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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On, yeah, minimal contact! LOL!
Yes, Kerry ignoring a rich young woman is just his style. NOT!
That one is on the Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry website. They admit right up front that it's not real but used to illustrate Kerry's beliefs at the time.
Yes and no. There's a lot more on Kerry -- he has many years of flip-flops and flubs as a politican, but we need to discusss this Vietnam stuff now, since all the Bush National Guard nonsense is in the news every day. It's a stark comparison between the two.
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."
Just like "loath the military" Clinton? Maybe history won't repeat but I'm not holding my breath.
"Only I was rooting for a commie victory in Vietnam."
Picture didn't print but here's a link to that thread - go to post 205: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076057/posts?q=1&&page=201
Where do you think all the blind "Rats at DU came from. Rats have a gestation period a 3-4 weeks, who would never know Jane was pregnant. No telling how many litters she gave birth too!
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