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Geraldo Rivera: Anger against Sean Penn's 'El Chapo' interview is misdirected
Fox News ^ | January 11, 2016 | Geraldo Rivera

Posted on 01/11/2016 10:40:25 AM PST by Zakeet

Folks are furious at actor Sean Penn and Mexican-American actress Kate del Castillo because they got chummy with El Chapo, the notorious drug kingpin rearrested last Friday. Why exactly is that? Penn was not "acting" as a journalist, he was one when he and the soap star bravely entered the jungle and risked physical and financial harm to pursue the huge exclusive interview with the fugitive who was the most wanted man in the world.

I would have done it. And I would have kept my mouth shut if I promised the source that I would keep my mouth shut about the vital logistic details. There was no immediate crime to be prevented, no urgency other than the embarrassment being suffered by the corrupt and incompetent Mexican government.

Were they brave? Yes.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amnesty; crime; demagogicparty; drugs; geraldorivera; jerryrivers; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; proopenborders; seanpenn; whorealdo
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Jerry Rivers has always been a meathead ... even more since they liposuctioned a bunch of fat out of his butt and planted it in his face ... on live tee-vee!

1 posted on 01/11/2016 10:40:25 AM PST by Zakeet
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I would have done it. And I would have kept my mouth shut if I promised the source that I would keep my mouth shut about the vital logistic details.

Finally! A way to keep Whorealdo's mouth shut.

2 posted on 01/11/2016 10:43:22 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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And I would have kept my mouth shut if I promised the source that I would keep my mouth shut...

Apparently the same didn't go for the women he slept with and then wrote about in his horrid biography, Exposing Myself.

3 posted on 01/11/2016 10:43:37 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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I would have done it. And I would have kept my mouth shut

Sure you would have, IDIOT! Just like you did in Iraq.

4 posted on 01/11/2016 10:44:31 AM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Zakeet
There was no immediate crime to be prevented...

Except maybe aiding and abetting a fugitive from justice.

-PJ

5 posted on 01/11/2016 10:47:44 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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What matters is that he performed a public service in nabbing this important interview.

What does this mean? Who gives a sh*t about some media interview meant to give this mass murdering criminal a platform.

These media people assign a lot of importance to themselves.

6 posted on 01/11/2016 10:55:01 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Exactly. Or maybe taking it one step Sean should have lead authorities to El Chapo. Anything short of this is aiding and abetting.


7 posted on 01/11/2016 10:55:30 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Zakeet

Birds of a feather flock together.


8 posted on 01/11/2016 10:58:22 AM PST by AdaGray
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In or out of prison, El Chapo, is still the shot-caller.

I wonder how much the contract on Sean Penn is worth?

Most likely wishing he still had a gun in the house.

9 posted on 01/11/2016 10:58:22 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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Mexico’s government was aware of the interview and was closely monitoring Penn’s movements, as he makes clear in the article. So the precise timeline and series of events is still too murky to be opining like this but it doesn’t sound as simple as Sean turning around and informing on his subject.


10 posted on 01/11/2016 11:02:56 AM PST by erlayman (yw)
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Either way, Penn is really a Dead Man Walking.


11 posted on 01/11/2016 11:04:09 AM PST by dfwgator
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geraldo comes up with some of the most outlandish excuses I’ve ever heard.. and he talks/shouts loud when someone tries to tell him some sense. He thinks he’s the only one who has a right to an opinion and he’s the only one who knows anything.. thus, he talks over anyone else.


12 posted on 01/11/2016 11:04:32 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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Well then....where should the line be?


13 posted on 01/11/2016 11:04:57 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Me angry at Sean Penn? No, I’m not. But I suspect I know someone who is. Someone, who is really pissed off. El Chapo! Me thinks I would rather have Barry Obama’s Just-us Department mad at me than El Chapo’s boys & girls.
Dead man walking?


14 posted on 01/11/2016 11:06:52 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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WARNING GRAPHIC: The Most Brutal Murders Linked to El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel
15 posted on 01/11/2016 11:07:07 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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So if Rivera had been given a chance to interview the 9/11 hijackers on September 9th would he have done it and kept his mouth shut?


16 posted on 01/11/2016 11:09:25 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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{”Rivers has always been a meathead ... even more since they liposuctioned a bunch of fat out of his butt and planted it in his face “}

It might be more accurate to call him a Butt Head.


17 posted on 01/11/2016 11:17:21 AM PST by Calpublican (A.G. Lynch: The intent of this statement is to incite violence against radical Islam)
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From what the Mexican Atty. General has indicated, the government was clued in by contacts between Guzman’s attorney and the army of Hollywood actors and producers interested in developing a movie. Sean must have thought that since he was invited to in that he would automatically be protected. He seems to have put an awful lot of other people at risk however (potentially including himself).


18 posted on 01/11/2016 11:27:13 AM PST by erlayman (yw)
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I can agree with Jerry if he feels that the quality of his own reporting can be matched by an actor pretending to be a journalist.

Jerry Rivers=Sean Penn


19 posted on 01/11/2016 11:27:35 AM PST by Cyman
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One Commie Pinko supports another Commie Pinko idiot - this is snuze?

Boy, looking at Sean Penn's duggie mug is beginning to tell on him!

Through he was always butt ugly but it's hit a hew low!

20 posted on 01/11/2016 11:33:49 AM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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