Arianna Huffington: The "Progressive" Drudge

For some unexplained reason, The New York Observer decided to seek the opinion of Soros hatchet man David Brock on the commercial prospects for Arianna Huffington's new Web site, the Huffington Report.

Brock magnanimously allowed that the market was probably big enough to support Mrs. Huffington's Web site along with his own MediaMatters.org. Brock said:

"We try to function not as a Drudge, but as an anti-Drudge, which leaves plenty of room for a progressive knock-off of Drudge. I think it’s long overdue. I’ve always felt that progressives have information and another entity could be fed. I think it could be very successful."

As previously noted on this blog, Mrs. Huffington has reportedly hired Drudge's number two man, Andrew Breitbart (see "Drudge Team May Break Up"), and plans to feature a group blog where such cultural luminaries as Jon Corzine, Tina Brown, Vernon Jordan, Barry Diller, David Geffen, Gwyneth Paltrow — and evidently Warren Beatty as well — will hold forth on the issues of the day (see "Arianna Huffington Launches Group Blog for Celebrity Leftists").