The Fonda Fallacies: why Jane Fonda was wrong, and why it matters today

Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation ^ | August 23, 2005 | Prof. Robert Turner

[Interesting Times]

This is a long, carefully researched and argued analysis of Jane Fonda's propaganda claims about the Vietnam War. Dr. Turner, a leading expert and author on the topic, lays out the facts.

[Interesting Times]

Deconstructing Hanoi Jane ping...

[A.A. Cunningham]

Jane Fonda is a beautiful and talented actress.

Projectile vomit forthcoming.

[Coop]

Did someone say traitor?

[Stultis]

Jane Fonda is a beautiful and talented actress.

I dunno about the "talented" part. Even when I was a young fella, knew nothing about Fonda's radicalism, and found her physically attractive, I never-the-less was consistently irritated by her screen presence. I vividly remember, the first time I watched Barefoot in the Park, repeatedly wishing that Robert Redford would stuff a sock in her yapp, or just deck her.

[Interesting Times]

Okay, everybody, try to claw your way past the first sentence...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[jeffDavis1861]

I don't wish Ms Fonda any ill will,bu I hope she dies a slow and painful death and burns in Hell.
25th Inf Div '67-'69

[A.A. Cunningham]

"If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist." -- Jane Fonda speaking at University of Michigan, November 21, 1970.

"I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism." -- Jane Fonda speaking at Duke University

[Borges]

Her acting rep is based mostly on Klute.

[SMARTY]

How tough is it for a slut to pretend to be a slut?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Anyone who thinks Hanoi Kerry and Hanoi Jane
aren't behind the anti war crowd
needs to get a clue.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Borges]

Heehee.

[R. Scott]

But for many Vietnam veterans, she is remembered more as a despicable traitor whose betrayal undermined the sacrifices of millions of American soldiers, marines, sailors, and airmen – and in the process contributed significantly to a Communist victory in Indochina that led to the slaughter of millions of innocent human beings and the consignment of tens of millions of others to a Communist gulag that continues to rank among the “worst of the worst”[1] among the world’s human rights abusers.

YEP

[Old Grumpy]

Jane Fonda: rates right up there with Hillary.

[marron]

About three million people died in Indochina following communist take-overs there. This mass slaughter was held at bay only by US soldiers and US assistance to local military forces.

Those three million died because America withdrew, and anyone, everyone, who had a hand in causing that withdrawal must share in the guilt. The people Fonda most admired and still admires in this world have the blood of millions on their hands, and she does too. She will never recognize what she did because how could she live with it if she did?

[Coop]

"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. How do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."

--Ronald Reagan

[conservativeharleyguy]

"Jane Fonda is a beautiful and talented actress".

No.... Jane Fonda WAS a reasonably attractive, mediocre actress who got where she is today by virtue of birth (to an actual "talented actor"), marriage (1st to a pervert, then to a Communist, and finally to an asshole, all rich of course), and a visa stamp to North Vietnam.

Attempts to reconstruct her in the eyes of a new generation will fail, simply because she's too wrinkled up to appeal to minimal attention span of the "OH MY GAWD, IS THAT ASHTON? HE IS SO COOOOL!" crowd, and because there are a whole bunch of folks who still remember what a traitor she is, and will probably outlive her.

[E. Pluribus Unum]