Fonda's Pseudo-Apology

cbs - National Review Online ^ | 4-30-05 | Dexter Lehtinen

[LouAvul]

You may have heard that Jane Fonda apologized to Vietnam veterans in her current book. That's incorrect. She expressed "regret" for one photograph, but remains proud of her Radio Hanoi broadcasts, her efforts to achieve a Communist victory, and her attacks on American servicemen as war criminals. She never uses the word "apology."

Fonda's latest foray into her past -- with her pseudo-apology for having been photographed while sitting on a Communist North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, along with her continued vigorous defense of all other aspects of her trip to North Vietnam and her support for the North Vietnamese and Cambodian Communist wars -- reminds us that apologies can be very tricky things. An unqualified apology offered with sincere regret for the full scope of the wrong by someone who recognizes the harm inflicted on others can help in reconciliation. But a "pseudo-apology," offered with limitations by someone who still defends the bulk of the wrong, only serves to aggravate the injury.

Everyone knows the negative effects of the common pseudo-apology, the refrain of which goes, "I'm sorry if I offended you." Pseudo-apologies attempt to subtly shift the blame to the injured party, who apparently misunderstood the good intentions of the offender.

So it is with Jane Fonda's book. In My Life So Far, "Hanoi Jane" expresses "regret" for one thing -- being photographed with an anti-aircraft gun. "I do not regret that I went. My only regret about the trip was that I was photographed in a North Vietnamese antiaircraft gun site."

[kingattax]

do we really need any more jane fonda threads ?.....screw that skanky socialist nutbag

[HowardDeanScream08]

Why is anyone still talking about that woman, outside of a treason hearing or beyond the scope of Communists active in U.S. politics and society?

She's over. She knows it.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Excellant article. This says it all and says it the best!

[Cicero]

Well, well. CBS has posted this story, all right, so the link is correct. But it should also credit the originators:

(National Review Online) This column was written by Dexter Lehtinen.

I'm not complaining. It's truly remarkable that CBS would help spread this story.

[Stonewall Jackson]

I feel sorry for the folks at National Review Online who had to read her tripe.

[abclily]

I saw the flake on TV saying that the war ended a month after she visited the enemy - as though she ended the war. Liberals have such delusions of grandeur!

[SkyDancer]

Mark Twain said he joined the Confederacy and two weeks later he deserted ...the Confederacy fell.

[Tacis]

But, so what? So what if she apologized profusily and begged forgiveness. She'd be lying. She's selling of book or a movie. What does anyone care what a lying commie traitor, either John Kerry or that skank Fonda, says?

[sandydipper]

If'n I ever have the opprotunity I'm gonna pee in her grits.

[wolfpat]

She's saying that she and her "antiwar" buddies saved American lives by shortening the war. She ignores the statements of the communist generals who say that the only reason they didn't surrender was the protests here in the US. The communists knew they only had to outlast the Americans, because the war was being played in the MSM as not winnable and a mistake from the beginning. She cost Americans their lives.
She needs to have already been executed as a traitor.

[what's up]

It must burn Vietnam Vets no end to see this garbage lady still making millions.

I feel for them.

[Michael.SF.]

Both the article at CBS (as linked above) and this thread give proper attribution to NRO and Dexter Lehtinen.

[Michael.SF.]

“Without question we were held captive longer because of the anti-war people, the Kerrys, the Fondas and Haydens. The names we knew over there – they encouraged the enemy to hang on.”

Leo Thorsness
Former Vietnam POW
Medal of Honor Recipient

[artifax]

[Grut]

Fonda is trying to gain significance by reminding people of her past. Let's just forget the whole thing, it's over.

[Oldsailor]

WE really always need more threads and comment on such as Jane Fonda. She is not only a traitor and a treasonous bitch but is as anti-American as anyone I can think of.

She has been responsible for more young American deaths as anyone I know of and still is treated as an acceptible person by too many uninformed people in this country.

Her so called apology is not that at all but instead is her attempt to sell more books on the bodies of brave American servicemen.