Posted on 01/14/2008 1:24:35 PM PST by filepile
Editor - From reading The Chronicle's banner-line propaganda, which teases the "star envy" piece within ("A modest proposal for celebs on the skids," Thursday), I could only hope this great city was more clever than its increasingly lame-brain paper. In its unequivocal naming of Chavez as dictator on A1, either "Pop Culture" man Peter Hartlaub or his equally biased Chronicle editor, doesn't quite understand that Venezuela's President Chavez was democratically elected, and that dictators don't lose constitutional referendums. The Chronicle should take comfort that the New York Times generally does no better than them here. Yet, in the paper's attack on Oliver Stone, who, agree with him or not, has at least the balls, passion and intellectual curiosity to pursue information away from a porcelain dumping bowl and a desperate newspaper, we see another attempt to marginalize the outspoken. (Outspoken: a louder and more credible voice than The Chronicle itself.) For myself, also listed in Hartlaub's piece, it should be noted that my recent trip to Venezuela was as a journalist, and marginalization of that due to "celebrity" is simply "Putin ultra light" to me. Believe it or not, I have a reasonably good sense of humor (if that's what Hartlaub attempted), but I felt so embarrassed, even for The Chronicle. Its "hard news" section for the banner line, and now its Datebook editorials have become Mad Magazine for small-minded cowards and former writers of substance. Who could that be, Phil?
SEAN PENN
Former S.F. Chronicle contributing reporter
SAN FRANCISCO
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This writing/thinking borders on the psychotic - this is the kind of stuff that you see on the mental wards.
LLS: “sean penn is NO American”.
LLS
unequivocal? Penn doesn’t know what the word is much less how to spell it. Someone wrote that for him, believe me. Dumber than dirt. That’s why dictators love him so.
Chavez is no dictator???? I thought you had to be able to read to be an actor. Guess not. Sean should get someone to read the definition of dictator to him. Perhaps he can relocate like Johnny Depp did. Hope springs eternal.
Isn’t he the “mode of operandus” guy?
Dude... I’m sooooo wasted.
Reminds me of the LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! video by that Chris Crocker guy.
Sean: “LEAVE HUGO ALONE! SOB”
Sean Penn the future foreman of the Cannes’film festival jury in France this year in May...
French losers have their own vision of USA ! A bright vision
Keep it up, Hollywood.
He is impressively stupid, isn’t he? Surely he must have fried his brain with drugs. Nobody can be this dumb naturally.
And neither is Castro or Jung-Il...
But Bush... he’s just like Hitler, only worse.
Sean Penn is an idiot! — that I’m sure of!!!!!!
If Shawn Pin says it, it must be true!
Hitler was democratically elected, so was Mussolini. Saddam had referendums and elections. There are elections in Lebanon, Iran.......
Mr. Penn, you are bind boggling ignorant.
Chavez changed the constitution to allow him to rule by decree.
That would be the textbook definition of a dictator, wouldn’t it?
Typo- That was to be mind.
Yeah, and Sean Penn is no actor.
OK, Sean, how about Castro? Is HE a dictator? How about Kim Jong-il?
“Sean Penn needs to take on Sean Hannity and get his ass kicked!”
Sean Penn is so stupid he wouldn’t even know. A complete and utter buffoon.
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