Blame Jane: Ted
Turner's son says Fonda made dad a lib
Congressional
candidate Teddy Turner (l.) is conservative, and his father, media mogul Ted
Turner is liberal, but the two are close. ((Teddy Turner for Congress,
Reuters))
By | Fox News
Politics
Published February 22, 2013
Last Update December 20, 2015
Teddy Turner, son of billionaire media mogul Ted Turner
and Republican candidate for Congress, said his father’s marriage to Jane Fonda prompted his major left turn.
“I was raised in a different time at the Turner household
… a very conservative household with capitalism and all of that kind of stuff,”
the younger Turner told Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show.”
Teddy Turner is running for Congress in South Carolina,
where he faces former Gov. Mark Sanford in a Republican primary. His platform
includes opposition to taxes and same-sex marriage and he is a global warming
skeptic – all positions his father does not share.
“Yes, I’m Teddy Turner,” he said at a recent Republican
gathering. “You can’t pick your parents.”
Ted Turner, who founded CNN and once owned the Atlanta Braves, married Fonda
in 1991. The actress and workout guru, dubbed ‘Hanoi Jane’ for posing with a
Viet Cong anti-aircraft gun in a misguided protest against the Vietnam War,
apparently had an influence that outlasted their marriage.
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“He started becoming more and more environmentalist and
then Jane helped move things over as well," Turner told Malzberg. “Then
when you start hanging around and everybody you’re hanging around with is
liberal, then you tend to move more liberal.’’
In a recent interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly,
Turner quipped that his jet-setting father, one of the biggest landowners in
the U.S., figures “he owns a lot of trees so his carbon footprint is pretty
limited.”
Despite their political differences, the father and son
are close. Teddy Turner told Politico that after his appearance with
O’Reilly, he got the following note from his father: “I saw your interview with
Bill O’Reilly on Fox,” it read, “and I thought you did a great job! I’m really
proud of you, and I hope you win. Best of luck. Love, Dad.”
Teddy Turner, a 49-year-old high school teacher, said he
– not his father – has always been consistent in his political orientation.
“I’m not a liberal,” he said. “People say how did you separate from your dad? I didn’t separate from my dad. My dad separated from me.”
“I’m not a liberal,” he said. “People say how did you separate from your dad? I didn’t separate from my dad. My dad separated from me.”
Traitor: "Hanoi Jane" Fonda
The Patriot Post
She was born Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda, but earned her
reputation as "Hanoi Jane" Fonda after "aiding and
abetting" the enemy -- North Vietnam -- as documented in these photos
taken in Hanoi (July 1972):
Hanoi Jane on North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun: A few
hundred yards from the location of this photograph, American POWs were being
subjected to all manner of torture at the "Hanoi Hilton." You can
read about one of those POWs, Col. Roger Ingvalson, whose aircraft was shot down by an NVA-AAG
similar to the gun Hanoi Jane is straddling.
Hanoi Jane laughing it up
Showing her admiration
Fonda called returning POWs "hypocrites and
liars," adding, "These were not men who had been tortured. These were
not men who had been starved. These were not men who had been brainwashed. ...
Pilots were saying it was the policy of the Vietnamese and that it was
systematic. I believe that's a lie." You can read about one of Fondas
"hypocrites and liars" in this Veterans Day Profile: Point
Man, Roger Helle
Visiting with Friends
Looking for Target
With Tom Hayden back from Hanoi
Read the transcript of Hanoi Jane's propaganda radio
broadcast delivered in Hanoi, North Vietnam on August 22, 1972.
As for the success of anti-democracy protests by radical
protagonists like Fonda, John Kerry and others, Hanoi could not have been more pleased.
General Vo Nguyen Giap, supreme leader of the North
Vietnamese Army, told CBS in a 1989 interview: "We paid a high price
[during the Tet offensive] but so did you [Americans] ... not only in lives and
materiel. Do not forget the war was brought into the living rooms of the
American people. ... The most important result of the Tet offensive was it
made you de-escalate the bombing, and it brought you to the negotiation table. It
was, therefore, a victory.... The war was fought on many fronts. At that time
the most important one was American public opinion. "
More to the point, in a 1995 interview with The Wall
Street Journal, Bui Tin, a communist contemporary of Giap and Ho Chi Minh, who
was serving as an NVA colonel assigned to the general staff at the time Saigon
fell, had this to say about the Leftmedia and Soviet puppets like
"Hanoi" Jane Fonda and John Kerry: "[They were] essential to our
strategy. Support of the war from our rear was completely secure while the
American rear was vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world
news over the radio to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits
to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and
ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield
reverses."
Bui stated further, "Those people represented the
conscience of America. The conscience of America was part of its war-making capability,
and we were turning that power in our favor. America lost because of its
democracy; through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will
to win."
Most notably, Bui observed, that the 1968 Tet Offensive
was "to weaken American resolve during a presidential-election year. We
had the impression that American commanders had their hands tied by political
factors. Your generals could never deploy a maximum force for greatest military
effect."
Sixteen years later, under enormous pressure after Ronald Reagan had restored the honorable social standing of military
service, Fonda admitted to former American POWs and their families that she
regretted the pain she caused them. Few accepted her apology.
Fonda Power
In a 2005 interview with CBS, Fonda reiterated that she
had no regrets about her trip to North Vietnam in 1972. "There are
hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs. Both sides were
using the POWs for propaganda... It's not something that I will apologize
for."
Peace
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Fonda with last in husband line, Ted Turner, Village drunk and self-appointed
ambassador to North Korea, who observed recently, "Obviously, I don’t like
to see nuclear proliferation, and I’m very upset about [the North Korean
test]," as opposed to his earlier position being "absolutely
convinced that the North Koreans are absolutely sincere" about not
developing nuclear weapons.
What a life
Hanoi Jane's real life -- so far...
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