Sean Penn Exposed: Useful Idiot
by Alicia ColonAlthough Sean Penn has the reputation of being a fine actor, I’ve never shared that opinion and regard his acting as overrated. His early performance in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” as stoner Jeff Spicoli is regarded fondly by those with sophomoric comedic taste but my taste prefers more subtlety. Penn absolutely destroyed the film “The Interpreter” with his hound dog expression throughout the film and “I Am Sam” remains the thespian lesson in what to avoid when portraying the mentally challenged.
I used to think that Penn’s liberal statements came from a genuine concern for the poor and downtrodden and did not laugh at that pathetic picture of Penn in that leaky rowboat in New Orleans after the Katrina devastation. I also did not join the skeptics who questioned his Haitian relief efforts. I figured him to be naïve but with his recent statement that “Hugo Chavez” is not a dictator, the truth is finally clear. Sean Penn is an idiot-a useful one-but an idiot nonetheless.
I’ve never been to Venezuela but I know many transplanted immigrants from that country who relate tales of horror since that “dictator” took over. What kind of spell has Chavez spun to cloud the Hollywood fool’s mind to the damage this man has wrought on his country?
A few years ago I interviewed native Venezuelan Thor Halvorssen, the
founder of Moving Picture Institute, the TriBe-Ca-based film company that
produces documentaries about the fight against despotic tyrannies and about political hypocrisy, trade union corruption, and political correctness.
Mr. Halvorssen is the president and CEO of the Human Rights Foundation, which has Vaclav Havel as Chairman and the perfect person to ask about Sean Penn’s ludicrous defense of Hugo Chavez. Currently he is on a human rights mission but he graciously responded to my request for his comments:
“When Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Freedom House, the European Parliament, Inter-American Commission and Court for Human Rights, the Committee to Protect Journalists and dozens of other governmental and civil society groups from across the political spectrum demonstrate through reports, case studies, and a mountain of evidence that Hugo Chavez persecutes journalists, imprisons opponents, manipulates elections, finances and arms death squads in Colombia, shuts down independent media, bankrupts independent small business, confiscates property, provides moral and technological support to dozens of despots around the world–well, you have a consensus of many smart, well-informed people that Chavez is bad news. Sean Penn is either exceptionally ignorant or deliberately malicious. Given that he has travelled to Venezuela and, unlike Venezuelans whose media is restricted, is able to obtain as much information as he wants, it is baffling for him to be on the side of tyranny and human rights violations. I once confronted him at Elton John’s Oscar party about Venezuela and he literally walked away when I started naming Venezuela’s political prisoners. At least the support that Chavez has received from Danny Glover has a clear venal justification: his production company received tens of millions in cash from the Venezuelan government. But Sean Penn’s obsession with Chavez is inexplicable. I have been in touch with his publicist and his manager and have extended several invitations for him to travel and see the Venezuela that is experienced by the majority of people there–those who resist and oppose the destruction of Venezuela’s democracy. I am still hopeful that he will do the right thing. The invitation still stands.”
Sean Penn will never accept Halvorssen’s invitation because, I conclude, he is an idiot.
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Penn=idiot. Agreed.
I gagged when I saw another post about Penn… this moron should be tar'd and feathered and then ran out of this country… serioulsy all this man loves is the MONEY that people blindly give to him for his acting??? I have to ask what in the world would this fool do if he did not have his soapbox to stand on and spew HATE against this GREAT COUNTRY.. what a tool….. serioulsy I am done with him and his wife and hell most of HOLLYWOOD.. or LEFTYWOOD….
Not only is Penn an idiot, and his acting talents are overrated, he is the only man who ever beat Madonna more than she liked to be beaten and brutalized. He is a pig.
He's not only an idiot, he's dangerous idiot. guys like this with public profiles lend legitimacy to a regime that is nothing short of a totalitarian state. Sean Penn is definitely and idiot, but he's a dangerous idiot who is carrying water from evil. period.
Acting= lying and pretending. It's not a skilled craft so idiots like Penn fit in perfectly.
Penn's dad was a Hollywood director and communist. So he was raised/indoctrinated in the worst of both worlds. The result was what you'd expect – a spoiled and shallow Hollywood communist punk who likes to pretend he’s a tough guy. He is too cowardly to be questioned about his beliefs so he hides behind others and only talks to those who give him a free ride. Be on the lookout Ms. Colon, the nasty little fella has a propensity for fighting women.
He's a typical hollywood leftist. He isn't comfortable in his own skin, no sense of real accomplishment. Yet he has so much fame and money. So he acts out.
What he needs is a real job.
