Posted on 02/28/2004 11:36:36 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
For the second time in a month, "Hanoi Jane" Fonda has stepped forward to defend Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry, saying she had nothing to do with an April 1971 Vietnam war protest he organized in Washington, D.C. that made Kerry a nationally recognized leader of the anti-war movement. "I think Kerry made a big effort not to have me invited to participate in that," Fonda told the New York Times this week, in quotes the paper published on Saturday. "I think he wanted the organization to distance itself from me, that I was too radical or something," she claimed. Fonda did not explain why, if Kerry felt compromised by her role in his group, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, he allowed her to bankroll VVAW activities during the period he was organizing the Washington, D.C. protest. Just four months before that event - which Kerry's group dubbed "Operation Dewey Canyon III" - Fonda had become the group's leading fundraiser. According to Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley, she had "adopted" the VVAW as "her leading cause." Fonda and Kerry did collaborate on two previous events, the "Winter Soldier Investigation," held in Detroit two months before "Dewey Canyon," and "Operation RAW," a Sept. 1970 protest in Valley Forge, Penn., where both the anti-American actress and the Navy veteran were featured speakers. After NewsMax.com published a photo of Kerry and Fonda sitting near each other at "Operation RAW," the controversial actress said she didn't remember meeting Kerry. But after that event, the two shared leading roles organizing VVAW protests, with Fonda acting as the group's Honorary National Coordinator and Kerry holding the title of National Coordinator. Biographer Brinkley has also cast doubt on Fonda's denials, telling WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg earlier this month that the two had indeed met at "Winter Soldier." Kerry's spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter described Fonda and Kerry as mere acquaintances at the time, but declined to further detail their relationship. While Fonda is nowhere to be seen in photos chronicling the April 1971 protest, one snapshot from the event captures Kerry onstage with an equally controversial character, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who would later follow Fonda to North Vietnam in a bid to undermine the U.S. war effort. The Clark photo appears in Kerry's book, "The New Soldier," which all but disappeared from bookstores after a political opponent used it to defeat him in his first bid for Congress the next year. Fonda sounded somewhat wounded by Kerry's decision not to include her in the Washington, D.C. protest, complaining to the Times, "I went to North Vietnam in July of 1972, so it was not even 'Hanoi Jane' yet." But she admitted that her anti-American image, even before she sided with America's enemy during wartime, could compromise Kerry's clean-cut image. "I was still considered a lightning rod and radical," she said. "He knew that they had to get the attention of Congress, and he didn't want any unnecessary baggage to come with them." Fonda blamed conservative Kerry opponents for ginning up new interest in her anti-war activities. "These are wounds that take a long time to heal, and they're wounds that the right wing, in my opinion, doesn't really want to heal," she told the Times. She said attempts to tarnish Kerry by reporting on their relationship would have little impact. "I think most of the people who are going to vote for Bush were never going to vote for Kerry anyway," she said. "And the other people aren't going to be affected by this, 'Oh, he was connected to Hanoi Jane.' " Kerry's presidential campaign has declined to respond to NewsMax's requests for VVAW financial records from the time Fonda was the group's chief financial backer.
Said Hanoi Jane: "I just caint git that man outta my head."
Sounds like some sort of kinky sexual fetish.
I suppose that is why Kerry brought out the memories and beat them to death...........just to make us forget? To help us heal?
Certainly NOT!
Look, bitch, if you had a problem with "healing" wounds, perhaps you should have thought twice before you inflicted them.
No one is gonna go back and give you a pass on your crap.
You're a traitor, a slut, a commie-sympathizer and lying pig.
Please, please, keep on talking about Hanoi JohnF'inkKerry.
I assure you, every time you open your despicable mouth, one more veteran that was waffling on whether to vote for Hanoi JohnF'inKerry goes to the Republican side, where he should have been in the first place.
Now, if we can only get Algore to endorse the goofy doofus, we're assured of a victory.
You nitwits keep on "helping" Hanoi JohnF'inKerry.
What?....she claims to be wounded?......she and her's did the wounding......and what the victims of those wounds Gold Star mothers for example....are right wing if they wont readily "forget" what Hanoi Jane and Kerry did?...to POWs & MIAs and those on active duty at the time...
They dont want the wounds she inflicted to heal....and they are right wing?
Evil witch...She did the wounding...she inflicted the wounds....and now instead of an apology... she blames the victims for not 'healing' according to "her" time schedule?
What a minute here. Wasn't Kerry's people's argument about the Kerry/Fonda photo was that Fonda didn't become "radical" until her 1972 trip to Hanoi? Which one is it?
It's pretty bad when Jane Fonda tries to distance herself from the left - eh?
So was Kerry and he still is.
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