One wonders what led him to drag his family through the mud all over again. But maybe there's poetic justice, since the whole state got screwed while he was governor.

n his new book, 'Total Recall,' former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger explains why he didn't want to talk to the media when it was discovered that he had fathered a child with the family housekeeper.

'I wanted to protect my family's privacy,' Schwarzenegger writes, 'which remains a priority of mine today.'

That being the case, a question comes to mind. If Schwarzenegger wants to protect his family's privacy, what was he doing on '60 Minutes' Sunday night, talking about that affair and admitting to a number of others?
The simplest answer, I suppose, is that he was promoting the book. But that raises another question:

If Schwarzenegger cares about his wife and their four kids — or his former mistress and the child she had with him — why write the book at all?

Let's think about this. His wife, Maria Shriver, and the kids were gone for a week, and not only was Arnold bold enough to have Mildred Baena do a little extra 'housework,' but he was careless enough to get her pregnant in the family domicile. She later brought the child to the house to play with half brothers and half sisters, all of them unaware they were related, until the resemblance became a l.