Audio: Governor Ahnuld says Cubans, Puerto Ricans = “hot” (Update: Apology issued)
posted at 11:54 am on September 8, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Listen here. (Might not work in Firefox.) It’s the mixed black/Latin ancestry, he says, that makes them extra spicy.
The Times thinks he means “hot-blooded.” Perhaps, but this is Arnold we’re talking about. I choose to believe he had a different meaning in mind.
And I think any of us who’ve been to Miami would agree: he’s right.
Nice of him to give the nutroots something to play with on an otherwise slow news day, though. The exegeses of this one should be something to behold. Bonus points to whoever works in the fact that his father was a Nazi.
Update: Sounds like Arnold recorded this conversation himself, which presumably puts the Times in the clear of any wiretapping charges by airing it on their website.
Update: Ahnuld ah-poh-logizes.
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Garcia said the conversation didn’t bother her in the least. She called herself an “unpolished politician” and said Schwarzenegger had shown nothing but respect for her.
“I love the governor because he is a straight talker just like I am,” Garcia said. “Very often I tell him, ‘Look, I am a hot-blooded Latina.’ I label myself a hot-blooded Latina that is very passionate about the issues, and this is kind of an inside joke that I have with the governor.”
There is absolutely no grounds for any sort of outrage…oh, I forgot for a moment,the outraged ones need no grounds.More froth and spittle coming down the pike,
bbz123 on September 8, 2006 at 12:06 PM
I haven’t listened to the audio because of where I am right now (sans headphones) so I don’t have all the facts to come up with a position. But that hasn’t stopped me in the past, so here goes.
Isn’t this sort of like a libel defense? I mean, it can’t be libel if it is true, so isn’t Arnold in the clear?
I mean, who would want to argue the opposite? I wouldn’t want to argue that Latina’s were ugly or unattractive. The whole heterosexuality thing kinda keeps me from doing that.
Yeah, I guess Arnold and I are just a slave to our impulses. But it’s not our fault. We’re the victims here.
EFG on September 8, 2006 at 12:22 PM
It makes it hard for them to make fag jokes about him when he talks about women like that, you see. That’s what pisses them off.
B Moe on September 8, 2006 at 12:23 PM
Any mileage the Phil Angelides camp hopes to get out of this still won’t be enough to save his disasterous campaign. The Governator will be here for a second term. Boy Howdy.
Sacwannabe on September 8, 2006 at 12:24 PM
(R)nold is right, women who are half black and half hispanic ARE hot! So what? It was a compliment. Also, women who are half white and half black are hot, Halle Berry comes to mind (all the time, not just as I type this!) Half Asian and half black, half Asian and half white, half white and hispanic, etc etc, they’re all nice combinations, all “hot”. So what’s the problem?
Did I mention Halle Berry is hot?
Tony737 on September 8, 2006 at 12:33 PM
Photographic evidence that Ahnold was talking about hot-tempered here and here.
Of course, Allah’s point is not without merit.
Kid from Brooklyn on September 8, 2006 at 1:01 PM
I would point out that half Irish and half Scottish is pretty steamy also.
The only PO’d folks is what Rush would call, the Femi-nazies.
I also like Half and Half in my coffee!
Kini on September 8, 2006 at 1:07 PM
More fun with Arnold quotes here
RightWinged on September 8, 2006 at 1:51 PM
I nominate Brazillians in that mix too.
Rich on September 8, 2006 at 2:11 PM
Seriously, Brazil is a breeding ground for Victoria’s Secret models.
RightWinged on September 8, 2006 at 2:13 PM
The hottiness of mixed heritage women aside, I think it’s obvious that he’s talking about her temperament and not her “hottiness factor.”
jdpaz on September 8, 2006 at 2:35 PM
Would my saying that half Italian and half Irish is hot be grounds for being banned from HOTAiR (never thought about this subtlety about the HOT in HOTAiR, until now :)?
Would that be PC, regardless if I mean hot, as in temper, or hot, as in good-looking?
If one talks to any healthy male, one would agree.
Ha! Mr. Flyswat has spoken, again. He’s preaching ‘dignity’ for our state. We don’t aim for his kind of dignity. Also, I’m not part of the “all Californians” he refers to.
I’m shaking now that he’ll throw out our ‘interesting’ Governor of Kalifornia. Not!
Entelechy on September 8, 2006 at 3:04 PM
I develop more affinity for politicians when such “unpolished” moments arise. It shows a real person, not trying to fit a certain PC mold.
I doubt anyone is really outraged. It’s a game. Find something your opponent said or did that could be construed as “offensive” and play gotcha.
