Drudge: Concern for Maria's Health

[Snellius]

A late barrage of negative reports directed at Arnold Schwarzenegger and his race to be governor of California are taking a toll on wife Maria Shriver, campaign insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

"She is rail thin and has been suffering bouts of light-headed dizziness... she refuses to address it," one source said on Saturday.
...
NEW YORK TIMES Op-Ed Queen Maureen Dowd is planning to title her upcoming column 'WIN ONE FOR THE GROPER.'

London's DAILY MAIL on Saturday unloaded new shocking allegations by biographer Wendy Leigh, under the headline 'DARK SIDE OF ARNIE.'

The 4,000 word story makes this week's LOS ANGELES TIMES splash on Arnold's alleged womanizing look rated-G by comparison.
...
Leigh closes her story by adding: "On Monday, in the second part of this series, I will reveal the truth about his vicious contempt for the very fans who will be voting for him next week."

http://www.drudgereport.com/as4.htm

Will Arnold drop out?

[bluedog]

1. Don't think so

I knew Maria looked sick.....shes really got to be under alot of stress.....would he drop out because of it....no he wants to be the ruler of CA.

[Cha]

2. IMO ..arnie's too damn arrogant and uber stupid to drop out! Why

did he run in the first place when he knew this shyte was gonna come out?

[Marlie]

5. Maria

Please, Maria has been gauntly think for years now. I think her and
Arnold fight over the Botox and trips to the plastic surgeon.
She doesn't look any different than she did a year ago. I do feel
sorry for her and her kids though - but, she gave him to go ahead
and had to know Arnold's past would catch up with them. People with
a past like Arnolds should not try to steal the governorship of
California. No one should.

[West Coast Democrat]

3. Maria Does Look Like She Needs Some Help

She hadn't been in the public eye so often until Arnold declared, and now it's quite obvious she has some sort of health problem.

[Wonk]

34. She looks like she was plucked from the set of the movie "They Live"

[Ripley]

35. AAAAAAAccccccccccccKKKKKKKKKKK!

Good one Wonk! Was that the movie with the wrestler blonde guy who wore the special sunglasses? Carpenter film?

[LTR]

42. "They Live"

Starred Roddy Piper. I'm not a Carpenter fan, but this movie was GREAT!

[johnfunk]

38. ROTFLMAO

... either "They Live" or "Mars Attacks!"

Responding to allegations that her husband Arnold had groped women, Maria Shriver told reporters, "ACK ack ack ack aaaack ACK!"

[Spazito]

4. There is no question in my mind that...

Maria knew from the beginning what would come out once her sexual predator husband put his name in the ring. She is part of the media inner circle, she has been around the block. I have sympathy for any woman who has an eating disorder but that is totally separate from being sympathetic for the stress caused by the truth finally being told publically about her husband.

[displacedtexan]

6. looks like drudge is offering a reason for arnie to drop out

makes you go hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm, doesn't it?

maria has looked like this for a long time. this is not sudden.

if i sully my laptop by clicking on the drudge link (to look for a link to the daily mail story), will i have to bleach my soul?

[Snellius]

10. Drudge is a muckraker first, a Republican second

Drudge has been trashing Arnold harder than the LA Times. Either, when it comes to hot poop, he just can't help follow his nose for trash, or conservative elements of the Republican powers that be, i.e. Rove, have it out to get Arnold out of the scene.

[Cha]

12. I haven't watched tv for awhile...at least a year. But the last time

I saw Maria she looked fine! Notice how she and arnie kinda have the same facial structure?

[mitchum]

27. They have the same facial structure...

because they go to the same plastic surgeon

[Kat 333]

47. Ya know ...

When I first read it - my thoughts were that he was trying to drum up sympathy for "poor Maria" and votes for the groper. He hasn't been kind to him thus far, however, so maybe that was the point behind it.

[DemNoir]

7. All Maria needs is a sandwich

Just look at her, ya think there are some serious self image issues?

[Timefortruth]

25. Her problem may require a Big Mac, fries and a supersized shake.

Then she will stop feeling dizzy.

[HootieMcBoob]

41. I'm afraid she's anorexic

I hope to god she doesn't pull a Karen Carpenter. Somebody who knows and cares for her and is close for her should talk to her. I think she has a serious health problem.

