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Veterans outraged over Jane Fonda pick for UCLA speech: ‘We hate her’
The Washington Times ^ | June 2, 2014 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 06/02/2014 5:07:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Some Vietnam veterans in California are outraged after learning Jane Fonda, a.k.a. “Hanoi Jane,” will be giving the commencement speech for UCLA’s School of Theater next Friday.

Miss Fonda was given the disparaging nickname in 1972 after she called American soldiers “war criminals” and traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam, to meet with enemy soldiers.

“The Butler” actress is scheduled to speak on June 13 for the school’s commencement ceremony, but her appearance is drawing harsh criticism from veterans all over the country.

“We hate her,” Nick Callas, president of the Santa Clarita chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America, told Fox News. “We won’t ever see any of her movies or support anything she did. It makes me sick to see her get this kind of recognition.

John Crooker, first vice president of the California State Council of Vietnam Veterans of America, said he would never forgive Miss Fonda for the propaganda photo she took with Vietnamese soldiers.

“She was young and stupid, but that’s no excuse,” he told Fox News. “I don’t know of any Vietnam veterans who have anything good to say about her.”

A Facebook page titled, “Vets Boycotting Hanoi Jane Fonda,” has more than 37,000 fans and is urging a boycott against UCLA.

“Time for vets and Americans to band together to make a statement and to educate some of the younger generation about who Hanoi Jane Fonda really is,” the page’s mission states.

UCLAsaid in a statement that it is “truly honored” to have Jane Fonda speak at this year’s commencement ceremony....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Local News; Military/Veterans; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; janefonda; veterans; vietnam

1 posted on 06/02/2014 5:07:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey! She should team up with Bowe! They’d be a hit onstage! Maybe Pajama Boy can join them...


2 posted on 06/02/2014 5:10:47 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Perhaps she can join the other idiot, Kerry at the State Dept.


3 posted on 06/02/2014 5:20:45 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It’s just the communists in their ongoing celebration of their victory over America that commenced in the November, 2008 election. Don’t you get it? They won!

Parading Hanoi Jane as the commencement speaker at UCLA is just another victory dance. This is just payback against the Vets… quite like putting the traitor John Kerry in as Secretary of State. Communist just love rubbing the nose of vanquished opponents into steaming piles of fecal matter…

4 posted on 06/02/2014 5:26:54 PM PDT by JDoutrider
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“She was young and stupid, but that’s no excuse,”

Uhh, no.

She was almost 35, and had already won an Academy Award for Best Actress in "Klute" in 1971.

The beeyotch knew EXACTLY what she was doing.

5 posted on 06/02/2014 5:29:31 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Urinal cakes ho!


6 posted on 06/02/2014 5:31:21 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi or Atty General Holder, who brought more guns to Mexico?)
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The frozen urine depository for Hanoi Jane should fill several tanker trucks.Vets have been adding to it for decades.Her coffin is going to float right out of the ground.


7 posted on 06/02/2014 5:38:22 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“... Jane Fonda, a.k.a. “Hanoi Jane,” will be giving the commencement speech for UCLA’s School of Theater next Friday.”

I’d be outraged except that she is giving the speech at UCLA’s School of Theater ... my guess possible attendance is 10-20 people with the significant majority being Hollywood queers, freaks and perverts.


8 posted on 06/02/2014 5:40:22 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (If you lined up the best and brightest of this administration, you'd just have a string of dim bulbs)
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“She was young and stupid, but that’s no excuse,”...

Now she's old and stupid which is even worse..

9 posted on 06/02/2014 5:41:29 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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... and just down the road, Zero will be giving the commencement speech for UC Irvine.


10 posted on 06/02/2014 5:42:22 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The leftists seem to be quite good at causing our side to get uninvited to these events.

Is there not anyone out there (here) who is a UCLA alum who can get this ball rolling?


11 posted on 06/02/2014 5:49:00 PM PDT by Clay Moore (I Like My Guns Like Obama Likes His Voters: Undocumented)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’re not alone.
I despise her, too.


12 posted on 06/02/2014 5:51:38 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Farmer Dean

Whoa, is there really a pee bank? because that would be a fantastic idea!


13 posted on 06/02/2014 5:51:54 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi or Atty General Holder, who brought more guns to Mexico?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As my dad and uncle sez “nobody’s Fonda Jane”


14 posted on 06/02/2014 5:52:33 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: Farmer Dean

Regrets, I have it on fairly good authority that she will be cremated, and scattered over The Pacific. She is will aware of the indignity that would await her, otherwise.


15 posted on 06/02/2014 6:00:27 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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So we’ll use the frozen urine wherever her ashes are dumped. Maybe we should erect a buoy on the spot so that future generations can join in.


16 posted on 06/02/2014 6:30:08 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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I heartily endorse that sentiment !


17 posted on 06/02/2014 6:32:02 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She should be spending her wretched life in prison and likely would be if it weren’t for her father.


18 posted on 06/02/2014 6:37:16 PM PDT by JamesA (You don't have to be big to stand tall)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So SHUT IT DOWN like the left does. Overwhelm it with bodies and noise until she flees the stage. Period.


19 posted on 06/03/2014 4:33:07 AM PDT by montag813
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Big week for traitor news.

Napolincompetano is Chancellor of UC system, so natural to invite Fonda to speak.

another link Fox News with comments.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/02/veterans-see-red-as-jane-fonda-tapped-to-speak-to-ucla-grads/


20 posted on 06/05/2014 12:45:45 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Taliban, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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