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Couric on Schwarzenegger: "He's the Son of a Nazi Party Member" (Media Research Center, 8/07/03)

Journalists normally fret about negative campaigning and condemn attacks that dig out personal baggage in a candidate's background. Just as long as the candidate doesn't threaten a Democrat, apparently, since on this morning's Today Katie Couric didn't hesitate to beat Democratic operatives to the punch and remind viewers that Schwarzenegger's father was a Nazi. [...]

Couric to Sragow: "Let me ask you about his, his baggage, if you will. He's admitted smoking marijuana, using steroids during his body-building career. He's the son of a Nazi Party member. He said he was prejudiced before overcoming those feelings by working with the Simon Weisenthal Center in Los Angeles and the Dean of the Center said an investigation of Schwarzenegger's late father, conducted at the actor's request, found no evidence of war crimes. Through his publicist he's denied allegations published in Premiere magazine in March 2001, that he sexually harassed women and committed infidelity. All those things, are they gonna be front and center, Darry, if you, do you think in this campaign?"

Sragow: "I have to assume that those things are going to be brought up, not by Gray Davis, but by others and he's prepared to defend himself because he?s going to have to do that..."

One would merely note that his wife's grandfather--Joe Kennedy and uncle, Jack Kennedy--were pro-Nazi too, with Jack either marrying or nearly marrying a Nazi spy before Joe broke it up. Posted by Orrin Judd at August 7, 2003 7:27 PM