posted 10-07-2003 01:20 PM
Giuliani, Schwartzenegger, GW Bush and Hitler
by Robert Lederman
Birds of a feather flock together. So it's hardly surprising that Rudolph
Giuliani, the American politician who has been compared to Adolf Hitler more
than any other, would come to the Terminators aid as he attempts to downplay
his own Nazi connection. Giuliani had eight years of experience countering
claims that his administration's blatantly racist policies and police state
tactics were modeled after Der Fuhrer's. Both men are close friends of GW
Bush, whose family fortune was made during a decade on Wall Street running
banks, shipping companies and steel mills which were fronts for Hitler and
his Nazi party. An entire book could be written on Giuliani's links to
eugenics, the far right and to Nazis and about his misuse of public funds on
their behalf. Rudy's close friendship with Schwartzenegger would be just
another chapter in it.
Some people are ready to accept that the public relations stunt of
Schwartzenegger giving money to Jewish causes shows he's not a Nazi. Then
again, didn't even many of those tried at Nuremberg as war criminals deny
they were Nazis? Can a cash donation erase statements about admiring Hitler
and a film career based on emulating the Nazi ideal of the ubermenchen?
Consider the news quotes listed in no particular order supporting each
statement following this article:
Schwartzenegger's father was an avid Nazi Party member. His mother is
alleged to have swooned at the mere sight of der Fuhrer.
Arnold's future film projects include a fictional war story about a
sympathetic Nazi and two back-to-back sequels to Terminator II in which the
robot terminators are allegedly ubermenchen clones trying to take over the
world, rescue Hitler using a time machine and establish a master race.
Schwartzenegger was a major fundraiser for and friend of former President
Bush, whose Wall Street family fortune was derived from financing Hitler's
rise to power. In 1942 as the U.S. entered WWII the Bush families assets
were seized under the Trading With the Enemy Act as Nazi fronts.
For the page from the Federal Register of November 7th 1942 showing the Bush
family assets seized by the US Congress for being Nazi fronts see: http://www.mbpolitics.com/bush2000/Vesting.htm
I recently had the National Archive photocopy and mail me this exact page in
order to conclusively verify it. It's real and they sent it to me for free.
Here's their website: http://www.archives.gov/
For years allegations of anti-Semitism have followed Schwartzenegger. Some
writers have even theorized that Arnold may be the product of Hitler's
experimental breeding program in which SS officers were mated with "pure"
Aryan girls. Thousands of births resulted. Some researchers have developed
an extensive theory linking James Cameron, the author and director of the
Terminator series, to mind control experiments derived from Nazi science and
the CIA.
Schwartzenegger has posed with Austrian neo-Nazi Jorg Haider, who claims
Arnold is a personal friend. Haider has publicly praised the SS and Hitler's
labor policies. Giuliani also got into a major scandal over posing and
dining with Haider during of all things a Martin Luther King Day
celebration.
In a blatant attempt to seem more American as a preparation for his expected
political career, Arnold married Maria Shriver, a niece of President Kennedy
's, in 1986. As American as the Kennedy's may now seem, Joe Kennedy, the
family patriarch, was ambassador to Nazi Germany in the 1930's, openly
supported the Nazis and worked on Hitler's behalf to keep the U.S. from
entering WWII. Like Reagan, who also had extensive CIA and Nazi connections
before entering politics, Scwartzenegger intends to run for Governor of
California. If not for the legal requirement of being born here, he would
surely run for President.
Schwartzenegger campaigned for Kurt Waldheim when he ran for President of
Austria, Hitler's birth place. Waldheim, who was later banned from even
entering the U.S. due to his Nazi affiliations, was an honored guest at
Arnold's wedding.
In a 1977 interview for Pumping Iron, filmed long before Schwartzenegger
became a leading Republican fund-raiser, Arnold expressed his admiration for
Hitler. In a sense, Swchwartzenegger is the Aryan superman Hitler imagined
as the embodiment of his New World Order. Most of Schwartzenegger's films
have him playing a role that could have been the model for the ideal S.S.
man and which bear a striking resemblance to the idealized German male as
depicted in Nazi era propaganda films.
As readers of my articles are well aware, Giuliani and GW Bush publicly
acknowledge getting their policy ideas directly from the Manhattan Institute
(MI). Funded by David Rockefeller and founded by a longtime Rockefeller
associate, former CIA director William Casey, the Manhattan Institute has
promoted policies related to Hitler's and his U.S. corporate backer's
eugenics programs.
Following WWII Casey helped many former Nazis who were directly involved in
the Holocaust emigrate to the U.S.
As an example of MI's connection to eugenics, The Bell Curve was written
there and publicly honored by MI - although they have since tried very hard
to distance themselves from it. They still list the book's author, Charles
Murray, throughout their website and sell his books from it. The Bell Curve
uses studies financed by pro-Nazi and eugenics groups to "prove" the genetic
inferiority of Blacks and to advocate for the elimination of social
services, welfare, programs like Head Start and affirmative action. MI is a
tireless champion of Giuliani's racial profiling and arrest campaigns
directed at the City's Black and Latino residents. Charles Murray was MI's
top resident scholar for eight years and owes his reputation to MI freely
distributing thousands of copies of his books to the media and government
officials.
Born again Christian GW Bush says that books from MI are second only to the
Bible in their influence on his thinking.
Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank - now renamed J.P. Morgan/Chase - is the
main financial backer for both MI and Enron and has acknowledged being very
helpful to Hitler. Rockefeller's Standard Oil was half owner of I.G. Farben,
which built and operated 40 slave labor/death camps including Auschwitz.
Standard Oil/IG Farben ultimately became the industrial base for the entire
Third Reich. A number of historians believe that if Roosevelt had not died
during WWII he intended to launch a prosecution of Nelson Rockefeller as a
war criminal immediately following the war.
Following the 9/11 attack Giuliani ordered the steel beams from the WTC
melted down before they could be examined by investigators. David and Nelson
Rockefeller started the entire WTC project, which originally was intended to
be named after them.
Giuliani has numerous ties to fascism, dictators and Nazi Germany. Before
running for Mayor, Giuliani's law firm was representing the estate of Joseph
Mengele, Auschwitz's Doctor of Death and a key figure in eugenics
experiments at Auschwitz.
Giuliani's welfare chief, Jason Turner - also directly connected to MI -
actually quoted the motto from the gates of Auschwitz in praising Giuliani's
welfare policies. That same motto figured prominently in an earlier Giuliani
scandal involving a survivor of Auschwitz who Giuliani tried to break while
he was a Federal prosecutor.
Giuliani has appointed his pal, Schwartzenegger, his mistress and a full
rooster of his cronies to the board of the 9/11 Twin Towers Fund. The board
members receive huge salaries while Giuliani recently froze the funds' money
and is withholding it from the widows and families of the fire and police
department personnel who died on 9/11.
I must confess to being a long-time fan of Schwartzenegger's films,
especially the Terminator series, but I always felt there was an
undercurrent in them of admiration for fascism. There's no doubt that Arnold
's rise from steroid-pumped obscurity to being one of the most famous people
on earth shows him to be an extraordinary individual with an extraordinary
degree of ambition. Perhaps his rise is a little too extraordinary and like
GW Bush he had some help from those in high places.
Maybe Arnold can let Giuliani play Hitler in the Terminator sequel. Rudy has
had years of experience preparing for the role and has been compared to
Hitler more than any person on earth.
[1] NY Post
RUDY'S 'DAMAGED' IMAGE
POLITICAL JUNGLE:
Arnold Schwarzenegger's new movie, "Collateral Damage," is in a storm over
the Twin Towers Fund.
