Enquiring Minds Want to Know About Arnold
From salon.com's The Fix:
Baby got "I'll be back": The ties between bodybuilder/actor/governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and David Pecker, the publisher of the National Enquirer and Star magazine, grow ever curiouser. Just last month, it came to light that Pecker paid a woman who reportedly had a long-term affair with Schwarzenegger $20,000 to keep quiet -- even paying the woman's friend an additional $1,000 to not talk to the media. The publisher's motivation was said to be various business deals he'd made with the Governator, valued at over $8 million. Now the Los Angeles Times is also reporting that Pecker forked over $2,000 to try to cover up a 1983 Playboy video called "Carnival in Rio," featuring your host, Schwarzenegger, dancing with bikini-clad ladies. "At one point, he grabs a dancer's buttocks; she immediately clasps his wrists and pushes his hands away," the Times reports. "You know something," Schwarzenegger turns to the camera at one point and says, "after watching the [dancers] shake it, I can absolutely understand why Brazil is totally devoted to my favorite body part -- the ass." Pecker apparently didn't know the video was already widely available on the Web.
How did this thing become governor of California, again? Oh, that's right -- his Republican owners bought and paid for a recall of a governor who wasn't popular and wasn't doing a great job (hey, just like Arnold!) and who had the additional misfortune of being in charge when Ken Lay and Enron raped and pillaged our state; the same Ken Lay and Enron who used to be bestest friends with the Republican party. And Republican owned-and-operated paper-trail-free voting machines probably didn't hurt. Anybody see a pattern?
And now he's ignoring the will of the people -- while claiming to be following the will of the people, of course -- and refusing to allow the democratic process to work by vetoing marriage equality. Imagine that -- a Republican pawn who's not fond of democracy! Who would have thought it?
And can we all just openly acknowledge that he's one of the all-time worst Hollywood slimeballs? Bad enough that, from the day he first set foot in America, he's owed his career(s) to the -- I'm sure -- totally selfless support of select rich gay American men (a demographic who to this day are notoriously philanthropic in their sponsoring of huge slabs of Eastern European beefcake) and now he's targeting queers, can we talk about his life as a serial sexual assaulter? Has any woman been safe from him? I went to undergrad with a gorgeous blonde who also happened to be more than a little sheltered, devoutly religious, 19 years old and a virgin. She worked VIP hospitality in a hotel and was assigned the very-married Arnold. All she ever would admit he did was aggressively proposition her, but she couldn't even say that without crying, and that is certainly bad enough.
Can we begin the recall process now, please? Is it not bad enough he's throwing away millions of our dollars on a special election nobody wants that's designed purely to make him more of a dictator? Can you imagine what he'll do once he's unfettered? And don't think this special election won't give him everything he wants, because the Republicans don't take chances. That's part of why they don't believe in just having regular elections like everybody else, in case there's still anybody out there who hasn't caught on.
I admit it: I miss democracy. I miss living in a less-evil world. I miss having at least the chance of good things happening and I miss peace and prosperity and I miss hope.
I don't know much about the way the world works, but I know this: it won't change until we refuse to play along anymore. So Arnold's handlers have told him to ignore the will of the people and veto marriage equality? Big surprise. If we can't stop him, then after the fact we can at least help him to regret he ever wanted to be anything more than a fading, pathetic Hollywood has-been.
Baby got "I'll be back": The ties between bodybuilder/actor/governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and David Pecker, the publisher of the National Enquirer and Star magazine, grow ever curiouser. Just last month, it came to light that Pecker paid a woman who reportedly had a long-term affair with Schwarzenegger $20,000 to keep quiet -- even paying the woman's friend an additional $1,000 to not talk to the media. The publisher's motivation was said to be various business deals he'd made with the Governator, valued at over $8 million. Now the Los Angeles Times is also reporting that Pecker forked over $2,000 to try to cover up a 1983 Playboy video called "Carnival in Rio," featuring your host, Schwarzenegger, dancing with bikini-clad ladies. "At one point, he grabs a dancer's buttocks; she immediately clasps his wrists and pushes his hands away," the Times reports. "You know something," Schwarzenegger turns to the camera at one point and says, "after watching the [dancers] shake it, I can absolutely understand why Brazil is totally devoted to my favorite body part -- the ass." Pecker apparently didn't know the video was already widely available on the Web.
How did this thing become governor of California, again? Oh, that's right -- his Republican owners bought and paid for a recall of a governor who wasn't popular and wasn't doing a great job (hey, just like Arnold!) and who had the additional misfortune of being in charge when Ken Lay and Enron raped and pillaged our state; the same Ken Lay and Enron who used to be bestest friends with the Republican party. And Republican owned-and-operated paper-trail-free voting machines probably didn't hurt. Anybody see a pattern?
And now he's ignoring the will of the people -- while claiming to be following the will of the people, of course -- and refusing to allow the democratic process to work by vetoing marriage equality. Imagine that -- a Republican pawn who's not fond of democracy! Who would have thought it?
And can we all just openly acknowledge that he's one of the all-time worst Hollywood slimeballs? Bad enough that, from the day he first set foot in America, he's owed his career(s) to the -- I'm sure -- totally selfless support of select rich gay American men (a demographic who to this day are notoriously philanthropic in their sponsoring of huge slabs of Eastern European beefcake) and now he's targeting queers, can we talk about his life as a serial sexual assaulter? Has any woman been safe from him? I went to undergrad with a gorgeous blonde who also happened to be more than a little sheltered, devoutly religious, 19 years old and a virgin. She worked VIP hospitality in a hotel and was assigned the very-married Arnold. All she ever would admit he did was aggressively proposition her, but she couldn't even say that without crying, and that is certainly bad enough.
Can we begin the recall process now, please? Is it not bad enough he's throwing away millions of our dollars on a special election nobody wants that's designed purely to make him more of a dictator? Can you imagine what he'll do once he's unfettered? And don't think this special election won't give him everything he wants, because the Republicans don't take chances. That's part of why they don't believe in just having regular elections like everybody else, in case there's still anybody out there who hasn't caught on.
I admit it: I miss democracy. I miss living in a less-evil world. I miss having at least the chance of good things happening and I miss peace and prosperity and I miss hope.
I don't know much about the way the world works, but I know this: it won't change until we refuse to play along anymore. So Arnold's handlers have told him to ignore the will of the people and veto marriage equality? Big surprise. If we can't stop him, then after the fact we can at least help him to regret he ever wanted to be anything more than a fading, pathetic Hollywood has-been.
posted by dave at
9/13/2005 01:45:00 PM
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