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Sean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez 'Dictator'
Fox News ^ | March 08 2010

Posted on 03/08/2010 3:32:52 PM PST by mockingbyrd

First Amendment be damned . . . If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars.

Penn, appearing on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday, defended Chavez during a segment in which he detailed his work with the JP Haitian Relief Organization, which he co-founded.

"Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it" said Penn, winner of two Best Actor Academy Awards. "And this is mainstream media, who should -- truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies."

It was just the beginning of a busy weekend for Penn. When asked on CBS' "Sunday Morning" about those who question his motives for his humanitarian work in Haiti, he said:

"Do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer? Yeah. You know, but I'm not going to spend a lot of energy on it."

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To: mockingbyrd

That stupid ditz owes his fortune and his life of ease to the American capitalist system. Had he started in Hugo’s paradise he’d probably be living in some hovel.


21 posted on 03/08/2010 3:52:20 PM PST by DemonDeac
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To: mockingbyrd

he’s Hugo’s perfect follower.


22 posted on 03/08/2010 3:52:58 PM PST by sappy
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To: mockingbyrd

“Do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer? Yeah”. Sean Penn humanitarian


23 posted on 03/08/2010 3:53:35 PM PST by 240B (he is doing everything he said he would'nt and not doing what he said he would)
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To: mockingbyrd

Shouldn’t Penn be confined for roaming stupid in public?


24 posted on 03/08/2010 3:54:15 PM PST by G Larry (DNC is comprised of REGRESSIVES!)
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To: mockingbyrd

Another Champion of the 1st Amendment demanding it be denied to everyone else....


25 posted on 03/08/2010 3:56:59 PM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: mockingbyrd

He’d be the first to demand his First Amendment rights and the first to deny you yours ....


26 posted on 03/08/2010 4:01:16 PM PST by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: Chickensoup

Fascism is the unspoken streak that lives in the heart of liberalism.


27 posted on 03/08/2010 4:01:38 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: txroadkill

You can’t fix stupid.


28 posted on 03/08/2010 4:02:29 PM PST by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: mockingbyrd

I’m sure Larry king will be happy to continue giving him a platform for the full hour.


29 posted on 03/08/2010 4:03:26 PM PST by jersey117
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To: mockingbyrd

Sean, come to my house, and knock on my door to tell me you are taking me to jail. My room mates, Smith and Wesson, might object.


30 posted on 03/08/2010 4:04:59 PM PST by windsorknot (Obamacare: You're in Good Hands with All State)
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To: mockingbyrd

Amazing how fascist these liberals are.

When you start poking what libs say, so often it turns out they are as bad as Hitler in taking away freedoms. But they get so angry when you point it out.

To the clueless Penn - if you want the press imprisoned for their opinion, you are a fascist. If you can’t figure that out, you are a fool.


31 posted on 03/08/2010 4:06:57 PM PST by I still care (I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
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To: mockingbyrd

Sob, sob,,,?


32 posted on 03/08/2010 4:06:58 PM PST by Waco (Wanna buy an FBI file,,,See Hillary, she's got 900 of them.)
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To: boomop1

Yes, and like father like son.


33 posted on 03/08/2010 4:07:47 PM PST by jdsteel (CONGRESS: Take it again in twenty ten.)
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To: mockingbyrd

Just abbreviate dictator to dic. when you journalists write stories about him.


34 posted on 03/08/2010 4:08:15 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: mockingbyrd

And his college degree is in... what?


35 posted on 03/08/2010 4:13:34 PM PST by Mr. K (This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
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To: Mr. K

I want sean penn jailed for being a moron.


36 posted on 03/08/2010 4:14:54 PM PST by hal ogen
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To: 240B

I think Penn also said he was hoping to get an acting job soon to pay for the works he’d done in Haiti.

Wishing that members of a potential movie audience die painfully is not going to have the casting people flocking to your door, moron. The country’s going conservative, or hadn’t you noticed? Sarandon is practically doing made for TV movies now — and those aren’t even getting any ratings. And all those fab anti-Iraq movies have died at the box office, along with SpongeMike Sweatpants Moore’s last two fakeumentaries.


37 posted on 03/08/2010 4:16:56 PM PST by Right Cal Gal (Ronald Reagan: "our liberal friends....know so much that isn't so...")
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To: mockingbyrd

Ah, Sean .. once an assclown, always an assclown.

38 posted on 03/08/2010 4:20:48 PM PST by tx_eggman
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To: tx_eggman
Sean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez 'Dictator'

So I guess he'd want me jailed for calling him a Marxist tool.
39 posted on 03/08/2010 4:22:38 PM PST by aruanan
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To: mockingbyrd
"Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it" said Penn, winner of two Best Actor Academy Awards. "And this is mainstream media, who should -- truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies."

If there were a death penalty for stupidity, Sean Penn already would have died a thousand deaths.
40 posted on 03/08/2010 4:24:07 PM PST by aruanan
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