2003 Column Archives
The End of Substance
By John Sammon
Oct 2, 2003, 21:19

My dad fought his dad in World War Two.

I’m not taking orders from any kraut.

The election of Arnold Swarzeeneger, or whatever the hell his name is, is this Jeffersonian conservative’s worst nightmare come true.

I think the strings of this election are being pulled from the lying Bush cabal in Washington. Bush, who last week said the Iraq war was justified even though all five premises for it have proved false, because theoretically Saddam was in violation of UN strictures, and must have had bad intent…….Bush needs California in his camp to win reelection.

It started long ago, this disgust with Arnold. You see, I’m not jealous of skill when it’s rewarded. But I’m jealous as hell of incompetence that’s rewarded (why can’t they reward me).

When I saw two seconds of one of his putrid movies one time, Swarzeffeger, looking deadpan into the camera, delivered this line to a bit actor (say it as woodenly and stiffly as possible)……..”Thank……….you……….sergeant.”

I ran to the bathroom to vomit.

I don’t want this son of an SS officer, who arrogantly gropes women because he feels he’s superior and whose lack of talent is never questioned, to be the governor. He’s not fit to be.

Get the pun. A guy who made a fortune taking steroids (he said he only did this in the beginning) and pumping a weight to build a freakish-looking arm isn’t fit to be governor. Isn’t fit…..get it.

He said that after he had group sex he felt just like King Kong. How does he know how King Kong felt?

By the way, I’m not a fan of Grey Davis, and wouldn’t vote for him. I wrote in my own candidate on the ballet, the late actor Howard Duff (at least he’s an American).

Actually, this whole mess goes to show that the TV generation is now firmly in control of our destiny, sad to say, and that from now on, illusion and image will replace substance and character.

Swarzahegger is a mountebank and a poseur.

It’s fitting that a man who made a career by posing in front of a mirror looking at himself should win high office. But there is one bright note despite this.

Arnold’s election will keep him from stinking up the screen in future movies. In the old studio days back when they valued skill, as a general rule you couldn’t make lousy movies and survive and keep making them. The audiences of those days wouldn’t take you serious. You had to be a fairly decent actor, at least able to speak dialog.

However, I guess you could say by being elected he’ll get what he deserves, long boorish meetings with endless arrays of presented statistics, endless audiences with concerned citizens and special interest groups, never-ending sorties back and forth across the state in speaking engagements, relentless attacks by opponents, taking over blame as the state continues to go to hell……having to live in a barn-sized house in Sacramento…….all for the allure of imagined power.

Any man who would trade a Hollywood set where skill is irrelevant and where he can get away with fondling women….for this…..just isn’t very bright.