Sunday, August 5, 2012

Urban Legend: Is President Obama honoring Jane Fonda as one of the women of the century?

Conservatives must make sure that only Harry Reid and his Democrats are known for making up lies and phony rumors. Don't pass stories like these on until you have checked them against sites such as this one. TD
Fact Check.org  No. That was done 11 years ago by Barbara Walters of ABC News.
"It is simply false that the president is planning to honor Jane Fonda as one of the "100 women of the century," as this chain e-mail claims. 
"Fonda was one of many women featured in a Barbara Walters special for ABC News called "A Celebration: 100 Years of Great Women," which looked at the "most inspiring, intriguing and entertaining" women of the 20th century. It was actually based on a list of the "100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century" selected by a panel for Ladies’ Home Journal.  
"The program hosted by Walters aired on April 30, 1999, nearly 10 years prior to Obama becoming president. Versions of this e-mail — without references to Obama, of course — began circulating soon after Walters’ special aired. They make some false claims about Fonda."  
But this does not mean that she is not among the likes of Bill Ayres and the others of the 60's left who flaunted the "peace" sign (so popular in school fashions today) as they spat on our returning troops and called them "baby killers". (By the way, have any of those people applied that term to Palestinian terrorists?)

But a couple were true; as you will read in this article.

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