[lbo-talk] Re: recall, camejo vote

[Joseph Wanzala]

FYI - on 'Uprising' on KPFK today Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed one of the 
founders of Paper Tiger TV who also happened to have worked as a production 
assistant on the project in question where outtakes featured Arnold's 
statements about Hitler. She said she had to spend hours synching up the 
audio owith the film footage and said that Arnold indeed did speak 
admiringly of Hitler - with a glow in his eyes - and then quickly caught 
himself and offered a pallic disclaimer about not supporting what Hitler 
did. You can probably hear it on the KPFK program archive.

Joe W.


>From: John Thornton <jthorn65 at mchsi.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: recall, camejo vote
>Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:01:44 -0500
>
>
>>
>>On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> > The Hitler stuff comes from Arnie himself - how he admires the guy, 
>>etc.
>>
>>To be fair to Arnie, that Hitler quote thing seems to have been a smear
>>job.  The original quote from the shelved book proposal seems to have run:
>>
>>    "I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for his way of
>>    getting to the people and so on. But I didn't admire him for what he
>>    did with it."
>>
>>So there's a tiny touch of ambiguity in it.  But there's nothing in that
>>quote you could hang a guy on.  And there doesn't seem to be anything else
>>in his (very public) life that corroborates it.  They really had to dig
>>down low to get this.
>>
>>Michael Pollak
>
>Taken as an isolated case this might seem true but you are conveniently 
>forgetting his comments about admiration for dictators. His respect for 
>them as strong leaders. Not a touch of ambiguity in those statements. 
>Nothing overtly anti-semitic, but he hardly seems a fan of democracy. I 
>think that's what most peoples concern is not that he's a Nazi sympathizer. 
>To be fair to Arnie, he's a fan of authoritarian dictators and has said so 
>on multiple occasions. He has smeared himself with his own words.
>
>John Thornton
>
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