The Blame Jane Game

And this valentine from Bad Example :

" AN OPEN LETTER TO JANE FONDA

"Haven't you already done enough damage for one lifetime?

"Please die soon.

"Love,Harvey."

How sweet.

Now I'm not going to defend what Jane Fonda did in going to North Vietnam. (She apologized when she published her memoir, about three decades too late.) And the fact that her bus will run on vegetable oil does lend itself to parody. But the notion that this is "what the left is all about" is a joke as well.

Fonda has to know she's a lightning rod and that resuming an antiwar role would subject her to plenty of personal abuse. But I wonder if the media (which gave war opponents short shrift before the invasion, unless they were semi-famous like Janeane Garofalo or Mike Farrell) will lavish plenty of coverage on the former Barbarella. After all, lots of people now oppose the war, which, whatever your view of it, has become a depressing slog of a story with people getting killed day after day. Do only celebrity opponents warrant press attention?

Ah, here's Rick Folbaum on Fox, asking his guests fair-and-balanced questions: "What is Jane Fonda thinking? Will she never learn?" And: "Who thought it would be a good idea for Jane Fonda to go and do this?" L.A. radio host Paul McGuire called Fonda "the poster girl for al-Qaeda" and said "American men and American women are dying in Iraq because of people like Hanoi Jane." Huh?

Adam McKay is quick to note the criticism:

"The reactions in the comments section of Huff Post to the story that Jane Fonda will now be protesting the Iraq war are some of the all-time hilarious blogging thread arguments to date. The whole run should be put into a time capsule. But then again, the argument has been around for so many centuries it isn't really time specific.

"Righties, knowing that they have little ammunition to justify this war in Iraq, are positively jumping for joy at Fonda's stepping out against the invasion."