Monday, July 19, 2004

Schwarzenegger Stands by 'Girlie Men' Line

The infinite parody loop

"If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men," Schwarzenegger said to the cheering crowd at a mall food court in Ontario.

The governor lifted the term from a long-running "Saturday Night Live" skit in which two pompous, Schwarzenegger-worshipping weightlifters repeatedly use it to mock those who don't meet their standards of physical perfection.


Let's put all this in perspective. Here we have a bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-politician quoting guys who were parodying him in the first place. The Politics of Celebrity is devouring itself.

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