Jane Fonda Uses the C-Word on 'Today'

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By Justin McCarthy | February 14, 2008 - 11:15 ET

[Warning: Foul Language]

Besides her left wing activism, famous North Vietnamese propagandist Jane Fonda spouts foul language on morning network television, when some children almost certainly saw it. Discussing the feminist play "The Vagina Monologues" on the February 14 edition of "Today," Fonda used the obscene term to describe part of the female anatomy.

Although it is only February, this is the second time this year that a celebrity used an obscene word on morning television. On the January 15 edition of "Good Morning America," Diane Keaton dropped the F-word. Unlike host Diane Sawyer, Meredith Vieira did not appear shocked.

MRC President Brent Bozell previously expressed concern about networks airing foul language and some networks’ stubborness.

The transcript is below.

MEREDITH VIEIRA: I know when it started there were some A-list celebrities who came out to help you, but Jane, you at first were not a big fan of the play. So what turned you around?

JANE FONDA: Well, it wasn’t that I wasn’t a big fan. I hadn’t seen the play. I live in Georgia, okay? I was asked to do a monologue called "cunt." and I said "I don’t think so, I got enough problems."

Update 11:45 | Noel Sheppard: On the west coast, the c-word was cut from the audio.

Update 16:24 | Matthew Sheffield. Later in the show, "Today" co-host Meredith Vieira apologized for Fonda's remark. Click here for the video.

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So, will they be treated (ie fined...)

Like Howard Stern was treated/fined for less-raunchy material??? I hereby officially doubt it.
JMR

If this is winning, I think I'd rather lose...

Not as bad as ...

Macaca. That's a word, according to the Washington Post, that "provokes outrage and an apology". Jane Fonda should be praised for not going that far. Probably deserves an Oscar or something.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

George Allen may have lost politically...

But it was the media (and maybe Allen's dumb reaction to them, once they'd latched-on to the word) which did that. The incident cost me $0 in taxes.

In Howard Stern's case, it was an agency of our obese government imposing enormous fines for less-raunchy speech than this, which they're not-about to fine and we all know it. The FCC's arbitrary censorship arm costs taxpayers as well as the victims of speech-fines substantial money every year. Apples & oranges.
JMR

If this is winning, I think I'd rather lose...

Jane Fonda 'C' Word on

Jane Fonda 'C' Word on Today Show 2/14/2008

http://www.redlasso....

Who cares?  That's the

Who cares?  That's the name of a part of the play.

Sensitive conservatives turning our children into wimps.

I'd duck,

IN COMING!!

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

as long as she's a liberal

as long as she's a liberal its no big deal - we know the rules

My wife's use of colorful

My wife's use of colorful "sentence enhancers" (as SpongeBob's pal Patrick once opined) could make a sailor blush... but even for her, that's one term that's off limits. 

*****

"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

Well, the MSM sure had a

Well, the MSM sure had a fit when a woman audience member asked John McCain how he will defeat the bitch (HRC).

Didn't they trot out practically every member of NOW to chastise HIM for not denoucing the woman who said it about another woman?

 

just like a parrot

she only said what she has heard after so many years.

you can't honestly think she doesn't walk down the street and hear that word like birds chirping on a daily basis.

lunaticcringeradio

Smut

Get the starch out of your shirts. What's the difference? Reticence, class, respect, dignity--- take those outdated words out of the dictionary. Moreover, take them out of daily life in America. Pass me the Hustler and Playboy. Hey, there's a sex show at the local college today. Lets get some tickets. Leon is right,who cares?---you conservatives need to loosen up for the good of the country and your kids. 

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Oh.....that "C" word........

When I read that the commie-traitor, Hanoi Jane, had used the obscene C word, at first I though they meant Clinton. I had to read the link to find out that the obscene word Fonda used wasn't quite as bad as a Clinton.

I'm not a Fonda Fan but I don't see a problem with this

She's saying that she didn't want to do it because of the use of the word. She wasn't swearing or using the word in an obscene way - she only referred to the word .

