I've been reading Reddit.com a lot lately - it's a great aggregation site (news, and pretty much everything else under the sun)  with unpredictable, quirky content and a young-ish, smart reader base.

Today I noticed a heavily recommended submission attacking attacking the Huffington Post for (allegedly) not being a real news site. Then I noticed a less-well recommended submission with the title of Has the Huffington Post actually ever broken a story?

Well, Huffpo sure has.

In May 2008, a wrote a post titled
Audio Recording of McCain's Political Endorser John Hagee Preaching Jews Are Cursed and Subhuman. It contained audio I'd found from a 2005 sermon (which I initially dated as "late 1990's" to be on the very conservative side) in which Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee, whose political endorsement presidential candidate John McCain had been after "like a dog in heat" (as I put it in a March 2008 post) declared that "God sent Hitler... Hitler was a hunter."

About a week later, Sam Stein of the Huffington Post noticed my post and covered it, in a story prominent on the Huffington Post's front page. From there Keith Olbermann's Countdown picked it up, and pretty soon scandalous audio, from a 2005