Who cares? Is she still alive?
Well, yes, she is, and has written an autobiography, "My Life So Far." And more importantly, she is emblematic of a type that is active today: the actor/activist siding with a brutal enemy. We can learn something from “Hanoi Jane” and perhaps handle her modern, younger incarnations better than we did her.
Front Page magazine has an article that compares and contrasts Fonda’s autobiography with "Aid and Comfort": Jane Fonda In North Vietnam."
It’s fairly long, but worth reading. Some excerpts:
For three decades Jane Fonda obfuscated, distorted and lied about virtually everything connected with her wartime trip to North Vietnam: her motive, her acts, her intent, and her contribution to the Communists’ war effort. With the aid of clever handlers, she so successfully suppressed and spun her conduct in Hanoi that many Americans didn’t know what she had done there, and, more important, the legal significance.
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By herself, Jane Fonda is unimportant—confused, defensive, narcissistic, empty—a woman who admits in her autobiography that "Maybe I simply become whatever the man I am with wants me to be: ‘sex kitten’ [Roger Vadim], ‘controversial activist’ [Tom Hayden], ‘ladylike wife on the arm of corporate mogul’ [Ted Turner]." But Fonda-ism is important because Americans who give aid and comfort to our enemies – Communists then, jihadists now -- put at risk, not only our cherished institutions, but—in today’s world—our very existence.
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