Not Your Sweetie

MWO:


SCHWARZENEGGER:
"I ADMIRE HITLER"

ABC News:  Schwarzenegger Cites Hitler as Hero


Asked who his heroes are, he answered, "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it."

He is quoted as saying he wished he could have an experience, "like Hitler in the Nuremberg stadium. And have all those people scream at you and just being total agreement whatever you say."


The California Republican Party has officially endorsed an actor/bodybuilder who admitted to assaulting women as they attempted to do their jobs or walk down the street, and who cites Adolph Hitler as his hero.

(Chris Matthews found Schwarzenegger's admission of assault against numerous women "refreshing," noting to Senator Diane Feinstein that, while Schwarzenegger might have assaulted women, he at least admitted it, whereas President Clinton lied about a consensual affair initiated by Monica Lewinsky.  Don't ask us to explain under which rules of logic the mind of the cable news media whore operates.  But it should be fascinating to see how Tweety will defend Arnold Schwarzenegger's admiration for Adolph Hitler.)
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Another Kool Kid Groper Groupie Weighs In

Possibly even more striking than Tweety's comments are those of Slate.com's Mickey Kaus, who simultaneously notes the brutality of Schwarzenegger's sexual assault while describing his admissions of assault "refreshing."


(In particular, "playful" doesn't own up to the pecking-order cruelty of his actions. They didn't just "offend" people. They were offensive. And not just to "the women.") But count me among those who found it refreshing nevertheless, especially the smoke/fire admission.


Presumably, The Mickster finds the following apologies similarly refreshing:


ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A man who bludgeoned his landlord to death with a claw hammer apologized in court Thursday as he was sentenced to 22 years to life in prison.

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GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) -- A man who helped arm the Columbine High School killers apologized to relatives of the slain as he was sentenced to six years in prison.

"I can't adequately express my sorrow to the families of the victims," said Mark Manes, 22. "I am truly very sorry."

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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) -- Apologizing before a U.S. federal judge, former FBI agent Robert Hanssen was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole for spying for the Soviet Union and Russia.

Hanssen pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage and conspiracy for passing classified information to the Soviet Union and, later, Russia, during a 20-year period

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WHITE PLAINS — Dennis Salvador Alvarez-Hernandez sat quietly at the defense table for six weeks as details of his brutal stabbings of three people played out in a Westchester County courtroom. Yesterday, on the eve of the jury considering whether he should live or die, he addressed jurors for the first time, apologizing for the deaths of his girlfriend and two of her young children and asking for the forgiveness he said he cannot offer himself.

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Monticello – Elaine Ulbrich cried as she apologized to her family, co-workers and the community in Sullivan County Court yesterday for setting fire to her Town of Callicoon home. Then she was sentenced to five years probation and 300 hours of community service. And she was ordered to undergo a mental-health examination.

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As you can see, criminals often do end up apologizing for their crimes.  But, Mickey's willful credulity aside, the apology is far more likely to represent an attempt to avoid losing one's freedom (or life) than a newfound "refreshing honesty."  While Schwarzenegger was never prosecuted for his crimes and so does not face losing his freedom, he does face losing the California governorship (which could at long last provide him the opportunity to "have all those people scream at you" and "be in total agreement with everything you say").
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ACTION ALERT

From MoveOn.org:


This is a real emergency. The polls in California show Schwarzenegger pulling ahead, while the truth about his character is only now starting to get out. We have just a few days to make sure everyone in California knows who this man is. Today we ask you to do two things: (1) contribute to a TV ad that we will run across the state of California on Sunday and Monday and (2) send this message on to friends, so they know the details that are only just now getting into the press.

We need to raise $500,000, by the end of day today.

We're launching a television ad devoted to putting Arnold's problem with women into the public eye. We feel that this is a critical step that absolutely must be taken, but we need $500,000 to make this happen.

* Contribute

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TUCKER CARLSON FALSELY ACCUSES MWO
Claims Site Savaged Rush for Addiction


JAMES CARVILLE:  [Rush Limbaugh] is a human being, we should express compassion for him and hope that he gets treatment and gets rid of what could be a serious addiction to a very addictive drug.  Rush, I hope you get well soon.

TUCKER CARLSON:  I don't think your fellow Democrats will take up your offer to be compassionate and decent.  I'm sure they're savaging him right now on the Internet for some addiction that's probably beyond his control.

(CROSSTALK)

CARLSON:  Oh please, you know right now -- Go on to Media Whores Online.  Go to Media Whores Online right now...


Evidently Tucker had not checked in with the Horse today, which is always a mistake for anyone.  If he had, he would have seen this, posted hours before Tucker made his uninformed remarks on national TV:


"We hope Rush finds the help and support needed for a successful recovery."


* Email Tucker Carlson.  Demand he apologize for cruelly maligning a Website that had in fact responded to the Rush Limbaugh controversy precisely as he and James Carville suggested liberals and Democrats should.

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DIRTY OLD RUNNING MAN

LA TIMES EXPOSES LONG HISTORY OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
BY GOP-ENDORSED SCHWARZENEGGER

NEWSPAPER DRAWS OUT DETAILED ACCOUNTS OF ACTOR'S
GROTESQUE BEHAVIOR FROM NUMEROUS RELUCTANT VICTIMS

"REVOLTING" AND "BIZARRE" ACTOR
"ON BEST BEHAVIOR" IN PRESENCE OF WIFE

CALIFORNIA ELECTORATE TO MIMIC ARNOLD ENTOURAGE?
"IT WAS KIND OF LIKE EVERYTHING HE DID WAS OK
AND ISN'T IT FUNNY AND ISN'T IT SWELL?"

