’Hanoi Jane’ Leads Newsom and Schwarzenegger Against Oil Drilling

Published on March 29, 2024

Commentary Jane Fonda always will be “Hanoi Jane” to me. I can’t forget her attack on America’s brave fighting men during her 1972 trip to Hanoi in communist North Vietnam. As she was photographed sitting in a North Vietnamese Army anti-aircraft gun, my future brother-in-law was a U.S. Marine on his second combat tour. A few years earlier, a cousin was a U.S. Air Force intelligence sergeant going on missions over North Vietnam, and might have been shot down by that very gun. Both survived the war. Actress Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi, Vietnam, on July 25, 1972. (STF/AFP FILES/AFP via Getty Images) That’s why it was frustrating how Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined Ms. Fonda in her latest leftist political cause. As the Los Angeles Times fawningly headlined, “What do Schwarzenegger, Fonda and Newsom have in common? They’re fighting oil drilling.”...