ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: On today’s “Top Line,” we chatted with Arianna Huffington about a range of topics — the G-20, the example Michelle Obama is setting for women, Tim Geithner, and her new investigative journalism project.
Huffington, the editor-in-chief and cofounder of Huffington Post, had glowing words for the first lady:
“Michelle Obama is so authentic and so much herself at a time when the whole world is longing for authenticity, for people who are just really teaching us things as they go through their life, and look how much she has already taught us,” she said.
“She had her mother move into the White House, which I love because I’ve been a big proponent of grandparents playing a bigger role in the raising of their children. She has this fabulous vegetable garden for organic food at a time when obesity is becoming a huge problem in this country. She wears flats on many occasions, which gives women around the world permission to throw away their high heels. And all those teachable moments, as well as the fact that she’s beautiful, smart and elegant, have made her a huge attraction.”
She’s less impressed with the treasury secretary: “My problem with Tim Geithner was never his communications job. It was not his delivery it was what he’s delivering. I just think that the Geithner plan is not going to work,” Huffington said.
Click HERE to see our full interview with Arianna Huffington.
And click HERE to see us talk through the day’s news with Republican strategist Kevin Madden — on the G-20, the budget battle on Capitol Hill, and whether Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., should be worried about his political future. (The answer to that, Madden says, is yes.)
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