Michelle Obama told People Magazine that Jane Fonda is a role model, sending the right wing media into a tizzy. (photo: ET)
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a service to our readers, we now present a handy guide to how things
work inside the impenetrable bubble that is the conservative media mind.
Today's lesson comes from People magazine, wherein the First Lady said something nice about Jane Fonda.(Here I am saying something nice about Jane Fonda -- if the entire final season of The Newsroom isn't about she and Sam Waterston lobbing bon mots back and forth, then the whole project's been a waste.)
This quickly made its way up -- or down, depending on your point of view -- the greasy food chain made up of the otherwise unemployables who populate the various wingnut welfare vanity projects. First came Tim Graham of Newsbusters (!). He got a link from examiner.com. Then the news made it through the marble walls of the Breitbart Mausoleum For People Too Lazy For Necrophilia and thence, finally, to NewsMax. Next stop -- algae!
The Breitbart guy is particularly impressed by this shrewd analysis from examiner.com.(OK, most of the lost souls in the mausoleum would be particularly impressed when water comes out of the faucet hot, but play along.)
In addition to her anti-war activity, Fonda has called for taking Rush Limbaugh off the air, and celebrated the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street movement that was endorsed by the Chinese Communist Party, the Communist Party USA, Hezbollah, David Duke and a number of Democrats, including President Obama and DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
(Follow his link and you find that, horrors, among the other supporters of Occupy is the IWW. The Wobbly threat! Aux armes, citoyens!)
This got him the link from the NewsMax crew, wherein we learn the following:
This got him the link from the NewsMax crew, wherein we learn the following:
The comment is likely to enrage Vietnam War veterans who still remember how Fonda, now 76, went to North Vietnam in 1972 and was photographed sitting on an anti-aircraft battery. Fonda denounced U.S. military leaders as "war criminals" and later called tortured American POWs "hypocrites and liars," telling them to "get a life."
I suppose they could ask one of the many combat
veterans in the employ of Newsbusters, examiner.com, the Breitbart
joint, and Newsmax itself, but never mind.
Anyway, that's how it works. Within a week, I guarantee you, you'll get an e-mail from your crazy drunk uncle about how Michelle Obama used to smuggle munitions down the Ho Chi Minh Trail when she was three.
Anyway, that's how it works. Within a week, I guarantee you, you'll get an e-mail from your crazy drunk uncle about how Michelle Obama used to smuggle munitions down the Ho Chi Minh Trail when she was three.
1 comment:
If it irritates you that some Vietnam Vets view Fonda as a traitor......too bad....nothing said in defense of her actons will ever change the facts.....She is a traitor in our eyes....
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