Double standard?

D, you don't see a double standard here? Look what the MSM has done to republicans and conservatives when the MSM cried "VICTIM" at anyone who might have been slightly upset over innocent words. Yet, let a liberal swear, and it's ok -- no accounting, no reporting of it, and certainly no statement on how inappropriate it is.

Wake up and smell the bias.

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Let them talk and reveal

Let them talk and reveal themselves for who they are. If children saw this, then it gives parents a great opportunity to advise how low class individuals like Fonda talk and how that term is base and vulgar.

Jason, It's a name of an

Jason,

It's a name of an act in the play. 

Used to illustrate a point about the nature of language and the hijacking of words.

You guys should know what you're talking about before addressing an issue.

 

It is still a profane word

It is still a profane word used during a primetime cast. Sugar coat it anyway you want. The use of the word was avoidable by any decent human being. Which Fonda is not.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

So Bass, then your

So Bass,

then your complaint should be the selection of the topic of the Vagina Monologues by the show's producers, not Fonda's use of the C word.

 

we couldn't even say these

we couldn't even say these things on NB:

let's try it out...

there should be a post directly below this one with a virtually identical time stamp - unless it was deleted by the admins - it will have a derogatory term similar to Jane's - the name of a play I'm writing BTW - and it starts with an "n" and has a couple of "g's" in the middle and refers to my fellow citizens of African heritage...

here goes - let's see if it stays up on the board...

Noggin?

Noggin? 

*****

"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

is that what you call

is that what you call n*ggers:)?

i afrayed I just cunt believe twat you are saying - sorry

Oh come on TM...knock it off

Oh come on TM...knock it off would ya...please.

typo - sorry:)

typo - sorry:)

Too bad the writer's strike ended, now she can get a job again

So by your rationale, if an act in the play was the F-word and she used it, that would be ok? I don't think so. I have used the word before and will again but not when children could be around or on TV. This is why my wife doesn't watch the pap and drivel of morning tv.

Took the words right out of

Took the words right out of my mouth. By the way nice sn, I use Archinfidel over at Pat Dollard.

Terrorists want change too

Okay, so when a profane word

is used for whatever purpose, let's say "motherf*****" is used in a rap song as whatever term the nit wit who wrote the song wants it to mean, then it's completely acceptable to use that term in any company at any time when you're referencing that song?

Would you feel, or more importantly, would it be acceptable for a conservative personality to refer to a previously popular rap group NWA (N*gg**s With Attitudes) by their full name rather than the acronym?

Hey numbskull...the word is still profane, no matter who used it for what purpose. No wonder libs are not known for their class...

I wonder...do libs want to hold the line on ANYTHING??

That's relevant how?

The FCC regs don't mention context so your point is completely irrelevant to the discussion. If we were talking about the message of the play, then fine. It would still be too much for a network broadcast, but point taken

If Today was talking about relationships, I somehow doubt it would be cool if they started using the F-Bomb.

These are the same folks who lost it over Andrew Dice Clay's stand-up. "Hey, it's comedy", was not a defense for him.

 

And Dice was funny. "They

And Dice was funny.

"They want their rights? I'll giv'em their rights. 10% off of Vaseline, now get the F**k back into the closet."

Leon - That is hillarious!!!

"You guys should know what you're talking about before addressing an issue."

Thanks, Leon for the great laugh!!! I needed that!

And you feel that "C#$t" is

And you feel that "C#$t" is an appropriate word during a early morning news broadcast that children may be watching with their parents?

Long gone are the days when sensible people had courtesy not to use such language in mixed company let alone defend it.

So what if is the name of a play.

Should that be an excuse to use other words banned by the FCC during hours when children are watching?

The only difference is that a socialist uttered the word on a liberal news broadcast, so that makes it okay.

 

Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda represents the left so well--a spoiled, rich anti-American, "liberal" hypocrite. She cheered  and supported  the wounds and deaths of my family and friends. Despicable doesn't begin to describe this devil incarnate. May she rot in Hell!

