This headline has got to be the stupidest ever: “Bush, Schwarzenegger Flee to World’s Biggest Red State“! So who is ridiculous enough to be red-baiting (albeit semi-humorously) the nation’s two top Republicans? Who else but Arianna Huffington? She’s plastered it in big red letters at the top of her “Huffington Post” website — at a moment when the really big news is that that both parties are readying resolutions setting the stage for a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
The really funny part is that, when you click on the headline you’re greeted by an Associated Press story that says: Schwarzenegger Promotes Trade in China. Aha! Obviously it’s all a Commie plot — why, those traders!
The “Huffington Post” was meant to be a left-wing version of the Drudge Report, but it is no such thing. Matt Drudge, whatever his faults, at least has a nose for news: the losers over at Huffpuff wouldn’t know a real news story it grabbed them by the hair, threw them down on the bed, and … well, you get the picture.
Ms. Huffington and her crew are so wrapped up in their California Dreamland of partisan ideology that they have lost whatever connection to reality they once had. Arianna can be a perceptive writer, but as an editor she lacks judgement, i.e. she hasn’t any at all. And I suspect her underlings are worse.
“World’s Biggest Red State” — indeed!