Bloggorhea (Hollywood liberal stars starting up a blog site!)

[Liberty Belle]

Bloggorhea

by Joe Hagan

SOURCES: WARREN BEATTY TO BLOG!

The Observer has learned that Warren Beatty, the 68-year-old actor and director, will likely join a lineup of liberal all-stars who will "group blog" on a Web site to be launched next month by columnist Arianna Huffington.

"I probably will," Mr. Beatty said, on the phone from his production office in Los Angeles.

The "Huffington Report," as Ms. Huffington has dubbed it, will also feature such boldface bloggers as Senator Jon Corzine, David Geffen, Viacom co-chief Tom Freston, Barry Diller, Tina Brown and Gwyneth Paltrow. If the name seems to echo that of the Drudge Report—the mega-site operated by the rightward-tilting unofficial editorial director of America’s news cycle, Matt Drudge—well, it’s supposed to. And Mr. Beatty approved of that.

"I applaud the effort to tell the side of the story that Arianna Huffington seems to be engaged in," he said. Mr. Beatty was all too aware, he said, of the power Mr. Drudge has to steer the American media. "I would say he does a very industrious job of finding the things that he feels could be exploited to further the political agenda of the far right," said Mr. Beatty.

For his part, Mr. Drudge was deeply skeptical of a Web site operated by Hollywood liberals….

http://www.observer.com/pages/nytv.asp

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1. Hmm

I don't know about the rest, but I will say that the best campaign speech I saw in 2000 was done by Warren Beatty. Though, ironically, he's not a great public speaker, I felt he laid out the issues of the day more clearly and with better understanding than any other candidate. I'll read it for him, if not the others.

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2. Good. Huffington is a good read, too.

I don't know about the others, but their star power should draw people to the site, which should be good for our cause.