Posted on 07/18/2004 9:14:53 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
ONTARIO - This time he called them "girlie men up there in Sacramento." Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, using fiery campaign-style rhetoric and some of the Hollywood lines that made him famous, came to the Inland Empire on Saturday afternoon to bash and threaten Democrats he said were "obstructionists" blocking the state budget and catering to special interests.
"If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers, and I want them to make the millions of dollars - if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men," Schwarzenegger shouted at a shopping mall rally. The "girlie men" line was from a comedy skit on the "Saturday Night Live" television show that poked fun at the Austrian-born bodybuilder and movie star. It became a comic landmark after comedian Dana Carvey first uttered it in the 1980s.
On Saturday, Schwarzenegger directed it at Democrats twice, sparking howls of laughter from more than 1,000 people jammed in to see him - and howls of protest from Democrats, who said the remark was sexist, anti-gay and more characteristic of a bully than a Republican governor purporting to seek compromise and bipartisanship.
"About a fourth of the Senate are women," Sen. Gloria Romero, a Los Angeles Democrat who's been working with the Schwarzenegger administration on prison reform, said in a telephone interview. "This is offensive for women. It is offensive to gays and lesbians in the Legislature because of the way that term historically has been applied. 'Girlie man' is a negative term. It is inappropriate for a governor or anybody to name-call someone who, whether he likes it or not, has been elected by a majority of people in a district to represent them."
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The truth!
I think not.
"girlie men"
LOL
It depends on whether or not they can bench press more than you can.
So9
Those who support gun control are the true "girlie men".
So what.
They jumped to this conclusion in their own minds. The governor was talking about the public servants who don't have the courage to tell their people that they're in the back pockets of the special interests. You go Gov!
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VIENNA, Austria – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting a birthday gift in his home country: a stamp in his honor.
The Austrian post office announced on its Web site that the $1.25 stamp will be released on the actor-turned-politician's birthday, July 30. Schwarzenegger, who will be 57, was born in the Austrian village of Thal near the southern city of Graz.
The stamp – which shows Schwarzenegger in a suit and tie with the American and Austrian flags in the background – is part of a collectors' series called "Austrians living abroad," the post office said.
Rat code words for "DO AS WE SAY".
But to conservatives it means just what it says. When are we going to learn?
Go get 'em Arnie, too bad your ol' lady's going to Boston! <|:-)~~
"It is offensive to gays and lesbians in the Legislature because of the way that term historically has been applied. 'Girlie man' is a negative term."
This is going to be too much fun!
It's perfectly OK to use any term to dis anyone on the right, but cry, pout, and wet their panties when it gets pointed back in their direction.
Well, cry little girlie men, cry!
How would "girle men" be offensive to women and lesbians? It refers to men.
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