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Who Is Arianna Huffington and Why In The World Do We Care What She Has To Say?

While driving home from Montauk the other day, I was enjoying the beautiful spring day and tossing ideas for this blog around in my mind. I kept thinking about things I had recently read and a piece struck me about the Bush White House being all washed up written by a woman named Arianna Huffington. I remembered seeing her on some talk show giving her opinion, and wondering at that time who she was and why the world would be interested in what she had to say. I thought I also remembered something about her being married to a politician. Once I got home I googled her and found out that indeed she was of Greek origin and was once married to a member of the House of representing, who received national attention by admitting his status as Bisexual to the nation. I thought to myself, why would our nation care about the opinion of the former wife of an admitted Bisexual Congressman. Not that it should matter that he was Bisexual, that just seems to add to our morbid interest in the lives of our public officials. The point is, why do we care what this woman has to say and what are her credentials to say them? From my search I couldn't find that she was ever elected to anything, however she did try to run for governor of California in the Gray Davis recall election mess back in 2003. She has guest starred on the Daily Show and Comedy Central and heads a lobby group called The Detroit Project which lobbies auto makers to produce cars that "end our dependence on foreign oil." What however, gives her the right to voice her opinion publicly on anything political and have us listen?? I couldn't find one reason why her opinion was more valuable than mine. If anyone thinks otherwise, Please write me an let me know.