"February 6, 2002 -- The leaders of three police and firefighter unions are
blasting former Mayor Giuliani for using his Twin Towers charity fund to
help promote tonight's gala opening of a controversial new Arnold
Schwarzenegger film. "While we have nothing against Mr. Schwarzenegger and
his movie, we consider it exploitative and in bad taste to promote the film
by associating it with the tragedy of Sept. 11," said PBA President Pat
Lynch. Lynch - as well as the leaders of the fire officers union and the
union that represents Fire Department paramedics - are angered over the fact
that Giuliani is celebrating the Hollywood star at the opening of his $100
million film "Collateral Damage." In a press release touting the Ziegfeld
Theatre event, Warner Bros. boasts of Giuliani's appearance "with police,
firefighters and EMS workers, in association with the Twin Towers Fund and
Twin Towers Board."The $150 million fund - established by Giuliani when he
was mayor - got a $1 million donation last September from Schwarzenegger,
who is also an unpaid member of the charity's board. Giuliani packed the
fund's board with friends and supporters - including gal-pal Judith Nathan -
during his effort to take over the charity after he left office. The
takeover is expected to be approved shortly."
Newsday 2/7/2002
Twin Towers Fund Takeover
Rudy wants control of $%100M in assets
By Stephanie Saul
"The Twin Towers Fund has suspended payments to the families of dead
firefighters, police officers and other uniformed heroes while former Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani tries to move the fund's assets - about $100 million and
growing - from City Hall control. The switch, which would need the approval
of State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, would move the fund from the
mayoral-controlled New York City Public and Private Initiative, a group
founded to raise money for various city projects. The privately run Twin
Towers Fund board would include Arnold Schwarzenegger, who donated $1
million to it and whose new movie, "Collateral Damage," has come under
criticism from police and firefighters as capitalizing on the Sept. 11
attacks. Giuliani was slated to appear at the New York City premiere for the
film last night to thank Schwarzenegger. In the movie, Schwarzenegger plays
a Los Angeles firefighter who seeks vengeance after his wife and son are
killed in a terror attack. "We're saddened ... any time a tragedy is used to
promote a movie," said Debra Caruso, a spokeswoman for the Uniformed Fire
Officers Association. Other union groups weighed in with similar
complaints...Giuliani aides filed legal papers last fall and then sought in
December to take over the Twin Towers Fund. The fund's new board would also
include the mayor's frequent companion, Judith Nathan. Spitzer is slated to
meet this month with lawyers for Giuliani's fund and the New York City
Public and Private Initiative. Charity experts could cite no precedent for a
city fund transferring such large assets to a privately controlled fund...a
member of the City Council said the spinoff is just an example of Giuliani's
tendency to attempt control. "This is the megalomaniacal Rudy we know best,"
said Manhattan Councilman Philip Reed, a Democrat. "None of this should be
surprising to people. He's trying to take the money he raised under the
guise of the city of New York and he wants to control it."
A proposed budget of Giuliani's fund lists a payroll of 11 employees who
would earn up to $1.2 million."
[1] From: http://vikingphoenix.com/news/factoids.htm
Arnold Schwarzenegger's mother swooned at the sight of Adolf Hitler during
Hitler's visit to Vienna, Austria - B.S. Watson's The Unauthorized Biography
of Arnold Schwarzenegger, page 8.
[2] http://www.daily.umn.edu/ae/Print/1997/06/st/odd06.html
odds & ends
Hasta la vista, Hitler
"Arnold Schwarzenegger can't find backing for his next film. Not because he
ceased to be a sure thing since Last Action Hero cost Columbia more than
$100 million. Or because his last two films, Eraser and Jingle All The Way ,
were disappointing in the box office. Or because his brand of uber-machismo
is, like, so '93. Arnold Schwarzenegger Nope, Arnie's woes stem from his
desire to play an exceptionally moral Nazi soldier who develops sympathies
for American POWs. And in planning With Wings Of Eagles , he's stumbled
pecs-first into insinuations of Nazi revisionism and anti-Semitism. His
father served in the Nazi party, so even though he has donated millions to
anti-Nazi organizations, the spectre of anti-Semitism has always haunted
him..."
http://www.codoh.com/newsdesk/961117.HTML
November 17 1996
by John Harlow
Role too far for Arnie, lost action hero
"ONCE the biggest box office draw in the world, Arnold Schwarzenegger has
been frozen out by Hollywood moguls unnerved by his ambition to portray a
"nice Nazi" in a blockbuster war film.
Lord Attenborough is the latest film-maker to decline the Austrian-born
muscleman's offer to direct With Wings of Eagles, which was due to start
shooting in 10 weeks' time. Other directors have privately admitted they are
avoiding a film that might offend the powerful Jewish lobby in Hollywood.
"Jews do not run Hollywood ñ they are too busy fighting each other for that
ñ but the one event guaranteed to unite them against you is whitewashing the
Nazis," said a veteran producer last week.
In the past, the actor has fiercely denounced Nazis who took part in wartime
atrocities, including his own father, a Nazi official who helped round up
Austrian Jews for deportation and execution.
In 1989, he successfully sued a British newspaper which had suggested he was
anti-semitic. He has raised millions of dollars for the Holocaust memorial
trust in Los Angeles and is a friend of Simon Wiesenthal, the veteran
Nazi-hunter.
The "nice Nazi" role may prove to be a character too far, however, for a
superstar whose most popular roles have been a barbarian, a secret agent and
a killer robot.
"Marlon Brando could play a sympathetic Nazi in The Young Lions in 1958
because Brando was widely known as a leftwinger: Schwarzenegger's politics
are a little more confusing," said a studio source.
When Schwarzenegger arrived in America in 1968 as a young body-builder, he
allied himself with the Republican cause. George Bush, who recruited him for
fund-raising drives, dubbed him "Conan the Republican". But he maintained
less respectable friendships back in Austria.
In 1986 he invited Kurt Waldheim to his wedding in Massachusetts. Waldheim,
the former United Nations secretary-general, was in the middle of winning
his election as president of Austria and "forgetting" his own role in
Austria's Nazi wartime record. A year later Waldheim was banned from
entering America.
Schwarzenegger has also been photographed with Jorg Haider, leader of
Austria's right-wing Freedom party who last year was filmed at a secret
reunion of the Waffen SS, the military arm of the Nazi SS, praising them as
"decent people".
Haider claimed not to know that the Waffen SS had been designated a criminal
organisation at the Nuremberg trials.
Schwarzenegger has told friends that the German officer he wants to portray
"is no friend to Hitler's government and a real challenge to play".
The character is partially based on the true story of a Wehrmacht captain
called Ostermann, who refused to shoot a group of British prisoners of war.
In the initial script, the action hero then blasts his way past both Russian
and German armies to get the British soldiers home.
Attenborough, whose directing credits include Oh! What a Lovely War and the
epic A Bridge Too Far, read the script last summer and was initially
impressed.
But last week Martin Baum, Attenborough's Los Angeles agent, said the peer
was too busy finishing his own film, a love story about Ernest Hemingway, to
direct With Wings of Eagles. "There were discussions, but these did not
conclude in a joint project," said Baum.
Other directors have been blunt. According to Hollywood reports, Joel
Schumacher, who is directing the latest Batman film, offered Schwarzenegger
a short word of advice on making the film: "Don't."
"Apart from any political considerations, there are merchandising
problems,"said one of the director's associates this weekend.
"The really big films, including the Batman franchise and Arnie's own
Christmas comedy, Jingle All the Way, need to have spin-off games and toys
to get them into the financial super-league. What could you sell here ñ Nazi
helmets?"
Three months ago Alan Ladd, the producer, who raised the money for films
such as Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner and Braveheart, said he was "fully
confident" that filming would start in the new year. This weekend Ladd's
employers, Paramount Pictures, refused to discuss the film.
Schwarzenegger, whose popularity has slipped behind Mel Gibson and Tom
Cruise during the past two years, may be feeling under pressure. His 50th
birthday next July creates the same sense of mid-life unease that is
troubling Sylvester Stallone, 50, Harrison Ford, 54, and Meryl Streep, 48.
