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Arianna Huffington: cool pundit
Advocate, The, Nov 20, 2007
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IN AN AGE WHEN WRITING A BLOG can turn an unknown into a household name, Arianna Huffington did things differently--she started with household names right off the bat. She launched her liberal news site, HuffingtonPost.com, in 2005 with a long roster of celebrity bloggers and continues to add leading lights of LGBT culture and journalism to its star-studded staff. "Hilary Rosen, Kate Clinton, Kevin Jennings, Lane Hudson, and Joe Solmonese have all been terrific," says Huffington proudly. "And Max Blumenthal has done some great work on gay-themed stories, including the antigay positions of Bush's surgeon general nominee James Holsinger, the porn-star past of conservative "It" boy Matt Sanchez, and the fall of Reverend Ted Haggard."
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Huffington is uniquely prepared to dissect gay politics. Not only was she previously married to politician Michael Huffington, who came out as bisexual after their divorce, but her conservative past also allows her special insight into the Republican Party (an ideological about-face followed not long after her husband's failed 1994 Senate campaign). "Unfortunately, [gay issues] remain red meat for many conservative voters," she says. "Though with stories like Ted Haggard, Mark Foley, and Larry Craig in the headlines, even some 'values voters' are growing tired of the idea of mobilizing around homophobia."
When asked whether she thought the Democratic presidential candidates were honestly against gay marriage, Huffington says, "No[ But it's hard to say where their public hair-splitting and verbal contortions end and their private beliefs begin."
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