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David Pakman: Welcome to the show. I'm David Pakman. A lot to talk about. "I can't even
believe this Arnold Schwarzenegger story." That's a quote that I never actually had cross
my mind. The entire Schwarzenegger 10-year-old kid out of wedlock didn't even surprise me
the tiniest bit. What did you think when you heard it, Louis? I mean, I literally was just
not phased at all.
Louis Motamedi: Same here. I didn't care, I wasn't surprised, I just said whatever,
great, this is all I'm going to hear about for the next month.
David: The story, if you haven't heard it, is that on May 16th, the "L.A. Times" revealed
that Schwarzenegger fathered a son 10 years earlier with an employee, basically a maid,
Mildred Baena. And his quote was, "After leaving the governor's office I told my wife about
this event, which occurred over a decade ago." "This is a painful and heartbreaking time,"
according to his soon-to-be-ex-wife Maria Shriver. And she said, "As a mother, my concern
is for the children. I ask for compassion, respect, and privacy as my children and I
try to rebuild our lives and heal. I will have no further comment."
Baena is 50 years old now. She was employed by the Schwarzenegger family for 20 years;
she retired just a few months ago. And Schwarzenegger apparently had financial responsibility for
the child "from the start," this is a quote, "and continued to provide support," according
to the "Times". Apparently Arnold also bought a new four-bedroom house with a pool two hours
north of L.A. last year for the now-divorced Mildred Baena and their son.
We actually... do we have the picture of Mildred Baena? I think we do. I think we have it as
Schwarzenegger's mistress.
Louis: Whoa.
David: Is that not the right way to have it? Oh, there's the picture. So Louis reacting
to the picture, ladies and gentlemen. Arnold Schwarzenegger also added, "I ask that the
media respect my wife and children through this extremely difficult time. While I deserve
your attention and criticism, my family does not."
So I just wasn't surprised at all about this. And you know, it's interesting that we're
talking about this after our discussion of Dominque Strauss-Kahn, the IMF chief who is
now being held at Rikers Island on charges of rape or attempted rape, sexual assault,
false imprisonment or kidnapping, whatever it was, for not letting that... the other...
the hotel maid leave. And I made a comment saying that first thing I thought of was who
does this guy think he is, Bill Clinton?
And I actually got emails critical of that. I received emails, Louis, from people saying
well, hold on a second, Bill Clinton was never accused of raping anybody. And that wasn't
my point. I never... that was not the comparison I was making. The comparison I was making
was this presumption and kind of arrogance that seems to be common among politicians
and other elected officials just that they can do these types of things to women and
exercise power and use the power and whatever... whatever... maybe not fame, but perceived
notoriety of their position to influence women to do whatever. That was the comparison.
Louis: And the assumption that they can all get away with it.
David: And that they can get away with it. And whether... get away with it doesn't mean
get away with a crime, necessarily, it can just be get away with it without Hillary finding
out or get away with it without the country finding out, or whatever it is.
Louis: Right.
David: And, you know, what's... specifically with the Arnold story that's fascinating is
when the Tea Party predecessors were orchestrating the Gray Davis recall in California and Arnold's
ascension to the governor's mansion, his womanizing ways were well-known to basically anybody
living in the state and even out of the state. But he managed to basically just snow voters
into thinking he's a family values Republican-type guy, which was just not the case. "The Washington
Post" reported these allegations that he was a groper back in 2003, basically as far as
it went. He denied it, and the press, which was pretty sheepish at the time, basically
gave him a pass. And this is not a surprise, at all.
Louis: No, it's not, but I think it's unfortunate anytime a story like this comes out, because
all that ends up happening is there's a huge distraction from any real or important issues
that may otherwise be discussed in the media.
David: We're going to get to that. We're going to get to that. And, you know, it'll be better
if I'm able to play stuff off of my computer, just as a general thing, you know, if my volume
is turned up and all of these sorts of things.
Louis: I got to keep you in check here.
David: Do you think Arnold will go to rehab? Because that's the move now, when people of
any kind of notoriety have an affair, they go to rehab. Many times we're not even told
why they're going to rehab.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Puerto Rican, or the same thing as Cuban, I mean, they are all
very hot.
David: Yeah. So, you know, we knew that Arnold had this tendency towards Hispanic, Puerto
Rican, Cuban women. And I don't exactly know Mildred Baena's background.
Louis: Any Arnold soundboard is a gold mine.
David: You know, I was thinking, this... if you're Arnold, you have to be really wanting
to just dig a hole and hide in it for about 10 years, or go back to Austria or something,
right? I mean, you can't... this can't be an enjoyable period of time for Arnold. Deservedly
so.
Louis: I think his governorship will end and he'll go back to Hollywood.
David: Yeah, no, he...well, it did already.
Louis: Yeah.
David: I see what you're saying. Oh, he actually... did he sign on to do a movie?
Louis: I think actually he might be working on more "Terminator" stuff.
David: You know, I might've heard... is that true? Do you know anything about that, Natan?
And in the-- that might-- ladies and gentlemen, by the way, the microphone TV director Natan
is talking into, it doesn't even have a cable hooked up to it. I mean, it's like if I talked
into my phone and expected it to... for you to hear it at home. It's incredible. We should
just move those cables around so you'll have... you'll be able to talk.
I was thinking Arnold actually, the best thing he could-- the best explanation Arnold could
give is to say he's half-man, half-machine and has been sent to our time from the future
to save the-- to save humanity by fathering a number of children. That would probably
be the most believable, honest excuse that Arnold could give for this... basically take
the "Terminator 2" story and make it reality.
Louis: And then he'd be submitted to some type of mental institution, so maybe not the
best idea.
David: If at a press conference he basically said that he was an advanced machine from
the future...
Louis: It's a strategy. I don't know if it's the right one.
David: Do you think that he had the... well, I think probably he did. He had the mother
of his love child serving his wife breakfast while she was pregnant. I mean, just looking
at the timeline, realistically, that's what the situation was.
Louis: Yeah.
David: And did the kid know if Arnold was his dad? I mean, we're still waiting for some
of these details.
Louis: I don't know. Was the kid born with like big muscles or cybernetic parts?
David: An underskeleton, yeah. I don't know. I'm getting the sense, also, we're also seeing
this incredible hypocrisy on marital problems popping up, especially on Fox News. And the
angle here is you know, for a while, back during the Clinton thing with Lewinsky and
since, I have said we actually shouldn't care, in terms of evaluating whether someone's a
good politician or not, a good policymaker or not, what their personal life is. I've
said it many times.
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