Monday, January 22, 2018

Jane and Megyn want to star in Ryan Murphy's next FEUD

  
How did  I miss the ongoing Megyn Kelly and Jane Fonda feud.
This USA TODAY article is very informative:

So I’m going to weigh in.
Megyn’s been trash talked by Jane Fonda for months now apparently.
Megyn said she was being silent but that it’s been ramped up – the trash talking
So now Megyn wants it known that she did nothing wrong and that Jane Fonda is not anyone to lecture anyone.
Let me start with the latter.  Clearly, Jane is someone to do that.  If Megyn didn’t think so she wouldn’t have had Jane on her show to begin with.
And it’s kind of dumb and petty to bring up Vietnam.  You don’t like what Jane did, okay, don’t have her on your show.  But if you think what she did was wrong (I don’t, I am glad Jane spoke out against the war), don’t have her on your show.  If you have her on your show, it’s a little late to start complaining.
I’m not here to trash either woman.
In terms of Jane’s response, I thought it was funny.  I thought, “Oh, she’s entered her Joan Crawford imperial period.  This will be good for future bios.”  Otherwise, all she’s really got is calling Faye Dunaway a bitch on TV – oh, and calling Hillary Clinton the c-word back in 2008.
In terms of what started it all?
Jane’s dead wrong.
Megyn’s right.
Jane was promoting her NETFLIX film with Robert Redford – she’s in it with Redford and she went on Megyn’s show to promote it.
So the film was about aging.
Megyn compliments Jane on her looks.  She then asks about aging and plastic surgery.
And Jane does a Joan Crawford and gawks at her.
Then Jane goes on to Joan Crawford it for months whining and complaining.  I saw a headline last week about it but didn’t click on it.
At any rate, Jane Fonda told everyone in her book WOMEN COMING OF AGE that you had to make piece with your wrinkles and she was looking forward to all of them.
She then got fake boobs (now removed) and began to repeatedly get plastic surgery.
2013 or 2014, she was saying, publicly, of her latest face lift, that she wished she hadn’t done it and she wouldn’t do it again.
She’s had more work done since.
She’s mainly doing the fillers – where they put in stuff and it stretches out the face to prevent the caving age supplies and to stretch out the skin to get rid of wrinkles.
If you do too much of the fillers, you can look like a muppet.  Courtney Cox recently had her fillers removed and spoke about it publicly.  (I think she looks much better without them.)
The film’s about aging, so it’s a valid topic.  An 80-year-old woman’s sitting before you looking turned out by a plastic surgeon and she’s spoken of it before in public repeatedly, you ask the question.
Sorry, Jane, it’s a valid question.
Robert Redford’s toupe is ridiculous.  But he doesn’t acknowledge that it’s not his real hair.  So if she had raised that obvious issue, he might have whined and he’d have a point possibly. 
Maybe not.
But Jane’s talked about plastic surgery.  And Lily Tomlin was on NBC’s TODAY with her a few weeks ago and they were asked how long they knew each other and Lily said since before Jane’s first facelift.
So her whining about Megyn is really ridiculous.
But again, good for the biographies that will be coming after she passes.  She’ll also be evaluated on her issues with her daughter – issues that are obviously still not resolved (her daughter did not participate in the Jane Fonda documentary that’s going to HBO – HBO?  I think it’s HBO – but got press last week because it played at Sundance).  It’s fodder for that. 
It’s all so minor but at this point both have over-reacted.  Megyn was right to ask the question, my opinion.  Megyn was wrong to start the response that included the attack on who-is-she.  If that’s what you think, you shouldn’t have had her on your show.
Now for the Fonda – Redford movie.
It was hideous.
Jane was good.  She was actually amazing in it.
But it was depressing and Redford was lousy.  It was like LEGAL EAGLES all over again.
They last paired in 1979.  In their two successful films (THE CHASE – their first – was not successful), Jane played the active one and Redford played the passive.  It worked in BAREFOOT IN THE PARK and in THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN.  It made for better films, these roles.  But his passiveness in the NETFLIX film OUR SOULS AT NIGHT made him look like a stunted boy.  She needed a better co-star.  And, again, she was amazing in the film.  She really was.

