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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob who wrote (471751)	10/6/2003 9:54:47 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Angrily shoving an aide is not "attacking". The GOP is trying to exaggerate this desperately. Everyone loses their temper once in awhile. Shoving an employee was wrong, but comparing this to a life-long serial groper and harasser of women in ridiculous. Compare to the stories below. PS - Arnold is supposed to have a terrible temper in private when he doesn't get his way. I have heard that from friends who've worked with him. I mean really scary. Oct. 6, 2003 \| SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- They come one after another, relentlessly, and – like some crazy California combination of the names on the wall at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and those chocolates that kept coming down the conveyor belt too quickly for Lucy to handle -- it is the sheer number of them that ultimately becomes overwhelming. At first, there were seven of them -- seven women who told the Los Angeles Times that Arnold Schwarzenegger had groped or grabbed or otherwise humiliated them in a forceful sexual fashion. Three women said Schwarzenegger had grabbed their breasts. A fourth said he reached up under her skirt and grabbed her butt. A fifth said Schwarzenegger groped her and tried to strip her in a hotel elevator. A sixth said Schwarzenegger pulled her onto his lap and whispered, "Have you ever had a man slide his tongue into your [anus]?" A seventh, a waitress at the time, said Schwarzenegger called her over to his table and asked her for a favor: "I want you to go into the bathroom, stick your finger in your [vagina], and bring it out to me." That was Thursday. On Friday, three more women told the Times of unpleasant encounters with the man who would be governor. Collette Brooks said that Schwarzenegger grabbed her butt and said "nice ass" when she was a 23-year-old intern at CNN. Linnea Harwell, an assistant director on Schwarzenegger’s 1988 film "Twins," said the actor regularly stripped naked in front of her and once tried to pull her into a bed when she was waiting for him to sign paperwork. Carla Baron, a stand-in on "Twins," said Schwarzenegger bent her over and rammed his cigar-flavored tongue into her mouth.

To: Bob who wrote (471751)	10/6/2003 10:55:13 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

If the Times were a tabloid, this would hardly matter. But the newspaper is influential at times, and claims it has high standards. When I lived in LA, around 20 years ago, I got to the point where reading the LA Times in the morning almost made me spew my breakfast, especially the op-ed section. It was with huge relief that I discovered the Orange County Register, ocregister.com , a bastion of reason and common sense in Southern California...