“Arianna Huffington” on The Daily Caller

Who would have seen this coming? (more)

Arianna Huffington launched the French edition of the Huffington Post on Monday, naming millionaire heiress Anne Sinclair — wife of the disgraced Socialist Dominique-Strauss-Kahn — as editorial director, France 24 reported. (more)

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has had almost everything thrown at him since becoming a front-runner for the GOP nomination. And now he can add accusations of sexism to that list. (more)

Barack Obama’s re-election bid is going to be an uphill battle. While unemployment hovers at nine percent in the worst economic climate in decades, even Arianna Huffington may be deserting him.  (more)

It has been nine months since the AOL/Huffington Post merger and by many accounts things could be better. But despite improving earnings, many see the business model under the leadership of Arianna Huffington as unsustainable. (more)

After a week of drama and confusion over the future of its influential blog TechCrunch, AOL has finally made public what is happening with its controversy-stirring editor-in-chief: (more)

Venture capitalist Michael Arrington, founder of the technology blog TechCrunch and recent AOL rabble-rouser, may no longer be the editor of one of AOL-Huffington Post’s hottest online properties due to a byzantine ethical conflict with Arianna Huffington and her company. (more)

By the looks of things, if there is finally a debt deal, liberals must feel like they’ve had their head rammed into the ceiling fan. (more)

As the dust settles after the announcement of last night’s proposed budget agreement, neither side is particularly eager to claim victory. A conservative senator called the deal “disgusting” last night and the left isn’t exactly celebrating either. (more)

Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington says that the showdown over raising the debt ceiling is a false crisis which is taking time away from the many real crises America faces. (more)

If you were an early trailblazer for political media on the Internet and managed to take something you founded and sell it for $315 million, one might define you as successful. And although it probably helps that you won a few hearts and minds along the way for switching sides on the political spectrum midway through your career, Huffington Post founder and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington has her own ideas about success. (more)

Dear Arianna and Tim: (more)

After much huffing and puffing, a group of unpaid Huffington Post contributors, led by blogger and union organizer Jonathan Tasini, is upping the ante and will bring a class-action lawsuit against Arianna Huffington, HuffPo and its new parent company AOL, according to Forbes blog Mixed Media. (more)

In an email to The Daily Caller on Monday morning, Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff alleged that conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart is not telling the truth about discussions they had regarding HuffPo’s removal of his blog from its front page. (more)

Amid pressure from left-wing advocacy organization Color of Change, the Huffington Post removed conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart’s blog from its front page last week. But Breitbart is furious that the liberal site’s top brass refused to defend him against the racism allegations made by Color of Change. (more)

New Rule: This one is a shocker. It turns out that comedian Bill Maher, one of Arianna Huffington’s best friends, has violated HuffPo‘s new policy banning from its front page those who engage in ”false ad hominem attack” even outside of HuffPo. Maher called Sarah Palin a “dumb twat” on his HBO show recently. That’s definitely ad hominem. But was it “false”–a convenient extra word that HuffPo belatedly added to their policy (thereby setting themselves up as low-cost libel cops for the world)? Unfortunately for Maher, one person who seems very likely to think it false is Huffington, who has consistently–starting from the first word of Palin’s VP selection in 2008– warned Democrats not to underestimate her. Huffington even quoted approvingly from a Michelle Cottle article praising Palin’s “brilliant success” and suggesting that she is a “P.R. genius.” Doesn’t sound “dumb” to me. (more)

Jason Linkins, Banned from HuffPo Front Page! Today, Huffington Post’s Mario Ruiz announced a new policy–that someone who engages in an “ad hominem” attack (even if it’s not in the pages of HuffPo ) “violates the tenets of debate and civil discourse we have strived for since the day we launched. As a result, we will no longer feature his posts on the front page.” (more)

Huffpocrisy Watch–The Breitbart Rule: So in order to appear on the Huffington Post front page, you not only have to avoid making “ad hominem” attacks (that violate their “tenets of debate and civil discourse”) in what you write for Huffington Post–a reasonable rule–but you have to avoid making ad hominem attacks in what you say and write anywhere else? … If this rule is applied honestly, I suspect a whole lot of people are now banned from HuffPo’s front page. … The first name there right now, for example, is HuffPo writer Jason Linkins. You think Linkins is never ad hominem? On his twitter feed too? … (more)

Color of Change, an activist group co-founded by former White House adviser Van Jones, has unveiled a new target: “racism” at The Huffington Post. (more)

A strike called by unpaid Huffington Post contributors received a major boost Wednesday with a call to arms released by the national Newspaper Guild. (more)