Huffington Post Burns Alec Baldwin: Says He 'Slams' Olbermann and Maddow

This happens from time to time. You write a story about one thing, and the headline writers in the promotions end of your site change it up someplace else to make it sizzle more.

Still, I was really amused to see a front-page headline at The Huffington Post declare "Alec Baldwin Slams Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow." Baldwin is a regular columnist at HuffPo, yet they were hyping this as though he had drunkenly spilled the beans to a paparazzo.

Better still was the actual "slamming," a paragraph that begins by saying what a fan he is of the pair. The article wasn't even about Keith and Rach, but rather the New York Times.

Here's the scathing "slam," which HuffPo has downgraded somewhat to the cherry-picked headline pictured (They changed it before I could screen-cap it) :

On cable news, I am a fan of Keith and Rachel. But he wastes too much time pissing on Bush and his deposed cronies. She is smart and charming but her writers are dreadful and the less cutesy she is, the better. She did an excellent interview with Colin Powell recently. The next night, I missed that tougher, less avuncular Rachel. A while back, the idea of sitting down at another screen and getting my evening news seemed unappealing. Now I sit and watch Rachel and Keith while I do my e-mail and read Slate and HuffPo online.

But something has changed again. I'm back to buying the Times. I think others should get back to buying and reading a newspaper, too.

At least he didn't call either of them a rude little pig.

I'm sure nobody will lose any sleep over it, but this is a nice little peek into how our particular brand of sausage gets made.

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