T. Early wrote:


Fonda has become "relevant" again because Kerry--one of her running
mates in antiwar movement--is relevant. I agree that both sides need
to put to rest some of these obsessions, including Fonda, but, with
Kerry on the scene, bringing her up isn't quite as obsessive as you
make it sound IMO.

The fact that Jane Fonda and John Kerry were both anti-war activists
at the same time doesn't really make them running mates. Also Jane Fonda
has been a constant theme on conservative talk-radio, long before Kerry
became the candidate apparent. One more point: Donald Rumsfeld actually
did work in the Nixon administration, so his connection to Nixon is much
more direct than Fonda's to Kerry.


BTW, when Bob Edwards was recently canned as host of Morning Edition
(due to market forces from which I thought NPR was supposed to be
immune) I read estimates that put the listenership of that program at
13 million (!).


Me too. I used the 9 million number because that's the only one I could
find readily on the web.