VOLuntarilyConservative

Arianna Huffington is threatening to take the Blogosphere to a new level with her new site - a celebrity blog designed to compete with Drudge. We can only hope that this venture comes off a little better than her last - her campaign for Governor of California. (I only mention her last effort because she was polling so poorly that many may have been unaware that she was in the race.)

After watching her lately on Bill Maher's "Real Time" show on HBO, I have to wonder if the smackdown that Arnie gave her may have caused some brain damage. She was incoherent at times, making actors Alec Baldwin and Whoopi Goldberg look more credible than the babbling Huffington. Ian McShane, the actor who plays Al Swearengen on HBO's "Deadwood" and native of Blackburn, England, showed significantly more knowledge regarding America and politics on that episode of "Real Time" than fellow immigrant Huffington, so much so that I remember wondering at the time as to which one was more qualified to dabble in American politics and which one should have been the grotesque character actor.