Sean Gets an "F" in Pennmanship

Republicans, Take the Gloves Off

Sean Penn, Hollywood Nitwit

Hollywood brilliance.

This is Part Two of my responses to Sean Penn's acceptance speech for the 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award. Here is more of what Penn said, and my reactions:

And should we speak truth, we stand against government efforts to intimidate or legislate in the service of censorship. Whether under the guise of a Patriot Act or any other benevolent-sounding rationale for the age-old game of shutting down dissent by discouraging independent thinking and preventing progressive social change.

Obviously, Mr. Penn, no one has shut you up. Plus, your progressive social change you seek is already here, with your brand of political correctness, your fascist hatred of America, your anti-military, anti-capitalism, pro-multiculturalism that promotes dictators and tyrants all over the globe—who suppress minorities, gays, and women, and bring poverty to the world's children.



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But, as a practical matter, most of the limits on creative expression and other forms of free speech come from self-censorship, where the mechanism of corporate clout offers carrots and brandishes sticks. We avoid a conflict before the conflict materializes. We reach for the carrots and stay out of range of sticks.

Decades ago, Fred Friendly called it a "positive veto" - corporations putting big money behind shows that they want to establish and perpetuate. Whether in journalism or drama, creative efforts that don't gain a financial "positive veto" are dismissible, then dismissed. We may not call that "censorship." But whatever we call it, the effects of a "positive veto" system are severe. They impose practical limits on efforts to bring the most important realities to public attention sooner rather than later...

I suppose, Mr. Penn, that government ought to force corporations to financially support these shows you say they are censoring? Have you noticed that many of the news outlets and programs actually have been biased towards your side anyway for years—including now, Mr. Penn? We are forced to accept the liberal bias you and your cohorts in Hollywood impose on our country.

We're beginning to see more revealing images of this war. But it's later now, isn't it? What we have to pay attention to are the results of these "practical limits." One, is that wars become much easier to launch than to halt.

Yes, all human political endeavors become much easier to launch than to halt. One reason is that your side practices "gotcha" politics where any leader of a war is damned if he does and damned if she doesn't. If he "stays the course," you label him a warmonger. If she adjusts, changes tactics, or ends the war, you say "See, she was a war criminal after all, and just admitted it."

Instead of hatred, try offering positive solutions to the world's problems.

Men and women stationed in Iraq at this moment, under orders of a Commander-in-Chief so sufficiently practiced in the art of deception, that he got vast numbers of American journalists and the most esteemed media outlets of this country, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and PBS to eagerly serve his agenda-building for war.

Which is it, Mr. Penn? Is George W. Bush an idiot, or is he a genius—"so sufficiently practiced in the art of deception" that he can bamboozle a whole nation?

And the process also induced vast numbers of artists and performers (probably even some in this room tonight) to keep quiet and facilitate the push for an invasion in Iraq.

Yes, there are some in Hollywood who are real heroes, not America-haters like you.

And, where is the accountability on behalf of the American dead and wounded, their families, their friends, and the people of the United States who have seen their country become a world pariah. These events have been enabled by people named Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, and Rice, as they continue to perpetuate a massive fraud on American democracy and decency.

You are the one who is perpetuating a massive fraud. Our dead and wounded did something positive for the world. Unlike you, they have acted in the name of honor and decency. You and your cronies are the ones who enable the world to promote a distorted vision of America. Though we are alone at this time in our history, this is often the position of real heroes. Those who stand with or encourage angry mobs, like you, are villains.

Would they have believed Rush Limbaugh if they'd known he was high as a kite on OxyContin? Would they have believed the factually impaired Bill O'Reilly if they knew he was massaging his rectum with a loofah while telephonically harassing a staffer? Hannity, had they known he was simply a whore to the cause of his pimps - Murdoch and Ailes?

This is what a pacifist sounds like, Ladies and Gentlemen. A man of peace.

Or the little bow-tie putz, if they knew all he was seeking was a good laugh from Jon Stewart?

Note that Sean Penn is not even smart enough to know that Steven Colbert is a parody. The man is on your side Mr. Penn. I know this level of humor is above your ability to grasp.

Maybe our countrymen and women were listening to Ted Haggert while he was whiffing meth and boning a muscle-headed gigolo? Or Mark Foley seeking junior weenies? Joe Lieberman, sitting Shiva? And Toby Keith, singing about how big his boots are?

Racist, mean, and stupid. Don't stop talking now, Mr. Penn.

So...look, if we attempt to impeach for lying about a blowjob,

Mr. Penn, stop perpetuating this fraud. Clinton was impeached for lying under oath. The Chief Executive of the laws of the United States of America took an oath in a courtroom and lied. He should have been impeached for this, and convicted.

yet accept these almost certain abuses without challenge, we become a cum-stain on the flag we wave.

Again, you have raised the level of discourse in America. Thank you, Mr. Penn.

You know, I was listening to Frank Rich this morning, speaking on a book tour. He said he thought impeachment proceedings would amount to a "decadent" sidetrack, while our soldiers were still being killed. I admire Frank Rich. And of course he would be right if impeachment is all we do. But we're Americans. We can do two things at the same time. Yes, let's move forward and swiftly get out of this war in Iraq AND impeach these bastards.

I've got a better idea. Let's impeach you as an actor. Let's just stay away from your movies.

Conclusion

Let's not censor this kind of talk from liberal America-haters like Sean Penn. Let them speak. This is a free country. Then, when they have spewn their venom, let's decide how we feel about them. Do we want to allow them to spread lies without challenge? Should we permit their negative view of America, our President, the war in Iraq, and even about the capitalism that gave them their fortune and podium, to poison the atmosphere without a rebuttal?

I speak in kind to them. They lie about Bush. I challenge their lies. They spew hatred. I show them how some Americans feel about them. They are vicious. I return their viciousness.

One thing I have always disliked about Republicans is that they are too nice. Guys like Bush just smile and take it. They praise their enemies, like Edward Kennedy, and get scorn and hatred for their trouble. Stop trying to be nice guys, Republicans. Politics is a dirty game, and you've got to stand up to bullies like Sean Penn. Take your gloves off. God will approve, believe me. In fact, you have to fight just as hard as the Democrats if you are to get the truth out there. Lives are at stake.

You are still good and decent people when you do this. You are weak if you don't.

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