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Jane Fonda Decries Hanoi Jane ‘Myth’ ‘Created by Right-Wingers,’ Palin Popularity ‘Worries Me’
NewsBusters ^ | April 6, 2010 | Brad Wilmouth

Posted on 04/06/2010 6:34:27 AM PDT by Zakeet

On Monday’s Larry King Live on CNN, guest Jane Fonda portrayed herself as a victim of a "myth" that was "created" by "right-wingers" about her infamous "Hanoi Jane" visit to Vietnam to protest the Vietnam War. Without specifying what aspect of the "Hanoi Jane" story she considered to be a fallacy, though the "Product Description" at Amazon.com seems to shed some light on what she was referring to, she claimed that author Jerry Lembcke’s new book, "Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal," is "about the myth," and asserted that it is "sad" that some conservatives are "still stuck in the past":

JANE FONDA: No, it's about the myth, you know, why it is that 300 people went to North Vietnam, people, many people before me, why me, why have they created this myth? You know, when I came back from North Vietnam, there was maybe a quarter of an inch of media about it in the New York Times. Nobody made any big deal out of it. It was created, and some people are stuck-

LARRY KING: By critics?

FONDA: By right wingers. There are some people who are like stuck there, you know, they're still stuck in the past. I always want to say, "Get a life," or, you know, "Read what really happened," you know. The myths are now true.

Referring to people who sometimes protest against her, she continued: "But it makes me sad for these people who are stuck because they've not taken the time – if they're going to waste their energy on hatred, they should take the time in finding out what was really true."

The "Product Description" of the book at Amazon.com contends:

Hanoi Jane, the book, deconstructs Hanoi Jane, the myth, to locate its origins in the need of Americans to explain defeat in Vietnam through fantasies of home-front betrayal and the emasculation of the national will-to-war. Lembcke shows th t the expression Hanoi Jane did not reach the eyes and ears of most Americans until five or six years after the end of the war in Vietnam. By then, anxieties about America s declining global status and deteriorating economy were fueling a populist reaction that pointed to the loss of the war as the taproot of those problems. Blaming the antiwar movement for undermining the military s resolve, many found in the imaginary Hanoi Jane the personification of their stab-in-the back theories.

Ground zero of the myth was the city of Hanoi itself, which Jane Fonda had visited as a peace activist in July 1972. Rumors surrounding Fonda s visits with U.S. POWs and radio broadcasts to troops combined to conjure allegations of treason that had cost American lives. That such tales were more imagined than real did not prevent them from insinuating themselves into public memory, where they have continued to infect American politics and culture.

Hanoi Jane is a book about the making of Hanoi Jane by those who saw a formidable threat in the Jane Fonda who supported soldiers and veterans opposed to the war they fought, in the postcolonial struggle of the Vietnamese people to make their own future, and in the movements of women everywhere for gender equality.

When asked by host King what she thought of Sarah Palin, after asserting that "she should not be a politician, in my opinion," and that it is "sad when someone says I'm going to run for office and they can't answer basic questions, you know, about the world, about what they read, about history," the left-wing actress concluded that Palin’s popularity "worries me, frankly."

Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Monday, April 5, Larry King Live on CNN:


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fonda; fta; hanoijane; janefonda; mediabias; msm; palin
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To: Voter#537
Even the low life Ted Turner saw you for the USA hating whore you are...

He knew who and what she was. That was probably why he married her.

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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
PROFILE: TED TURNER


81 posted on 04/06/2010 7:59:18 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Zakeet
Sorry Jane...ugly and stupid are worthless traits.
82 posted on 04/06/2010 7:59:32 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (Barack Obama is Osama bin Laden's relief pitcher.)
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To: Zakeet
Jane sits atop a mythical anti aircraft gun in Hanoi aiming at mythical American airmen.

83 posted on 04/06/2010 7:59:36 AM PDT by y6162
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I’ll drop a duece on her grave.....

Get in line.

84 posted on 04/06/2010 7:59:43 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Zakeet

85 posted on 04/06/2010 8:00:39 AM PDT by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: Hoodat

We know exactly what you are, Jane.


86 posted on 04/06/2010 8:01:48 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Zakeet

This traitorous b&#tch should have been taken into custody then executed the minute she stepped back on US soil.


