QVC gets it right.
We all know QVC. It is a cable TV shopping channel and if you have a product you really want to sell, that is the place to go. QVC recently did something stupid. Everyone is entitled to make mistakes. This one was a big mistake. Many times it is not the mistake you make but how you deal with the mistake.
QVC realized their mistake and made it right. What was their mistake?
They were going to bring Jane Fonda on to pitch her new book called, “Prime Time.” To say that many veterans of the Viet Nam war hate Jane Fonda would be an understatement. That would be like calling Ft. Knox merely “a warehouse.”
Many Viet Nam veterans and their families hate Fonda for very good cause. In 1972, at the height of the war, Fonda traveled to Hanoi. Her purpose was to give aid and comfort to the Vietnamese during the war. This was a propaganda event of significant proportions.
Fonda posed on a Vietnamese anti aircraft gun, which was being used to shoot at American Aircraft. The North Vietnamese air defenses shot down thousands of American aircraft during the war, resulting in thousands of American fliers either being killed or captured as POW’s. A few lucky one’s would be rescued before capture.
Fonda met with a few POW’s, again in a staged propaganda event. After the war, she called the men liars when they talked about how brutal their treatment was.
There are some myths about Fonda, such as the story of her turning over to the Vietnamese slips of paper captured Americans had given her. Even without the myths, her behavior in 1972 was nothing less than treasonous.
As soon as QVC announced they would have a segment with Fonda, veterans, veterans groups and other patriotic individuals complained to QVC. Whether QVC acted out of simple corporate fear of bad publicity or if they acted because they realized real Americans hate Jane Fonda and they should too, is irrelevant. They cancelled her and did the right thing.
Fonda reacted in typical leftist fashion. She claimed that QVC had caved to “extremist” pressures. In Fonda’s warped world, patriotism is extreme. Fonda went on to say, "Bottom line, this has gone on far too long, this spreading of lies about me! I love my country. I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us."
What is the word I am looking for here? Well, I can’t say it on TPN. How about Male Cow Manure?
Jane Fonda went to Hanoi in the middle of a war. Her trip was a propaganda trip, which had the sole purpose of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. While she was cavorting with the comrades, Americans were being tortured and killed, both in the POW camps and in combat.
Fonda was not some innocent 18 year old at the time. She was 34 when she went to Hanoi. She was almost old enough to be the mother of some 18-year-old draftee fighting in the jungles.
Over the years, Fonda has given a couple of lame apologies, coincidentally timed for when she had a major project going on and real Americans were protesting her.
Fonda is now 73 and wants us to think that was just a long time ago. She may be 73 but so are some of the victims of the North Vietnamese, who she gave aid and comfort to. Those men have lived with what our enemy did to them every day since that war ended. They fought, she parties. They loved this country and she spit on them and America.
As we work for a conservative government in 2013, we should remember, there is a legal term for what she did. It is called Treason.
There is no statute of limitations on Treason.
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Permalink Reply by Clarence J Arsenault on -
Thank you QVC for standing up for the American Men and Women who fought for this Country..This Women is another west Coast Liberal who Hates America and what it stands for...May God keep blessing this Great Country of Ours..
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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Lee Mull on
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AMEN!!
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Permalink Reply by William H. Barnwell on -
QVC did the right thing. And that is all that matters. Being a Vietnam Vet, I have not forgiven her or her actions. She was old enough to know better and the United States government should have done some thing about it instead of sweeping it under the rug.
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Permalink Reply by Max Tollens Jr on -
I recently went to a lecture at the National Air and Space museum in Washington DC where the presenter was Rear Admiral Bob Shumaker; Adm Shumaker was a POW after being shot down in his F-8 Crusader. He stated that Jane Fonda did enough in terms of treasonous activities but would also say that the story floating around the internet regarding the "collecting of slips of paper from POW's and turning them over to VN officials" is an internet hoax.
While I have no love or respect for Jane Fonda, the idea that Mr. Shumaker would take the time to explain that this story is a hoax clearly illustrates the character of the man. God bless America and patriots such as Adm. Shumaker who clearly put honor and truth above all else. Jane Fonda could learn a thing or two from folks like Adm. Shumaker.
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Permalink Reply by james stamulis on -
former soviet kgb defectives have said the soviet union organized many of the anti vietnam rallies that jane fonda was so fond of(no pun intended) and who joined her but good old senator kerry of massachusetts. our own war hero with 3 self inflicted purple hearts in a 3month span which reqiured no medical attention but was a free ticket home. he joined jane and that is how he kick started his great political career in politics as the most flip flopping senator in history. he tried to copy john kennedy as a pt boat commander but came up short by a country mile. then he wrote a book talking about the attrocities of american soldiers in vietnam which he hardly ever saw because he was in a place that virtually never saw action by design. to this day the progressives try and treat him like some war hero which is an insult to all that served. i hate both jane and john equally as much
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Permalink Reply by Donald A. Richards on
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As a Vietnam vet who vividly remembers the obscene jestures, filthy names, and totally false newsports directed toward my fellow Vietnam vets and me upon our return, I hold pond scum like Fonda and Kerry in the lowest regard. However, they were not much worse than much of the flag burning college "students", college professors, Hollywood elite, and the liberal media of the time in their hatefull, deliberately dishonest, and anti-American actions.
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Permalink Reply by Art Kretzschmar on -
I'm not Fonda Hanoi Jane!!!!
De Opresso Liber
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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Brown on -
Hanoi Jane should be buried in Nam.
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Permalink Reply by Patti Jarvis on
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Right on.
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Permalink Reply by Ken B on
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Wasn't there a picture of John (served in Viet Nam) Kerry at an anti-America rally with her? We almost elected one traitor president and then really did elect another.
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