Will the Real Arianna Please

Will the Real Arianna Please Stand Up? - Susan Estrich on the depths of Huffington's opportunism - which is now affecting her family:

"On the day she announced her candidacy at 'A Place Called Home,' in South Central Los Angeles, her children moved out of hers in Brentwood and into their father's. 'Our oldest daughter has been devastated by it,' her dad said.

'A Place Called Home,' according to its Web site, was created to give inner-city kids somewhere to go after school to do their homework, watch TV, play with their friends and 'be with people that care about them -- basic rights that all kids should have.' That's what most kids get from their mothers...

Huffington has no chance of winning. Never did. The only reason to run was her ego, self-aggrandizement, attention -- at the expense of her kids.

She is running on a platform she didn't even believe in a few years ago. Nor is it one she lives by.

How could she do that to her children? my own children ask.

In Huffington's case, of course, it may be a bit more complicated than that, financially speaking, since it's slightly more difficult to live off your children's child support when your children aren't living with you. But don't bet against her. This is, after all, the woman who runs against oil interests and lives in a mansion financed by oil money, rails against pigs at the trough and pays no taxes, runs as an independent and supports a guru. She's even got a documentary crew following her for the campaign. I wonder if they filmed the children moving out."

Michael Medved took her tax record (she pays none) sternly to task earlier this week; she's a poster child for the need for a consumption, rather than an income, tax.

Posted by Mitch at August 21, 2003 12:09 PM