Friday, October 03, 2003

Just in case you don't know every last embarrassing detail of the Nazi allegations, this is what's in The New York Times today:

In addition to the transcript, Mr. Butler wrote in his book proposal that in the 1970's, he considered Mr. Schwarzenegger a "flagrant, outspoken admirer of Hitler." In the proposal, Mr. Butler also said he had seen Mr. Schwarzenegger playing "Nazi marching songs from long-playing records in his collection at home" and said that the actor "frequently clicked his heels and pretended to be an S.S. officer."...

The Times also reports that George Butler is backpedaling desperately:

...early this morning, Mr. Butler called back, saying he had driven back to his New Hampshire home and found another transcript of the interview, with different wording: "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's very hard to say who I admire, who are my heroes."

Mr. Butler that his transcribers had had difficulty rendering Mr. Schwarzenegger's remarks because of his accent and said the only way to resolve the discrepancy was to listen to the tapes, which are in Mr. Schwarznegger's possession.


And I guess Arnold really wasn't clicking his heels and imitating an SS officer -- he was really doing the Electric Slide, but Butler couldn't tell because Arnold's feet move with an Austrian accent.

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