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"Andy Stern, A Member of Obama’s Fiscal Responsibility Commission, Says ‘Worshipping the Market’ Has Failed America" PHOTO CAPTION: "Andy Stern, former head of Services Employees International Union (SEIU) and a President Barack Obama appointee to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, said on Monday that the free market has failed the country and American workers. He made his remarks at a conference of the Campaign for America's Future in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)" SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) – Andy Stern, the former head of the Service Employees International Union who now sits on President Obama's National Commission on...

Here is video of Arianna Huffington blaming the Gulf Oil Spill on George W. Bush and Dick Cheney! Huffington said, “It is absolutely, a 1000-percent, Bush-Cheney’s fault . . . ” Liz Cheney was on the same panel and immediately respond by saying that was absolutely not true: The left, you are going to try — for years, you have been demonizing Bush and Cheney and I am sure you will continue to demonize them for years going forward. But we have got now a catastrophe in the Gulf coast, a catastrophe that happened under this administration’s watch, which this...

This is Part 1 of Arianna Huffington's Luncheon Speech at the California Democratic Convention in April 2010. There are 5 videos for the complete speech.

Arianna Huffington Tries To Explain Ratings Meltdown at MSNBC & CNN (very funny). Oh Arianna, just admit it. TV viewers are moving their eyeballs to FOX News because they are tired of the bias on MSNBC and CNN. Video shot 4-17-10 after her lunch speech at the California Democratic Convention. CLICK HERE TO WATCH ARIANNA. THIS ONE IS FUNNY.

The co-founder of progressive blog The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, has attributed the West Virginia mining disaster, along with virtually every other accident under the sun, as a direct result of small-government and corporate greed in the April 13 Huffpo column "The West Virginia Mining Disaster and the Financial Crisis Have the Same Root Cause." "Officials say it's too soon to pinpoint the exact cause of the tragic explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia that took the lives of 29 miners, but we certainly know enough to identify the root cause," Huffington began. "It's the same...

Yesterday's joint appearance with Arianna Huffington on CNN's "Reliable Sources," hosted by the estimable Howard Kurtz, gave me a chance to tell Arianna in person what most people think about her crusade against the Fox News Channel: It is silly. Her focus on a word here and a phrase there is silly. The warning that Glenn Beck or others are "inciting" the public and that this is dangerous is silly. The program also gave me the opportunity to say on television what I often say on radio: If I had it in my power, I'd give Keith Olbermann a 24/7...

Here is video of Arianna Huffington and Hugh Hewitt, on "Reliable Sources," debating whether Glenn Beck has "gone too far." (Video)Arianna said that Glenn Beck takes "apocalyptic statements that basically fuel peoples fear and anxiety and has made them his talking trade, practically no show is done without some kind of form of inciting fear in the American people and I think that's dangerous especially in a time like this." Huffington was asked why she did not apply the same standard she has for Beck when she was asked on MSNBC about Rahm Emanuel's recent use of the word "retarded,"...

Erick Erickson from Redstate and Arianna Huffington on CNN asked about the Tea Party Movement, Arianna: "This movement is built on a legitimate anger about the system in general. If you look at what's happening to the middle class Wolf and how the middle class is crumbling with the loss of jobs and savings, of homes, that's really what's propelling this movement,...Now, Independents and many Democrats and Republicans are feeling that the fix is in"...(Video from CNN)

In a previous post I discussed the confrontation between Fox News President Roger Ailes and Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington on last Sunday’s This Week on ABC. Let me repeat the relevant portion of the transcript from the video embedded in that post. HUFFINGTON: Well, Roger, it’s not a question of picking a fight. And aren’t you concerned about the language that Glenn Beck is using, which is, after all, inciting the American people? There is a lot of suffering out there, as you know, and when he talks about people being slaughtered, about who is going to be the...

If someone's going to play speech police, one might think it would be wise to make sure her own house was in order prior to hurling charges. But, for Arianna Huffington, editor of The Huffington Post, there are two sets of rules. Huffington, in an appearance on HLN's Feb. 2 "The Joy Behar Show," defended a Jan. 12 post by the Huffington Post's TV-Radio critic Bill Mann, which he called the network "a malignant tumor on the body politic." "Yes, well, first of all, there's a big distinction between who your anchors are, who are your employees and what they...

Huffington Post reporter Mayhill Fowler reveals today that she intentionally ignored reporting former President Bill Clinton's adulterous relationship with an unnamed mistress during his wife Hillary's campaign for the 2008 Democratic party presidential nomonation.Fowler writes she knew the state of the Clintons' marriage had national security implications as she notes that Democratic voters were falsely comforted thinking the former two-term president would be by Hillary's side in bed at the White House when the "3 a.m." phone call came. But that was not enough for her to report the truth so the voters could decide for themselves. Huffington Post, the...

