Posted on 02/11/2004 5:21:11 PM PST by kattracks
"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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"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime. He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ..." Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan.23,2003
Your memories are some of what keeps the fires of freedom burning bright. Keep em coming.
Thanks for the ping.
That would be SOOOOOOOOO sweet.
You forgot the "wounded by a .50 caliber machine gun" part.
Being just a stupid youth with lots of money is no excuse. The woman is a commie bitch. I don't care if she lives or dies, I don't care if she works or not. I just don't care about her actions, or her life. It JUST doesn't matter!
Her father became a hero to the American people, she became a footnote. Her father's friends became hero's, she became a Paine in the a$$.
When Janie casts off this mortal coil, she'll always be known as Henry Fonda's daughter, who also did some acting. Life's a bitch, Janie....then you die. Fame comes from a strength, not from a weakness, and not from a name. Bubbye you self centered little bitch. Don't you ever darken the door of brave men and liberty again. You just don't have the gravitas.
There are men's names on that wall that YOU helped put there, men that I served with. You'd better make a peace with God, cause there is nobody I know that likes you. You'd better beg Him for your eternal soul, cause I will never forgive you. Get down on your knees and stay there until that day that you die, you have a whole lot of atoning to do.
Jean Kerrieee, I know, that is how you pronounce it in French.
Besides exhaustive treatment of imposters, the book also documents authenic veterans: Pat Sajak (Wheel of Fortune) and Dennis Frantz (NYPD Blue) among others.
Interestingly, there is a picture of a young Dan Rather "as a Marine recruit shortly before the Corps dropped him from their rolls." (He failed to finish his training because of a childhood case of rheumatic fever.)
Translation - We had hot Mazola-oil sex.
Dear Ms Fonda:I think that its very fortunate that the true path to human liberation through world harmony and law has been re-found by a hero like Senator Kerry. I hope that his grubbing after money, despising his country and attacking our national heritage at every turn will be over looked as youthful indiscretions while he was finding his true mature calling of being a professional politician, gigolo and lobbyist lapdog.
Please be sure that all efforts to link him to that unfortunate past are shouted down by well beloved national treasures such as yourself.
You don't know how much we wait with puppy dog eyes for your every pronouncement.
Sincerely,
John Edwards
I read somewhere today that Senator McCain said that the video of Kerry's testimony to Congress that Vietnam vets were war criminals was shown to McCain while he was a POW
I don't think McCain will criticize Kerry. The following is a review by McCain for the Atlantic Monthly concerning Brinkley's book, "Tour of Duty" about Kerry:
""The experience of war does a great deal more than make men out of boys. All wars, be they just and necessary or not, are epic calamities and their devastation and inhumanity will cause moments of doubt in the mind of the most ardent soldier and trouble all but the meanest conscience. In TOUR OF DUTY, an account of my friend John Kerry's experiences and great courage in Vietnam, and his role in our national debate over the lost cause, Doug Brinkley does a masterful job of showing how war, with its unique mix of sacrifice and malice, courage and trepidation, both burdens and strengthens the heart of the combatant, who learns in equal measure how cruel and how noble human beings can be."
- John McCain
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