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June 23, 2014
June 3, 2014
Sabo, the Unsavory Agent, Plans to Welcome Hanoi Jane at UCLA Commencement
By Kim D.
Apparently the scholars in charge at UCLA live in Unicorn land and aren't aware of the current VA scandal plaguing the nation. If they were up on current events, perhaps they would realize that welcoming Jane Fonda next Friday as UCLA's commencement speaker probably isn't the best idea and would be felt as another jab at veterans who bravely served this country.
According to a UCLA news release, “We are truly honored to have Jane Fonda speak at this year’s commencement ceremony. . . Jane is a visionary and a remarkable artist who has spent her life telling deeply powerful stories that have moved and inspired audiences worldwide to action for the greater good and to a greater understanding of our common humanity through her films, philanthropic efforts and personal journeys. She has effortlessly placed herself at the heart of what TFT stands for — the education and development of outstanding new artists and scholars whose stories, performances and research enlighten, engage and inspire change for a better world.”
Veterans are firing back and expressing outrage over UCLA's commencement speaker selection. One veteran in particular is planning on welcoming Hanoi Jane much like he did with Wendy Davis when she recently visited LA to fund raise. Sabo (@unsavoryagents) has created a new poster that, most likely, will be appearing on the streets of LA prior to Fonda's speech on June 13th. Sabo depicts Fonda as she looked in the 1970s during her controversial trip to Hanoi during the Vietnam War. His message (or wish) that American bombers would fly over and drop a few bombs on UCLA while Fonda is speaking is a sentiment that many war veterans share.
"We hate her," Nick Callas, 67, president of the Santa Clarita chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America, told FoxNews.com. "We won't ever see any of her movies or support anything she did. It makes me sick to see her get this kind of recognition.
It was Fonda's journey to Vietnam, as American soldiers were dying in the jungles of Southeast Asia and the nation was becoming increasingly disillusioned with the war, that veterans like Callas will never forget -- or forgive. Fonda famously posed near a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. Although she has apologized since, many veterans believe she helped lift the enemy's spirits while demoralizing those of young Americans.
According to a UCLA news release, “We are truly honored to have Jane Fonda speak at this year’s commencement ceremony. . . Jane is a visionary and a remarkable artist who has spent her life telling deeply powerful stories that have moved and inspired audiences worldwide to action for the greater good and to a greater understanding of our common humanity through her films, philanthropic efforts and personal journeys. She has effortlessly placed herself at the heart of what TFT stands for — the education and development of outstanding new artists and scholars whose stories, performances and research enlighten, engage and inspire change for a better world.”
Veterans are firing back and expressing outrage over UCLA's commencement speaker selection. One veteran in particular is planning on welcoming Hanoi Jane much like he did with Wendy Davis when she recently visited LA to fund raise. Sabo (@unsavoryagents) has created a new poster that, most likely, will be appearing on the streets of LA prior to Fonda's speech on June 13th. Sabo depicts Fonda as she looked in the 1970s during her controversial trip to Hanoi during the Vietnam War. His message (or wish) that American bombers would fly over and drop a few bombs on UCLA while Fonda is speaking is a sentiment that many war veterans share.
It was Fonda's journey to Vietnam, as American soldiers were dying in the jungles of Southeast Asia and the nation was becoming increasingly disillusioned with the war, that veterans like Callas will never forget -- or forgive. Fonda famously posed near a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. Although she has apologized since, many veterans believe she helped lift the enemy's spirits while demoralizing those of young Americans.
February 25, 2014
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Feel good story of the morning: Jane Fonda - 'I have so little time left!'
April 11, 2013
Hanoi Jane Fonda to play Nancy Reagan in a shot at conservatives
Related Capitalist Preservation Post - Jane Fonda: Still hazy after all these years
By Rob Janicki
When you think liberals cannot possibly sink any lower, you need to rethink that concept. The latest 'in your face' abomination by liberals involves Jane Fonda, that lovely anti-American, and some say traitor, in her latest movie role. You see, darling Jane will play...hold on there...Nancy Reagan, in a movie titled, "The Butler" to be released this October.
Now, I don't care how you slice that. Casting Jane Fonda to play iconic First Lady Nancy Reagan, a living legend of grace in the White House as the wife of conservative President Ronald Reagan, is the supreme dissing by the Hollywood liberal establishment. I am quite certain, however, that all it will do is galvanize conservatives into a more concerted effort in the 2014 congressional elections. For that, I guess we should be thankful, but only if Republicans pick up some seats in the House and Senate.
I don't care if Fonda plays Nancy Reagan as a Mother Teresa heroine. The fact that it's Jane Fonda playing the iconic Nancy Reagan is enough to gag me and most conservatives.
Read Breitbart's short write up on this tasteless Hollywood affront.
