Before You Hang President George W. Bush...

One of my favorite segments in Arianna Huffington's new book, "Right is Wrong", is timed perfectly to the latest polling news: That George W. Bush has officially been crowned the most unpopular president in modern history, with a disapproval rating over 70%.

So let's return to her take on the now-infamous Bill Kristol op-ed in The Washington Post last July in which he promised that Bush would end up a "winner." Arianna calls it "the single most deceptive story of the entire war." One wonders if it was actually written by Billy Crystal, not Bill Kristol.

~ Greg Mitchell in Arianna's New Book Cuts Kristol!

President George W. Bush may be the most unpopular president in the modern history of America, but not in the world.

The most unpopular president in the world today is President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, with a disapproval rating of over 80%.

The former president of Nigeria, Chief "the thief" Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo was worse than Prresident George W. Bush.

The worst presidents in modern history are not in the developed countries, therefore President George W. Bush is not the worst.

If President George W. Bush failed America, he is not the only one who is guilty, but all the members of Congress who have voted in support of his policies, including Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others from the White House to Capitol.

All those who also voted for him to have a second term are equally guilty of the failures of President George W. Bush, because he would not have been in the Oval Office today, if the majority of American voters did the right thing in 2004.

All the beneficiaries of the bogus and bloody contracts in the war in Iraq should also be hanged with President George W. Bush, because they are his accomplices.
They are guilty of sending thousands of innocent American soldiers and others to their untimely death in a suicide mission in Iraq.

The American journalists, elites and religious leaders who also supported President George W. Bush from 2003 to date should also be hanged.

Hypocrites are worse than sinners.

If these American political hypocrites, political parasites and political prostitutes were wise, they would not have voted for President George W. Bush in 2004.

The U.S. Congress had all the constitutional powers to impeach President George W. Bush, but failed to do so. Therefore, both the Democrats and Republicans are guilty of whatever crimes or evils President George W. Bush has committed in his administration.

American liberals and conservatives must stop fooling themselves.
Before you hang President George W. Bush, hang yourselves.



Editorial Review of "Right is Wrong":

With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year’s presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country.

Huffington makes the case that America has been hijacked from within by a radical element—the “lunatic fringe” of the Right that has taken over the Republican Party. Despite holding views at odds with the majority of Americans, these zealots have given us an endless war in Iraq, a sputtering economy, a health care system on life support, a war on science and reason, and an immoral embrace of torture.

But they haven’t done it on their own: they have been enabled by a compliant media that act as if there is no such thing as truth and are more interested in cozying up to those in power than in holding them accountable, and by feckless Democrats who have allowed themselves to be intimidated into backing down again and again.

Both a withering indictment and a hopeful call to arms, "Right Is Wrong" is an explosive, boldly incisive work that will help set the national agenda.

About the Author
Arianna Huffington is the cofounder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and the author of twelve books. She is also cohost of Left, Right & Center, public radio’s popular political roundtable program. In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time magazine’s list of the world’s one hundred most influential people. Originally from Greece, Huffington moved to England when she was sixteen and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. She lives in Los Angeles with her two daughters.

Jeremiah Wright and Miley Cyrus: The Fall of the American News Media

Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Who pushed the American mainstream media off the wall?
Rupert Murdoch or those Arianna Huffington called the lunatic fringe elements?

The best news in America is the childish and foolish debate over whether Miley Cyrus posed topless or backless for Vanity Fair magazine and the political nonsense over Rev. Jeremiah Wright's right to his own opinions.


Miley Cyrus

Americans want Rev. Jeremiah Wright to give up his life long convictions on calling a spade a spade without apologies or regrets, but he has proved to be a man of principles.
Senator Barack Obama cannot dictate to Rev. Jeremiah Wright and make him retract his unpatriotic statements. Rev. Jeremiah Wright is not Barack Obama's Man Friday.

Senator Barack Obama is so desperate to win the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party that he ready to even push his spiritual godfather over the cliff.

