Displaying 1,321 To 1,350 Of 1,432 Comments But really, you’ve got to hand that to her: Arianna is the first and only middle class champion who has 6000 slaves, called citizen journalists. » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 12:41 pm Thanks boomer, that’s what I wanted to ask you to do at one point and then forgot…. » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 12:21 pm Oh, Monday is the day when Arianna is “fighting” for the middle class and the poor? According to her headline, yes: UNKIND CUTS Now does that mean her people get paid from now on? Two days ago she said it’s not going to happen. And BTW, anyone remembers how Obama invited a few “progressive” bloggers/journalists over for lunch in the White House and she magically had “an important meeting” and couldn’t attend. I still wonder why that was…. » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 12:19 pm I’m not at the point yet to explore the archives….I just stumbled upon the link on another article. But yes, I did understand there is very promising material to be seen in the archives! » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 9:42 am Now that was an interesting piece I stumbled upon today…. ARIANNA HUFFINGTON RESPONDS When The Huffington Post crossed the line again with another questionable attack on President Obama this Sunday, many members protested online and here at PlanetPOV. To Whom it May Concern, It has come to my attention that there are a few members at The Huffington Post and at your site who are under a number of misapprehensions about myself and The Huffington Post. » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 7:36 am Thank you so much, PW, and I’m looking forward to learn more from you. For example your take on angry comments on the Internet just being pixels on a screen was very well received. 😉 » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 1:19 am They are socialists, dontcha know…. (although sneaking across the border for healthcare can be on vogue at times) » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 11:53 am Good to know! » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 11:37 am Yes, I do enjoy it a lot and I want to bring the best that I can to it. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 11:35 am AB, I believe that God, truth and love are one and the same, and these are my core values too. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 11:32 am AlphaBitch, thank you so much. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 11:25 am Thank you again, KB. You all are so kind here. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 11:21 am I guess I’m done now with two accounts in one week…;) » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 11:18 am Thanks a lot, AdLib. I was really shocked about the attitude towards foreigners that I encountered back then. When I started blogging I didn’t know anything and ventured also on ABC, Anchorage Daily and what not – I surely wouldn’t do that to me again with the experience I’ve gained in the meantime. Not every place is like THIS place (in fact, there is no place like this place!) – but luckily thanks to AOL and Cher I was directed here…. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 11:17 am Thank you funksands, I’m really overwhelmed by the kindness of the people here. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 10:52 am So nice to get 2 welcomes in one week… hehe…. 😀 » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 10:51 am Thanks, Sabreen. Yet I didn’t mean the change of my name, but that I pretended to be an American on Huff in order to make my point. When I entered the fray as a Swiss I got instantly grilled by the trolls. That’s why I adopted an American alter ego. How sad am I now, that Obama is not “my” President anymore!!! Yeah, and since I also wanted my Huff friends to know that I’m here I started off with my former screen name. If you want to change your name, you could also keep your picture for some more time and chose a new name. It can be liberating too… 😉 » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 10:50 am Animals really know how to live happily! » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 8:24 am That must be it! » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 8:22 am Namaste boomer, and thanks again! 🙂 » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 8:20 am Thanks jdmn17, yes I know we don’t differ that much at the end of the day. At first I did get some American culture shock though… but by now I feel very familiar with America. I guess I’ve become kind of a world citizen – which is very funny considering my dislike to travel. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 7:41 am 😀 » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 7:25 am Hi Dawg, thanks – how cool is that, now I get 2 welcomes within one week…. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 7:23 am Thanks FerraKnows, I wish you well too! » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 7:21 am Thanks, BigDogMom, I was sure that this is an open-minded place. Yet I had been playing my alter-ego role a bit too well and wanted to clarify matters especially to those who knew me earlier on Huff. 