Posted on 04/11/2013 10:30:01 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
When Jane Fonda was cast as former First Lady Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels forthcoming film The Butler, some Reagan fans were not pleased. Now, with the biographical due to hit theaters in October, a movement to boycott the movie is gaining some momentum.
Larry Reyes, a Navy veteran and founder of the Boycott Hanoi Jane Playing Nancy Reagan Facebook page has been particularly vocal about the casting decision, given Fondas past frolicking with the enemy during the Vietnam War.
Growing up in a military family I heard my father and uncles talk about what Jane did, so from an early age I knew about her history with the war and how upset veterans were about it. Yet it amazed me that people just turned their backs and kept supporting her exercise videos and movies.
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Well I certainly respect her right piss off a significant block of the movie’s potential audience.
Start with hers.
Thanks Ben Mugged.
Amen!
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