Posted on 12/18/2007 7:35:27 AM PST by Interesting Times
It might help the drought that so few flowers are left to water in Atlanta, so many having been thrown at Jane Fonda to celebrate her 70th birthday.
The AJC predictably gave her glowing coverage, with only the mention that Fonda has to deal with criticism by Vietnam veterans.
Here is one Vietnam veteran who is bothered far more by how the media portray her than by Fonda herself.
Now that the threat of communism is gone, the Cold War stand against it is sometimes ridiculed, likened to looking for boogeymen under the bed. Fonda's own affinity for communism is brushed aside as paranoid rubbish.
But it shouldn't be.
Among those who protested the Vietnam War were many honorable, patriotic and faithful citizens. Fonda was not one of them. Well, she certainly did protest, but if she was a faithful citizen and patriotic, it must have been for another country. Her anti-American roots are evident to any reporter setting willful blindness aside long enough to do some research...
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Fixed it....
Freepers say the darndest things!
Good on ya, that’s a keeper.
Thanks for the ping!
I remember during the 2004 Prez Election she was campaigning for Kerry and someone posted her cell phone number and I called her.
When she answered, I asked “Is this HANOI Jane???”
You should have HEARD the EXPLETIVES that came from her lips!! :^D
Yes, you’re right. God will sort it out.
In Dallas on project, but had to take a second TO AGREE MOST WHOLEHEARTEDLY!!!!!
The worst story I recall about Fonda, was that the prisoners she visited, slipped her notes in their handshakes; the notes sending family greetings and telling of their torture...and fonda just turned around, without looking at them and dumped the notes in the hand of the guard.
I believe that one's an urban legend.
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