As the American news channels are falling over themselves over Miley Cyrus's photographs in Vanity Fair and the personal principles of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, more American soldiers are being killed in Iraq and these heroes never made headlines or cover stories.

Is this the American Dream of the Founding Founders of America or the American Nightmare?

God help America.

The American Newspaper Can Conquer the Internet

Arthur Miller once described a good newspaper as “a nation talking to itself.” If only in this respect, the Huffington Post is a great newspaper. It is not unusual for a short blog post to inspire a thousand posts from readers—posts that go off in their own directions and lead to arguments and conversations unrelated to the topic that inspired them. Occasionally, these comments present original perspectives and arguments, but many resemble the graffiti on a bathroom wall.

The notion that the Huffington Post is somehow going to compete with, much less displace, the best traditional newspapers is arguable on other grounds as well. The site’s original-reporting resources are minuscule. The site has no regular sports or book coverage, and its entertainment section is a trashy grab bag of unverified Internet gossip. And, while the Huffington Post has successfully positioned itself as the place where progressive politicians and Hollywood liberal luminaries post their anti-Bush Administration sentiments, many of the original blog posts that it publishes do not merit the effort of even a mouse click.

~ Out of Print: The death and life of the American newspaper, by Eric Alterman


As I have said before, the future of the American newspaper is on the Internet.
The Internet will not exterminate the newspaper, because most of what is posted on the Internet are often lifted from the newspaper.
The worst thing that can happen to the newspaper would be the transition from print to digital. But a newspaper will always be a newspaper, no matter the media of communication.
News will always be news no matter how you report it, online or offline.
Just report it to the target audience.

In Nigeria, where over 76 million of the population are non-literates, and over 100 million are Internet-illiterates, the daily newspapers, television and radio dictate the news and not the Internet. The frequent power outages have made most of them to rely on the daily newspapers for news and information. The most popular Nigerian website is not even a news website, but a free for all online forum where about a million people visit weekly to gossip and rant over incidents, events and other interesting issues in Nigeria and other parts of the global village. The website only depends on Google AdSense for revenue. Millions of literate Nigerians read newspapers daily. Millions of homes in Nigeria cannot watch the TV, because of frequent power outages and the nearest source of news and information are the daily newspapers. The Nigerian press dictates the news in Nigeria and most of the advertisers prefer the newspapers, magazines, radio and television to the Internet. So, the Internet is not yet a threat to the print media in Nigeria.

The Huffington Post actually helps many of the traditional newspapers such as the New York Times, Washington Post and LA Times by linking to their news reports.

What I do on my website and blog is to preview the latest print edition of the Newsweek and prompt readers to buy the copies.

The Cosmopolitan, Vogue and other trendy magazines are still selling in millions and the Internet can never replace the perfumed copes of the Cosmopolitan or Vogue. Being seen with the latest copy of Vogue is a social status symbol and I have seen where visitors rushed to grab the only copy of Vogue on the table at the reception of an office in Lagos, Nigeria.

The New York Times, Washington Post and other popular American newspapers can actually sell millions of copies daily in English speaking African countries by printing in these anglophone countries where most Africans still read daily newspapers, because power outages interrupt the regular TV news report. They read the newspapers first before turning on the TV to confirm whatever they have read in print.

The New York Times can actually sell over two million copies daily in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya combined, because Africans believe that American newspapers are the best reporters of facts and accurate details of news. They would rather accept what an American journalist has reported than what a local African journalist reported. A book review of an African writer in the New York Times is a big deal in Africa. Many local newspapers will link to it and even boast about it. A New York Times book review of an African novel is like an endorsement by the Oprah Winfrey Book Club. In fact, if the New York Times makes an ordinary reference to Robert Mugabe, millions of Zimbabweans will be anxious and curious to read it.

American newspapers should not be afraid of the Internet, but to capture it and use it to increase the mileage and patronage of their newspapers.

