May 30, 2005
Here are a few that I left off.
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Agree or disagree?
Posted by Woody at May 30, 2005 10:46 AM
I never knew she was is so many good movies.
Posted by Michael at May 30, 2005 12:41 PM
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Posted by GMRoper at May 30, 2005 01:47 PM
I liked the film clips of her applauding Israeli bombings of Lebanese civilians in 1982. I always felt that showed the extent of her betrayal.
Posted by steve at May 30, 2005 04:23 PM
Sorry, Cat Ballou is really a good movie. Lee Marvin is fantastic.
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Then, we'll call that a Lee Marvin movie instead.
Woody
Posted by Tom Grey - Liberty Dad at June 1, 2005 09:45 PM
Erased from public memory is the fact that Fonda's purpose was to use her celebrity to put a spotlight on the possible bombing of Vietnam's system of dikes. Her charges were dismissed at the time by George H.W. Bush, then America's ambassador to the United Nations, who complained of a "carefully planned campaign by the North Vietnamese and their supporters to give worldwide circulation to this falsehood." But Fonda was right and Bush was lying, as revealed by the April-May 1972 White House transcripts of Richard Nixon talking to Henry Kissinger about "this shit-ass little country":
NIXON: We've got to be thinking in terms of an all-out bombing attack.... I'm thinking of the dikes.
KISSINGER: I agree with you.
NIXON: ...Will that drown people?
KISSINGER: About two hundred thousand people.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040322&c=2&s=hayden
And the counter-perspective:
http://redstateson.blogspot.com/2005/04/fonda-nada.html
"I've always thought that Fonda made up for her "lapse of sanity" when she, along with then-hub Tom Hayden, visited Israel in 1982 to show their support for the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and Menachem Begin's Likud party. Fonda and Hayden watched the shelling of Beirut from Israeli positions, applauding while cluster bombs ripped through apartments and hospitals, and Israeli helicopter gunships strafed those trying to escape. Here, Fonda was not shy about appearing with weapons -- hell, she reveled in it. And unlike the anti-aircraft gun in North Vietnam, which was not being used at the time of her visit, Israeli weapons were in full use, chopping up and killing over 17 thousand Lebanese and Palestinians.
In debates with rightwingers obsessed with Fonda's "treason," I've often mentioned her later embrace of mass murder in Lebanon. In every case, my opponents expressed ignorance of this fact (which I found amazing), and they usually winced when I re-branded Fonda as Beirut Jane."
http://redstateson.blogspot.com/2005/04/beirut-jane.html
Posted by steve at June 4, 2005 02:03 PM
