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Democratic Operatives Claim Arianna Huffington Stole Website Ideas

Nov. 15, 2010 9:43pm Meredith Jessup

Peter Daou and James Boyce, two Democratic consultants, have filed suit in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan against liberal media mogul Arianna Huffington, namesake of of The Huffington Post.

According to their suit, the plaintiffs allege that Huffington and partner Ken Lerer designed the Post website from a plan Daou and Boyce had presented them, claiming that Huffington violated a handshake agreement to work together and their intellectual property rights over the site.

Politico’s Ben Smith reports:

The complaint is a direct challenge to the left’s most important media property from two stalwarts of the progressive movement. And it challenges Huffington’s own oft-told story of coming up with the idea in conversation with Lerer and other friends.

“Huffington has styled herself as a ‘new media’ maven and an expert on the effective deployment of news and celebrity on the Internet in the service of political ends,” says the complaint. “As will be shown at trial, Huffington’s and Lerer’s image with respect to the Huffington Post is founded on false impressions and inaccuracies: They presented the ‘new media’ ideas and plans of Peter Daou and James Boyce as their own in order to raise money for the website and enhance their image, and breached their promises to work with Peter and James to develop the site together.”

In response, Huffington has called the charges “completely absurd” and a “ludicrous supposition,” claiming the men were disgruntled former job applicants she had turned down for work in the past.

“We have now officially entered into Bizzaro World. James Boyce and Peter Daou, two political operatives who we rejected going into business with or hiring 6 years ago, and who had absolutely nothing to do with creating, running, financing, or building the Huffington Post, now concoct some scheme saying they own part of the company,” she and Lerer said in a written statement to POLITICO, writing that the two “tried to cash in” before filing suit and “said they’d go away for just a little money.”

Huffington’s statement goes on to claim that Boyce and Daou have “been trying to extract money” from the website company “for months.”

But Boyce and Daou are standing by their suit.

They will, the two said in a statement, use any proceeds beyond legal fees and expenses “to support progressive causes and citizen journalists and bloggers who are active in support of those causes.”

“How noble,” Huffington and Lerer replied.

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vonryansexpress
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 1:31am
should read ” … one could easily associate with a plagerist fraudfeasor.”

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LEGION
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 1:28am
Hey the lefty commie socialists want to re-distribute everything-share and share alike. All for one and all for the demonrat marxists. What’s yours is mine and what is mine is mine.

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- blacksmith
  Posted on November 16, 2010 at 5:03am
  They only want to share our wealth, not their own, even with each other.
  
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vonryansexpress
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 1:14am
These allegations come a bit late in the day to be sure.

However, Arianna Huffington has been accused of plagerism repeatedly and these charges are the sort of fraudulent mental purpose that one could easily associated with a plagerist fraudfeasor. The predicate of Intellectual Property theft is the same as found in the plagerist … the intent to accquire, claim and use the work of others for your own purposes.

Huffington’s character is squirrely enough to have been associated with this type of theft. Fraud and misrepresentaion seem to exude from her. She’s never been consistant or sincere and that farce marriage for money was the sort of fraud that gets others deported. Her entire life is a ladder climb on the work or lives of others.

Strange brew here.

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HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:57am
Stealing for profit, how very Capitalistic of the Socialist Socialite! Let the cannibalism begin…….wait, I don’t have my beer and popcorn! Okay now start!

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- J.C. McGlynn
  Posted on November 16, 2010 at 1:54pm
  I just bought Steiner military binoculars (10X50). Would you like to borrow them to closer look?
  
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HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:51am
Some times when you sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas. Hardly a website worth suing over!

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WhatTheHuh
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:28am
I don’t get this lawsuit. What exactly was their great “idea”? A website/blog that’s like a newspaper? Uh, that’s not too original, and I hardly think they were the first to think of it.

As for the left, they’re imploding all over the place. It’s getting ugly. I can only imagine what it will be like in 2012 when a Republican wins the White House. Can you imagine if it’s Sarah Palin?!

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Locust
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:22am
Pretty funny there was a lifelock commercial in the center of the article HAHA! Talk about irony I don’t know if it was on purpose but pretty funny. Right on.

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BetterDays
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:43pm
when I saw this, I copy and pasted it to the Blaze without delay (as I’m sure a hundred thousand others did as well), I couldn’t stop laughing at the thought of a socialist being sued by socialists.

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Quasimofo
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:41pm
ROFL The libs whole world is crumbling around them as they fight for any leftover morsel they can find!!!

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Sharon
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:26pm
We The People people know that George Soros has a hand in Huff Po! I won’t be reading anything they write!

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242355
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:24pm
Any chance AH and GO have close, interpersonal relations? Married? Only with a pre-nup!

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babysealclubber
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:44pm
She probably didn’t “steal” any ideas from those 2 consultants, she just “redistributed” them evenly.

