Arianna Huffington Pisses Me Off Again

First of all, I’m sure it’s nothing personal on her part.  I’m just one of the many thousands of people who leave comments on her website.  She has no reason to know who I am, she probably does not moderate the comments on her site personally and I think the chances she has ever read any of

I just felt like running this picture of Nicole Minetti again. It has nothing to do with the story

my blog posts are really, really slim.

Also, I’ve been reading Huffpo for many years now, so I can remember what the comments section used to look like.  Entire threads were destroyed by morons writing Bwaaaahaaaahaaahaaaa and the beyond moronic comment “First!”, which is really a pointless thing to write even if you are the first commenter, which only one can be and there used to be 9 or 10 per thread with precisely that comment.  Then, they cracked down.

I think they are too restrictive.  I don’t mind that they have an anti-obscenity policy.  If I feel an absolutely irresistible urge to write Fuck, I can do it here or at Wonkette.  (they don’t like it at Facebook, either – fuckers)  But one thing that really sticks in my craw is that the Huffington Post actually has a policy against anyone saying that 9/11 was an inside job.  They want to just shut down the argument on that.  I believe very strongly that 9/11 was an inside job.

Now, two things today have really set me on edge.  First, the headline story is about Nancy Pelosi asking Anthony Weiner to resign.  I can hear you saying “How is that Arianna Huffington’s fault?  She’s just reporting the news.”  It reminds me of the time Arianna was going to interview Nancy Pelosi and she prepared for that by asking her readers what question they would like her to ask.  There were thousands and thousands of responses, far more than she’d ever had before or has ever had since and a clear majority, probably 75 or 80%, said she should ask about impeachment.

She just ignored us entirely, lied right in our faces and said “Clearly, people want me to ask her about how she deals with such a stressful job,” or some softball nonsense like that.

The other thing that bothers me goes back to the 9/11 thing.  About a month or so ago, they started a thing called a “micro-bio,” letting you put a short tag line below your user name.  They didn’t like my “9/11 was an inside job” and they didn’t like my second choice “2 planes, 3 buildings,” either.  I figured there was no point fighting it, so I just used http://www.gurukalehuru.com as my micro-bio, and got away with it for about a month, too.

Today, I was censored.  I can’t use my website as my micro-bio any more.  So, Arianna, if you are reading this:  I do not think you are the great journalist that you apparently think you are.  You may have the best (or just the biggest) news site on the internet but, really, that isn’t saying much.  Could be much, much better if it were a little bit freer.  And you were a bit more honest.