Well, that didn’t take long. Andrew Breitbart has officially been kicked off Huffington Post‘s front page. Breibart’s arrival on HuffPo had not been very well received by the site’s liberal base–and Breitbart saying some nasty things about Color of Change‘s Van Jones gave HuffPo the pretext it needed to relegate the conservative blogger to some less prominent real estate on the site.

Writes HuffPo spokesman Mario Ruiz in a statement:

The Huffington Post is committed to fostering a lively and often provocative debate about the issues of the day and encourages a wide range of voices from all perspectives to participate. Andrew Brietbart’s ad hominem attack on Van Jones in The Daily Caller — right down to calling him a “commie punk” and “a cop killer-supporting, racist, demagogic freak” — violates the tenets of debate and civil discourse we have strived for since the day we launched. As a result, we will no longer feature his posts on the front page.

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