and it goes to arianna huffington who made three hundred fifteen million dollars after selling huffington post to a.o.l. earlier this year has decided to add a new feature to the web site that she still runs now offers a blog concierge service that you might be asking what the hell's that arianna says the service is for busy celebrities who just don't have time to sit down to write a blog so they can call in and dictate a blog to an editor of the phone and then the blog just magically appears on the site are you serious ari i mean come on most celebrities are spoiled rotten ego driven media acts of their every need it catered to so why they need a blog a concierge service if they're going to write something that they want the public to reach and they actually be required to write the damn thing i wonder if our own is going to pay these celebrity bloggers as we've discussed on the show before she doesn't pay most of the hard working men and women who actually made her site popular not at all but that got us thinking today which liberties would probably sign up for the block concierge service we

>> blogged on huffington post. >> .huffington post a lot, yeah. >> and then there was a moment, it wasctober of 2009, president obama came to new orleans, had a town hall meeting, told a roomful of people who loved him and who had voted for him that the flooding was a natural disaster, which they all knew was not true. >> knew it was not true. >> and i, my head, i had to scrape it off the ceiling. >> yeah. >> i was just aghast and realized that radio and blogging were not, not up to the task of, of remediating the media's malfeasance on this job. and i thought okay, what, what else is possible? >> right. >> how about a documentary film that really just lays this all out? >> take this into my own hands. >> yeah. >> you had not made a documentary yourself previously. >> no. >> were you.been an architect. >> made mockumentaries. >> mock-mockumentaries. rockumentaries, if you will. >> yeah. >> but not, but not something like this before. >> no. >> so to whom did you turn? i know that you allude on the website of the film to having the benefit of working for the murdoch empire. >> yes. >> s

do you agree websites like the huffington post actually hurt journalism? >> i wouldn't go that far. aggregation of pieces of journalism that other news organizations have paid dearly to get the story, get it right, tell the story behind the story, is, you know, poses a threat to us in some way. but i respect the fact that an awful lot of people like to read that way and in some cases i think the huffington post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well. so, you know, i don't see myself -- i've known arianna huffington since the early '90s in washington. she is an inventive person. i certainly don't want to be in a war with her. >> i detect a change in tone at the top already. jill abramson, we wish you well. thanks for being with us. >> thank you so much. >>> sarah palin's one nation bus tour rolled into new hampshire stealing somewhat the political spotlight from mitt romney. coincidence or on purpose? we'll try to find out, next. [ man ] ♪ trouble ♪ trouble, trouble trouble, trouble ♪ ♪ trouble been doggin' my soul ♪ since the day i was born ♪ worry ♪ oh, worry, worr

alex wagner, reporter for the huffington post, and matt lewis, senior contributor with "the daily callerie, you were at the press conference today, and you have been blogging about this the entire time. would this have been difference in congressman weiner had come out quick, early, admitted wrong, said he did a dumb thing and moved on? >> well, i think a lot of this would have been different. he misled people, his reporters, his own staff, his own wife up until this morning. now that he's come clean, the first thing he has to do is rebuild trust. >> alex, how does he rebuild that, his credibility as a media star really in the democratic party? i mean, here's a guy who is often interviewed, often taking on contentious congressional issues. how does he rebuild, if at all, his media celebrity? >> well, we know from eliot spitzer's k356r78 that it's possible to rebuild your credentials, but i think he has a tough climb ahead of him. one of the things that struck me is you look at the press gaggle last week. he was so contentious, almost verbally abusive to one cnn producer that was asking h

huffington post reporter alex wagner.ank you very much for joining us on this tawdry story tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> coming up, why the prosecutors in the john edwards case are doing the right thing and why the judge should not send edwards to prison if he's found guilty. that's in tonight's rewrite. >>> later the republican party's palin problem how long can she keep stealing publicity from the real presidential candidates? we >> ( rooster crows ) >> by 2020, 50 billion network devices will roam the earth. that's seven devices per person. this will change how we work in ways we've never before imagined. what do you need to secure your people, their devices, and your business? a network that can evolve and grow to protect your human network. n@ caught spending a million dollars to hide his biggest secret in that's in tonight's rewrite. >>> and later sarah palin defends sarah palin on her rewrite of elementary school american history. [ pop, pop, pop ] pulls a wine cork in three seconds flat. [ pop ] the rabbit aer

