AOL Buys HuffPo: You've Got News!

AOL has bought the Huffington Post from Arianna Huffington just so that they can re-introduce everyone to their amazing CDs loaded with free hours and their new AOL / Huffington Post website.

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Description: AOL has bought the Huffington Post from Arianna Huffington just so that they can re-introduce everyone to their amazing CDs loaded with free hours and their new AOL / Huffington Post website.

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Keywords: aol huffington post news merger bought purchase purchased arianna huffington tim armstrong 315 million news changes cds free hours 700 hours compuserve prodigy boards internet 1999 history nostalgia you've got mail you got mail

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WEBVTT 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:07.000 <v Computerized Voice> Welcome. 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:09.000 <v Alex Fernie> Hey, Greg. Ready for the game? 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:12.000 <v Greg Tuculescu> Yeah, I'm just finishing up with my progressive kayaking friends. 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:15.000 <v Alex Fernie> Progressive kayaking friends? On your computer? 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:18.000 <v Greg Tuculescu> Yeah, I get America Online Huffington Post. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:19.000 <v Alex Fernie> What's that? 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:29.000 <v Greg Tuculescu> You don't know? AOL bought the Huffington Post. It's very exciting. Hey, do you like keeping abreast of political, world, and entertainment news? 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:30.000 <v Alex Fernie> Yes. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.000 <v Greg Tuculescu> And, do you like friendly chat rooms filled with horny Midwesterners? 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:33.000 <v Alex Fernie> Well, of course. 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:50.000 <v Greg Tuculescu> Then you're gonna love everything AOL HuffPo has to offer. Let me show you. AOL HuffPo will mail you an installation CD-ROM, connect to the worldwide web, and voila! You're ready for cutting-edge fervor commentary and masturbation. Everyone is doing it. 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:55.000 <v Deborah Tarica> Finally! A merger combining my source of news with my grandmother's favorite method of getting online. 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:56.000 [Door Creaks And Slams Shut] 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:02.000 <v Clay Larsen> I use AOL HuffPo to download WAV files of my favorite Arianna Huffington quotes. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:03.000 <v Arianna Huffington> Master of the internet. 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:04.000 <v Clay Larsen> That happens whenever I get an e-mail. 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:11.000 <v Allan McLeod> Now, I can get intelligent, political discourse at the same place I have cyber sex with fourteen-year-old's. 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:12.000 [Ringing] 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:23.000 <v Greg Tuculescu> Chat rooms, political poll results, movie trailers, every quote by Alec Baldwin, and two whole megabytes of e-mail storage. AOL HuffPo really has it all. 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.000 <v Alex Fernie> You can do all that? 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:28.000 <v Greg Tuculescu> You sure can. But mainly it's for the cyber sex. 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:34.000 <v Alex Fernie> I gotta check this out. After the game. [Laughs] 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:39.000 <v Greg Tuculescu> America Online and the Huffington Post. Bringing the future back to nineteen ninety-six. 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:40.000 <v Computerized Voice> Good Goodbye.