87 posted on 04/06/2010 8:02:19 AM PDT by rosco coltrain
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To: magslinger
I think we should just save everyone some time and use a septic tank for her grave.

That's about the nicest thing I could think of too.

88 posted on 04/06/2010 8:10:39 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: Zakeet; All
And now for a breath of fresh air...

Bob Hope's 1967 Christmas show
Bear Cat base camp, S. Vietnam, December, 1967; John Olson, ©Stars and Stripes

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FOXNEWS.COM HOME: YOUR WORLD W/ NEIL CAVUTO
Transcript: American Beauty
August 12, 2005

NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: When you think of Hollywood legends or at least when I think of Hollywood legends, my next guest really comes to mind. She's a Golden Globe winner, she's a Broadway star, and did I mention, she is — oh gosh — she is a knockout. On Saturday [August 13, 2005], actress Raquel Welch will be honored by the Vietnam Veterans of America for entertaining the troops with Bob Hope back in 1968.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165586,00.html

89 posted on 04/06/2010 8:30:03 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Repeat Offender
I think we should just save everyone some time and use a septic tank for her grave.
That's about the nicest thing I could think of too.

Nope, she should be stuffed and mounted on an anti aircraft gun in that pose and displayed in the Museum of the Revolution in Hanoi, Vietnam. That would be the most fitting tribute to her.

90 posted on 04/06/2010 8:34:15 AM PDT by DejaJude
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To: Zakeet

Some myth. The pictures don’t lie.


91 posted on 04/06/2010 8:44:48 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Repeat Offender

More efficient, but not as satisfying.


92 posted on 04/06/2010 8:46:47 AM PDT by magslinger (Cry MALAISE! and let slip the dogs of incompetence.)
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To: DejaJude
she should be stuffed and mounted on an anti aircraft gun in that pose and displayed in the Museum of the Revolution in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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Photograph of Madame Binh and Jane Fonda
Displayed in the Women’s Museum, Saigon, May 28, 2004.
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JOHN KERRY BEING HONORED, BY COMMUNISTS, FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THEIR VICTORY OVER UNITED STATES

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Source for both:
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93 posted on 04/06/2010 8:50:53 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Outlaw Woman

Thank you.


94 posted on 04/06/2010 8:51:13 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: ETL; Zakeet
Hanoi Jane in front of anti-aircraft artillery. It's hard to paint this in a positive light, seriously. Visiting the enemy, checking out their weapons, and applauding them? Yeah - it was a misunderstanding. (/sarc)
95 posted on 04/06/2010 8:54:53 AM PDT by Ro_Thunder ("Other than ending SLAVERY, FASCISM, NAZISM and COMMUNISM, war has never solved anything")
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To: Zakeet
WWTS?
What Would Tonk Say?
96 posted on 04/06/2010 9:02:37 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The real death threat is their legislation" Rush Limbaugh, 3/25/10)
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To: Zakeet
Hanoi Jane is getting senile. There were many in the Vietnam War that weren't right-wingers.

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97 posted on 04/06/2010 9:04:57 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: ETL

Yeah, I know. Both Kerry and Fonda should be stuffed and displayed there. Besides, I don’t want any part of them to be put in American soil. Although, I’d be willing to let Kerry be buried in France.


98 posted on 04/06/2010 9:15:04 AM PDT by DejaJude
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To: Ro_Thunder

Plus all the other things she did and said to undermine the U.S. military and help the North Vietnamese win. And she’s still a revolutionary communist today, despite the BS about her ‘apologizing’ and becoming a Christian, etc. She’s on the list of supporters of the World Can’t Wait movement. WCW is a Maoist-revolutionary movement established by the Revolutionary Communist Party in 2005. In 2009 she brought her anti-US military roadshow from the Vietnam war era to Broadway. It was called FTA for “F The Army”. See my earlier posts for more on both.


99 posted on 04/06/2010 9:20:31 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Zakeet

I wouldn’t give that washed-up, old hag Fonda the privilege of my urine on her grave.


100 posted on 04/06/2010 9:53:19 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Alfred E. Neuman for President! Oh, wait a minute ...)
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