Jane Fonda Cancels Bus Tour

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Jane Fonda Cancels Anti-War Bus Tour

Jane Fonda told me yesterday she’s scrapped plans for anti-war bus trip next March. As well, Fonda will be making only two appearances this month on another rally with controversial British politician George Galloway, not the eight that were widely misreported in the press yesterday.

Why the change of plans? Certainly, Fonda is still very much against the war in Iraq and in favor of helping our troops there. But she said that she didn’t want to distract people from Cindy Sheehan’s bus trip, already under way and gathering support.

In other words - “Damn, Katrina & The Supreme Court stole all of my media coverage.”

[Czarcasm]

Moving FondaRant 2005 from IMHO to The BBQ Pit.

[TwistofFate]

Or perhaps she felt that Cindy Sheehan would have more of an impact than she would.

[lieu]

@Fonda

“…what the right wing has done to Sheehan is despicable.”

Pardon my ignorance but what’s Jane talking about? I’m vaguely aware there’s a group of soldier’s Moms that feel differently about the war than Cindy but is there actually a organized, formal assualt by the right on her? Just curious.

[Slacker]

@lieu

Pardon my ignorance but what’s Jane talking about? I’m vaguely aware there’s a group of soldier’s Moms that feel differently about the war than Cindy but is there actually a organized, formal assualt by the right on her? Just curious.

Well, she’s been called about every name in the book. Her son is spinning in her grave. All of her family is against her. Her husband left her cause she’s crazy. She’s in league with radical lefty moonbats. She didn’t raise Casey anyway. She’s a flip flopper. Etc etc etc.

[asterion]

Does anyone care about Jane Fonda?

[El_Kabong]

In other words - “Damn, Katrina & The Supreme Court stole all of my media coverage.”

Of a bus trip planned for March 2006. :dubious:

Not the lamest Pitting ever, IMO, but certainly in the bottom ten.

[Nametag]

@Slacker

Well, she’s been called about every name in the book. Her son is spinning in HER grave. All of her family is against her. Her husband left her cause she’s crazy. She’s in league with radical lefty moonbats. She didn’t raise Casey anyway. She’s a flip flopper. Etc etc etc.

Man, that’s just wrong.

Emphasis added. Twice.

[tnetennba]

It’s good to know that in a time of national crisis, the public’s attention is where it needs to be – ridiculing has-been celebrities.

[Khadaji]

@El_Kabong

Of a bus trip planned for March 2006. :dubious:

Not the lamest Pitting ever, IMO, but certainly in the bottom ten.

Perhaps that is why it was originally in IMHO. A mod moved it to the pit.

[Duke_of_Rat]

Jane needs to get in touch with Cindy Sheehan. She’s a lot better at opposing the war in Iraq.

Cindy Sheehan, the brave woman who dared to challenge Mr. Bush at his summer home, has now sent her Camp Casey from in front of Bush’s ranch to the outskirts of New Orleans. The Veterans for Peace have taken all the equipment and staff of volunteers and set up camp in Covington, Louisiana, on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. They are accepting materials and personally distributing them to those in need.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

I’ve read lefties calling for Fonda not to protest the war, and righties hoping she would. She brings so much baggage with her that her public protest would be an immense blow to the antiwar movement. She’s doing the smart thing here.

Daniel

[Contrapuntal]

@Left Hand of Dorkness

I’ve read lefties calling for Fonda not to protest the war, and righties hoping she would. She brings so much baggage with her that her public protest would be an immense blow to the antiwar movement. She’s doing the smart thing here.

Daniel

Gary Trudeau agrees with you.

[Sean_Factotum]

@asterion

Does anyone care about Jane Fonda?

Seems to me Gary Trudeau had it right in this Sunday’s strip. Basically the only people looking forward to this are the right-wingers who would love to rake her over the coals in public again.

On preview, what LHoD said.

[Stephe96]

I’ve also seen that Cindy Sheehan has cancelled her planned protest of the Blue Angels. I guess when the TV cameras are pointed elsewhere, she feels there’s really no point.

But, seriously: the Blue Angels? Why would anyone want to protest them?

[Genghis_Bob]

@asterion

Does anyone care about Jane Fonda?

Nope; I think Jane’s pretty much irrelevant by now. Kind of like Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.

[asterion]

Good. Especially since my introduction to Jane Fonda was an excercise program on PBS.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@Contrapuntal

Gary Trudeau agrees with you.

[sub]not that, on reading your post, I remembered WHERE I’d read this argument between lefties and righties. I’m nowhere near that dumb[/sub]

Daniel

[World_Eater]

Protest the Blue Angels? What the hell for?

[Slacker]

@World Eater

Protest the Blue Angels? What the hell for?

It took a little digging, but I found this:

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/050830blueangels.shtml

Bruce Gagnon, a Brunswick resident who is organizing the rally for Veterans for Peace, said it’s fitting for someone like Sheehan to come to Brunswick and for the group to stage a protest to “stop the worship of the gods of war.”

Gagnon says fighter jets like those of the Blue Angels are used to bomb military targets, and the P-3 Orions that fly out of Brunswick help identify those targets. He claims that innocent civilians often end up getting killed as a result.

So there you go. Seems to me to be a bit of a silly way to make your point, akin to protesting outside Coca-Cola HQ to fight tooth decay, but to each their own I suppose.