Chavez is no dictator! -Sean Penn

SFGate.com ^ | 1/14/08 | Sean Penn

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Editor - From reading The Chronicle's banner-line propaganda, which teases the "star envy" piece within ("A modest proposal for celebs on the skids," Thursday), I could only hope this great city was more clever than its increasingly lame-brain paper. In its unequivocal naming of Chavez as dictator on A1, either "Pop Culture" man Peter Hartlaub or his equally biased Chronicle editor, doesn't quite understand that Venezuela's President Chavez was democratically elected, and that dictators don't lose constitutional referendums. The Chronicle should take comfort that the New York Times generally does no better than them here. Yet, in the paper's attack on Oliver Stone, who, agree with him or not, has at least the balls, passion and intellectual curiosity to pursue information away from a porcelain dumping bowl and a desperate newspaper, we see another attempt to marginalize the outspoken. (Outspoken: a louder and more credible voice than The Chronicle itself.) For myself, also listed in Hartlaub's piece, it should be noted that my recent trip to Venezuela was as a journalist, and marginalization of that due to "celebrity" is simply "Putin ultra light" to me. Believe it or not, I have a reasonably good sense of humor (if that's what Hartlaub attempted), but I felt so embarrassed, even for The Chronicle. Its "hard news" section for the banner line, and now its Datebook editorials have become Mad Magazine for small-minded cowards and former writers of substance. Who could that be, Phil?

SEAN PENN

Former S.F. Chronicle contributing reporter

SAN FRANCISCO

[Chode]

Chavez: "You are a devil, you smell like sulfur, you are a drunk, you are the demon, you are a dictator, you are an assassin Mr. Devil, you are..."

Bush: "YEAH, Yeah, yeah, WHATever... just fill'er up MonkeyBoy!!!"

[attiladhun2]

Sean Penn is no actor--ME!

Truthfully, even before this guy came out of the closet as a Marxist, I always thought his acting ability was overrated. He reminds me of a goofy-looking grease monkey who lived in a town up the road from mine. You've seen them, bucked tooth, covered with grease, vacant look in the eyes, Marlboro pack rolled up in the sleeve of the t-shirt.

You notice, when actors careers start to peak, they go in for this far-left political nonsense.

[KC Burke]

Hayek pointed out that centralized socialism and all the related forms fostered by the French Revolution take the form of totalitarian rationalistic democracies. The totalitarianism can occur precisely due to the democratic nature of the form of government.

In the mixed forms of government, the mixture, the lack of scientific ideology controled precise national forms, all bring about the resistance to totalitarianism.

[Wil H]

Methinks I am probably “more clever” than wot Sean Penn is...

But then so is my pet rock..

[Veggie Todd]

...increasingly lame-brain paper...

Well Sean, you're the expert on being lame-brain.