Kerry and Fonda were both among the speakers at an antiwar rally in 1970. How many speakers there were, we don’t know. We don’t know whether Kerry so much as said hello to Jane Fonda.
The photo shows Kerry ‘with’ Fonda only in the loosest of terms. They’re in the same crowd shot. He appears to be seated three rows behind her.
If you’re wondering how Kerry could even be on the same stage as the woman who betrayed our troops by going to Hanoi, it’s because Kerry didn’t have a crystal ball. Fonda didn’t make her infamous trip to Hanoi until 1972. So unless someone knows something I don’t, there’s no reason under heaven why Kerry shouldn’t have been on the same stage with her that day.
But what the Moonie paper has, is a story about Kerry together with Hanoi Jane. They mention that Fonda had not yet been to Hanoi, but they bury it deep in the story. Sweet, real sweet.
I think it’s a story about a picture surfacing on the Internet, rather than a story about Kerry and Fonda. At least that’s what it says in the portion you quoted. But didn’t you do the same thing you say the paper did? Buried deep in your post — at the end, in fact — is acknowledgment that they said she had not yet been to Hanoi. Sweet, real sweet.
I saw this over at Snopes.
They made it very clear that this was pre Hanoi Jane.
It’s no secret though that Kerry was a member o VVAW (Viet Nam Vets Agains the War). Of course you have to BE a Viet Nam Veteran to be a memeber of that group.
I wonder who dug up the photo and started it down internet lane?
Well, unless the picture is circulated exerywhere with a full explanatory caption, it’s not great news for Kerry.
I agree, it’s not fair. However, it’s very true in politics that sometimes people you’re associated with will subsequently do things that will cause you embarassment.
The easiest thing for him to do would be to condemn her Hanoi trip in the strongest possible terms. That would anger a very few very left-wing Democrats, but he hardly has to worry about them defecting to Bush.
I’m a very strong Kerry supporter, I see nothing wrong with him being in proximity to “Hanoi Jane” at a rally 2 years prior to her trip, and like the OP, find it disingenuous to bury the fact at the end of the story. Aside from his differences with the government/military establishment and Vietnam, I can’t see where he’s weak on military support.
Fuck 'em I say fight fire with fire. I’d use that Rummy and SH picture until it had a whole worn through it. Every commercial, every leaflet.
And just to remind them I’d throw that stupid… “I agree, it’s not fair. However, it’s very true in politics that sometimes people you’re associated with will subsequently do things that will cause you embarassment.”… right back in their fucking faces.
Fuck 'em, I say fight fire with fire. I’d use that Rummy and SH picture until it had a hole worn through it. Every commercial, every leaflet.
And just to remind them, I’d throw that stupid… “I agree, it’s not fair. However, it’s very true in politics that sometimes people you’re associated with will subsequently do things that will cause you embarassment.”… right back in their fucking faces.
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Well, exactly what was newsworthy about Web circulation of a pic of Kerry sitting three rows behind Fonda and a coupla seats to the right? (Maybe the Moonies will do a story on Badger Badger Mushroom Snake next.)
And they give prime space to some elected idiot saying, how could Kerry be hangin’ with Hanoi Jane after what she did?
Half the Moonie Paper’s readers will take their cue from that, and will have already thrown the paper to the ground in disgust before they ever get to the buried ‘this happened before Hanoi’ mention.
And what World Eater said.
I’d just like to say at this point, that I have FAR, FAR more respect for a man who served his time in what he came to feel as an unjust war, and came back and fought legally, and protested legally within the system for change, than I do a man who has still, illegible supposed “payroll documents” aside, yet to prove that he actually served his time in a National Guard unit, which he joined so he wouldn’t have to go to war.
