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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Hollywood Bravery

Mean and Stupid

Liberals are mean-spirited people without brains (except for the ones that read and comment on this blog!). They spew their anti-Republican, anti-conservative, anti-American rhetoric, slandering some of the best people on earth based on their own miserable inadequacies, without proof, without logic.

The Bravest Man in the World

Sean Penn, the king of the Hollywood Nitwits, just got an award for sputtering his inanities.






He won the 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award.





This is a slap in the face to America, and shows once again that Hollywood is the first to give itself another award, and the last to embrace rationality and responsible citizenship. America ought to boycott all of Hollywood until they grow up and act like the caring people they pretend to be.

Again, for all you liberals who are a few brain cells short, I am not stifling free speech. I don't want you locked up for spouting your nonsense. Free speech, though, does not imply, my challenged friends, that there will be no reaction to what you say. I am free too, get it?, to respond to your free speech. I am "permitted" to call you the names that you call George Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

I've read the full text of Sean Penn's acceptance speech for the award, and am willing to admit that the guy finally put together sentences that are actually readable. I think it's so Hollywood of him, though, to behave as if he is some great hero, speaking truth to power, by spouting his liberal drivel to an adoring Hollywood crowd. What courage it must take to say such revolutionary things to his choir of Bush-haters. Yes, this man has cajones! He is willing to risk his career by criticizing conservatives. What a man!

The truth is, anyone who goes against the grain in Hollywood, and speaks the truth; who defends conservative values—this would be heroism. You are not a hero by preaching to the KKK how bad blacks are. You are not courageous by standing up for women's rights at a NOW convention. And you are not brave by bashing Bush at an event populated by mindless liberals.

This will be a two-part post, one today, and one tomorrow. Since Mr. Penn has finally put together some coherent sentences on his beliefs, I feel he deserves a point-by-point response. Here are my reactions.

Mr. Penn states that the real areas of concern for the world ought to be:

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Sean Penn's Mantras

Global warming

The truth is, Mr. Penn, that there is still disagreement among reputable scientists whether global warming is man-made or a result of natural periodic processes. The other thing that mindless environmentalists miss is that Ice Ages happen too. If we are on the verge of an Ice Age, then we'll need all the global warming we can get—as an Ice Age is much more devastating to humanity than any warming period.

Massive pollution

The United States is, relatively speaking, one of the cleaner nations on the face of the earth now. China is the biggest polluter at this time—with one particular factory spewing more greenhouse gasses in a year than all the automobiles in the United States together.

Non-stop U.S. war in Iraq

If you, Mr. Penn, had supported the war against the monster Saddam Hussein, and added to the dialogue about how to fight the war effectively, then perhaps we'd have a different outcome now.

Attacks on civil liberties under the banner of war on terror

I don't see your civil liberties being violated, Mr. Penn. Nobody is locking you up, as they would do in one of your favorite dictatorships, Cuba, for saying exactly how you feel.

Military spending

We're not spending enough on the military, Mr. Penn. This is why our fighting forces are stretched so thin and we're having trouble maintaining enough troops to win the war in Iraq.

You and I, U.S. taxpayers, spend 1 1/2 billion dollars on an Iraq-war-'focused' military everyday, while social needs cry out.

We are in a War on Terror, Mr. Penn. I know you don't care about the 3,000 people that died on 9/11, but it will happen again if we follow your policies. We spend plenty on social needs, Mr. Penn. If we didn't have so many illegals in this country, then we'd have no shortage of medical care, welfare, and housing.

Health care

Yes, I know you want to make us into Britain, where you have to wait 6 months to get treated properly for a broken arm, and where taxes rise so high that the government takes most of what you earn.

Education

You want all our children to continue to be educated in our failing public schools instead of having the freedom to choose where to go. You'd like the schools to continue brainwashing our children so they grow up to be mindless liberals like you.

Public transit

Surprise! Here we agree. We need subways like in Europe. Good idea, even and especially for Los Angeles. How do you get stuff like this done? Privatize, Mr. Penn. Just like the first subways in New York City.

Environmental protections

Fine, but don't go sparing your home and land from windmills while you impose them on the rest of the country. Don't lecture us for driving our relatively gas-saving Hummers when you gallivant the globe in your fuel-guzzling private jets.

Affordable housing

Yeah, that's a great idea. More projects and rent control that drive down the supply of housing and raise rents for everyone.

Job training

Yes, I agree. On the other hand, I see so many job training programs around I wonder how many more we need.

Public investment

Fine, again. Except, I know where you're going to get the money for this—exorbitant taxes. Why don't you just give 95% of your earnings to public investment, and put your money where your mouth is.

And, levy building

Yes, I agree. Government really sucks at stuff like this, doesn't it, Mr. Penn? Privatize things like this and you'll get your levies built, and built properly.

Sean Penn's Brilliance, Part One

You've just read the usual Hollywood/liberal mantras, and my response to them. I don't go into depth, because liberals wouldn't understand the arguments anyway. I just, as usual, want a voice out here that speaks the truth, opposing the leftist Hollywood propaganda machine.

Tomorrow, part two of my responses to Mr. Penn's perspicacity.

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