After turning to politics when his Hollywood career tanked, Arnold Schwarzenegger finagled to get free national TV face time by presenting the Golden Globe for Best Dramatic Picture tonight. But far more interesting is what I have here: this email exchange between Karen Pomer, founder of the Los Angeles-based Rainbow Sisters Project for Rape Survivors, and Andres Martinez, head of the editorial and opinion section of the Los Angeles Times, over the LAT's Sunday editorial urging that Schwarzenegger be allowed to run for U.S. president. (He can't because he's not a "natural born citizen".) What's astonishing to me is how the LAT editorial board didn't bother to do its research -- it didn't even know that Schwarzenegger holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and Austria. Pomer wrote a Letter To The Editor protesting the paper's convenient amnesia about the sexual harrassment allegations against Scharzenegger that the LAT itself raised in a 2003 investigation -- ironically, with Pomer's help. But, remember, that the paper's management who OK'ed that probe is gone, and replaced by new LAT publisher, David Hiller, who oversees editorials as a card-carrying Republican, Rumsfeld friend and architect of the Reagan administration's controversial U.S. immigration policy calling for concentration camps.

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