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well, anyway, prepare for tomorrow's huffington post headline "stewart evoice rates stewart."l. >> on the eighth day, they thought there was only enough hope for three days. >> you invite an important visitor to our house and our tone and eat your pizza with a [bleeped] fork right in front of us. >> i want to bless the children. you will not we nigh god's love. >> the giant [bleeped] gaggoons hanging on this man. >> i'm so short. can you lean over. >> [inaudible] >> anthony, go inside, and if you come back out, wear a light jacket. >> all right, boys. you know the rules. i don't remember anything. [speaking in all different accents] >> i like to eat cheese. >> what? >> you can take our horses, but you'll never take ourration! >> guvnah. >> new york i'm no spy, just [bleeped] with summer home. >> we don't need no stinking ez pass. >> you can't get there from quee-eh. >> he wasn't going out with little boys. >> you should see some of the [bleeped] i've done. >> better on the floor than in the senate. >> keeps getting better and better. >> another to be certain than right. >> am

you're complaining in the huffington post article about deportations.esident? will you not go into the latino community across this country in all of those key states and say you can trust this man if he doesn't do more and do more soon? >> john, my word and my activism and my presence will become irrelevant unless the president clearly -- there's a door that's wide open, and the republicans have just -- have kind of said step aside, latinos, we really don't care. and they've opened this wide door. i want the president to walk through that door with actions and with a commitment through his actions as president of the united states. then it becomes really, john, irrelevant i -- >> but if he doesn't walk through that door, will you say mr. president, sorry, you're on your own, i'm not going to help you now? >> it would become irrelevant what i say, really, john. what's going to happen -- this is really not a choice about democrats and republicans and about asking people to vote for a republican candidate or someone other than the president of the united

mainstream news is not particularly liberal but towards sensationalism and conflict or as the huffington post put it, you're insane! (laughter) here's what i want to know-- (cheers and applause) >> jon: all right. what, what font would you use when man lands on mars? like-- (laughter) i guess in that case arianna just has to go door-to-door to people's houses, ring their bell and go click on me, i have news! (laughter) by the way, we had to re-create that page because even though it was apparently the most important news ever, they took it down like an hour later so we couldn't get a screen shot. anyway, a couple of things about that interview. one, i suggest you look at the unedited version on-line where my emotional states don't seem to change so arbitrarily. (laughter) the arguments are a little clearer and a little less from a scene of woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. sad clown, happy clown. mad clown. and two, the unedited version which is on the web had what i thought was the take away moment of the entire interview. where chris wallace one of the more respected individuals at

i'm asaned to the huffington post. sarah palin was wrong p about paul ravine. lindsay lohan in a bikini. >> yeah, delany's deep dive on the banking system gets into action. >> i can't blame that on are a anna huffington or anybody who reads the huffington post. on msnbc you have chris matthews in love with michele bachmann. >> can you confirm that? >> what? >> have you confirmed that love affair. >> sort aftof a plutonic. >> i don't really know what this american choice means -- >> it that the root of the way we function in this culture -- >> it is not an old age of choice. we never had it. we had slaves. women couldn't vote. i say this golden age of choice is an aspiration closer to our fingertips. more achievable. >> there are ten difference notions of what the choice is. i would like to leave my job and not be incumbent to get healthcare. >> i agree with that. >> sam is getting at the great dissension between -- my understanding of freedom and his understanding of freedom. his is more after positive one. mine is saying nobody should use force or the threat o

people right now for the huffington posts are getting something like $15. the market has really degraded from even their, and it is very difficult to make money doing that. i have friends who are doing it, who are writing 10 stories a day just to get by. at the same time, the proliferation does make it very difficult for one small site to exist, right? our strategy in the old days was to align ourselves with a big media company -- cbs. we align ourselves with yahoo! in some way and with ail -- aol in another way. you need the types of connections with more established or at least larger players in order to survive. the other reason is that the proliferation of sites has caused a change in the way people get their news. no longer do they just go to what we call destination sites, which was essentially a newspaper online. they are getting their news on facebook and google and bing and search engines. to be out there in that news sphere, you have to have different ways of attacking a and having connections and distribution arrangements. >> i would like to add

it was done for fun and they are surprised that ryan seacrest and the huffington post hpetoto re wspheabr rap. >> heading to whole foods tomorrow. bye-bye. >> annou