Schwarzenegger is currently completing his $20 million role as Mr Freeze in
the latest Batman film, after which he will be looking for work. His
alternative to the second world war epic is called Crusader. A leaked early
script, however, has also run into flak: it depicts both medieval knights
and their Moorish enemies as barbarians and has been condemned by Christian
fundamentalists, who say such even-handedness favours Islam.
Variety, the Hollywood magazine, has its own solutions to Schwarzenegger's
blues. In a recent editorial it said: "Forget all this difficult stuff,
Arnie. What the biz wants is more sequels." Terminator III is due to be
released in 1999.
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Role too far for Arnie, lost action hero
Installed: 5/16/98, 6: 00 PM, PST
Magazine: National Review; March 6, 2000
EUROPE
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HEIL, HAIDER?
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The EU finds a whipping boy
A man named Joerg Haider is at the center of a storm reverberating
throughout Europe, an artificial storm, but dangerous all the same. He is
from Austria, a country that rarely rates headlines. But who is Haider, what
is he?
An unsavory piece of work, to be sure. Born in 1950, the son of minor but
enthusiastic Nazi officials, he grew up in the atmosphere peculiar to
postwar Austria, in which people steadfastly avoided coming to terms with
the country's recent devotion to Adolf Hitler, its favorite prewar son. In a
tacit conspiracy, the ruling elites in the conservative People's party and
the Social Democratic party-known respectively as the Blacks and the
Reds-pretended that Austria had been an innocent victim of Nazism, with
nothing to atone for. The truth, of course, was that Austrians had
contributed more than their fair share to the Nazi cause. Nearly fifty years
were to pass before a government accepted the obligation to apologize and
make restitution, by which time few of the victims were still alive to
benefit. Rejection of responsibility for Nazism, coupled with at least a
measure of unspoken defiance, has generated moral and intellectual evasion
in the man on the Austrian street, and Haider particularly speaks for him.
As a politician, Haider rose to become leader of the Freedom party, which
has neo-Nazi origins. He seemed sincere when he said that the Waffen SS
deserved "honor and respect," that Hitler's employment policies had been
"orderly," and that concentration camps had been "punishment camps,"
implying that the inmates were actually miscreants. He has since retracted
all of this loudly and often, but his supporters and his opponents alike
sense that such views may indeed express the inner man. For many years,
Haider has advocated a nationalist policy of Austria for the Austrians,
especially in controlling would-be immigrants and guest workers.
A stylish dresser, driving a Porsche, skier and sportsman, with a photograph
of his friend Arnold Schwarzenegger in his office, he cuts a dashing and
even charismatic figure, lord of an estate comprising the whole valley of
Barenthal, in the province of Carinthia. This was the property of a Jewish
family until an uncle of Haider's "acquired" it in 1941 through the usual
Nazi process of theft. Token compensation was paid after the war. In
Austria, war-profiteering of this kind is so normal that nobody seems to
hold it against Haider, and he was elected governor of Carinthia.
But politics can be complicated, and one aspect of Haider's popularity is
positive rather than creepy. For years, the Blacks and the Reds cozily
contrived to govern in coalition. Voters had been unable to throw the
rascals out. Between them, the Blacks and Reds put in place a system known
as Proport, which divided the spoils of office proportionately between them.
The civil service from the highest rank down to village postmasters; museum
and opera officials; the media, the bar, schoolteachers and academics;
anyone in need of a franchise or a license, down to the level of a
taxicab-all were subject to Proport. My turn, your turn. This surreptitious
but institutionalized sweetheart dealing corrupted the entire society.
Scandal continuously blistered Austrian public life. Needless to say, Blacks
and Reds ensured that their own did not end up disgraced or imprisoned.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2000/3/5/133855
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Sunday March 5, 2000 2:36 PM EST
Haider: My "Friend" Arnold Schwarzenegger
Jorg Haider recently stepped down as head of Austria's conservative Freedom
Party.
It still hasn't quelled complaints from the rest of Europe -- now governed
mostly by Socialist governments -- that Austria is flirting with its Nazi
past.
In a syndicated interview to be published next week, Haider claims that he
is a good friend of Hollywood Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Schwarzenegger, an immigrant to the United States from Austria, has always
leaned Republican and was a favorite Hollywood friend during the Bush
administration.
Haider told reporter Daphne Barak about his contacts with Schwarzenegger: "I
met him three or four years ago when I was on a tour of the States. I know
his mother very well and he invited me to come. We spent a nice evening
together. We keep in touch."
Interestingly, Schwarzenegger offered some recent criticism of Haider,
saying he was "offended by anyone who makes anti-immigrant statements,"
adding that "It is my opinion that someone who makes statements like
Haider's has no place in government."
http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Awful/Archive/970128a.html
E! Online
Schwarzenegger's List
Now that Arnold Schwarzenegger has nearly completed his lucrative stint as
Mr. Freeze in Batman and Robin, what's an action hunk to do? Does he go for
glory and get paid a very batty $25 mil for a few weeks' work--or does he go
for guts and make a somewhat controversial movie?
Considering Schwarzenegger is in danger of becoming the next Sylvester
Stallone (Junior, Jingle All the Way, need I keep going?), he's wise to be
thinking over a gutsy choice.
It's called With Wings as Eagles, the story of a German officer who served
during World War II--in other words, it's Nazi-time for Ah-nuld. And
contrary to the maybes you may have heard about this flick, the
Austrian-born Schwarzenegger is definitely making this movie. That's where
the guts come in.
It will be impossible for the muscled movie star to escape his past while
taking on this project. Undoubtedly, the fact that Schwarzenegger's own
father, Gustav, was a member of the Nazi party, makes things dicey.
Example: Before it was even known that Wings was a go, Esquire publicly
chided Schwarzenegger for exploring a movie involving the Third Reich, even
though the script has Schwarzenegger's character fighting the Nazis. In a
piece titled "Saturday Night Führer," the men's rag mercilessly ragged on
the star--going as far as to run a cartoon of him in full gestapo getup and
the extraordinary subhead, "Springtime for Arnold."
"I wouldn't go there," said Schwarzenegger's flack when I asked about the
piece. "It was defamatory, and we're considering what legal action to take."
You guessed it--I went there anyway. Esquire's effrontery notwithstanding, I
asked if his unfortunate ancestry was the reason Schwarzenegger took the
project on in the first place. Did Schwarzenegger--once and for all--want to
take a stand against the anti-Semitic whisperings that have plagued him for
years? (Quelle surprise when you invite Kurt Waldheim to your wedding!)
"No!" snapped the flack. Why, then, choose a project that so closely touches
on his roots? "I don't know! He's got a list of eight or nine projects to
consider, and I don't know why he's thinking about this one."
Well, he'd better start coming up with some answers. Because as noble as
this story may be, it would be naive of Schwarzenegger to expect anybody
with any knowledge whatsoever of the Holocaust not to expect--at the very
least--an explanation on where Schwarzenegger stands as to his father's
wartime actions.
Otherwise, Maria's hubby will have to withstand his share of cynical
industry backlash. Such as this comment from one source who's been watching
Wings' development:
"He's just doing this because he wants his own Schindler's List," said the
source. "But it's not gonna happen."
Why?
"Because this isn't Steven Spielberg. This is the Terminator in a German
officer's uniform."
Or is it? I know it's a questionable statement for me to make, but
Schwarzenegger can act. He is allowed to change roles once in a while.
(Jeez, I wish he'd do it more often.) Let's just see how truly noble he is
about the change.
http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/29.Dec.1996/Features/Article-8.html
Jerusalem Post
Tuesday, December 24, 1996 14 Tevet 5757
Arnie and the Jews
By Tom Gross
(December 16) - In Hollywood and here, opinions are divided over
"Arnold Schwarzenegger's suitability to portray a 'good'
Nazi.
There is controversy in Hollywood over the reported
intention of Arnold Schwarzenegger to portray a "nice Nazi"
in a new film.
