New Lefty Blog a Disaster, But Not For Me

We told you back on April 6th about a new lefty blog that was coming from Arianna Huffington, the shrill conservative turned shrill liberal. You remember her - she was the nitwit that was always trying to horn in on future Gov. Arnold's press appearances during the recall campaign. Well, the new blog has debuted, and the critics are murdering it (from LA Weekly, h/t Hugh Hewitt):

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. What Arianna Huffington's bizarre guru-cult association, 180-degree conservative-to-liberal conversion, and failed run in the California gubernatorial-recall race couldn't accomplish, her blog has now done: She is finally played out publicly. This Web-site venture is the sort of failure that is simply unsurvivable, because of all the advance publicity touting its success as inevitable. Her blog is such a bomb that it's the box-office equivalent of Gigli, Ishtar and Heaven's Gate rolled into one. In magazine terms, it's the disastrous clone of Tina Brown's Talk, JFK Jr.'s George or Maer Roshan's Radar. No matter what happens to Huffington, it's clear Hollywood will suffer the consequences.

It almost seems like some sick hoax. Perhaps Huffington is no longer a card-carrying progressive but now a conservative mole. Because she 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.

The writer has a great point. In the past us conservative bloggers had to research numerous sites to find the latest inane ramblings of the left. Now Arianna has gathered all her nuts into one basket, making my job that much easier.

Be sure to read the whole review in LA Weekly - it's merciless.

UPDATE: Lileks describes the Huffington Report as "the 48-car celebrity freeway pile-up". Read more here.