BARBRA WALTERS' "100 Women of the Century." (Jane Fonda?)

[Patrick1]

I knew it was a bad century but jeez...not that bad.

[TruthWillWin]

Mary Jo Kopechne has got to be high up on that list.

[FreeInWV]

Some of this has been refuted on snopes, but I'm sure there is some truth somewhere in it.

[USMCWife6869]

I'm sure that someone else will post this faster than me because my computer sucks, but here it is anyway:

http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp

[Dilbert San Diego]

I wonder if the recently deceased Jeane Kirkpatrick is on that list of Barbara Walters?

Or Margaret Thatcher? Wonder if it's just American women so Thatcher wouldn't qualify?

I wonder what the criteria would be to be included on the list? Liberal activism? Wonder if Cindy Sheehan made the cut?

[beltfed308]

http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp claims the Driscoll incident never happened.

[Tenacious 1]

The story about handing her peices of paper have been debunked. But she did visit prisons where American's were held. I do not know about the others.

Still, my Christian values and the teachings of Christ prevent me from saying or wishing certain things on this unspeakably vial heap of decaying waste of a human being/animal.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Is Jane Fonda a Christian now? I thought she had converted?

[SMARTY]

Since it Barbara Walters' list, it is an honor just to be omitted.

[timsbella]

She's still known to vacation with the devil (Ted Turner), so I rather doubt it unless she's in a left leaning, non denominational sect.

[Tenacious 1]

[Is Jane Fonda a Christian now? I thought she had converted?]

I shudder to ponder and would never spend the time to investigate. While I am not allowed to hate or pass judgement on the destination of one's soul, I can "presume" there is an eternally warm and miserable place for her in the afterlife. And this presumption makes me feel a little better.

[DogBarkTree]

Thank you ma'am. You were the first to post it.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

The century, as in 1900's? This must be as slow as molasses when making its way on the web. It's already 2006.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century."

Well it doesn't say what kind of women.....

[Dilbert San Diego]

I sure would love to see the list. And I wonder what the criteria are. What type of achievement or fame or whatever makes someone one of the 100 Women of the Century? I suspect that liberal activism of some kind will make one a candidate.

Is Phyllis Shlafly(sp?) included? She was one of the most famous and politically active women in the world. But she worked against NOW and the Equal Rights Amendment and other liberal causes. So that's why I wonder what type of achievement are they honoring?

[Dixie Yooper]

It must not be much of a list, Rosie O'Donnell also made it.

[Lijahsbubbe]

I sure would love to see the list.

Let's take a wild guess:

Hilary Clinton
Janet Reno
Katie Couric
Jackie Kennedy
Eleanor Roosevelt
Gloria Steinem
Margaret Sanger....

[xjcsa]

Jane Fonda is an atrocious bitch, but the slips of paper part never happened. There's plenty of reason to despise her as a traitor; we don't need to make things up as well.

[Dan Walsh]

Walters had a 1999 special listing: Actresses, comediennes, and singers: Janis Joplin, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Katharine Hepburn, Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, Madonna, Bette Midler, Rosie O’Donnell, Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel, Jessye Norman, Maria Callas, Marilyn Monroe, Celine Dion, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Marian Anderson, Greta Garbo, Lauren Bacall ...

Artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. Photographers Margaret Bourke-White and Dorothea Lange. Dancers Martha Graham and Isadora Duncan. Poet Maya Angelou. Writer Ann Landers.

Sports figures "Babe" Didrickson, Gertrude Ederle, Sonja Henie, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Wilma Rudolph, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Nadia Comenici.

Aviator Amelia Earhart and astronaut Lt. Eileen Collins. Scientist Marie Curie. Fashion designer Coco Chanel. Executive Katharine Graham. The created figure of Rosie the Riveter.

Women known for their activism or political involvements: Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms. Magazine, Rosa Parks, Margaret Sanger, Jane Addams, Ann Richards, Alice Paul, Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan, Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, Marian Wright Edelman, Anita Hill (the transcript calls her Anita Thomas at one point!), Mother Teresa, Margaret Mead, Madeleine Albright.

First Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy, Betty Ford and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Princess Diana. Heads of state Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher.

And, though she professes embarrassment to be included: Barbara Walters.

LINK: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/lists/a/walters_100_wmn.htm