Arnold: "Let's blow up the moon"

[Mel]

California Governor ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER has been branded a sexist again - after mocking pre-menstrual stress during a shocking live radio interview.

The actor-turned-politician sparked outrage last year (04) when he called his Democrat rivals "girlie men".

And he fuelled his reputation as a misogynist last night (24APR05) when he told outspoken DJ HOWARD STERN he wanted to remove the moon, to prevent the mood swings women suffer before their monthly periods.

Schwarzenegger explained, "If we get rid of the moon, women, whose menstrual cycles are governed by the moon, will not get PMS. They will stop bitching and whining."

DAWN GIBSON, a horrified listener of the show, complains, "He is appealing to the lowest common denominator."

I listened to this 5 minute conversation between Arnold Schwarzeneger and Howard Stern, about the many advantages to blowing up the moon. It was totally hilarious.

As it turns out Arnold has received criticism from all over the world for his disparaging remarks about PMS and women. Including a tirade on MSNBC's Scarborough report.

There is just one catch. The guy on the phone was not Arnold Schwareneger! It was an imitator.

Blowing up the moon :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

(it really did sound like him) :nod:

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[Mel]

Here's an update :laughing:
Schwarzenegger not mad at moon
By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger does not want to destroy the moon.

A U.S. political commentator has admitted he failed to check his facts when he erroneously reported on the MSNBC cable news network last month that Schwarzenegger had jokingly advocated doing away with the moon.

In one of the stranger mea culpas from a major U.S. news outlet in recent years, the commentator, Joe Scarborough, a former congressman, acknowledged on Friday that the governor's purported lunar outburst on the nationally syndicated radio show of Howard Stern was actually a spoof.

Citing a British newspaper, Scarborough had quoted Schwarzenegger on the air as saying: "If we get rid of the moon, women, those menstrual cycles are governed by the moon, will not get (pre-menstrual syndrome). They will stop bitching and whining."

Scarborough chided Schwarzenegger for insensitivity, saying: "Hey, governor, way to make 50 percent of California's voting population turn frigid toward you.

"I don't know how it works in Austria, but let me tell you something, friend. Jokes about such matters, (are) not laughing subjects to women in America."

It turned out the remarks Scarborough attributed to the Austrian-born governor were actually made by a Schwarzenegger impersonator who regularly appears on Stern's show as part of a running call-in gag.

Eleven days later, Scarborough admitted on the air that he had been duped and apologized to viewers and Schwarzenegger "for my terrible mistake."

"By quoting erroneous information from that (newspaper) article, without checking it out ourselves, we, too, got pulled into that hoax," Scarborough said.

A spokeswoman for the governor, Margita Thompson, said her office notified MSNBC of Scarborough's faux pas the day after its April 25 broadcast, noting that some Democrats in the state Assembly had been circulating the erroneous comments attributed to the Republican governor as fact.

MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said the original message from Schwarzenegger's office was not passed along immediately through proper channels. "As soon as Joe and his producer were made aware (of the mistake) he made the correction."
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?storyID=2005-05-10T160931Z_01_N09196379_RTRIDST_0_ODD-MOON-DC.XML

I love it when people screw with the media :pimp:

If you heard that Arnold Schwarzennegger was promoting a plan to explode the moon... wouldn't that strike you as the least bit odd before you started ranting on it during your news show? He even said that if he can't get enough support, he will go up there and destroy it himself!

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[Canadian26]

Thats actually pretty hillarious, its crazy how fast the media can mess things up.

[a4l]

Ahhhhhhnold pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeze don't blow up the moon. I love my mood swings.... be a man and suck it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!