😉 » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 7:08 am Hello everybody, I hope all is going well. Today I’m finally taking a new birth with the screen name I’ve always wanted, but which was never available when I tried to get it…..until now. Of course there is not that much of a change in the name, but still it is now finally the name I really wanted. Further I would like to get something off my chest which I never could on Huff and which started to bother me quite some time ago. Yet I decided not to share it on Huff, because there simply were too many trolls who would have seized relentlessly on the opportunity not to take my arguments seriously and to pick on something which is not all that important, at least not to me. Yet here and now, in this wonderful forum, where I can express myself freely and am not getting attacked mindlessly I feel that it is the highest time to let go of this alter ego and to introduce myself here as the Swiss person I really am. I hope I am still welcome and I can share more of my perspective as an European who has been living in India for the past 10 years to pursue a spiritual path. I hope you understand that I didn’t mean to deceive anyone and that I acted that way in order to serve America and your wonderful President. And now I’m extremely glad that truth finally won…. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 6:46 am Another very interesting post, whats. Excellent! » Posted By Truth On April 10, 2011 @ 9:15 am Indeed it is. I’m so glad that I bought some Rumi poems a couple of months ago…. after reading this I now finally dug them out of the bookshelf- but still: how long would I have to read to find such a marvelous work as the above. Thanks again! » Posted By Truth On April 10, 2011 @ 12:26 pm Cher, what a wonderful introduction to Rumi and Sufism. I especially liked this one: One night a man was crying, Allah! Allah! So beautiful. Thank you! » Posted By Truth On April 10, 2011 @ 11:36 am Hi jdmn, that’s right – they don’t have links – but we could stock our ant- troll- library well in advance before the elections… i just thought it a pity to let all that wonderful material just go by. There’s a lot of work in there and it could be useful for us for future reference. Have you seen up there the troll library? » Posted By Truth On February 17, 2011 @ 7:55 amComments Posted By Truth
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AdLib On October – 26 – 2009
There was increased and unflattering speculation about the motives and agendas of The Huffington Post and Arianna Huffington. Remarkably, Arianna Huffington has chosen to respond to these criticisms in a letter delivered this morning to PlanetPOV. It reads as follows:
I am making this attempt to clear up these misunderstandings because I value the truth and our members matter to me. And just for the record, I kept a straight face as I typed that.
As I’m sure you’re aware, it is highly unusual for me to express my opinions without cameras pointed at me so I hope you’ll understand if I at any time appear a bit disoriented or speak to an imaginary host.
I would like to respond to some of the key allegations that have been made about me but before I do, I would like to once again remark on how I hate that Balloon Boy for stealing MY airtime. Bastard.
1. Huffington Post is owned by a hedge fund with investments in health care and insurance.
Absolutely false. Huffington Post is not owned by a hedge fund. There are at least two hedge funds that own it, smartypants!
2. Arianna Huffington flipped from being a right wing Republican to a left wing Democrat overnight solely because she is an opportunist.
I find that allegation very offensive. I am very committed to my principles and beliefs! Unless a promising opportunity comes along, of course. People who believe this accusation are cynics. I suppose if Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin or Ann Coulter came out tomorrow to say they were now liberal Democrats and for doing so they just happened to receive enormous publicity, popular news and opinion websites owned by and named after them, valuable book deals, enthusiastic praise and slavish devotion by progressives, frequent cable news and other tv interviews treating them as the voice of progressives and 1990′s hair styles , you’d be just as suspicious.
Let me be very clear about this, Larry, I am not doing this because I have a lust for celebrity, power and money. I am doing this for the children, after all, they’re our future. I have gone on many talk shows and written many columns at Huffington Post and written a number of books to make clear to people that I am not interested in being a celebrity nor am I seeking attention, money or power. And I think most of the millions of people who have seen me on tv or have read my books and articles or visited my website, bought my perfume, purchased an Arianna Huffington action figure (with kung fu grip) or will line up to see the movie based on my life story, know that I have no interest in being a celebrity.
3. Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post purposely publish misleading headlines, anti-Obama articles and dishonest and sensationalistic stories in order to generate media attention and greater web traffic so higher rates can be charged to advertisers.
Where do you people come up with these things? When I write an article with a 50 point, screaming red headline demanding that Joe Biden should be the first Vice President in the history of the United States to resign in protest because his advice was not accepted by the President in one instance in Afghanistan, I’m not doing it to get attention. Jeez! And how would that result in my getting more media attention? As I told MSNBC’s The Ed Show, CNN, ABC News, Headline News, CSPAN, Lifetime, Oprah, The View, Rachel Ray, Logo, The Food Network, Animal Planet and Glendale High School reporters, I’m not interested in publicity, I’m speaking out selflessly on the fictional issues of the day because I care. About the children.
