Cross posted at The Smoking Room
Jane Fonda, whose antics in the J-Lo comedy “Monster in Law” were enjoyed by tens, will join British parliamentarian and Saddam pal George Galloway on a fall antiwar tour in the States, hurriedly thrown together to capitalize on Hurricane Katrina. Galloway certainly has the gall (small pun) to make common cause with Baathist thugs and bask in the adulation of grunting morons who have gone past antiwar to actively support “the other side,” as Instapundit has said. But Jane Fonda, whose entire career has been dominated by her common cause with the North Vietnamese? Maybe just as she fell for nutjob billionare Ted Turner, she swooned for Saddam’s Anglo twin:
Miss Fonda was persuaded to join Mr. Galloway’s eight-city traveling show later this month by a friend, Eve Ensler, author of “The Vagina Monologues.” Mrs. Ensler had been impressed by Mr. Galloway’s pugnacious performance in May in front of a Senate committee investigating the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, the London Sunday Times reported.
At the hearing, Mr. Galloway, just re-elected after a fiercely fought campaign exploiting Muslim anti-war sentiment, described the accusations against him as “the mother of all smoke screens” and said they were aimed at diverting attention from America’s role in the war and its aftermath.
I’ve been vacationing in my old college burg of Seattle this week and saw the posters splashed all over downtown and the more radical neighborhoods. I’d like to think this wonderful city is too intelligent to fall for Galloway’s song and dance, but hey, he opposes a Republican president. He must be right!
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.