The Groping Governor (Arnold Schwarzeneggar)

London Evening Standard ^ | 8-18-03 | Wendy Leigh

[Redwood71]

It sure got Clinton elected twice didn't it? After all, if it isn't illegal or immoral enough to remove a president, and even the perjury connected to it also, then what's the problem? I think it has something to do with goose/gander.

[isthisnickcool]

Check this out.

[ClearCase_guy]

More recently, Arnold conducted a seven-year extra-marital affair with former Little House On The Prairie actress Gigi Goyette. According to an American magazine, Arnold and Gigi first met when she was 16 and he was 28 and unmarried. They had sex, then separated, only to meet again in 1989.

Last week, Gigi revealed that she had been Arnold’s secret mistress for seven years. ‘I was his avenue of relaxation,’ she said. ‘His wife wasn’t there to relieve him.’

Although Gigi’s revelations were publicised throughout America ...

Have I been under a rock? This is the first I'm hearing about this. And what woman basically says "My function was to relieve him"? Usually women hope for a better role than that in a man's life.

[ambrose]

The Clintonification of the Republican Party is at hand. Wonder if if this thread will be pulled... the day shift crowd here seems to like Ahnold.

[jsbankston]

These are simply ALL 'Youthful Indiscretions" that they are dragging up about Arnold’s life. Honestly, how many of us would want to be judged for our youthful indiscretions committed when we were 52 years old?

[BonnieJ]

The smear campaign continues.

[spoiler2]

"It sure got Clinton elected twice didn't it?"

I'm totally okay with these revelations, as long as Arnold doesn't stand up in front of the mikes, pink-faced, shaking his index finger at us, denying that it ever happened!

[Mr Crontab]

I'm quite surprised at the forgive-and-forget attitude around here. If Arnold had a "(D)" after his candidacy, would everyone be so charitable?

[isthisnickcool]

It is a smear campaign. Linda Hamiliton and James Cameron have said publically that the story about Arnold in the limo is bogus. Why would they lie? Especially James Cameron who has more money than he could ever spend?

So, if the main core of the Connolly piece in Premier is a lie why believe any of the rest of it?

All these people are picking up on one article that the people directly involved say is a lie. And these "journalists" are writing as if it's fact. Smear smear smear.

[balanced]

Surely we can get to the bottom of this. These rumors and counter-rumors make my head spin. Could Arnold please come out and clear this up? Yes I was wild, but that is Hollywood, or no, that woman (Gigi Goyette) is lying.

At least no one is spreading rumors about Tom McClintock.

[jsbankston]

When you invite a "Kennedy Liberal Democrat" to your (Republican) Party things are bound to get crazy.

[spoiler2]

Arnold's sexual actions some twenty years ago are not really that offensive to me.

But what few of us can forgive or forget, is the televised denial, right in our face, of the Toon.

If Arnold ever pulled that stunt on us, he would NEVER be forgiven.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

This articles has more details, but the allegations are not new.

From April, 2001:

www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ae850c311b4.htm

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

I guess we're supposed to be grateful he's not a faggot?

He's just another lefty.

[MurryMom]

Ahnult's body looks like a condom stuffed with walnuts, but why must he behave like a thing usually stuffed inside a condom?

[jmaroneps37]

Somebody please help me out here, I zipped through this article and I missed the part about old joe kennedy being a nazi sympathizer. Which paragraph was that in?

[alwaysconservative]

I really appreciate your posting that press release. In particular, I liked this part:

Linda Hamilton, who co-starred with Schwarzenegger in both of the wildly-successful Terminator films, denounced as "fantasy" the story of an incident in a limousine in which the Premiere article claimed Arnold lifted her onto his lap in the presence of her then-boyfriend Director James Cameron and others (including Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver). Hamilton stated in a letter she sent to Premiere's Editor in Chief: "Let me be perfectly clear. In my nearly twenty years of friendship with Arnold Schwarzenegger I have never witnessed ANY HINT of the behavior you so carelessly ascribe him. I have known and witnessed Arnold on set as a man who is tirelessly PROFESSIONAL, and in life as a singularly devoted husband, father, and family man." Hamilton went on to describe the publication as "unsubstantiated/gossip-mongering/character-assassinating/smear campaign/tactics."

Good stuff. The other testimonials are interesting, too.

[alwaysconservative]

I'm not surprised that the writer of the article in the London newspaper wouldn't let a few little things called facts get in the way of a smearing.

[Williams]

I think my favorite part was earlier in the article, when the author made it sound like Arnold duped the virtuous Kennedy clan into thinking he was a faithful husband. But then the article acknowledged the Kennedys are justa bunch of white slavers. Hmm, I wonder how it is that no living Kennedy is ever criticized for this stuff during their political career? I think I missed the part about Chapaquidick too.