Sunday, September 18, 2005

Ariana's SUV

Arianna Huffington is a political activist who once wrote a book declaring SUVs to be a tool of terrorism (because they consume so much gasoline).

A number of websites have declared 'hypocrisy' because, Ms Huffington, after a speech at a Sierra Club function, was shuttled back to the airport via a extra large SUV.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003562.htm

is a website which has an image and lots of documentation.

It turns out that Arianna did not order the SUV; a contractor for the Sierra Club did.

Thus it is a bit difficult to declare that Arianna was 'acting contrary to what she says others should do'. One could declared her careless for not assuring that her ride to the airport would be an non-SUV. One could declare the Sierra Club similarly careless. It is also possible that Arianna secretly lusts for a ride in an SUV but we don't know that.

Given the above, we can't really call Arianna a true hypocrite; although maybe some lesser charge would be appropriate.