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It began nearly six years ago at arianna huffingtons l.a. mansion, to create a website to help democrats. smart packaging and aggressively linking to other peoples work, quts the huffing ton post grew into a block buster. this week they noujsed a deal with aol executive tim armstrong, the website that touted its independence was being sold or soldout some critics complain to a major corporation. >> why did you sell "huffington post" besides the giant pile of money. >> i made my new years resolut...

Some of the sites are pretty good. they are very in and of their own right. it brings cohesion of what they are doing and i think people have been confused about what tim armstrong is doing at aol and the stock reflected that. >> a columnist described its ai gally rode by slaves commanded by pirates. this is a reference in the business model in which most of the outside contributors are not paid a dime. is that a good business model? >> its a fantastic business model if you can get content for f...

Currently tv and any surprise here? cpac kicks off with the best in class in the conservative ranks and the media used the event to dissect the dissent. grabbing at straws? and are we headed for a big time girl fight? >> i hate you, diane sawyer. >> jon: on the panel this week, lynn sweet washington burrow chief for the sun times and jim pinkerton, fellow, american news council, and alan colmes. im jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. by combining huff-post with aol site, driving focus and...

Views-- defining her left wing views to be neither left or right. i think thats a mistake to lose its left wing identity. and pictures of scantily glad models, no ideology one way or the other. >> jon: does the deal say that aol is taking a political stance? >> thats the issue. i mean, a lot of very good websites within the aol empire, even map quest, there could be a political call ration on them. and tech wrun much. most went to michael arends and hes a well-known guy and will he be taking ord...

The content of that aol-- >> ariana used to be, used to be on hannity, promoting the impeachment of bill clinton and been in different places. its highly possible shes a chameleon and will be perform comfortable in the new situation, but the huffington post is a traffic monster and some measure at least on left wing politics. >> aol is somewhat on the right wing policy. i write for aol and you see some of the responses i get and tweeting people and-- >> right wing, but not too right wing. >> a l...

30 million members and making mergers with time warner, to 4 million and at a motel 6 with ariana getting in bed. i mean, its really bad. and shes now in charge of all editorial content. aol is an embarrassment. theyve always been liberal, but now there is no semblance of news coming out of aol. >> steve: but they are part of corporate america, big america. and here is ariana huffington back in 2009 talking a little bit about how there are two sets of laws for people in america. listen. >> the f...

Huffingtons house and had an idea for a web site that would be the liberal drudge report. and that she and a bunch of other people meg ryan and all these big larry david, hollywood folks were sitting around talking about how they could help democratic causes at the time. that was their idea. they claim they had a follow-up breakfast meeting with arianna huffington and her investor key guy the next day. they agreed they gold forward sort of loosely with a plan to build this web site. that was it....

This melt down because shes not going to get along with anybody at aol. shes going to want to run everything her way and aol will come in with their storagey way of doing things and it will be a complete melt down. just you watch. >> steve: here is another sound bite, just you watch her talking about the president of the united states handing out the bailout. this is from 2009. >> basically hes listened to a range of opinion that goes from goldman to sachs and he has hand over the bank bailout t...

>> steve: welcome back. corporate giant aol just bought the left wing huffington post blog for over $300 million. so how does an anti-wall street web site made up of unpaid bloggers, 6,000 of them, merge with a huge corporation and maintain its credibility? joining us for reaction is the founder and president of the media research center, brent bozelle. it is extraordinary, on the pages of the huffington post, they have slammed business for years and now they are in bed with them! >> well, money...

>> big payday for arianna huffington. aol becomes the new owner of huffington post. >> it announced today it will pay 315 million dollars for one of the leading news websites. aol is hoping to pick up post readers and boost ad revenue. huffington will take control of aols editorial content. >> sean: is she going to be reading my instant messages now? >> aol giving control to huffington. how the mighty have fallen. 10 years ago aol had 30 million members, joining forces with the time warner cloth...