Monday, May 09, 2005

And I'll Huff, And I'll Puff, ...Oh! Never Mind!

It appears as if Arianna Huffington's foray into the blogosphere isn't turning out to be the barn burner she thought it would be:

Judging from today's horrific debut of the humongously pre-hyped celebrity blog the Huffington Post, the Madonna of the mediapolitic world has gone one reinvention too many. She has now made an online ass of herself. What Arianna Huffington's bizarre guru-cult association, 180-degree conservative-to-liberal conversion, and failed run in the California gubernatorial-recall race couldn't accomplish, her blog has now done: She is finally played out publicly. This Web-site venture is the sort of failure that is simply unsurvivable, because of all the advance publicity touting its success as inevitable. Her blog is such a bomb that it's the box-office equivalent of Gigli, Ishtar and Heaven's Gate rolled into one. In magazine terms, it's the disastrous clone of Tina Brown's Talk, JFK Jr.'s George or Maer Roshan's Radar. No matter what happens to Huffington, it's clear Hollywood will suffer the consequences.

The funniest part of her whole blog to me was right below the Title:
"DELIVERING NEWS AND OPINION SINCE MAY 9, 2005"

You mean since today! Surely you could have been more creative than that!

I've got an idea for tommorrow:
"DELIVERING NEWS AND OPINION FROM MAY 9-MAY 10, 2005"

Now that would be funny!

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