  



Going out with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


Monday, January 22, 2018.  Chaos and the Islamic State continue, Tammy Duckworth goes extremely vile and disgusting, and much more.

Hayder al-Abadi was hoping to ride the defeat or 'defeat' of the Islamic State to an easy victory in upcoming elections in Iraq.

Every day, that gets a little bit harder.


BBC NEWS' Nafiseh Kohnavard has a report entitled "IS and how it continues to plague Iraq" which opens with shots of exchanged gunfire:


Last month, Iraq declared the war against ISIS over.

But these shots were taken just a few days ago on the border with Syria.

IS in Iraq -- from "State" to Insurgency

This is al-Qaim station in Western Iraq.  It was the last town IS held in the country.

Nafiseh Kohnavard: This station was an American base used back in 2008 to fight al Qaeda fighters.  It now, as you can see, stands completely devastated after it was recently won over from ISIS militants.  

IS have lost all their territory in Iraq but now are attacking from bases inside Syria. 

They are being fought by Iranian backed "Popular Mobilisation Units" . . . 

as well as American, French and Iraqi soldiers. 

US Major Richard Juten:  The threat is still very real from ISIS.  In the past ten days there have been attacks almost daily -- attacking the border checkpoints, destroying Iraqi tanks, humvees,  There have been many casualties.  

Nafiseh Kohnavard:  al-Qaim has been a hot spot for insurgency in Iraq since the war against Saddam Hussein in 2003.  And it was one of the first places that ISIS took in this country.  So it would be a key victory for the American led coalition and the Iraqi forces if they are able to control this area.  

But it will not be an easy, or quick, fight. 

US Colonel Seth Folsom: I don't know that we're ever going to be able to say that ISIS is over.  What I think will happen one day is once the Iraqi security forces and the government of Iraq and the people of Iraq have worked together to create conditions where ISIS looks around and discovers that it no longer has a place to insert itself, I think that on that day we're going to wake up and realize that ISIS is gone.  It won't be a declaration, it will be a realization. 


So much for 'victory.'

And does the US plan to report on this?  When ABC NEWS pulled all their reporters out of Iraq after Barack Obama was elected president in November 2008, they stated that they would be using BBC NEWS reports to 'cover' Iraq.  So will David Muir be introducing Nafiesh Kohnavard's report?

I kind of doubt it for a number of reasons including the fact that US forces are not supposed to be fighting alongside Iraq's PMUs (militias).  That's what we were told, that's what the US Congress was told.  But it's kind of difficult to argue with what the report shows.  Not states, what the report shows.

And it's kind of difficult to pretend that Hayder vanquished the Islamic State.

They're still present.

December 14, 2017, Iraq was the topic for a US Senate Armed Services Committee hearing and former US Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey was one of the witnesses offering testimony.


US Ambassador James Jeffrey:  When I left Iraq in June of 2012, what became ISIS -- al Qaeda in Iraq under [Abu Bakr al-] Baghdadi -- was little more than a terrorist band in West Mosul.  Two years later, it was controlling a third of Syria and Iraq. 9 million people with an army of 35,000.  Not entirely because governance is always, as Ryan Crocker said, a huge issue.  But bad governance was promulgated, encouraged and exacerbated by Iran's decisions and the decisions of people who were being advised by supported by Iran -- [Nouri al-] Maliki in Iraq and of course [Basher al-]Assad in Syria.  And this back and forth -- There are 20 to 25 million Sunni Arab between Baghdad and Damascus.  Uh, currently, they are not being ruled by Sunni Arab leaders.  They're being ruled by people who, in the case of Syria, take orders from Iran; in the case of Iraq, may or may not fall under Iran's interference.  And if those people are not protected by the international system we've talked about here, they're going to turn again to terrorist forces and we'll have this same problem all over again. 


Well, golly, gee . . . Maybe someone should have gotten off their lazy ass and worked on a diplomatic surge and solution in 2014.  We advocated that.  When Barack Obama finally got around to rejecting Nouri al-Maliki (June 2014), he advocated it as well.  In words.  Not in deed.