According to reports, Joel Schumacher (who is
presently directing the latest Batman film, for which
Schwarzenegger is receiving $20 million to star as Mr.
Freeze), offered the Austrian-born muscleman a curt four
letters of advice on making the film: "Don't."
Several leading film directors have turned down offers
to make the film, tentatively titled "With Wings of
Eagles," after initially expressing interest in it,
according to sources in Los Angeles..."
NY Post 2/6/03
EX-HIZZONER'S INSENSITIVITY IS JUST UNREEL
By LEONARD GREENE
POLITICAL JUNGLE:
Arnold Schwarzenegger's new movie, "Collateral Damage," is in a storm over
the Twin Towers Fund.
- Warner Bros.
February 6, 2002 -- MAYBE former federal prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani can
answer this question: What exactly is the statute of limitations on
sensitivity?
Is it an evolving timetable directed - as it should be - by grief and
despair?
Or is it measured in term limits?
Like the rubble below a collapsed beloved tower, this timetable continues to
shift.
One minute, they're asking us to search our hearts and respect the heroic
dead. And then the next minute, they're leading the celebrity parade and
hawking tickets to the grave site.
The latest bit of hypocrisy surrounds Giuliani's connection to tonight's New
York premiere of Arnold Schwarzenegger's anti-terrorist movie "Collateral
Damage."
Just weeks after endorsing the city's decision to chase opportunistic
vendors from Ground Zero, Giuliani is promoting a movie filled with themes
that almost everyone feels are a little too close to home.
Schwarzenegger stars in the Warner Bros. film as a Los Angeles firefighter
who travels to Colombia to seek vengeance on Colombian terrorists who bomb a
Los Angeles building.
While we applaud Hollywood endlessly for its creative portrayal of
terrorists as bad people who should be punished, moviegoers should be
reminded that it was Warner Bros. that pulled the movie from its original
Oct. 5 release date out of concern that it would be too disturbing after the
Sept. 11 attack.
Just four months later, the movie is back, not quite a comfort to the
grieving widow or daughter still waiting to hear that a loved one's arm or a
leg was found.
NY Post
DAMAGE' CONTROL AT WARNER BROS.
February 7, 2002 -- Entertainment giant Warner Bros. distanced itself from
former Mayor Giuliani's Twin Towers Fund yesterday after the company was
accused of using the charity to promote its new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
In a press release Tuesday promoting last night's gala premiere for
"Collateral Damage" at the Ziegfeld Theatre in Midtown, Warner crowed that
Giuliani would be appearing "with police, firefighters and EMS workers, in
association with the Twin Towers Fund and Twin Towers board."
The leaders of three police and firefighters unions then blasted the former
mayor, accusing him of using the charity fund to promote the new
action-adventure flick, which stars Schwarzenegger as a fireman whose family
is killed by Colombian terrorists.
PBA President Pat Lynch said: "While we have nothing against Mr.
Schwarzenegger and his movie, we consider it exploitative and in bad taste
to promote the film by associating with the tragedy of Sept. 11."
The uproar apparently changed Warner's public relations approach: an updated
release sent out yesterday downplayed the Giuliani-Twin Towers Fund
connection.
Warner officials didn't comment on the change, and members of the media were
unexpectedly barred from last night's screening. Warner spokesman Mike
Zinman said the press ban was Schwarzenegger's idea.
Earlier, Giuliani said the film fuss was much ado about nothing.
Schwarzenegger, he said, was in New York "for a board meeting and I'm going
as his guest to the movie. There's nothing more to it than that, but to say
thank you to Arnold," Giuliani said.
"What I do know is that Arnold Schwarzenegger has been absolutely terrific
to the city of New York and in particular to the firefighters and police
officers," he said.
"The Terminator" star donated $1 million to the Twin Towers Fund and "has
raised countless additional millions of dollars, most recently in
Hollywood."
Twin Towers Fund officials have said they're not sponsoring or getting any
money from the premiere. Their only connection with it is Warner Bros. gave
them 650 tickets to be distributed to firefighters and cops, and 50 for fund
staffers.
"Collateral Damage" was originally slated to hit theaters on Oct. 5, but the
opening was pushed back because of the Sept. 11 tragedy.
What do you think Ken
Newsday 2/7/2002
Twin Towers Fund Takeover
Rudy wants control of $%100M in assets
By Stephanie Saul
STAFF WRITER
February 7, 2002
The Twin Towers Fund has suspended payments to the families of dead
firefighters, police officers and other uniformed heroes while former Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani tries to move the fund's assets - about $100 million and
growing - from City Hall control.
The switch, which would need the approval of State Attorney General Eliot
Spitzer, would move the fund from the mayoral-controlled New York City
Public and Private Initiative, a group founded to raise money for various
city projects.
The privately run Twin Towers Fund board would include Arnold
Schwarzenegger, who donated $1 million to it and whose new movie,
"Collateral Damage," has come under criticism from police and firefighters
as capitalizing on the Sept. 11 attacks. Giuliani was slated to appear at
the New York City premiere for the film last night to thank Schwarzenegger.
In the movie, Schwarzenegger plays a Los Angeles firefighter who seeks
vengeance after his wife and son are killed in a terror attack.
"We're saddened ... any time a tragedy is used to promote a movie," said
Debra Caruso, a spokeswoman for the Uniformed Fire Officers Association.
Other union groups weighed in with similar complaints.
Before last night's premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre, Giuliani spokeswoman
Sunny Mindel defended his plans to appear. "The mayor will talk about how
grateful he is that Mr. Schwarzenegger is serving on the voluntary board of
the fund and continues to support the important effort," Mindel said.
Giuliani aides filed legal papers last fall and then sought in December to
take over the Twin Towers Fund. The fund's new board would also include the
mayor's frequent companion, Judith Nathan.
Spitzer is slated to meet this month with lawyers for Giuliani's fund and
the New York City Public and Private Initiative. Charity experts could cite
no precedent for a city fund transferring such large assets to a privately
controlled fund.
But the chairman of the New York City Public and Private Initiative, CUNY
vice chancellor Frederick Schaffer, said the organization had planned from
the outset to spin off the Twin Towers Fund.
"The transfer of assets from PPI to the fund was made pursuant to the
original understanding and intention of the parties," Schaffer said
yesterday, referring to the city-run PPI and the Twin Towers Fund.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who technically controls the fund under the PPI
bylaws, has not commented on Giuliani's attempts to take it over. Calls to
several members of his administration seeking comment were not returned.
Since Sept. 11, the fund has sent checks totaling about $48 million to the
families of dead firefighters and law enforcement personnel, but Schaffer
said the remaining funds will not be disbursed until Spitzer makes a
decision.
But a member of the City Council said the spinoff is just an example of
Giuliani's tendency to attempt control.
"This is the megalomaniacal Rudy we know best," said Manhattan Councilman
Philip Reed, a Democrat. "None of this should be surprising to people. He's
trying to take the money he raised under the guise of the city of New York
and he wants to control it."
A proposed budget of Giuliani's fund lists a payroll of 11 employees who
would earn up to $1.2 million.
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ARNOLD FEELS THE PAIN
By DAVID K. LI
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POWER FLEX:
Rudy Giuliani joins Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday at a recall rally. The
GOP candidate tells The Post that Giuliani "pumps me up" by sharing his own
experience from personal dramas
October 4, 2003 -- EXCLUSIVE
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Terminator is human after all.
Arnold Schwarzenegger says the last two days of revelations about his past
have been "very tough" on him and have taken an emotional toll on his
family.
"It's been painful to hear those allegations," Schwarzenegger said in an
interview with The Post after a whirlwind day on the campaign trail. "It's
painful to hear these things, but I'm an optimistic guy."
The actor-turned-politician spoke a day after allegations surfaced that he
groped several women in the past and that he once expressed admiration for
Adolf Hitler.
