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SEPTEMBER 6, 2003 -
Arnold
Schwarzenegger, family man who remains loyal to his four kids and
Kennedy-clan wife.
Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Republican hypocrite and woman chaser who gives Bob
Packwood and Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton and JFK a run for their
money.
I choose the
latter depiction. Or perhaps one in the middle, but closer to the
latter description.
It’s not
just the stories of an alleged Schwarzenegger extramarital affair
published by the New York Post, National Enquirer and other media.
It’s also an
anecdote I was recently told by a source. A woman - a family member
of this source - worked behind the scenes on a weekend shoot in one
of Schwarzenegger’s movies years ago. He harassed this woman for two
days about having sex with him in his movie trailer, my source says.
She tried to
politely say no, but Schwarzenegger kept persisting, insisting she
come to his trailer during a break. The woman tried to joke it off,
saying at one point, "But Arnold, what about Maria?" He laughed and
said, "My driver is very discreet."
At the same
time, Schwarzenegger also made inappropriate comments to the younger
wardrobe girl, commenting about her behind when she bent over to
pick up something, my source says.
After the
first woman had not completed the trailer rendezvous by the end of
the weekend, Schwarzenegger drove by her in his car. With his
bodyguards around him, Robot Man shouted her name and yelled, "I
can’t believe you pussied out on me!"
So why
should I believe this source? For one thing, my source was told the
story years ago, so it has nothing to do with Schwarzenegger’s
sudden candidacy for governor. For another, this is not the only
such story floating around out there about Robot Man [another story
concerns a carrot and a woman from Brazil]. And finally, "pussied
out?" Doesn’t that just sound like something the man who made "pump
up" a catch phrase would say?
I’m not
going to reveal my source or name names. The woman involved doesn’t
deserve to be harassed over this. I really don’t think keeping her
name out of it makes the story less believable. Where there’s smoke,
there’s fire. Right, Kenneth Starr?
And what
goes ‘round comes ‘round. Right, Packwood, Gingrich, Henry Hyde, Bob
Barr, Joe Scarborough, Name Your Favorite Republican Hypocritical
Marital Cheater?
So why
should I care if the Republican candidate for governor of California
is a hypocritical adulterer? Isn’t that only the business of
Schwarzenegger and Maria and God, as we Clinton defenders said
during the Monica days? Man, how I long for those good ol’ days,
when most of us had good-paying jobs and 401Ks that rose in value
and no fear of a nuclear war and our most pressing problem,
according to much of our media, was whether Clinton lied about
getting a blow job.
If
Schwarzenegger wasn’t hypocritically campaigning as a good family
man, taking Maria and the kids with him on campaign stops, I might
give him a break. If he was running for mayor of Brentwood, not the
most populous U.S. state with the most electoral votes in the
life-and-death 2004 presidential race in which we HAVE to kick Bush
out of the White House, I might cut him some slack.
If we knew
something about what Schwarzenegger might do as California
governor, I might back off. If Schwarzenegger would – or could –
tell us his vision for the state or speak about exactly how he will
solve California’s earthquake-sized budget woes, I might stop
writing right here.
If Bush
racketeer Rove hadn’t cynically and secretly engineered this recall
after their guy, Richard Riordan, lost in 2002, I might keep my nose
in Texas. You really think arch-conservative Rep. Darrell Issa
wanted to drop out of this race after spending $2 million of his
own bucks to get the damn recall election?
You really
think Riordan just decided on his own not to run, especially
after Schwarzenegger burned him by giving him indications he might
not run and lied about how they both supposedly worked together to
maintain suspense? You really think people like former Gov. Pete
Wilson just happen to become this political neophyte’s
campaign co-chairman?
For
more on this White House link to the recall campaign and
Schwarzenegger’s entry, see
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/06/MN114924.DTL
and
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/08/08_recall.html. Read the
article on recall proponents and representatives of potential
Republican candidates meeting at the Los Angeles office of Gerry
Parsky, Bush’s top California adviser, to discuss the effort [Associated
Press, July 30, 2003]. Read about Bush’s endorsement of
Schwarzenegger [San Jose Mercury News, August 8, 2003] and
Laura Bush’s press secretary, Noelia Rodriguez, helping Riordan
assemble a possible campaign team [Los Angeles Times, July
31, 2003].
Bush and Rove are lying again when they
say they have nothing to do with the California recall. Just like
they are lying about having no involvement with the plan to
redistrict Congress in Texas to gain more Republican seats there –
Rove has even met with Republicans in Texas about it - after they
were heavily involved in the Colorado Republican redistricting power
grab earlier this year. I don’t believe one damn thing a Bush
administration official says. They just care about increasing their
own partisan political power and couldn’t care less about most
Americans, except when they want their votes. But these power grabs
can backfire – New Mexico Democrats are among those discussing
redistricting power plays of their own.
Add to all that how many in the
mainstream media are already comparing Schwarzenegger to that other
Hollywood actor who became California governor and a nightmare of a
president, and we have to stop this guy - now.
Back in the 1960s, if some media types
had slammed Reagan with all those stories of extramarital affairs
that were swirling around then, perhaps we would not have come so
close to nuclear Armageddon in the 1980s. Perhaps we would still
have federal grants helping to pay for middle-class students’
college costs. Perhaps we wouldn’t be paying for a bloated military
that plays policeman all over the world and wouldn’t have such an
astronomically high federal debt. Perhaps we wouldn’t have as many
as 71 million Americans without health insurance [talk about a
crisis – what are the so-called "compassionate conservatives" doing
about that besides taking more bribes from big insurance companies
and healthcare lobbyists?]. Perhaps we wouldn’t have to suffer
through an airport named after Reagan and idiotic talk about putting
his mug on Mount Rushmore.
