Arianna Huffington

Studio 360

Arianna Huffington, The columnist and founder of “The Huffington Post,” talks with Kurt about the impact blogging has made on politics and journalism. She came on to the pop-political radar with her pajama-clad “strange bedfellows” stunt with Al Franken for Comedy Central during the 1996 election campaign — she told Kurt, “I’m probably one of the few women you know who actually got a tax deduction for lingerie.”

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