Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Jane Fonda Regrets Vietnam Photo

In an appearance in Maryland on Saturday, Jane Fonda addressed the controversy surrounding her infamous Vietnam photo. The Hollywood Reporter quotes Fonda as stating the following: "Whenever possibly I try to sit down with vets and talk with them, because I understand and it makes me sad. It hurts me and it will to my grave that I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers. I'm a lightning rod. This famous person does something that looks like I'm against the troops, which wasn't true, but it looked that way, and I'm a convenient target. So, I understand."
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  1. JessiJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:06 AM

    OK, Im going to claim my ignorance on this. I was too young to understand this and then never really followed up . What exactly did she do? All have ever heard is Jane Fonda something about Vietnam and being a traitor but never really understood what happened.

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  2. Seven of ElevenJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:15 AM

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  3. Seven of ElevenJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:17 AM

    It was a very explosive time and the vets were treated like crap. I wish Jane's actions had been treated as a statement against the war itself rather than against the soldiers, but that's a testament to how divisive war is. My brother served three tours in Afghanistan and we agree on this: war is not about the people, it's about the power.

    @Jessi, out of my time as well, but from what I remember, she had a photo taken of herself on top of a Vietnam military vehicle, thus showing support for Vietnam, and a lot of Vietnam vets took that as a slap in the face for their service.

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  4. Count JerkulaJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:19 AM

    She toured North Vietnam, during the war, and bad mouthed the US Military while doing it.

    Many urban legends came out of it, but that is the crux of the matter.

    http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp

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  5. MeanieRhysieJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:24 AM

    Time to let it the fuck go. Jeez.

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    1. auntliddyJanuary 20, 2015 at 12:58 PM

      Meanie- what she did was practically treason. She said american prisioners were not tortured, and met with them under duress for communist propaganda. I did live thru this, and while i was a hippie peace freak, evem i thought what she did was very wrong. Soliders who were forced to meet her and pretend all was fine and many many ithers will never forget or forgive her. She has apologized many times, but i always get from her apology she's sorry soldiers got upset with what she did, not sorry she did it.

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    2. SusanBJanuary 20, 2015 at 2:20 PM

      I was a hippy peace freak at the same time and also feel it was treason. Saying it here is one thing.......going to the enemy and saying it is "giving aid and comfort to the enemy". Aunt giddy is right.....she's just sorry people won't forget. And to those who say "let it go" she caused a tremendous amount of pain to a lot of soldiers.....soldiers I went to high school with and did the best they could and we're treated like shit when they got home. Fuck Jane Fonda.

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    3. SusanBJanuary 20, 2015 at 2:21 PM

      I meant aunt liddy of course.....although aunt giddy sounds kind of fun doesn't it?

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  6. SaintsFanJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:24 AM

    What she did is kind of what Dennis Rodman is doing now in N Korea (if N Korea had American hostages). She toured around and acted like it was a great place while the Americans POWs were being treated terribly. She did take a pic with the captors. What a slap in the face to the POWs and their families as well as all Americans. I will not ever be a fan of hers.

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    1. UnknownJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:30 AM

      Not even close to what Rodman did. Maybe if we were actively in open combat with them.

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  7. SaintsFanJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:26 AM

    Forgot to add that the way she is downplaying this now is making my head spin. I would rather her just say she was young and dumb and apologize sincerely.

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  8. UnknownJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:28 AM

    She was also famously photographed sitting in a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft battery. It is one thing to protest the war and campaign for it's end but quite another to tour your enemies territory and lend support for their cause. Unforgivable in many peoples minds.

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  9. UnknownJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:32 AM

    I am not too young to remember this incident.

    Fonda behaved shameful during this time and her apology (if that is what you can call this) is much too late. Frankly, the "I'm famous so I'm a convenient target" negates her apology altogether in my opinion. Her earlier attempts at an apology were equally feeble.

    Let's just say that Fonda was young and caught up in the hippy dippy sentiment of that time - make love, not war, soldiers are baby killers and all that shit. She was a high profile person. She should have known (and I believe she certainly did know) that her visit to Viet Nam and hanging with the Viet Cong in their hooches, posing atop their anti-aircraft guns would be used by the enemy.

    If Fonda was against the war (and many people were), she should have kept her opinions at home and not given aid and comfort and publicity to the enemy.

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    1. Lady HeisenbergJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:34 AM

      Let's not forget now- she also missed a great opportunity to blame the reefer!!!

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    2. UnknownJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:34 AM

      *didn't proof my comments above* >Fonda behaved shamefully

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    3. UnknownJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:36 AM

      Lady H: Or opium dens.

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    4. B626January 21, 2015 at 4:01 AM

      I'm sure it's her handlers telling her to say this

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  10. Lady HeisenbergJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:32 AM

    Whatever you say Hanoi- ehrm- Lighning Rod Jane!!!

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    1. UnknownJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:36 AM

      HAHAHAHA! No doubt.

