To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (611693 ) 5/17/2011 8:51:47 PM From: Brumar89 3 Recommendations Respond to of 1575738 Irony Alert! Clinton Spinners Carville and Stephanopoulos Slam Schwarzenegger's 'Risky' Personal Life By Scott Whitlock | May 17, 2011 | 11:37 5Share Change font size: A | A With a supreme lack of irony or self-awareness, former Clinton operatives George Stephanopoulos and James Carville on Tuesday chided the "amazing" revelation that Arnold Schwarzenegger had an affair and a love child. Appearing on Good Morning America, Carville said of the former California governor: "...He put himself out here, knowing there was all this scrutiny on his personal life. That was a really risky thing he did in even getting into politics, knowing this." Stephanopoulos agreed with his War Room pal, enthusing, "It is pretty amazing. That's a good point." Carville, of course, repeatedly defended Bill Clinton against "scrutiny" of his adulterous affairs and once said of accuser Paula Jones: "Drag $100 bills through trailer parks, there's no telling what you'll find." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] While introducing the segment, Stephanopoulos marveled, "One of the amazing things about this story is that he was able to keep it a secret, for more than ten years. Even there was a lot of focus on his extramarital affairs when he first ran for governor." The GMA anchor's political life included helping squash such stories for Clinton. On page 267 of his autobiography All Too Human, Stephanopoulos wrote, "My goal was to put Paula Jones in the category as Connie Hamzy [who accused Clinton of propositioning her]- women whose stories were so suspect that their accounts couldn't be dignified by the media." A transcript of the May 17 segment, which aired at 7:08am EDT, follows: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Let's bring in James Carville on all this right now. And, James, I want to get to this and what it means to the Republican field in just a minute. But, first, that breaking news overnight from Arnold Schwarzenegger that he fathered a child more than ten years ago. One of the amazing things about this story is that he was able to keep it a secret, for more than ten years. Even there was a lot of focus on his extramarital affairs when he first ran for governor. JAMES CARVILLE: It is pretty stunning. Of course, the first thing anybody thinks about is he has got children, I think 13 through 21. And, boy, they're really getting blind sided by this thing. And, you know, it's not going to stop. I mean, there's still any number of questions left to be answered and they're going to have to be answered. And the third thing is, he put himself out here, knowing there was all this scrutiny on his personal life. That was a really risky thing he did in even getting into politics, knowing this. It's a pretty amazing story. .... Read more: newsbusters.org