John Stossel
writes about his interview tonight with
Arianna on ABC's 20/20, in which they spar over the presidential election and discuss HuffPost and her new book,
Right is Wrong.
She was on the right, now she's on the left. These days, it seems as though Arianna Huffington is everywhere. For decades, Huffington has been a political gadfly and a perennial pundit on news shows. Now she's editor in chief of the popular news and opinion Web site The Huffington Post.
Huffington's politics lean left, but that wasn't the case in the mid-'90s when she was a friend to Newt Gingrich and a card-carrying member of the Republican Party. Now she's written a new book called "Right Is Wrong," in which she argues that the "lunatic fringe" of American conservatives have "hijacked" the country.
Below is a quick sneak peek from tonight's 20/20. Tune in to ABC tonight at 10 pm to watch. Also tonight: Arianna will be on
Real Time with Bill Maher, 11 pm on HBO.
Arianna's appearance on ABC's 20/20 with John Stossel Friday, April 25th, 2008
He's only going after Ariana because he thought that he had the corner on the market for opinion-based info-tainment but now the blogs have supercede his influence. That's why 20/20 has become a fluff "murder of the week" news magazine less relevant than the old PM Magazine.
Notice how John had all those phony, oversized charts to ambush Arianna with. How would he have them ready if he weren’t intending to smear her? And did you notice that he made editorial comments to visual aids he ran throughout the entire interview. He had no intention of doing a proper interview. He just wanted to make Arianna look like a fool. What kind of yellow journalistic trick does John Stossel think he's pulling.
"Controversies"
Liberal economist James K. Galbraith said that Stossel, in a story on laissez-faire economics in September 1999, used an out of context clip of Galbraith to make it seem that Galbraith had said nearly the opposite of what he meant. Stossel denied that Galbraith's views had been misrepresented and changed the words with which he introduced the Galbraith clip in rebroadcasts of the program.
"Organic Vegetables"
A February 2000 story about organic vegetables on 20/20 included statements by Stossel that tests had shown that neither organic nor conventional produce samples contained any pesticide residue, and that organic food was more likely to be contaminated by E. coli bacteria. The Environmental Working Group objected to his report, mainly questioning his statements about bacteria, but also managed to determine that the produce had never been tested for pesticides. They communicated this to Stossel, but after the story's producer backed Stossel's recollection that the test results had been as described, the story was rebroadcast months later, uncorrected, and with a postscript in which Stossel reiterated his claim. Later, after a report in the New York Times confirmed the Environmental Working Group's claims, ABC News suspended the producer of the segment for a month and reprimanded Stossel. Stossel apologized, saying that he had thought the tests had been conducted as reported. However, he asserted that the gist of his report had been accurate.
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care to comment upon the actual performance record of your vaunted "party of family values:"
http://armchairsubversive.org
I'm an *independent* voter BTW, and no "liberal" as one such as you would be inclined to define it. I look forward to your response concerning how your party has degenerated into the "Gang of Pedophiles."
"Family values" worthy of Caligula or the locals in THE HILLS HAVE EYES.
Leland R. Erickson
Citizen
even with words although I would love to see it again either way.
Stossel, "consumer advocate" is a water carrying joke.
Even the crooked preacher documentary he made picked on the
70 year old phonies with big grey wigs and
making it easier for guys like Parsley and Haggard and Hagee.
John Stossel pretends the Republicans are still small government Libertarians who cut spending, and portrays Arianna as crazy for moving towards the left. She will be viewed as a radical for even daring to promote a government program, let alone thinking a government program can improve things like poverty.
At the same time Bill Moyers was doing a liberal white guy interview with Jeremiah Wright. I can only imagine Stossel's take on that.
It revives it... why? Because it SELLS.
Left wing outlets buying right wing opinion is a case of throwing kerosene on embers.
Responsibility? The fuck is that? Does it make money?
How about a HuffParty?