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    2. SugarTitzJanuary 20, 2015 at 9:16 PM

      all my dad ever called her was hanoi jane until the day he died(rip pops)
      he would get so mad at me for not knowing why she was called that and i had to remind him to pump his brakes cause i was born in the late 70s .. he should know.. and i only knew jane from on golden pond and 9to 5.. only,,, but i understand why he was pissed but he always shook his head at me and gruffed and snarled whenever i had her on tv..i was like dad!! back off she's jane from 9 to 5!!

      lady it was probably the weed and opium den
      miley cyrus is a modern day jane fonda without pows to pose with so she twerks on robin thicke and dances with giant pussys!! lol!!!

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  11. SaintsFanJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:34 AM

    @texas, that's why I put if N Korea had American hostages in there. What N Korea is doing to it's own people is an atrocity and Rodman parades around there claiming to be that little maggot's friend. But that's a whole different post for a different day.

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    1. UnknownJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:36 AM

      I'm with you SaintsFan

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    2. auntliddyJanuary 20, 2015 at 1:03 PM

      Me too saints.

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    3. SusanBJanuary 20, 2015 at 2:27 PM

      You're right saints fan

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    4. SugarTitzJanuary 20, 2015 at 9:18 PM

      we did and do have american hostages over there when dennis went prancing over there with kju.. i'm not sure how many are left but dennis did jack shit too free the hostages.. he and his pals went to play a basketball game for kju on his birthday and ignored the american prisoners over there..
      except kju paid him to go over there..that's worse

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  12. Count JerkulaJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:45 AM

    She's just apologizing because she's old and decrepit and doesn't want people lining up to piss on her grave, when she dies.

    Too little, too late. She has always been a world class cunt, and will be remembered as such, the Hanoi Jane stuff just the most public display of it.

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    1. UnknownJanuary 20, 2015 at 11:49 AM

      Long time no see Count. Have you switched to another site?

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    2. Count JerkulaJanuary 20, 2015 at 12:54 PM

      Not gossip wise, but I have found somewhere to satiate my craving for trolling and conflict.

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    3. Ms.January 20, 2015 at 1:07 PM

      Under the same name?

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  13. JessiJanuary 20, 2015 at 12:47 PM

    Thanks for explaining. Definitely seems a little too late to be apologizing for such a thing. It seems it's more over the fact that she is sick of hearing about it and just wants it to stop.

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    1. Ms.January 20, 2015 at 1:06 PM

      I think she's just trying to get people to talk about her again. No one really gives a fuck about Jane Fonda now. She's a relic.

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  14. SherryJanuary 20, 2015 at 12:50 PM

    Interesting read on Jane and her previous apologies in that Snopes story.

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  15. Ms.January 20, 2015 at 1:05 PM

    Jane is so full of it. She has always presented herself as this great activist and independent thinker. She's not. She morphed into each one of her husbands during her marriages. Whatever they were or wanted, she became that person. And now she's reinventing herself again by dismissing her actions as misunderstood.

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  16. auntliddyJanuary 20, 2015 at 1:05 PM

    And that last part of her statement is blaming the media and playing yhe victim.

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    1. auntliddyJanuary 20, 2015 at 1:06 PM

      To add, which is uncool of her.

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    2. UnknownJanuary 20, 2015 at 1:57 PM

      auntliddy! I was waiting for you to weigh in. Seems as though we are of the same generation that lived through this hooha.

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  17. AndrewBWJanuary 20, 2015 at 1:08 PM

    I remember her trip to Hanoi. I was opposed to the Vietnam War, and even I thought that she was being a gigantic asshat. Nothing has changed my opinion of her since. In her prime she was gorgeous and a very good actress, but self-awareness has never been her strong suit. What Ms. says above about her constantly reinventing herself in the image of her current husband is pretty much spot on.

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  18. MinPinGirlJanuary 20, 2015 at 1:34 PM

    She strikes me as a child of extreme privilege who never had any idea how the other half lives (she's still that way). She is a sterling example of why the majority of (idiot) celebrities have no business getting involved in politics. She thought because she was "Jane Fonda" her opinion was somehow important when in fact she was talking out her ass. I don't know how she can say she was against the war with the STUPID shit that she did. Her apology really wasn't an apology. Maybe that's why people won't forgive and forget. She never has admitted what she did and TRULY taken the blame.

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  19. Bluezz January 20, 2015 at 2:21 PM

    She is a cunt. She will always be Hanoi Jane to me.

    I'm with @Aunt Licky on this issue. My cousins were over there fighting at the time. We had no clue where they were.

    People forget. There was a draft in place. Most of the boys sent over didn't have a say in the matter. And to have our troops come home & be spit on & met by angry protesters, etc. Well, it's something I've never forgotten & never will.

    I hope I didn't offend any of my friends here. I'll get off my soap box now.

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  20. kelliknowsJanuary 20, 2015 at 4:28 PM

    Fonda lived her life as putty for whatever man she wanted to hang on to..she became sex kitten for vadim, ill-informed activist for Hayden, outdoorsy for Turner..she has lived her life as an anti feminist, and now wants to rewrite history.

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