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Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo Post

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 12:30:36 PM EST
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Update: Jane of Firedoglake and John Amato of Crooks and Liars were there and heard the exchange. They back Arianna.

Last week we and many other bloggers quoted George Clooney's blog post at HuffPo. Clooney now says he didn't write it, although he acknowledges the statements in it attributed to him are accurate. Arianna responds and disagrees, but allows there is room for a misunderstanding.

The important aspect, if there is one, is that Clooney stands by the statements in the post. What he says is that is we should take pride in being liberals. That's the part we should focus on, not whether he intended it to be a quote as opposed to a blog post.

In other celebrity news, I can't resist: Michael Douglas criticizes Brad Pitt:

"I don't know about Brad Pitt, leaving that beautiful wife to go hold orphans for Angelina," Douglas snipes in GQ's April issue, hitting newsstands March 21.

And one more: Memeorandum, the outstanding political news and blog aggregator, has launced a sister site on celebrity gossip: WeSmirch.

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    • Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo Post | 15 comments (15 topical)
    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#1)
    by swingvote on Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 01:52:33 PM EST
    That's the part we should focus on, not whether he intended it to be a quote as opposed to a blog post. On the contrary, Ariana misled people, most likely intentionally, to make them think that George Clooney was writing posts for her blog. While it's true that George stands by his comments, which he should, there was no need to present them in this way. If a conservative blogger did this, you would say they lied.

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#2)
    by jondee on Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 02:06:33 PM EST
    Its all part of the larger liberal pro-Hillary, pro-welfare state conspiracy.

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#3)
    by Patrick on Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 02:38:36 PM EST
    Yeah, fake but accurate. That one?

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#4)
    by ding7777 on Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 04:11:24 PM EST
    Would you want all of your appearances on FOX to be (accurately)spliced together and let FOX (or any other infotainment outlet) broadcast it as an official TalkLeft program?

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 04:31:15 PM EST
    justpaul nailed it. Couldn't have said it better myself. And ding7777's comment is a great example

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#6)
    by Sailor on Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 05:46:15 PM EST
    Yeah, fake but accurate. That one?
    Uhh, no. This time both sides agree that Clooney's comments were what he said. They just disagreed on the formatting.

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#7)
    by Che's Lounge on Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 06:04:12 PM EST
    Then don't put his picture next to the column. I have to agree with the wingers on this. Huffington's credibility (not her facts) is diminished by doing that. It's no trick to splice together some quotes. But that was a misrepresentation. C'mon Arianna, the jackals are all around waiting for slips like this.

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 06:42:41 PM EST
    Yup, agree with you, Che. And TL's not covered herself in glory by trying to spin this one either. Focus on the message as opposed to the deception??? C'mon!!!

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#9)
    by scarshapedstar on Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 08:24:05 PM EST
    Bad call. Unless he sat down and typed it, a blog post it ain't. I believe proper protocol would be for someone else to make a blog post lauding Clooney's comments.

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#10)
    by cpinva on Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 10:40:12 PM EST
    i've tried, in vain, to take a positive spin on this. mr. clooney is right to be angry, the accuracy of the statements notwithstanding. that anyone would take issue with his being irked is a mystery to me. just another, in a laundry list of reasons, to discount ms. huffington. if she is among the "best and brightest" that the liberal school has to offer, we might as well all go slit our throats now, it'll be quicker.

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#11)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 11:48:01 PM EST
    Yeah, c'mon Arianna, you're not some kinda sleaze pit like powerline or freeperville, nobody expects those guys to have any integrity. Heck, they get detention if they do, but we ain't them. We're better. We're smarter. And Doggone it, people like us.

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#12)
    by ding7777 on Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 03:00:37 AM EST
    From firedoglake:
    Pamela -- you didn't see the emails, you have no idea what you are talking about and you are wrong to make a judgment about me, Arianna or anyone else without having done so.
    It was explicitly clear what was going on. Can you prove otherwise? Jane Hamsher
    why not publish the emails and let the rest of us decide if it was "explicitly clear what was going on"

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#13)
    by jimakaPPJ on Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 06:38:58 AM EST
    charlie - Problem is, they haven't been caught writing something and saying someone else did it.... Tiny but of difference, eh?

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#14)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 06:54:05 AM EST
    Really? Take anything and everything they've ever said, written or claimed about shrub and shrubco for openers. Half truths and horsebrit.

    Re: Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo (none / 0) (#15)
    by Che's Lounge on Thu Mar 16, 2006 at 07:29:10 AM EST
    Yeah, c'mon Arianna, you're not some kinda sleaze pit like powerline or freeperville, nobody expects those guys to have any integrity. That's exactly right. We expect that kind of sleazy work from the Assrocket, the Filipine racist, and the mAnn. Also, LW blogs shouldn't be so quick to defend her. Hint.

    Clooney Takes Issue With Authorship of HuffPo Post | 15 comments (15 topical)