It's comforting to know that there are some things in life that are constant. Presidents come and go, fashions change, we've got different bad guys to worry about.
But Hanoi Jane always stays committed to America-hating asinity. For example, she recently told an audience of Canadians "I don't know if a country where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.'' Ah, the familiar sense of smug superiority, totally unearned, that confidence that she and her commie elite alone properly understand the world. Nobody who has any knowledge of history would support taking out a brutal dictator. What fools we all are, slaves to our imbecility, certainly not free people- not if we're ignorant enough to disagree with the star of Barbarella.
"I think the entire world is going to be united against us.'' Well, of course they will. You know that everyone hates a winner- especially one that tries to do good. There are always playa haters. Everybody will hate us- except maybe the Iraqis already dancing in the streets, thankful that we have knocked down the monster who has dominated and destroyed their lives these many decades.
Even her heroes, the Vietnamese communists, seem to like us pretty good now. Her top comrade hero, the mass murdering Ho Chi Minh is long dead. So I can understand how she feels a little alienated and alone. Obviously she is unemployable in American cinema, due to her unending and avowed disgust with the American public who would have to buy the tickets to underwrite a career.
It's alright, though. We can afford a few traitorous little ingrate rich kids. We survived her treachery in Vietnam back when she was actually a movie star. She certainly can't really do us any harm now. She's a living nostalgia act, always good for bringing a smile to a patriot's lips.
Article comments
1 - InMarin
Another strawman for Ol' Al to knock down. How'd it feel, Al? All soft and squishy, yet hard and manly at the same time?
Is Jane Public Enemy #1 now? (And how can someone who owns private property be a 'commie'?)
I wonder sometimes (but not too often) why Al's enemies are almost always Americans.
Why do you hate America so much, Al?
2 - Al Barger
No Jane Fonda ranks nowhere near being public enemy #1. The point of my reaction was that she's a radical nostalgia act, not anything representing any kind of current danger.
She gets to called a commie because she absolutely went to Vietnam to pose for pictures and pitch for Ho Chi Minh. Are you seriously going to argue that even THAT action doesn't merit the label?
I'd take the "soft and squishy" part. Again, a warm glow of nostalgia pervades. Also, even images of the young Jane Fonda never really did much for me.
Tangling with Janeane Garofalo, now that would make me feel all "hard and manly." Besides just being much hotter than Hanoi Jane ever was, this dirty liberal is smart enough, honest enough, and thoughtful enough to actually be worth arguing with.
Did I mention that Ms. Garofalo is hot?
3 - RJ Elliott
It's the oddest thing. I used to have a major crush on her, and everyone thought I was nuts. Now, *everybody* is going on and on about how cute she is.
Well, I'll always know that I thought she was hot before it was cool... ;-P
4 - Eric Olsen
Good God, Jane Fonda is one of the stone foxes of the century, compared to whom Garofalo is a small garden troll. They're both idiots but Jane was wildly hot for about 35 years, a tremendous actress, an important exercise advocate. Damn, I guess sex appeal really is subjective.
5 - Mark Saleski
oh my god...both Al and myself think that Janeane Garofalo is hot.
very disturbing.
6 - Nigel Richardson
It's so nice when political opposites can come together over something.... (rimshot)
7 - Al Barger
All I'm saying is that if Ms. Garofalo and I met, she would be bent to my will. Ha! She'd come back spouting Ayn Rand and jamming on Merle Haggard.
On the other hand, if you next see me campaigning for Greens and wearing "Jacques Chirac for President" t-shirts, you'll know I lost.
8 - jace
Yo,
Is Janeane wicked pissed now that Saddam has been caught? Anh, she's probably whining about how we violated his civil rights by checking him for head lice.
;)
9 - Natalie Davis
Jace, Garofalo is an intelligent human. Surely she sees that Hussein's capture (aka the capture of one major terrorist) does not justify the atrocities of another terrorist.
10 - bleudevil
"(And how can someone who owns private property be a 'commie'?)"
By being a hypocrite?
11 - redrabbit_ltd
I think Janeane is the greatest on Majority Report. Being cute is okay - I am a grandmother. But she is the best for getting facts and being passionate about them.
Unfortunately that show is on from 1:00 to 3:00 in the morning here ( San Diego). I wake up to listen and then I am tired at work.
D Milan
12 - Joe
You prove her point. Ignorance. Iraqis dancing in the streets eh? Tell that to the Iraqis protesting against the foreign invaders, being gunned down because they - the U.S troops - couldn't handle them.
As long as it's a matter of ideological disagreements or whatever, fine, but the problem is people like you going through a whole life living on a fuckin' lie. It's simply not fuckin' true alright. Although, yes, a lot of Iraqis are happy about the fall of Saddam Hussein, the majority are - and have been ever since the invasioin began - against the presence of foreign troops on their land. JUST LIKE ANY OTHER PEOPLE WOULD.
13 - John King
In her autobiography,Jane never mentions her 1979 denunciation of Joan Baez for the folksinger's criticising Vietnam's human right abuses,nor does she mention her and then-husband Tom Hayden's 1982 visit to Beirut to show support for Israel's incursion into Lebanon(how to explain that one to George Galloway),or indeed her 1983 visit to Russia to try to secure the release of Soviet dissident Ida Nudel(who had some very nice things to say about Reagan).And,of course,nobody in the media asked her about them.