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The Crude Sexist Side of Schwarzenegger (Politics)

Would you let your sister vote for this man? (Salon.com):

"The problem for Schwarzenegger isn't just a 1977 interview with Oui magazine that surfaced this week -- although, with references to oral sex and group sex and admissions of drug use, the interview is clearly a problem. The real risk for Schwarzenegger is that women, the religious right and the Bush White House itself will be turned off by a pattern of raunchy talk -- and allegations of raunchy behavior -- that began in the 1970s and apparently continues into the present.

In anecdote after anecdote, article after article, from the 1977 Oui article to a July interview in Esquire, Schwarzenegger comes across a man who speaks in the rudest and crudest fashion possible about women, men and the things they sometimes do together. And if allegations made about Schwarzenegger in a 2001 piece in Premiere are true, his over-the-top and up-the-skirt attitudes about women translate to actions as well....

Manso was struck, he told Salon this week, by two things from his travels with Arnold: how Schwarzenegger effortlessly charmed his way out of getting busted when a security guard caught the two of them smoking a joint in a museum stairwell, and how Schwarzenegger inserted a sexual undercurrent into every encounter with every woman he met.

"You could not walk down the street with Arnold Schwarzenegger without sensing the flirtation," Manso said. "He seemed to be chemically incapable of having an exchange with any female without there being sexual innuendo or sexual byplay."

My friend Bich Ngoc sent me this:

Schwarzenegger's Sex Talk (The Smoking Gun):

"Arnold Schwarzenegger once told a magazine interviewer about participating in an orgy with other bodybuilders, noting that 'everybody jumped on' the woman involved and 'took her upstairs where we all got together.' The California Republican added that not every muscleman participated in the gang bang, 'just the guys who can fuck in front of other guys. Not everybody can do that. Some think that they don't have a big-enough cock, so they can't get a hard-on.' "

Ok, I don't think he's fit to be governor. But in terms of a portrait of success and of how to become a self-made man, Arnold is fascinating. Read his interview.