On Tue, 07 Oct 03 10:05:22 GMT, lparker (AT) NOSPAMemory (DOT) edu (Lloyd Parker)
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On 07 Oct 2003 03:42:44 GMT, bigrdude (AT) aol (DOT) com (BIG R DUDE) wrote:
Win one for the Groper
$ to Letterman
A better one was actually on a placard being carried by a supporter of
Arnold. "Gray Davis groped me when he reached for my wallet".
Yes, because we all know asking people to actually pay for the services they
want is worse than sexual battery. |
Systematic graft and corruption probably does rank higher with me then the
immature antics of copping a feel which is what it amounts to so far. But
if you need violence against women, how about Davis' own? Of course the LA
Times has sat on this story.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~24781~1676763,00.html
Why wasn't Davis investigated too?
By Jill Stewart
I couldn't have been more shocked to see the lurid stories about Arnold
Schwarzenegger and the things several women allege he uttered or did to
them. But it wasn't over the allegations, which I had read much of in a
magazine before. I was most shocked at the Los Angeles Times.
Some politicos dub the Thursday before a big election "Dirty Tricks
Thursday." That's the best day for an opponent to unload his bag of filth
against another candidate, getting maximum headlines, while giving his
stunned opponent no time to credibly investigate or respond to the charges.
It creates a Black Friday, where the candidate spends a precious business
day right before the election desperately investigating the accusations,
before facing a weekend in which reporters only care about further
accusations that invariably spill out of the woodwork.
Dirty Tricks Thursday is not used by the media to sink a campaign.
Yet the Times managed to give every appearance of trying to do so. It's
nothing short of journalistic malpractice when a paper mounts a last-minute
attack that can make or break one of the most important elections in
California history. The Times looked even more biased by giving two
different reasons for publishing its gruesome article at the last minute.
Now, there's no time left before the election to separate fact from fiction
regarding incidents that happened as long as 20 and 30 years ago.
I should disclose here that I know one of Schwarzenegger's accusers. She is
a friendly acquaintance. I have no idea whether she was actually
man-handled.
Is it possible that my acquaintance told friends a tall tale, after meeting
Schwarzenegger, because back then it made a young woman terribly exotic if
one of the hottest beefcakes in the world wouldn't keep his paws off you?
I have no idea.
Or, could she be telling the truth?
I have no idea.
And neither does the Los Angeles Times.
If the Times were a tabloid, this would hardly matter. But the newspaper is
influential at times, and claims it has high standards. In this case, the
paper gave in to its bias against Schwarzenegger:
Here's my proof:
Since at least 1997, the Times has been sitting on information that Gov.
Gray Davis is an "office batterer" who has attacked female members of his
staff, thrown objects at subservients and launched into red-faced fits,
screaming the f-word until staffers cower.
I published a lengthy article on Davis and his bizarre dual personality at
the now-defunct New Times Los Angeles on Nov. 27, 1997, as well as several
articles with similar information later on.
The Times was onto the story, too, and we crossed paths. My article,
headlined "Closet Wacko Vs. Mega Fibber," detailed how Davis flew into a
rage one day because female staffers had rearranged framed artwork on the
walls of his office.
He so violently shoved his loyal, 62-year-old secretary out of a doorway
that she suffered a breakdown and refused to ever work in the same room with
him. She worked at home, in an arrangement with state officials, then worked
in a separate area where she was promised Davis would not go. She finally
transferred to another job, desperate to avoid him.
He left a message on her phone machine. Not an apology. Just a request that
she resume work, with the comment, "You know how I am."
Another woman, a policy analyst, had the unhappy chore in the mid-1990s of
informing Davis that a fund-raising source had dried up. When she told
Davis, she recounted, Davis began screaming the f-word at the top of his
lungs.
The woman stood to demand that he stop speaking that way, and, she says,
Davis grabbed her by her shoulders and "shook me until my teeth rattled. I
was so stunned I said, 'Good God, Gray! Stop and look at what you are doing.
Think what you are doing to me!"'
After my story ran, I waited for the Times to publish its story. It never
did. When I spoke to a reporter involved, he said editors at the Times were
against attacking a major political figure using anonymous sources.
Just what they did last week to Schwarzenegger.
Weeks ago, Times editors sent two teams of reporters to dig dirt on
Schwarzenegger, one on his admitted use of steroids as a bodybuilder, one on
the old charges of groping women from Premiere Magazine.
Who did the editors assign, weeks ago, to investigate Davis' violence
against women who work for him?
Nobody.
The paper's protection of Davis is proof, on its face, of gross bias. If
Schwarzenegger is elected governor, it should be no surprise if Times
reporters judge him far more harshly than they ever judged Davis.
Jill Stewart is a print, radio and television commentator on California
politics. She can be reached via her Web site, www.jillstewart.net
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