Der Governator Runs for Help to Tom Arnold

From the always wonderful Wolcott...

"The best deadpan coverage of Arnold Deflated was provided this morning by the LA Times, which discussed fractures and friction in Schwarzenegger's political team as they fight over the oars on the lifeboat.
"Tensions played out last week after one set of Schwarzenegger consultants organized a 'Thank Arnold' rally on the steps of the Capitol at 10:30 AM on a Wednesday. Attendance was sparse.
"The governor's staff was embarrassed after Schwarzenegger's friend, actor Tom Arnold, made the audience believe that the governor was poised to appear. But Schwarzenegger never showed."
Shows you what I know. I would have assumed that the MERE PRESENCE of Tom Arnold alone would have drawn a frenzied mob drunk with excitement."


http://jameswolcott.com/

There's an episode of Married With Children in which Al Bundy tries to unearth some money he'd been hiding, but finds most of it gone. He confronts his wife Peggy, who asks, "Why didn't you tell me you had the money?" Al says, "Because you would have spent it." To which Peggy responds, "Then why are you acting so surprised?"

Well, California didn't elect a governor when it elected Arnold--it elected a Hollywood celebrity fantasy figure whose political ability consists of having a spouse with Kennedy blood. So why are THEY acting so surprised that he can't lead, can't command respect, can't form internal alliances? That's not what he's there for--his mission is to subsist on fawning press and movie star adoration while he implements the rich-get-richer schemes of his financial backers--union-busting, treasury-looting, profit-enhancing, and the "DeLay-ization" of the state's voting districts that would solidify the GOP's power.

But for SOME reason, the script isn't working as written. The nurses didn't swoon when Arnold tried to change their work rules and their pensions. People aren't exactly lining up to sign his petitions calling for a special election which would allow him to enact laws that the voters are against. He says his stance on closing the borders was due his "imperfect" use of English when it backfired. He had to sneak in the back door of one of his fundraisers because so many protesters showed up. And when he tried to retaliate with a "Thank Arnold" rally, the majority of the crowd of 300 were state employees on their lunch break--and Tom Arnold stood in for Arnold as MC.

So all the press can do now is "act surprised" and praise his "first lady" wife for stepping into the fray. It's called "real life," Arnie. And the effects of it can be "deflating"--in more ways than one.

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rocknation

P.S. Here's the permalink to the Wolcott story.

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"mere presence of Tom Arnold alone"
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By the way, what's Arnie doing to get back the billions that energy companies ripped off from California?

in Modesto and about 100 people showed up for it.

The reason no one turned out for the governor's rally, hosted by that star of the silver and the small screen Tom Arnold, is because they were out gathering signatures for the governor's initiatives for the 2005 ballot! Now about a hundred of them took time out from this vital work to show their support for their beloved governor, but the rest were out there talking to the regular folks of California, letting them know how much Governor Schwarzenegger was on their side!

It was just you liberals and the media elites who made it sound like there was going to be a thousand people at the rally so you could gloat over the "small" number of people who did show up! And that's why Arnold wasn't there (and Tom Arnold never said he would be there, so stop saying that), because he knew how much important work needs to be done. But now the joke's all over you! A hundred people! And Tom Arnold-Barr! If that's not a man date, what is? I ask you?

What has Arnold done that's even worthy of a thank you? How presumptious of them.

I try to check his blog every day...