(Don't) See It Now

I read the blog entry that George Clooney supposedly wrote for The Huffington Post a day or so ago, and for CNN to say that it was “profanity-laced” or “profanity-filled” is patently ridiculous. I would link to it myself, but due to the controversy, it has been removed from The Huffington Post site.

It was a statement defining the fact that he is a liberal in a way that encouraged other people who felt the same way he did to do the same thing. I don’t recall exactly how he attempted to tie it to “Good Night and Good Luck” aside from linking to a promotional movie (which I was unable to run, by the way), but one of the reasons why he or his publicist wrote/compiled the post was to capitalize on the fact that the movie will be released to DVD shortly.

Arianna Huffington provided an explanation about the mixup that is entirely credible to me. The whole dustup is unfortunate because it diminishes from the fact that Clooney and Huffington are on the same side anyway, and provides grist for journalistic insects like Matt Drudge to portray the Democrats as squabbling little kids once again (as Peter Daou and others have noted so well, the “narrative” is more important than the actual story to our dear MSM cousins).