 PM

    More on Arianna Huffington. This Time Magazine article from 1995 describes when she was the Sarah Palin of the Republican Party, before there was a Sarah Palin.

    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983655,00.html

    ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: A WOMAN ON THE VERGE
    By NINA BURLEIGH/WASHINGTON Monday, Nov. 06, 1995

    WHEN YOUR HUSBAND THROWS nearly $30 million at a Senate seat and has nothing to show for it but a hilltop stone mansion in Washington, what's a woman to do? For Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, the answer has been to use will, charm and provocation to become one of the capital's leading conservative lights.

    ....

    Huffington has evolved from political wife to policy entrepreneur, a one-woman think tank with more clout than her husband Michael--an oil-company heir and former California Congressman--ever dreamed of. In one year, she has won her own weekly cable-TV talk show, co-hosted CNN's Crossfire, testified twice before Congress and become a "senior fellow" at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think tank associated with Newt Gingrich, where she heads up her own Center for Effective Compassion, which promotes private giving to replace the welfare state. With all that, she has become the goddess of the G.O.P. "revolution," channeling Gingrich's nine-point plan to Renew American Civilization in her own beguiling voice. Gingrich has included her "Twelve Steps to American Renewal" in the selected readings for his televised classes. Each gushingly refers to the other in speeches and interviews.

    Go read the whole article. Newt's second wife is mentioned, as are many that appear on Fox News which launched in October of 1996.

    Was Arianna an inspiration or model for Sarah's career? That is a serious question.

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  120. Lynne8:28 PM

    I received an e-mail today from Daily Kos with a link to send thank you messages directly to all the hard working volunteers in Wisconsin who have gotten signatures to recall four (so far) of the Republican Senators in their state. Two more recall petitions are well on their way in plenty of time for the deadline.

    I highly encourage all the readers of your blog to go to the site and join in to express our gratitude for what they are doing for all of us
    . http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=23

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  121. TROOPERGATE EMAILS!!

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/2995...

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  122. Anonymous8:32 PM

    Thank you, Gryphen, for not copping out. You're providing freedom of the press and all that democracy stuff we like to brag that we have here in the U.S.

    I used to be an avid HuffPost reader but not anymore. It's not the same as it once was.

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  123. Anonymous8:32 PM

    I don't read much at HuffPo anymore. They seem to be aiming more in the FOX direction for the target audience. Not interested.

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  124. Anonymous8:34 PM

    HuffPoo is the home of a few that comment constantly and is a rather closed community. As far as their content goes, they are just a "news aggregate" in the middle column with celebrity gossip in the right hand column. The left column is merely an aggregation of unpaid bloggers that have their heads up Arianna's butt. It's always been a very strange amalgamation of news at it's highest points. Basically it's a vehicle for Arianna's giant ego. Not worth visiting since just after its' inception IMHO. None of my liberal friends go there.

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  125. I'm with you, Anon @ 8:19. Also Christian Science Monitor.

    Call me old fashioned, but I don't want my news from a biased source. I've got my favorite blogs for that. Left-leaning, sure. But I want to know what journalists who are attempting to *really* be fair and balanced come up with. And then I can count on Andrew Sullivan for summarizing the analysis of large events from all points of view.

    It's dangerous for us to be retreating into our ideological corners even in the information we're willing to receive, like using "Parental Control" on our own search engines. Our country is becoming a place of two echo chambers leaning left and right. That's not healthy.

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  126. Anonymous8:59 PM

    New Alaskan Dittman poll on Sarah Palin:

    36% Favorable
    61% Unfavorable
    ============================
    13% Very favorable
    23% Somewhat favorable
    22% Somewhat unfavorable
    39% Very unfavorable
    3% Unsure
    ============================

    Yep, we Alaskans hate the Quitter's guts.

    Arizona, see ya! I wouldn't wanna be ya!

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  127. nswfm9:15 PM

    You all need to calm down. Huffington Post--who gives a shit!?!? They've sucked for a while. Only gotten worse.

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  128. Anonymous9:35 PM

    @ 7:20
    If you want a queen go life in england. This country has no queen and there will never be one. Go find some little island and take your queen with you and you can start your own little communist island.

