Five Internet pages and probably around 2,000 words were devoted to Arianna Huffington in this week's New York magazine. It always shocks us that people are still buzzing over Ms. Huffington — then again, it also seems like the Huffington Post has been around for much longer than 17 months. We have yet to read the whole thing (we have a deadline every 20 minutes people!) but we will say that A Huff is lookin' pretty damn good for 56.
In a piece by New York's Emily Nussbaum, she describes Huffington as "ridiculously lovely" while expressing the overwhelming presence the journalist-cum-blogger exudes upon entering a room. Our favorite comparison, however, is by far the one presented by Huffington's newest site companion, former Onion editor Ben Wikler.
We chat about his boss’s intense charisma. “It’s her superpower,” Wikler says. “If she were in the X-Men, that would be her mutant power. If Rogue touched her, she’d take away her charm.”
Then Al Franken started blabbering, and we stopped reading.
The Human Blog [Emily Nussbaum, New York Magazine]
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