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- HUGGINGMYBABIES
  Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:52am
  All things being equal :)
  
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J.C. McGlynn
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:44pm
These two must feel like they just went through airport security.

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darski
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:36pm
It would be very funny if they had to call in Breitbart as a witness

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Conserving Ink
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:29pm
“The wonderful thing about a conspiracy is you can trust everyone to trust no one.” – Simon & Simon

Everything is a double cross and a fraud with these people. If you can’t believe anything they say you have to wonder if they actually believe anything they claim to hold dear.
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http://conserving-ink.blogspot.com/

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Psychosis
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:23pm
WELL according to the socialist utopia they are pushing themselves, intellectual property belongs to the people, not the individual, so it actually belongs to the government………..how you like those apples little miss huff n puff lol

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HouseNegro
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:10pm
So let me get this straight. She stole their crap website and they want their crap website back. These people are killing me. And they breed un-controllably. Someone call the CDC………

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- snowleopard3200 {mix art}
  Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:30am
  How about pest control instead.
  
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dontbotherme
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:10pm
I seriously don’t care. You become who you associate with.

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ensemble
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:09pm
Arianna Huffington just follows trends. I remember when her hubby got waxed and then she was a conservative under the first term of Bush, then when the tides changed she went back to being a lib..she is just in it for the spotlight and in it for the money..lib, then conservative, then back to lib. She doesn’t have any standards, she just goes any way the wind blows.

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EAGLEMOM
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:06pm
Well if you lye with dogs….your going to get bit!

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- grandmaof5
  Posted on November 16, 2010 at 6:37am
  Or get fleas!
  
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oldasdirt
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:03pm
Let the eating of their own begin.

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- CatB
  Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:23am
  Fun to watch … isn’t it! ROFL
  
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peezee
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:55pm
Progressives are petty, ugly people. They thoroughly disgust me.

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behonest
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:55pm
It sounds like the progressives are eating their young, Arianna sounds more like a Liberal democrat than a progressive/socialist lately. She seems to be questioning the Far Left progressives more and more. That is a NO NO.

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teahugger
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:50pm
Hopefully the truth will come out in the trial.

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- MAULEMALL
  Posted on November 16, 2010 at 6:58am
  Eff em…..Huffie did some puffie and screwed her “Bizzaro” a ss into some money….
  And the 2 liberal douches don’t really need the money,,, They are gonna give it to “progressive causes”
  
  They have officially become White trash..
  
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Bigrod58
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:48pm
No honor among thieves. tsk tsk

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- TruthTalker
  Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:51pm
  Let the lying begin!
  
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- A1955Rosie
  Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:54pm
  right…live by the sword, die by the sword. As a t person, you become so desensitized by their words. I wonder what these guys think of her words.
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:10pm
  Bill Gates stole all my ideas, so I know how they feel
- snowleopard3200 {mix art}
  Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:15pm
  How true, and now let the dueling and character assassinations commence in style. It is always so nice to see such (sarcasm intentional) “friendly, and wonderfully honorable people agree to conduct such manners over a merest of handshakes and expectations to be fulfilled to the fullest spirit of mutual co-operation and trust…”
  
  Yeah Right!!!
  
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- Blazergirl
  Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:17pm
  Progressive Opportunist! :) They must have gotten wind that the Huffy Puffy Post was backed by the infamous Billionaire “Spooky Dude” George Soros. The word is out Arianna. Better tell George to pull out his checkbook.:) I’m sure there will be more to come. Remember there is no Honor among thieves.
  I love it!!!! AHAHHHAHHHHAHHH.
  
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- 123gone
  Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:28pm
  Can you believe it…two Socialists fighting over a Capitalistic concept of free enterprise !!
- elfinmagic75
  Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:55pm
  I wouldn’t put it past them that they are trying to build on the popularity of the facebook story. I wouldn’t doubt that this is a publicity stunt to boost subscribers. I am sure all the progressives out there are already subscribed though so probably won’t work.
  
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- HKS
  Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:14am
  Would this be a capitalistic tactic? From a commie? I thought they hated capitalist. Or is this a what’s yours is mine approach? I guess you just can’t trust a handshake anymore.
  
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- snowleopard3200 {mix art}
  Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:29am
  @HKS
  
  Unfortunately not all communists are stupid. Just morally bankrupt and such, but not always stupid.
  
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- thepatriotdave
  Posted on November 16, 2010 at 1:11am
  Munch munch munch, I love it when they eat their own!
  
  PatriotShops.com
  
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- Robert W
  Posted on November 16, 2010 at 4:15am
  Somebody had a Clairol coupon.
  
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- Eddies_Grandma
  Posted on November 16, 2010 at 10:04pm
  Arianna must be all we weed up at the thought of redistribution of her wealth.
  
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