I'll Be Hack

E! Online has a summary of the Ah-nold article that's got Mickey Kaus's knickers in a twist. Says E!:

Either way, Premiere doesn't paint a pretty picture. Starting with a string of alleged gropings of female TV personalities that occurred last year while Schwarzenegger was in London promoting The 6th Day, Connolly outlines a pattern of behavior that, according to unnamed sources, included unwanted fondling of female crew members and verbal abuse of his coworkers, among other indescretions.

Connolly also quotes a woman who claimed to have walked into Schwarzenegger's trailer during the making of 1996's Eraser and supposedly discovered him giving oral sex to a woman.

Kaus whines not about the article itself, but about an op-ed piece from a Gray Davis campaign aide who recounts faxing the Premiere story to reporters last year, when Arnold was bad-mouthing Davis and making noises about a run for the governorship. One could almost take seriously Kaus's umbrage at gossiping pols, except for Kaus's perverse obsessions with the private lives of certain public figures, including Gary Condit (see 1/28), Bob Greene (same) and of course, President Clinton.

Hey, Mick, did you ever consider that maybe South wanted reporters to know about Ah-nold's "verbal abuse of coworkers," a trait that you found extremely newsworthy in the case of Rep. Bob Matsui (1/27)? What a nice man!