Sean Penn Gets (More) Political (set to play Joe Wilson next)

New York Observer ^ | February 24, 2009 | Christopher Rosen

[RabidBartender]

"I'd be surprised if this grosses even $10 million."

I wouldn't be surprised if all parties involved are nominated for Academy Awards for it. The Oscars are that worthless.

[Tijeras_Slim]

So who’s going to play Richard Armitage?

Scooter Libby.

[headstamp 2]

What did “milk” gross?

[colorado tanker]

I didn't bother to watch the Oscars this year. Quite frankly, I don't think Hollywood (or Bollywood) produced anything this year worthy of best picture honors. There were a few good movies, but nothing worthy of that category.

[ETL]

Sean Penn is one of many prominent endorsers of the Revolutionary Communist Party's "World Can't Wait" movement...(the org will probably soon be dropping the "Drive Out the Bush Regime" portion of their title, perhaps replacing it with "Drive Out the Capitalists!")

Endorsers of the [World Can't Wait] Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include:

James Abourezk, Aris Anagnos, Rocky Anderson, Anti-Flag, Edward Asner, Russell Banks, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Belafonte, St. Clair Bourne, Gabriel Byrne, Margaret Cho, Ward Churchill, Paulette Cole, US Rep John Conyers Jr., John Densmore, Jesse Diaz Jr., Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Earle, Niles Eldredge, Daniel Ellsberg, Eve Ensler, Laura Flanders, Jane Fonda, Martin Garbus, Senator Mike Gravel, Andre Gregory, Sam Hamill, Suheir Hammad, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rickie Lee Jones, Sarah Jones, Brig. Gen. (Ret) Janis Karpinski, Jonathan Kozol, Rabbi Michael Lerner, US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Robin Meyers, Mark Crispin Miller, Tom Morello, Viggo Mortensen, John Nichols, US Rep. Major Owens, Grace Paley, Harvey Pekar, Sean Penn, Michelle Phillips, Harold Pinter, Michael Ratner, Mark Ruffalo, US Rep. Bobby Rush, Susan Sarandon, Richard Serra, Jeff Sharlet, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen, Nancy Spero, Gloria Steinem, Lynne Stewart, Serj Tankian, Sunsara Taylor, Studs Terkel, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Naomi Wallace, US Rep. Maxine Waters, Cornel West, Ann Wright, Howard Zinn, and thousands more who have already joined us.

http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
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World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party. Scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization (rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)

*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration

*Organizes college and high-school students

*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
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The RCP calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government...

From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :

"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.

And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":

http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
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Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution interview with ["Peace Mom"] Cindy Sheehan: October 29, 2005:
['Revolution' is the newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party]
http://rwor.org/a/021/cindy-sheehan-interview.htm
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[Revolution] Interview with Bill Ayers, Revolution #63, October 1, 2006:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html
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"This is a guy [Bill Ayers] who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."

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Penn Hangs Again With Pal Chavez:
http://www.newser.com/story/40507/penn-hangs-again-with-pal-chavez.html
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Sean Penn Applauds as Venezuela's Chavez Bashes Bush:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291855,00.html

[Hot Tabasco]

on the autobiography by Ambassador Wilson's wife, outed C.I.A. agent Valerie Plame Wilson.

Actually it should have been the "fictional" account. The appropriate title should have been "How We Lied Our Way to Fame and Fortune".........

[philled]

My first thought was: "Wow, he better get his money upfront because the Wilson's fifteen minutes was up years ago and he won't have the LBGT crowd to prop up this turd."

I'm thinking it is going to more resemble the actual Titanic than the film Titanic's box office receipts...

[Jim Scott]

While few Americans give a hoot about what an arrogant, obnoxious, self-absorbed Hollywood actor like Sean Penn thinks about anything, The Observer's Christopher Rosen gets one thing right. Only hardcore Bush-haters, ignoring reality as best they can, still rant about this palpable nonsense. The Joe Wilson/Valarie Plame contentions were ultimately proven to be baseless. A carefully-crafted pack of lies intended to hurt President Bush in his 2004 re-election bid. He won, anyway.