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  129. Gasman9:43 PM

    People seem to reflexively view the HuffPo as liberal. It isn't. Arianna Huffington started out her political activism as being a slightly less batshit crazy version of Orly Taitz. Andrew Breitbart was/is a good friend of hers and he STILL has his blog on HuffPo.

    When the shit his the proverbial fan regarding the truth surrounding Trig's parentage, it will be interesting to see how HuffPo - and other media outlets who seem to refuse to cover the story - try and justify their present indifference.

    I've never been overly crazy about HuffPo and this does not change my mind.

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  130. I didn't think this would pass through moderation at HuffPo, but it got OK'd within 5 minutes -- the right wing mods must be having a night off:

    "Consider these bizarre, hypocritic­al, completely wingnut Republican political stances, and HuffPo's reporting in great detail about each of them...

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    HuffPo Headline: "Republica­n Governors Quietly Accept Federal Dollars -- While Attacking Federal Spending"

    HuffPo Headline: "[Republic­an] Bobby Jindal Takes Surprising Position On Birther Bill -- Jindal will sign 'birther' bill if it reaches his desk"

    HuffPo Headline: "[Republic­an] Randy Hopper, Wisconsin Recall Target, Directs Constituen­ts To Phone Sex Line"

    HuffPo Headline: "[Republic­an] Jan Brewer Faces Conservati­ve Backlash After Vetoing GOP-Backed Bills"

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    Yet HuffPo had this to say about a submitted article by Sarah Palin critic Geoffrey Dunn. who had some questions posed of Sarah Palin about a topic written up by Professor Brad Scharlott last week.

    "We did pass on a submission by Geoffrey Dunn about Trig, as it ran counter to our policy against conspiracy theories," Huffington Post spokesman Mario Ruiz confirmed in an email.

    HuffPo hasn't been shy about reporting every new wrinkle in the Obama birth certificat­e conspiracy theory, but they draw the line at discussing the Sarah Palin hoax theory?

    Tell me, Arianna, don't you feel as hypocritic­al as those Republican­s your blog wrote about above?"

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  131. Anonymous10:25 PM

    I delivered my son at exactly 36 weeks, 2 days. Any birth after 36 weeks is not considered premature, by the way. Anyway, I was still very nervous. My first time birth of a child that I was having with preeclampsia. This is a common occurance in first=time pregnancies. Preeclampsia. But, i stuck with my doctor and did everything I was supposed to do. Anyway, I delivered a 4 lb. 0 oz baby, perfectly healthy, breathing on his own, scored 9 out of 10 on the APGAR (did sarah ever reveal her child's results on the APGAR????) and I was thrilled. My son stayed in the hospital for less than 5 days, only to monitor his weight, breathing, heart, etc. But he was never hooked up to anything that made him breathe on his own. He was healthly. My little 4 pound baby was healthy and simply being monitored. Again, he scored 9 out of 10 on the APGAR. Does Sarah Palin even know what Trig scored on that test???? I have had a child. I know. She Faked that birth, and doesn't give a shit. Fuck you, Sarah Palin. Fuck you, you stupid ignorant ridiculous excuse for a woman. You are a walking uterus. Does not make you a woman. You are evil and disgusting to fake a pregnancy all for your political gain. Fuck you, you stupid bitch. How dare you, when so many women, with difficult pregancies, do everything they can to make sure that their children survive. Fuck you Sarah. You Fucking Bitch.

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  132. Anonymous10:33 PM

    Arianna and Issa partying in Vegas.
    Two people that deserve each other?

    The story about how Breitbart and Huffington met is that they were introduced by Matt Drudge. Breitbart used to work for Drudge at the Drudge Report back in the 1990's IIRC.

    Here is a link to some of Arianna's early postings. This one is her idea of how to fix Newt's ethics violations. He was Speaker of the House and caught.

    http://ariannaonline.huffingtonpost.com/columns/column.php?id=696

    Cheney To The Rescue
    December 31, 1996

    ....

    Dick Cheney is no longer in the House, but nowhere does the Constitution specify that the speaker must be a sitting member. Of course, it is a great plus that Cheney served in the House of Representatives from 1979 to 1989 and was from the beginning a leader of his class -- a class that included Gingrich. When Cheney was asked by President Bush to join his Cabinet as defense secretary in 1989, he had succeeded Trent Lott as minority whip. And he was in turn succeeded in the post by Gingrich. One of the most popular and respected Republican figures in the country, especially since his role in the Gulf War, Cheney now lives in Dallas, running the Halliburton Co., an energy and construction corporation.

