Sunday, October 17, 2010
Bus-ted
cuz you’re Steward fanz are idiots
Jon Stewart is having a “Copy Glenn Beck” rally in DC ...some time this month. Yeah, I know. But this is getting amusing.
[Arriannnna Huff’n’Puff:] “Jon and I were talking in the green room about the rally. I said, ‘Oh my God, how are those people going to get there?’
erm… like this?
"On the air I decided to make that offer, it was spontaneous, and nobody knew. My people were in the green room with me, and even they had no clue.”
To Stewart’s delight and apparent surprise, the new-media mogul *cupcakes* pledged “as many buses as there are people to fill them” from Huffpo’s headquarters in Manhattan to the comedian’s Oct. 30 rally on the Washington Mall.
Commence groveling gratitude here:
"Oh my God, Arianna just Oprah’ed the buses!” Stewart said the following night. “By the way, I hope that her announcement was real and not some Huffington Post thing where it’s not like actual transportation, it’s just embedding a link to Greyhound. Like, I hope they’re not just being bus aggregators in this situation."
This is how generoooosity and suppoooort “work” in the Prog Comuuuunity:
Coleman is working to entice sponsors to underwrite the gesture, and turn the surprise into a revenue bonus.
[HuffPo’s President Greg Coleman said:] “We were surprised when she made that offer. She didn’t tell us. But inside the Huffington Post this does nothing to hurt our revenues.”
Yeah… that’ll work.
1] Find a sucker.
2] Skim off the top.
3] Profit!
BONUS: No Underwear!
...But the announcement was a “shock to the system” back at HuffPo, according to one insider, where employees were left to deal with curiosity seekers wandering by to sign up for the buses.
...over 11,000 who have signed up.
Not to be out-Oprahed, Oprah pulled, well, an Oprah:
Oprah Winfrey appeared on the “Daily Show” video wall and announced herself as a member of Team Sanity by telling the audience to look under their seats—where tickets to Washington, D.C., and the rally were waiting
[no mention of hotel reservations in sold-out DC… BTNIN]
“No! I’m Teh Oprah!, Bitch.”
*facepalm*
Side-Nugget of The Week:
[HuffPo] was in talks to be acquired by Yahoo!—where HuffPo CEO Eric Hippeau is on the board of directors—in the spring, but those talks broke off inconclusively after the two sides could not agree on a valuation for the site.
A knowledgeable insider said there are no current talks ongoing at the portal, which is experiencing its own internal turmoil with executives leaving in droves.
[Hippieau?]
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