Ahnold Praised Hitler in a Proposed Book Deal

Again from the Drudge Report. . .

Asked about his heroes, the young Schwarzenegger, in 1975, was quoted as saying; “I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power.

“I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.”

The actor was quoted as saying he wished he could experience being ..”like Hitler in the Nuremberg stadium and have all those people scream at you and just being total agreement whatever you say.”

Asked by ABC News to comment on the old remarks, Schwarzenegger said: “I cannot remember any of these. All I can tell you is that I despise everything Hitler stood for. I despise everything the Nazis stood for … everything the Third Reich stood for.”

The author of the book proposal told ABCNEWS that the quotes needed to be seen in context of Schwarzenegger’s admiration of powerful men.

Question is whether this will play out as well in California as it would back here on the East Coast. Here we seem to take things like this more seriously, but California politics has a way of shrugging off all but the worst and driving home some of the weakest of slander.

We’ll see. . . hopefully this will give a boost to McClintock! Hey, a guy can always dream. . .