Unfortunately, the show hit a hard break, so we’ll never know for sure what that other way might have been —though if I had to guess, I suspect it would have involved having Hillary Duff strap on a Semtex vest and pose for pictures with a smiling Baghdad Bob and a battalion of Fedayeen Saddam from the turret of an Iraqi tank.
Then, Americans would have seen the softer, more human side of the Iraqi Sunni leadership—which would have led to a lifting of sanctions, and a rapprochement between the western powers and the prickly Hussein and his two virile, sexy sons.
Hilary Duff: the new face of Muslim porn?
.. and somewhere, at an undisclosed location in Baghdad, Saddam Hussein feels a stirring in his loins at the mere thought of bending a naked Hillary Duff wearing a Semtex vest over his old heavy mahogany desk and taking her from behind like the great satanic teen bimbo she is…
Swarthy. Don’t forget swarthy.
So you’re saying Jane Fonda talks out of both sides of her mouth, then? Because we know she kisses out of both sides of her mouth…
“Hilary Duff: the new face of Muslim porn?”
Naw, Michael Jackson.
Hehe, Hanoi Jane would have spread for Udai then claimed all the stories of rape were just jealous women.
Man, I wish FOX would hire Baghdad Bob as a commentator…He could be their man in Baghdad.. Him and Geraldo and Ollie. He’d so be cooler than CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.. and I’m sure he’d have no problem mouthing whatever line they paid him to mouth.. Journalistic integrity doesnt seem to have been his biggest concern.
Jane Fonda, the archetypal useful idiot.
Wait…so Jeff, did someone tell you about this or were you actually watching the view yourself? Ahem, not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Man, do you know what a thrill it must have been for all the communist party leaders to get to roll in the hay with Barbarella herself..Even old Uncle Ho wouldve got up for that occasion.. I wonder if they took pictures ? I’ll have to watch E-Bay..
Any chance we can leave Fonda’s sexuality out of this?
Didn’t think so. Oh, well.
I was going to say, “if they’d just let the inspectors do their jobs.
Man.”
Perhaps Jane was going to tell us she would have preferred it if she went over to Iraq and shot some photos with Saddam’s troops on their tanks and anti-aircraft guns. THAT is how she would have prevented this war.
To aid in reader comprehension, “Hilary Duff” and “strap on” should not appear in the same sentence. It’s highly problematic to re-engage brain cells after that mental picture.
Oddly enough, it’s working for me. Is she legal yet, anyway?
Much as BLT says, I first read that as “Hillary Duff with a semtex strapon”.
That might actually be a better way to do things, in fact. Symbolic and effective. Especially if she was wearing armor such that it didn’t blow her legs off, so she could do it again.
What?
Does anyone else remember this? Sometime in the late 80’s or early 90’s, Hanoi Jane did a movie with Robert DeNiro. Since it was being filmed in Connecticut, it got extra play in the New York media (I was living in the Democratic People’s Republic of New Jersey at the time).
She made a big show of apologizing to Vietnam vets. I don’t think she admitted that everything she did back then was wrong. It was just a narrowly focused apology to the vets for something-or-another.
So let’s see – Hanoi Jane said she was sorry to Vietnam vets while she was trying to get pub for her soon-to-be-released movie.
Now, she has a book coming out. While doing the media rounds for it, Hanoi Jane admits that she was wrong for posing for photos on an NVA anti-aircraft gun.
Hmmm.
P.S. – I think the movie I mentioned had something to do with Vietnam vets.
The only movie I can find with De Niro and Fonda is Stanley and Iris, which wasn’t about Vietnam vets (as far as I can tell) and was filmed in Toronto. The filming was, however, picketed by anti-Fonda types.
Off the top of my head, I think DeNiro played a tortured Vietnam vet in Jacknife, but I’m too lazy to look it up. Don’t think Fonda was in it.
However, she was in Coming Home, with Jon Voight and Bruce Dern. That’s a deservedly famous Vietnam vet film from Hal Ashby (?), but it was filmed in ‘78 or thereabouts.
DeNiro played a Special Forces vet in The Deer Hunter.. but again, no Jane Fonda..
Deer Hunter, sure. Again around ‘78, right? Great film. Oscar for Walken. But yeah, that was Meryl, not Jane.
It was Stanley and Iris. The vets protested and she issued a half-ass apology.