Stephen Colbert says if it's okay for the Huffington Post to make money off his content, then Arianna Huffington won't mind if he turns the tables for a little while.
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Wednesday night, web engineers at the Colbert Report found a way to repost the complete content of the Huffington Post on a new website called "The Colbuffington Repost". Colbert pulled the web pro quo to call out Arianna Huffington for selling the Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million when the majority of its content is culled from other websites or written by unpaid bloggers.
"Recently, [Arianna Huffington] got obscenely richer when her site was acquired by AOL for $315 million--worth every penny, because HuffPo is famous for its extensive, comprehensive coverage of things other people produced and put on the internet."
Colbert took particular interest in an entire page of Huffington Post content dedicated excusively to him which uses dozens of clips lift from his own website.
"Daaaah-ling I happened to cruise by your $300 million website and you know what I find? A whole lotta ME--including clips from my show on your site's dedicated Stephen Colbert page. You achieved the impossible. You made me feel angry looking at pictures of myself. Where's my money Arianna? Don't make me put on my rings. And until the Huffington Post repays me for repurposing my content, I am happy to announce my brand new website: The Colbuffington Repost. It has got everything you love about the Huffington Post, because it's the Huffington Post with a new border around it that says The Colbuffington Repost. And I am pround to announce that the Colbuffington Repost is now for sale. I will take $316 million. So, go to Colbuffingtonrepost.com. I'm perfectly serious. I need the traffic. And Arianna, if I find a buyer, I promise to give you the; same cut you're giving me."
ColbuffingtonRepost.com currently shows exactly the same content available on The Huffington Post.
Arianna Huffington was an instrumental figure during the October 2010 Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. The media mogul commandeered a fleet of buses to bring New York City residents to the Colbert-Stewart love fest in Washington DC.
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Let's all do our best to make sure that the $300 million dollar investment that AOL made in HufPo will be a total loss for them. Remove HufPo from your book marks and don't visit it again.
removed all evidence of huffpo from my computer.
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