Posted on 01/28/2007 5:29:30 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
For her next act, Jane Fonda has entered the war against the Iraq war. At the tail-end of yesterday's on-the-Mall rally, organized by United for Peace and Justice, Fonda stood onstage with the Capitol behind her and addressed the sun-drenched thousands. "I haven't spoken at an antiwar rally in 34 years," she said. But, "Silence is no longer an option."
The first time Fonda, 69, spoke out for peace, the country was soul-deep in the Vietnam War. In the ensuing decades, as the nation has gone through a slew of changes, so has Fonda.
As a young woman, the daughter of actor Henry Fonda was an actress, a feminist and anti-Vietnam War activist. She morphed into a workout maven, post-feminist arm candy for billionaire media magnate Ted Turner, a vocal Christian and an autobiographer. With 2005's "Monster-in-Law," she defibrillated her movie career.
Yesterday, with her daughter, Vanessa Vadim, and two grandchildren nearby, she was again front and center as actress, feminist and opponent of war.
Her life has come full circle......."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Will she be visiting Al-Qaeda anytime soon?
Time has not dimmed or softened my memory of Fonda. People like her are greater enemies of the United States than were the VC or the North Vietnamese.
Hopefully, then she'll find out how peaceful and misunderstood they are.
The day I read her obituary will be a happy one.
I havent had a drink in years I will open a botle of Champagne that day.
You can comre to the party at my house when she dies,it will be a 2 pit hog roast and open bar.
You can come to the party at my house when she dies,it will be a 2 pit hog roast and open bar.
88,
You nailed it, it's the "Regs" vs. the Long Hairs all over.
I imagine the Swift Boaters will notice this one and crank it up for one more mission.
These (Fonda types) have been trying to bring this country down and relive their glory years for what seems like an eternity. They have gone from the summer of love to the winter of Metimucil. It must stink to be them, they get to look back on their lives and see no missions accomplished. They lusted for ultimate power that will never be theirs. That is why the Gore 2000' and Kerry 2004 hit them so hard.
No matter how hard they try, they will never get that brass ring.....
Not true. She never apologized. Never. She issued a deceptively worded statement which she dishonestly claimed was an apology. That is not the same thing.
My brother-in-law is a Viet Nam vet who happens to believe the war in Iraq is a mistake. Surprising he doesn't get the whole "this is a Front in the GWOT", but that's another discussion. (I think there may be more Viet vets out there like him, based on what he's said.) The insertion of Hanoi Jane into the debate is going to turn his head - guaranteed - because he despises her.
Ted Turner kicked her to the curb and then Hollywood.
Baghdad Jane at it again.
At the end of her tirade against the Iraq War, Fonda quietly grabbed her walker and her oxygen bottle and shuffled off to her waiting Hummer H2 which whisked her away from the demonstration.
(Part of the story left on the editorial room floor)
Memo to Hanoi Jane:
In your case, [W]itch, silence is ALWAYS an option. In fact, we beg you, SHUT THE %&*# UP!
Weaks says that when Fonda was in her Hanoi Jane phase the country was "soul-deep" in the Vietnam War -- as though Fonda and the collected malcontents and under-employed celebrities mentioned here were ever either soulful or deep. To join Fonda in conflating this rally with America just shows you these people are deep in something, and it isn't soul. Best wear your hipboots.
Weaks also intones that the country -- and our collective conscience Fonda -- has since gone through many changes, but he doesn't say what they are, aside maybe from Fonda's changing hairstyles. (Fonda was once asked how she developed each of her movie characters -- she said she did it by figuring out how each one wore her hair. Can't get deeper than that.)
I find it very odd (make that self-serving) that Fonda is claiming that unlike her last period of antiwar advocacy, this time the military and their families are on her side. She seems to overlook that she spent lots of time in the early 70s going around to communities with military bases trying to politicize soldiers. That claim has always been part of her schtick.
But did she have the right to give aid and comfort to the enemy?
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