Schwarzenegger - who was wearing a white, short-sleeved shirt as he chatted
in the back of his campaign bus, "California Comeback Express" - said he has
matured since his bodybuilding days.
"I've become more mature," he said. "You look back and say, 'Oh my God. Was
that me? I was so wild.' "
Ah-nold said the accusations that he grabbed women's breasts and made lewd
comments to them have taken their toll on his wife Maria Shriver, a niece of
President John F. Kennedy.
"We're a tight family and we'll work through this thing together," he said.
"We'll remain positive."
Schwarzenegger, whose voice was very hoarse after making several campaign
stops, defended himself from allegations that he admired Hitler and said he
wants to earn the "trust of all the Jewish people."
"You always have to remember what happened in the Second World War," he
said. "We have to make sure everyone knows about tolerance. I'm very happy
fighting prejudice."
Schwarzenegger, a Republican, said his wife warned him that his past would
come to haunt him once he threw his name into the ring for governor.
"She said to me, 'Look, I've been in political campaigns, I come from a
political family and I know the kinds of things that will happen. Some of
these things from your past will come out,' " he recalled.
Schwarzenegger said he has gotten some advice from former Mayor Rudy
Giuliani, who has also publicly battled personal problems, including his
split from his wife Donna Hanover.
Giuliani's advice: Stay focused on his message and greet voters.
"He encourages me and pumps me up to stay positive," Schwarzenegger said of
Rudy, who joined him yesterday at a rally in Bakersfield.
Giuliani's presence brought an attack press release from Davis's campaign
yesterday noting that the ex-mayor said in August that the recall "doesn't
seem like it's good for government."
Schwarzenegger, who bikes every day and lifts weights every three days,
joked that he has been living on fruits, vegetables and cookies over the
last few weeks.
"It's not a very strict diet," he said. "Campaigning is a good way to lose
weight."
NY Times 10/4/03
Schwarzenegger Stays on Message as Wife Extends Support
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Oct. 3 - Declaring that "the people know my character,"
Arnold Schwarzenegger fought to rise above controversy on Friday, while his
wife, Maria Shriver, staunchly defended him from accusations that he had
made unwanted sexual advances to women.
In a sweep through California, Mr. Schwarzenegger, the actor seeking to
become governor in the state's recall election on Tuesday, pledged on the
second day of his bus tour: "I will stay focused. I will stay focused
because the fight continues."
Still, he gave a series of interviews trying to explain the questions
swirling around his campaign.
On Thursday, with polls showing him surging, his campaign was shaken by
accounts by six women who told The Los Angeles Times he had made unsolicited
physical advances. He also faced questions about a book proposal, obtained
by The New York Times and ABC News, that quoted him as saying in 1975 that
he had admired Hitler.
His campaign continued trying to tamp down the controversy on Friday,
issuing a statement from George Butler, the author of the book proposal,
saying the remarks were taken out of context and not completely accurate.
The statement included what it said were more accurate quotations.
He apologized on Thursday for having "behaved badly sometimes" toward women
and said he despised "anything that Hitler stands for."
An array of polls this week showed strong support for recalling Gov. Gray
Davis. Mr. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, emerged as the most popular of 135
candidates to replace the Democratic governor. The recall ballot first asks
voters to decide if Mr. Davis should be ousted. It then asks them to chose a
replacement.
With just days to go before the election, some political strategists said
the new accusations could narrow the race, but doubted there was enough time
to change its dynamics.
"Its likely that this narrows the margin on the recall," said Dan Schnur, a
Republican consultant who ran the campaign of the former baseball
commissioner Peter V. Ueberroth until he dropped out of the recall race.
"The question is by how much. Voters might not like what they are hearing
about Arnold, but they really hated Gray for a long time."
Gale Kaufman, a Democratic political consultant who often works for
organized labor in Sacramento, said she expected that some of Mr.
Schwarzenegger's supporters would become undecided but that sentiment in
favor of the recall of Mr. Davis would not diminish.
"I don't think it affects the yes or no question at all," she said. "Because
I think people have made up their mind on that question and they have been
pretty solid all along. And they knew who the candidates were a week ago."
Aides to Mr. Schwarzenegger said that their overnight polls showed no
erosion in support.
Still, in a last push for Mr. Davis, women's groups opposed to Mr.
Schwarzenegger, joined by Arianna Huffington, a onetime recall candidate,
held protest rallies around the state and Democrats joined them in raising
sharp questions about Mr. Schwarzenegger's character.
"I don't see how anyone can admire Adolf Hitler," Mr. Davis told the ABC
television show "Good Morning America." "Any decent American has to be
offended by that phrase."
Senator Dianne Feinstein, a steadfast Davis supporter who is considered one
of the most popular Democratic politicians in the state, echoed the theme on
the "Today" show on NBC. "If this was a man that found Adolf Hitler to be a
glorified and acceptable and a desirable character," she said, "I sure want
to know it as a Californian because I don't want that man as my governor."
In Washington, where the Democratic National Committee was meeting, party
members also attacked the actor.
"You know, after reading in the paper this morning about the pill popping
and skirt chasing and Hitler praising, it would be very tempting to point
out Republicans' hypocrisy on values," said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of
Connecticut. "But would it be right to do? Absolutely." The Democrats'
statements were prompted by the fact that a film producer, Mr. Butler, who
chronicled Mr. Schwarzenegger's rise to fame as a champion bodybuilder in
the 1970's, circulated a book proposal six years ago that quoted the young
man expressing admiration for Hitler.
The book proposal presented what it called verbatim excerpts from the
filming of "Pumping Iron," in which the actor said he admired Hitler because
he "came from being a little man with almost no formal education up to
power. And I admire him for being a good public speaker."
Mr. Butler said in an interview late Thursday night that he had found
original transcripts of the interviews and that Mr. Schwarzenegger went on
to say of Hitler, "I didn't admire him for what he did with it."
Mr. Schwarzenegger on Thursday said, "I despise anything that Hitler stands
for, anything he has done, hated the Nazism, hated what was done during the
Second World War."
In an interview on Friday, Mr. Schwarzenegger said he was not deterred by
the last few days.
"Before I went into the race, everyone came to me and said, `Arnold think
about it,' " he said. "They're going to throw everything at you, that's just
the way it works in politics.
"This is a discovery for me," he said. "I'm not the smartest guy in the
world. No, but I'll learn when I get in there, first is the commitment. Like
bodybuilding, first is the commitment."
He also said that he would continue to apologize to women and had not
realized women were offended. Women gave The Los Angeles Times accounts of
him grabbing their breasts or putting his hand under their clothes. "It's
too bad nobody came up to me before and sat down and said I still feel hurt
about what you said," he said Friday, "and I could have apologized right
then and there. I never got the chance."
On the campaign trail, however, he stuck to his themes about rebuilding
California. At the first rally, in Arcadia, a Los Angeles suburb, Mr.
Schwarzenegger spoke to a large, adoring crowd of abolishing the recent hike
in the vehicle license fee and of wistful remembrances of the California of
yesteryear.
A number of law enforcement officials preceded him, denouncing a new law
signed by Mr. Davis that would allow illegal immigrants to carry state
driver's licenses.
A few hecklers held signs picturing the actor from his bodybuilding
days in a pose reminiscent of the Nazi salute.
Nearby, Representative Darrell Issa, the man who bankrolled the recall
petition drive, said: "It's getting to the point that if you had a youth,
you're disqualified from office. Only career politicians who never had a
life need apply."
Mr. Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver, a member of the Democratic Kennedy
clan, also vouched for him. "I believe he's handled himself in this
situation in the best possible manner," she told reporters after a campaign
appearance. "He apologized and that's courageous."
She said she had met thousands and thousands of women who had worked with
her husband who had told her, "He has been an extraordinary gentleman."
Mr. Schwarzenegger drew support from Republicans campaigning at his side,
including Rudolph W.