But most reporters steered clear of
politicians’ private affairs back then. They also cared more about
what average Americans really thought. Still, I wish some reporters
would have risked their public personas and jobs and exposed the
affairs of Reagan back then. I would have – had I been older than
grade-school age.
Even after what Republicans did to
Clinton in these tell-all days, many people – even Democrats whose
party is on thin ice these days – have advised me to lay off the
reporting on Republicans’ sex lives. As if reporting on those
affairs and abortions and other hypocritical acts somehow debase
me. Perhaps in a way, they do, but I don’t give a damn. If my
mud-slinging helps some Republicans fall on their swords, people can
call me whatever the hell they want. Unlike many conservatives, I
can take the hits as much as I dish them out.
I’m merely the messenger, pointing out
how hypocritical those Republicans and the mainstream media were to
continually publicize Clinton’s affairs and Condit’s affairs while
downplaying or ignoring Hyde’s and Scarborough’s. In this sex-crazed
environment, I’m trying to provide some balance, something few are
doing on this issue. I’m trying to show that Republicans have
extramarital affairs about as often as Democrats.
You think that’s obvious? Think again.
Why do so many people and comedians like Jay Leno still joke about
Clinton’s affairs? Why don’t they still tell jokes about the affairs
of the former Republican Senator Packwood, who had at least 29
women – mostly Senate and campaign employees - accuse him of sexual
harassment and in some cases assault? Packwood makes Clinton look
like a marital saint, yet Leno and others still act like Clinton is
the only politician out there who has ever chased a woman who was
not his wife.
Why don’t they target Gingrich and Hyde
and Bush and Reagan and, yes, Schwarzenegger? Because thanks to the
conservatively-owned mainstream media, most people instantly equate
Democrats with affairs more than Republicans. And when they get in
the voting booth, that image affects Democrats negatively. As much
as many Democrats want this issue to just go away, it’s not going to
until they start fighting fire with fire.
Hey, you ask, can’t we just hit
Schwarzenegger with the issue-driven story that he voted for a 1994
ballot measure to deny social services to illegal immigrants? Voters
approved the GOP-backed Proposition 187, but some wiser judges
rightly ruled the callous measure unconstitutional.
Surely Schwarzenegger will lose votes
among Hispanics if that continues to receive wide publicity. And it
can’t help that Pete Wilson, the architect of Proposition 187, leads
Schwarzenegger’s campaign.
You and I might care, but the average
voter who mostly gets news from the boob tube and reads newspapers
for the sports or TV guide does not. Republican leaders like Rove
understand this – that’s why he pushed so hard to get a popular
actor on his side. I’m not sure Democratic leaders understand this,
or else they would have recruited someone like Martin Sheen, who
plays a much more believable president on The West Wing than
Bush does, to run against Schwarzenegger.
So I have to slam Schwarzenegger
with all I have, including the alleged affairs, the reports of
sexual propositions, the "pussied out" comments. Put a story on TV
that Schwarzenegger is facing many questions of extramarital
affairs, and that could have some impact on what swing voters do.
This is that important. If you
don’t have the stomach for such mud-slinging, fine. A few years ago,
I might have stayed in my ivory tower myself, believing in some
political la-la land where being right – or left – on important
issues really wins out.
But not these days. Not after the Starr
Report, the $100 million in public funds to investigate Clinton’s
private life that Republicans spent, the hijacking of the White
House in 2000, and all the damn dirty deals since. Now, I’m fighting
the Republi-Thugs by giving them a dose of their own medicine. Now,
I’m not pulling my punches.
And hell yes, it feels good. When I read
all those emails from hypocritical conservatives who idiotically
call me a Communist and worse [one of my favorites was the
Bush-supporter who said he had a "special oven" for me and my
"Commie butt-buddies" – I love it when Republicans claim not to be
fascists, then use Nazi imagery] for simply turning the tables on
them, it just makes my day. Hell yes, it feels real good that
I can get their goats.
I might not play the political game this
way for the rest of my life. But right now, we are in a crisis. We
are in a war against the Republi-Thug terrorists, not just the Al-Qaeda
ones who we once trained and financed. And we HAVE to win, by most
any means necessary - I’ll not resort to physical violence.
That’s why I started a petition to
"totally recall" Schwarzenegger just in case he wins. If that
disaster occurs, I will forward the petition to the California State
Democratic Party and hopefully someone there will have the gumption
to turn the tables on Bush and Rove and Robot Man.
To sign the petition, go to
http://www.petitiononline.com/schwarze/petition.html. More than
500 people already have signed it in the first few days.
Finally, to those who chided me for
mentioning Schwarzenegger’s Nazi father and Austrian background,
check this article on his ties to Nazi Kurt Waldheim:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/949666.asp?0cv=CB20.
See, I could have been harder on
Schwarzenegger. I will have to work on that….
SEE A WONDERFULLY
GOVERNOR-LIKE PIC OF ARNOLD WITH HIS HANDS IN ACTION: here
SCHWARZENEGGER:
I'LL MAKE BUSH SEEM LIKE MOTHER TERESA: read
the story here
HOW TO BE TWO YEARS
BEHIND THE CURVE ON EVERYTHING: A Presidential Primer In
Stubbornness and A Warning For Those Who Would Vote For Arnold:
read here
ARNOLD: THE
OUI MAG INTERVIEW OF GANG BANGS AND HASHISH SMOKING:
read here
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Jackson Thoreau is an American writer and
co-author of We Will Not Get Over It: Restoring a Legitimate White
House. The updated, 120,000-word electronic book can be downloaded
on
his Internet site.
Citizens for Legitimate Government has the earlier version.
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