Word: huffington
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POLITICAL ACTIVIST ARIANNA HUFFINGton is the Betsy Ross of America's current conservative risorgimento [REPUBLICANS, Nov. 6]. In a recent TV debate, she was impressive as she made cogent and compassionate arguments in a heated exchange with veteran leftists Betty Friedan and Karen Burstein. Huffington for President in 2000? ROBERT D. LEVINE New York City
...Huffington, 45, laughs it off. "Pericles said courage is knowledge of what not to fear," she said in an interview at her sparsely furnished downtown Washington office. At Gingrich's Progress and Freedom Foundation, Huffington, in her designer suits and coppery mane, is taken very seriously. "The thing some people miss about Arianna is her intellect," says Jeffrey Eisenach, president of the foundation. But, he says, she is no dilettante, even though some people may be led to think so because of her ties to New York society and her wealth (husband Michael is reportedly worth at least $75 million...
When she's not plotting with Gingrich and his congressional allies, Huffington socializes with the city's young conservatives, who admire her social grace and hang on every word of her brash conservatism. At a dinner honoring another conservative deity, Margaret Thatcher, she was escorted by David Brock, the writer for the American Spectator who reported the Arkansas state troopers' allegations about President Clinton's infidelities. She played host to a book party for author and former Bush aide Jim Pinkerton, a young conservative Washington author. Another new friend is attorney Laura Ingraham, former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas...
...Huffington owes much of her newfound status to Gingrich, who first noticed her on C-SPAN giving a speech at a conservative conference in 1993. (She spoke on the question "Can Conservatives Have a Social Conscience?") It was ideological combustion at first sight, or something like that. Gingrich immediately invited her to speak at a Republican conference a month later. A Republican aide there recalls Gingrich's reaction to the statuesque Greek immigrant: "My clearest recollections were with the rapture in which he held her. He was like a puppy dog." She quickly became a member of Gingrich's group...
...Huffington was stung by press skepticism about her devotion to volunteer work, which waned after her husband's election campaigns. Now she is trying to start a new television show called Beat the Press, with pro-Clinton Camille Paglia as her co-host. Says Paglia: "I view her as a major contemporary diva. I knew I would help her when I heard she posed with a rubber chicken. This is what we need in this country." "There's really nothing like self-deprecating humor," Huffington says. "We need to have humor in politics." As the spectacle of Arianna Huffington unfolds...