Arnold bringing sexyback to environmentalism
posted at 9:03 pm on April 11, 2007 by Allahpundit
Hear him now and believe him later.
“Bodybuilding used to have a very sketchy image,” the former bodybuilding champion told an environmental forum at Georgetown University. “… It had fanatics and it had weird people. …But we changed that. … It became sexy, attractive.”
“Like bodybuilders, environmentalists were thought of as kind of weird and fanatics also, you know, the serious tree huggers,” Schwarzenegger said…
“We have to make it mainstream, we have to make it sexy, we have to make it attractive so that everyone wants to participate,” Schwarzenegger said…
“Your political base will melt away as surely as the polar ice caps,” he said. “… You will become a political penguin on a smaller and smaller ice floe that is drifting out to sea. Goodbye, my little friend! That’s what’s going to happen.”
Exit question command one: Name that drug! Exit question two: Is this his way of telling greens to ose-lay the oracle-gay? Because if not, then, um, I don’t think this strategy’s going to fly.
Blowback
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Oh that is too funny. Go Arnold!
SouthernDem on April 11, 2007 at 9:17 PM
Arnold is the governor of California . . . what else can he say?
rplat on April 11, 2007 at 9:19 PM
Audio of Arnold saying: “Gudbayee my liddh fraend” is required.
ScottMcC on April 11, 2007 at 9:24 PM
Marion Barry Special Reserve, cut with aged sheetrock and imported cornstarch.
Kid from Brooklyn on April 11, 2007 at 9:24 PM
To quote a fine subject of the Commonwealth… “Sod off, Swampy!”
Oh, and if bodybuilders have ‘roid rage, what would the swampies have? Camamille coniptions? Tofu Trauma?
major john on April 11, 2007 at 9:31 PM
Is it my monitor, or was that picture of Gore painted by Andy Warhol?
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on April 11, 2007 at 9:32 PM
MY EYES! MY EYES!
The Gore headshot hurts!!
Tru2my2 on April 11, 2007 at 9:38 PM
I used to be an environmentalist, and I still believe in protecting the environment. Profiting from true environmentalism.
However, an environmentalist today is actually a communist with a dash of anarchism. A leftover from the cold war without a cause. They have no agenda but to drive capitalism into the ground.
Democrats buys into today’s environmentalist movement. Remember Hillary’s comment about taking oil profits and using them in some lamebrain scheme?
Touchy feely, warm and fuzzy? Nope, but a clear and present danger to our way of life and future. The good o’days just wern’t!
Kini on April 11, 2007 at 9:45 PM
I think not. It’s just his way of telling Al to hit the gym, get hooked back up with Naomi Wolf, and hire a few new glib envirowriters.
eeyore on April 11, 2007 at 9:47 PM
“Sexy” is such a….a LOADED word.
MUST WE?
seejanemom on April 11, 2007 at 9:47 PM
Roomis de Gloomis – or mushrooms
Kini on April 11, 2007 at 9:49 PM
Wasn’t Ahnold, the first civilian to own a Hummer?
amerpundit on April 11, 2007 at 10:08 PM
Did you just call the Goracle gay?? Oh, wait let me get my pig-latin/english dictionary……never mind.
jjjen on April 11, 2007 at 10:13 PM
I’d be all about global warming if some hot chicks came by and let me touch their boobies.
lorien1973 on April 11, 2007 at 10:17 PM
Maria Shriver.
The Ugly American on April 11, 2007 at 11:01 PM
FTFY.
Bad Candy on April 11, 2007 at 11:26 PM
I’d rather ignore him now AND ignore him later. Who is he to try and upstage the Goreacle? Nobody beats the Goreacle! No one!
Funny though…I can’t read his comments without “hearing” his voice as I read them.
This just cracks me up:
Were? Ahnold, they’re STILL weird and only the people in your little circle of friends and acquaintances would suggest otherwise.
thedecider on April 12, 2007 at 12:32 AM
Ugh, that picture of Gore. I’ll bet he was high on cough syrup when that photo was snapped.
Frankly, after looking at the picture again I suddenly realize I wish I was high on cough syrup! Anything to get that image out of my brain.
jaleach on April 12, 2007 at 12:51 AM
Coming soon – Arnold Schwarzenneger in In Bed With The Kennedys, in which an aging action hero weighs his principles against the diminishing chances of getting some…
Halley on April 12, 2007 at 1:33 AM
Vomit!
PinkyBigglesworth on April 12, 2007 at 1:58 AM
What a twit.
Jaibones on April 12, 2007 at 12:09 PM
Got to listen to most of this speech tonight. In it’s entirety it’s both entertaining and brings up some valid points. I certainly don’t agree with all of it, but the fact the speech reminded me of this post either says something about the speech, or the fashion in which it was presented on this website..
hmm.
Reaps on May 2, 2007 at 8:44 AM