Couric on Schwarzenegger: "He's the Son of a Nazi Party Member"

MRC ^ | Thursday August 7, 2003 | BrentBaker

[fight_truth_decay]

Journalists normally fret about negative campaigning and condemn attacks that dig out personal baggage in a candidate's background. Just as long as the candidate doesn't threaten a Democrat, apparently, since on this morning's Today Katie Couric didn't hesitate to beat Democratic operatives to the bunch and remind viewers that Schwarzenegger's father was a Nazi.

She began a question to a California Democratic strategist Darry Sragow: "Let me ask you about his, his baggage, if you will. He's admitted smoking marijuana, using steroids during his body- building career. He's the son of a Nazi Party member..."

Quite the morning greeting from NBC News.

Couric proceeded to prod Sragow: "Through his publicist he's denied allegations published in Premiere magazine, in March 2001, that he sexually harassed women and committed infidelity. All those things, are they gonna be front and center, Darry, if you, do you think in this campaign?"

They are now!

MRC analyst Geoffrey Dickens alerted me to Couric's Nazi take and transcribed all of her questions.

Couric introduced the segment: "On Close Up this morning, Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking to terminate the competition. He's boffo at the box office but how will he do at the ballot box. Darry Sragow is a Democratic strategist and Sheri Annis worked as a press secretary for Schwarzenegger on a ballot initiative in California last year. Good morning to both of you."

Couric's questions:

-- "Alright Darry and Sheri. Darry let me start with you right now. Is, is Arnold Schwarzenegger, in your view, Gray Davis' worst nightmare?"

Sragow: "No..."
-- Couric: "Yeah but what else, what other hurdles do you think does he face primarily?"
Sragow: "Credibility hurdle...."
Couric: "Is that doable though, in your view?"

-- Couric: "Well let's talk about Gray Davis and the Democrats strategy Darry, because I know you have felt strongly all along that it's very important that Democrats do field a candidate. Even though the strategy, I guess, until yesterday was not to field a candidate so people would keep Gray Davis in office. But now his Lieutenant Governor, Cruz Bustamante, announced that he was going to put his name on the ballot. So how does this change the equation?"

-- "Alright Sheri Annis I haven't forgotten about you. Apparently this announcement took everybody by surprise. What was your reaction?"

-- "And he does seem to have quite a, quite a sense of humor. On the Tonight Show last night he had several funny one-liners. Let's take a look at one of them right now."

Clip of Schwarzenegger on Wednesday's Tonight Show: "Most difficult decision that I've made in my entire life, except the one in 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax."
Couric: "Alright. So, so Darry I mean maybe you didn't find that, that amusing. But does Arnold Schwarzenegger make Gray Davis look well, rather gray."

-- Couric to Sragow: "Let me ask you about his, his baggage, if you will. He's admitted smoking marijuana, using steroids during his body-building career. He's the son of a Nazi Party member. He said he was prejudiced before overcoming those feelings by working with the Simon Weisenthal Center in Los Angeles and the Dean of the Center said an investigation of Schwarzenegger's late father, conducted at the actor's request, found no evidence of war crimes. Through his publicist he's denied allegations published in Premiere magazine in March 2001, that he sexually harassed women and committed infidelity. All those things, are they gonna be front and center, Darry, if you, do you think in this campaign?"
Sragow: "I have to assume that those things are going to be brought up, not by Gray Davis, but by others and he's prepared to defend himself because he's going to have to do that..."

-- "And, and Sherri, Arnold himself said on the Tonight Show that he expected a dirty campaign. How do you think he's going to handle that?"

[Bullish]

The current party is led by total losers and America haters!

The democrats in power have basically turned into gangsters, working as one to protect their own.

We should work to educate the sheeple out there, to get them to vote to rid govt of these criminal statists.

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Arnold's Nazi Problem
Why won't he repudiate Kurt Waldheim?
By Timothy Noah
Posted Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 3:46 PM PT
Story

[Bullish]

Something awful festering - like a hidden boil ready to erupt.

HAHA!

Funny how liberals never realize they're the real A-holes that they always label everyone else as.

Liberals never see that they make such fools of themselves.

I sure hope she has an interview with Arnold, he can set her straight I bet. Naahh.... She'll chicken out, she's too much of a hit-and-run lightweight.

[fight_truth_decay]

Someone might want to post the story I reference in #102..notice it is not up on FR to continue this thread.

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He said he was prejudiced before overcoming those feelings by working with the Simon Weisenthal Center in Los Angeles and the Dean of the Center said an investigation of Schwarzenegger's late father, conducted at the actor's request, found no evidence of war crimes

The bastard! HOW DARE he be born to a Nazi Party member! HOW DARE he be raised as a racist, and then work to overcome that! HOW DARE he be a REPUBLICAN! </sarcasm>

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[breakem]

I give up?

[TC Rider]

"Let me ask you about his, his baggage, if you will. He's admitted smoking marijuana, using steroids during his body-building career. He's the son of a Nazi Party member. He said he was prejudiced before overcoming those feelings by working with the Simon Weisenthal Center in Los Angeles and the Dean of the Center said an investigation of Schwarzenegger's late father, conducted at the actor's request, found no evidence of war crimes. Through his publicist he's denied allegations published in Premiere magazine in March 2001, that he sexually harassed women and committed infidelity. All those things, are they gonna be front and center, Darry, if you, do you think in this campaign?"

"Let me ask you about his, his baggage, if you will. He's admitted smoking marijuana, his brother says he used cocaine during his Arkansas career. He's the son of a Hot Springs party girl. It's been said he was prejudiced before overcoming those feelings by working with black Little Rock prostitutes and the medical examiner of Arkansas said an investigation of his late mother, conducted at the taxpayer's expense, found no evidence of negligence. Through his publicist, he's denied allegations published in the American Spectator and the LA Times, that he sexually harassed women and committed infidelity. All those things, are they gonna be front and center.

[Mo1]

She began a question to a California Democratic strategist Darry Sragow: "Let me ask you about his, his baggage, if you will. He's admitted smoking marijuana, using steroids during his body- building career. He's the son of a Nazi Party member..."

Real good Katie ... now watch your fans turn on you for that one

[Let's Roll]

Rush had the audio of the perky one reading off these "charges" against Arnold. She's the one who sounded exactly like a concentration camp matron - typical grim, humorless lib, the only thing missing was the "achtung".

Well, "Hasta La Vista, Kay-tee".

[TFMcGuire]

Why hasn't the media reported on Couric's secret baboon brain transplant?

Unfortunately the transplant went awry.

Attendant physicians accidentally took adipose tissue from the baboon's seat and transplanted it into Couric's cranium.

They were worried at first but then realized no one would know the difference.