Actually it isn't. Arnold has a history on this, including his own words in that interview of his in Oui magazine:
NEWS: Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger Gropes & Fondles Talk Show Host
[ed: No wonder he wants to become governor. He'll have lots of interns to grope and fondle.]
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During his promotional visit to Britain this week Arnold Schwarzenegger groped Denise Van Outen on the Big Breakfast and behaved in a similarly oversexed and over here fashion with a clearly panicked Melanie Sykes on ITV's Celebrity.
The Sun in England newspaper reports that Sykes was chatting with Arnold when, as cameras rolled, he grabbed her around the waist.
She pushed his hand away, saying: "Get your hands off me - I'm scared."
I don’t blame her. Any actor who excels at playing barbarians and robots and has trouble understanding English is not the kind of guy that I want to have to tell to get his hands off my ass.
Big Screen presenter Anna Richardson also claims that Arnold actually groped her breast during an interview for the show. She went to shake his hand, he pulled her on to his knee and said: "I want to know if your breasts are real." Arnold is a smoothie isn’t he?
Anna says: "I told him they are an F-cup."
"Before I knew what was happening he circled my nipple with his finger and gave it a squeeze." He then said of her triple-D breasts: "Yeah, they are real," Richardson recalled.
Anna, 29, adds: "I was angry. I wanted to say 'you dirty bastard, "But you can't tell a powerful man like him to fuck off. He kept saying how fantastic I looked and staring at my [breasts]."
Marty Singer, Schwarzenegger's lawyer called all the complaints an "outrageous fabrication" by "people trying to get their 15 minutes of fame. Quite frankly, my client didn't do anything inappropriate."
Thank God for film. Look at the expression on his face. Look at her face. What you are looking at ladies and gentlemen is what Marty Singer likes to call an outrageous fabrication.
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NEWS: Lewd, racy talk from Schwarzenegger in 1977 magazine interview
Candidate says he never lived 'to be a politician'
[ed: Then he shouldn't be one; or did the fascist ways of the repukes that now give him a chance to become governor by minority vote changed his mind? I am DISGUSTED at the HYPOCRISY of the repukes. 100% DISGUSTED. Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Bennett, Lott, Arnold, etc... all boiling in the same pot...]
Thursday, August 28, 2003 Posted: 2018 GMT ( 4:18 AM HKT)
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about sex, drugs, bodybuilding and homosexuality in a 1977 interview with an adult magazine that's now making the rounds on the Internet.
The interview, peppered with graphic and lewd comments, is getting new attention with Schwarzenegger's bid to replace Democratic Gov. Gray Davis.
Schwarzenegger is one of 135 candidates whose names will appear on the October 7 recall ballot. Numerous polls have shown him to be the top GOP contender, but some conservatives have expressed discomfort with the actor's candidacy.
At the time of the interview with Oui magazine, Schwarzenegger, then 29, was promoting "Pumping Iron," a documentary on bodybuilding that helped launch his career in Hollywood, where he went on to make popular action movies.
In one part of the interview, Schwarzenegger describes an incident of group sex involving one woman and other bodybuilders at a gym in California.
"Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs where we all got together," the magazine quoted Schwarzenegger as saying.
Asked about the interview during a radio appearance Wednesday night, Schwarzenegger did not dispute it.
Mark Williams from Sacramento station KFBK asked the candidate:
"I don't know if you've seen today's (The) Smoking Gun or not, but there's an old 1977 you did with Oui magazine out there, and I'll have to tell you Arnold, you were having a lot more fun in 1977 than I was."
Schwarzenegger responded: "Well, you know, you have to understand ... I mean, I know exactly what you are saying. I never lived my life to be a politician. I never lived my life to be the governor of California.
"Obviously, I've made statements that are ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was," he said. "I was always that way ... otherwise I wouldn't have done the things that I did in my career, with the bodybuilding, and the show business and all those things."
Schwarzenegger added that an interview he would do today would be different from one more than 20 years ago.
When questioned by CNN as to the authenticity of the 1977 comments, campaign aides refused to discuss the article further, referring all questions to the candidate himself. CNN also contacted the author of the 1977 article, Pete Manso, who confirmed its authenticity.
In the magazine interview, the bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-politician displayed a casual attitude about sex.
"Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training," Schwarzenegger said in the interview. "It gives you relief and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff."
Asked about homosexuality, Schwarzenegger made it clear his sexual interest was in women, but said homosexuality didn't bother him.
"Well, I have absolutely no hang-ups about the fag business; though it may bother some bodybuilders, it doesn't affect me at all," he said.
Schwarzenegger is quoted as saying he had used "grass and hash -- no hard drugs." Said the bodybuilder: "The point is that I do what I feel like doing."
Schwarzenegger, who was single at the time of the interview, is married to television journalist Maria Shriver -- niece of President Kennedy -- and the couple has four children.
The tone of the magazine interview jibes with a passage from a book "Arnold" that Schwarzenegger co-authored that same year -- 1977 -- with Douglas Kent Hall.
"I had no difficulty getting girls. I'd been introduced to sex with almost no hangups," he wrote. "The older bodybuilders at the gym had started including me in their parties. It was easy for me. These guys always saw to it that I had a girl. 'Here, Arnold, this one's for you.'
"Girls became sex objects. I saw the other bodybuilders using them in this way and I thought it was all right."
He goes on to say, however:
"My attitude about all that has changed radically. I used to feel that women were here for one reason. Sex was simply another kind of exercise, another body function ... In fact, it wasn't until four years after I started training that I had any meaningful communication with a girl." |