Women say Schwarzenegger Groped, Humiliated Them
Gary Cohn, Carla Hall and Robert W. Welkos, Times Staff Writers


"Six women who came into contact with Arnold Schwarzenegger on movie sets, in studio offices and in other settings over the last three decades say he touched them in a sexual manner without their consent.

"In interviews with The Times, three of the women described their surprise and discomfort when Schwarzenegger grabbed their breasts. A fourth said he reached under her skirt and gripped her buttocks. A fifth woman said Schwarzenegger groped her and tried to remove her bathing suit in a hotel elevator.

"A sixth said Schwarzenegger pulled her onto his lap and asked whether a certain sexual act had ever been performed on her.

"According to the women's accounts, one of the incidents occurred in the 1970s, two in the 1980s, two in the 1990s and one in 2000...

Another woman, now a wife and mother in her 30s, said she also fell in Schwarzenegger's "sight lines" while "Terminator 2" was being filmed in Fontana.

A member of the movie crew, she said Schwarzenegger was sitting in a director's chair, surrounded by three or four other men, waiting for filming to start. It was either late afternoon or early evening, she said.

"I was walking on the set and Arnold called out, 'Come here, you sexy devil,' and reached out and pulled me on to his lap," the woman recalled.

She said he then whispered in her ear: "[redacted as MWO is a family site and thus cannot publish comments made by Republican Party-endorsed gubernatorial candidates.  See original LA Times report]?"

Young and unsure of herself, the woman said, "I didn't know how to react. It was bizarre. What he said was so specifically sexual, it was bizarre.

"I remember looking around and seeing this bank of smiling faces and feeling alone," she continued. The men standing at Schwarzenegger's side, she said, "were in total support mode — of him, not me. It was kind of like everything he did was OK, and isn't it funny and isn't it swell? It was like they were proud of him .... Nobody said, 'What are you doing? Leave her alone.' "

After the incident, she said, she continued on her way. "I didn't fall apart," she said, but added: "It's embarrassing and degrading when you're doing a job."

She did not report the incident, she said, because she was simply a low-level crew member. "You're in an environment where you just go with the flow but not cause trouble." The attitude on the set was: "Isn't it flattering that Arnold is paying attention to you?"

The woman said she recounted the incident at the time to a family member. In an interview with The Times, the family member confirmed being told about the encounter and said, "Arnold thought it was kind of fun to toy with her. It embarrassed her."

The woman said she wished she "wasn't so spineless," but feared that she would be shunned in Hollywood if quoted by name.

"There's an unspoken rule in the industry," she said. "What happens on the set stays on the set."...

Another stuntwoman, Chere Rae Bryson, came away with a different impression after working with Schwarzenegger on the 1990 movie "Total Recall." She said he often used vulgar words for vagina and clitoris during her contact with him during the filming.

"He was crude, boisterous and disparaging around women," she said. "In the makeup room, his language was so bad I turned around and walked out."

Bryson said Schwarzenegger was also on his best behavior whenever his wife, Maria Shriver, was present. The couple married in 1986. "When Maria was around, he was a gentleman," Bryson said. "When she wasn't around, he was the opposite."


* Email the California Republican Party.  Congratulate them on their official endorsement of a grossly lecherous, steroid-popping actor/bodybuilder.

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Howard Kurtz Minimizes Schwarzenegger Abuse
Behaves Like Star-Struck Fan


I wonder how much of an impact the stories will have. In the case of the Terminator, voters will probably see this as a late hit, six days before the recall. The groping charges, which surfaced a couple of years ago in Premier magazine, seem to have been discounted by much of the electorate (a Hollywood star grabbing at actresses and crew members -- shocking!)

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So, Howie doesn't appear to believe Schwarzenegger's behavior is terribly serious (he's a big Hollywood star, after all).  Might that have something to do with the fact that Howie's wife, Sheri Annis, has been on the pervert's payroll and has spoken favorably of him in recent weeks?

Whatever the reason, there is quite a different tune the media whores are singing about Arnold Schwarzenegger's from the one they sang when Kathleen Willey accused President Clinton of "groping."

And none of Arnold's victims even followed up on their attack in the curious manner Kathleen Willey did (penning affectionate notes to her assailant saying such things as "You have been on my mind so often this week").



One wonders... Has Ms. Annis-Kurtz ever been a victim of Schwarzenegger's?  Would she mind?  Would Howie?  From this article, it doesn't appear he would, and would instead be in "total support mode" of the actor, thinking it was all "funny and swell," just like a good movie star groupie should.

* Email the Washington Post Ombudsman.  Ask why no disclosure was required in the Kurtz piece about Kurtz's wife's political connection to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Mrs. Kurtz Fawns Over Groper

Let Ah-nold be Ah-nold
What a Schwarzenegger run might look like.
by Mrs. Howard Kurtz


On my first day as Arnold Schwarzenegger's press secretary, I realized this would be a campaign unlike any other. One reporter wanted a picture with Arnold. The cameramen wanted pictures and autographs. Newspaper staffers high-fived each other during editorial-board meetings. We could not get away from the hoopla that usually surrounds the Terminator because some of the journalists were behaving like fans.

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Great Moments in Pathological Denial and Deception


"I am unaware of any investigation by any authorities involving me. No governmental representative has contacted me directly or indirectly. If my assistance is required in the future, I will, of course, cooperate fully."

- Rush Limbaugh

"There's been nothing, absolutely nothing, brought to our attention to suggest any White House involvement, and that includes the vice president's office, as well."

-  Scott McClellan, subsequent to first Washington Post story/prior to Justice Dept. probe