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the apocalypse. you'll need someone you can trust and/or cut open and crawl inside. (laughter) and my guest is huffington post co-founder arianna huffington. to make sure the interview appears on her site, i've planned several nip slips. only 100 days until the london olympics. i can't wait to see the queen in the hammer throw. this is "the colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) (cheers and applause) (audience chanting "stephen") >> stephen: thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. please, please, save your energy folks. folks, thank you so much for joining us. good to have you with us. i want to very specifically not give a shoutout to my bronys tonight. (laughter) i feel like i've been sucked into a dark corner of humanity. i'm crawling my way back towards the light. nation, now that we conservatives are all thrilled to have no option but mitt romney speculation turns to who will be forced to accept as his running mate. now, often the v.p. slot is filled by a strong former candidate and they don't come any stronger or more former than rick sa

huffington post divorce. i am theditor of both huffington post divorce wedding a and weddings. the response we got was tremendous. we had hundreds of people tweeting us and saying, the moment i knew my marriage was over was when he sprinkled bread crumbs on my salad, knowing that i had a wheat allergy. or when arianna approached me about bringing "ment moment i knew" to kind of the larger site, it was kind of a no-brainer. >> what type of submissions seem to get the most response? >> the ones that are the bigger celebrities have eobviously gotten a lot of hits. pe rez hilton got a lot of hits. besides celebrities, it's really those amazing stories. we had one on huff post divorce, the moment i knew my marriage was over is when i came home and found my husband in bed with my two best friends. you cannot top that. >> can people go to huff post weddings and see all these videos? >> yeah. the best thing is to go to huf 23 post weddings or the moment i knew youtube channel. >> if you're interesting in uploading a video to

will it help change the image of the huffington post? said, again, all along that we are a mixture of the high and the low. high brow and low brow. the truth is that most human beings consume news in that way. we want to read the big, in-depth stories on poverty or the struggles of returning vets, and we also want to read the latest things about lindsay lohan or pamela anderson, and if we don't, we don't have to. that's why everything is clearly marked and indicated on the site. the right-hand side, the right-hand column is -- >> and i -- yeah. another great thing is tomorrow, for example, is the french election. increase leg our international editions are act egg like bureaus for us. our french etd tors have a whole plan with our english and american editors and canadian editors about how to cover the french election with translateors at the ready to bring in in realtime what is going to be happening in france tomorrow. that's what is happening in spain, in italy, et cetera. >> clearly the arianna huffington empire is going global, but

well of course it was a proud moment for the online journalists and here they are at the huffington post celebrating. i know that. maybe the next time they lead their pulitzer prize will be able to for its campaign . be are there. any right here to talk about the changing face of journalism and i'm joined now by it's a pretty name birth to spare they have you on the show as our way to thank you so we have all night outlets there they're being dealt with now is this another the changing face of journalism. yes and no i'll take the weasely way out and take both sides put it seriously yes or no i mean basically what you saw was them winning in very traditional categories because you know a pulitzer is you know it was joseph pulitzer didn't envision the internet back then but storytelling and you know in getting these types of stories and packaging them you know that's nothing new but basically they won for serial feature writing huffington post a something which is they are not known to do they are known for their business model which is an aggregation aggregation aggregation aggregation th

show and the huffington post. we have the transcripts, yes, right here, of key internal fed meetings from the height of the financial crisis and actual moments of horror. we'll bring you what we learned in just a moment. >>> but first our big story off the top of the news today, the big reason for those closed door meetings in this book and a big symptom of how those meetings were conducted. the ongoing mortgage meltdown and paralyzed housing market in this country. today, state attorneys general are demanding that taxpayer-funded fannie and freddie, our money at the government, do more to relieve struggling homeowners. they say they want some of the mortgage debt that we own of our own money that the government canceled. they say we'll help stabilize the housing market and help at-risk homeowners. remember, fannie and freddie own 60% of our mortgages. in turn, it means you and i and the taxpayers own our own debt, if that makes any sense. so the good news is we're actually negotiating a debt restructuring, theoret