[bucknaked]

8. I always felt she looked frail.

I remember seeing her face on NBC news programs, thinking she needs a hamburger or two. Though when saw her do a sit down interview with somebody, I noticed she did have a nice set of legs still. Who knows, but of course, the party of "personal responsibility" will blame the dems and the media for Arnold's admitted behavior.

[KC21304]

9. My impression when he announced on Leno

was that he did this all on his own at the last minute. I don't think Maria or even Arnold himself knew he was going to do it. I believe this more than ever.

[demnan]

11. She does look like she has a serious case of Anorexia

I wish she would dump the son of a bitch and get her life back!!!!!!!

[Cha]

13. What a concept!

[LittleApple81]

14. She bought it, she must deal with it.

I cannot believe that a responsible human being would like to force an entire state to have Arnold as its leader.
Se HAS to know what Arnold is all about.
She belongs to a liberal family.
She is being "loyal" to husband and disloyal to her principles.
No wonder she is anorexic.

[asjr]

17. Maria

I am concerned for her health, but as my grandmother used to say, "She made her bed, let her lie in it."

[LittleApple81]

19. She cannot blame Arnold's campaign problems

for her own problems. She selected that jerk to be her partner. She can keep him. DO NOT TRY TO FORCE FEED HIM TO ALL OF CALIFORNIA!!!

[loudnclear]

15. I think Palast has why Arnold will not drop out....too much money involved

Arnie knew what he was getting into when he entered the race. We are all adults here. I believe he believed that the RW control of the media would protect him...that was before the 'fall of Rush.' Nothing will ever quite be the same for the wingers. They have been caught in their vile, hypocritical, immoral, untruthful, and vengeful pitard of their own making and I feel no sympathy for any of them...they have ruined too many lives and caused the deaths of too many innocent people.

[rocktivity]

37. Here's the Palast story if you haven't seen it yet

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=283&row=0

...It turns out that Schwarzenegger knowingly joined...a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in illicit profits they carried off.

...The evidence against the electricity barons is rock solid...(They)...cook up a terrific scheme:  charge the companies with conspiracy but offer them, behind closed doors, deals in which they have to pay only two cents on each...dollar they filched...The pay-off?  Once Arnold is Governor, he blesses the sweetheart settlements with the power companies. 


rocknation

[Skwmom]

45. Why isn't this a campaign ad? e/o/m

[jenk]

16. look at her face...

talk about a skeletor

[NNN0LHI]

20. I have. Can't look at her face and not know something is wrong n/t

[bearfartinthewoods]

36. i think ya'll must be really young or have never seen pics of

her mother and granmother. i saw her arms at the speech the other day. she'll just thin like a lot of women in show business.

[tnlefty]

18. Could it be the spin that's making her light-headed and dizzy?

Could it be that she knew of some of these incidents but not all of them and that is what is making her sick. Could it be that she wakes up and rolls over every morning and gets the urge to puke when she sees her "prince"?:shrug:

She's looked pretty bad for a while so I'm leaning toward the idea of realizing what a "prince" he truly is more likely the culprit.

[Demobrat]

21. Either that or starvation.

Nobody her age is that thin naturally. Whether it's her choice, anorexia, diet pills, or something else, she's barely eating enough to stay alive,it looks like to me.

[lumpy]

22. Maria, as well as some other Kennedy women

adher to the 'thin-rich syndrome'.

[elfin]

23. Not to mention her MENTAL health

for continuing to vigorously support the nincompoop. Whatta mess she has become.

[lanlady]

24. She used to be extremely attractive

But she's looked ghastly for a year or more--anorexic to the point of skeletal, and something unnatural about her face. It's not Arnie's race for governor that's gotten her sick, it's just that we're seeing more of her in public.

[Malva Zebrina]

26. I don't know how old she is

but as one ages, especially women, one tends to want to look as though they are twenty again. This is her problem, imo. Maria does not want to admit that she is aging. Arnold will not love her as much as she get older, therefore she must, absolutely must, look as though she were twenty again. Therefore she must starve herself in order to obtain a weight limit as that when she was twenty. This is a tragedy in our society, imo.

There is something wrong with this-there is something desperate---you are born, you age, you mellow out, you gain wisdom, and wrinkles-and then you die-that is what is natural--and it does not mean that one is worthless as one ages--but apparently, some women cannot face it-- you will get old, you will get wrinkled and eventually, you will have to give up your position to a younger woman--smart ones too, much smarter than you ever were. Love them--they are the next generation! They are carrying it through. Maria cannot compete any longer. She looks dumb trying to compete with the younger ones. Arnold, obviously, prefers the younger ones--Maria should dump him and get on with her life.