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

As much as I despise Hanoi

As much as I despise Hanoi Jane, we have to take into account the context of what she said. She still shouldn't use a word like that on network TV, but it's not like she said it in a derogatory way. What Diane Keaton did was worse.

No we don't

We do not have to take into account the context of what she said. There are certain standards one needs to keep in order to preserve civility and decency. Her choice of words violate those standards. She knows it, and decided to push the envelope. The TV hosts are too PC to say anything. And the MSM can't report on it because of their Double Standards policy.

Context be damned.

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Double Standard

Viera seems to giggle, thinks its kinda funny to talk about "cunts" on morning television.   Freedom and freedom of speech do not equal anarchy and lawlessness. 

It's ok for the lefties to attack, slander and profane, as long as they are the ones doing it.  blah blah bla

A nation that cannot secure its borders is not a nation.” Ronald Reagan

I wonder what would of

I wonder what would of happened if a conservative actress like Bo Derek had said the same thing...just a thought.

At least the C word wasn't conservative, or better yet conservative crazies.

We have hit bottom in television when it comes to another C word...class.

The funnier quote was when

The funnier quote was when the author of the play said she found it difficult to get "vagina out of my mouth."

I almost expected to hear a "ba-dum bum" or "That's what she said" after that.

Because it's the name of an

Because it's the name of an act, the context is not salacious, but she still shouldn't have said the word on TV. Some things you just shouldn't say on morning TV.

Hey Jane, there's work for

Hey Jane, there's work for you at:

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

Thank you balboa. It is as

Thank you balboa. It is as simple as that.

Pushing the envelope

It's all part of the bigger picture. The lefties in the media are pushing the envelope again. They'll go as far as they can , then the'll step back a little. But as with all things over the past three or four decades, the "liberals" won't be satisfied until the America we've known, the light of the world, is in the gutter with all the other socialist nations. Our heritage is slipping away. Sad.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

isia... ..and these same

isia...

..and these same lefties want the Fairness Doctrine.

Good point

Very good point, BT.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

I think most people on here

I think most people on here don't like it because it was Jane Fonda that said it. If Ann said it, you'd probably find a reason why it was OK. I've been told on here before by conservatives that words aren't that big a deal.

Speculation

Find such a case and let's test it out. Otherwise, this is just speculation in an attempt to apologize for Hanoi Jane.

Did it ever occur to you that certain people have certain patterns? Fonda would like nothing better than to cut away at our culture and traditions. This is one of the ways she is trying this. So yeah, it's Jane Fonda -- but, this is what we would expect of her, and she doesn't "disappoint".

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Like I said, I don't think

Like I said, I don't think it was appropriate, even given the context.

But remember this?

"...but it turns out that you have to
go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot."

And she was EXCORIATED by

And she was EXCORIATED by the media for it. Where is the outcry here?

Behold the double standard.

My point was that a lot of

My point was that a lot of people on here said "No big deal. Words shouldn't have such power over people."

One of us said back-then

That CPAC should have focused more on conservatives running for office, and less on a foul-mouthed pundit hawking her latest book. And I still say so now. (The instinct is to crack a "behold the single standard!" joke at this point, but I'm sure I have plenty of my own double-standards -- just on other subjects!)
JMR

If this is winning, I think I'd rather lose...

Balboa, you had it right the

Balboa, you had it right the first time, so why bring Ann into it? Ann is more popular here than Jane is. So what? It would still be unacceptable.

Ann has more class then to

Ann has more class then to say something like that.

Bal

Generally I like you, but why are all of your condemnations so half-assed? Either condemn what she said or don't. If you do, NO QUALIFIERS!!!

