Arnold Fesses Up and People Are Mad -- at the Messenger

[realFedUp]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez3oct03,1,7365317.story

Arnold Fesses Up and People Are Mad -- at the Messenger
Steve Lopez

October 3, 2003

SAN DIEGO — Reports of Arnold Schwarzenegger's sexual mistreatment and humiliation of women drew outrage here Thursday on the campaign trail.

Outrage at the Los Angeles Times, not at Arnold.

I would have thought that at a gathering of conservatives, who rightly vilified President Bill Clinton for his raunchy scandal and nationally televised lies, there'd at least be some finger-wagging at Arnold.

Not a chance with the Teflon Terminator.

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"It doesn't matter," Beers said of the allegations. She said Arnold's misbehavior happened a long time ago. (Actually, the latest incident reported was in 2000.) Besides, she said, Clinton's scandal took place while he was in office. True, but Clinton also had a willing participant, unlike Arnold.

"It's women who grope Arnold," Beers insisted, rather than vice versa.

[BJ]

1. It's the hypocrisy factor

These right wing morons who idolize Schwarzenegger have self-images that they too should have the right to behave in public with total disregard for all social norms. For the men of this group, Schwarzenegger is acting out fantasies they'd like to act upon. The women, on the other hand, think that they would enjoy this type of attention and often find out,much to their chagrin, that that type of physical attention is truly unwarrented, unwanted and unappreciated.

[realFedUp]

2. It's so messed up

I really abhor the Beer Ad culture right now...
where sex is just an act, relations are just
two pagers talking to eachother.

Arnold is the perfect poster boy for this culture
actually.

[tom_paine]

3. Monsters and automatons

Thanks to the gentle ministrations of the Right-Wing Sub-Media and the rest of Goebbels v2.0, we are growing an evr-growing crop of them.

They are like the Party Loyalists in 1984. No doublethink is too great for them. No upside-down, conscienceless lie too much for them to swallow, provided it comes from the Party Sub-Media. Because of that, they are capable of ANY CRIME. ANYTHING.

Monsters. And they are coming. Their day has only just begun.

Unless they are stopped.

[realFedUp]

4. reminds me of Germany....

Arnold isn't such a foreign character after all...