Not Too Fonda Her Update: September, 2005

Many thanks to Bigebee's comment yesterday reminding us all about the grand, determined and "worthwhile" effort of one Jane Fonda - the "runs-on-vegetable-oil Anti-Iraqi War Bus Tour Across America".

The status of this valiant adventure?

Cancelled.

In a story released on Fox on September 7th, 2005, Fonda "brakes her bus tour".

The reason?

"Certainly, Fonda is still very much against the war in Iraq and in favor of helping our troops there. But she said that she didn't want to distract people from Cindy Sheehan's bus trip, which is already under way and gathering support. Her own decision not to stage a bus tour came because she wants Sheehan to succeed without messages being mixed."

With all due respect, how would the messages be mixed when they are literally one in the same? Wouldn't Fonda's bus tour assist the Sheehan effort in helping to provide a wider paintbrush for the "stop the war" movement? I am continually perplexed at Fonda's decidesion. She continues in the article:

"I would be a distraction," she said, "and the vacuum has been filled. That said, I plan to speak out and write some op-ed pieces, but no bus tour."

She is already a distraction in her continued effort to undermind the current war-effort (again!) but now will take what would have surely a vast entourage into the unemployment line.

Way to push the alternative-fuel effort, Jane!