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by Darkseid
on Sun Jul 30, 2006 2:39 am |
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I didn't write this stuff, just pilfered it off a website:
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Jane Fonda: The kind of girl everyone wants to share their stash with!
Ted Turner and Jane Fonda
billionaire media mogul Ted Turner, founder of TV networks including CNN, TBS and TNT.
Turner was approached in 1998 by Cable Sitters, a media-monitoring group which complained that Scooby-Doo is "laced with subliminal drug references" and demanded that Turner's Cartoon Network stop broadcasting re-runs of the series.
Turner wisely ignored them, just like he didn't cave in to pressure from the DEA in 1996, after his CNN network broadcast a documentary on marijuana called Higher Times. The DEA demanded that Turner give them "rebuttal time," to the news broadcast, but Turner refused.
In fact, Ted Turner has been known as a toker since his youth – he even got caught growing marijuana in his dorm room at school! Yet unlike most stoner celebrities, Turner is willing to put some of his fortune where his bong is. Although nowhere near the $1 billion that he pledged to the United Nations in 1997, the Turner Foundation is a major sponsor of the Kentucky Hemp Museum, through a program which provides grants to groups that may "benefit the environment." Museum coordinator Craig Lee told the media that he has met personally with Ted Turner, and that Turner expressed "interest" in the industrial use of cannabis. Another prime sponsor of the Kentucky Hemp Museum is the ultimate pro-hemp celeb – Woody Harrelson.
In 1987, Turner's then-girlfriend Jane Fonda was quitting smoking cigarettes, and so Turner flamboyantly declared that his TBS network would not hire cigarette smokers. Tobacco giant Philip Morris tried to get a lawsuit going, and in a statement, tobacco smoker and former CNN anchor Gwenn Scott claimed Turner's ban was hypocritical, because "it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana."
`You`re right, those fart jokes are way funnier when we`re stoned!`
In 1991, Turner married Fonda, who has toked on-screen and off, and who was also once married to Tom Hayden, one of the Chicago Seven. In 1980 Fonda appeared in 9 to 5, toking up with her fellow underpaid secretaries, and fantasizing about how to suitably punish their mysoginist boss.
Yet Fonda was known as a toker long before 9 to 5. In 1970, Uncensored Tabloid Magazine called Jane Fonda "Hollywood's wildest pot smoking rebel." Three years earlier Fonda had appeared on the cover of Red Dirt Marijuana, an anthology of short stories by Terry Southern. Southern also helped write the scripts for films such as Easy Rider and Dr. Strangelove.
Easy Rider, released in 1969, saw the character played by Jane Fonda's brother, Peter, finance his cross-country motorcycle trip with a coke deal, trip on acid, and introduce Jack Nicholson's character to marijuana. It was a much more successful film than The Trip, released in 1967, written by Nicholson and starring Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Bruce Dern. The Trip tried to translate an LSD experience by Fonda's character onto the big screen, but was sadly more laughable than enlightening.
Hopper, known for playing a plethora of pie-eyed druggies over his career, says he currently eschews liquor and other hard drugs, sticking solely to pot these days.
Jane Fonda also maintains her publicly pot-head ways. An article in the June 2001 Daily Variety had film reviewer Rex Reed outing both Fonda and himself. The Variety article explained how Reed had profiled Jane Fonda as she sat smoking marijuana in her father's apartment. "Her comment when the piece came out," said Reed, "was, 'I don't mind that he said I was smoking pot. I only minded that he didn't say he was smoking it, too.'"
In 1968, Fonda starred in campy sci-fi cult classic Barbarella, co-written by Terry Southern. In one scene Fonda and other women smoke "the essence of man" from a giant hookah, with a semi-nude man floating on the inside. Barbarella is undergoing a remake, which is a great segue to the next celebrity stoner in our chain, Drew Barrymore, who will be taking on Fonda's classic role. No word yet on who will play the bong-floating boy-babe. |
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by JEEP_GOD
on Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:52 am |
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Boy, those two are the essence of human pieces of [doodee], all right.
[freakin'] hanoi jane should have been thrown out years ago, worthless [beeyotch]. |
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by Darkseid
on Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:54 am |
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Yeah, and two of the biggest anti-tobacco people on the planet. I remember seeing an anti-smoker spot with Jane about 8 years ago, no doubt produced by her asshole husband at-the-time. We all know dope's ok, though, since that's what they like to do.  |
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by JEEP_GOD
on Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:20 am |
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You got that right Dark.
Typical elitists, whats good for me is not for thee.
I can't understand the hate tobacco, love dope mind-set.
They must just be pissed that tobacco is legal, I don't know.
But I hate that [freakin'] hanoi jane, that's for sure. About the time that [beeyotch] was posing for her little pic on the NVA anti aircraft gun, my cousin was killed over in that hell-hole, leaving his wife and son behind. And that worthless rip is making millions of dollars for doing pretty much nothing.
And [freak] that half ass excuse for a man ted turner, too.
Those two are nothing but pure [doodee] sucking scum.
How soon people forget. |
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by Torquemeda
on Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:24 pm |
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Last year at a book signing a Vietnam vet waited in line just to spit in Jane Fonda's face.
It was a beautiful moment that summed up everything from the 60's.
Personally Hanoi Jane should have been deported to North Vietnam a long time ago.
Of course they'd probably refuse to accept her.
Ted Turner who actually signed himself to manage the Atlanta Braves for a day and led them to their seventeenth straight loss.
Yeah, great, his employees can't smoke cigarettes but pot's okay? If that doesn't reek of hippee hypocrisy I don't know what does. |
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by tnsmoker
on Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:18 pm |
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Torquemeda wrote: Last year at a book signing a Vietnam vet waited in line just to spit in Jane Fonda's face.
My husband, a Vietnam vet, has the same strong feelings about Jane Fonda that have been expressed here. Given the opportunity, he'd probably do the same. |
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by JEEP_GOD
on Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:46 pm |
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tnsmoker wrote:
"My husband, a Vietnam vet, has the same strong feelings about Jane Fonda that have been expressed here. Given the opportunity, he'd probably do the same."
If he did, I would gladly shake his hand, and buy him a beer, or pack of smokes, whatever.
And there are some of us here that still appreciate your husband's service, and all veteran's service.
People like this floozy fonda make me physically ill. |
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by ShadowCat
on Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:39 am |
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| My American Legion Post has her picture in the toilets for old times sake! The Taliban tried to turn it into a No Smoking Facility too, preaching their bile! Looks like we need to make some more toilet friendly images of the both of them and some others, from the No Smoking Environmentalist Taliban. |
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by JEEP_GOD
on Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:04 am |
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by ericblair2084
on Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:00 am |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/lehtinen200504290804.asp
April 29, 2005, 8:04 a.m.
Jane Fonda in Wonderland
Non-apology not accepted.
By Dexter Lehtinen
You may have heard that Jane Fonda apologized to Vietnam veterans in her current book. That's incorrect. She expressed "regret" for one photograph, but remains proud of her Radio Hanoi broadcasts, her efforts to achieve a Communist victory, and her attacks on American servicemen as war criminals. She never uses the word "apology."
Fonda’s latest foray into her past — with her pseudo-apology for having been photographed while sitting on a Communist North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, along with her continued vigorous defense of all other aspects of her trip to North Vietnam and her support for the North Vietnamese and Cambodian Communist wars — reminds us that apologies can be very tricky things. An unqualified apology offered with sincere regret for the full scope of the wrong by someone who recognizes the harm inflicted on others can help in reconciliation. But a "pseudo-apology," offered with limitations by someone who still defends the bulk of the wrong, only serves to aggravate the injury. |
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