Thread: Century of the Self Documentary

On the political leanings of Huffington post:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia on Arianna Huffington

A popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, she adopted more liberal political beliefs in the late 1990s.^[1] She is the ex-wife of former Republican congressman Michael Huffington
Huffington rose to national prominence during her husband's unsuccessful Senate bid in 1994. She became known as a reliable supporter of conservative causes such as Newt Gingrich's "Republican Revolution" and Bob Dole's 1996 candidacy for president.

She is Greek upper middle class. Practically every single person from that background is very, very right wing (that's why they had that horrible military government for so many years). She married a Republican and moved to the US... Plus I have read a bit of Huffington Post for as long as I could take it. It's very right wing.

Originally Posted by Hanna

On the political leanings of Huffington post: ... [Arianna Huffington] married a Republican and moved to the US ... It's very right wing.

Is "HuffPo" very right wing, or is Hanna very Scandinavian, and also very unfamiliar with the concepts of "Rockefeller Republicans" and so-called RINOs?

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

Is "HuffPo" very right wing, or is Hanna very Scandinavian, and also very unfamiliar with the concepts of "Rockefeller Republicans" and so-called RINOs?

I don't think all Scandinavians are leftists, I believe it's just some of them who are. Otherwise it wouldn't be one of my favorite regions in Europe.

I'm also reminded of the "Briggs Initiative" -- a notorious anti-gay proposal in 1978 that would have banned homosexual teachers from working in California public schools (i.e., kindergarten through 12th grade).

True, it was sponsored by a Republican politician (named Briggs, obviously!), but the proposed law went crashing down in flames at the ballot -- after another Republican politician (named Ronald Reagan) bluntly denounced the initiative in a newspaper editorial.

(Many California gays were so pleasantly shocked by Reagan's public support for them, in opposition to religious conservatives from his own party, that it led directly to the founding of the "Log Cabin Republicans", a nationwide group that attempted to "build bridges" between the GOPers and the LGBTers. Arianna's ex-husband Michael Huffington is, by the way, a member...)