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still_one

(92,241 posts)
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:13 PM Jun 2012

you have to really despise huffington whose headline is walker looks good in exit polls. The vote

isn't even finished, and she is typically trying to demoralize the Democrats

In addition, the headline does not reflect the actual report

"
Exit Polls Show More Union Members Than 2010, But Otherwise Similar
The Washington Post reports that early exit poll tabulations in Wisconsin show that "union households comprise roughly a third of all voters, a share of the vote that is higher than either of the last two presidential or gubernatorial elections held in the state."
However, the early tabulations also show a makeup of voters that otherwise appears very close to the 2010 electorate that elected Gov. Scott Walker "on race, ideology and religion, among other factors." Wisconsin's 2010 voters were significantly more conservative and slightly more Republican than in previous elections. The Post also reports that on party identification, the exit poll shows rough parity -- roughly the same result as in 2010 -- with "about a third each identif[ing] as Democrats, Republicans and independents."
-- Mark Blumenthal
"


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you have to really despise huffington whose headline is walker looks good in exit polls. The vote (Original Post) still_one Jun 2012 OP
Either that or she knows the vote has asjr Jun 2012 #1
actually it is a misrepresentation of what is happening /nt still_one Jun 2012 #4
"She"? You mean Mark Blumenthal, the author, is female? nt Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 #12
Following Drudge otohara Jun 2012 #2
Mark Blumenthal wrote the article. nt Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 #15
Arianna Huffington is a Republican. MineralMan Jun 2012 #3
absolutely. Her good buddies are all repukes. The only reason she became a Democrat I suspect was still_one Jun 2012 #6
She didn't write that article. And she no longer owns Huffingtonpost.com. nt Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 #10
Yes it actually rolled down hill after the sell off- headlines and stories really suck there lunasun Jun 2012 #13
She's still a Republican, and she MineralMan Jun 2012 #16
She's actually a Democrat. And she didn't write the article. nt Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 #26
You met her? RUMMYisFROSTED Jun 2012 #23
Yup. Her ex-husband was from my district in California. MineralMan Jun 2012 #24
Woodwind quintet. RUMMYisFROSTED Jun 2012 #27
Huffington only faked progressivism GarroHorus Jun 2012 #5
Her own articles on the site are quite left, but I have noticed.. mvd Jun 2012 #7
The "Crash My Browser" Post? jsmirman Jun 2012 #8
Huff Po is nothing more than a right wing tabloid Rag! Arianna's loyalty crunch60 Jun 2012 #9
Sigh. Don't you pay attention to anything? Mark Blumenthal wrote the article. And Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 #17
Sigh yourself , I know she sold it, it's still a right wing rag and what I said crunch60 Jun 2012 #18
It was AOL who bought HuffPo. MineralMan Jun 2012 #21
God forbid someone should publish information they have access to cthulu2016 Jun 2012 #11
I went there and Bennyboy Jun 2012 #14
she sold out to aol... madrchsod Jun 2012 #19
My take on it is even more sinister than all of yours left on green only Jun 2012 #20
I can't stand that site. Or her. Or AOL. daaron Jun 2012 #22
You'll really despise Huffpost tomorrow when they are crying voter fraud due to Barrett's landslide FSogol Jun 2012 #25

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
3. Arianna Huffington is a Republican.
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:18 PM
Jun 2012

She was one in California when I met her, and she still is. She will pretend to be anything she needs to pretend to be to keep making money.

She is not a Democrat. She is not a liberal. She is not a progressive. She is a Republican.

still_one

(92,241 posts)
6. absolutely. Her good buddies are all repukes. The only reason she became a Democrat I suspect was
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:20 PM
Jun 2012

to get back at her husband


lunasun

(21,646 posts)
13. Yes it actually rolled down hill after the sell off- headlines and stories really suck there
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:30 PM
Jun 2012

synthetic progressive as opposed to the real deal
a lot of it misleading or tabloid like now

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
16. She's still a Republican, and she
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:32 PM
Jun 2012

is still in charge of Huffington Post. AOL owns it, but she runs it.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
24. Yup. Her ex-husband was from my district in California.
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:55 PM
Jun 2012

I ran into the two of them a couple of times while playing in the woodwind quintet I was in. We played a couple of charity events they attended. I met her at one of those. Didn't like her or her Republican husband, either.

I was in a tux at the event, so they probably thought I was a guest or something. Politicking.

 

GarroHorus

(1,055 posts)
5. Huffington only faked progressivism
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:19 PM
Jun 2012

She wanted to get Progressives to buy into her fake crap in order to sell out to AOL. Now, she's right back to her right wing nuttery.

mvd

(65,174 posts)
7. Her own articles on the site are quite left, but I have noticed..
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:24 PM
Jun 2012

some subtle changes overall since AOL bought it. I think money must have meant more to her than her progressive values.

 

crunch60

(1,412 posts)
9. Huff Po is nothing more than a right wing tabloid Rag! Arianna's loyalty
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:26 PM
Jun 2012

is to the highest bidder. She is a faux Dem today and Republican tomorrow. She talks the talk.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
17. Sigh. Don't you pay attention to anything? Mark Blumenthal wrote the article. And
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:33 PM
Jun 2012

more importantly, it was in all the news months ago....Huffington SOLD Huffingtonpost.com. She doesn't own it, anymore.

I think the Washington Post or some outfit bought it.

 

crunch60

(1,412 posts)
18. Sigh yourself , I know she sold it, it's still a right wing rag and what I said
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:42 PM
Jun 2012

about Arianna still stands. She's a phony.

cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
11. God forbid someone should publish information they have access to
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:28 PM
Jun 2012

They would have been much better journalists if they had made something up instead.

 

Bennyboy

(10,440 posts)
14. I went there and
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:31 PM
Jun 2012

the Headline has been for about an hour now:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Exit Polls Look Good For Walker... And Obama... Justice Department Monitoring... GOP Election Fraud?... Obama Offers Weak Support... Walker Sends Creepy Last-Minute Tweet..."



Seems like they are reporting the news to me. If the exit polls look good they look good. That might change who know? But the rest tells of all the bad stuff too.

Or do you want a partisan news only? They are not cheerleading and that is news.

left on green only

(1,484 posts)
20. My take on it is even more sinister than all of yours
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:48 PM
Jun 2012

The organization that bears her name is only trying to "stir up the pot". Their total objective is to stir people up, create anxiety, to make people hate, to make people cry, to satisfy people's craving for the absurd and to create gossip.

Why?

Simple. To create "hits" on their web site. The more hits they can motoviate people into generating for them, the more advertising they can sell and the more they can charge for each ad. It's greed for the almighty dollar that they worship, pure and simple. They are in no way in the business of serving the public, for the public's enlightenment and well being. Rather, they are in business because they are capitalists who lust after wealth. Pure and simple.

The only thing I cannot figure out is why someone like Bill Mahr, who at least gives the outward appearance of being altruistic towards the welfare and benefit of our society as a whole, could be so attracted to the person of the Huffington Posts' founding (to the point of falling all over himself in public with his admiration of her)?

 

daaron

(763 posts)
22. I can't stand that site. Or her. Or AOL.
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 08:50 PM
Jun 2012

I started boycotting it a couple years ago, before she sold out to AOL. Haven't looked back, and I haven't missed a damn thing.

FSogol

(45,491 posts)
25. You'll really despise Huffpost tomorrow when they are crying voter fraud due to Barrett's landslide
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 09:00 PM
Jun 2012

victory.

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