and what do they do it well there's an interesting article over in huffington post the patriotic millionaires these these are folks who actually want their taxes raised they're people who earn over a million dollars a year they take in over a million dollars a year and they want to take this rate and then they asked you know these guys these people what you do with your tax or the money you made from the tax bush tax cuts and one paul edgecumbe and he says he was the founder of medical transcription governesses i kept it i haven't done anything with go so the money just kind of stays there another one loose and see here we go frankly that is too she he says probably travel a little more than i otherwise would have another one of the millionaires says i bought a bigger boat than i used to have it's one hundred fifty foot boat he says but the problem is it didn't create any jobs it was built in italy and the fourth one he says when i started creating jobs myself i built a dance floor in my house which i didn't really need he says. and so anyhow here's where they want to stay but what could we h

who are earning you talking about the census no i'm talking about current numbers indicate this huffington post number so so i'm going to figure they're probably low but in one hundred in iowa the republicans are not only are we as a society paying for you you want you want to see that was there is a benefit to us in that i would rather benefit the benefit to us really simple than if you've got good people doing good work on behalf of you and me and making sure that our drugs are safe and our food is safe and that our cities are safe and all those other things the government does protect in the commons if you've got good people doing that part of the price of that is making sure that there's a decent relationship between labor and management and there's a cost associated with that should not you when you make it so be free when you make it sukkos eat it to work together the only people in dipping are the taxpayers there is nothing cozy about their house and silly calling these people that they sorry if you if you get elected to be the union shop steward you don't get a paycheck anymore is not g

no i wrote about a piece about this that the balkan crimes have not yet been resolved in the huffington post earlier this week one of the outstanding crimes is being committed by croatia where property return has not taken place in that former you can stop republic during the war the wars about to grant rights a million people were displaced included in that war a number of former serb residents in in the crane a region of croatia while bosnia and serbia were forced by the international community to restore those property rights to people who were forced out of their homes property rights to former residents in korea namely the serbs were not well have been crozier all of gaza and allow those displaced to return to those moons. one of the primary reasons i think there's been a huge focus within the international community on bosnia herzegovina and serbia the dayton accords mandated that in in bosnia herzegovina has to go to property rights be restored to all former residents prior to their war in croatia there was actually no there was no international community to make such an force met and

slightly disturbing and it's a reminder to americans how many of these incidents are overlooked huffington post radley balko formerly of reason was reported as many as forty thousand of these raids happen every hear or someone's hurt or killed inside their own home let's give kudos to a blogger who's now dedicated his page to another all too common a victim of these no knock raids the docks red carpets pages called dogs that cops kill and it gives the full story and reason for the canine jets and here's just one example of ray that left a family's dog dead immediately after a swat team busted down their door. ok. ok. now that disturbing videos from two thousand and ten were a swat team in missouri raided the home and shot the cat while there were children inside the house but those are just a few samples out of many more incidents and while the mainstream media continues to overlook the trend the law to show won't something has to be done to stop swat teams from invading homes and such. aggressive manner so we're going to keep bringing you those stories until they stop. now looks like a little

protect their own and that's what jeffrey tubin was doing and that's what salon was doing and the huffington posthat all of them were doing. it is dispiblable. >> -- despicable. >> john stewart, what is your take on that? >> he says i am just a comedy show and it is the two masks of greek drama. if they are not altogether honest, but it is interesting -- who tried harder than anyone to matter as an anchor? katie couric. she is a joke. who makes jokes and matters as an anchor? john stewart. trying to be a comedy show is the way the news program wound up. david foster wall lis says irony is the sound of a burden that has come to love its cage. >> mmm, don't know what that means. >> will somebody raise their hand who knows what that means. >> or raise your glass. >> when it is tucker carlson whose life is getting ruined because he wears a bow tie, but when it is my buddy, it is time for somber sadness. i love "the daily show." i think stewart is gifted and he should have handled it better. >> where do you see this going? >> i think he will be eventually forced to give up his seat and it will probabl

flint made the job offer in a letter published in "the huffington post."ion has proposed a nearly $600,000 civil penalty against united airlines for violating drug testing policies. the faa alleges that united failed to perform mandatory drug testing before transferring 13 people to safety-sensitive positions. united airlines has 30 days to respond to the faa. >>> well, talk about a slap in the face. you're barred from driving because you're a woman? how they're fighting the ban in saudi arabia. we'll talk about it with michael holmes, right after this. >>> a lot of women in saudi arabia are saying enough is enough! they're hitting the roads in cars as a protest against the ban against women drivers. here with us with his take on a protest that is also being driven by social media, of course, is michael holmes. so, let me just get this straight, it's not illegal for women to drive there, technically. >> no. >> there's no law on the books against it. >> there's no official law against it. it's a religious edict in saudi arabia. it's the only country in the

