Posted on 08/06/2007 9:38:46 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Sean Penn has experienced backlash for talking openly about his political beliefs, but sees such discussion as more respectable than promoting movies.
"There's baggage attached to coming out publicly on stuff, but there's baggage - in my view, more damaging baggage - to goin' and (appearing) ... on Jay Leno's show, philosophizing about 'Uncle Buck' or whatever you're hawkin'," the Oscar-winning actor tells Esquire magazine in its September issue, on newsstands Wednesday.
Penn, 46, has bitterly criticized President Bush, toured Iraq to observe the war there and helped rescue workers with door-to-door searches for survivors after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans.
"The exemption they make for actors - because you occupy the position they only dreamed about as a child, you can't be an American too," he says. "You don't get both, because that's just too much."
When asked if he wants the United States to win the war in Iraq, Penn replies: "I think we're past that point in human evolution where there's such a thing as winning wars."
He met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez last week, the latest in a series of celebrities and public figures to visit Chavez, including Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte and Cindy Sheehan, who became a peace activist after her soldier son was killed in Iraq.
During his trip to Venezuela, Penn said he was visiting "as a journalist and so I owe it to that medium to wait until I've digested, fact-checked and finished my journey here" before saying more. He thanked Chavez for the visit.
Penn's next project is behind the camera, as co-writer and director of "Into the Wild," which will be in theaters Sept. 21.
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Penn was a liability in NOLA.
Spicoli had a higher IQ.
Thanks Sean, it’s always nice to see a proud member of the Loonie Left on shameless display.
He should not be allowed to give anyone advice on anything.
He should not be allowed to give anyone advice on anything.
I believe that Penn qualifies as a “red diaper baby,” doesn’t he? He’s crud. He needs to get out of the USA—go to Cuba, go to Venezuela with his new friend—whatever.
I understand that even leftist Hollyweird thinks he’s gone too far—according to an article this morning.
When was the last time that racist bastard Sean Penn wore a bullet proof vest in a white neighborhood?
Cool, we can just surrender and save ourselves a lot of time and effort. So will you volunteer to be the first to get your head cut off for being an infidel?
I wonder what Sean Penn thinks about Hugo Chavez wanting to remove term limits, so he can be a lifetime dictator like Castro? What would Sean Penn say if a condervative tried that here in the US? Sean Penn is clueless moron and they can no more useful to dictators than him.
If only he could be put in a room for five minutes with General Patton...;)
Spicoli was more useful to society too.
“I think we’re past that point in human evolution where there’s such a thing as winning wars.”
Wrong.
There’s no subsitute for victory, freedom and empirical, pragmatic reality over naive, smug, condescending, misguided, useful idiot, narcissitic, self-indulgent, pseudo “idealism”.
Like losing is a viable alternative with Islamofascists and their future nuking of America.
Penn is an idiot and he’s dangerous.
Yep, at least he hit himself in the head with a shoe....(chuckle)
I don’t see how anyone take a guy known for taking himself way too seriously and for tying his wife to a chair, seriously on any topic.
Talk about media elites. Who wants to be an actor when they GROW UP? Most people stop playing pretend by the time they become an adult.
There. That's better.
IMO, the partnership between the Kennedy family and Hugo Chavez is a far bigger deal, because the Kennedy’s have REAL influence.
The Kennedy's Citizens Energy Corporation provides cheap home heating fuel for the poor and elderly.
What they don’t tell you is only 50% of Chavez’s fuel oil goes to the “poor and elderly,” — lots of publicity — the remaining 50% is sold on the open market, to the highest bidder — no publicity.
Here I go again. Sean, you ignorant media wh@r#. The reason you can't be both is because you are not qualified to deserve or have acknowledged your self congratulating, egomeniacal, opinion by the everyday middle class American.
You have elected to pursue a career that involves entertaining the public. A by-product of your endeavors gives you unbridled access to a gluttonous media that can't wait to stir dissent and produce controversy. You are a stooge, as an entertainer should be, for other, more important people's agendas.
You clown yourself out in an effort to be elevated in social stature amongst the elite brethren with which you share a bubble. You own self worth is tested against being a lowly jester, existing to be laughed at or cried about on TV; to stir the emotion of the public at their behest. Your fan base is not of a political nature. Your calling in life adds nothing of substance to this country beyond distracting the public during their leisure.
Sean, you are not important in the grand scheme of things.
Your political endeavors may get you high praise in the elite social bubble, you call "safe." It may get your face on TV and your name in a paper, but it serves absolutely no substantial purpose for the good of this nation. The best your efforts can do is to desecrate and demoralize the best efforts of real Americans.
Besides, your opinions are misguided, uninformed, pretentious and wrong.
Aloha, Spicoli.
Perhaps someone should remind Sean that opinions are like rectums: everyone has one.
Well stated!
Good Lord. Now if there ever was a piece of sophistry, this is it.
Sean Penn is a very troubled person.
Thank God he wasn’t in America in 1775, I might never have gotten here.
Sean Penn and Chavez Agree U.S. Should Be More Like Venezuela
American actor, Sean Penn applauded Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as “a model for what an American president should be.” The 46-year-old actor, who won an academy award for his role as a murderer in “Mystic River” and who has built a financially rewarding Hollywood career playing lowlifes and criminals, met privately for two hours with Chavez.
The admiration between the two men was mutual. Chavez praised Penn as being “brave” for urging Americans to impeach President Bush. “Taking on a president in one’s own country is the act of a bold and brave man,” Chavez boasted. “In my country, a person who did such a thing would disappear without a trace.”
Penn enthused over Chavez’s social programs, agreeing with the Venezuela dictator’s assessment that “If the people of the United States realized what is truly happening in Venezuela, there would be a revolution in the United States.”
“He’s right,” said Penn. “In America there is a huge gap between rich and poor. Corporate millionaires live the high life, while the vast majority live empty lives of grinding poverty. All the while, the Bush Administration stands by and does nothing to bridge this gap. But in Venezuela, Chavez is seizing the reins of government and transferring the nation’s wealth to the poor. He is truly a model for what an American president should be.”
Penn said he hopes a Democratic sweep in the 2008 election “will enable the U.S. government to make the kind of progress Chavez has made in his country.”
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
Corporate Millionaires Bad, Scumbag Hollywood Millionaires Good. How many jobs are created by corporations vs Hollywood?
Treason ping!
E-Coli has a higher IQ than El Jerko
Spicoli had a higher IQ.
E-Coli has a higher IQ than El Jerko
Which means Robin Wright Penn is even dumber.....
The President doesnt have the power, nor the right, to take from the rich to give to the poor. First you lefties complain that he is a dictator, then complain that he doesnt act like a dictator. Make up your minds.
And if you're so concerned about the poor, Sean. How about giving your wealth away to some poor people instead of waiting around for hte President to take it from you?
Now, I'm poor. How about giving away some of your millions to me? I need it more than you do.
...and he's a miserable, homely actor.
Uncle Buck?
Sean penn couldn’t carry John Candy’s jockstrap.
Sean Irrelevant actor Penn shows idealism idiocy through political anti-american activism attention-getting stunts
penn is a horse’s ass. Let him keep talking because he is proving it.
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