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According to a report in the Wall Street Journal , California’s former centrist Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was offered a cabinet position in Barack Obama ’s administration after he left office in January, 2011. WSJ’s Erica Orden notes that Schwarzenegger told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos during the 2008 presidential campaign that he was open to a position in a future Obama White House. In July 2008, on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Mr. Schwarzenegger was asked whether he’d consider an energy-related cabinet position with the Obama administration, were Barack Obama, then a candidate, to win the presidency. Mr. Schwarzenegger said he would, replying: “I’d take his call now, and I’d take his call when he’s president, anytime.” It is not clear what cabinet position that Schwarzenegger discussed with Obama administration officials. Politico reached out to the White House for comment but they did not immediately respond. h/t Wall Street Journal > >Follow Noa...

On Friday, Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy welcomed a panel to discuss a new political ad targeting Florida Allen West . RELATED: Attack Ad Targeting Allen West Depicts Him Punching Women, Stealing Cash “Allen west fancies himself a fighter,” the ad tells us. “Maybe so. West hits seniors, voting to end Medicare as we know it. He’s whacked women with his votes for huge cuts in women’s health care funding and mauled middle class families by support ago budget plan that would have supported taxes on the rich. Allen west is a fighter all right. But it’s time for us to fight back and knock him out of Congress once and for all.” As discussion about the ad — which features a boxing glove-clad West punching an older woman at one point — kicked off, Doocy began by asking panelist Jackie Salit , “Jackie, so there is Allen West punching out an old white lady. Can you imagine if it were the dynamic were turned around?” But, rather than speak to hypotheticals, Salit touched upon how as a clos...