Schwarzenegger admits Hitler remarks

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

(The double standard here is beyond belief. For years Jesse Jackson was 
pilloried by his use of the term "hymietown", while Schwarzenegger--once 
again--will probably get off relatively unscathed. If 1/10th of the fury 
directed at Jackson was directed at him, he'd be history right now.)

NY Times, Oct. 4, 2003
THE CANDIDATE'S WORDS
Schwarzenegger Releases Data on Hitler Comments
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

Campaign aides to Arnold Schwarzenegger distributed an excerpt of a 
25-year-old interview in which he speaks admiringly of Hitler, providing 
some additional context to comments that were in a book proposal written by 
the producer of Mr. Schwarzenegger's first film, "Pumping Iron."

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In the portion of the interview read over the phone and later distributed 
by the campaign, Mr. Schwarzenegger said: "In many ways I admired people ? 
It depends for what. I admired Hitler for instance because he came from 
being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. And 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. 
It is very hard to say who I admired and who are my heroes. And I admired 
basically people who are powerful people, like Kennedy. Who people listen 
to and just wait until he comes out with telling them what to do. People 
like that I admire a lot."

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/national/04BOOK.html

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