Trump Vs HuffPo: Part II

Huffington Post Moves Donald Trump Coverage To Entertainment Section

CNN reports:

The Huffington Post will continue to cover Donald Trump, but the popular news site is done treating him like a legitimate presidential candidate. In a note to readers on Friday, two top editors for HuffPost said that coverage of the brash billionaire's campaign will be a part of the site's entertainment section. "Our reason is simple: Trump's campaign is a sideshow," wrote Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim and editorial director Danny Shea. "We won't take the bait. If you are interested in what The Donald has to say, you'll find it next to our stories on the Kardashians and The Bachelorette." In a separate statement, Grim said that the site had "erroneously been covering [Trump] as an actual presidential candidate."

The teabaggers are ever so pissed.

Headline Of The Day

From the Huffington Post.

Westboro Protests Huffington Post

HuffPo Switches To Facebook Commenting

The Huffington Post today announced that in order to bring "civility and accountability" to their comments, they are switching to a (mostly) Facebook-based system.

When you log in to your account and go to make a comment, you will be prompted to link your commenting account to your verified Facebook account. Then, choose how you'd like your name to be displayed. You can either display your first and last names, or your first name and last initial. This is the only information that will be viewable to the community at large, and you will have control over your private information via Facebook's privacy settings. If you do not want to link your Huffington Post account to Facebook, you can still log in to your account and fan and fave other users and their comments. And if, for whatever reason, you fear posting a comment under your name -- if you are a whistleblower, or fear harassment, or any other reason -- you can apply for the right to comment anonymously by filling out this form.

The last line of the above connects readers to an "appeal of commenting pseudonym" application. Should JMG switch to Facebook commenting too, before Eric Holder kicks in my door? Naw, I floated that idea here a couple of years ago and most of you shook your fists at me.

HuffPo Ends Anonymous Commenting

(Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

Maggie Gallagher: The IRS Got Tricked Into Leaking NOM's Tax Return

"The IRS is claiming — and I think it is plausible — that low-level employees found a clever way to use their low-level job to influence (they hoped) a U.S. election. Have they been identified and fired? Because otherwise this becomes no longer a low-level problem. (You may recall that a low-level employee also released NOM’s private tax-return information to a guy claiming to be a NOM employee, who then posted it on the Internet.)" - Maggie Gallagher, writing for the National Review four days before NOM announced its lawsuit.  If NOM's own co-founder admits that the IRS didn't release the return on purpose, their lawsuit is laughable.

HuffPo Vs Log Cabin Republicans

From the front page of Huffington Post. (Tipped by JMG reader TommyTune)

Gay Writer: Gay Men Have Been Leaders In Every Fascist Movement In History

Disgraced and discredited gay British journalist Johann Hari, who was suspended from the Independent last year after multiple charges of plagiarism, has posted a Huffington Post column claiming that gay men have been at the forefront of every fascist movement in history.  An excerpt:

[T]he idea of a gay fascist seems ridiculous. Yet when the British National Party - our own home-grown Holocaust-denying bigots - announced it was fielding an openly gay candidate in the European elections this June, dedicated followers of fascism didn't blink. The twisted truth is that gay men have been at the heart of every major fascist movement that ever was - including the gay-gassing, homo-cidal Third Reich. With the exception of Jean-Marie Le Pen, all the most high-profile fascists in Europe in the past thirty years have been gay. It's time to admit something. Fascism isn't something that happens out there, a nasty habit acquired by the straight boys. It is - in part, at least - a gay thing, and it's time for non-fascist gay people to wake up and face the marching music. Just look at our own continent over the past decade. Dutch fascist Pim Fortuyn ran on blatantly racist anti-immigrant platform, describing Islam as "a cancer" and 'the biggest threat to Western civilisation today.' Yet with two little fluffy dogs and a Mamma complex, he was openly, flamboyantly gay. When accused by a political opponent of hating Arabs, he replied, "How can I hate Arabs? I sucked one off last night."

In addition to the accusations of plagiarism, last year Hari admitted to anonymously editing the Wikipedia pages of several of his critics.  Hari was forced to return his 2008 Orwell Prize, an award for outstanding British journalism.  This morning Bryan Fischer has already posted six exultant tweets quoting Hari's Huffington Post article.

IMPORTANT UPDATE:  I followed the tweets from Bryan Fischer to HuffPo and did NOT notice that  Hari's column is from 2008! My apologies! But I'll leave this post up for discussion purposes.

Huffington Post Slams Democrats For "Caving In" Over God In Platform

Details.

Headline Of The Day

The above Huffington Post headline and image has wingnut heads exploding all over Twitter.

Sen. Harry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me Mitt Romney Paid No Tax For Ten Years

If this is true, the Huffington Post may have the biggest scoop of the election.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has what he says is an informed explanation for why Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns. According a Bain investor, Reid charged, Romney didn't pay any taxes for 10 years. In a wide-ranging interview with The Huffington Post from his office on Capitol Hill, Reid saved some of his toughest words for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Romney couldn't make it through a Senate confirmation process as a mere Cabinet nominee, the majority leader insisted, owing to the opaqueness of his personal finances.

"His poor father must be so embarrassed about his son," Reid said, in reference to George Romney's standard-setting decision to turn over 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president in the late 1960s. Saying he had "no problem with somebody being really, really wealthy," Reid sat up in his chair a bit before stirring the pot further. A month or so ago, he said, a person who had invested with Bain Capital called his office. "Harry, he didn't pay any taxes for 10 years," Reid recounted the person as saying. "He didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain," said Reid. "But obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?"

Let's see how the Romney camp spins this one. Even if Reid is talking out of his ass, the already incessant calls for Romney to release his returns is going to become deafening.

HuffPo Electoral Map

You'll end up seeing a million different versions of this from many sources, but here's the first electoral college guess from Huffington Post.

The Nuffington Post

Cute Overload has some April Fools fun at the expense of the Huffington Post.

Signorile Joins HuffPo

AOL Buys Huffington Post For $315M

Whoa.

AOL, the online media company that has recently snatched several smaller content firms, has agreed to purchase news blog service The Huffington Post for $315 million, the two companies announced Monday. The companies said Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post's co-founder and editor-in-chief, will be named president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which will include all Huffington Post and AOL content.

AOL gets 110M unique visitors per month, Huffington Post gets 26M.

HuffPo Announces Free Buses From NYC To DC For The Colbert/Stewart Rally

On tonight's Daily Show, Ariana Huffington announced that the Huffington Post would be sponsoring free buses from NYC to Washington DC for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's "Rally To Restore Sanity." Sign up here. (I'm 75% certain that I'm going.)

Oh Brother

Listen, I love hyperbole as much as the next commie/homo/socialist on the internet, but this Huff Po headline is a million times worse than Hitler. Yes, banks have failed and more will fail. But "the end of a consumer economy"? As in the end of capitalism? Or something? Huh?

Auto-Tune The News #7

HuffPo Blogger Responds To Palin Threat

Huffington Post blogger Shannyn Moore calls Sarah Palin "a coward and a bully."