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Monday, August 01, 2005
Tancredo v. Fonda
Here's one news round up from Agape. See if you can spot any failed reasoning:...Some Muslims in Congressman Tom Tancredo's Colorado district say they are not satisfied with his partial apology for remarks about bombing Mecca and other Islamic holy sites. At a weekend rally in Denver, Nation of Islam minister Gerald Muhammad told several hundred protesters that Tancredo "needs to be removed from office." The congressman has been under fire since July 15, when he told a radio host that if Muslim terrorists attacked U.S. cities with nuclear bombs, "we could take out their holy sites." Tancredo's spokesman says the congressman told a Muslim group last Wednesday that he stood by his comments, but was sorry if anyone was offended. Republican Party chairman Ken Mehlman said Friday that the GOP welcomes Tancredo's contribution to the debate on controversial issues.
...Actress-activist Jane Fonda told a gathering at a recent book signing that she is "coming out" to voice publicly her opposition to the war in Iraq. However, one U.S. veteran believes Fonda will only succeed in giving America's terrorist enemies a great deal of propaganda when she takes a cross-country anti-war bus tour next spring. Air Force Colonel (Retired) Bud Day is a Medal of Honor winner who was held as a prisoner of war for more than five years during the Vietnam conflict. He thinks Fonda's bus tour is a stunt, not unlike her 1972 visit to North Vietnam, during which she was photographed on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. That tour earned Fonda the nickname "Hanoi Jane" and the enmity of many U.S. soldiers and veterans, and now Day says the anti-war activist "is out looking for another publicity fix" in order to drum up support for "a low-quality book that she's out there trying to peddle." The retired Air Force officer suggests that Fonda should take her bus tour to Iraq because, he says, "I think people over there would be real interested in it. Al Jazeera, the Arab TV, will pick this up and that's all they'll hear for days and days is about this famous American woman that's over [there] protesting the war." But in the U.S., Day contends, the reception will be different. He says most Vietnam veterans despise Fonda to this day and will offer her the kind of feedback that once caused her to cut short a tour aimed at shutting down nuclear power plants. Fonda, he recalls, "started out on her 44-city tour, and she got blackballed at the third and the fourth place, which was Buffalo and finally San Francisco. And she lost her courage and never went to the other 40 cities because people were out there confronting her, calling her a traitor." Day says a lot of young Americans ended up "in a body bag because of Jane Fonda," and he believes her bus tour could have similar results. [Chad Groening]
A Congressman puts nuking Mecca on the table and Mehlman thanks him for adding to the conversation. Fonda wants to go on a bus tour and she's killing American soldiers. And the Religiously Correct agree with both?
No, seriously, I'm guessing Al Jazeera cares a heck of a lot more about Trancredo's suggestion than Fonda's book.
