'Hanoi' Jane Defends Kerry in Photo Flap

NewsMax.com ^ | 2/11/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

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"Hanoi" Jane Fonda rushed to defend Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday after a photo published by NewsMax.com on Monday picturing her with the Democratic presidential front-runner sparked outrage across the nation.

"The American people have had it with the big lie," Fonda complained on CNN, suggesting that the photo showing her and Kerry at the same Sept. 1970 Vietnam war protest at Valley Forge, Penn., was misleading.

"Any attempt to link Kerry to me and make him look bad with that connection is completely false," the radical actress insisted.

While Fonda admitted that she and Kerry addressed the crowd that day from the same platform, she maintained that their contact was minimal, telling CNN, "I don't even think we shook hands."

Her account stands in stark contrast, however, to that of presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, who reported in his Kerry biography "Tour of Duty" that after Fonda and the top Democrat appeared at the same Valley Forge demonstration, she "adopted" Kerry's group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, as "her leading cause."

On Monday Brinkley said that while researching his book he came across additional documentation linking Fonda to Kerry.

"I've seen their names in a University of Wisconsin archive on [Kerry's VVAW]," Brinkley told "Radio Factor" host Bill O'Reilly. "Their names are on the same mimeograph sheets, where you can see them as principal speakers together."

Fonda defended Kerry's leadership in the VVAW, saying it wasn't true that the anti-war group was rooting for a Communist victory in Vietnam.

"This was an organization of men who risked their lives in Vietnam, who considered themselves totally patriotic," she explained.

After Valley Forge, Fonda reportedly bankrolled the VVAW's "Winter Soldier Investigation," an event staged in Detroit in Feb. 1971 where Kerry interviewed disgruntled veterans in an attempt to glean the most dramatic accounts of U.S. atrocities.

Later some "veterans" who participated in Winter Soldier were exposed as impostors.

NewsMax.com has learned that videotape of Kerry interviewing some Winter Soldier witnesses exists, and is likely to be made public during the coming presidential campaign.

Still, Fonda maintained that Kerry's attempt to spotlight alleged U.S. war crimes in Vietnam was a patriotic act.

"How can you impugn, how can you even suggest, that anyone like Kerry or any of these veterans were not patriotic?" she complained to CNN. "He was a hero there."

Eighteen months after Winter Soldier, Fonda traveled to Hanoi and sat atop an enemy aircraft battery, pretending to shoot down U.S. pilots as North Vietnamese cameras rolled.

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[anniegetyourgun]

What did I tell you? I knew she wouldn't be able to resist making a statement. I just thought it might be closer to the end of the week. These libs are just too predictable....

[NYCVirago]

Still, Fonda maintained that Kerry's attempt to spotlight alleged U.S. war crimes in Vietnam was a patriotic act. "How can you impugn, how can you even suggest, that anyone like Kerry or any of these veterans were not patriotic?" she complained to CNN. "He was a hero there."

Keep on talking, Jane. Kerry will love getting your endorsement!

[Finalapproach29er]

I've seen their names in a University of Wisconsin archive on [Kerry's VVAW]," Brinkley told "Radio Factor" host Bill O'Reilly. "Their names are on the same mimeograph sheets, where you can see them as principal speakers together."
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Jackpot. RNC should rush fast to get this before Kerry cleanses his past like Hillary.

[cubreporter]

So, Hanoi Jane has to come to the defense of J F'n Kerry. He's gonna love that. Sorta like the Al Gore endorsement of john dean. The kiss of death!!! As they say: "Now THAT'S gonna leave a mark."

[Howlin]

Since FR is probably one of the only places NewsMax is read, wouldn't you think they would give us a little credit for having found that picture?

[Mike Bates]

Keep on talking, Jane. Kerry will love getting your endorsement!

And maybe she'll get his:

[TheGeezer]

Fonda thinks her denying things will end the stink (heh heh heh).

[anniegetyourgun]

Credit? We don't need no stinkin' credit.....

[Schattie]

You know, it's funny that leftists can be so masochistic and self-degrading to get into power.

Jane Fonda: "Look guys, I promise that John Kerry isn't as big of a scumbag as I am!"

[Jaxter]

"He was a hero there."

Right. Shoots a wounded, unarmed man in the back and then writes himself up for a Silver Star. Real heroic.

[Rome2000]

NewsMax.com has learned that videotape of Kerry interviewing some Winter Soldier witnesses exists,

ROTFLOL!!!

This election will serve to expose the com symps in all of their glory.

[Defender2]

Typical airhead Blonde Space Cadet Traitor. She tries to help and in consequence will only make it harder for him!!!! Traitors stick together....Always!!!!

[glock rocks]

. . . Excellent.

[Howlin]

YOOOOHOOOOOO!

[fortcollins]

No one, I repeat no one should even think about who gets credit. The picture and other web sites on Kerry are reproducing like rabbits. Hanoi Kerry is going to go down big time. That is all that matters.

[b4its2late]

"I don't even think we shook hands."

Translation - We shook hands.

[Fresh Wind]

Jane "Barbarella" Fonda has spoken. Deal with it.

[Viking2002]

The more this traitor squawks, the more attention she's going to bring to the whole debacle.

Excellent.

[forward]

OH, O.K. Jane , I understand now -- thanks for the explanation!!! I am 57 yrs. old and lived through this , and any amount of your spinning won't convince me that you and your friends at that time, with your same view, ( John F'n Kerry) didn't defame and hurt this country. I'll Never EVER forget!!!! Not ever!!