Decision ‘08

Clooney - Huff’N'Puff Kerfuffle!

The Nutroots® is too nutty for Clooney, apparently - turns out he didn’t really write the much-ridiculed blog post at Huff’n'Puff, after all. Oh, they’re his words, but they’re compilations of statements he made in interviews that Arianna ‘accidentally’ posted in blog form. George isn’t buying it, though:

Arianna’s defense does not impress Clooney rep Stan Rosenfield much: “I read (Arianna’s) response. This wasn’t a misunderstanding. It was misrepresentation.”

Clooney’s camp insists they did not ask HuffPo to take down the item or to release a statement about lying and misrepresentation. They say they only asked for a posted qualifier explaining that the item was not written by Clooney but was a compilation of quotes from past interviews with Larry King and The Guardian.

Hey, I’ve had my fun with Clooney - but you know what? I trust him - at least, I trust him a damn sight more than I do Arianna. Typical nonsense from the egomaniac - and if it had been a Bush administration snafu, the headline at Huff’n'Puff would have screamed:

CLOONEY POST FALSE!!! APPROVAL RATING PLUNGES!!! COVERUP, LIES, PESTILENCE, AND LOCUSTS DESCEND OVER NATION!!!!!!!!!!!!

UPDATE 03/16/06 8:50 a.m.: Of course, Jane Hamsher sucks up to Arianna:

John Amato and I were there with Arianna on the night in question when she spoke to George Clooney about blogging, and the conversation went down as she describes it today. Clooney went on a very funny rant about Bill O’Reilly and seemed to be quite interested in blogging, and Arianna said she’d hook him up.

I don’t know if Clooney got spooked because Fox News went after him or if he just doesn’t know that his office bungled the communique but I’ve seen the email exchanges and Arianna’s absolutely right on this one. It was obvious she was clearing a blog post for Clooney on both the HuffPo and Yahoo, and Clooney’s PR person explicitly gave the okay.

Heads up, Jane - you got a little brown on your nose, there…

2 Responses to “Clooney - Huff’N'Puff Kerfuffle!”

1 Fred Fry Says:
March 15th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Does Huffington understand how Blogs even work?

For that matter, what about Straisand?

(Or am I just in denial because I don’t have an agent?)
2 Ryan Bonneville Says:
March 15th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
I really want to see coverup and lies descend over the nation. That would be a sight.