Reporting news is becoming ever more tricky for the liberal Huffington Post blog. One of their writers has dissected a recent piece in the Politico, saying that the words the authors of the piece use to write about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama indicate a conservative bias. The words, in fact, do support that contention, a contention that we’ve made several times in the past. But the Huffington Post noting that a publication is biased is just another pot calling a kettle black, and will give conservatives fodder to ignore and even mock the serious allegations.

By calling itself liberal from the outset and now attempting to beef up its reporting of serious journalism, the Huffington Post leaves itself open to criticism. Why Arianna Huffington, a longtime conservative who only converted to being a Democrat after her Republican politician husband admitted he was gay, felt it was necessary to become a publisher of a liberal blog is an issue that deserves more exploration. Still, maybe the issue can be summed up best with one word: opportunism. And that’s sad, because Huffington’s opportunism now casts a serious shadow over all of her staff’s work.

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