"Behind Sean Penn's Anti-War Mask"

ChronWatch.com ^ | June 1, 2003 | Kevin Willmann

[stratman1969]

"Baghdad Sean" is once again reprising his role as a supposed anti-war activist, pacifist, champion of the little people and lover of all living creatures.

The New York Times, a newspaper with less credibility now than the National Enquirer, published Penn’s 4,000 word open letter in a full page advertisement estimated to cost around $135,000. In the ad, Penn defended his treasonous trip to Baghdad and attacked the Bush Administration and U.S. Corporations who are now rebuilding Iraq. In attacking them, Penn also picked up the new chant of the left, "Where’s the weapons of mass destruction?"

Last October, Penn paid around $56,000 for a similar ad in the Washington Post.

Like other Hollywood leftists, Penn is a walking contradiction. He makes ad hominem attacks on President Bush, the FOX News network, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and Bill O’Reilly. Yet, he won’t appear on O’Reilly’s TV show because he’s too much of a coward to back up his statements. The best he can do is show up for softball questions from Larry King and sound as incoherent as the stoned surfer dude Jeff Spicoli, Penn’s character from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Even ''The Dixie Hicks'' were able to form at least one coherent paragraph.

Here is a man who also attacks corporations, yet lives with other multi-millionaires in the small town of Ross, California. Ross is located in Marin County, one of the wealthiest counties in the nation, as well as a hotbed of social and political insanity. Other entertainment elitists who live in Marin (Bonnie Raitt, Peter Coyote to name a few) share the same warped 1960’s world view which Penn espouses.

Penn wants to lecture America about "peace" and "morality," yet he has punched out numerous press photographers and an extra from the movie Colors. Like fellow anti-war activist Jackson Browne, Penn also has a history of spousal abuse. He’s had an on-again, off-again relationship with actress Robin Wright and decided to marry her after fathering two illegitimate children with her.

But there’s an even dangerous element to Sean Penn’s activism that the media has ignored. Like so many in the so-called anti-war movement, Penn hides a much more radical agenda behind his activism.

[buffyt]

Yet another hypocrite from Hollywarped! Just heard about BS. Seems her Malibu home is in an arial photo of properties that are causing erosion to the shorline! She doesn't want HER home in that photo. Truth hurts!

[buffyt]

Penn wants to lecture America about "peace" and "morality," yet he has punched out numerous press photographers and an extra from the movie Colors. Like fellow anti-war activist Jackson Browne, Penn also has a history of spousal abuse. He’s had an on-again, off-again relationship with actress Robin Wright and decided to marry her after fathering two illegitimate children with her.

BEACON OF MORALITY AND PEACE!

[SandRat]

Everyone needs to remember that Sean PencilHead's parents were "Blacklisted" by the HUAC hearings and could not work in the open in the US in the media.

This man is filled with hate for anything that does not approach the commie/socialist standard.

He is a RDDB!

[JOE6PAK]

Freekin'~WACKO~ Penn.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this.

I learned a couple of new interesting pieces of data about this diseased Lunatic Lefty.

Penn’s radicalism and call for revolution are intergenerational. His father, the late Leo Penn, was blacklisted in the 1950’s for supporting the Hollywood Ten.

Also, that Penn lives in Marin County. The county that produced Jihad Johnny and had 80% of the residents in tears about his so called bad treatment.

If the mainstream media did its job, Sean Penn and other Hollywood anti-war leftists would be questioned, shamed, and ridiculed. Instead, they are enabled by a sympathetic media which publicizes their comments, hoping America accepts them on blind faith.

Sean Penn is this generation's Jane Fonda. His phony act of "concerned citizen" is only a mask he uses to hide his violent past and radical political beliefs.

[VOA]

Sean Penn is this generation's Jane Fonda. His phony act of "concerned citizen" is
only a mask he uses to hide his violent past and radical political beliefs.

More hypocrisy with Penn than we can shake a stick at.
Amazing to me how he gets a free pass as a liberal icon that:
1. smokes cigarettes
2. drives older, more polluting, American-made gas guzzler from Detroit
3. packs a Glock and a .38 cal revolver in that gas guzzler
4. AND loses both guns when the car is stolen.

Although I don't like criminality, I won't be able to stop smiling if one of those
guns is used to shoot one of "children"...e.g., a 17 year old drug dealer.

[SkyPilot]

Penn also has a history of spousal abuse.

Come on! Everyone ties up his wife, sticks her head in a gas oven, and pulls out clumps of her hair--don't they?

Sean did this to Madonna until the LAPD arrived and arrested him.

[facedown]

You see these kids now.... Nothing like Seattle (referring to the 1999 WTO riots) happened in 20 years. It is a very hopeful thing.

The Scarecrow in search of a brain.

As an aside:

[Sam Cree]

Sounds like the guy is an actual socialist, or maybe communist. That the press doesn't find this worthy of mention sure makes it seem that their view may be the same.

[Moosefart]

Come on! Everyone ties up his wife, sticks her head in a gas oven, and pulls out clumps of her hair--don't they?

Sean did this to Madonna until the LAPD arrived and arrested him.

If she was tied up who called the police?

[DainBramage]

I'll give him a pass on beating up Madonna. To me it's one

of the few things he's done that I understoood.

[stratman1969]

That's beautiful! If I'm not mistaken, that looks like a late 80's with Lace Sensor Pickups. I have a lite blue 1950's reissue.

[SkyPilot]

If she was tied up who called the police?

The Police said neighbors heard the screams and called.

[prairiebreeze]

I heard on the news just today that Penn and Madonna might be getting back together.

??

Prairie

[facedown]

That's beautiful!

And it's mine!

If I'm not mistaken, that looks like a late 80's with Lace Sensor Pickups.

A little younger but right about LS PU's.

I have a lite blue 1950's reissue.

A fine slab.

[aristeides]

Did Howell Raines approve running this op ed? Did Pinch Sulzberger?

[dennisw]

I'll bet our Saddam enabler, Sean Penn, is half Jewish via his father. http://www.halfjewishbook.com/Quiz.html

[aristeides]

I see, looking more closely at the article, that the Penn piece was an ad, not an op ed. But the NYT still could have refused to run it.

[cubreporter]

I wonder who wrote it for him?