Hanoi, Vietnam. Jane Fonda, looking green and a foxy sixty four, has returned to the place that brought her so much attention in the sixties. Hanoi was the capital of then North Vietnam and enemy of the US. An odd place for an American to visit, but Jane went anyway and griped about the war so much that she was called a traitor. Mostly the Hanoi trip was a dumb idea as Jane could have had more attention by doing something outlandish back at home. Troubled times with a different frame of reference.
Always the contrarian, Jane still believed that Hanoi was the place to go if you want to protest and have the world listen. And Jane is hopping mad about the PP oil spill because it has delayed the shooting of her seventh exercise video, 'Seniors hop for health', that was scheduled to shoot on a Florida beach now drenched in oil.
Jane spoke at a rally, populated mostly by curious non-English speaking locals, in central Hanoi yesterday afternoon. A lone Fox News camera captured the moment for viewing and 'fair and balanced' dialog catered to the right wing target market. Jane explained how the oil conglomerates had lobbied hard for limited liability, and a waver of environmental impact studies, so they could get-to-drilling for the country's benefit and their pockets.
Jane also stressed the importance of exercise for better health, at any age, and derided PP for keeping the information from desperate elderly workout nuts. Fonda said. "The production delay of my new video will deprive seniors of newer exercise information and maintenance of health". The crowd was not paying attention but Fonda plodded on to describe some of the new exercises; The Tim Conway elderly speed walk, the forward lunge for golf ball, and the seniors hop (sometimes called the geezer jump), and the tie-your-own-shoe-stretch. Fonda concluded, "… some may die because this information was not available early enough".
