{"id":1424,"date":"2012-10-01T00:45:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T04:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2012-10-01T00:45:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T04:45:57","slug":"schwarzeneggers-image-rehab-tour-hits-a-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/10\/01\/schwarzeneggers-image-rehab-tour-hits-a-bump\/","title":{"rendered":"Schwarzenegger’s image rehab tour hits a bump"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"arnold-on-60minutes.jpg\"<\/span>Arnold Schwarzenegger, who recently paid $20 million for a think tank at USC, gets a segment on “60 Minutes” tonight<\/a> to give just enough mea culpa<\/em> on the whole cheated-on-Maria thing to make it sound like a blip on his historical screen. But at the Daily Beast<\/a>, longtime Arnold chronicler Ann Louis Bardach says the chronology given to CBS’ Lesley Stahl and in Schwarzenegger’s forthcoming memoir, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story,” is anything but true.<\/p>\n

Bardach:<\/p>\n

\nSchwarzenegger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book offers a remarkable\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand according to several former staffers and friends, fictitious\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/em>timeline and spin of his affair with Mildred Baena, the housekeeper with whom he fathered a son. (That would be at the same time and in the same house where his wife Maria Shriver was pregnant with son Christopher.)<\/p>\n

\nSchwarzenegger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s account, according to several carefully-calibrated leaks, has him conveniently not learning about his paternity of Baena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s child until after<\/em> he is elected governor\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand Shriver, also conveniently, learning about the child in a joint therapy session just one day after<\/em> he stepped down as governor….<\/p>\n

But friends and former employees of the couple say Schwarzenegger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s version of events is pure confection. One former staffer, who worked at both their home and offices, said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was my impression going back to 2000 that it was common knowledge among the household staff that Joseph Baena was Mildred\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s son with Arnold.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Said one former housekeeper, in Spanish: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No, it was not a surprise to me. But I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to say anything more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The book people should be waiting for, says Bardach, is Shriver’s. “A mega-million book deal has been offered her, and according to one friend, she just might write her own account, and finally, set the record straight,” the story says.<\/p>\n

The subject of the affair with the housekeeper is corralled into a corner of the “60 Minutes” piece. From CBS:<\/p>\n

\n“I went all around the world with him,” says Lesley Stahl. “And it never came up. He never brought it up, I never brought it up.” Finally, at the end of Stahl’s final interview with former Gov. Schwarzenegger, it became clear that the hard questions had to be asked. “He knew the time had come and I knew the time had come– and we both did our jobs. Let’s put it that way.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Part 1 of tonight’s “60 Minutes” segment:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Backstage extra:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

via LA Observed http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2012\/09\/schwarzenegger_rehab_tour.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, who recently paid $20 million for a think tank at USC, gets a segment on “60 Minutes” tonight to give just enough mea culpa on the whole cheated-on-Maria thing to make it sound like a blip on his historical screen. But at the Daily Beast, longtime Arnold chronicler Ann Louis Bardach says the … <\/p>\n

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