a pulitzer prize winning team thoo covered virginia tech shootings, he later moved on to the huffington "post" and interviewed mark zucker burpg, all that time he kept his dark secret unit this week when he wrote about the experience for today's "new york times" magazine. i'll hold it up here. the headline is "outlaw." welcome. >> hi, thanks for having me. >> you thoou you'd be criticized, that you'd be slammed that you were admit to go having been a liar and that you could be deported tomorrow. why would you decide to come forward with this information? >> because i'm not the only one. i'm one of millions. in this country who are living kind of under the shadows. it was my way -- at the end of the day, i think we have to tell the truth about this immigration system and because of that, i had to tell the truth about myself. >> i will come back to that but t i do need to ask you, you deceived your editors as you acknowledged. he write that's feels duped and that he was particularly uncomfortable that you wrote for the chronicle about illegal immigrants getting fake driver's licenses at a time

the huffington post was created to become the drudge report of the right. >> bill: that succeeded in's exactly what they wanted to do and what they want to do is try to make sure that stories don't make their way on to the alternative media. outside of the mainstream media so they fight stories from building up. this was a case study over the last two weeks of them trying to make sure that the story didn't reach this point. >> bill: obviously the story was so explosive and you had the primary source material which put it over the top, correct? >> absolutely. >> bill: do you fear for your life? do you have security? do you think they are coming after you? >> i don't want to talk about what precautions i take but i certainly get threats left and right. mostly from the left. >> bill: i get them too. i know how debilitating that can be. it's problematic. i think that the bigger your name is and the more, you know, open you are, you know, the more protection you have. >> bill: just be careful. be very careful. all right, andrew. thanks very much. we appreciate you coming in here. >> thank

i write for the "huffington post" and i'm a film producer. >> this is the book "wild card". .. with israel and the elected leaders of the imam. he discusses his will's history and the future with you mess ambassador to syria richard murphy. >> host: you've gone to lebanon i gather for the first time just after the assassination of 2005. >> guest: that's right. he had just been assassinated in march 14th in 2005, more than a million people took to the streets at the same time in a country of only 4 million demanded the immediate evacuation of serious's military i'd been wanting to visit lebanon for years and this was the perfect time, the story to come out of the middle east since the invasion of iraq so i ordered the airplane and went right away. >> host: did you have any idea you were getting into such a scene of destruction, desolation, wild accusations? >> guest: i did not. i wasn't expecting anything like destruction or desolation. in 2005 the root looked like a middle eastern version of berlin in 1989. that's what i thought it was. and that's what a lot of people thought i

>> joining me now huffington post reporter and msnbc political analyst alex wagner. turned off so you couldn't hear those ugly questions that bengi bronk was asking. the press event almost unprecedented were it not for a jennifer flowers press conference in a new york hotel ballroom. the media, the political media is the most conservative place in the world to have these kinds of things evaluated. people pretending that they are hearing the word sexting for the first time. doing that whole what does that thing mean? >> there are some people i would think to prefer don't know what sexting is in the political media for sure this is now the buzzword that we're going to hear for the rest of the week. i'm sure jon stewart will have fun with that in particular. the circus, the only thing could have trumped it was if shirley charade had showed up in the audience and sought her moment of vindication. it's not surprising that andrew breitbart showed up and sort of tried to take the spotlight upon himself when given it be opportunity. i do think though, he had a five-minute wi

. >> "the huffington post" in recent times has hired a number of top people from "the times" is ais itetition? >> they are definitely part of my competition. i read all the sites that you just mentioned pretty avidly. i certainly throw bloomberg in there, too. it's true that now that the business has picked up for a lot of our competitors, one of my biggest challenges going forward is going to be to retain the amazing talent that we have in our news room. >> some years ago the first ombudsman at "times" wrote a piece saying on social and cultural issues like gay marriage, the news coverage, not editorial page, the news coverage leans to the left. do you agree with that or do you think it's a perception problem for your paper? >> i do think it's a perception problem. i disagree with that. howie, i think you recall i spent ten years in the news room of "the wall street journal." a newspaper that everybody viewed as conservative. you know, i saw firsthand there that the news room always played it straight. and i feel the same way about "the times," which like "the wall street journal," be