In the meantime, here's a little slice of more disgrace from Jane Fonda.
Here's her message to Larry Reyes, a Navy veteran and founder of the "Boycott Hanoi Jane Playing Nancy Reagan" page and, ostensibly, any conservative bitter about the casting choice.
By Rob Janicki
When you think liberals cannot possibly sink any lower, you need to rethink that concept. The latest 'in your face' abomination by liberals involves Jane Fonda, that lovely anti-American, and some say traitor, in her latest movie role. You see, darling Jane will play...hold on there...Nancy Reagan, in a movie titled, "The Butler" to be released this October.
Now, I don't care how you slice that. Casting Jane Fonda to play iconic First Lady Nancy Reagan, a living legend of grace in the White House as the wife of conservative President Ronald Reagan, is the supreme dissing by the Hollywood liberal establishment. I am quite certain, however, that all it will do is galvanize conservatives into a more concerted effort in the 2014 congressional elections. For that, I guess we should be thankful, but only if Republicans pick up some seats in the House and Senate.
I don't care if Fonda plays Nancy Reagan as a Mother Teresa heroine. The fact that it's Jane Fonda playing the iconic Nancy Reagan is enough to gag me and most conservatives.
Read Breitbart's short write up on this tasteless Hollywood affront.
In the meantime, here's a little slice of more disgrace from Jane Fonda.
Here's her message to Larry Reyes, a Navy veteran and founder of the "Boycott Hanoi Jane Playing Nancy Reagan" page and, ostensibly, any conservative bitter about the casting choice.
Get a life," she tells THR. "If he creates hoopla, it will cause more people to see the movie.
Spoken like a true capitalist...
Count me out on seeing Fonda in any film, let alone one where she plays Nancy Reagan.
September 5, 2011
July 24, 2011
Jane Fonda: Still hazy after all these years
By Capitalist Preservation's ace girl reporter, Trailbee
On July 17th, Will Profit posted an article regarding Jane Fonda. The post was a two-liner, and included a link to the The POW Network. There was also a lengthier article written by Frazier Moore, for AP, “Jane Fonda: QVC Axed My Appearance Over Politics.” Actually, she is wrong, in that she was axed because QVC would have lost money had they kept her on their schedule and she appeared to promote her new book. She is also correct because their reason for “axing” her was a political uprising by a certain portion of their customer base. Evidently, QVC found them more profitable than Jane Fonda’s book. Ms. Fonda is upset, and I believe, to this day, she still does not get it.
There are two issues here, which no one ever acknowledges, at least in print, in the media: the first one being the issue of total helplessness and betrayal, and the second of Honor.
The Vietnam War was not a war; technically it was a Police Action. It was approved by Congress and the Senate in 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing the President to go to war. However, President Johnson proceeded with military intervention in Vietnam, never declaring war! (The geographic location of this “war” was totally unknown, most of us could not even find it on a map, much less spell the names of cities correctly.) However, this “war” aroused the ire and interest of many Americans, some of whom were well-known political, literary and/or Hollywood figures, one of them being Jane Fonda. She became the pseudo poster girl for war protests and happily stomped her way through “Teach-Ins” and anti-war rallies espousing the joys of Communism.
The Selective Service Board was processing men and looking for more. The Draftees had only one of two options-either go to Vietnam, or defy the Draft order and go to Federal Prison or flee to Canada, or some other country. According to the 15th Field Artillery Regiment, the first Draft Lottery was held on December 1st, 1969, the first since 1942; and by 1972, 70,000 draft evaders were living in Canada, well out of reach of Uncle Sam and Vietnam.
Having stayed with me this long, you might as well stay a little longer. The men who were drafted, including my husband (April, 1966), were trained and sent to Vietnam to fight in some of the most god-awful conditions, weather and locales ever imagined. This was not a conflict fought by Western or Marquis of Queensbury rules, but something devised by people who knew the topography of their countries as part of their culture, and whose thought processes were in direct opposite to ours. Our men hated being there, but were totally powerless to change their situation.
Then, along came Jane Fonda! She was not only free to choose her lifestyle, she could travel wherever she chose, and she chose a visit to the Viet Cong. This was purely an ego trip, and no matter what she says in her later writings, it was definitely not “two minutes of insanity.” The planning of the trip, the speeches and photo ops and bon hommie were the ultimate betrayal of everything the United States soldiers had been expected to accomplish. Had this not been a Police Action, but a bonafide, declared War, Jane Fonda would still be sitting in a Federal Prison convicted of Treason! She was considered the quintessential female Benedict Arnold.
