Posted on 07/17/2011 9:06:23 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
According to Snopes.com this has become a regular ritual whenever ol’ Jane hits the road to gin up publicity for her now occasional book/movie projects and has to face the hoi polloi:
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“In 1988, sixteen years after the fact, Fonda finally met with Vietnam veterans to apologize for her actions. This nationally-televised apology (during which she attempted to minimize her actions by characterizing them as “thoughtless and careless”) came at a time when New England vets were successfully disrupting a film project she was working on, leading more than a few to read a huge dollop of self-interest into her apology.
Fonda again “apologized” in 2005, an act which not surprisingly once again coincided with the release of a film in which she had a starring role (Monster-in-Law, her first leading role since 1990’s Stanley & Iris) and a book tour to promote her autobiography. As she had several years earlier, Fonda made it quite clear that she was apologizing only for posing for photographs while seated at a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, and even then her “apology” was couched in the most oblique terms possible (i.e., she didn’t address the people she harmed and say she was sorry for hurting them; she only issued the self-confessional statement that she “regretted” one of her actions):
2000: “I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.”
2005: “I will go to my grave regretting that. The image of Jane Fonda, ‘Barbarella,’ Henry Fonda’s daughter, just a woman sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal. It was like I was thumbing my nose at the military and at the country that gave me privilege.”
Fonda emphasized that she was not apologizing for any other actions connected with her trip to North Vietnam, or for any of her other anti-war activities:
The 67-year-old actress and activist, however, defended her decision to go to Hanoi and said she had no regrets about being photographed with American POWs there or making broadcasts on Radio Hanoi because she was trying to stop the war.
“There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs,” she added. “Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda. It’s not something that I will apologize for.”
One man who didn’t take Fonda’s confessions to heart was 54-year-old Michael Smith. While Fonda was autographing copies of her autobiography, My Life So Far, in Kansas City in April 2005 as part of a promotional book-signing tour, Smith, who said he was a Vietnam veteran, waited in line for 90 minutes and then spat tobacco juice on Fonda.”
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This time around, she’s flogging another book and now she’s more playing up the martyrdom angle rather than bothering to (non)apologize. I say buy a pack of Skoal and get in line for her next book signing and red-carpet walking near you.
Even if we conservatives aren’t supposed to do that sort of thing. It’s the only thing these people respect.
Yep, she had a big family rift with her own father over this.
I remember Henry Fonda. He reminds us all that there was a time when not everybody in Hollywood was a liberal Hollywood idiot.
Why do so few of these pieces mention her turning over those POWs SSNs to the Vietcong? That’s the most unforgivable thing she did!
“Jane Fonda: ‘I Have Never Done Anything to Hurt My Country’
Yeah. I forgot “aiding” and publicly spewing out propaganda for an enemy doesn’t count.
Just drop dead, you withered up prune!
She’s angry, as her plan to slide into a genteel semi-retirement of books, product endorsements, appearances, etc., has gone straight to hell. A preview of where she’s headed.
Look at the real heroes who navigated that path successfully: Eddie Albert, George Kennedy, and Ed McMahon, to name but a few. She’s the polar opposite of these true heroes.
Squirm, Jane, Squirm.
where was crashin’&bombin’ mccainiac when ya needed him?
she was fair game then..
she is now.
"Bill Clinton: 'I did not have sex with that woman -- Miss Lewinsky.'
Lefties are lying b-stards, but they can't fool us anymore.
If Miss Fonda wanted to find out if she hurt her country, she should take a poll of Vietnam vets. Ask THEM. Then she'll get her answer.
“I’ve never done anything to hurt my country.”
-she’s not talking about the US. She’s talking about France.
I can see where you dumb hicks would be confused.
/sarc
LOL
Every American vet, has pissed on one of those in every VFW,American Legion, and every AmVets in the land. LoL
Of course she hasn’t, her country is Vietnam.
By the way, I make a point of personally boycotting any endeavor, product, movie or TV viewing any of the Hollywood leftists and traitors like HANOI JANE are associated with.
I never learned to spit like a man, but chemo taught me how to vomit with precision. Where’s her itinerary?
and hence the comment “I wish I had those blue eyed bastards in my sights” was reportedly uttered by her.
jane fonda: I’ve Never Done Anything To Hurt My Country
In recent months.
pardon my french - But like hell you didn’t bitch.
But it was OK when you had your own commie funded and organized political extremist groups.
Wassa matter, run out of money, Jane? Need a little capitalism to keep you running for a few more years? Why don't you just go on welfare and live in public housing? Or move to Cuba to enjoy life the way you would like it to be here.
I honestly think she is too stupid to know she became an enemy of the USA.
I’m open minded to entertaining arguments to the effect that she is a communist traitor who actively sought to betray the USA. That is entirely possible. But I don’t believe that.
I believe she is a goo-goo airhead moron who had visions of Utopia implanted John Lennon like in her head by her father and really thought she was behaving correctly. I think she is so dense, so stupid, such a brain dead moronic imbicile, that she REALLY HONESTLY doesn’t believe she did anything wrong.
Of course, such true believers are far more dangerous to our freedom, culture and way of life than the bought and paid traitors who at least stop betraying you when the checks stop coming. Even better, you can buy their temporary loyalty for more.
People like Hanoi Jane are the most dangerous type of traitor, not only are they true believers who think they are HELPING their nation, they are delusional and have no ability to to tell reality from fantasy.
I don’t think she is evil so much as I think she is mentally ill in a way. Of course, her actions are entirely evil. Like I said, I’m not going to argue she isn’t evil. She may well be, I just see her as mentally deficient. A genuine loon. A functional retard.
The article seems to have missed the part about Hanoi Jane where prisoners at Hanoi Hilton being interviewed, passed her secret notes to take home to their families, which she turned over to their captors to read. Of course, more torture was the result of their attempts to contact their family.
They missed that little factoid.
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