TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Saturday, September 27, 2003

From San Jose Mercury News September 26:


America's leading tabloid publisher, which last year reached a lucrative business deal with one of Schwarzenegger's earliest business partners, has filled checkout stands not with salacious tales of alleged womanizing -- but with a glowing tribute to the Republican candidate and Hollywood star.
American Media, which publishes the National Enquirer and Star tabloids, has produced a 120-page glossy magazine called "Arnold, the American Dream.'' The $4.95 magazine is crammed with flattering photographs . . .

Last year, American Media reached a lucrative deal with Schwarzenegger business partner Joe Weider to buy his muscle-and-fitness publishing empire -- which includes Muscle and Fitness, Shape and Men's Fitness magazines -- for $350 million. Weider, one of the actor's mentors, brought Schwarzenegger to America from Austria in the late '60s and helped make the aspiring star a bodybuilding icon. Schwarzenegger still writes an ``Ask Arnold'' column for Muscle and Fitness, and Weider is supporting his longtime friend's campaign.

Last month, Weider told the New York Daily News that American Media owner David Pecker assured him last winter that the tabloids were going to ``lay off'' Schwarzenegger and not dig up any dirt . . .

Since the actor has entered the race, Schwarzenegger has been virtually absent from the pages of American Media's top-selling tabloids. The Enquirer and Star have run no negative stories on the actor . . .

Instead, one American Media tabloid, the Weekly World News, this week ran an ``exclusive'' about a politically savvy space alien throwing his otherworldly support behind Schwarzenegger. Under the screaming headline ``Alien backs Arnold for governor!'' the extraterrestrial not only lauds the actor, but vows to help amend the U.S. Constitution so the Austrian-born candidate can someday run for president.

TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS: Could the Weekly World News alien be a sub rosa way for elites to communicate to other insiders who the next chosen prince is? The alien endorsed Clinton in 1992 and GW Bush in 2000. WWN will often mix in real and shocking news items with all the crazy BS. Their "respectable" sister mags can dig interesting information if they want to.

AMI has been ripe with spooks and skullduggery since The National Enquirer was founded by a pensioned CIA agent backed by mob money back in the day. More recently, the tabs were bought by an investment group led by Clinton Beltway lawyer David Kendall a few years ago.

And AMI's reporting has been much less aggressive since their offices were anthraxed in the aftermath of 9/11. (The White House was on Cipro by 9/11, by the way.) AMI, which certainly must be considered an intelligence operated in its own right, however is not up on bioweaponry. Hence the even more subdued and coopted take on the news. Anyway, now that you too are an elite in on the secret, you may want to start thinking about what stocks will go up with Arnold ascendant. I'm sure that's what some folks have already done upon reading of the alien's endorsement. Watch his flacks talking about public-private partnerships, and follow their connections.

See also: Bigwig Nazi father pulled army strings for Arnold.

and Schwarzenegger: 'I dreamed of being dictator' - LibertyThink unearths 1976 interview

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