My second issue is Honor. We are known by our Honor. It is the core of our being and it is a subject we normally do not discuss. However, under conditions of war, Honor is part of a special code by which soldiers exist. Personal Honor, then,” becomes the conscience of the moral law within, and it is the overlapping of moral law and behavior “, according to Stephen Covey. What happened when Jane Fonda arrived and consorted with the enemy, is that she lost her Honor. By giving succor to the enemy, she mocked the one solid, deeply-held principle which held these men together, and they despised her for it. This was an event which could never, ever be repaired, no matter what she did subsequently.
The Vietnam “War” dates from August, 1964 – February, 1973.
When Vietnam Veterans returned home, they were reviled, spat upon, yelled at, and treated like uniformed pariahs. They had difficulty getting VA help, and could find no work.
Many returned with extreme physical and emotional problems, many families in total disarray.
Their Honor is, or should be, intact. They know where they were, what they did, and why. And when we hear the pitiable lament from a woman with no Honor, who says: “I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us …”
We know a myth when we hear one. She did not get it!
Jane Fonda will be laid to rest with the last Vietnam Veteran, not before.
On July 17th, Will Profit posted an article regarding Jane Fonda. The post was a two-liner, and included a link to the The POW Network. There was also a lengthier article written by Frazier Moore, for AP, “Jane Fonda: QVC Axed My Appearance Over Politics.” Actually, she is wrong, in that she was axed because QVC would have lost money had they kept her on their schedule and she appeared to promote her new book. She is also correct because their reason for “axing” her was a political uprising by a certain portion of their customer base. Evidently, QVC found them more profitable than Jane Fonda’s book. Ms. Fonda is upset, and I believe, to this day, she still does not get it.
There are two issues here, which no one ever acknowledges, at least in print, in the media: the first one being the issue of total helplessness and betrayal, and the second of Honor.
The Vietnam War was not a war; technically it was a Police Action. It was approved by Congress and the Senate in 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing the President to go to war. However, President Johnson proceeded with military intervention in Vietnam, never declaring war! (The geographic location of this “war” was totally unknown, most of us could not even find it on a map, much less spell the names of cities correctly.) However, this “war” aroused the ire and interest of many Americans, some of whom were well-known political, literary and/or Hollywood figures, one of them being Jane Fonda. She became the pseudo poster girl for war protests and happily stomped her way through “Teach-Ins” and anti-war rallies espousing the joys of Communism.
The Selective Service Board was processing men and looking for more. The Draftees had only one of two options-either go to Vietnam, or defy the Draft order and go to Federal Prison or flee to Canada, or some other country. According to the 15th Field Artillery Regiment, the first Draft Lottery was held on December 1st, 1969, the first since 1942; and by 1972, 70,000 draft evaders were living in Canada, well out of reach of Uncle Sam and Vietnam.
Having stayed with me this long, you might as well stay a little longer. The men who were drafted, including my husband (April, 1966), were trained and sent to Vietnam to fight in some of the most god-awful conditions, weather and locales ever imagined. This was not a conflict fought by Western or Marquis of Queensbury rules, but something devised by people who knew the topography of their countries as part of their culture, and whose thought processes were in direct opposite to ours. Our men hated being there, but were totally powerless to change their situation.
Then, along came Jane Fonda! She was not only free to choose her lifestyle, she could travel wherever she chose, and she chose a visit to the Viet Cong. This was purely an ego trip, and no matter what she says in her later writings, it was definitely not “two minutes of insanity.” The planning of the trip, the speeches and photo ops and bon hommie were the ultimate betrayal of everything the United States soldiers had been expected to accomplish. Had this not been a Police Action, but a bonafide, declared War, Jane Fonda would still be sitting in a Federal Prison convicted of Treason! She was considered the quintessential female Benedict Arnold.
My second issue is Honor. We are known by our Honor. It is the core of our being and it is a subject we normally do not discuss. However, under conditions of war, Honor is part of a special code by which soldiers exist. Personal Honor, then,” becomes the conscience of the moral law within, and it is the overlapping of moral law and behavior “, according to Stephen Covey. What happened when Jane Fonda arrived and consorted with the enemy, is that she lost her Honor. By giving succor to the enemy, she mocked the one solid, deeply-held principle which held these men together, and they despised her for it. This was an event which could never, ever be repaired, no matter what she did subsequently.
The Vietnam “War” dates from August, 1964 – February, 1973.
When Vietnam Veterans returned home, they were reviled, spat upon, yelled at, and treated like uniformed pariahs. They had difficulty getting VA help, and could find no work.
Many returned with extreme physical and emotional problems, many families in total disarray.
Their Honor is, or should be, intact. They know where they were, what they did, and why. And when we hear the pitiable lament from a woman with no Honor, who says: “I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us …”
We know a myth when we hear one. She did not get it!
Jane Fonda will be laid to rest with the last Vietnam Veteran, not before.
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