Claim to Fame: former FOX journalist, interviewer and political commentator now working at NBC
Why She's the Person of the Week: for giving the business to "Hanoi Jane" Fonda after the actress continued to attack Kelly publicly for daring to ask her about ehr much-reported dealings with plastic surgery, while Fonda guested on Kelly's show a few months back.
Apparently appalled at the idea of a seasoned journalist asking a hard-to-believe-she's-80 a question on a subject she's taken up in many other interviews, last week Fonda publicly made fun of Kelly on live TV and later defended herself while speaking to Variety, saying that she’d found Kelly's query “inappropriate.”
“It showed that she’s not that good an interviewer,” Fonda told the magazine.
Mind you, during the interview Kelly went out of her way to call Fonda "amazing" and posed the “I read that you said you felt you’re not proud to admit that you’ve had work done. Why not?” question with total grace. But Fonda wasn't having it, responding: “We really want to talk about that now?” while skewering Kelly with a glare that went viral. And the actress, who was on the show with Robert Redford to promote a movie romance about an older couple, has been bashing Kelly ever since.
And that was enough for Kelly to take a few minutes out of her show on Monday to attack Fonda by comparing her own plastic surgery question to Fonda’s Vietnam War politics.
“Look at her treatment of our military during the Vietnam War,” Kelly said. “The moral indignation is a little much. Honestly, she has no business lecturing anyone on what qualifies as offensive.”
And while liberals, who'll never forgive Kelly for working at the conservative and much-hated FOX News for so long, immediately took Fonda's side in this feud. Conservatives and more importantly many veterans, who've long been upset with Fonda repeatedly dissing them when the anti-war activist traveled to Hanoi in July 1972, met with seven POWs, made radio announcements begging U.S. pilots to stop bombings and even went so far as to pose in a photo with North Vietnamese troops on an antiaircraft gun, have rushed to Kelly's side for defending herself.
Reminding viewers of Fonda's unpatriotic, traitorous past, Kelly made sure to throw in an extra dig: “By the way — she still says she is not proud of America.” The comment refers to an October BBC interview, in which host Stephen Sackur and Fonda discussed how artists can leverage the public platform they have to effect political change. He asked Fonda, “Are you proud of America today?”
“No,” Fonda said.
And there you have it.
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