Corroborated Gropenator stories: 15
Published October 06, 2003
Arnold's strategy has been both to deny and not deny these Gropenator stories. He claims certain of them are not true, but admits that others probably are, although he "can't remember" any of them.
Huh?
If he can't remember any of them, how can he deny any of them? He remembers that some didn't happen, but specifically forgot whether others did? How does he know he didn't "forget" the ones he's denying?
A pattern:
1) The morning after his surprising announcement, Arnold claims he "can't hear" Matt Lauer when the anchor asks him, in a remote interview, whether he will release his tax returns. The statement is clearly a lie--Lauer says almost as much at the time, and later the crew determines there was nothing wrong with the audio equipment. It's not only a lie--it's a lie that has almost no chance of success.
2) Arnold at first claimed to have voted but was revealed to have missed almost half the elections since 1992. He tried, vaguely, to palm this off on assistants who apparently didn't send out his absentee ballots in the mail. Over a period of 10 years. But only absentee ballots. Other mail they managed to send out. Right.
3) He said he was not going to take money from special interests. Then he did.
4) He said he would not engage in negative campaigning. He has since made fun of Bustamante's appearance and launched negative ads against Gray Davis.
5) He claims he "can't remember" what happened during his meeting with Enron's Ken Lay and others at the height of the state's energy crisis.
6) Let me run that one by you again: He claims he "can't remember" what happened during his meeting with Enron's Ken Lay and others at the height of the state's energy crisis. He can't remember? This was in May 2000. It was Ken Lay. Lay beckoned A.S. to the meeting. A.S. came. But, darn it, poor Arnie just can't remember what happened in that meeting. Would you accept this explanation from Gray Davis? From Cruz Bustamante? Can you imagine McClintock saying such a thing? Of course not--he'd be crucified for it. Why would we accept this from Arnold?
There are at least 50 more reasons not to vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Corroborated Gropenator stories: 15
- Published: October 06, 2003
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"if the Times' seven-week investigation had met the paper's journalistic standards after only, say, four weeks"
thanks for a good laugh.
for the record, kaus does not, as this post contends, say that the timing of the story related primarily to reaching the times' standards.
that's two misrepresentations of kaus that i have noticed and i'm not really even paying that close attention.
can't we all just get it right?
Chris, I think Brian's odd phrasing in the first case was probably related to another post.
Another is he said he wouldn't run last year because his daughters were too young. They aren't much older now, yet he ran.
His statements about the charges are pretty stupid and neither Jennings nor Brokaw did a good job at following up on them.
His promise to Jennings that he'll sort out what is true and what is puke after the election (possibly in the gov.'s mansion) would be laughable if it weren't so critical. The voters deserve to know before the election.
And there is a pattern to the accusations. Someone should ask him why he has an obsession with whether breasts are real or not and why he should care about anybody's other than his wife's.
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