"Sean Penn is either exceptionally ignorant or deliberately malicious." – Thor Halvorssen
Mr. Halvorssen – I'm sorry, but I think Sean Penn is BOTH exceptionally ignorant AND deliberately malicious.
Plus he's an assclown.
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In fact his dad was blacklisted in Hollywood due to his Communstic views. Sean is a red diaper baby.
Exactly.
I thought I was on my own! I can watch most leftists on screen with some pleasure, since most have a bit of talent or star presence or whatever. The ceaseless posturing and face-pulling of Sean Penn become so fatiguing and distracting that I can't sit through one of his movies. Worst of all, he's dead common.
And don't get me started on his arty, lumbering directorial efforts.
He's the Andrew Sullivan of cinema: a talentless oaf whose success must ever remain a mystery.
They both went off the deep end after that film.
Given Penns hatred for anything American and his Love for Hugo Chavez–AND the fact he could not act his way out of a paper bag—-I recommend he become a Venezuelan and forfeit all his earnings he has accrued being an American—Ill bet Hugo wont have much time for Penn then—
Sean Penn can be summed up much easier. He spent more time and energy to get on a plane to meet Saddam Hussein than he did to save his brother from drugs.
That's your compassionate Sean Penn. It wouldn't surprise me if he date raped 14 year old girls next and then go live like some royal in the world's number one bankrupt socialist paradise after that.
Penn was raised to be a hard-core communist. His father was an supporter of Stalin for pete's sake. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Dang.
Not to doubt Thor Halvorssen's credential's experiences, knowledge or citizenship, but… that's an… interesting name for a native Venezuelan.
Of course this also causes me to think that his half brother Loki, is probably a Chavez fan.
And his father has a flair for names, especially if his isn't Odin.
As for Sean Penn, it's been known for a looooong time that he's in the company of Hanks, nay the leader, of the league of extraordinary imbeciles.
Penn is still trying to play the teenage rebel at nearly 50. Quite funny and quite sad.
That's right, I forgot about that — very true. There is no hope for him, only a soapbox.
I'll never understand why so many little commie wannabees here that have benefited so much from the free market system want to deny others the same opportunity.
Penn and the other "useful idiots" are not that hard to understand. They have bloated egos and the belief that whatever they think is not only important but beyond question. Chavez and Castro play to their egos and make them believe that they are as wonderful as they believe themselves to be. Stalin did the same thing with his "useful idiots" during the 30's. Stalin, however, couldn't help but clue the rest of us in on this charade.
can't argue there- never have enjoyed either of them much since, maybe 'Risky Business'. But yes, deep end it was…
What would Castro do?
We should take all the immigrants displaced here by despotic Marxist regimes from around the world and make the Hollywooders make room in their great big houses since they agree with the concept.
How would they like them apples?
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Well I would have to say that you're wrong about his acting. He's an exceptional actor.
Oh no, Tom Cruise has made lots of good movies. Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of July, that one with Jamie Fox where he was a cabbie and Cruise was a contract killer. He's a bit of a dink but he's made some pretty good movies.
Correction… he's a red diaper dope baby.
that Hugo Chavez persecutes journalists, imprisons opponents, manipulates elections, finances and arms death squads in Colombia, shuts down independent media
No wonder Obama loves hum….
How would they like them apples?
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Only if they did the lawn and cleaned the house and took care of their children..
I recall a story about how Penn made one of his assistants swim across a body of water, go to a nearby town, buy him some cigarettes and return the same way he came. Quite a piece o' work.
One more thing. Penn is not a useful idiot. He is just an idiot. I don't think he is very useful.
"Sean Penn is either exceptionally ignorant or deliberately malicious."
I say malicious. Penn would never accept the author's invitation. Even if it were the other case, Chavez would only allow Penn to meet those people who support leftist policies, who are being enriched by the spoils of thuggery. No person who still has a business, license, or any accumulated wealth would dare meet with Penn and share in negative information about Chavez. .
Penn an idiot, you betcha
"The League of Extraordinary Imbeciles" I like it, let's hope it sticks. There once was a Hollywood group that was called The Rat Pack and this is just a different kind of group. I nominate these morons to be charter members of The League of Extraordinary Imbeciles: Tim Robbins. George Clooney. Sean Penn. Matt Damon. Jeaneane Garofolo.
If only Sean would go to Juarez he could probably talk all those cartel guys to lay down their guns. Especially after he tells them he's Chavez's BFF.
Ann Coulter referred to Penn as, and I'm paraphrasing here, a "drunken, chain smoking, girlie man." I think that summerizes it quite well.
I would like to know how much money Chavez has given Sean Penn ?
Did he act well as a beater or beat well as an actor?
