“” wrote Nico Pitney, a little-known reporter to the mainstream political media but not likely a Washington outsider: Before coming to the Huffington Post, he was the deputy research director at the Center for American Progress, of which John Podesta, the head of the Obama transition team, is founder, president and chief executive.
http://www.blnz.com/news/2008/11/19/Foggy_Bottom_4415.html";
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So....does the White House run the Huffington Post??
Well, if the White House ran it, it would be broke.