Rupert Murdoch should tempt the Huffington Post with $1 billion and see if Arianna and company can resist his billion dollar temptation.

Re: Who Is Maggie Williams?

Ms. Arianna Huffington,

I read your "Who Is Maggie Williams?" posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 | 05:49 PM (EST) on your Huffington Post Blog.
It was a bad example of Witch Hunt Journalism.

Maggie Williams has a questionable past?
How about you?
1997 is gone and gone forever.
It is all in the past.

How would you feel if I dig up what you did in the UK and why you were not married to the man you lived with for years before leaving for the US and got married to Mr. Huffington and other things?

Are you not a better person now than your were in the 1980s?

Would it be fair to use your past to judge you now?
Like using Barack Obama's years of smoking pot and sniffing coke to denounce him now?

Hypocrisy comes in different colors and contours.
Do you have a conscience?

I wonder why you American intellectuals in the news media like taking advantage of the ignorance and gullibility of most of your less informed readers?

What will you gain from such political witch-hunting?

LA Debate: Hugs, Smiles, Laughs, Celebs, and a Defining Moment on Iraq

"The Kodak Theater gave us a Kodak moment -- a post debate embrace that included beaming smiles -- that transcended the two hours of talking that preceded it. This was the first time the two leading candidates were alone on the stage, and the first time that you could see the two of them running together. The whole evening - save for a pointed exchange on Iraq -- had that vibe."
~ Arianna Huffington

Arianna,
Thank you for your beautiful and yet truthful analysis of the last Democratic Presidential Debate.

Whether Barack Obama was against the war from day one and Hillary Clinton voted for the authorization of the last resort by military action is not the most important question before us.
The most important questions is, when are the American troops returning to the safety of their American homeland?

It is not who starts the war that matters, but who can end it.

Senator Barack Obama has not told us how he is going to end the war.
He has not given us any plan on how to end the war.
He is more on who voted in support of the war in Iraq and that is all in the past.

"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."
~ Toni Morrison

Blaming others will not solve a problem, but tackling the problem would do.

Senator Hillary Clinton has given us a workplan and a timeline to end the war and bring back American troops.

You were against the war from day one does not make any difference, but how you are going to end it makes all the difference.

I hope every reasonable person reading this can see the difference now.

We should stop looking for the selfish justification or validation of ourselves, but the solutions to end the problems confronting us.


"Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader."
~ Toni Morrison

Hillary Clinton has taken the responsibility.

God bless America.

How To Overthrow The Government

Arianna Huffington

How To Overthrow The Government



What is a hero without love for mankind.
~ Doris Lessing

Amazon.com
"Our government is no longer serving us," declares Arianna Huffington in How to Overthrow the Government. "[It] is slow, unfair, corrupt, and peopled by politicians living on graft and sinecure." While the political class gloats about unprecedented prosperity, Americans are more turned off by their rulers than ever before: the public holds deeply cynical views about Washington, voter turnout continues to drop, and "modern campaigns ... are so thoroughly dominated by pollsters and consultants that there's no oxygen left for ideas that might challenge the status quo." Politicians have turned a blind eye to America's real problems. "Glad-handing lobbyists" (there are roughly 38 per member of Congress, says Huffington) and "the seductive allure of incumbency" have made lawmakers resistant to necessary reforms. "It's this vicious cycle that explains why 35 million Americans are living in poverty and more children are homeless than at any time since the Great Depression; why middle-income Americans are saddled with crippling levels of debt; why our children attend drug-ridden schools where they are not safe and cannot learn." Much of this book reads like an extended political column, full of anecdotes and zinging one-liners. Yet there's also more earnestness and less satire on these pages than was glimpsed in Huffington's previous book Greetings from the Lincoln Bedroom. How to Overthrow the Government and its provocative recommendations will appeal mainly to the supporters of America's dissident politicos, such as Sen. John McCain, Ralph Nader, and the Reform Party. --John J. Miller --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title

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