CNN reporting on the Kerry/Fonda photo

[CatWoman]

on now.........

[ewagner]

1. Yoohoo!

Jane fought back.

Called it an example of The Big Lies coming out of this administration.

[xray s]

2. what about this photo

Much more relevant to our current crisis, no? I mean, Viet Nam today is a peaceful trading partner of ours, for cryin' out loud, but Hussein is "worse than Hitler" according to Bush...

[phillybri]

9. That's a damn good point I hadn't thought of!!!

n/t

[HootieMcBoob]

18. and this one is also more recent

than the 1970 photo of Fonda/Kerry. Plus in this one Rummy is shaking the hand of "a madman". In the Kerry/Fonda picture they're not even together, and Kerry is a few rows in back and out of focus.

I would love LOVE for somebody like Terry McCaullife (sp?) to pull out this photograph of for anybody to put this photo up on national TV when they talk about Kerry and Fonda. Oh my God I would LOVE IT!

:bounce:

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. They are trying to counter AWOL.

Damn Librul media!

:puke:

[Caution]

4. anyone ever see "The American President?"

I can just see Karl Rove pulling out that photo. "See that? That's Jane Fonda...and there...that's John Kerry" and then Bush singing "It's beginningitude to look a lot like kerismast"

Morons. Big deal. Such a stupid tactic.

[leyton]

11. An excellent movie.

I always hoped that Edwards would get the nomination, get some lame attack on being a trial lawyer, so he could give a speech like President Andrews': "If that's all you've got, Bob Rumson (I mean, George Bush), then..." Well, I don't know how it goes from there for Edwards, because Andrews basically said "I'm the President" which Edwards isn't.

Still.

A guy can dream.

[Mattforclark]

5. Right after Clark drops out, no less

Is it now safe to take out Kerry???

[xray s]

6. Better for Kerry to take the hits now than in September and October

We will see how he hits back. It is a target rich environment.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

14. Pre-emptive damage control.

Clearly Fonda is not willing to be used as a tool of the right wing.

[BootinUp]

7. Here we go.....

enjoy the ride. :evilfrown:

[Uzybone]

8. oooohhhhh

Im sooo scuurrt :scared:

[bigtree]

22. republicans

OOOO!
:scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared:

[Lefta Dissenter]

10. Here's Jane,

then, if you take out your magnifying glass and look carefully, way in the back, see? Ya SEE??? THERE is that bastard Kerry! See, I KNEW that Jane and John were secret lovers who had their love rendezvous at anti-war rallies! It's the perfect cover!!!

I HATE THE EFFING MEDIA RIGHT NOW, SO THEY SHOULD JUST SHUT UP!

[CatWoman]

13. From yesterday's Conason's Journal

Republicans are understandably rattled by Kerry's political appeal to Vietnam-era veterans -- and, by extension, to veterans of more recent conflicts as well. From the beginning, the Massachusetts senator has been accompanied by a contingent of vets; but their presence was dramatized last month in Iowa by the sudden appearance of James Rassmann, a veteran who described how Kerry had pulled him out of a river, while machine-gun fire raked their boat, and saved his life. That was why he had traveled from Oregon to join the campaign, Rassmann explained -- even though he is a registered Republican.


Insinuations of treason are being revived for deployment against Kerry, who happens to be a close friend of McCain (Kerry defended McCain against Sampley, denouncing him as a "stupid ass" in print). The simplest way to tar Kerry as an antiwar extremist -- and indict him for unpatriotic betrayal in the eyes of many vets -- is to pair him with "Hanoi Jane" Fonda. On Monday, Rush Limbaugh published a photograph of Fonda at what appears to be an antiwar rally, under the headline "John Kerry With Hanoi Jane in September, 1970." And indeed, a blurry face about two rows behind her does resemble the young Kerry.

But Limbaugh, like so many who attack Kerry for working with Fonda against the war, distorts reality. Fonda didn't travel to Hanoi until August 1972. Obviously that was two years after the September 1970 rally and, more important, a year after she joined demonstrations led by Kerry and his fellow vets in Vietnam Veterans Against the War. By the time Fonda visited Hanoi, Kerry was running for Congress in Boston. There's no evidence that he worked with Fonda after her notorious trip. (If Monday's rant indicates Limbaugh's state of mind, he is absolutely unhinged by the prospect of renewed debate over Vietnam. Might his hysteria have anything to do with his own embarrassing escape from the draft?)


http://salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/02/10/kerry_smear/index.html

[SkipNewarkDE]

12. The picture that should matter

This is the only picture that should matter, so far as Kerry is concerned:





This is Kerry, in Viet Nam, serving his country, a task for which HE volunteered.

[CatWoman]

16. Just heard that Wolf will be doing a segment on it too

and Fonda will be a guest.

[Old and In the Way]

15. She was pissed....and stood her ground on the issue nicely.

Thanks Jane...it was people like you who had the courage to question conventional wisdom of this war that helped to stop the senseless killing on both sides.

[Julien Sorel]

17. I don't think this will have legs.

The facts are just a little too easily understood, Kerry's war record is clean, and the whole thing has the potential to continue highlighting Bush's wartime inactivities. It's just right wing hacks sniping, like they always do.

[CatWoman]

19. kick

:kick:

Wolf's on now........

[bigtree]

20. Fonda said:

The American people have had it with the big lie.The American people have had it with the big lie.The American people have had it with the big lie.The American people have had it with the big lie.The American people have had it with the big lie.The American people have had it with the big lie. bigtree has had it with the big lies. bigtree has had it with the big lies. The American people have had it with the big lie.The American people have had it with the big lie.The American people have had it with the big lie.The American people have had it with the big lie.The American people have had it with the big lie.The American people have had it with the big lie.The American people have had it with the big lie.The American people have had it with the big lie.The American people have had it with the big lies. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[CatWoman]

21. Wolf promised more about this

later in the broadcast.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

23. I wish she said "My ex husband fucked up by handing this station over to

you nincompoops!"

[agingdem]

24. May I suggest...

that Cheney doing business with Iran, Syria, Iraq, etc., is slightly more treasonous than Jane Fonda. May I also suggest that Reagan, Bush I, Rumsfeld supplying Saddam with chemical weapons was a little more treasonous than Jane Fonda. May I suggest that Georgie flying the Bin Ladin family out of the United States after 9/11 was a tad more treasonous than Jane Fonda.