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Galloway and Fonda forge a fighting pact
The Times ^
| 9/4/05
| Sarah Baxter
Posted on 09/04/2005 4:07:24 PM PDT by Valin
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:07:24 PM PDT
by
Valin
To: Valin
Chrenkoff
http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2005/09/caravan-of-fools.html
Caravan of fools
Some things are beyond parody:
The controversial MP George Galloway, who is to tour America this month accompanied by Jane Fonda, the Hollywood star, will be sharpening his critique of the Iraq war in the light of President George W Bush's difficulties in coping with the effects of hurricane Katrina...
Fonda, a veteran anti-war protester who earned the name Hanoi Jane during the Vietnam war, is to speak alongside Galloway at two meetings in Madison, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois.
She was persuaded to join the MP's travelling show by her friend, Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, after Fonda was impressed by Galloway's pugnacious performance last spring in front of a senate committee investigating the United Nations oil-for-food scandal.
The star abandoned plans for her own anti-war roadshow and threw in her lot with Galloway after Cindy Sheehan, the bereaved mother of a soldier who spent August camped outside Bush's holiday home in Texas, decided to mount another touring protest.
Winning Fonda's support is a coup that will raise the MP's profile in America. Organisers of his tour are hoping that Sean Penn, another leading Hollywood anti-war protester, will join Galloway on stage in Los Angeles.
Good news is that Cindy is off the news now (she arguably would have been anyway, with the August silly season over); the bad news is that she has been replaced with Katrina. And as far as the angry left is concerned, one is as good as the other to bash Bush with.
It almosts sounds like the end of days, with the Baghdad George and Hanoi Jane touring the country clockwise, while Mother Sheehan and her cut-and-run caravan storming through America counter-clockwise, while the rest of the crew keeps hammering the Administration about Baghdad on Mississippi - a sort of Four Horsepeople (to keep it PC) of the Angry Left Apocalypse.
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:08:32 PM PDT
by
Valin
(The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.)
To: Valin
Zarqawi and Bin Laden form a fighting pact.
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:14:11 PM PDT
by
jmc1969
To: Valin
The Left has lost whatever little grasp on sanity they may have had....
They're going nuts in place..
They've failed in New Orleans....
Now they're engaged in a CYOA tirade of accusations against everyone Republican, Conservative, Christian or white ---- their ignorant base in New Orleans is showing their ass to the world as unforgivable criminals and fools.
Semper Fi
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:15:09 PM PDT
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: Valin
Jane Fonda is a "Hollywood star?" Since when?
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:15:17 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
To: Valin
Excellent, I take Fonda in 5 rounds for $100.
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:16:20 PM PDT
by
msnimje
(CNN - Constant Negative Nonsense)
To: Valin; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Former Military Chick
Maybe next year I will be able to go on one of those American lecture circuits which are always accompanied by the word lucrative, Galloway said. What a filthy pig. How is it that he's being allowed in the country and why is she still here?
Disgusting waste of oxygen.
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:16:22 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(Pray for President Bush and for Our Country)
To: All
Hussein Jane...betraying her country one war at a time...
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:17:00 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: Valin
Looks like Ted must have had a really good prenup.
Jane obviously wants one of those Spanish villas that Galloway somehow affords on an MP's salary.
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:17:48 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist"--Sheikh Omar Brooks, quoted in the London Times 8/7/05)
To: Valin
"President Bush said my son died in a noble cause,
and I want to ask him what that noble cause is."
Cindy Sheehan
Cindy : Iraq Freedom is the noble cause.
No longer do I fear the butcher Saddam Hussein murdering my children!
President Bush Remembers Halabja
Saturday, 15 March 2003
President's Radio Address (Remembering Halabja)
"This weekend marks a bitter anniversary for the people of Iraq.
Fifteen years ago, Saddam Hussein's regime ordered a chemical weapons attack on a village in Iraq called Halabja. With that single order, the regime killed thousands of Iraq's Kurdish citizens. Whole families died while trying to flee clouds of nerve and mustard agents descending from the sky. Many who managed to survive still suffer from cancer, blindness, respiratory diseases, miscarriages,
and severe birth defects among their children..."
Anyone who thinks Hanoi Kerry and Hanoi Jane
aren't behind the anti war crowd
needs to get a clue.
Remember the slaughter and torture of the people of Viet Nam by the communists
while Hanoi Kerry and Hanoi Jane cheered their commie buddies!
Lame Stream Media : News Flash!
President Bush already met with Cindy Sheehan in June 2004 for 10 minutes.
From The Reporter, Vacaville, CA archive: Bush, Sheehans share moments.
Quit lying!!!!
To: Valin
THE controversial MP George Galloway, who is to tour America this month accompanied by Jane Fonda, the Hollywood star, will be sharpening his critique of the Iraq war in the light of President George W Bushs difficulties in coping with the effects of hurricane Katrina.How did he get a visa to come here and badmouth W and America?
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:18:18 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
("When the Levee breaks, Mama, you got to move....")
To: Valin
Oh God, can we be this fortunate again? LOL!
Let the left wing English nuts stick their fat noses in our body politic again.
Please do, it worked so well in Ohio!
I never get over their bizarre thinking that these actions will help their political aspirations.
Go for it and bring in more anti war, anti American loons to tour America.
Like Castro and Putin.
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:19:21 PM PDT
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: Valin
Galloway and Fonda called suicide bombers "martyrs", they are sad, twisted, and ultimately irrelevant people.
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:20:19 PM PDT
by
FreeRep
To: Valin
Galloway said he was delighted by Fondas backing: Shes a big star with a luminous reputation as an anti-war figure. HA!! They'd better not take their dog and pony show into any red states!
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:22:27 PM PDT
by
Humidston
(It's Bush's fault)
To: Valin
Now, that's an obnoxious pair. And Hateful Galloway will certainly lend an air of balance to Dipsy Jane.
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:23:05 PM PDT
by
Clara Lou
(W00t! IBTZ ! FP! w00t!)
To: cardinal4
British citizens do not need a visa to spend a month in the US.
I believe UK passport holders only need to seek a visa if they are staying for more than 180 days.
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:23:48 PM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
To: wideawake
Thats two things I have learned today, here on FR!
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:24:28 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
("When the Levee breaks, Mama, you got to move....")
To: Valin
Gosh, I wonder how much money Galloway and Fonda have donated for relief? I wonder how many storm survivors could be housed in thier numerous mansions?
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:26:35 PM PDT
by
Pajamajan
("Where there's life, there's hope-" Terri Schindler's message to the world-never forget)
To: Prime Choice
Don't they make a lovely couple!
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:29:28 PM PDT
by
Valin
(The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.)
To: Valin
My quick take on all this:
(1) Cindy Sheehan's association with the fringe left already neutralized her story before Katrina hit.
(2) Hollywood leftists have no credibility with the US public. Fonda has less than most, given her baggage from the 60s and the tailspin her film career has been in for two decades. Most Americans under 50 who recognize her as an actress recognize her as the assh*le title character in Monster In Law.
(3) Galloway scored no points with the US public in his Capitol Hill appearance - 99.99% of Americans have no clue who he is nd have no desire to take political cues from a foreigner who sounds like a drunken butler from a TV sitcom.
(4) All attempts to blame the President for the Keystone Kops performance of LA officials will backfire, because the denunciations will be so shrill and wild-eyed as to immediately expose their inherent implausibility.
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posted on
09/04/2005 4:32:04 PM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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