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David Pakman: Welcome to the show. I'm David
Pakman. A lot to talk about. "I can't even
believe this Arnold Schwarzenegger story."
That's a quote that I never actually had cross
my mind. The entire Schwarzenegger 10-year-old
kid out of wedlock didn't even surprise me
the tiniest bit. What did you think when you
heard it, Louis? I mean, I literally was just
not phased at all.
Louis Motamedi: Same here. I didn't care,
I wasn't surprised, I just said whatever,
great, this is all I'm going to hear about
for the next month.
David: The story, if you haven't heard it,
is that on May 16th, the "L.A. Times" revealed
that Schwarzenegger fathered a son 10 years
earlier with an employee, basically a maid,
Mildred Baena. And his quote was, "After leaving
the governor's office I told my wife about
this event, which occurred over a decade ago."
"This is a painful and heartbreaking time,"
according to his soon-to-be-ex-wife Maria
Shriver. And she said, "As a mother, my concern
is for the children. I ask for compassion,
respect, and privacy as my children and I
try to rebuild our lives and heal. I will
have no further comment."
Baena is 50 years old now. She was employed
by the Schwarzenegger family for 20 years;
she retired just a few months ago. And Schwarzenegger
apparently had financial responsibility for
the child "from the start," this is a quote,
"and continued to provide support," according
to the "Times". Apparently Arnold also bought
a new four-bedroom house with a pool two hours
north of L.A. last year for the now-divorced
Mildred Baena and their son.
We actually... do we have the picture of Mildred
Baena? I think we do. I think we have it as
Schwarzenegger's mistress.
Louis: Whoa.
David: Is that not the right way to have it?
Oh, there's the picture. So Louis reacting
to the picture, ladies and gentlemen. Arnold
Schwarzenegger also added, "I ask that the
media respect my wife and children through
this extremely difficult time. While I deserve
your attention and criticism, my family does
not."
So I just wasn't surprised at all about this.
And you know, it's interesting that we're
talking about this after our discussion of
Dominque Strauss-Kahn, the IMF chief who is
now being held at Rikers Island on charges
of rape or attempted rape, sexual assault,
false imprisonment or kidnapping, whatever
it was, for not letting that... the other...
the hotel maid leave. And I made a comment
saying that first thing I thought of was who
does this guy think he is, Bill Clinton?
And I actually got emails critical of that.
I received emails, Louis, from people saying
well, hold on a second, Bill Clinton was never
accused of raping anybody. And that wasn't
my point. I never... that was not the comparison
I was making. The comparison I was making
was this presumption and kind of arrogance
that seems to be common among politicians
and other elected officials just that they
can do these types of things to women and
exercise power and use the power and whatever...
whatever... maybe not fame, but perceived
notoriety of their position to influence women
to do whatever. That was the comparison.
Louis: And the assumption that they can all
get away with it.
David: And that they can get away with it.
And whether... get away with it doesn't mean
get away with a crime, necessarily, it can
just be get away with it without Hillary finding
out or get away with it without the country
finding out, or whatever it is.
Louis: Right.
David: And, you know, what's... specifically
with the Arnold story that's fascinating is
when the Tea Party predecessors were orchestrating
the Gray Davis recall in California and Arnold's
ascension to the governor's mansion, his womanizing
ways were well-known to basically anybody
living in the state and even out of the state.
But he managed to basically just snow voters
into thinking he's a family values Republican-type
guy, which was just not the case. "The Washington
Post" reported these allegations that he was
a groper back in 2003, basically as far as
it went. He denied it, and the press, which
was pretty sheepish at the time, basically
gave him a pass. And this is not a surprise,
at all.
Louis: No, it's not, but I think it's unfortunate
anytime a story like this comes out, because
all that ends up happening is there's a huge
distraction from any real or important issues
that may otherwise be discussed in the media.
David: We're going to get to that. We're going
to get to that. And, you know, it'll be better
if I'm able to play stuff off of my computer,
just as a general thing, you know, if my volume
is turned up and all of these sorts of things.
Louis: I got to keep you in check here.
David: Do you think Arnold will go to rehab?
Because that's the move now, when people of
any kind of notoriety have an affair, they
go to rehab. Many times we're not even told
why they're going to rehab.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Puerto Rican, or the
same thing as Cuban, I mean, they are all
very hot.
David: Yeah. So, you know, we knew that Arnold
had this tendency towards Hispanic, Puerto
Rican, Cuban women. And I don't exactly know
Mildred Baena's background.
Louis: Any Arnold soundboard is a gold mine.
David: You know, I was thinking, this... if
you're Arnold, you have to be really wanting
to just dig a hole and hide in it for about
10 years, or go back to Austria or something,
right? I mean, you can't... this can't be
an enjoyable period of time for Arnold. Deservedly
so.
Louis: I think his governorship will end and
he'll go back to Hollywood.
David: Yeah, no, he...well, it did already.
Louis: Yeah.
David: I see what you're saying. Oh, he actually...
did he sign on to do a movie?
Louis: I think actually he might be working
on more "Terminator" stuff.
David: You know, I might've heard... is that
true? Do you know anything about that, Natan?
And in the-- that might-- ladies and gentlemen,
by the way, the microphone TV director Natan
is talking into, it doesn't even have a cable
hooked up to it. I mean, it's like if I talked
into my phone and expected it to... for you
to hear it at home. It's incredible. We should
just move those cables around so you'll have...
you'll be able to talk.
I was thinking Arnold actually, the best thing
he could-- the best explanation Arnold could
give is to say he's half-man, half-machine
and has been sent to our time from the future
to save the-- to save humanity by fathering
a number of children. That would probably
be the most believable, honest excuse that
Arnold could give for this... basically take
the "Terminator 2" story and make it reality.
Louis: And then he'd be submitted to some
type of mental institution, so maybe not the
best idea.
David: If at a press conference he basically
said that he was an advanced machine from
the future...
Louis: It's a strategy. I don't know if it's
the right one.
David: Do you think that he had the... well,
I think probably he did. He had the mother
of his love child serving his wife breakfast
while she was pregnant. I mean, just looking
at the timeline, realistically, that's what
the situation was.
Louis: Yeah.
David: And did the kid know if Arnold was
his dad? I mean, we're still waiting for some
of these details.
Louis: I don't know. Was the kid born with
like big muscles or cybernetic parts?
David: An underskeleton, yeah. I don't know.
I'm getting the sense, also, we're also seeing
this incredible hypocrisy on marital problems
popping up, especially on Fox News. And the
angle here is you know, for a while, back
during the Clinton thing with Lewinsky and
since, I have said we actually shouldn't care,
in terms of evaluating whether someone's a
good politician or not, a good policymaker
or not, what their personal life is. I've
said it many times.
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