When I read that 72-year old Jane Fonda was about to release two new workout DVDs “geared to the 100 million Baby Boomers and older adults,” two words kept popping into my head: “Hanoi Jane.” (I had a similar experience when she tried to re-emerge as a viable actress in Hollywood with the movie “Monster-in-Law” in 2005. Except the words that kept coming to mind then were “traitor” and “back-stabbing communist sympathizer.”)
What is Fonda’s deal? Doesn’t she know that real Americans have been sick of her since she took North Vietnam’s side during the Vietnam War? Does she really think she can pose for pictures in her workout clothes in 2010 and we’ll somehow forget about her posing for pictures with a North Vietnamese Anti-Aircraft gun in 1972?
Surely she knows we’ll never forget the radio broadcast she made to the North Vietnamese population in August 1972: a broadcast in which she referred to American fighting forces as “U.S. imperialists,” bragged that President Nixon would “never be able to break the spirit of [the North Vietnamese] people,” and then said Nixon “would do well to read…poetry written by Ho Chi Minh.” (It was during this same trip to North Vietnam that Fonda referred to our soldiers as “war criminals” and accused American POWs of lying when they alleged that the North Vietnamese had tortured them.)
Such anti-American sentiment might make Senator John Kerry proud, but it’s no less than stomach turning for salt-of-the-earth Americans whose children enlist in our military because they love this country.
Yes, I’m mad. And I’m sure someone thinks I’ve made a mistake by failing to mention that Fonda apologized for her actions in 1988 and again in 2005. (But let the record show that her apology in 2005 only consisted of being sorry that someone had a camera at the ready to photograph her support of the North Vietnamese.) Nevertheless, neither of these apologizes mean anything when one considers Fonda’s participation in the anti-war movement that reared its ugly head during the Iraq War.
That’s right, Miss “I’m Sorry For Getting Caught Supporting the Enemy During Vietnam” came out in 2005 and 2007 against our military operations in Iraq. In 2005 she promised to take a bus tour around the country to show her commitment to anti-war principles. And in 2007 she stood shoulder to shoulder with stellar intellectuals like Sean Penn and Tim Robbins, and said: “I’m so sad that we still have to [protest this war], that we did not learn the lessons from the Vietnam War.”
For the record, we did learn some lessons from the Vietnam War, and one of those lessons was that Fonda is a traitor.
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