    The moral force that Gingrich would garner, not only from stepping aside but from providing the leadership that would avoid a bloody battle for the succession, is immeasurable. Unfair though it may be, to ordinary citizens around America, charges against politicians are all the same. As a barman in Phoenix put it the other day, "Gingrich got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and should be punished." If Gingrich doesn't act, the prevalent sense will be that "those guys in Washington are getting away with it again."

    If he does, Gingrich will be instantly transformed from a discredited politician to a principled leader. And ironically, his own long-term interests will be much better served with a year or two in the shadows. He could emerge renewed and strengthened -- perhaps ready to lead again.

    Without an ethical albatross around their neck, Republicans could turn to the White House and say, with moral authority this time: "Now, fellows, it's your turn."


    This looks different in 2011 than it did in 1996. What was that about the White House? "It's your turn."?

    Arianna had that site Resignation.com.
    ...
    The outrage around the country is growing. And the intersection between politics, protest and the Internet is being tested as never before. I'm doing my part. Today I'm launching Resignation.com, a website that will provide an up-to-the-minute catalogue of elected officials, public figures and newspapers (USA Today has just joined the list) calling for the President's resignation....


    http://ariannaonline.huffingtonpost.com/columns/column.php?id=476

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  133. Anonymous10:35 PM

    I used to be a regular reader of HuffPo until last summer when the site turned into a right-wing haven overrun with trolls. I finally deleted my account today after HuffPo's staggering hypocrisy in publishing every one of the Obama birther stories they could find while refusing to touch Dunn's very well-written post on Palin's credibility problems with her "birth" story.

    I will never give HuffPo another click. Let the trolls eat the site alive now. It's a sewer made just for them, and I suspect that's what Arianna had in mind all along.

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  134. So agree with Anonymous 5:14 PM

    ****
    Good places for progressive news:

    talkingpointsmemo.com
    dailykos.com
    thinkprogress.org
    *****

    Those three sites, Gryphen and an hour or so with Rachel et al make for a pretty well-informed day. I still give HP a daily mercy click but stay less than a minute now.
    The voracious pop-up ads and mini celebs on the front page coupled with an ever-increasing tolerance for tr0llies was bad enough but their protection of Palin over President Obama has now hit my last raw nerve. The only thing I'll miss is the often wise and always entertaining repartee with some of my favorite cyber friends on the threads over there.

    Fortunately Gryphen's well researched and documented stories attract a similar, well informed crowd too.

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  135. Anonymous11:32 PM

    Gryphen and everyone, check our #Trigscrew on Twitter.
    Unbelievable how stupid the bots are saying that Wonkette ridicules a Downs syndrome child. And Sarah jumps right in playing the victim.
    So you stupid stupid Palinbots, it was fine for Sarah to either 1 ) risk Trigs life through irresponsible delivery or 2) fake her pregnancy so she could use a DS child as a political prop. Are all of you conservatives so incredibly stupid!?
    And they are bitching and moaning about Obama wanting ( in their words) to raise taxes to the level of the Clinton years. Never mind that's MUCH lower than under Reagan. I've never seen such stupid people in my life.
    I'm sick of being PC about them. Their leaders ruined our country with trickle down economics and they want to return to that? How stupid can they be?
    Very stupid indeed.

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  136. Anonymous11:34 PM

    Had pretty much given HuffPoo the heave ho, but would go there and skim through the headlines. After this, not anymore. Going there right now and deleting my account. Also, still using AOL for internet access and will be getting rid of that also, too.

    Another good news site is politicusa.com

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  137. Anonymous12:09 AM

    Wow!! CNN PROVES Professors Theory!!

    Look at their rationale for why the Trig story is a MYTH!!!

    Talk about very very bad journalism, CNN is up there with FOX. I can't even call it journalism, it's so bad!!

    http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/20/political.myths

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  138. HuffPost's excuse couldn't be more pathetic. Cheers for Dunn! Cheers for Gryphen!

