Jane Fonda Cosplays Free Speech Warrior on ‘Daily Show’

Jane Fonda keeps reinventing herself in her 80s.

The 88-year-old Oscar winner spent several years promoting Fire Drill Fridays, an effort to put the spotlight on Climate Change.

That didn’t exactly move the cultural needle, so she’s back with a new cause.

Free Speech.

Fonda joined Jon Stewart on Monday night’s “Daily Show” to talk up her new initiative – the Committee for the First Amendment . Actually, it’s a decades-old group that she revived to smite President Donald Trump.

The group is set to hold a free speech-themed concert with Bette Midler, Rufus Wainwright, Julia Roberts, Patti Smith and more on June 14.

Free speech should rise above partisan politics, meaning even conservatives could support Fonda’s efforts. Except she conveniently ignored sizable free speech attacks from sources including:

• President Joe Biden
• Vice President Kamala Harris
• Gov. Tim Walz
• Too many university officials to count
• Sensitivity readers
• Jack Dorsey (Twitter)
• And more

Fonda and, to be fair, Stewart looked the other way while free speech was under attack in recent years. 

So what changed?

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Liberals started to suffer from perceived free speech threats, real or imagined. Stephen Colbert didn’t lose his show because of a Trumpian temper tantrum. CBS pulled the plug after admitting “The Late Show” cost the network $40 million a year.

That’s a figure no one has credibly challenged. Must be true, right?

Late-night TV is cratering.

On @WilkowMajority, @DavidBozell breaks down how Stephen Colbert’s show is reportedly losing $40M/year because the “Manhattanite elitist crowd” only cares about pushing a negative narrative.

Paramount can’t sustain this business model. pic.twitter.com/RbuTr4ehWS

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) June 8, 2026

Still, the “optics” forced progressives and the Legacy Media, but we repeat ourselves, to make Colbert a free speech martyr.

Stewart didn’t dare mention her “Hanoi Jane” past. Of course. He let her wax on about her Vietnam War activism unchallenged.

Amazing.

Then, she shoveled some Fake News for Stewart to silently approve.

“We’re being attacked. Comics first,” Fonda said, sans evidence. “Tyranny and comics don’t go well together.”

Tell that to the rodeo clown who lost his career for a silly bit mocking President Barack Obama in 2013. Fonda didn’t rally by his side.

Weird. Not really.

What about the right-leaning comics who faced Big Tech Censorship in recent years?

“Our democracy is being destroyed. Our rights are being taken away,” she prattled on, while Stewart just sat there, a “truth to power” comedian letting her share conspiracies without challenging her facts.

We expect bald partisanship from “The Daily Show.” The hypocrisy of letting Fonda stand up for free speech when neither she nor her progressive pals rallied behind it is off the charts.