Arnold's Nazi Problem

[alfredo]

Here is a story that needs to be passed around to all news outlets.

Looks like he not only loved Hitler, but his adoration of present day Nazi's is still strong.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2086742/

One month after these revelations began to splash across the front pages of newspapers worldwide, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver held their wedding reception* at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Mass. Schwarzenegger, a native of Austria, had invited Waldheim to the wedding, which of course can't be held against him because the invitations surely went out well before the war crimes story broke. (Schwarzenegger, who held dual citizenship in Austria and the United States, had also endorsed Waldheim.) Waldheim didn't attend, but he sent a gift—a statue of Arnold, in lederhosen, bearing off Maria, who wore a dirndl. Admiring it, Schwarzenegger offered a tribute that stunned the assemblage into shocked silence (this is reported in Arnold: An Unauthorized Biography, by Wendy Leigh):

[Clete]

1. That connection to Waldheim has been out there for awhile.

I don't know why the "free" press hasn't picked up on it.

[Classical_Liberal]

2. Because an Austrian prime minister showing

up at an Austrian celebs wedding is a pretty lose association. I think this is bigotry against Germans quite frankly. Arnold is raised in Austria and knows some old Austrians with some nazi ties so he is a nazi.

[alfredo]

5. Not anti German, my father's first language was German

Not anti German, just anti Nazi.

[kentuck]

3. Arnold thought of running for presdent of Austria...

from above link

<snip>
Why on Earth didn't Schwarzenegger take this opportunity to speak out against Waldheim? It surely isn't because Schwarzenegger himself had any Nazi sympathies (though during the filming of the documentary Pumping Iron, he reportedly once made a foolish comment praising Hitler). Rather, Schwarzenegger was likely playing politics—to be more specific, Austrian politics and family politics. For years it was rumored that if Schwarzenegger didn't run for governor of California, he would run for president of Austria. Because Austrians have long resented what they see as Waldheim's pointless scapegoating, any firm denunciation would have ruled the latter possibility out. In addition, Schwarzenegger's mother had for many years lived with Alfred Gerstl, a prominent Austrian politician who rose to the top post in the upper house of Austria's parliament. Schwarzenegger reportedly addressed him as "Uncle." (Schwarzenegger's father, who died three decades ago, was a police official who had belonged to the Nazi party.)

[hexola]

4. Shriver just said on MSNBC...

She was concluding a speech somewhere...

"my husband...a first class human being..."

Heil!

[Squibbie]

6. Arnold just got lucky, imagine if

the story had read, "Arnold groped Hitler and looks up to
Anna Nicole Smith."