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I didn’t know Jane Fonda was still around either. But sure enough, the soon-to-be-75 actress, left-wing activist, fitness fanatic and general flake is not only sitting up and taking solid food — health food by the look of her, she doesn’t have enough fat on her to make a candle — has just received another award.
Something called the L.A. Press Club has bestowed its annual “Visionary Award” on Hanoi Jane. Why? I wondered that too. The club explains that the award is bestowed on someone in the entertainment industry (is Jane still entertaining?) who “uses their (sic) high-profile status to make the world a better place and to spread information about issues of freedom and social importance.”
Dang. You knew it would be something like that. The club didn’t make it clear exactly how our Jane made the world better. Could it have been hamming it up with her North Vietnamese pals on the anti-aircraft gun whose function was to shoot down American fliers? Perhaps it was for divorcing Ted Turner. Who knows exactly what her visionary works were. Most visionaries I’ve encountered have either eaten too little and seen God, or drank too much and seen snakes. Whatever the case with Jane, it is doubtless a left-wing vision. Which I guess is why she appeals to the L.A. Press Club.
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RJ| 11.21.12 @ 3:11AM
I remember hearing one of the POWs say that she also was allowed to hector American POWs (calling them war criminals who should be grateful for the humane treatment they were getting). This got much less attention than the picture with her NVA buddies. As I recall, the POW thought she was putting on an act in order to get to see them. He passed a note to her when shaking her hand. She promptly turned it over to the head prison official. Of course it made matters worse. Her trip to North Vietnam and her behavior there, during a time US forces were dying is unforgivable. I am outraged that she is being given awards for it. At the same time, I have never underestimated her. Her communication skills on college campuses were formidable.
Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark also traveled to North Vietnam during the war. I understand people who didn't support the war, but if people don't know that the actions of Fonda, Clark and as well as protestors who carried the Viet Cong flag in protest marches is wrong, then there is something wrong with them. What makes matters much worse is that the American public elected a man to the Presidency whose views and actions are in the same class as Fonda and Clarke.
soljerblue| 11.21.12 @ 4:47AM
Perhaps the most definitive statement I've ever seen about Hanoi Jane was in the mens room of a U.S. Air Force base some years ago. It's name and location, for obvious reasons, shall remain undisclosed. In the bottom of each and every urinal in the room was permanently afixed a photo of Hanoi Jane. It doesn't get much pithier than that.
Bob Grant| 11.21.12 @ 10:44AM
Beautiful!
Oh how I would love to use those facilities.
soljerblue| 11.22.12 @ 8:10PM
I did. As often as possible. And with the amount of coffee I drink, I made a number of low passes in that 'target-rich environment'. :-)))
spike59| 11.21.12 @ 6:15AM
Chris Barron, founder of GOProud, said it best on "Red Eye" the other day when, referring to Hanoi Jane's comment that her one regret was that picture of her sitting on a NVA anti-aircraft gun, he said his biggest regret was that an American fighter attack didn't take the gun out while she was on it...and warned people not to say her name 3 times, or she might appear a la Beetle Juice, and make another bad movie...it just doesn't get any better than that
chuck| 11.21.12 @ 7:32AM
Bitch should have been hung for treason.
CJW| 11.21.12 @ 1:28PM
If anyone did that in WWII, posing with the Nazis or Japanese, they would have been tried for treason.
One of her marriages was to Tom Hayden, one of the founders of Students for Democratic Society, SDS, that splinered into Weatherman, and the terrorists like Billy Ayers. Hayden ran and won an election to the California legislature.
RJ| 11.21.12 @ 2:33PM
Tom Hayden also traveled to North Vietnam during the war.
CJW| 11.21.12 @ 4:24PM
So naturally he ran and won as a Dem in California.
Arbiter55| 11.21.12 @ 10:03AM
During the late 70's I quite often saw this bumper sticker on cars aboard Camp Pendleton, CA:
Boycott Jane Fonda
American Traitor B*tch
Cobalt| 11.21.12 @ 10:56AM
Has Hanoi Jane ever met Senator John McCain?
Tom Kyba| 11.21.12 @ 11:12AM
"Awards" are prizes liberals give to other liberals for being good liberals. End of story.
fmm| 11.21.12 @ 11:38AM
Best award for this creep would be to move her to a hotel in Hanoi.
Al Adab| 11.21.12 @ 1:53PM
Why not honor her? Her traitorous friend and fellow traveler John Kerry is about to become SecDef. Besides, for a long time those folks kept telling us, "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism". Maybe we should take a page from their book, eh?
Occam's Tool| 11.21.12 @ 2:26PM
She's a loathsome, worthless scumbag. But so are 90 percent of Hollywood dingbats,
Occam's Tool| 11.21.12 @ 2:27PM
Oops, hit the comma by mistake. Look at Aloan Rickamn. Now there's a man who would not be missed if he were St. Pancaked on the West Bank.
Controse| 11.23.12 @ 2:50AM
She made the world better this year than last year and she will make it better still next year. How? You ask. Well raw carrots notwithstanding she is more likely to drop dead this year than she was last year and she is more likely still to drop dead next year than this year.
She didn't get the award for any big thing she has done since she isn't dead yet. It was for all the little steps she has taken since she was born. There have been 75 of them so far.
Vance P. Frickey| 11.24.12 @ 12:50AM
The L.A. Press Club is probably dominated by the Los Angeles Times editorial board. Big surprise that they love Hanoi Jane.