In 1972, Jane Fonda openly fraternized with soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War. Now she is cavorting with another enemy.
The coronavirus is “God’s gift to the Left,” the octogenarian workout instructor and Biden campaign surrogate mused recently in a video encouraging voters to support 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden. “That’s a terrible thing to say,” Fonda continued in comments flagged by the Washington Free Beacon’s Graham Piro. “I think it was a very difficult thing to send down to us, but it has ripped the band-aid off who [Trump] is and what he stands for, and what is being done to average people and working people in this country.”
“We can see it now,” she added. “People who couldn’t see it before, you know, they see it now. And we have a chance to harness that anger and make a difference. So, I feel so blessed to be alive right now.”
Though Fonda’s comments should prove a headache for the Biden campaign, which hosted her in September for a virtual event alongside vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris of California, her remarks likely will come and go without so much as a question from establishment media. Members of the press likely will not push Democratic lawmakers, Biden, Harris, or any 2020 Democratic campaign staffers to answer for the surrogate who is cheering the political benefits of the virus that has killed more than 200,000 people in America. CNN likely will not do to that thing it does to Republicans, where it dispatches reporter Manu Raju to Senate office buildings to camp outside senators’ offices and demand they condemn something that someone else said.
You will probably only hear about Fonda’s remarks here and at a few other center-right news websites. Because that is the way it works.
“We can stop fascism,” Fonda continued in her pro-Biden rant. “This is … an existential crossroads, and we are people who can help determine which way humanity goes. What a great gift, what a tremendous opportunity, we are just so lucky, we have to use it with every ounce of intelligence and courage and wherewithal we have.”
“This is it,” she added. “This is it.”
As it turns out, even 48 years after “Hanoi Jane’s” North Vietnamese anti-aircraft stunt, she is still rooting for things that kill Americans.
