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You have to Listen to Jane Fonda Speaking To Understand the Hate


I thought Jane Fonda was dumb for going to and fawning over the Viet Cong but I didn't understand the hatred it engendered until I heard some of the recordings she made at the time. Listening to the disdain in her voice as she is "speaking to American soldiers" and urging them to throw down their guns or whatever, she did sound very similar to Tokyo Rose and it did make me mad when I listened to it and this was over thirty years later (that I listened to it)! I know that JF has apologized and said that it was stupid and thoughtless and wrong to speak that way and I can accept that but I can also understand how real American soldiers might have a harder time forgetting what she did when they were under incredible stress, simply trying to serve their country in the way that the government at that time said they should.

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Whoa - now there`s a blast of good old Cold War style paranoia, however nonsensically expressed! Vietnam is going to take over America! Chile is going to take over America! Salvador is going to take over America! And the only way to avoid that is to sail on over, organize a good massacre and put some homicidal ultra right wing regime in power.

And what are these "liberal talking points" you "destroyed"? You didn`t even address what was being said.



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