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Good and Bad Coverage for Arnold Today

Arnold got some good and bad coverage today. On the positive side, his former boxing trainer described how as a teenager, Arnold helped break up neo-Nazi gatherings.

Trainer Kurt Marnul told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that Schwarzenegger was "filled with rage against the Nazi regime" and took part at least twice in organized disruptions of neo-Nazi gatherings in the southern Austrian city of Graz during the 1960s.

....On Friday, the Austrian magazine NU, which caters to the alpine nation's Jewish community, quoted former politician Alfred Gerstl as describing how Schwarzenegger once "hunted down" neo-Nazis who had gathered outside a teaching institute run by an avowed anti-fascist.

On the negative side, Arnold lost the endorsement of the Oakland Tribune. And three more women have come forward with reports of past groping on movie sets. Two of the complaints pertain to the filming of the movie Twins. Arnold denies the charges, and several involved in the film, including the director, Ivan Reitman, back him up.

"I was on the set all the time and it was one of the friendliest shoots I've ever been on," said Reitman, who has known Schwarzenegger for 15 years and recently held a campaign fund-raiser for him. "No raunchy stuff. People's families were there. "Nothing even approximating what you're saying happened. I would have heard something," he said.

If enough people votes no on the recall, there will be no Arnold issue. We still refuse to endorse a replacement candidate. Vote no on the recall, and no on Prop. 54.

Update: The Times of London has this amusingly written editorial about Arnold.

HE apologised publicly this week for groping women. Yesterday he was accused of once supporting Hitler, listened to Nazi marching music, and clicking his heels together like an SS officer. Yet Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former Mr Universe turned Hollywood action hero, still looks likely to become the next Governor of California when voting begins throughout the Golden State on Tuesday.

Many Americans are still not quite sure how a man born in Austria, with an accent as thick as his forearms and no political experience, could end up in charge of a $1.3 trillion economy — the fifth largest in the world — with a population of 35 million.

After repeating all the Arnold-bashing details, the editorial points out in the last sentence that the allegations against him have "emerged with impeccable timing."

In other Arnold news, Skippy has some thoughts on the "gropenator"-- as he calls Arnold.

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