(via Outside the Beltway)

From Arianna’s Blog Blows

Judging from today’s horrific debut of the humongously pre-hyped celebrity blog the Huffington Post, the Madonna of the mediapolitic world has gone one reinvention too many. She has now made an online ass of herself. What Arianna Huffington’s bizarre guru-cult association, 180-degree conservative-to-liberal conversion, and failed run in the California gubernatorial-recall race couldn’t accomplish, her blog has now done: She is finally played out publicly. This Web-site venture is the sort of failure that is simply unsurvivable, because of all the advance publicity touting its success as inevitable. Her blog is such a bomb that it’s the box-office equivalent of Gigli, Ishtar and Heaven’s Gate rolled into one. In magazine terms, it’s the disastrous clone of Tina Brown’s Talk, JFK Jr.’s George or Maer Roshan’s Radar. No matter what happens to Huffington, it’s clear Hollywood will suffer the consequences.

It almost seems like some sick hoax. Perhaps Huffington is no longer a card-carrying progressive but now a conservative mole. Because she served up liberal celebs like red meat on a silver platter for the salivating and Hollywood-hating right wing to chew up and spit out.

Even though this blog is brand new, it is a flop. Yes, it was mentioned in a lot of news outlets – however that was buildup and hype. This is Arianna Huffington, not some no body. The main problem with her blog is you can not comment. What use are these strong opinions if you can’t tell them what you think. Perhaps the point in this is the entries published are always correct, that there is no need to comment to express your opinion.

However, Dr. Joyner has a different opinion:

One wonders by what yardstick Finke is measuring. THP has no SiteMeter or other public hit counter but I’d hazard a guess that it had tens of thousands of visitors in its first day, more than most blogs ever get. They had write-ups in major papers, including WaPo. InstaPundit linked them.

True – but it’s the first day, lets see the traffic in two weeks.