President Barack Obama's nationality scandal is gathering speed and refusing to go away now that Congress has got involved. There have been rumbles of unrest around the world regarding Obama's nationality since the day he stated he would run for the presidency. Now, after more than a year as president of the USA, the rumbles have turned into a full on eruption. The Barack Obama nationality scandal is refusing to burn itself out and seems to be gathering even more speed with Congressman Nathan Deal questioning the eligibility of Obama to hold the presidency. This is the first time in...

Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israel Hatred on the Huffington Post, Part 1  by Huff-Watcher   [Editors' note: This is Part 1 of a 4-Part series exploring anti-Semitism at the Huffington Post].Introduction: The Huffington Post has become a top destination for news on the Internet, and now enjoys access to and influence over the top levels of the U.S. government.Despite its claims that it is a “nonpartisan” news source, only interested in reporting “the truth,” it consistently “frames” news stories in such a way that incites anti-Israel perceptions and hatred, via its use of inflammatory, biased headlines and headline imagery.Further, in violation of...

Here is video of liberals Ed Schultz and Arianna Huffington tonight blasting President Obama and the Democrats for not going far enough in their "Health Care Reform" plan. Both Schultz and Huffington are disgusted that Joe Lieberman appears to be driving the debate on Health Care. Huffington said she would not give President Obama a B+ as he gave himself on his performance. Schultz also talked with Joan Walsh about Howard Dean's call to "Kill the Bill." Obama has a lot of his base up in arms because they hate Joe Lieberman. Walsh went so far as to say, "I...

YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHO WAS A GUEST AT OBAMA’s FIRST STATE DINNER….. Mr. Ratan Tata [The chairman of the Tata Group - India's biggest conglomerate] A story emerging out of Britain suggests “follow the money” may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the validity of the underlying global warming hypothesis. A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in...

Want to know how does the left really feels about free speech? Look no further than Huffington Post editor and co-founder Arianna Huffington. Huffington appeared on MSNBC's Nov. 19 "Countdown" to discuss a report by the Anti-Defamation League that alleges Fox News host Glenn Beck is "the most important mainstream media figure who has repeatedly helped to stoke fires of anti-government anger" and therefore endangering society. "It would be nice to think of Glenn Beck just as a joke, as fodder for this show and the "Daily Show" and others that point out how stupid some of this stuff is,"...

If President Barack Obama escalates the “disastrous” war in Afghanistan, Arianna Huffington has some advice for Vice President Joe Biden: resign. Planting The Huffington Post, her popular news and aggregation site, in an ever firmer place to the left of the Obama administration, Huffington cited the arguments Biden has made in private against Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for 40,000 additional troops in Afghanistan, and wrote that “if the president does decide to escalate, Biden, for the good of the country, should escalate his willingness to act on those reservations.” Huffington’s attack on the escalation plans under consideration by the White...

Arianna Huffington’s liberal gossip site the Huffington Post has been vigorously defending green jobs czar and 9/11 “truther” Van Jones. It turns out that Jones was Huffington’s grassroots political director when she ran for governor in the 2003 recall election. In fact, Jones, a self-described “communist,” thought Huffington was so wonderful he was part of the effort to draft her to run for office. A San Francisco Chronicle article from Sept. 5, 2003 described Jones as Huffington’s “grassroots director.” A Miami Herald article from Aug. 3, 2003, described Jones as a ”Bay Area activist” and “director of the Ella Baker...

Arianna Huffington was on Olbermann lecturing the president on why he should give up his quest for bi-partisanship over healthcare and why Harry Reid should organize a senate censure of Charles Grassley the Republican who along with Olympia Snowe and another Republican whose name I forget represent the red team in the gang of six. (If only…!) Arianna’s reason? According to Arianna, Grassley has received more than $2 million from the drug companies over the last six years making him a pawn of the evil “interests” who don’t care about the People.

Arianna Huffington has proved herself in l'affaire Pitney to be both a hypocrite and so ignorant of journalism that she should not be allowed near a news-oriented website, even to read it... Pitney was given a press pass for the event, and was specifically called on, for one reason: to make it appear that Obama was taking "a question directly from an Iranian," in Pitney's own words. The nature or wording of the question didn't matter; Obama would give his carefully prepared response, no matter the details. It was a sham. A charade. Stagecraft, in which...