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Jane Fonda's 'murder' quip on 'The View' spurs faux outrage from GQP anti-abortion snowflakes [1]

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Date: 2023-03-11

Jane Fonda speaks on 'The View' on Friday

MAGA Republicans just don’t get dark humor or hyperbole. And at age 85, Oscar-winner Jane Fonda hasn’t lost her ability to stoke outrage among right-wingers.

Fonda and her BFF Lily Tomlin appeared Friday on the daytime TV talk show, The View, to promote their new movie — no it’s wasn’t the comedy 80 For Brady about four older women who travel to Houston to watch Tom Brady play in the Super Bowl.

They were promoting Movin’ On — a dark comedy, written and directed by Paul Weitz, set to open later this month, about two estranged friends who reunite at the funeral of a mutual friend, and decide to seek revenge on their dead friend’s husband for wronging them decades ago.

Fonda and Tomlin’s friendship goes back to the 1980 revenge-comedy 9 to 5 about working women getting even with their sexist autocratic boss. More recently, they starred together on the long-running, Emmy-winning Netflix series Grace and Frankie.

Co-host Joy Behar referenced an earlier movie that Weitz wrote and directed — the 2015 film Grandma — in which Tomlin starred as a lesbian poet who helps her 18-year-old granddaughter raise the money for an abortion. Behar then said she found it “very upsetting” that Walgreen’s now won’t even offer the abortion pill in 21 states because of restrictive laws.

Tomlin responded: “I think all this stuff that is going on — the change in the laws and the backsliding in the country is pretty terrifically awful.“

And then Fonda lowered the boom:

“We have experienced many decades now of having agency over our body, of being able to determine when and how many children to have. We know what that feels like, we know what that’s done for our lives,” Fonda said to applause from the audience. “We’re not going back. I don’t care what the laws are! We’re not going back.”

“That’s the activist,” co-host Sunny Hostin told Fonda. Behar then added, “That’s Jane!” She then asked Fonda, “Besides marching and protesting, what else do you suggest?”

“Well, I’ve thought of murder,” Fonda quipped. Tomlin asked, “What did you say?” And in a slightly louder voice, Fonda repeated “Murder.”

(The abortion segment begins at the 1:45 mark)

Behar then jumped in to clarify, “She’s just kidding … They’ll pick up on that and just run with it. She’s just kidding.” Fonda then gave a deadpan staer, drawing laughs from the hosts and studio audience,

Hostins then turned the remainder of the segment to Fonda’s environmental activism and her role in helping secure support for the U.N. Ocean Treaty agreed to this month that would turn 30 percent of the world’s oceans into marine sanctuaries, where fishing is banned, by 2030. Fonda delivered 5.5 million signatures from 157 countries to United Nations negotiators last month.

But of course, Fonda’s abortion comments triggered the hypocritical right-wing faux outrage machine.

For decades, Fonda has been a lightning rod for right-wing outrage ever since she shed her image as a sex-symbol, exemplified by the 1968 sci-fi film Barbarella directed by her ex-husband Roger Vadim, to become an anti-Vietnam War activist. She was reviled on the right as “Hanoi Jane” after a controversial 1972 visit to North Vietnam. A year later, she married activist Tom Hayden, a defendant in the Chicago Seven case.

So Faux News was quick to seize on “Hanoi Jane’s” comments, claiming she was calling for the murder of “pro-life activists.” Never mind the incendiary remarks about abortion providers made by Fox hosts for decades, including Bill O’Reilly’s repeated references to “Tiller the Baby Killer,” referring to Dr. George Tiller, a provider of late-term abortions, who was killed in 2009 while attending church services in Wichita, Kan.

And there were all the cases of violence against reproductive health care providers documented by the Department of Justice last year, spurred by anti-abortion extremists. The list includes a 2015 mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs in which a gunman killed three people and wounded eight others.

Of course, one of the first to pile on Fonda for her remarks on The View was Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The QAnon congresswoman was stripped of her committee assignments in the previous Democratic-controlled House for repeatedly indicating support for executing prominent Democratic politicians in 2018 and 2019. In one post, from January 2019, Greene liked a comment that said “a bullet to the head would be quicker” to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

In 2019, Empty Greene posted a Facebook ad on her campaign page showing a photo of her holding a gun alongside images of Democratic Reps.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. The caption read: “Squad’s worst nightmare.”

But Fonda’s remarks got the fur flying for Greene, who was rewarded with choice committee assignments for her support of Barely Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

She posted a Tweet that read:

Unapologetic Pro-Life Politician here. I routinely get death threats because of the nasty women on The View and the things they say about me. But calling for us to be assassinated makes The View, the hosts, the producers, the network, the advertisers, and everyone involved responsible for death threats, attacks, and potential murders of Pro-Life politicians and activists. I am reporting this. By the way

But you know Empty Greene can’t resist slinging even more feces. So she added this comment to her tweet directly addressed to Fonda:

By the way your eggs are dried up so you don’t have to worry about getting pregnant anytime soon, so you can retire from demanding baby murder now.

This past week, we’ve seen how Fox host Tucker Carlson cherry-picked the security camera footage provided by McCarthy to try to sweep what happened on Jan. 6 under the rug. Carlson described the events that day as “mostly peaceful chaos” rather than a “deadly insurrection,” saying the rioters that day “were sightseers.”

But MAGA Republicans have found something else for the Capitol Police to do — and this is protect them from Jane Fonda and the hosts of The View.

Newly minted Freedumb Caucus member Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, tweeted that she had “notified Capitol police of Jane Fonda’s call to murder pro-life politicians,”

Luna wrote:

“I am a pro-life member of Congress. As she did not retract or clarify that she was “joking” with her statement, we are taking this threat as a serious one. Jane Fonda and The View, must issue a full retraction of Fonda’s sickening call to murder pro-life politicians and those who fight for the rights of unborn babies. Calling for the murder of a pro-life politicians is not only dangerous but it’s incredibly sick. This leads to targeting and can result in someone being seriously hurt. The View should be ashamed that they condone violence, especially against women elected officials as we are already targeted way more for stalking and violence way more than our male counterparts.”

The utterly shameless hypocrisy of such remarks is beyond belief.

In a statement to The Daily Beast and other news outlets, Fonda explainined that her remarks were “hyperbole.”

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