As Entelechy points out, Angelides is wrong in speaking for “all Californians”. Obviously the object of the Governer’s statement was not offended either.
mikeyboss on September 8, 2006 at 3:32 PM
Being that my father-in-law is a California State Assemblyman (as well as my son’s grandfather), I have had the opportunities to meet with, sit with, and dine with Governor Ahnuld a couple of times over the last 4 years. Once, I was privileged enough to sit at a table with my father-in-law, Randy Duke Cunningham *poor Duke:( , Duncan Hunter, the Governator, and Ollie North during a fund raiser (I was comped… of course!). It was a surreal dinner conversation, and the booze afterwards made it even more so. There were so many politicians and money maker big-wigs there, I almost felt like a speck in my chair. But it was one of the funnest nights of my life. You think Arnie’s hard to understand normally? Try holding a conversation with him when he’s buzzed. There is no really getting to know any politician, or anyone else, until you’ve broken bread with them. What you see on TV, in media print, or just hear about Ahnuld and others in the media is NOT who they genuinely are, for the most part. Except maybe Ollie… he’s, um, exceptionally hard to gauge.
The Governator is very soft for claiming to be a Republican, but he tries. He’s very worried about offending ANYONE, left or right. One thing’s for sure, he is definitely anti-taxes. He loooves his cigars and his vino. He loves to eat, he loves to joke around, and he’s mostly just a very fun loving kind of guy. He loves to talk about his immigration to America, his successes since immigrating, and I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who could righteously be a buffoon if he wanted to be, but tries so very hard to just be “one of the guys”.
Trust me, if Ahnuld was talking about “latino blood” and “black blood” and “firey”, he was referring to “hot blooded”, or being passionate. He has a hard time expressing himself, due to his heritage mostly, but he would never offend anyone’s race or nationality as he is so deftly aware of his own origins. As for the womanizing accusations? The guy’s a stud… and also very, very married and he knows it ;)
SilverStar830 on September 8, 2006 at 5:02 PM
SilverStar830, surely you meant to write Randy Puke Cunningham, my former Congressman, whom I also met twice. May he live a long time so he can rot slowly. And that will be the nicest wish for him.
Angelides is a prissy weenie and his statement/s about this have reminded us again why we don’t want this little man to run our state.
The LA Times had this crud on their first page today. No, I don’t subscribe to it, I heard it on the radio. Only Messrs Torres and Angelides were ‘offended’. Imagine having the characters in Mafia movies/families be German, for ex. Is there no pride in the varying backgrounds any more?
What happened to diversity? PC has made idiots and lemmings out of our nation, for the most part. This is what the LAT should lament, not what Arnold whispered, and some young intern released to the opposition/media for quick opportunity of nothing…During the primaries, Angelides tried to depict his opponent as too close to Arnold. What a sissy!
Angelides ran a 2 million dollar ad recently, which went no where, by their own account. In it he depicted Arnold as being close with the ‘failed’ President Bush.
First, about the only thing the two have in common any more (Bush and Schwarnzenegger) is that they are in the Republican party – but at very different corners of the large tent…
Second, the California voters are not all morons and weirdos. Those are concentrated in very ’special’ areas. The rest is as any place in the counry, except with lots of sun, mostly.
We do, however, have the fortune of always having one or two morons on the gubernatorial ticket, from both major parties. This time it’s Angelides.
Entelechy on September 8, 2006 at 8:43 PM
Alas, I cannot say I disagree. He was one of the genuinely nicest persons I had ever met. When all that crapola went down, I almost shed a tear for the man. Albeit, I’m glad he got caught, and I’m sure there’s much much more catching to do, I fervently hoped that it was all a big mistake, a misunderstanding, something, ANYTHING, when the revelations became public.
Phil Angelides… He’s just another self-entitled progressive reprobate with a myspace.com account. He’s two faced and a ginormous hypocrite:
There is the Angelides who campaigned in Santa Barbara for coastal protection — and the one who took $143,200 in campaign checks from developers who, over Sierra Club objections, bulldozed the Dana Point Headlands to build 118 oceanfront houses.
There is the Angelides who crusaded for higher ethical standards in corporate boardrooms — and the one who said it was none of his business that a securities firm had hired friends as consultants to grease its way into state bond deals, a practice now banned by regulators.
There is the Angelides who mocked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for treating the state like an “all-you-can-eat special-interest buffet” — and the one whose campaign accepted $574,000 from law firms Angelides hired to be state bond counsel.
…the list goes on
SilverStar830 on September 9, 2006 at 12:03 AM
Kini, I’m half Irish and half Scottish … and … so, um … thanks. I think.
Tony737 on September 9, 2006 at 9:51 AM
SilverStar830, to be sure, I didn’t attack you, not in the least. My peeve is with the deceiptful Mr. Cunningham, whom I also thought to be nice (not bright, just nice) over the years. He’s let down his family, his constituents, his party and his country.
I always enjoy your posts very much. Thanks for all. I loved your terminology “ginormous hypocrite” :)
Thank you for the list on Angelides’ hypocrisy examples. Here is the largest of them all – he’s never met a tax he’s opposed, over the years. And, voila, now that he’s behind, he’s for “tax cuts”. He must think us to be really, really stupid.
Entelechy on September 10, 2006 at 3:24 PM
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