He said it was necessary.

He did nothing about it.

In August of 2014, he began bombing Iraq.

But he never kicked off a diplomatic effort.

It's three years later and counting and there's still no effort to build an inclusive political process in Iraq.

But I guess some people look at US troops still being in Iraq after 14 years (fifteen years in two months) and don't see anything wrong with that.

I guess they look at this and think it's a-okay.

Guess it's no big deal to them.  No skin off their noses.

Maybe in another 15 years, when the same problems still exist, they'll start to address this?

Then again, maybe in another 15 years, they'll still thinking that just sitting around talking about what should be done will be enough -- kind of the way they've spent the last 15 years just talking about what needs to be done without ever actually doing anything.

Elections in Iraq are supposed to take place in May.  ASHARQ AL-AWSAT reports:



Iraq will hold parliamentary elections on May 12, announced state television on Monday.

The Supreme Federal Court on Sunday ruled against calls by Sunni and Kurdish lawmakers to delay the election to allow hundreds of thousands of people displaced by war to return home.


AP adds, "Shiite lawmaker Abbas Al Bayati says the legislative body “unanimously” approved the date, which was proposed by the government, at Monday’s session."


There are crumbling alliances and strange new ones emerging.



As the Communist Party of Iraq enters into an election alliance with Muqtada Al Sadr a Baghdad taxi driver posts a sarcastic message: "Islamic wing of the Communist Party to workers of the world: Pray for the Prophet"






DEUTSCHE WELLE analyzes the political landscape:


Alas, with Iraq's political landscape in disarray and the elections in just four months' time, the future does not look promising. The country's party system is highly fragmented. And Iraq's three major political camps – Shiites, Sunnites and Kurds – have each splintered into factions that have little in common.


Use the link to go further into the report which analyzes the three main groupings in Iraq.



Turning to the theater of cruelty led by Senator Tammy Duckworth . . .



Senator Tammy Duckworth who lost both of her legs in the Iraq War: "And I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger. And I have a message for Cadet Bone Spurs. If you cared about our military, you'd stop baiting Kim Jong-un into a war..."

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There is no need for that bulls**t.  She can say she hates him, she can call him a liar.  But her remarks above are not appropriate from a member of Congress.  They sew dissension within the ranks and are meant to.  She should be ashamed of herself.

Did he really have bone spurs?

I have no idea and I honestly don't give a damn.

Someone used her missing legs to walk right over the progressive in her first primary and she's high stepped it away from any progressive position ever since.

She's a War Hawk who can't take care of society because she's still in combat mode.

She needs to grow the hell up.

She also needs to grasp that she hasn't done anything wonderful with her service.

lost her legs because she was trying to kill other people.


And those people did not attack the US.

But she followed orders and went over to Iraq.

I'm not going to say "thank you" for that.  I will say I'm sorry for you.

It was and is an illegal war.

The invasion of Iraq.




Duckworth thinks it's cute to attack someone for not going to Vietnam because she's a War Hawk.  Those of us who oppose war tend to believe that no American should have gone to Vietnam and don't make it a point to attack those who didn't go.

She's the one who's embarrassing.

She's a sitting member of Congress making digs about the president that are meant to question his fitness to be commander in chief of the military.

She is way out of line and Donald Trump is commander in chief so her thoughts on whether he should be or not are pointless.

She should be ashamed of herself.

She can call him a liar and I don't care.

But she's not doing that.  She's trying to trash talk him with those serving watching.  She's a modern day Tokyo Rose and that kind of negates anything she thinks she accomplished with her service.

The Dixie Chicks were wrongly shamed for less.  And they were private citizens.  She's a member of the US Congress who is attempting to belittle Donald Trump as commander in chief and sew doubts about his fitness for the role.

That's beyond the pale before you even consider that he's overseeing how many ongoing wars?

She should be ashamed of herself.

And she better not start whining when people start giving her 'cute' little nicknames about having no legs because she's brought that on herself.



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