Arnold:"I want to... be... CHAMPION OF THE WOMEN"

[underpants]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/02/national/02WIRE-CALI.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

"When I am governor I want to prove to the women that I will be a champion for the women, a champion of the women"

[CPschem]

1. Un-be-lievable

[a_random_joel]

2. Doesn't saying "the women"

Automatically sound chauvinstic? Wouldn't saying I will be a "champion for women" sound more appropriate?

[underpants]

3. Not if you are planning on putting a beat down on all of them

I wonder if it will be like a king of the mountain type thing or does he plan to crush them one at a time.

I'm sure it will be on PayPerView

:bounce:

[a_random_joel]

4. LOL!

My point is that it objectifies them. The women, like they are objects. Big Freudian slip right there.

Besides, do they need Arnold to champion them? Another Freudian slip if you ask me. Like they are dependent and helpless, and need him to come to the rescue.

What a turd.

[LeahMira]

16. I'd love to agree with you, but...

I think this particular slip has more to do with the fact that English is Arnie's second language. He still thinks in German patterns of speech.

[a_random_joel]

17. I said Freudian didn't I?

Freud was German, right?

[nini]

21. I agree.. as much as I'd like to blast him

.

[noiretextatique]

5. perhaps he'd like to stick our heads in toilets

with "something" floating in there, as he insinutated in the debate in the exchange with arianna. or myabe he just wants to grope every woman in caifornia :shrug:

[underpants]

6. This is what came to my mind when I first read it

Okay SMOKE BREAK!

[Capn Sunshine]

12. Yes but if you have no mastery of English

even after 30 years, you just do your best.

Da wimmen neet zu Champeen.

[barbaraann]

7. In German you use the article "die" in front of the word for

women BUT he has been away from Austria for decades! He might have reverted to childish speaking patterns because of the stress.

Or perhaps they speak German in some secret meetings he attends. (tinfoil hat theory)

There really are just too many Nazi connections with the Bush gang for me to dismiss anything.

[Snellius]

8. I think his phrase is "Champion TO the women

'THOSE PEOPLE I HAVE OFFENDED, I AM DEEPLY SORRY, I APOLOGIZE. I WANT TO PROVE TO THE WOMEN I WILL BE A CHAMPION TO THE WOMEN'

Jeez, I thought Conan was just a movie script. It's how he really talks. It's how he really thinks.

[Jivenwail]

9. That man is a P- I - G

And I am being polite. I've tried for a while now not to post this, to stay out of this dicussion, but I can't keep silent any longer.

Back in the early 90's I was making a living as a location manager for film and television. I worked on a film in which the Director and her husband (who was producing the film) took us to dinner one evening during the pre-production phase. And over that dinner, they started to tell those of us around the table that their neighbors were Arnie and Maria. These two very well known film people held nothing back in their distaste for Arnie. Some of the things that were mentioned were how Arnie boasted of only providing "the seed" for Maria and that it was "her job" to have the babies, change them and feed them. He had wanted no part in it. They also said he would not "allow" Maria to wear pants in public and that he kept her on a "very strict" diet. It sounded to me that he was being described as a domineering piece of garbage and that there must've been something going on that Maria tolerated this kind of a marriage. And it was during this dinner conversation that I got my total dislike and disgust for this man - and I've never felt any other way about him for all these years. I've been out of that business now for over 10 years, but I never forgot that one particular dinner among many that I had while working in the film business.

I am, to be frank, glad to hear about these women who worked on films with him are now coming forth with their stories because I have no doubt in my mind that they are true. Film people talk among themselves about such things and on sets you hear all kinds of stuff about actors and other show biz types that they have worked with. It's just that so many crew members and talent are afraid of never working again when going up against a "star" like Arnie, that they stay silent. It's a tough business and if you want to keep working, you don't speak out. If more would come forward and tell their stories, I'm sure he'd never stand a chance in hell of winning a spitting contest, never mind the Governor's office. And it might've just hindered his so-called acting career.

JMHO here, but I think he's a womanizing piece of garbage and I would have to seriously wonder what the fine people of California are considering if they vote for him next week. The women of CA should be ashamed of themselves if they vote for this man. Will they be voting for a character in a film? Or do they seriously believe, deep down, that this man offers a credible alternative? It really saddens me to think that people see him as a leader because what I see is a total moron with a complete lack of character and a total disrespect for women. But I'm certain that I'm not the only one.

[CarinKaryn]

13. He is SICK

I can't believe we are considering electing him. And his "confession" is just a way to preempt criticism and kill the issue before itcan be used against him.
I;d love to see him with HIS head in the toliet.

[newyawker99]

18. Hi CarinKaryn!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[noiretextatique]

23. are you saying he's a SHITHEAD?

:hi: i agree :7

[bloom]

10. gag

:puke:

[lebkuchen]

11. One wonders how he defines “behaved badly” in the past on movie sets

Is it "sneezed without covering his mouth" or sexual assault, which is a crime?

[Snellius]

14. On "rowdy movie sets"

It wasn't really all his fault, you see, because, you know, those crazy Hollywood movie people are just so out of control. It's Chinatown, Jake.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

19. I have been on "rowdy" sets...

heck, I was on a PORN set, and I never saw that type of behavior.

[FlemingsGhost]

15. Is Arnold a sex offender?

If the claims are true, Arnold has displayed consistent behavior over the span of three decades. An established pattern that suggests a genuine sensitivity problem.

In its most basic concept, Arnold's history of inappropriate contact is no different from any habitual sex offender.

[JaneQPublic]

20. "A Champion to Women" in German translates to...

... "A Babe-meister"

[John_Shadows_1]

22. Sounds like somebody's planning an orgy....

...

[underpants]

24. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[monobrau]

25. Tell you what Arnold...

Put your tongue up my ass and I'll think about it.

[InkAddict]

26. Arnold acts like the Court Jester at the California Renaissance festival

I don't remember dropping my Teutonic hankie on the jousting field. Why doesn't he wear his wife's colors if he wants to be so chilvalrous?