points memo, and amanda terkel, senior political reporter and politics managing editor at "the huffington postnda, when i heard this story and heard we were going to be covering the secret service story, i was a loan voice saying i don't want to talk about this story. some guys went out and went to a brothel and that's what happened. why are we talking about it? does this really matter? >> i think it's a story if you want to look deeper at perhaps the culture of the secret service. clearly there are problems. these guys didn't one night decide we're going to do something totally new year. clearly there is a culture that needs to be addressed. there are concerns this would be a security issue, but it's just strange -- this is a business and this is what we're doing. at the "huffington post" when we go on business trips this is not what we're doing. this is clearly something that needs to be cleaned up internally. >> bengie i listen to what amanda is saying, and i agree, but i also think are we just naive. i mean, these are guys on a business trip, quote, unquote. he says when the strippers leav

joining us now in chicago maureen ryan, television critic for the huffington post, and anna holmes, theton post and the founder of jezebell.com. what accounts for this insane level of media hype that surrounds this show before it even aired? zoo kind of touch on it with emily's new york magazine cover story. there are a lot of other pieces, big ones, and publ kegs like the "new york times", but also because it's a show that hasn't really existed before. certainly there have been a few shows like "sex and the city" which was also on hbo, about four relatively young women, but this one is a bit grittier, a bit more honest, edgier, deals with topics like sex, romance, finding one's way in the world professionally, and we haven't really seen this sort of treatment before. >> maureen ryan, when a tv program receives that much media attention, does it become inevitable that there will be a backlash of people criticizing it saying it's not so great? >> oh, definitely. there's definitely always going to be a mismatch when there's that much praise. you have to keep in mind critics saw three he e

. >> still ahead, arianna huffington of the pulitzester prize "huffington post" joins me. rst let's head out to war room jennifer granholm. what's the line up. >> as part of our ongoing coverage in "the war room," we're going to travel to wisconsin tonight so we have democrat tammy baldwin. she's running for senate, she's going to tell what's she's doing to take out probably former governor tommy thompson, the republicans have a primary there, but its likely he's going to win. she's going to talk about the issues in her race. then we'll go to kathleen salk in the democratic run for governor. she hopes to take over scott walker in the fall. sheas turning into a hot and nasty campaign. she's not backing down. we might have a few things to say about the motor city mad moan too. >> we were talking about wisconsin the other night. i can't figure out what is going on out there. they have these fictitious candidates being permitted to run, and it sounds like seven grade politics not the grown up world where you run for office because you want to win. it's like the which would west

the request that i filed along with the staff here and the folks at the huffington post. in fact, on page 2 of the wall street journal today, references to those minutes, which are open to everybody to gander through, our friends say they've gone through the business documents. also running an accompanying story busting the fed for joking immediately following the collapse of bearenstain and bear brothers. and they said the only subject that has been more analyzed than the housing situation is brad and angie's engagement. remember, these transcripts are from the guts of the financial crisis. unfortunately, the rest of us aren't doing so much laughing. in case you missed it, here it is right under here, right under the papers. the binder from the board of governors at the federal reserve that sent it to us in an effort to comply with their rhetoric of transparency, offering theoretically insight into the feds' meetings. the 75 pages they sent us are pretty heavily redacted. however, we did discover a revolving door, or are able to draw more light two the revolving door bet

barnett hill and as a journalist blogger and author she writes about mental health topics for the huffington post about young people's experience medications at my meds myself a blog at the psychology website psych central she held positions at the atlanta constitution journal in st louis post dispatch as worked as a freelance journalist for a variety of publications including the new york observer and parents magazine she graduated dartmouth college as well as the columbia university journalism school kidman is also the author of the new book joe just medication generation grows up and she joins us now from our studios in new york city caitlin welcome. thanks so much for having me thanks for joining us tonight you write that your generation is the first in history to have a certain a significant percentage grow up in psychiatric or psychotropic medications mind and emotional during that occasions what does that mean for us as a culture and for the future of your generation. well i think that it means that a significant percentage of people have really had their personalities shaped by these medi

