Arianna Huffington Wastes No Time

In doing video promotions for her site.

We'll see how this works out, "Arianna Takes On The 'Cult Of No-Sleep' (VIDEO)":

Meanwhile, Robert Stacy McCain is not impressed: "HuffPo/AOL Deal: On Second Thought … Hell, No, It Still Doesn’t Make Any Sense."

Plus, David Dayen's backpedaling from his gleeful response this morning, "Asking Uncomfortable Questions Not a Matter of Left or Right." Dayen's responding to Politico, "HuffPost to AOL: Leaving left behind?":

The Huffington Post may have been founded as the liberal answer to the conservative Drudge Report, a place for progressive wound-licking in the wake of George W. Bush’s re-election.

But on Monday, Arianna Huffington was distancing herself from the lefty label as she announced the sale of HuffPost to AOL for $315 million.

“We don’t see ourselves as left,” she told POLITICO. “And I think it’s one area where news consumers are ahead of the media, because they know that continuing to see everything that’s happening as a right-left issue is missing what’s happening, and is also making it much harder for us to be properly informed.”

Some on the left worry that the sale to AOL could mean an end to HuffPost in its current incarnation — away from its roots in the progressive community, which were its first bloggers, commenters and readers, and toward a more middle-of-the-road posture, to make it more broadly appealing.

I doubt progressives have much to worry about. The Huffington Post will hardly be turning into a web copy of the Wall Street Journal. And Arianna Huffington's a progressive through and through, despite her well-documented hypocrisy.