Arnold Makes a Surprise Visit to the State Fair!
Arnold & Smokey The Bear Wants to Pump You Up!
Reported By: TheARNOLDFANS.com Staff
Sunday, August 28, 2005

Arnold Schwarzenegger made a surprise visit to the California State Fair on Friday, August 26th. A large crowd, thrilled by the unexpected visit, watched Schwarzenegger greet and address the crowd.

"It reminds me a little bit of a combination of the October festival in Bavaria, and Disneyland with all the animals and the beach and seeing the enthusiastic people and the rides," Schwarzenegger said. "This is really fantastic."

Schwarzenegger had begun the visit by standing with two bodybuilders and two boxers on a faux beach near an exhibit of whirlpool spas and $7,000 barbeques. The bodybuilders flexed their muscles and grimaced. The boxers punched the air and grimaced. The governor praised the bodybuilders for being "natural."

"No drugs, no steroids, none of these things," said Schwarzenegger, who has been under fire for his connections to makers of nutritional supplements popular among bodybuilders. "It is all natural what you're seeing here." Stopping at a sand sculpture of himself.

He greeted a person in a Smokey the Bear outfit: "How you doing Smokey? Such a good guy," he said, feeling his hairy arm. "Look at those arms. ... Turn around. Never turn your back on the press."

Schwarzenegger says he takes the recent declining poll numbers in stride, explaining that he is poking a hornet's nest of special interests, which have run millions of dollars in TV ads attacking him. And some fairgoers were sympathetic to his plight.