Idiot's Box: True Lies - Rise of the Candidate

'It was Schwarzenegger who helped kickstart the American revolution. The night before Springer withdrew from the Senator race for Ohio, the ultimate con/fusion btween entertainment and politics had been inaugurated.' Steven Aoun offers a cultural analysis of the rise of the celebrity political candidate through a case study of the triumphs, scandals and 'true lies' in Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign for the Governorship of California.