Boston Globe's Selective Excerpting and Reporting of the Arnold

The Globe story continues for several paragraphs (which we couldn't continue here because of excerpt requirements, but the Globe stops at a significant point.

Immediately following the Globe's excerpt we read, in the very same AP story:

The overnight removal caught locals by surprise. "Arnie banished from the stadium's name," the Graz daily Kleine Zeitung headlined Monday.

Calls to the city hall in Graz went unanswered on Monday, a national holiday.

Last week, Graz Mayor Siegfried Nagl wrote to Schwarzenegger urging him to reconsider his decision to cut ties to the city and to keep the ring. Nagl said he reassured Schwarzenegger that most local residents still admire him despite fierce opposition to his pro-death penalty stance.

Nagl said he was worried that severing ties to Schwarzenegger, one of Austria's most famous sons, potentially could cost the city millions in tourist revenue.

But the movement to scrap Schwarzenegger's name from the stadium, led by local officials of the pacifist Green Party, had gained momentum in recent weeks, and a majority of the city council in Graz was said to support the idea.

When you look at the New York Times' reporting of the incident (Bernstein, author), the OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY gets even more attention and puts the whole affair in quite a different light:

[The mayor] blames the leftist majority on the City Council - consisting of Greens, Social Democrats and two Communists - for trying to score some local political points at Mr. Schwarzenegger's and, he believes, Graz's own expense.

"One stands by a friend and a great citizen of our city and does not drag his name through the mud even when there is a difference of opinion," Mr. Nagl said in a letter he wrote to Mr. Schwarzenegger. "I would like to ask you to keep the Ring of Honor of the City of Graz."

Then comes the GOOD STUFF - the Globe, so fond of publishing poll results, seems to have missed this one (70 percent IS an impressive showing, no matter WHAT the margin of error!):

Mr. Benedek allows that there is an element of elite versus popular opinion on this matter. A poll by the local newspaper found that over 70 percent of the public opposed removing Mr. Schwarzenegger's name from the stadium. This adds to a practical consideration very much on Mr. Nagl's mind: that Graz will no longer be able to count on using its special relationship with the governor to promote its image.

"We had the great classical culture on the one side," the mayor's spokesman, Thomas Rajakovics, said, referring to other important figures who are associated with Graz, - like the astronomer Johannes Kepler, the Novel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger, and the conductor Karl Böhm. "And on the other, we had Arnold Schwarzenegger and the popular culture. These were the two poles for us, but we're not allowed to use his name any more."

And, carefully missing from the Globe report, but acknowledged by the New York Times is the information that just might cast Arnold's critics in the role of LOONEY LEFT:

The new name is now simply Stadion Graz-Liebenau (a district of Graz), though there were other proposals. One was to name the stadium after the Crips, the gang that Mr. Williams founded, but that idea did not get widespread support. Another was to name it Hakoah, after a Jewish sports club that was banned after Hitler annexed Austria in 1938.

But the first "city of human rights" did not seem quite ready for that either. It is not that there was vocal opposition but, as Ms. Binder put it, Austrians do not generally want a daily reminder of the terrible wartime past.

Sad to miss that bit of lunacy mixed with hypocrisy!

And, finally, why not admit that, while their clear champions, the leftist elites, have won the day, not EVERYONE in Austria or Graz is willing to let Arnold go completely:

Meanwhile, city officials are holding on to Mr. Schwarzenegger's honorary citizenship ring, which arrived from Mr. Schwarzenegger during the holidays. Mr. Rajakovics said they will keep it for him in the hope that one day he will take it back.

Thank God we in Boston have the Globe to censor news stories for us so that we won't come to any wrong conclusions.

One was to name the stadium after the Crips, the gang that Mr. Williams founded

That's the ticket!

Why not name it "TOOKIE" stadium if they like the murdering SOB so much?

Hey!

What's with the "Tookie" stuff?

Ain't you got no respect?

Ain't you learned nuthin' from The New York Times?

It's MR. WILLIAMS to us peasants!

The Jury convicted Tookie in a fair trial - Governor Schwarzenegger acted as he should have. Tookie created a monster that is still very active today in crime. Other than the "looney left" clearly we have a problem with the appeal system…….Tookie's victims got none of the safe guards afforded this despicable criminal. Being a Crips member means being a criminal – why are they tolerated at all? The answer lies in law so liberal it condemns the innocent and protects the criminal.

[O]ther important figures ... are associated with Graz, - like the astronomer Johannes Kepler

Who was fired from his university position and forced to leave and sell his wife's land at fire sale prices (not unlike the latter day Jews) because he refused to renounce his Lutheran faith and convert to Catholicism. This was a severe blow to a person in his early fifties, without any other offers of employment. Kelper was born in Wurtenburg (in Stadt am Weil), Germany and did his most productive and important work in Prague.

"Girlie-man Field"

named after the local politicians and local electorate.

I dont know how much time Arnold has left as Governor , but IMO it would be great if he emptied Death Row before he leaves. Some of this slime has been sitting it out for 15 years. get rid of them.

Tuckus???