"Democratic Underground.com" for the Rich and Famous...

NY Times reports that Arianna Huffington - columnist, former political candidate and former spouse-of-political candidate - is creating a blogspot for Liberal Hollywood types to post their tinfoil hat-wearing moonbat rants.

She has lined up more than 250 of what she calls "the most creative minds" in the country to write a group blog that will range over topics from politics and entertainment to sports and religion. It is essentially a nonstop virtual talk show that will be part of a Web site that will also serve up breaking news around the clock. It is to be introduced May 9.

Having prominent people join the blogosphere, Ms. Huffington said in an interview, "is an affirmation of its success and will only enrich and strengthen its impact on the national conversation." Among those signed up to contribute are Walter Cronkite, David Mamet, Nora Ephron, Warren Beatty, James Fallows, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Diane Keaton, Norman Mailer and Mortimer B. Zuckerman.

"This gives me a chance to sound off with a few words or a long editorial," said Mr. Cronkite, 88, the longtime "CBS Evening News" anchorman. "It's a medium that is new and interesting, and I thought I'd have some fun."

Not as much fun as the right side of the blogosphere is going to have cutting and pasting all their "creative" comments for the sheer joy of lampooning them. It's going to be hard to keep up.

UPDATE: 4:15pm
Jim Geraghty at TKS weighs in:

Attention, Arianna: We already know what celebrities think. They're telling us all the time. Large chunks of the mainstream media are devoted to telling us the latest political and philosophical breakthroughs they want to share with the world. I suspect people turn to blogs because they want something different.

This project, in short, adds to an already huge supply, in a market for which the demand is limited... perhaps exhausted.

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