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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:
That traitor can go to hell.
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Her best look - mouth closed, legs...
I believe “traitorous whiny b*tch Jane” is available.
Hope I live long enough to urinate on her grave.
REPORTER 1: Jane, who are you voting for?
REPORTER 2: Who gets your vote?
FONDA: Obama.
REPORTER 2: Oh, my God. Heaven help us all.
RUSH: The reporter for TMZ said, "Oh, God. Heaven help us all." Obviously the reporter is an Obama supporter.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_040308/content/01125111.guest.html
What an idiot. She wants communism? Wants to limit private profit oriented businesses?
What these Hollywood liberals don’t realize is their very lifestyle and big living would also fall under the hammer.
If she doesn’t believe in ‘capitalism’ she should put her money where her mouth is, give all her $ away to the poor and live in a 2nd floor walk-up. No more face-lifts!
Hollywood hypocrites...
Claim: Jane Fonda betrayed U.S. POWs during the Viet Nam War.
Status: Multiple:
* During a 1972 trip to North Vietnam, Jane Fonda propagandized on behalf of the North Vietnamese government, declared that American POWs were being treated humanely and condemned U.S. soldiers as "war criminals" and later denounced them as liars for claiming they had been tortured: True.
* Jane Fonda handed over to their captors the slips of paper POWs pressed upon her: False.
* In 1999, Jane Fonda was profiled in ABC's A Celebration: 100 Years of Great Women: True.
Too bad a salvo of Wild Weasels didn’t light that SAM sit up. If it wasn’t for her father she’d be in jail.
Do they really think they can rewrite history to make themselves into heroes? Like we weren’t there or something. Fools.
She wanted to be taken seriously as an actress. And she says WHAT about Sarah Palin?
Veitnam Vets are not fonda Jane.
Thank goodness Jane has decided to get politically active again. It’s been difficult to steer the nation without her deep intellectual contribution.
As a name, “Hanoi Jane” works. We don’t have to define which traitorous b***h we are referring to. After all, there are a few who fit that bill running around.
Treason is still treason, and there is no statute of limitations on it. We won’t forget or forgive until you die a natural death or, preferably, by way of a short rope and a long drop, Jane.
You’ve got that right, FRiend!
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