'Hanoi' Jane Defends Kerry in Photo Flap

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

[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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[alnick]

'Hanoi' Jane Defends Kerry

Gee, that'll help.

[Salvation]

**"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."**

On, yeah, minimal contact! LOL!

Sorry Hanoi Jane, we don't believe you. I wonder why </sarcasm off

[mware]

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."**

I think we have a photography of that speech on thread Kerry's Dossier, Post 205. Go check it out. I am not very good at the graphics, can someone bring that photo over to this thread.

[DaBroasta]

Benedict Arnold too was considered a great and partiotic American hero.

Too bad the lieberal media wouldn't dare challenge the Kerry sycophants with that point. Of course that would require that they're mentally adroit and versed enough in US history to conjure and comprehend that fact.

[bluegrass]

David Gregory creeps me out.

The RNC has a boatload on Kerry's flip flops, they just have to use it right. Things are looking up for Bush this week, and not nearly as good for John "The Spatula" Kerry.

[Peach]

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.

[aculeus]

Jane, do more television, please!

[adam_az]

"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."

Actually that didn't happen, urban myth. She did cheer and clap at NVA AA gunners who were shooting at US planes, though. There's pictures on this thread, in fact.

[Peach]

The book "Stolen Valor", which I gave my brother for Christmas, details the many, many lies we were told about our soldiers.

The book is heavily researched and one of the two authors has been on FNC a few times.

The war crimes attributed to by Kerry were mostly lies, which I know does not surprise anyone here.

[adam_az]

hannity & colmes discussing fonda

[Peach]

Ditto your #49.

I started to write a letter to the editor tonight re Kerry's post war comments and activities.

But people will have forgotten by November. I'm waiting until September.

[BobS]

Yes, WE peaked too soon. I hope we can shut up until Kerry gets the majority of the RAT delegates so far.

[The Shrew]

"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."

I guess being the wife of former CNN CEO Ted Turner DOES have its priviledges!

I can't imagine for the life of me why General Turnipseed getting access to CNN like that!

Regards,

TS

[CedarDave]

I see it over there, but the image is on Registered's web page and I don't know if it's real or Photoshopped. I think Registered will need to speak up. If it's real, it's a blockbuster.

[mware]

Actaully I dont blame him if he holds up until he can get official credit for finding the photo. FR didnt get credit for the find in the last photo.

[mabelkitty]

In other words, "I am so disgusting that not even Commie Kerry would have anything to do with me, and my ex-husband dumped me for a French chick."

[Martin Tell]

we have a photography of that speech on thread Kerry's Dossier, Post 205 ...

There is some doubt about the veracity of that photo. Another poster stated that it looked Photoshopped (I don't think it was a disrupter). The photo had an AP tag, but no date, no location and no other source info.

It would be great if it's the real deal, but a bit of caution may be in order.

Another photo circulating of Kerry in front of a VC flag is definitely Photoshopped.

There is one more - apparently of Kerry being arrested with hands behind his head. That one looks real.

[RJL]

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.

I wouldn’t give Fonda the time of day, but just think how this save John Kerry tour must feel for Jane Fonda. She is trying to convince people that Kerry isn’t an un-American scumbag traitor and commie just because he hung around with her.

It’s got to hurt her personally and of course what she’s selling is a lie, but that comes easy to liberals.

[Pegita]

Long read, but snopes.com (the Urban Legend Site),says that
part of the story ... the prisoner and the note ...
is not true.

http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.htm

[mware]

The reason I think the photo at #205 is the real McCoy is because of this comment from this article.

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."