Schwarzenegger, Shriver name new California Hall of Fame inductees (Jane Fonda?!!!)

Sacramento Bee ^ | May 29, 2008 | Kevin Yamamura

[calcowgirl]

Between Dave Brubeck's piano jazz, Quincy Jones' musical repertoire and Alice Waters' inventive cuisine, the California Hall of Fame can throw one heck of a party.

Especially considering actor Jack Nicholson will have a front-row seat.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and first lady Maria Shriver on Wednesday announced the third class of California Hall of Fame inductees, which includes legends as varied as actress-activist Jane Fonda, author Theodor Geisel ("Dr. Seuss") and two-time Nobelist Linus Pauling. Also making the cut were sculptor Robert Graham, fitness guru Jack LaLanne, photographer Dorothea Lange, architect Julia Morgan and former Gov. Leland Stanford.

The new inductees will enter the Hall of Fame on Dec. 10 at the California Museum in Sacramento, and all living nominees must agree to attend as a condition of their induction. After the ceremony, the museum will display artifacts from their lives.

Officials at the California Arts Council and the California Museum selected the Hall of Fame class, with consultation from historians such as former state Librarian Kevin Starr. Schwarzenegger and Shriver, who spearheaded the Hall of Fame idea, approved the final decisions.

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Fonda is perhaps the most controversial pick. The two-time Oscar winner still rankles some Americans for her trip to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War in 1972, an anti-war protest that earned her the nickname "Hanoi Jane." She later said that sitting on an anti-aircraft gun was "the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine."

[EagleUSA]

If there is ANY doubt about how far to the left this state has been dragged over the past 30 years, with the very mention of pandering to the likes of Fonda...there should be no doubt.

Sickening. Liberalism is a disease of the mind which ignores reality at the huge cost to those that face reality and deal with it appropriately.

[weeder]

Jane Fonda?!?!
What’s the matter, Ahnold?
Did Charles Manson decline?

[calcowgirl]

From a video on Maria's website, the full list of new California Hall of Fame inductees:

• Jane Fonda, "two-time Oscar wining actress and fitness pioneer"

• Linus Pauling, "two-time Nobel Prize winning peace advocate and scientist"

• Dorothea Lange, "groundbreaking documentary photographer"

• Dave Brubeck, jazz musician

• Theodor Geisel ("Dr. Seuss")

• Robert Graham, sculptor

• Quincy Jones, "legendary music producer and humanitarian"

• Jack LaLanne, "godfather of the fitness movement"

• Julia Morgan, California's first female architect

• Jack Nicholson, three-time Oscar winning actor and legend

• Leland Stanford, "influential California Governor, industrialist, and founder of Stanford Univ."

• Alice Waters, "pioneering chef and mother of the culinary revolution in California"

[ConservaTexan]

Schwarzenegger and Shriver, who spearheaded the Hall of Fame idea, approved the final decisions.

Schwarzenegger is an idiot.

[Enchante]

Jane Fonda, "two-time Oscar wining actress and fitness pioneer"

How could they forget "traitor, weasel, and friend to America's worst enemies"???

[calcowgirl]

Here's the lists from the prior two years.

2006

Ronald Reagan
César Chávez
Walt Disney
Amelia Earhart
Clint Eastwood
Frank Gehry
David D. Ho, M.D.
Billie Jean King
John Muir
Sally K. Ride, Ph.D.
Alice Walker 
Hearst and Packard Families

2007

Ansel Adams
Milton Berle
Steve Jobs
Willie Mays
Robert Mondavi
Rita Moreno
Jackie Robinson
Jonas Salk, M.D.
John Steinbeck
Elizabeth Taylor
Earl Warren
John Wayne
Tiger Woods

[kbennkc]

Setting aside my own contempt for Fonda , trying anyway , she simply does not belong on this list .

[MarineBrat]

The face that launched the whiz of a billion beers.

[timydnuc]

This isn’t going to change things with us Nam Vets, she will always be in our “Hall of Shame” and a traitor. Burn lightly in Hell Jane, you cost the lives of my brothers, and I will never forgive you for that. God may, but I cannot.

[okie01]

How could they forget "traitor, weasel, and friend to America's worst enemies"???

Seems a fitting response for North Viet Nam's naming John F. Kerry to their Hall of Fame...

[NonValueAdded]

Holy crap, Terminator, don't you fear the wrath of Tonk??? You have some serious haunting coming your way. Not to mention a chit-storm of wrath from living veterans and patriots alike.

Tonk memorial post. He'd be all over this. We should do no less.

[SandRat]

I LIKE your thinking.

[mmanager]

This b!tch cost American lives. I'm all for Californicating to leave the union of states. Gay marriage, immigration, hollywierd etc. First post since Fred dropped out and I'm leaving my tagline. I'm pissed and I've had enough!

[calcowgirl]

Tonk memorial post. He'd be all over this. We should do no less.

I hear ya.

[Bigg Red]

Schwarzenegger is an idiot.

&&&
And a Kennedy puppet.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Now I’ve lost all respect for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and first lady Maria Shriver. What little I had.

[newzjunkey]

Jane Fonda!!! WTH???

[calcowgirl]

Some of the others are famous lefties, too.
None quite as despicable as Ms. Fonda, though.

Did you really expect anything good from SchwarzenFraud?

[amom]

Amazing! You are absolutely correct!