shared it with the folks at the huffington post, shared it with the folks on our side. all sorts of word searches. they tend to laugh a lot at these meetings, so when you see in the thing, so, you're doling out $30 million to resurrect the banks while creating hundreds of millions of people who ultimately deal with food inflation and go hungry, displacing millions of americans from their homes. >> they had a mind reader from the gsa party. >> what else is in there? in theory, and we'll get into it on monday, there are a few things in here. for me the most interesting thing in here, which we'll get into, is who was in the meetings and where they are now. because what you really realize is there is a tremendous number of people, dan, who were involved in this process -- it's not a small group of three or four people, it's not like three or four people at a meeting -- there's hundreds of people in these meetings who are now working on wall street in financial employments. >> these people are not necessarily federal employees? >> no, they're banking employees. there's a spe

i can't remember what it was called, "sex, motherhood and politi politics" on the huffington post. 99% of american women have used birth control at some point in their lives. 97% of catholic women have used birth control. mothers use birth control. it's very important to note that. the average family size is under two children per family. it's important here cooked into economic justice, which you know about, but it costs over $200,000 to raise one child to age 18 not even including college. until we get family economic security policies, people are struggling to support the children that they now have with a quarter of families with young children living in poverty. so i completely agree with you that having access to both when to have children and how many is critical to the economic empowerment of all women and mothers. >> i guess that settles that. we'll rotate microphones. >> my name is karen, and i'm with unite against the war on women. first, i'd like to thank both linda and terry on the panel for supporting what we are doing and my question is for everybody in this room. who is

incident as you point out that was not this roll up at us and veteran and a contributor to the huffington post but still ahead here on our team what is in your food well it turns out as a happen a lot more than you think how do you know companies are working hard to keep you in the dark plus all the dirty side of this business up next. i'm laurie mr king. right well in many european countries the idea of genetically modified food is as important as save euthanasia now in the us however a company named on one song show and corporate agribusiness have exercised near dictatorial control over u.s. agriculture aided and abetted by indentured politicians and regulatory agencies supermarket chains food giant processors and the so-called natural products industry now this november in a food fight that will largely determine the future of what we eat and what we grow and santo is going to face one of its greatest challenges to date a state white citizens ballot initiative that will give californians the opportunity to vote for their right to know whether the food they buy is contaminated with g.m. most

>> of "the huffington post." >> no. actually of life work and family at "the huffington post."ve your moments as well, right? >> that's right. i'm writing a book called confessions of a scary daddy. >> it comes out right after "hillbilly heart." humor is the one thing that gets me through the day no matter what. especially as a parent. tell us about how all this came about. >> it came about as a baby book for my three kids. and just evolved into this parenting community filled with people who just see parenthood as the honest, you know, down and dirty way that it is. and not the rainbow and butterfly and perfect experience that some people, you know, portray it as. >> have you ever been completely and totally shocked by what somebody confessed to you? >> yeah. i've been shocked a lot. >> by what? >> oh, i mean, just things about people's spouses and mothers-in-law and a lot of interpersonal stuff. but they're funny ones. there are really funny parents telling, you know, their kids that the ice cream truck when it plays music is actually out of ice cream. just feeding their kids

we have the editorial director of "the huffington post." pribus was asked about the party's women voters and he used an interests analogy. >> if they said we had a war on caterpillars, and every media outlet would talk about it, the fact of the matter is that it's a fiction. susan page, it's all your fault, what brought you to this conclusion? >> i know he did not mean to compare women to caterpillars in an insulting way, but a poor choice of words, i think he would acknowledge. it's very etch-a-sketch-like. the image is such that he gets himself wrapped up in a new controversy. >> there is substance behind the charge of the gender gap. look at this from david axelrod says from the department of cluless, rnc leader -- >> it's hugely significant. he was clueless, and i was e-mailing this afternoon with some of those same people at obama head quarters, and one reason their pretty confident right now is the fact that there is an 18 point gender gap between president obama and mitt romney and between the democrats and the republicans in the poll

