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"Jim B" <macheteblade@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>  But no.  Liberals are first and formost
> HYPOCRITICS.
>
BTW, run this through your grist mill:
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Leigh claims that Schwarzenegger � rumored to harbor national political
ambitions � has waged a heavy-handed campaign first to suppress her book,
Arnold, An Unauthorized Biography, and then to sabotage its promotion.

James Willwerth, a Time correspondent for twenty-three years and the author
of Time's profile of Schwarzenegger, says he's not a fan of Leigh's gossipy
type of journalism. But, he adds, after checking out her research, using her
thirty-four pages of source notes on the back of the book as a guide, he
came away with a respect for her thoroughness. "It was very well reported",
Willwerth said, "My nose told me that the book was on target."

In Arnold, Leigh persuasively portrays Schwarzenegger as a crude womanizer �
perhaps a misogynist � of limited morals who has been given to expressions
of racism, anti-Semitism, and admiration for Hitler's ability to lead.

Citing the Berlin Document Center as a source of documents which have
further been authenticated by the World Jewish Congress, Leigh reports that
Schwarzenegger's father, Gustav, police chief of the Austrian village of
Thal, applied for membership in the Nazi party in 1938 and was subsequently
accepted. And she reminds readers of Arnold's public support of Kurt
Waldheim, even after revelations of the Austrian president's Nazi past.

Leigh says that Gustav was an alcoholic who raised his two sons, Arnold and
Meinhard, as bullies who delighted in publicly humiliating friends as well
as rivals. She notes further that Schwarzenegger owes much of his success in
bodybuilding contests to an expertly honed aptitude for undermining his
opponents psychologically, as well as to the use, according to fellow
bodybuilders she interviewed, of anabolic steroids for many years.

Leigh portrays Schwarzenegger as a calculating, intense salesman who at an
early age set out to create an image that would propel him to wealth and
international celebrity. Bodybuilding was just the first step. National
political ambitions followed, with rumors that he might be angling for a run
at the U.S. Senate, something that Schwarzenegger has denied. A staunch
conservative Republican, he married into the Kennedy clan and was appointed
chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports by George
Bush, for whom he campaigned in 1988. Writes Leigh, "Arnold embraced �the
ruthlessness and the dark side of the American dream."

http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/5/rewind-koch.asp