Actress Jane Fonda joined Jon Stewart on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central to announce, "Our democracy is being destroyed.” Fonda’s actual evidence for such a grand claim was quite unimpressive as she continued to cite ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel getting suspended as a result of his own actions and made the confusing and evidence-free claim about cancelation of TV shows with black wives.
Stewart gushed over his guest when he wondered, “You know, what else has always been a part of some great movements, Jane Fonda. You’ve doing this a long time. Vietnam, No Nukes, LGBTQ rights. I mean, issue after issue, you have stepped up. Why?”
Hanoi Jane then tried to wrap herself in the flag as she recalled, “I think I was about 33 when I became an activist in 1970, and before then, it was—I wasn't involved in anything. I was kind of hedonistic. You know, I kind of knew, if I really get involved, my life is going to change, and I kind of stayed away. And then it was American soldiers that got me to understand the Vietnam War, and my whole life changed. And then, so, because I lived in France, I moved back here, and because it was soldiers that had opened my eyes, I became a part of the G.I. Movement.”
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. Craig Millward
