Jane Fonda: ‘Hanoi Jane’ Moment Was A ‘Huge Mistake’

[Onkel Neal]

Well, interesting, after 50 years or so,

Actress Jane Fonda issued an apology late Friday for her infamous visit to North Vietnam in 1972, a moment that earned her the dubious nickname “Hanoi Jane.”

Fonda called it a “huge mistake” during a speech given at an arts center in Frederick, Maryland, the Associated Press reports. She made her comments in response to protests against her appearance.

“But those people out there… I’m a lightning rod,” Fonda told the audience, according to The Frederick News-Post. “This famous person goes and 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.”

However, Fonda still considered her trip to the communist state at war with the U.S. a “great experience.” While on the trip, she took publicity shots manning an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and publicly criticized the war effort against North Vietnam.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/18/fo...-huge-mistake/

I never understood how she got away with that, it really seemed like a black and white case of aiding the enemy...

[Jimbuna]

Taken her a long time to come to her senses...an ulterior motive perhaps

[U-15]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Taken her a long time to come to her senses...an ulterior motive perhaps

Probably got a book coming out

[Mr Quatro]

This is the first time I have heard her say she made a mistake.

Probably a spur of the moment true confession blurted out of her mouth due to the protest by veterans outside the meeting place.

It was reported several years ago that Jane Fonda had been converted to Christianity by her chauffer while she was still married to the founder of CNN, who by the way is still mad at God for his sister dying of lupus years ago.

So if she has confessed it and changed her mind we should forgive also and move on.

However this last line in Neal's link reads like this:

Fonda focused most of her talk on gender politics and encouraged the crowd to not raise boys to become “emotionally illiterate” by emphasizing masculinity.

Now she wants us to raise our boys to be gay boys ... spells war!

[VipertheSniper]

I have to ask, because it could be either way: Are you serious about that last point? Because that's a non-sequitur, or you were just being sarcastic.

[Mr Quatro]

I thought she was being serious so I was being serious about raising my boy anyway I want to, but not a sissy.

Did I read it wrong?

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by U-15

Probably got a book coming out

As I recall she did write a book a few years ago where she wrote about the whole Vietnam trip and how she was wrong. Apparently at signings there where a surprising number of Vietnam Vets buying the book. I guess maybe to see her in person.

Honestly seems like it depends on who you ask some Nam Vets knew she was young and being duped and where not that upset about it. My father for example never was bothered and he was very much a direct combatant. He is not the only Nam Vet that I know personally that feels that way.

I knew another guy that did talk about her a lot he ended up shooting himself in the head so I think he had other issues and would have these post war problems regardless of anything Jane Fonda did or did not do.

I think she made a poor choice at young age which is the point where most of us make bad decisions only hers was more public and pretty bad.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

I never understood how she got away with that, it really seemed like a black and white case of aiding the enemy...

Clear cut, and dry case. she should still be in prison for it if you ask me.

I'm sure it made her Father, Henry Fonda, a Navy Veteran, sick to his stomach to see his daughter do such a thing

[AVGWarhawk]

Huge mistake....zero apology. She still has no idea what she did. That simple.

What a tool.

[August]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Huge mistake....zero apology. She still has no idea what she did. That simple.

What a tool.

Exactly. To her "a huge mistake" only means what being a traitor to her country cost her professionally, not that what she did was morally wrong.

[Stealhead]

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

The book was published in 2005 she got tobacco spit on by a man claiming to be a vet at one signing. Its in there way at the bottom. As well as three quoted direct apologies for Platpus .

Not saying I'm a fan of Fonda but I am a fan of the truth.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by August

Exactly. To her "a huge mistake" only means what being a traitor to her country cost her professionally, not that what she did was morally wrong.

Yes but urinal stickers have sold like mad!!! She got none of the proceeds.

[CCIP]

On the other hand, she's not someone who was ever in military service. Unless there's proof that she actually fired a weapon at an American or participated in illegally arming or supplying an enemy, I don't really see what crime she committed, besides the crime of horribly bad taste and stupidity. I thought freedom to travel and speak where one pleases was one of fundamentally American rights, and I did not think that American citizens who are not in military service have any obligation to prohibit themselves from traveling wherever they like and associating with whomever they want. Last I checked, being an idiot on camera does not constitute an act of armed aggression. And if it does, why aren't Romney and Cheney and co. not in prison for being buddy-buddy with Saddam?

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

I never understood how she got away with that, ...

[fred8615]

This is not her first so called "apology." Some years back she also "apologized" while filming some movie, after vets started protesting while they were shooting. I think she also wrote in a book or in an interview the AA gun picture was a "mistake."

My question is, has she ever apologized for calling the POWs "liars and hypocrites" for saying when they got home they were being tortured by the North Vietnamese, when she publicly proclaimed they were being well treated during her trip?