Literary Hack on Arianna Huffington

You have got to admire the indefatigable ambition of our self-described Little Greek Girl! She makes one respect, at the least, the scope and resilience of  that very real human aspiration. She is now an executive at AOL and has turned over the Huffington Post to a former New York Times Editor. She has time ,now , for those lunches with Barbara Walters, among others, and the leisure to reply to her former allies and fellow travelers in The Progressive Blogisphere, who have had the temerity to take legal action against her 'employment policies'. Arianna has pissed off her former progressive friends and allies, by acting not like a political altruist, but more like an a rabid Randian Capitalist, defending her acquisition by AOL as completely legitimate- if at a very inflated purchase price, to the rest of us small time players in the game of  selling ourselves in the marketplace. One must simply keep in mind that  the Huffington Post was always 'just a business', albeit with a very real ideological impetuous.
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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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