Schwarzenegger bashed for flubbing Austrian history at Republican conventi

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<< VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Austrian historians are ridiculing California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) for telling the U.S. Republican convention that he saw Soviet tanks in his homeland as a child and left a "Socialist" country when he moved away in 1968.

Recalling that the Soviets once occupied part of Austria in the aftermath of the Second World War, Schwarzenegger told the convention on Tuesday: "I saw tanks in the streets. I saw communism with my own eyes."

No way, historians say, challenging Schwarzenegger's knowledge of postwar history - if not his enduring popularity among Austrians who admire him for rising from a penniless immigrant to the highest official in America's most populous state.

"It's a fact - as a child he could not have seen a Soviet tank in Styria," the southeastern province where Schwarzenegger was born and raised, historian Stefan Karner told the Vienna newspaper Kurier. >>

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1835&e=5&u=/cpress/austria_schwarzenegger

[Poiuyt]

1. That's not flubbing Austrian history

That's lying for political purposes. Nothing more.

[Ducks In A Row]

2. he's such a liar

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3. I am glad they called Ahnuld on his lies ...

and I wonder how many MORE lies he has told!? Ahnuld you makes me sick! :puke: I am on YOUR case!

:dem: :kick:

[The Zanti Regent]

12. How did Arnold see a Nixon-Humphrey debate that never was?

OOPS, another lie from the steroid-shooting Girly Man!

[Rambis]

13. he said "race" not debate

He is still a lying sack of shit but not on that point. Why hollywood, why Ah-nuld W? Isn't he Hollywierd too?

[JHB]

4. He saw them with his own eyes...

...through the lens of someone else's TV camera.

[Democat]

5. Republicans "flub" but if it was a Democrat? Fuck the media!

If this was anyone but a Republican it would be a lie.

[tom_paine]

6. Exactly. Like Russia you have one-standard for Party Members

Another for everyone else.

[louis-t]

10. Mis-spoke again.

[tandot]

7. We all know that Republicans lie as soon as they open their mouth

They think it is their Christian duty to lie, smear, and cheat if it helps them to get Bush re-elected

[Village Idiot]

8. I wonder if....

anyone has thought to test the validity of the story he told about the soldier with the shoulder wound and the leg blown off, etc....who was the soldier? Do we have a name, or is it more apocrypha?

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9. THIEF! LIAR! THIEF! LIAR!!!

Please note (found this comment on another board):

Ahnuld claims he saw Nixon debating Humphrey and that's what made Ahnuld decided to be a repuke. :puke:

Problem: There were no Nixon/Humphrey debates.

You are one stupid, lying phuck Ahnuld!!!

P.S. Where's that $100,000 you got from Standard Oil anyway? :grr:

:silly:

[SoCalDem]

11. Remember the drubbing they gave Gore over the prescription thing

and the FEMA trip...and the internet???

The media is so one sided it's almost laughable..

The language used is so telling... if Kerry says something it's "ATTACKING" or "BASHING"..

but

if a Repube says something similar, they are "DEFENDING" or "REPLYING TO"..

[gratuitous]

14. You gotta love the headline, too

"Schwarzenegger bashed". No, "bashing" someone is making scurrilous, unfounded attacks on a person. Cf. Al Gore, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, passim.

When someone tells an out-and-out lie to the American people and that lie is revealed for the lie that it is, that's called "setting the record straight."

Liberal media my sweet Aunt Fanny.

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15. it should have read

Schwarzenegger lied again. Vienna is pissed now too. :nuke:

[Moderator]

16. dupe

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