The average American didn't care that much in 2003 and even less, now. Any film about this non-story is going to tank...but they already know that. This is simply the Hollywood chapter of the Loony Left having a snit-fit on film. Idiots.

[presidio9]

I was disappointed by Slumbdog Millionaire, but I still thought it was entertaining. The only thing I liked about the Oscars was how much fun the Indian kids were having simply being there and being part of something that won so many awards. None of them was even nominated for anything individual.
Actually, I have to confess that Shirly McClain’s best actress presentation to Ann Hathaway was pretty touching. Especially juxtaposed with Whoopie Goldberg’s presentation about Whoopie Goldberg.

[markoman]

Touche’

[rbg81]

Actually, his dad had the ultimate set of tools.

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Uh, hello, that’s what I said in my post. Are you implying I don’t know my 80s movies? I sure hope not.

[reagan_fanatic]

I can’t wait for his next major role as the lead character in ‘Sean Penn: American Asshole’.

[TribalPrincess2U]

This is a comedy, right? LOL

[DustyMoment]

Without reading a word of this story, here’s what I know about this film: 1) it will be a leftist fairy tale that elevates Wilson/Plame to wronged super-heroes and makes the Bush Administration into the evil villain; 2) it will be “based” on the whole manufactured Plame outing and will ignore the fact that Wilson received taxpayer money to conduct an investigation which he not only didn’t do, he lied about it when he got back to America; 3) it will be one more in a whole series of films produced by Hollyweird that I can’t wait to ignore and spend my money on more useful things . . . . . . like beer!

Eventually, if we ALL stop spending money to see leftist political propaganda, Hollyweird will either go bankrupt and stop subjecting the rest of America to their superficial, airheaded views, or they will finally get the hint and go back to telling stories again without the political overtones they inject into virtually everything they do.

I’m betting that these stars” will be out the street begging for handouts before Hollyweird gets the picture.

(Pun intended!)

[skeeter]

The Academy can go shave its arse. For Penn its been all downhill since

[popdonnelly]

What credibility do these fools have? I mean, would I be respected for hanging out with and praising dictators? And Chavez hates Penn’s country. What a puerile idiot Penn is.

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

[Ciexyz]

barf alert.

[ETL]

From National Public Radio (NPR):
August 29, 2006
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been visiting countries such as China, Iran and Russia as part of an effort to build a 'strategic alliance' of interests not beholden to the United States. He considers the United States his arch enemy.":
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5729764
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From CBS-News:
July 29, 2006
"Chavez pledged that his country would 'stay by Iran at any time and under any condition,' state television reported. Ahmadinejad said he saw in Chavez a kindred spirit." "'We do not have any limitation in cooperation,' Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. 'Iran and Venezuela are next to each other and supporters of each other. Chavez is a source of a progressive and revolutionary current in South America and his stance in restricting imperialism is tangible.'":
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/29/world/main1847331.shtml
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Code Pink 'Bundles' for Barack, 4/14/2008

Cindy Sheehan, Jodie Evans, Hugo Chavez,
Medea Benjamin [co-founder Code Pink]

"The co-founder of the radical anti-war group Code Pink [Jodie Evans] has “bundled” more than $50,000 for Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and pro-troops groups are demanding that he return the money."

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25997
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Revolution interview with ("Peace Mom") Cindy Sheehan: October 29, 2005:
['Revolution' is the official newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party]
http://rwor.org/a/021/cindy-sheehan-interview.htm
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November 22, 1970 -- During a fund-raising tour for GI deserters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers, Jane Fonda is quoted in the Detroit Free Press as telling a University of Michigan audience:

"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline

Fonda made the following statement at the University of Texas:
"We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right." --Karen Elliott Dallas Morning News December 11, 1971

From 1972: "I am not a do-gooder, I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman."

Source for most of the Jane Fonda material:
http://www.1stcavmedic.com/jane_fonda.htm
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Code Pink's Jodie Evans embraces Jane Fonda