'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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[Dog]

She didn't help him with that statement.

Question: Senator Kerry do you still stand by your comments that American soldier's committed war crimes in Vietnam......Ms. Fonda says you do.

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

[Howlin]

I was thinking they had sex!

[leprechaun9]

"How can you impugn, how can you even suggest, that anyone like Kerry ...."

Hey DUFUS Jane - John Freakin' Kerry returned to the United States as THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and his efforts were directed at elected office (with the help of the Kennedys) and then his assignment was to try and emasculate the military. His voting record shows that he was a willing dupe!

To those who say that his military record gives him a free pass, I point out that Timothy McVeigh also served in the military and was Honorably Discharged. His military record didn't give him a free pass on his subsequent actions and neither should John Freakin' Kerry's!

[afropick]

Jane Fonda is coming on next on Paula Zahn in a few minutes. The dems can try all they want to downplay this, but its all out in the open now.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"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

... meaning (obviously) that "any attempt to link Kerry to [her]" is, de facto, NOT "completely false. Obviously.

Most 'Rats are much, much better liars than that, Jane, dear.

Practice. Practice. :)

[Lexington Green]

"I did not have group-sex with that organization, the VVAW.... Oh,wait... yes I did."

[Tacis]

"Big lie?" I am sure that any quest for truth starts with a chat with Hanoi Jane.

If you saw her screech, you'll note that she used a scripted catch phrase that I assume came direct to Hanoi John and Hanoi Jane from, well, Hanoi. She used the phrase "black lie" twice. My immediate thought was that she is taking a shot at the veracity of an entire race and then figured that it was just on today's play list.

Maybe Kerry was doing her, I don't know. But, I don't think she is wealthy enough for him but, as a diversion from the wife he has, who knows? Both of these traitors loked the spotlight in those days. Are there gossip columns in local papers that would have covered them? Have the FBI files on either of these two been released? Someone must have some home movies of the two chums at this anti-American rally.

[NYCVirago]

She's made this thing a million times worse for Kerry. Notice how the major media was *not* covering the photo of her with him. Now that she's spoken, they'll be all over this story!

[glock rocks]

Hanoi John F'Kerry's new best bud...

[Citizen Tom Paine]

IMHO this woman was/is a traitor and should be tried in a court of law as such. Her actions directly contributed to the deaths of American servicemen and perhaps worse treatment for our prisoners of war.

She makes me want to puke.

[Dog]

Question: Senator Kerry can you and will you list the names of all US troops you witnessed commit said war crimes. Take your time Senator.......this is important because if you witnessed said war crimes you can and will be charged with being an accessory to a war crime for not reporting it.

Oh I see Senator you didn't witness said war crimes....you made them up to highlight a point......Oh!

[randog]

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

I just love how Jane implies that she's a sh!theel.

[b4its2late]

I was thinking they had sex!

To democrats, that's the same thing as shaking hands.....

[Starboard]

Nice work!

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Please FReepmail me if you want on/off this ping list.

[Dog]

Mike you need to have those printed .....that is awesome!

[RightWhale]

They did not shake hands.

[NYCVirago]

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?

Do you know which freeper found the pic? I'd like to thank that person!

[Williams]

Jane Fonda is a misguided leftist idiot (Not that it stopped her from making a capitalist fortune with exercise videos and marrying a corporate billionaire). I lived through that era and I'm sure saying the protestors are the real patriots was part of her gig. BUT - she is a scumbag liar when she says she believes Kerry was a hero in Vietnam. Jane would have considered Kerry, by his own admission, to be a REFORMED WAR CRIMINAL. She would never have considered his military actions heroic.

Jane Fonda visited our POW's in N. Vietnam where they were trotted out to say how wonderful they were being treated. One true hero slipped the bitch a tiny note revealing they were being tortured. She handed it over to the communists, who later beat the prisoners mercilessly as punishment. She was a pig and so was anyone like Kerry who ran with her.

[Jammz]

Kewl, Jane's for Kerry... Bush can't lose now!! My father (a vietnam vet) hated Jane Fonda with a passion. He said she was worse than the VC as she did her attacks in america. If this is the kind of allies that Kerry has, I feel sorry for the democRATS, they lose twice!