May 10, 2005

Huffington Post a Dud?

According to Nikki Finke over at LA Weekly it is:

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.

Ha ha...those are some choice words. Finke goes on:

Forgive them, these bleating blowhards on Arianna's blog, because they know not what they do. Not Seinfeld has-been Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her untalented TV-hyphenate husband, Brad Hall, making unfunny shtick of the anti-gay-marriage movement. Not has-been director Mike Nichols, using the forum to parade his high school grasp of U.S. history by mentioning "de Tocqueville" and "Dr. King" in the same paragraph. Not has-been brat-packer John Cusack, penning the 459,308th remembrance of Hunter Thompson for the sole purpose of letting the world know that the actor scored an invite to the writer's intimate memorial service. Still, the celebs aren't to blame here, because they made the bad mistake of allowing Arianna to sweet-talk them into believing that they had something to say in the first place.

Exactly. I said the similar things regarding the posts by Louis-Dreyfus/Hall and Cusack yesterday.

Now I know that I probably have just as little to say as some of these celebrities. I don't expect to garner fame and fortune by my posting here. I do it because it's fun for me, and it gives me a way to vent my political spleen. Unlike the celebrities Huffington rounded up (and those she failed to round up), I don't have magazines, newspapers and television calling me to ask for my opinion on everything from the war in Iraq to how I decorate my modest ranch home. Heck, I don't even have my photo posted...I don't think the few people who read my blog are that curious about what I look like.

But you know that the celebs who did sign up were figuring they'd get even more exposure...positive exposure, that would give the little people greater insight to their superior intellects and social views. Like we needed more of that!

Michelle Malkin figures the blog will surivive due to sheer curiosity. Finke thinks not. Who is correct depends upon the blog-reading public, meaning you and me. Whaddaya say...are we up for the challenge?

UPDATE: The Democratic Underground has some (as always) choice comments regarding the HP. This time, of course, they are practically falling all over themselves to compliment Arianna and pals.

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