Media Whore Sells Out Electronic "Plantation"

I've always had my suspicions about Arianna Huffington. After all, she was a darling of the Right back in the day, calling for Clinton's resignation and hinting that an ambassador to somewhere-or-other died "mysteriously" after The Big Dog slept with his wife -- or that he was ineligibly buried in Arlington because of that, or something like that... She was even a member of Newt Gingrich's Orwellian-named "Progressive and Freedom Foundation".

Then she inexplicably appeared to move to the left, divorcing her fabulously-wealthy-but-also-fabulously-gay husband, got literally zillions in the divorce settlement, and started the Huffington Post. Which I read on a more-or-less regular basis, until it started skewing away from politics and turned into to a digital version of the National Tattler with breathless bits on who is sleeping with whom in Hollywood, etc.

Now she says that we have to somehow "get beyond" right and left, and proves it by selling HuffPo to, of all things, the rightwing AOL!

For a measly 30 pieces of silver. Okay, it was a little more, like 18 million bucks, but still.

I think it's unconscionable that she could build up that business -- and business it was -- on the backs of free labor (the leftwing bloggers that contributed their stuff -- for free -- turned out to be slave laborers on the Yassuh-Miz-Adrianna electronic plantation) to the point where she could sell it without a backward glance.

So here's to Adrianna Huffington. Media Whore of the Century (so far...)