"If I was a man, I would bust your jaw." (Details of Arnold encounters)

[kskiska]

The following are excerpts from yesterday's Los Angeles Times story about Arnold Schwarzenegger. The story was reported and written by Times staff writers Gary Cohn, Carla Hall and Robert W. Welkos:

(snip)

TV Host Grabbed

One of the women in the Premiere article was British television host Anna Richardson, who accused Schwarzenegger of touching her breast. In an interview with the Times, she confirmed that account.

Richardson said she was interviewing the actor in December 2000 as part of his promotional tour for the movie "The Sixth Day." The interview, to be aired on her TV show "Big Screen," took place in a suite at the Dorchester Hotel in London. . . .

"He was already kind of hyped up. He kept looking at my breasts, kept asking if I worked out," she said. "I went to shake his hand and he grabbed me onto his knee and he said, 'Before you go, I want to know if your breasts are real.' "

Richardson, then 29, said she replied that her breasts were real. She said she looked around for help from the other people in the room, but nobody came to her assistance. "At that point, he circled my left nipple with his finger and he said, 'Yes, they are real.' " She said he then let her go.

The Schwarzenegger campaign has provided a different account.

Sheryl Main, a Hollywood publicist who has worked with Schwarzenegger on many films and accompanied him on his worldwide travels since 1995, said she was present at the interview. Main said it was Richardson who provocatively approached Schwarzenegger. She said that after finishing the brief interview, Richardson rose, cupped her right breast in her right hand and said, "What do you think of these?" She then sat on his lap and was immediately escorted from the room, Main said. . . .

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36662-2003Oct2.html

[rooboy]

1. Mmmm... who to believe... n/t

[dfong63]

4. note that the stories are all strikingly similar

... except the one told by Sheryl Main.

[gratuitous]

5. One of these things is not like the others

One of these things doesn't belong.

[rudeboy666]

2. at least Clinton's were consentual

I know that I will probably get flamed for this.

But we have to admit that a lot of parallels with Clinton are unavoidable. We have to acknowledge them AND explain the difference(otherwise we look like hypocrites).

The difference: it appears that Arnold is just a jock/bully predator. Period.

Clinton,on the other hand, appears to be just an over-sexed male who would screw any girl that CONSENTED(a lot of feminists might disagree).

[Loyal]

9. I'd agree that there is a huge difference

between consensual and nonconsensual.

[realFedUp]

3. Anyone see John Connerlly today on MSNBC

I think...a detective who investigate some
of the women who were molested by Arnold...he said the
women were very reluctant to come forward and imagined
the LA Times reporters had a hard time also getting
ahold of them. No wonder this took 7 weeks and 7 reporters.

[lebkuchen]

6. Arnie admires Hitler, has participated in orgies with both men and women,

and has assaulted women. Fundamentalists say, "Arnie may not be perfect, but at least he's not one of those 'commie bastards.'"

Arnie is also pro choice and favors gay rights, and yet Fundamentalists think highly of him.

In other words, Fundamentalists think more highly of a switch hitting Nazi pervert than anyone with a remote liberal bent. Quite a bellwether for US politics. We've regressed to the 1950s.

[BQueen]

7. Linda Hamilton on So Graham Norton (on her T2 experience)

told of AS sneaking up and grabbing her (Linda's) twin sisters' hips and grinding them while she was bent over. Hamilton saw him do it.

Hamilton told it as a funny story, since her sister looked back at him and said, "I'll bet you think I'm Linda." Makes me wonder now whether it was a mistake, since her twin had been called in to double as the T1 Sarah Connor (i.e., not solid muscle).

[Loyal]

8. I believe the host

over Arnie. Arnie is not trustworthy.