Megyn and Hanoi Jane

      By Florida Bill   
                                             A couple of years ago, the wires were    buzzing with news of the feud between Fox TV's Megyn Kelly and then candidate Donald Trump.
                                             They initially paired off during a debate as Kelly, a former attorney with a Chicago law firm, roasted Trump, then one of 17 candidates for President, for having called  some women "pigs and disgusting animals."   In the weeks following, Trump attacked the comely Kelly as an inept "bimbo," who got so angry and emotional that blood was coming from her eyes and everywhere else.  His twitter rage went on for weeks and months. 
                                              When the dust from that noisy affray finally lifted, Kelly was a new face on  NBC, earning $15 to $20 million annually, and Trump went on to become the nation's 45th President.  All in all, it was kind of a "Thrilla in Manilla" as Muhammad Ali used to say, with everyone winning. 
                                               Now the 47-year-old Kelly has taken on the egotistical Jane Fonda, an octogenarian who has defeated aging with a bucket of botox and plastic surgery. Her philosophy seems to be, admire me, but don't ask how I did it.   
                                                 Last September, Fonda was a guest on Kelly's new morning show to promote her new film and to demonstrate her personal ageless countenance and ability to cultivate a supple spine.  Kelly strayed from the script and asked Fonda about the plastic surgery which had ironed out her wrinkles  and made her look like anything but an old bag of 80. Fonda pretty much dodged a discussion on that subject, but she was angry.
                                                 Through the next months, Fonda appeared on various TV specials, showcasing her looks while promoting her latest film, "Our Souls at Night", co-starring Robert Redford, no spring chicken himself. In her chats with the all-knowing TV pundits, Fonda upbraided Kelly for her impertinence and inappropriate inquiries about her cosmetic surgery.  Kelly was inept as an interviewing host and has a lot to learn, asserted Fonda.
                                                  After Fonda took pot shots at Kelly as a TV amateur with much to learn, and doomed to fail,  Kelly came back swinging with the same calm determination with which she had belittled Trump for his barnyard talk about women.  
                                                  Fonda, said Kelly, has spoken openly about her joy in giving a cultural face to older women. Well, the truth is, most older women look nothing like Fonda, who turned 80 in December of 2017. 
                                                    Fonda had discussed her cosmetic surgery on Entertainment Tonight, and with magazine writers, Kelly said, but now is bellyaching that the  questions of her cosmetic surgery by me were "inappropriate" and off limits. 
                                                 This is a woman whose name is "synonymous with outrage," said Kelly.  No one should ever forget her treatment of our military during her visit to North Viet Nam.  Soldiers and millions of Americans still refer to her as "Hanoi Jane," because of her sweet talk and hand holding with the country's enemy while sitting behind enemy guns which had been used to shoot down American pilots. In the 1960s and 1970s,  there was much clamor calling for Fonda to be formally charged with treason, but it never happened to the disappointment of ex-GIs. 
                                              After Kelly reacted during an interview on Variety, the liberal Fonda crowed on the "View" and tore her apart as a "bitch," and "just awful" and "doing it for ratings." The liberal axe was out,  but the blade was dull and Kelly probably gathered more fans than she lost.  Who knows, maybe she even got a raise?     
                                              Since Fonda seems to have been willing to discuss her nips and tucks in the past, can we assume that she turned so prickly about it this time because she was in the presence of another beautiful woman more than 30 years her junior? C'mon Jane, everybody knows that it takes more than good genes to look like you do at 80. 
                 
                                               xxx