Arianna's Toast
With The Huffington Post derided as "the sort of failure that is simply unsurvivable," "further proof that being divorced from reality works best with a large divorce settlement to invest," and "the liberal echo chamber" with celebrity entries that "read like the opening lines from ungiven speeches that dribble off into empty mutterings," even the ever-leftist The Guardian had to chime in with a spot-on and razor-sharp spoof of Arianna Huffington's latest vanity project just to retain even a semblance of credibility while also maintaining a very safe distance.
But my favorite. ever. piece. of. web. satire. is. THIS.
With superbly crafted swipes at every liberal politician, loony celebrity and self-absorbed blogger within reach, Huffington's Toast raises the act of critique to an art form with postings from "not really" Howard Dean ("I hope lots of negroes are logging in from hotel kitchens -- WAAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"), Hunter S. Thompson ("Like, for example, you come up with the idea to shoot a man in the head just to watch him die") and Martha Stewart ("Or else you could just hire a Guatemalan girl to darn your stockings. That’s what I do. But of course I’m very very wealthy"), while also engaging in clever send-ups of Instapundit Glenn Reynold's newfound and near fetish for blonde and fellow conservative blogger Ann Althouse ("UPDATE: Althouse Althouse, Althouse Althouse; Althouse-Althouse Althouse") and Hugh Hewitt's incessant product placement ("Back to pimping my books
And the site even sports an advertisement for one of my favorite movies (and also advertiser on homocon), "Michael Moore Hates America"!
*sigh*
It's, like, candy all day long . . .
*Note to Andrew Breitbart: If you know what's good for your career, you'll ditch this lame-ass Huffington blog-wannabee and start your own on-line, uber-Drudge, fantastico-pop-culture expose. I've read Hollywood Interrupted
1,000 WORDS:
Ha!
Comments
Heh. Indeed.
Posted by: reagan80 | May 14, 2005 7:38 PM
Maybe it's just me but while the little photo avatars on each post at the Fake Huffington website are funny and the writing is very good, to me the Glenn Reynolds stuff is really the funniest.
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Homocon responds:
I concur. When I first read the "Althouse-Althouse, Althouse Althouse Althouse" post, I about fell out of my chair . . . .
Posted by: Scott | May 16, 2005 7:23 AM