I said she shouldn't have

I said she shouldn't have said it. I'm not going to fly off the handle and say she should be burned at the stake, or claim it's the sign of an aging hipster trying desperately to remain relevant, etc., because I don't believe those things. She shouldn't have said it. No fire, no brimstone.

she definitely

she definitely could have said "they wanted me to be in a part named a word we usually refer to as the "c-word"", but she didn't

I have a hard time with this one, if I want to tell someone who was unfamiliar with the Michael Richard's incident, I could not tell someone that he said "nigger", I am supposed to say "he said the n-word", why?  I am not the one pointing my finger at a black guy and calling him one, I am merely saying that someone else said this word?  the whole thing puzzles me

bahgdad barbarella can f-word herself no matter what though . . .

To Jane Fonda----

Dere Jane----To Paraphrase an American comedian: 

 

"I know you are, but what am I?"

Hello there Mrbill! long time no see -

I miss your cute comments like this.

Hey misterb...me too!

Hey misterb...me too!

Btw...Rush is talking about

Btw...Rush is talking about all of this now...the Fonda vocabulary...too funny, he bleeped out the word...of course.

dee

I am not here long--  I just posted my opinion in todays open message area and will probably anger a lot of people. I have been very disappointed in recent months with the direction in which the election has turned. I cannot believe how many people have forgotten illegal immigration and its impact on America. Even more, I cannot believe how many of my fellow conservatives have forgotten the co-author of the immigration reform package. I said enough in my other post that I do not have to continue here.

I sincerely thank you for your compliment and wish you all  the best. I know the NB's mission is to show the sins of the MSM --and they do a fantastic job. My heart and soul is in fixing illegal immigration. So I spend most of my time on a site that does that. I do not post much there because the constant input of fresh, new data is so good and so fast that I seldom catch up.

Through them I have come to see many videos of the actions of the invaders of our country. If all Americans saw these videos, the IAs would lose 90% of their compassionate supporters overnight.

I try not to let my deep concerns interfere with my humor and my general happy attitude--but , it is getting harder and harder. Nonetheless, besides cards and flowers, I sent this email message to my wife, at work today.

For all these years, we shared this yoke.

But no gift dear,This year we're broke.

Next year will be  worse, we'll truly bleed

With taxes from Pelosi and Reid.

I bought the wine, my valentine, two glasses tonight and I'll be fine.

Mr bill- Love your Valentine poem!

Mr bill- Love your Valentine poem!

I know what you mean about it being hard to keep up here. Hopefully we will cross paths again when we both have the time.

 

Hoohaa!

Don't go "down there".

And now a scene...

...from "Arrested Development": 

G.O.B.: Before I forget, I’m buying a company boat.

Michael: Sorry?

G.O.B.: The Seaward.

Michael: You’re not getting a boat.

Lucille: Michael?

Michael: Mom, I-I’m right in the middle of something. (To G.O.B.) Get rid of the Seaward.

Lucille: I’ll leave when I’m good and ready.

*****

"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

NBC

Zucker and Capus dragging NBC to the hard left.

She still has to pay for

She still has to pay for treason.

Rules are rules

After the Keaton incident on GMA a few weeks ago, one wonders why the broadcast nets aren't running on a delay for just this reason.  And as for Fonda, besides the utter lack of class, one has to wonder how a woman who has been around the media her whole life wouldn't know enough to modify her language on network TV.  That begs the question:  did she do it deliberately?

There were probably kids watching, or at least in earshot of the TV.  The FCC should enforce their rules. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

No-class celebrities, networks

I'll repeat what I posted at Michelle Malkin's site.  These aging broads like Diane Keaton and Hanoi Jane are trying to show how hip and edgy they are by swearing on live national t.v..  It's pathetic.  I don't think they're cool; it makes them look trashy and classless.  (What else to expect from a traitor like Hanoi Jane, right?)

But networks can get around this problem with a seven-second delay for live broadcasts.  They choose not to do it.  It's because they want a future of Saturday morning cartoon f-bombs, sex acts performed live on the Today show, and NC-17 rated gore on primetime t.v..

Fonda

pig

 

"Unlike host Diane Sawyer,

"Unlike host Diane Sawyer, Meredith Vieira did not appear shocked."