the average piece of content on the huffington post is supposed to cost $84. it's supposed to have an average gross margin of 50%. they make that based not on people paying for the content but based on advertising. so by their nature, by the nature of this model, this content must be sensation list. it's got to get the page views in other in order to sell the ads. how do they determine whether or not it's going get the views? by figuring out what it is people want. this is another part of the aol way which talks about how they decide what topics to coifer. at the task is traffic potential. is the story seo winning in demand terms. ededitors -- but our media is supposed to provide us more than that. and we should expect more from the media. after all no one was searching for the pentagon papers when they were released. no one is searching for the things media writes in order hold government accountable for the actions. it's having severe elections on the elections. i want to show you another map. ignore the green, those are racists. if you live over time, you'll

we're joined to talk about this and to learn more about it by mike sacks for the "huffington post." being on "the young turks." >> happy to be here. >> take us through what happened today. the justices heard some things and of course the best that can be hoped for a lot of people are saying it's going to be a 4-4 decision because elena kagan has recused herself from having worked on this case before when she was the the solicitor general. >> that's not going to happen. there was five votes six or seven to undue the blocking, if you will, of the most controversial and central element of arizona's sb 1070. that'sthat allows police officers to obtain documentation the papers of any person they reasonably suspect of being in the country illegally when they stop, detain or arrest that person. you heard from justices from scalia and soto meyer. they're arguing and agree with. they were merely calling the federal government of detaining somebody saying, hey do you want this guy? do you want us to hold on to him. if the federal government said keep them in the country, then arizona has to l

telling the "huffington post," i think we should take mr. romney at his most recent words of changing our federal laws to recognize the legitimacy of raising young children. and trying to contact the romney campaign where they stand, they didn't get back to us. great to have you tonight. the cynics will say, this is pure politics. but it is cornering the romneys on exactly where they stand on the importance of stay-at-home moms. is this the mission? >> the mission is not to corner ann or mitt romney, the mission is to have good and fair policy that says all moms are working moms, and that rather than send the kids to childcare, which may or may not be available and affordable, to send them out into the workplace, to say that these small children, up until age 4, that their moms are working when they stay home and take care of them. so this was an opportunity, actually, to raise this issue, and hopefully get some bipartisan support, including mitt romney. >> aren't you saying to the romneys, okay, you say it, now show us? >> exactly. we are. w

let's bring in laura political reporter for the "huffington post." a, talk to me about this case. i feel like every time there is a case of an attack against abortion providers it's always swept under the rug and a lone incident. how is 59,000 cases a lone incident. >> you ask anyone in america and they remember the underwear bomb bomber from yemen. but this happens all the time. there was an attack on a texas planned parenthood clinic. now this in wisconsin. we have terrorists right there in wisconsin. there was a bomb placed on a window sill. it blew up and damaged an exam room. luckily no one was in there. but these people are calling themselves pro-life. i can't think of anything that is less pro-life than putting a bomb outside of a health clinic. >> i've seen media reports. some minimize saying it was a homemade bomb. have you seen a media report when a muslim puts a bomb somewhere and someone says, don't worry about it, it's just homemade. >> i think most of the bombs that came out of al-qaida were home made. i'm surprised at the lack of covera

look at the "huffington post" and on blogs they must do that. think it's so important for us to be clear on what the political means and our political responsibility is. and i think we've laid that out very well and from various dimensions. we are looking forward to honoring the honorees tonight and ishmael reid, nikki giovanni and we have within us one of our honorees,.or howard the duck we want to recognize. [applause] a former 25 year chief of the schaumburg center, extremely, extremely important member. and we'd like to thank everybody for your time and your question and send attention today. are there any announcements as we close? yes, all the panelists books are in the bookstore. they are some fine, fine books. and they'll be signing them. more importantly, which means back on the tenuous or not they'll be worth even more than they are worth today. bookstores and ripped hanaway. anything else, dr. green? 6:00 p.m. is the award ceremony across the street. am i right clicked the award ceremonies rapier 6:00 p.m. so i went to the state for t

