Professor Robert F. Turner has written a well-referenced and well-written piece on "The Fonda Fallacies." It is published on the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation website. It's a shame that it won't be picked up and published in a more mainstream medium for others who don't delve as far into issues as the rest of us. However, for anyone who believes, as I do, that Jane Fonda committed treason during the Vietnam war, this is required (and absorbing) reading.
Here's an excerpt:
"My Life So Far is Fonda’s attempt to justify the first six decades of her existence. She tells us far more than most would care to know about her difficult childhood, her battles with eating disorders to maintain her trim figure, and her various problems with a series of failed marriages. There are few acknowledged regrets, [2] considerably more efforts to rationalize and spin behavior by leaving out essential facts, and an underlying theme that almost seems calculated to be setting the stage for an insanity defense. (There is, after all, no statute of limitations barring a treason prosecution even after passage of a third of a century.)"
Professor Turner, thank you for your work on this. I know that not only are vets like you glad to know they have company in their contempt for Fonda but the children of vets (like me) are grateful for your work in restoring some understanding to a period of great confusion for us all.
If nothing else, you've educated me on the rightness of my own view of the treasonous Ms. F.
Here's an excerpt:
"My Life So Far is Fonda’s attempt to justify the first six decades of her existence. She tells us far more than most would care to know about her difficult childhood, her battles with eating disorders to maintain her trim figure, and her various problems with a series of failed marriages. There are few acknowledged regrets, [2] considerably more efforts to rationalize and spin behavior by leaving out essential facts, and an underlying theme that almost seems calculated to be setting the stage for an insanity defense. (There is, after all, no statute of limitations barring a treason prosecution even after passage of a third of a century.)"
Professor Turner, thank you for your work on this. I know that not only are vets like you glad to know they have company in their contempt for Fonda but the children of vets (like me) are grateful for your work in restoring some understanding to a period of great confusion for us all.
If nothing else, you've educated me on the rightness of my own view of the treasonous Ms. F.
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