4. The Huffington Post doesn’t care about its members, it secretly supports the presence of offensive right wing racists, ideologues and fanatics as comment bloggers because the conflict they create keeps members on the site longer and clicking more which increases ad revenue.
Okay, let’s break this down. Do you really think the hedge funds that own The Huffington Post invested in it to make a profit? Do you really think they would have plowed money into the site if they weren’t solely motivated by Democratic and Progressive principles? Do you really think hedge funds put profits and return on investment above doing what’s right for this country? That they would have the audacity to view the faithful, principled members of a web site as nothing more as rubes to be manipulated to increase returns?
If so, I feel sorry for you. I mean, just think what would happen to this nation and its economic system if financial entities were actually that greedy and so focused on stuffing their pockets that they took no responsibility for the ramifications of their actions. You don’t understand how caring and principled hedge funds, banks and other financial institutions really are. Maybe your corporate parents just didn’t give you enough love when you were founded.
Secondly, why would we want people posting personal insults, racist attacks, demeaning Obama, promoting propaganda and lies and in the process, inspiring the kind of outrage that makes people spend many valuable hours out of their life defending the president, principles and truth which they value? It’s not like there’s any profit in that for us to have increased numbers of people on the site for more time. Except in advertising revenue but otherwise, why would we want that?
I hate trolls! Really I do! Ooh, they get me so mad! In fact, I’m going to go over to Huffington Post in a minute just to bash some! Hey, you should too!
5. Huffington Post claims to be a place for progressives and liberals but has policies of censorship and banning which are very oppressive and more fitting for a right wing site.
I have heard all the overheated complaints about how our big and growing blacklist of words makes posting difficult, how annoyed some people are at the arbitrary wiping of their posts and how arbitrary and easy to abuse our system of banning members is. I think the best response to this would be a post from one of your fellow members that was posted today:
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Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/26/ed-yingling-banking-indus_n_333481.html
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You see? And that was from one of your own.
And as for all the unfair criticism that comments on all of the articles I write on Huffington Post (I just love saying the name!) are fully moderated to keep out all strong criticisms of me and my opinion, so that all I and readers see are fawning, glowing compliments from the little people about how brilliant and right I am…it’s just coincidence that no one has ever had strong words or criticism of anything I’ve ever thought or wrote. I’m not saying I’m right about everything but have you considered that the many people grovelling at my feet over everything I say…might be right?
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/26/ed-yingling-banking-indus_n_333481.html
6. Zsa Zsa Gabor is my cousin.
How silly this one is! Zsa Zsa is Hungarian, superficial, self-centered, addicted to celebrity and attention, married for money and used her husband’s wealth to live the life she wanted for herself. On the other hand, I am Greek.
In closing, I would like to invite all of you to reconsider The Huffington Post and join us there for thoughtful, mature and substantive discussions about issues that really matter in an atmosphere that respects and protects Freedom of Expression. That is, those of you we haven’t banned yet for freely expressing speech we don’t allow there.
Sincerely,
Arianna Huffington”
So in spite of my beloved screen name, which represents a value that is very, very dear to me, I decided early on in my HuffPost career to resort to hiding my true nationality in order to make my case.
I came to the scene sometime in 2008, I think even before Obama had won the nomination. I used to log in to several places as “Swissobserver”, but gave up on that soon due to the nasty troll attacks. But by then I had already contracted the Obama-fever and decided to become an American of sorts….
his lips grew sweet with praising.
Until a cynic said,
“So! I have heard you
Calling out, but have you ever gotten a response?”
The man had no answer to that.
He quit praying and fell into a confused sleep.
He dreamed he saw Khidr, the guide of souls,
in a thick green foliage.
“Why did you stop praising?”
“Because I never heard anything back.”
“This longing you express is the return message.”
The grief you cry from
draws you toward union.
The pure sadness that wants help
is the secret cup.
Listen to the moan of a dog
for its master.
That whining is the connection.
There are love-dogs
no one knows the name of.
Give your life
to be one of them.
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In any case, I just noticed you received another answer on PWs business series part 1, it might be of interest for you, something with a site for your work. Now I’m really off to part 2!
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