Giuliani, the former New York mayor, and several members of Congress.
Some of them called the late campaign disclosures about Mr. Schwarzenegger
the work of Democrats. "These people are doing anything they can to hold
onto power," said
Representative David Dreier, traveling on the campaign bus with reporters.
"He has apologized. He's a changed man."
Reuters 10/4/03
Schwarzenegger Running Strong Despite Past Shadows
By Adam Tanner
FRESNO, Calif. (Reuters) - Like a film superhero who miraculously survives
knife, gun and grenade attacks, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was still going
strong in his campaign to become California governor Saturday after battling
back allegations of sexual misconduct and Nazi sympathies.
As enthusiastic crowds greeted the ex Mr. Universe on his bus tour across
the state that ends in Sacramento Sunday, the Republican front-runner
wondered aloud why he was facing attacks on his past behavior and statements
in the final days of what many have called an extraordinary political
circus.
"One wonders what the motivation of all this is, why I'm getting thrown all
this stuff three days before" the vote, Schwarzenegger said. "Where have
they been the last 20 years, 10 years, five years?"
In the Tuesday vote, Californians will decide whether they will oust Gov.
Gray Davis in only the second such recall in U.S. history. The second part
of the ballot lists 135 replacement candidates, of which political neophyte
Schwarzenegger has emerged as the front runner in the same state that
elevated actor Ronald Reagan to governor.
Nothing about the campaign has followed any predictable political storyline.
Friday, the Schwarzenegger campaign handed out a statement quoting the actor
as expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler in 1975 -- and in doing so aides
were hoping to qualm concerns about the Austrian-American's attitudes about
Nazism by providing a wider context for the quote.
"I don't see how anyone can admire Adolph Hitler," Gov. Davis told ABC
television. "Any decent American has to be offended by that phrase. Adolph
Hitler did nothing but shock our conscience, destroy millions of Jews and
non-Jews, and is an abomination to any decent American."
HITLER HANDOUT
The actor's experienced staff of Republican operatives were hoping the
campaign statement would provide a wider context for Schwarzenegger's remark
on Hitler -- and eliminate further questions on the issue -- following New
York Times and ABC News reports that reignited concerns about his past.
The document quoted Schwarzenegger's close friend, documentary filmmaker
George Butler, who helped cement the bodybuilder's legend in the 1970s with
the film and book "Pumping Iron."
"I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man
with almost no formal education, up to power," Butler quoted the actor as
saying in transcripts from 1975-6 outtakes for the film. "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."
The campaign appeared to want to accentuate the last sentence, which was not
initially reported. "Believe me, he bears no Nazi sympathies," Barbara
Baker, Schwarzenegger's girlfriend during the period in question, told
Reuters.
The actor said Friday that he despised Hitler and the Nazis and said the
theme was largely verboten when growing up in Austria. His father had served
as a Nazi policeman.
"I was raised without really anyone talking about what happened," he told
journalists. "I have never heard my father talk about the war."
Schwarzenegger's main Democratic rival on the replacement ballot has tried
to make an issue of the actor's sexual harassment, saying it violated
California law. "Had they been my daughters," Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante said
Friday, "it wouldn't have taken a campaign to resolve the issue."
Schwarzenegger, saying he "behaved badly at times," issued an apology
Thursday in a move that could help sideline the controversy. He also said he
would have apologized long ago to women he had groped -- had they said
something.
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/6957.htm
RUDY HEADING WEST TO HELP ARNIE TERMINATE DEMS
By DEBORAH ORIN
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SCHWARZENEGGER
Gems from Giuliani.
October 1, 2003 -- Readying for his trip to campaign for Arnold
Schwarzenegger, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said last night the Terminator
will bring "new blood" to California with "novel and innovative" solutions
to the beleaguered state's problems.
"I think he's a breath of fresh air for California and for the Republican
Party. California needs a governor that can think independently," Giuliani
told The Post.
Giuliani also ripped two Schwarzenegger rivals, Gov. Gray Davis and Lt. Gov.
Cruz Bustamante, as "business as usual" and said he hopes Republican Tom
McClintock will get out of the race to clear the field for Arnold.
The former mayor has already made a TV commercial that talks about Arnold as
a strong leader and will stump with him in California on Friday.
Giuliani painted Davis as a man who focuses on current political advantage
instead of long-term vision, resulting in California's humongous budget
deficit.
"We have deficits in New York, but nothing like that. Gray Davis has always
played it based on what is the latest public opinion poll and how do I
handle it? And that's what got him into all this trouble."
Giuliani added, "The governor of the state has to have the leadership to
think five or 10 years down the road. Arnold is going to do this because he
wants to make a long-term contribution."
The former mayor said Bustamante, who is Schwarzenegger's closest rival, is
more politics as usual.
"He is also a traditional government type, and that approach hasn't worked.
He's a different personality but the same philosophy and same thinking [as
Davis]."
Giuliani said he also hopes that McClintock, the only other major Republican
candidate who hasn't endorsed Schwarzenegger, will do so.
Giuliani noted that The Terminator was a major booster for New York after
Sept. 11 and was one of the first to volunteer to raise funds for the Twin
Towers Fund - and ultimately raised millions of dollars for 9/11 charities.
Meanwhile, independent candidate Arianna Huffington dropped out of the
California race last night - but vowed to still try to be Schwarzenegger's
worst nightmare by actively campaigning against him and the recall effort.
Additional reporting by David K. Li
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Subject: Arnold's Nazi Problem - Why won't he repudiate Kurt Waldheim? By
Timothy Noah
> Arnold's Nazi Problem
>
> Why won't he repudiate Kurt Waldheim?
> By Timothy Noah
>
> Posted Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 3:46 PM PT
>
> Here's a question Jay Leno forgot to ask Arnold Schwarzenegger when he
> announced his candidacy for governor of California on last night's
> Tonight Show: "Will you renounce your support for Kurt Waldheim?"
>
> A little refresher course may be in order. Kurt Waldheim, a widely
> esteemed former secretary general of the United Nations, was running for
> president of Austria in March 1986 when it came to light that he had
> participated in Nazi atrocities during World War II. Waldheim had always
> maintained that he had served in the Wehrmacht only briefly and that
> after being wounded early in the war, he had returned to Vienna to
> attend law school. In fact, Waldheim had resumed military service after
> recuperating from his injury and had been an intelligence officer in
> Germany's Army Group E when it committed mass murder in the Kozara
> region of western Bosnia. (Waldheim's name appears on the Wehrmacht's
> "honor list" of those responsible for the atrocity.) In 1944, Waldheim
> had reviewed and approved a packet of anti-Semitic propaganda leaflets
> to be dropped behind Russian lines, one of which ended, "enough of the
> Jewish war, kill the Jews, come over." After the war, Waldheim was
> wanted for war crimes by the War Crimes Commission of the United
> Nations, the very organization he would later head. None of these
> revelations prevented Waldheim from winning the Austrian election, but
> after he became president, the U.S. Justice Department put Waldheim on
> its watch list denying entry to "any foreign national who assisted or
> otherwise participated in activities amounting to persecution during
> World War II." The international community largely shunned Waldheim, and
> he didn't run for re-election. (This information comes from the1992 book
> Betrayal: The Untold Story of the Kurt Waldheim Investigation and
> Cover-Up, by Eli M. Rosenbaum and William Hoffer.)
>
> One month after these revelations began to splash across the front pages
> of newspapers worldwide, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver
> exchanged wedding vows at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Mass.
> Schwarzenegger, a native of Austria, had invited Waldheim to the
> wedding, which of course can't be held against him because the
> invitations surely went out well before the war crimes story broke.