. >> he wrote a little piece in the he wrote a piece on the huffington post web site why anyone shoulde that bill o'reilly calls me a communist. before you jump in here the title of the piece should be while i use mr. o'reilly came in in my piece had he not probably his piece would not have been read. is he not exactly a big attraction there. >> bill: i read the story and he took what bobs and i were saying seriously. he tried to convince the huffington post readers that we were actually accusing him of being a karl marx lover. >> i think he knew exactly what was going on. complete joke. real people in. >> you were laughing. >> eviscerates you for calling name. economy is bad name in his world. he evoice rates you then. calls you intellectual bore. >> what does that mean? >> swelling or bloated. not of the right mind. >> not of his right mind, i can't get more lean than i am. >> am a very lean man. he tried to exploit this by taking it out of context. played it serious. what's the radical left watch the program. they don't know what we did. he just does that all right, juliet huddy, ev

politico, along with the huffington post, two primarily online news services that one. times are changing, evan. >> i think i.t. is wonderful that huffington post won, too. i hate to see the end of print news outlets, but that is not inevitable. made the best man win. >> is that newspaper in the morning a thing of the past, colby? >> i start my day with the internet. i do read the newspaper, but i really get my news otherwise. >> i hate reading newspapers on line. i have no sense of placement of what the editors think is important, no ability to see stories and rows and read the first paragraph of something and suddenly go, "that is really interesting," and i keep reading. i think something is actually lost -- not to mention your eyesight -- by reading online. >> it is like limiting the death of the dewey decimal system. [laughter] when we were in college, you go through all the cards and discover it but you did not know existed. now you go on line and that is it. my son is a voracious reader of all the new spirit he has no experience holding a newspaper. that entire gen

" just to see the pinups are not getting some of the richness that is there in the "huffington post" and other places. but i do think in some ways the media world now is quite lively. yes, we have consensus, but we also have paul krugman on the "times" helping to mobilize people against it. we have good investigative reporting in places like "the new yorker." so i think it's important to realize that we are still in the post-modernist movement and we will be for most of our lifetimes and we should make the best of it in that sense, i think. historians, william james brian, who on his passport asked to list an occupation. it said journalist because he spent all his life writing journalism. in some ways no one would think of brian as an objective reporter of anything. and more power to him in that sense. i think we should encourage multiplicity of intelligent journalism rather than be railing its fragmentation. >> alan, michael mentioned you as someone he was dissenting from. is there any daylight between your conceptions? >> well, i think i do agree with rick, but there certainly are

the huffington post showed the skits. the gsa came under fire for a nearly $1 million convention in las vegas, paid for by you, the taxpayers. also on your bill is half a million dollars in employee gifts, like ipods. >>> noted artist thomas kinkade has died, that is him on the right, he was 54 years old. his family says the self-described painter of light died of natural causes. kinkade is known for paintings portraying scenes of classic ascen ascen-- scenes. >> investigators are working on two fronts this morning trying to figure out why a plane crashed and looking for three people from the badly burned apartment building. cnn sandra endo has the latest from virginia beach. >> reporter: take a look behind me, that is the destruction left behind by the fiery crash. now it happened at around noon yesterday, when a navy yet crashed in the apartment complex, damaging about five buildings, 40 apartment units in this senior citizens apartment complex, and the navy as you mentioned, randy, calling this a catastrophic mechanica

politico and the huffington post were two primarily online news services that won. ng, evan. >> i hate to see the end of old print newspapers, but i don't think that is inevitable, and made the best man win. >> is the morning newspaper a thing of the past, colby? >> i start my day with t internet i read on the internet. ver thought the time wowould come where i did not have a newspaper that i could feel and touch. i read the newspaper, but i get my news otherwise. >> i hate getting news on n line because i have no sense of what editors think is important, no ability to see storiries and sort of brown and rick -- browse and sethe first paragraph of somethg i think does not interest me and say "that is really interesti," and keep reading. something is r really lost, not just your eyesight, by reading online. >> we are complete dinosaurs. it is like lamenting the death of t the dewey decimal system. [laughter] when you are i collegege, you would go through the courts and see a book did not ow existed. now you go on line and that is eight. my son is a courageous leader o