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[Hanoi Jane] Fonda role again draws heat
Boston Globe ^ | January 27, 2007 | By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff

Posted on 01/27/2007 1:16:54 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Edited on 01/27/2007 1:20:33 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON -- Actress and long time peace activist Jane Fonda, a favorite target of right-wing attacks since the 1970s for her high-profile opposition to the Vietnam War, will rejoin the ranks of the antiwar movement today at a major rally in Washington.

The return to the spotlight for the Hollywood star derisively known as "Hanoi Jane" for going to North Vietnam at the height of the war, was seen by some activists and chroniclers of the antiwar movement as politically risky. They said her presence could be distracting in a rally that organizers hope can capitalize on congressional opposition to President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq.

"I wonder if the appearance of someone like Jane Fonda is going to pull attention away from other messages," said Rhys Williams, a University of Cincinnati sociologist who has chronicled American anti war movements. "If I were an organizer, I would worry how much her presence is going to be dominating the news cycle."

Though it's been decades since she posed atop a North Vietnamese anti aircraft gun, many Vietnam veterans are still angry . Fonda later apologized -- but didn't say she was sorry for fervently opposing the Vietnam War.

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"The enemies of this nation are feeling so emboldened that they are confident enough to bring Jane Fonda to a MEMORIAL for the United States Navy," the conservative website Freerepublic.com decried in an "urgent" post. Fonda "posed with our enemy [in North Vietnam] on an anti aircraft battery used to shoot down our Navy pilots."


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiamerica; antiamerican; antiwarprotest; dcchapter; hanoijane; janefonda; moonbats
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1 posted on 01/27/2007 1:16:58 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson

bump


2 posted on 01/27/2007 1:17:26 PM PST by Enterprise (Drop pork bombs on the Islamofascist wankers. Praise the Lord and pass the hammunition.)
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To: Jim Robinson
"I wonder if the appearance of someone like Jane Fonda is going to pull attention away from other messages,"

The message of everyone there is "Look at me!!!"

3 posted on 01/27/2007 1:19:13 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Jim Robinson

She also talked about drawing wrath because of all of the lies told about her. I want to know what lies were told about her...other than the ones she tells about herself.


4 posted on 01/27/2007 1:19:28 PM PST by bannie
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To: Enterprise

She should be rotting in a jail cell.


5 posted on 01/27/2007 1:19:39 PM PST by RacerX1128
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To: Jim Robinson

Fonda, Glover, and Sarandon better move fast. Human rights beased democracy jusyt might take root if they fail to get America to surrender within the next couple of months.


6 posted on 01/27/2007 1:19:40 PM PST by Firefox1
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To: Jim Robinson
Those who refuse to support and defend a state have no claim to protection by that state.
Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be defined as "murder" in a legalistic sense.
The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons inside city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or "Endangering bystanders," or other misdemeanor.

LAZARUS LONG
7 posted on 01/27/2007 1:19:55 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: Jim Robinson
Actress and long time peace activist traitor Jane Fonda,...

There, I fixed it.

8 posted on 01/27/2007 1:21:05 PM PST by txroadkill
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To: Jim Robinson

I heard earlier on Fox that Hanoi Jane had "apologized" for her North Vietnam ignominy. As I recall, it was one of those "no apology" apology, similar to John Kerry's "I'm sorry if you misunderstood or took my remarks the wrong way." Liberals don't apologize -- they just find ways to slough-off their guilt... the guilt they so richly have earned and deserve.


9 posted on 01/27/2007 1:21:42 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
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To: Jim Robinson

Where is the button to make "urgent" posts?


10 posted on 01/27/2007 1:22:21 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: Jim Robinson

I for one would be glad to see Jane pose on an IED.


11 posted on 01/27/2007 1:24:19 PM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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...a favorite target of right-wing attacks since the 1970s for her high-profile opposition to the Vietnam War...

It wasn't opposition. It was sedition, on enemy soil, for propaganda purposes, in the middle of a war, only miles away from Americans who were being tortured.

12 posted on 01/27/2007 1:25:16 PM PST by Egon ("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
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To: Jim Robinson

Pathetic skank reliving her glory days. The deaths of US soldiers today will thrill and delight her. May she rot in hell...


13 posted on 01/27/2007 1:25:39 PM PST by Jrabbit ('scuse me??)
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To: Jim Robinson
Jane Fonda's phoney "apology"

"Though it's been decades since she posed atop a North Vietnamese anti aircraft gun, many Vietnam veterans are still angry . Fonda later apologized -- but didn't say she was sorry for fervently opposing the Vietnam War.

Some of our family is French and consequently we get French satellite TV. Jane speaks a little (heavily accented) French, but enough that she could take part in an interview on French TV in the fall of 2005. I saw it.

They asked her point blank if she was sorry for what she had done.

She answered "Je ne regret rien" (sounding Edith Piaf!) added an "absolument rien" and then added that she regretted only one thing, that she was smiling for the camera while sitting in the gunner's seat of that AA gun.

Some apology.

14 posted on 01/27/2007 1:33:20 PM PST by cookcounty (The "Greatest Generation" was also the most violent generation.)
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To: Jim Robinson
the conservative website Freerepublic.com decried in an "urgent" post. Fonda "posed with our enemy [in North Vietnam] on an anti aircraft battery used to shoot down our Navy pilots."

Maybe we can find a suicide bombers car for Fonda to pose on :-)

15 posted on 01/27/2007 1:36:42 PM PST by lowbridge ("The mainstream media IS the Democrat Party". - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Jim Robinson
I was around the first time Ms. Fonda spouted her nonsense. I was caring for four youngsters while my husband was flying back and forth to Viet Nam. Who knows what he flew over there but I do know he brought back the remains of many brave Americans.

Ms. Fonda's message was nothing but tripe thirty five years ago and it is still tripe! Like some old people she is starting to repeat herself and there are few things worse than rewarmed tripe!

Old lady Fonda should give it up before people start to wonder if she has not gone funny in the head.

16 posted on 01/27/2007 1:37:14 PM PST by Tarheel (Do you remember 9/11, do you remember the LEADERSHIP in NYC? Rudy--2008)
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To: Jim Robinson
Leopards never change their spots.

My dear old Dad was flying around Vietnam, getting shot at by hostiles, at the same time this soul-less animal was playing kissy-face with the commies.

I have not forgotten nor will I forgive her.

17 posted on 01/27/2007 1:38:04 PM PST by LibKill (ENOUGH! Take the warning labels off everything and let Saint Darwin do his job.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I think that Hanoi Jane needs to go and talk face to face with the Taliban.


18 posted on 01/27/2007 1:40:08 PM PST by SIDENET (Everybody was kung-fu fighting)
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To: operation clinton cleanup; Jim Robinson
Where is the button to make "urgent" posts?
__________________________________________________________

It's next to the 'easy button.'

You only have access to it when you have been initiated into the super duper secret freeper society. That happens after you destroy a dixie chick's career.
19 posted on 01/27/2007 1:41:16 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Jim Robinson

The Urinal Cake resurfaces.


20 posted on 01/27/2007 1:43:08 PM PST by JoeSixPack1
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