I got your World Exclusive right here.
Sounds like an astute assessment to me.
Of course, that is what has happened. But then blacks in SA had a right to do that. With freedom comes consequences, both good and bad. This dog won't hunt either by the way. No one thinks Arnold wants to keep American blacks down.
Touchy subjects
Schwarzenegger didn't shy away from controversial views. He often got into heated battles with Rick Wayne -- a black bodybuilder from St. Lucia, a Caribbean island -- about one of the most emotional international issues of the 1970s: racial segregation in South Africa.
Wayne said Schwarzenegger defended the apartheid system and argued that white South Africans could not turn power over to black South Africans without ruining the nation.
``At the time, I just thought he was an out-and-out racist,'' Wayne said in a recent interview.
Schwarzenegger also appeared to have no qualms about telling Jewish jokes to his friends.
Wayne said he watched Schwarzenegger upset Jewish friend Joe Weider to the point of tears with his crass jokes, which included doing an impression of Hitler.
As their friendship evolved, Wayne said he came to understand Schwarzenegger's sense of humor.
Wayne once asked his friend how an Austrian immigrant had conquered Hollywood.
In a moment of ``pure mischief,'' he said, Schwarzenegger stood up, looked him ``straight in the eye and said, `Because I've got the greatest physique in the world, I'm sharp, I'm super talented.' Then he stood up, walked down the hall, looked over his shoulder and said: `And I'm white.' ''
What might have once set Wayne off now leaves him chuckling.
``Today I don't necessarily think he's a racist,'' he said. ``How are you a racist and have a black guy as your friend?''
Huh, seems right on to me.
Touchy subjects
Schwarzenegger didn't shy away from controversial views. He often got into heated battles with Rick Wayne -- a black bodybuilder from St. Lucia, a Caribbean island -- about one of the most emotional international issues of the 1970s: racial segregation in South Africa.
Wayne said Schwarzenegger defended the apartheid system and argued that white South Africans could not turn power over to black South Africans without ruining the nation.
``At the time, I just thought he was an out-and-out racist,'' Wayne said in a recent interview.
Schwarzenegger also appeared to have no qualms about telling Jewish jokes to his friends.
Wayne said he watched Schwarzenegger upset Jewish friend Joe Weider to the point of tears with his crass jokes, which included doing an impression of Hitler.
As their friendship evolved, Wayne said he came to understand Schwarzenegger's sense of humor.
Wayne once asked his friend how an Austrian immigrant had conquered Hollywood.
In a moment of ``pure mischief,'' he said, Schwarzenegger stood up, looked him ``straight in the eye and said, `Because I've got the greatest physique in the world, I'm sharp, I'm super talented.' Then he stood up, walked down the hall, looked over his shoulder and said: `And I'm white.' ''
What might have once set Wayne off now leaves him chuckling.
``Today I don't necessarily think he's a racist,'' he said. ``How are you a racist and have a black guy as your friend?''
During those years, Schwarzenegger also demonstrated little tact in discussing homosexuality. He once scolded an interviewer for asking him ``the fag question'' and dismissively told a Newsweek reporter in 1975: ``I know more plumbers who are fags than I do bodybuilders.''
A few years later, however, Schwarzenegger tempered his remarks.
``I have no sexual standards in my head that say this is good or this is bad,'' he said in 1977. ``Homosexual -- that only means to me that he enjoys sex with a man and I enjoy sex with a woman. . . . It's all legitimate to me.''
Schwarzenegger spokesman Sean Walsh said the actor has a mischievous sense of humor, but that some of the tales ``have taken on larger-than-life and urban-myth proportions
The last line is the most important.
And what is the state of South Africa today?
The day we sink to the new lows that Drudge is reaching is the day we can hang up FR.
South Africa: crime ridden hell hole.
Zimbabwe: totalitarian hell hole.
Angola: war torn hell hole.
Botswana: AIDS-infected hell hole.
Rwanda: genocidal hell hole.
So what's wrong with his prediction? Racist or not it was entirely accurate.
Sounds like Dem trick to me but Drudge in his desire to have a big story to talk about on his radio show could care less whether its true or not.