Letters to the Editor
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Yes! Still promoting Jane Fonda.
It was hard to believe that every Salon reader who had weighed in actually "got it" regarding the Colbert appearance by Fonda. It was, that is, until I at last reached the final letter to the editor. There is was. A doofus of the first order, the sort who put Bush in power (there were five such, on the Supremes, of course).
Jack Kennedy probably benefited from dead Chicago voters in 1960. Nixon probably counterbalanced with equally deceased downstate Illinois voters in that election. Gore had no such equalizer when the Madwoman of Tallahassee helped steal the whole enchilada in 2000, disenfranchising tens of thousands of African Americans even before they got to the polls, then piling many thousands more legitimate, cast but uncounted votes on trash heaps.
Fonda, though most of the "Report" interaction was probably scripted, did herself as well as any guest of the formidable Colbert's ever has. (Eleanor Holmes Norton was recently a no-nonsense grandma who truly and awesomely deflated Stephen's cocksure persona.)
Was Jane a "traitor?" Give us a break. She said what needed to be said during that, the Democrats' war, just as she's saying the same to the Loyal Bushies four decades later.
By the way, I was old enough to vote in '60 and to have spent two years in Vietnam in the next decade, through Tet in fact.
Give it a rest, Fondaphobes.