Sideline reporter gone wild
Nikki Finke at LA Weekly wonders whether the Huffington Post will finally finish its proprietor. Even if it doesn't, Finke believes the new website will hurt Hollywood since Huffington has "served up liberal celebs like red meat on a silver platter for the salivating and Hollywood-hating right wing to chew up and spit out." To Fink, Huffington celebrities and ex-celebrities are "lambs to the slaughter, — baa, baa, baa, suddenly standing for baad, baad, baad — led by a shameless shepherdess whose only interest in the Hollywood flock in the first place is their ability to secure yet another headline for Huffington."
It turns out that the first lamb never was a celebrity, unless sideline sports reporters turned cable boxing commentators count. Jim Lampley writes that because the early exit polls showed John Kerry winning, and the Las Vegas bookies relied on those results to set odds, Karl Rove stole the presidency for George Bush. Lampley challenges all of the other "thinkers" at the Huffington Post to jump on this story. Yes, by all means.
