Huffington Says McCain Was 'Hijacked by the Right'

Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post.

You've faced much criticism over the years. How do you deal with it?
Anyone who speaks out is going to have detractors. If the highest desire in life was to be universally liked, you just have to look pretty and smile and not say very much. I'm a compulsive self-improver—and it's gotten to the point where I don't internalize criticism anymore.

What's your latest improvement?
I was on a college tour with my oldest daughter, and the one agreement we had was I would take my BlackBerry but not look at it while we were going from college to college to college. So when I would get to a hotel, I would work. When we got back to L.A., I got up at about 4 in the morning to tape [CNN's] Reliable Sources and then got home and fainted. Bang, my head hit my desk, and I was lying on the floor in blood. I broke my cheekbone and needed five stitches above my eye. I got a lesson: Don't burn the candle on both ends. My big lesson was getting more sleep.