It doesn’t matter how radical Jane Fonda is, what liberal causes she embraces, the fact that in the 1970s she sat on a North Vietnam antiaircraft gun. For the journalists at Good Morning America, no ideological labels are needed. Fonda appeared on Tuesday’s show and was hailed as a “legend” and “Hollywood royalty.”
Co-host George Stephanopoulos only described her as a “lifelong activist.” He then pushed Fonda to lobby for expensive climate policies: “Of course, you know, you are also an activist and started a new climate political action.”
Stephanopoulos gave the actress a platform to push her radical Fire Drill Fridays website, a page in which even liberal California Governor Gavin Newsom isn’t extreme enough. Fonda lobbied:
Well, I got started inspired by Greta Thunberg and the young student activists who really changed the world and people's attitudes about the climate in 20 — in spring of 2019 and they were saying, where are the old folks? So I went to Washington and had rallies every Friday and engaged in civil disobedience.
She then cheered far-left “climate champion” Democrats.
JANE FONDA: We want to oust the people that are beholden to fossil fuel and we want to elect climate champions. So, you know, next week I'm going to Michigan for Andy Levin. I'm supporting Donna Edwards. I'm supporting people who are really brave and who will work for people, not for big corporations.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: There's no escaping the consequences now. 100 degrees all over the globe.
No difficult questions for the extreme actress. This is quite the contrast to when ABC journalist David Wright interviewed Dolly Parton in 2018 and repeatedly pushed her to call Donald Trump a sexist.
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Good Morning America
7/19/20228:45
AMY ROBACH: Coming up, Hollywood legend Jane Fonda is here in Times Square.
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8:48
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Back with Hollywood royalty. She’s an Academy Award-winner. Lifelong activist. Now Jane Fonda starring in a new animated feature called Luck. Welcome back to GMA. It’s good to see you.
JANE FONDA: Thank you very much. It's good to see you, George.
8:50 AM ET
STEPHANOPOULOS: Of course, you know, you are also an activist and started a new climate political action.
FONDA: Jane Fonda Climate.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why go you do that?
FONDA: I still do fire drill Fridays and we'll go to --
STEPHANOPOULOS: Explain what a fire drill Friday is.
FONDA: Well, I got started inspired by Greta Thunberg and the young student activists who really changed the world and people's attitudes about the climate in 20 — in spring of 2019 and they were saying, where are the old folks? So I went to Washington and had rallies every Friday and engaged in civil disobedience and what it did was it brought people from all over the country who had never been activists before, they cared about climate but they had never sort of put their bodies on the line and then we continued online during COVID. We had nine million viewers in 2020. It was pretty remarkable and, again, moving people from caring about the issue to taking action at that time during COVID, it meant writing your congressman calling the President and so forth. And we're starting with in-person actions again in August. People can go to firedrillfriday.com to find out. And in spite of that, in spite of all the actions that people have taken, we can't get good legislation passed because the fossil fuel industry has a stranglehold over our government.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So that's the political action.FONDA: That's what the political action committee is. We want to oust the people that are beholden to fossil fuel and we want to elect climate champions. So, you know, next week I'm going to Michigan for Andy Levin. I'm supporting Donna Edwards. I'm supporting people who are really brave and who will work for people, not for big corporations.
STEPHANOPOULOS: There's no escaping the consequences now. 100 degrees all over the globe.
FONDA: Oh, I was just in Italy for three months, 104 degrees. It's hard to survive. It's hard to work in that kind of a thing and, you know, your weather report was talking about the fires in Iowa and it's — it's getting worse and worse and it's going to continue to get worse. We have eight years left to do what the scientists are telling us.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But these actions can make a difference.
FONDA: We have to do actions.