Why on earth would she be shocked? She obviously knew the name of the monologue within the play that Fonda was doing and they obviously had discussed whether or not to use the word or the letter denoting the word. Don't you realize after all this time who these people are? They are the children of the destroyer of worlds. They are doing his will. Their desire is to tear down and take away from all that is good and decent, they desire to leave in their wake a soul stripped humanity devoid of any consciousness of righteousness.  How else could a woman who should have been shot as a traitor, be celebrated? Would YOU shake Jane Fonda's hand? Would You slobber all over her as if she were someone decent? I think not. It's time for you people to buy a vowel and get a clue as to who your enemy really is. They aren't "misguided", the aren't simply of "another opinion" about things like  SODOMY and MURDERING BABIES IN THE WOMB. They are evil. When Christ was asked by his disciples to explain humanity to them he told them the story of the Wheat and the Tares. In this parable he told them that a man's servants had noticed that in his field of wheat, TARES (weeds) had sprung up. The interesting thing about "tares" is that they look a lot like WHEAT except they destroy wheat fields and are EMPTY on the inside! Jesus tells them in the parable that the farmer told his servants not to pull up the tares less they harm the wheat as well. He declared then that the tares would be thrown into the fire at the final harvest. When he explained the terms of the parable located at Matt 13: 24-30 with the explanation occurring at Matt 13: 36-42, it goes a little something like this...

36Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

 37He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;

 38The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

 39The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

 40As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

 41The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

 42And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

 

This is how seemingly normal people can think two disgusting men sodomizing each other can be "natural", "healthy" or an acceptable "alternative". This is how they can think killing children in the womb because you can't "afford" them, makes some kind of sense. This is how they can outlaw the word's "mother" and "Father" in California textbooks thanks to the moron Arnold Schwarzenegger, so as not to offend a bunch of sodomites.  Jesus told you by their "Fruits" ye shall know them. If the fruit of their ideology is a rejection of godliness, dead babies ,blown out rectums, and young women with a desire for other women's private parts,  what does this make them? They are the TARES of this world, the children of satan. Buy a vowel and get thyself a clue.  

I have no objection to the

I have no objection to the use of the word...in the right context.  For example, if she had been using the word to describe herself, I could only agree with her.

ROFLMAO! Bingo fitz...

ROFLMAO!

Bingo fitz...

Fonda was only refering to

Fonda was only refering to herself. She has been called one for so long, she thinks its her name. And in my view, thats exactly what she is.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

"Dang me...dang me...they oughta take a rope and hang me."

Does anyone here remember the firestorm that took place when Roger Miller came up with those lyrics?

All kindsa folks were upset that he used the word "dang", which was known to be the word to replace "damn." Regular citizens were really angry at the fact that their children might hear such language.

I was a kid and remember the whole thing.

Now this piece of crap Hanoi Jane uses a word, on national television, that I have used perhaps 30 times in my 51 years and not a peep from anyone. (To me, it is the most obscene word I can use and I keep it in reserve for those special occasions when "dang" just won't do the job of expressing my distaste for someone.)

As was said here earlier...they (liberals) just keep pushing the envelope. Soon Big Bird will be rapping obscene lyrics to teach kids about the alphabet.

 

Happy Trails...

Hanoi Jane

Jane Fonda is a pathetic, aging has-been, who obviously feels that stunts like this make her look "with it" and still "hip". I don't suppose any of us should be surprised...look at who this neurotic dingbat has chosen for 2 of her husbands over the years-Tom Hayden and Ted Turner. Enough said...

Jane Fonda

Check out my blog for Jane's latest involvement in this episode.

 

edwardcropper.blogspot.com/

The femisitas getting bored out there?

Haven't heard as much promotion of the whole "Vagina Day" as much as I have from previous years.  Is the popularity starting to fizzle out?

I was at my local Safeway the day before last and a holiday display was up with a big red heart balloon that said "V is for VALENTINE."

I agree wholeheartedly.

-PJ

"Trake: Your lofty convictions are another blemish on the rump of congregational sectarianism." -Tumbler 5/15/07