    "Not every conspiracy is a theory."
    - Rubicon

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  139. Anonymous2:09 AM

    @WaveLength my favorites are AlterNet, TruthDig (especially Chris Hedge's weekly column on Mondays), The Real News Network, Democracy Now, Pro Publica, Frontline, John Pilger, Daniel Ellsberg, Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, for health news Andrew Weil, for international The Guardian UK, and of course The Immoral Minority. Twitter is surprisingly good for a quick glance at what news may be breaking throughout the day. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are the best for insight and commentary, even if they do say they're just comedians. Rachel Maddow has been excellent, but I cooled a bit when she supported war on Libya. I'm so glad I'm out of the shallow H-Post rut -- I feel much better informed now.

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  140. Anonymous3:57 AM

    Other good sites: Common Dreams, Mother Jones...and don't forget Wonkette!

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  141. Anonymous4:33 AM

    Well, I finally did it this morning and cancelled my account at HP. I quit reading months ago and commenting but had not visited until this morning when I decided that today was the day to finally rid myself of that excess baggage.

    I gave them a dressing down of Arianna and lastly told them that not printing Dunn's article was the final straw.


    I feel much better now, thanks Mr. Dunn and Gryphen for your work to expose the liars and cheats.

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  142. Anonymous4:52 AM

    I have read HP for some time. I really like the layout - easy to read and access articles. When I started posting comments about Palin last year, I had to be very careful of my wording as most of my comments just "disappeared".
    I have been getting very frustrated, though, at how they will publish any birther comment concerning Obama. Comments made by anyone - no matter how far out there. And yet - they consider the info about Palin to be a subject they won't touch - why? How is hers a conspiracy theory and his not? Even when Palin praises Trump for doing an investigation about Obama - they do an article about her. What irony!! This makes no sense. I agree with "conscious at last". When the news about Palin becomes so well known that they can no longer make excuses - they will jump on the bandwagon. This is really upsetting to me.

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  143. Jeanabella5:20 AM

    I used to go to huffpo first thing to get news from everywhere, but noticed the sensational headline and weak story. They lean right and have had the ilk of Andrew Breitbart (just fired him) posting his right wing lies. I stopped going to huffpo unless directed to a story there. I just tweeted to Ariana Huffington about the hipocracy of having "no conspiracy" stories, why do they put trump everywhere with his "birther" conspriracy story. Tweet to huffpo and everyone connected to the post.
    Jeanabella

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  144. I'm sure it's AOL. Ariana should never have sold the HP to AOL.

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  145. Anonymous8:55 AM

    Stop watching Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, HP, Chris Matthews, and any others who won't air the Trig/Sarah birther stuff because none of them are any different.

    In fact, after you do censor them all out of your lives sell your t.v.'s and radios because you won't be able to watch anything but Fox news. And they're not going to air it either.

    On the up side you can always log on to imm minority and bitch and complain along with the others here!

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  146. Anonymous9:30 AM

    http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/20/political.myths/?hpt=Sbin

    4) The myth: Sarah Palin didn't give birth to baby Trig.

    The facts: Soon after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was announced as Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential running mate, rumors abounded that her newborn son, Trig, who was born with Down syndrome, was not hers.
    The McCain campaign, along with Palin herself, shot down the rumor.
    Conspiracy theorists, now called "Trig Truthers," point to photos taken in late March of that year in which Palin's stomach appears, they say, to be flat -- not the image of an expectant mother. But other photos show her with a round stomach.
    Then there's the question of why Palin waited so long to seek medical attention after her water broke during a trip to Texas. Reports indicate that it took more than 15 hours for her to get to a hospital after flying back to Alaska.
    Some claimed that the baby, born in April, might have been that of teenage daughter Bristol. But Bristol gave birth to her own child, Tripp, in December. Myth busted.
    ---------------------------------------------------

    Myth busted? Says you, CNN hack!

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  147. Anonymous10:48 AM

    Other good sites for commentary and news: Counterpunch and ZNet.

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  148. I have removed my HP account. As someone else noted - "I feel much better now".

    Gryphen - Broken record here: It would be great if your site allowed "us" to comment or reply directly to someone who has previously commented. Is that something that Blogger allow?

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  149. Anonymous1:00 PM

    Mlaiuppa, the problems with Huffpo existed long before AOL came on the scene.

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