> (Schwarzenegger, who held dual citizenship in Austria and the United
> States, had also endorsed Waldheim.) Waldheim didn't attend, but he sent
> a gift-a statue of Arnold, in lederhosen, bearing off Maria, who wore a
> dirndl. Admiring it, Schwarzenegger offered a tribute that stunned the
> assemblage into shocked silence (this is reported in Arnold: An
> Unauthorized Biography, by Wendy Leigh):
>
> My friends don't want me to mention Kurt's name, because of all the
> recent Nazi stuff and the U.N. controversy, but I love him and Maria
> does too, and so thank you, Kurt.
>
> Schwarzenegger's name remained on Waldheim's campaign posters. After
> Waldheim was elected, Schwarzenegger paid him a visit and was
> photographed with him. According to the New York Post's "Page Six"
> gossip column, Schwarzenegger was seen sitting beside Waldheim as
> recently as 1998, when the two attended the second inauguration of
> Waldheim's successor as president, Thomas Klestil.
>
> In 1988, Schwarzenegger was asked in a Playboy interview what he thought
> of Waldheim. He replied:
>
> I hate to talk about it, because it's a no-win situation. Without
> going into details, I can say that being half-Austrian and
> half-American, I don't like the idea that these two countries that mean
> so much to me are in such a disagreement. Austria is a very important
> place for Americans, because it is a neutral country. With a little bit
> of good will, the problem will be straightened out. I think it's well on
> the way.
>
> Why on Earth didn't Schwarzenegger take this opportunity to speak out
> against Waldheim? It surely isn't because Schwarzenegger himself had any
> Nazi sympathies (though during the filming of the documentary Pumping
> Iron, he reportedly once made a foolish comment praising Hitler).
> Rather, Schwarzenegger was likely playing politics-to be more specific,
> Austrian politics and family politics. For years it was rumored that if
> Schwarzenegger didn't run for governor of California, he would run for
> president of Austria. Because Austrians have long resented what they see
> as Waldheim's pointless scapegoating, any firm denunciation would have
> ruled the latter possibility out. In addition, Schwarzenegger's mother
> had for many years lived with Alfred Gerstl, a prominent Austrian
> politician who rose to the top post in the upper house of Austria's
> parliament. Schwarzenegger reportedly addressed him as "Uncle."
> (Schwarzenegger's father, who died three decades ago, was a police
> official who had belonged to the Nazi party.)
>
> Rather than confront his Waldheim problem head-on, Schwarzenegger has
> proclaimed his disgust for Nazism, raised money for education about the
> Holocaust, traveled to Israel (where he met with then-Prime Minister
> Yitzhak Rabin), and given generously to the Simon Wiesenthal Center in
> Los Angeles, which in 1997 bestowed on him its National Leadership
> Award. "He wants no truck with . Waldheim," the Wiesenthal Center's
> Rabbi Marvin Hier told the Jerusalem Post. "He probably did not have any
> clue as to the seriousness of the allegations against Waldheim at that
> time [i.e., 1986]. To suggest that Arnold's an anti-Semite is
> preposterous. He's done more to further the cause of Holocaust awareness
> than almost any other Hollywood star."
>
> Clearly, though, that won't be enough. If Schwarzenegger doesn't
> renounce Waldheim in a highly public way, he can forget about ever
> becoming governor of California.
>
> Timothy Noah writes "Chatterbox" for Slate.
>
> Article URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2086742/
>
BOSTON GLOBE 4/23/2001
TRIUMPHS, TROUBLES SHAPE GENERATIONS
PRESCOTT BUSH PAVED MODERATE PATH FOR SON AND GRANDSON;
WOUNDED BY FRIEND'S BETRAYAL, HE PUT HIGH PRICE ON LOYALTY
Author: By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff Date: 04/23/2001 Page: A1 Section:
National/Foreign
AN AMERICAN DYNASTY
Last of two parts
"Prescott Bush was surely aghast at a sensational article the New York
Herald Tribune splashed on its front page in July 1942.
"Hitler's Angel Has 3 Million in US Bank," read the headline above a story
reporting that Adolf Hitler's financier had stowed the fortune in Union
Banking Corp., possibly to be held for "Nazi bigwigs."
Bush knew all about the New York bank: He was one of its seven directors. If
the Nazi tie became known, it would be a potential "embarrassment," Bush and
his partners at Brown Brothers Harriman worried, explaining to government
regulators that their position was merely an unpaid courtesy for a client.
The situation grew more serious when the government seized Union's assets
under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the sort of action that could have
ruined Bush's political dreams.
Washington Post 7/28/1997
NAZI TATTOO CATCHES REPORTERS NAPPING
Howard KurtzWashington Post Staff Writer
Column: MEDIA NOTES
July 28, 1997; Page C1
Two senators call a news conference to present an average, hard-working
American who -- to their embarrassment --turns out to have a Nazi swastika
tattooed on his arm. Is that news?
Several major media organizations didn't think so. The West Virginia truck
driver was trotted out by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Minority Leader
Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) as someone who would be helped by the Clinton tax plan.
Rockefeller, clearly unaware of the tattoo, introduced the man as "a very
close and personal friend."
"If it had been a Republican, this would have been a huge scandal that the
Republicans had brought out a Nazi sympathizer," said House GOP spokesman
Ari Fleischer. Instead, it was reported as a brief item only by the Hill,
the Capitol Hill weekly, and by Associated Press Radio.
NY Post 4/16/2002
PAGE SIX
By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS Bush granddad's Nazi 'link'
"PEOPLE with a pathological hatred of President Bush will stop at nothing to
slime his family. An obscure magazine has gone all the way back to World War
II to claim a supposed connection between his grandfather and a mining
company that allegedly used slave labor at Auschwitz. Clamor magazine
reports that Dubya's granddad, Prescott Bush, managed the Union Banking
Corp., whose portfolio included the Silesian American Corp. The article
cites a 1942 newspaper story linking Bush to Nazi-funding German
industrialist Fritz Thyssen. In 1943, Bush resigned from the bank and later
chaired the National War Fund. Clamor claims that in 1951, Bush used the
$1.5 million he made from UBC stock to set up his son, former President
George Bush, in business. The next year, Prescott Bush won election as U.S.
senator from Connecticut. He died of cancer in 1972. Best-selling author
Kitty Kelley - who has done stinging bios on Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth
Taylor - is said to be rehashing the charges in her upcoming tome about the
Bush dynasty."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/740127.asp?pne=msntv
MSNBC and SLATE
4/17/2002
By Anne E. Kornblut
SLATE.COM
The Bush Family and the Jews
April 17 - In 1998, George W. Bush took his first and only trip to the Holy
Land. During a helicopter tour - guided by none other than Ariel Sharon -
Bush was astonished to discover how tiny Israel is compared to its Arab
neighbors. He later described the visit as one of the most meaningful
experiences of his life. A photographer captured a striking image of Bush,
in a yarmulke, standing reverently at the Wailing Wall.
THE PICTURE may be a symbol of Bush foreign policy these days, but it speaks
to an even more startling truth: Bush is the first in his family of
politicians to craft a pro-Jewish image.
Starting with accusations that Prescott Bush was a Nazi collaborator before
Pearl Harbor, the Bush dynasty has generally been viewed with suspicion and
at times outright hostility by Jewish Americans. The elder President Bush
outraged the Jewish community with a series of perceived insults. Before he
became president, the younger Bush, who once expressed doubt about whether
non-Christians could get into heaven, seemed likely to follow in the family
tradition.
THE FAMILY TREE
The charges against Sen. Prescott Bush, the grandfather of the current
president, went beyond the disdain for Jews and discriminatory practices
that were characteristic of New England WASP culture in his day. Prescott
Bush was a director of a New York bank where rich Germans who supported the
Nazis stashed millions in personal wealth. He was still a director at the
bank, Union Banking Corp., when its assets were frozen under the Trading
With the Enemy Act in 1941 - a fact that has provided endless fodder for
leftists and conspiracy theorists since it came to light in the 1990s.
