Schwarzengger caught lying in speech to RNC: CNN Reports!

[xyboymil]

Seems like Arnie doesnt know his facts:

"Recalling that the Soviets once occupied part of Austria in the aftermath of World War II, 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://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/03/schwarzenegger.ap/index.html

LOL...what an idiot! :nuke:

[cthrumatrix]

1. I'm shocked.... the Keynote night is turning into a farce

[underpants]

2. I was wondering about that

Austria?

[elehhhhna]

5. He also lied about watching the Humphrey/Nixon debate. There WASN'T ANY!

[Feanorcurufinwe]

7. Don't take this as a defense of Arnold but in fact he didn't say 'debate'

[Doomsayer13]

8. to be fair, he never said debate

he said "Nixon-Humphrey race"

[michigandem2]

3. i think I heard on Franken today that there was also

NEVER a debate with Humphrey and Nixon...so he made up most of his crappy speech! LOL!

[mainer]

4. Arnold, dear, it was only a movie.

These actors don't know reality from Hollywood.

[aquart]

6. So he never even had a peak at communism, huh?

I'm sure that's been the defining disappointment of his life.

[Sperk]

9. why do Repugs have such a compelling need to lie?!?!

:shrug:

[LuminousX]

10. Poetic License

or as Zell would call it, "A metifer, you never heard of a metifer, before?"

Let's just remember, Arnie Likes Nixon and Nixon is a known liar and cheat.

[xyboymil]

11. Yest another example of the smoke and mirror show that was the RNC

Pathetic...

Another misrepresentation, and another lie spewed at the American people. :mad: :mad:

[LuminousX]

12. He was recalling his movie role in Red Heat

"I was once a police office in a communist country and I know how bad things can be...."

"I once had to save the life of a young boy so he could grow up to fight skynet."

"When fighting in the jungles of Central America, I had an encounter with alien intelligence."

[rogerashton]

13. Right.

I remember when the Soviets pulled out of Austria --but I am older than Arnold. It was 1955. Arnold was born in 1947 -- two years after the Soviet invasion, but there might still have been some tanks around when he was 8. He didn't say that those tanks were INVADING, did he? Be fair, now.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/au.html

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/actors/arnold-schwarzenegger/

But not in Styria. Only the area around Vienna was occupied.

[Dover]

14. What a Girlie-mon!

LOL!

Polaschek saw the moderate Republican governor's recollections at the convention as a tactical move. Schwarzenegger, he said, was "using the old Communist enemy image for Bush's election campaign."

"He did not speak as a historian, after all, but as a politician," Polaschek said.

Norbert Darabos, a ranking official of Austria's opposition Social Democratic Party, sharply criticized Schwarzenegger's "disdain for his former homeland."

"The Terminator is constructing a rather bizarre Austria image," he said.