George Clooney poses with his best supporting actor Oscar during the 78th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California, March 5.(AFP) Clooney denied writing the blog on Arianna Huffington's www.HuffingtonPost.com, which includes commentaries from celebrities, politicians and experts.

The blog turned out to be a compilation of remarks Clooney made in media interviews. The actor, a liberal, said he had given Huffington permission to use the quotes but charged that they were made to look like his own blog.

"Miss Huffington's blog is purposefully misleading and I have asked her to clarify the facts," Clooney said in a statement."I stand by my statements but I did not write this blog.

"What she most certainly did not get my permission to do is to combine only my answers in a blog that misleads the readers into thinking that I wrote this piece," Clooney said."These are not my writings-- they are answers to questions, and there is a huge difference."

Huffington described the incident as a misunderstanding. She said she had asked Clooney to write a blog, but when he said he did not know how one worked, she put together a sample blog based on media interviews.

Huffington, a critic of President George W. Bush, said the sample blog was sent to Clooney's publicist, who gave her the go-ahead.

"Any misunderstanding that occurred, occurred between Clooney and the publicist," she wrote on her Web site.

"We based our decision to post on the unambiguous approval we received in writing. There was no room for misunderstanding in that."

The Clooney blog was no longer on the Web site Wednesday.

Clooney, who has described himself in interviews as an unabashed liberal, won a best supporting Oscar this month for the politically-charged film"Syriana."

(Source: Shenzhen Daily/Agencies)