George Herbert Walker Bush shared the same exclusionary pedigree as his
father, starting with Yale and the secret society Skull & Bones, and had
extensive ties to Arabs though the oil industry as well. But most Jews did
not consider him unfriendly to their interests so long as he served under
Ronald Reagan. Reagan was the first Republican in 80 years to win a sizable
share of the Jewish vote. There were a variety of reasons for this, but the
key issue was Reagan's hard line on the defense of Israel, which he
considered a crucial democratic outpost in the fight against Soviet
communism. In the 1980 election, Jimmy Carter won 45 percent of the Jewish
vote. Reagan won 39 percent...."
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NY Observer 1/31/2000
Right-Wing Southerner
Is Rudy's Secret Weapon
in Senate Campaign
Among the organizations whose mailing lists the Giuliani campaign has rented
from Response Unlimited are the American Center for Legislative Reform,
which apparently believes that blue-helmeted United Nations troops will soon
replace rangers at Yellowstone National Park; the Catholic Alliance, an
anti-abortion offshoot of the Christian Coalition; and the American Patriot
Donors, which opposes gay rights.
Richard Viguerie, the controversial right-wing direct-mail magnate, was
enlisted by Giuliani operatives to arrange for the list rental, according to
a source familiar with the transaction. The Observer first reported Mr.
Viguerie's role with the Giuliani campaign in its on-line edition on Jan.
21. Mr. Viguerie would seem to be an unlikely supporter of Mr. Giuliani. A
leading right-wing warrior, he has worked for Jesse Helms, Oliver North,
George Wallace and Patrick Buchanan...Mr. Viguerie's conservative
credentials, however, are impeccable.
His best direct-mail work stirs horrifying images of a left-wing takeover of
the Federal Government. His marketing strategies helped launch the
conservative revolution in the early 1960's, when he did mass mailings for
Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. He raised cash for Wallace in the
early 1970's, and helped organize Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority in the
1980's. He threw his direct-mail empire behind Mr. North, an insurgent
candidate for Senate in Virginia, in 1994.
Meanwhile, the Giuliani campaign has rented a list of 6,000 names from
English Language Advocates, a group that drafted a controversial initiative
to make Arizona an English-only state, the group's development director,
Phillips Hinch, told The Observer. The Mayor's campaign also has enlisted
other right-leaning list companies. According to campaign finance records,
the campaign hired the Virginia-based RST Marketing, which is raising money
for Gary Bauer.
And the campaign has paid for the services of Pinnacle List Company, which
offers...names of those who have donated to "U.S. Border Control," a group
whose Web site warns darkly of "the ethnic cleansing of European Americans."
NY Times 2/2/2000
Giuliani Ventures Into Foreign Policy
Mr. Giuliani admitted shaking hands with Mr. Haider but said that he did not
realize who Mr. Haider was and that if he had, he might not have gone to the
dinner.
News accounts of the dinner, which was sponsored by the Coalition for Racial
Equality, reported that the group's national chairman, Roy Innis, introduced
Mr. Haider on the dais and referred specifically to his reputation of
right-wing notoriety. Mr. Haider, the leader of the anti-immigration Freedom
Party in Austria, stirred controversy in the 1990's by praising Hitler's
"orderly employment policy," and describing veterans of elite Nazi SS troops
as "men of character".
NEW YORK 1/19/2000 (AP)
Giuliani Criticized by Koch
Former Mayor Ed Koch criticized Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Wednesday for
sharing a dais at a Martin Luther King Day event with an Austrian political
leader who once praised the policies of Adolf Hitler. "Is that a place to
celebrate Martin Luther King Day, to be on the same dais as the leader of
the neo-Nazi Party in Austria?" Koch said at a news conference. "Why didn't
he denounce Joerg Haider? Why didn't he order Joerg Haider out of the hall?"
Giuliani and Haider, the leader of Austria's anti-immigrant Freedom Party,
sat with about 80 others at a dinner Monday night given by the Congress of
Racial Equality, which is led by conservative black activist Roy Innis.
NEW YORK 1/19/2000 (AP)
Giuliani Criticized by Koch
Former Mayor Ed Koch criticized Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Wednesday for
sharing a dais at a Martin Luther King Day event with an Austrian political
leader who once praised the policies of Adolf Hitler. "Is that a place to
celebrate Martin Luther King Day, to be on the same dais as the leader of
the neo-Nazi Party in Austria?" Koch said at a news conference. "Why didn't
he denounce Joerg Haider? Why didn't he order Joerg Haider out of the hall?"
Giuliani and Haider, the leader of Austria's anti-immigrant Freedom Party,
sat with about 80 others at a dinner Monday night given by the Congress of
Racial Equality, which is led by conservative black activist Roy Innis.
NY Times 4/8/2000
Demonstrators of Old Spread Their
Message in a New Era of Protest
Robert Lederman, 49, a street artist who has protested for years against
Mayor Giuliani's policies, often arrives with dozens of placards
caricaturing the mayor as Hitler, complete with the Fuhrer's mustache.
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Newsweek 4/5/99
Rudy on the Record Question
Newsweek: "Are you personally stung by those signs at the demonstrations
that say 'Adolf Giuliani'?"
Mayor Giuliani: "Five years ago I might have cried over it. And now I just
feel that this is a crazy exaggeration that we've allowed, and that our
media coverage is selective... You cover Susan Sarandon. But [the police and
the rest of the city] see the Adolf Hitler signs, the comparisons to the
president of Yugoslavia. These [demonstrators] are getting arrested, some
knowingly, some unknowingly, under that banner.
"But the Mayor repeated his anger over signs and chants at the post-Diallo
protests that liken him to Adolf Hitler. "The comparisons to Hitler, Adolf
Hitler, and fascism have to stop, because they're sick, perverted, and they
do affect some people," he said. "Invocations of Adolf Hitler are despicable
no matter who it is. Nobody should participate in it, and nobody should do
it." -NY Times Sunday March 28, 1999-"After Meeting Mayor Vows Major Changes
for Police"
"The Mayor, for his part, sought to balance his remarks on the protests by
expressing his sympathy for the Diallo family, his support for the Police
Department and his anger at the personal attacks against him. He complained
that several protesters held aloft signs that compared him to Adolf Hitler
and the Police Department to the Ku Klux Klan. "As the Police Department has
made substantial changes in the way in which it behaves, not only in the
last month or two but over the last five years," Mayor Giuliani said, "I'd
ask people to acknowledge that and then to make the similar kinds of changes
in their behavior. Not stand with people who try to pretend that the Police
Department is the KKK, not engage in general bashing of the Police
Department, stop the invocations of Hitler and Nazism and fascism, all this
exaggerated hate rhetoric. It has an impact." -NY Times 3/30/99 "Indictments
of 4 Officers in the Diallo Killing Are Due Tuesday"
"We'll say it simply: Just because people don't like Rudy Giuliani doesn't
give them license to compare him to Adolf Hitler. The Hitler analogy is
something that seems to amuse many people in this city. Cutesy stories have
been written and published in the past week about an art installation on
Madison Avenue called No York in which the mayor is depicted with a Hitler
moustache. This image was first bandied about by an obnoxious twerp who
claims to represent a group called A.R.T.I.S.T. - but which really ought to
be called M.O.R.O.N. - who is outraged that the mayor attempted to enforce
plainly written statutes regarding sidewalk clutter in front of the
Metropolitan Museum. For this, the twerp (whose name we shall never again
use because he deserves no more public mention) imagines that Rudy Giuliani
deserves comparison with the personification of evil in this century...As
the New York Times' gleeful seizure of the "bunker" story indicates, you
don't have to be a cabbie, a vendor or a M.O.R.O.N. to issue forth such
repulsive opinions. -NY Post Editorial 6/16/98
"I don't regard associations of my people that support me as fascists as a
light matter ....But it's ultimately the results that matter." -NY TIMES
6/24/98
"I take a different view of someone comparing me to Adolf Hitler than when
someone calls me a jerk." Mayor Giuliani, N.Y. Daily News 10/25/1998
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