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'Hanoi' Jane Defends Kerry in Photo Flap
NewsMax.com ^ | 2/11/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

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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To: 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." *** Jackpot. RNC should rush fast to get this before Kerry cleanses his past like Hillary.

Bingo. Do we have any Wisconsin freepers who could check out these archives?

41 posted on 02/11/2004 5:45:54 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: kattracks
"How can you impugn, how can you even suggest, that anyone like Kerry or any of these veterans were not patriotic?"

Because what Kerry/VVAW spread about WIDESPREAD war crimes by "most" of the troops was the PRIME reason a good many of people "back home" felt justified in calling the ANY returning vet "a Baby Killer" or spitting on them.

Their claims gave the radical leftist ammunition to make THEIR case against the American Military sound "valid" to far more people than just the far left.

Because that false belief THEY CAUSED lived on for decades after the war was over and caused unmeasured -- and on going -- harm to the lives of 100s of 1000s vets.
42 posted on 02/11/2004 5:46:07 PM PST by Jackson Brown
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To: kattracks
Jane is just getting the word out to more people with this, thanks Jane! Oh, btw, I always did think you were cute, too bad you were a traitor!
43 posted on 02/11/2004 5:46:09 PM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: leprechaun9
benedict arnold too
44 posted on 02/11/2004 5:46:38 PM PST by drjoe
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To: kattracks
Even at her worst Jane Fonda's films were still shown on military bases from the US to OKinawa. I saw BABARELLA at Little Rock AFB and Kadina, Okinawa. It was also posted to be shown at other bases where I was TDY.
45 posted on 02/11/2004 5:46:41 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: kattracks
Hanoi Jane is still red. And Kerry is her love-muffin.
46 posted on 02/11/2004 5:46:44 PM PST by Ronin (When the fox gnaws -- Smile!!!)
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To: kattracks
We need to lay low, let him get the nomination, then go after him.

By the time the campaign comes around this will all be old news.

Waiting in the wings are Edwards and, and ...Hillary.

47 posted on 02/11/2004 5:47:28 PM PST by Vinnie
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To: RightWhale

Hanoi Giggalo John's pattern notwithstanding...

48 posted on 02/11/2004 5:48:30 PM PST by glock rocks (molon labe)
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To: All
Well Ladies and Gents, I had a discouraging thought today about all of this....

Maybe we are peaking too soon on all of this stuff. John F'n Kerry is going to be the nominee. If I were Karl Rove, I would look to keep my powder dry until the Democrime convention-- and then unload with all of this great material.

The problem with discussing this now is that the "sheeple" will forget all this stuff-- and the Media will call it, with some justification, "old news."

This guy is a phony and a traitor. And in the car the other day, I was listening to a radio program where Kerry was called a war hero who turned on his own kind- and then I thought of Benedict Arnold. He was also a war hero-- before he turned traitor.

49 posted on 02/11/2004 5:48:48 PM PST by Lysandru
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To: kattracks
""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.""

Benedict Arnold too was considered a great and partiotic American hero. Seriously wounded twice in battle and highly revered by General George Washington himself, he would eventually provide aid and comfort to the enemy. For this betrayal he surely would have hung from the neck until dead, his prior heroism notwithstanding. While the form and extent of the aid given to the enemy differs between Kerry and Arnold I see them both in the same light.
50 posted on 02/11/2004 5:49:33 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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To: Dog
I watched David Gregory on Mathews tonight say that Bush's National Guard record is now important because we're in a war, as opposed to Bill Clinton's draft dodging. Putting aside the infuriating BS contained within that statement, how in God's name can David Gregory explain the fact none of them cares about John Kerry's long campaign to demonstrate that U.S. troops were war criminals?? His support for Ho Chi Minh? His testimony to Congress that the soldiers would soon mutiny and disobey their officers in Vietnam? That Gen. Giap credited Kerry's actions for the N Vietnamese victory??
51 posted on 02/11/2004 5:50:33 PM PST by Williams
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To: kattracks
OK. I see. That makes it all better now.
52 posted on 02/11/2004 5:52:29 PM PST by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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To: All
Go to thread Kerry Dossier.Post # 205 had a photo kerry and fonda on the same stage standing next to each other. Fonda was speaking the the blurb under the photo said that Kerry was to speak next.
53 posted on 02/11/2004 5:53:26 PM PST by mware
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To: NYCVirago
Hanoi Jane and Hanoi John,
tellin' Bush to bring it on.
Once he does they will regret
They ever took on so many vets.
54 posted on 02/11/2004 5:54:12 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: kattracks
Am watching Paula Zahn interview Jane Fonda, and she just called men who support her causes "vagina-friendly men."

No, you can't make this stuff up.

55 posted on 02/11/2004 5:54:13 PM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: kattracks
I think it was ARGOSY magazine that had an article with a photo of her, naked, back to the camera looking back over her shoulder with this caption... "The person whose FBI files we would most love to see."
56 posted on 02/11/2004 5:55:30 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: kattracks
I think it was ARGOSY magazine that had an article with a photo of her, naked, back to the camera looking back over her shoulder with this caption... "The person whose FBI files we would most love to see."
57 posted on 02/11/2004 5:55:39 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: leprechaun9
I point out that Timothy McVeigh also served in the military and was Honorably Discharged.

Let us not forget Lee Harvey Oswald, a Marine. Oswald received a Dishonorable Discharge.

58 posted on 02/11/2004 5:56:08 PM PST by Plutarch
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To: kattracks
Hanoi Jane should be tried for treason.

Failing that, she can pucker up and kiss my butt.

59 posted on 02/11/2004 5:57:01 PM PST by LibKill (My sigil: Two crossed, dead, Frenchmen emblazoned on a mound of dead Frenchmen.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Fumble fingers!
60 posted on 02/11/2004 5:57:26 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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