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Michelle Obama Chooses Jane Fonda as Role Model
by John Nolte 22 Jan 2014, 7:41 AM
PDT
In the January 27 issue of People
Magazine, First Lady Michelle Obama cites Jane Fonda as a role
model. "[And] there's Jane Fonda, a beautiful, engaged, politically savvy,
sharp woman," Michelle Obama responded after being asked by People who she
would someday want to look and live like.
PEOPLE: And there are other role models you look at and think,
"When I'm 70 or 80, I want to look and live like her'?
MRS. OBAMA: Oh, yes. Every event I
go to, every rope line, women are looking better with every passing year. I run
into women all the time who will just happen to mention, "Oh, I'm going to
be 60," and it's like, "You're kidding me!" I just went to see
Cicely Tyson on Broadway. She is in her 80s and did a two-hour play with
stamina and passion. I told her, "I want to be you when I grow up!"
[And] there's Jane Fonda, a beautiful, engaged, politically savvy, sharp woman.
For the last fifty years, Fonda
has been one of the most divisive political and cultural figures in America.
Fonda earned the nickname "Hanoi Jane" after photos were released of
the actress laughing it up with our enemies in North Vietnam while sitting on an
anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American flyers.
While the war was still raging,
Fonda attacked the American government and our troops in propaganda radio
broadcasts for the North Vietnamese.
Recently, as the Iraq War waged,
Fonda resumed her anti-war activities.
Among America's veterans, "Hanoi
Jane" remains one of the most reviled figures in American history.
Still, America's
First Lady considers Fonda a role model and sees her as "politically
savvy."
When you are reminded that the
First Lady and the President spent 20 years in Reverend Wright's church,
Michelle Obama's choice of Fonda as a role model isn't likely to surprise
anyone.
Michelle Obama
Michelle
Obama is the first lady for the Barack Obama administration, and an
advocate for the ONE Campaign.
Note: ONE
Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue Committee.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee,
and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Timothy
F. Geithner was an overseer at the International Rescue Committee,
the treasury secretary for the Barack Obama administration, and is David
Geithner’s brother.
David
Geithner is Timothy F. Geithner’s brother, and the SVP for Time
Inc.
People is a Time
Inc. publication.
United
Nations Foundation is a partner with the ONE Campaign.
ONE
Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue Committee.
Henry A.
Kissinger is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ted Turner
is the chairman for the United Nations Foundation, the founder of CNN,
and was married to Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi
Jane.
Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane.
Jane
Fonda, during her two week visit in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Walter
Isaacson was the chairman & CEO for CNN, a managing editor for Time
magazine, and is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
Time
magazine and People are Time Inc. publications.
Samantha
Power was a foreign policy columnist for Time magazine, a director
at the International Rescue Committee and is the United Nations U.S.
ambassador.
ONE
Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue Committee.
Michelle Obama
is an advocate for the ONE Campaign, the first lady for the Barack
Obama administration, and was a lawyer
at Sidley Austin LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for Vietnam.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Penny S. Pritzker
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and married to Bryan
Traubert.
Bryan Traubert is
married to Penny S. Pritzker, and a
director at the National Park Foundation.
Jonathan B.
Jarvis is a director at the National
Park Foundation, and a director at the National
Park Service.
Vietnam Veterans
Memorial (Past Research)
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
One Million Vets To March On DC 10-13-2013 (Past Research)
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Michael
Elliott is the president & CEO for the ONE Campaign, and was the
deputy managing editor for Time magazine.
Time
magazine and People are Time Inc. publications.
Jane, Henry & Peter Fonda
| Feb. 16, 1970 (On the cover of Time magazine)
1 comment:
If Michelle Obama really “supports” Service Members, she will immediately “clarify” her laudatory remarks about “Hanoi Jane” Fonda and repudiate Fonda’s deplorable actions during the Vietnam War. Rather than being a “role model” as Ms Obama described her, Fonda should be lumped in with the likes of Benedict Arnold, Jonathan Pollard and Edward Snowden as a traitor. As a Vietnam Vet, I’m appalled at Ms Obama’s remark.
I would mention that Newsweek’s 22 & 29 Aug 2011 Double Issue that featured an extremely laudatory piece on Fonda was one of the many faux pas that led to that once proud magazine’s demise. My favorite passage in that article began: “….her perceived antipathy for veterans during the Vietnam War ….” If “Hanoi Jane’s” actions could be described as “perceived antipathy,” as a Vietnam Vet (actually extended there) I’d hate to be around if she were to ever really get pissed off at me. At least they didn’t name here “Person of the Year!” but if you really want to hear my whole take on that article, check out my blog entry at: http://old-soldier-colonel.blogspot.com/2011/08/newsweek-article-pays-tribute-to-hanoi.html
For the record Fonda visited Hanoi in July 1972 and made several false anti-American accusations that the North Vietnamese used for propaganda. During her trip, Fonda made ten radio broadcasts in which she denounced the American military as "war criminals;" and Hanoi Jane even had the audacity to be photographed manning a NVA anti-aircraft battery used to shoot down American planes.
The Marriam-Webster Dictionary defines Traitor as: a person who is not loyal to his or her own country, friends, etc.: a person who betrays a country or group of people by helping or supporting an enemy. I believe that accurately describes Hanoi Jane!
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