[dofus]

28. She was born

November 6, 1955, which makes her 47 at this point.

As women get older, they have to be careful not to be too thin, as it's tremendously aging. Too fat can also make you look older. There really is a happy medium.

[Democat]

29. The story also says that more revelations about Arnold are coming!

London's DAILY MAIL on Saturday unloaded new shocking allegations by biographer Wendy Leigh, under the headline 'DARK SIDE OF ARNIE.' The 4,000 word story makes this week's LOS ANGELES TIMES splash on Arnold's alleged womanizing look G-rated by comparison.


Does anyone have these articles from the Daily Mail?

They say Arnold may have an illegitimate child from another woman and they cover a lot more details on his sexual abuse of women.

[TXDemGal]

30. Here's a thought, Maria

Eat something.

Regain your health.

Then hire a good divorce attorney and get the hell out.

[Unknown Known]

31. If Arnold drops out than there was something else about to hit the fan

They'll use Maria as an excuse, but honestly, both stories that just came out are old news. The groper stories came out 2 years ago when Arnold first talked about going into politics. The Nazi story has been well known for years because of what he did for Waldheim - it all came out then.

So in my analysis, if he drops out now, then there is another story they've been told will come out that is much worse.

[oxycontinrush]

32. Maria is the "Mallory Keaton" of the Kennedy "Family Ties"

In other words... who cares.

I am interested in seeing the UK stories on Ahhnold, though.

[johnfunk]

33. The Kennedy women all have their crosses to bear...

.. but I'd bet Maria never dreamed hers would be a swastika...

[Katie]

39. She looks like an abused wife

so sad looking.

[marigold20]

40. Something's up

She's alway had a bony face - with prominent cheekbones, but to look at her now, you know she's not eating much. We had a newscaster in our area literally fade away before our eyes. She had heart failure in her early thirties, a result of anorexia.

[Melinda]

43. Maria's admitted to "struggling with her weight" in the past.

And "There's no Viagra within a 50-mile radius of..." the Schwarzenegger home.

From Time Magazine:

"Awesome creative sex":

Five years ago, when she gave the commencement speech at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., Maria Shriver relied on the usual bromides. "Gotta have laughter." "Pinpoint your passion." "Be willing to fail." But then she turned to the subject of sex, and brought the Catholic graduates to their feet. "Forgive me, Mommy," she said, and went on to argue that womankind's great contribution to civilization is "awesome creative sex". She later wrote a book outlining her philosophy of life, in which she felt compelled to reveal, "There's no Viagra within a 50-mile radius of our house."

On her weight:

With fame, looks and pedigree — not to mention a rich movie star husband — you'd figure Shriver would exude self-confidence. But in her 2000 book Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out Into the Real World, she confesses to a slew of common insecurities, from "struggling with my weight" through the fact that her "ego was decimated" after getting fired, and how some of the other moms at her children's school "put June Cleaver and Martha Stewart to shame, not to mention me." This is a kind of humility not generally associated with her family. She keeps a Stuart Smalley-style inspirational note under her mirror that says, "I am creative, I am powerful and I can handle it."

These are not the words of a powerful, confident, well adjusted woman.

[roguevalley]

44. The Shrivers are among the most decent of people but their daughter

has married a cretin. She's a sick girl. Get this:

She interviewed for like six hours a woman who had
been raped for a story on some tv show she does.
When it was over, in front of a lot of people, she
<Maria> said that she couldn't believe that the
rape victim's boy friend would stay with her. She
said that if it had happened to her, Maria, her
husband would drop her because she would be
"damaged goods."

She's a masochist stuck in a bad marriage with a
total freak who won't even let her wear pants. What
do people with intolerable lives sometimes do? They
control the only thing they CAN control. Their
bodies. Anorexia. Pure and simple. Perhaps. :)

[lolly]

46. Damaged Goods, huh?

Wonder if that's going to show up on an ad somewhere.

Wonder if musclehead made it clear to here that she'd be thrown out if she didn't stay thin enough for him. He doesn't seem like the type who would tolerate a less-than-perfect (i.e., model-thin) wife.

[latebloomer]

48. The other night I dreamt Arnie killed Maria

and their 9 (?!) kids-- stabbed them all to death. I definitely get the feeling that she's emotionally battered, at the very least.