Saint Arianna? Not So Fast

Is Arianna Huffington turning into a woman of God?

I was pretty surprised to read, in Fortune's profile of the liberal blog queen that she spends a substantial chunk of every day communing with her maker. "I pray every day for one hour, except when I'm really busy, I pray for two," Richard Siklos quotes her as saying.

So when I ran into Huffington yesterday at the American Magazine Conference -- she was here to deliver an address on "How your web presence changes everything" -- I asked her about it.

It turns out her religious awakening was an error. "[Siklos] misunderstood me," she says. "I was quoting Gladstone." (I'll have to take her word for this -- I haven't had any luck finding the quote with Google or Nexis.)

Huffington made a slip-up of her own during her address when she compared the debate over global warming to disagreement over the shape of the planet. "The earth is flat and if you don't believe the earth is flat there is a place for you, and it's not on the floor of Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room," she said. At least, I'm assuming that was a slip-up; maybe she's been taking geography lessons from Sherri Shepherd?