Just as everybody (barring major surgery) has a spleen, everybody has one to vent over the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as California governor. A sampling from the usual Prints the Chaff suspects:
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The only thing both sides can agree on is the biggest lie of all: that one side has a monopoly on honesty. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Nonsense Verse,<\/a> on whose depradations of women are worse:<\/p>\n Women? This is where the irony gets slathered on all thick and nasty and pukey-like. Here, I’d like to paraphrase my dear sweetness, who in conversation the other night summed it up beautifully: “Bill Clinton was impeached for fibbing about whether he had consensual sexual relations with a woman, while Schwarzenegger is going to be elected governor of California, even though he groped–that is, sexually assaulted–over a dozen women without their consent?!” Yup. Pretty much. Doesn’t it make you all miserable and nauseated and icky barfy bilious inside?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Newsdesigner,<\/a> on the most stylish use of Arnie puns in headlines.<\/p>\n But the maddest props, as the kids say, goes to a surprisingly strong showing from the young up-and-comers at the Kalamazoo Gazette and Wyoming Tribune-Eagle with a sly yet bold “Hasta la vista, Davis”! They were joined – with a traditional twist – by the always reliable stylemakers at the Chicago Tribune: “California voters tell Davis ‘Hasta la vista, baby'”. Well done, dudes!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n To sound a note of sanity, The Slot says his own paper got it right<\/a>. And he’s right. <\/p>\n \nTim Porter<\/a> stays out of the fray but posts a link to the front pages of major papers to show how they covered the recall. <\/p>\n \nMondo Winkie<\/a> sums up my view:<\/p>\n First off, may I please say how thoroughly tired I am of the California recall?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, I’m not quite tired out just yet; I have a few more links before I let this subject die: <\/p>\n On the subject of how editors should handle that 14-letter name, Associated Press reports:<\/a> <\/p>\n Editors who’ve watched dozens of Schwarzenegger’s films and followed his wife’s family for half a century might take the liberty of calling him Arnold — or even Iron Arnie, as he is referred to by the Kleine Zeitung newspaper in his native Austria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nOff-topic, a natural-born arbitrator<\/a><\/p>\n