I still feel that Chavez "owns" him. He probably has goodies on him from when he visited Venezuela. I believe Chavez has the hotel rooms bugged a la Castro when these useful idiots visit, and he pulls out the tape whenever he wants his puppet, Sean, to say something nice.
Sean Penn's hot for Chavez, eh?
'Splains the stains.
I can't tell the difference between satirical Sean Penn in Team America and the real Sean Penn any more. How much is Chavez paying the Film Actors Guild for their cooperation with is tyranny?
Idiot or Evil?
I don't know.
I agree, Cruise seems like another Follywood dunce, he is smart enough to pilot his own aircraft, for what that's worth but on the other hand – uh, Scientology (??)
but he's made some decent flicks.
I suspect that Sean is a sad spiteful little old man, who lacks any credentials to support his raging hate for America, he can claim no positive attributes and his acting is lame at best.Given he let two female staffers provide cover when questioned on his ugly cancer remarks pretty well speaks to his manhood..
Well I never was a fan of his acting, So rather than pay money to see one of his movies, I just buy shotgun shells and go shoot some ducks and geese. All of these jokers movies bomb. at some point I would think and soon the money to make the kind of junk they make is going to dry up and with it Actors like Penn will just bitch how unfair life is.
Sean Penn is no idiot. Sean Penn is the son of Leo Penn, a lifelong communist who was blacklisted during the cold war era. Sean Penn is the worst kind of indoctrinated red diaper baby, full of self righteous hatred for his native land, and as such, is indeed more malicious than idiotic.
Sean Penn is no idiot. Sean Penn is the son of Leo Penn, a lifelong communist who was blacklisted during the cold war era. Sean Penn is the worst kind of indoctrinated red diaper baby, full of self righteous hatred for his native land, and as such, is indeed more malicious than idiotic.
Last Penn movie I saw was TAPS, and there he displayed the inchoate rage that is his one and only act. Great actor? Not so much. Inchoate rage – otherwise known as blind and suicidal passion – is not great acting.
Of course there is just the tiniest possibility he is secretly spying on Hugo. But per the test of Occam's razor, 'tain't likely.
Thank you, mister mature troll…
I'm still waiting for my rectal cancer, Sean.
For the love of God, let's start boycotting these arrogant "actors" who, by us spending our hard-earned money, have become millionairs with nothing left to do but tell us how stupid, ignorant and racist we all are!
They've all forgotten what it's like to work an actual JOB and have the government take 30%. They take full advantage of our FREEDOM; get rich (off our money) by pretending for a living, they find tax shelters, buy homes in other countries to avoid our taxes, then try to corrupt our constitution. Who even cares what some brainless actor or actress has to say?!! BOYCOTT HOLLYWOOD! Don't give them another dime.
If you're buying a movie ticket you're funding your own demise…
…haven't been to a theater in years because of that fact..
Sean Penn is this decade's Jane Fonda, AKA Hanoi Jane.
Anyone can see what Chavez is doing to Venezuela. The country is feeding on itself. Chavez is canabalizing all of the wealth that was created before he came to power, and he is distributing it to his cronies to keep himself in power. The country is not creating any new wealth, and the poor, who supported Chavez' rise to power, are still poor. Stores cannot stay in business when they have to sell goods for less than they paid for them. (Chavez' price controls.) Venezuela's oil industry is slowly crumbling because Chavez nationalized it and wouldn't pay the oil companies the money they were owed. So most of the oil companies packed up and left, leaving Chavez without the experitse to manage the oil rigs and refineries. Penn could see this if he wanted to, but he simply is unwilling to admit what his senses tell him.
Penn is just another has-been, worthless, self-important, anti-American egotist.
These Hollywood elitists spew their venom to the world while praising themselves and giving each other endless awards so they won't feel guilty for participating in their deviant lifestyles. They preach "tolerance" but they are not satisfied with tolerance, They want full acceptance of their sick lifestyles and mental illnesses. In reality, they act the part of heroes while they surrounding themselves with adoring, weak minded worshipers who will never tell them the truth.
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well, besides 'Ridgemont High' we thought him effective in 'Taps' as well. Not a great film, but launched both Penn and Tom Cruise.
We enjoyed it, and them.
However, since then one dreary message film after another. Tiresome, indeed…
Mr. Penn clearly never heeded the Tropic Thunder Maxim: Never go full retard.
Please,stop making excuses for "Hollywood trash"(Penn,Hanks,Glover,et al…)by declaring:"they are so talented".I'm bored with their with antics,politics and their inablity to "articulate"without a script.They fear obscurity more than the wrath of the public.
Great piece, Alicia! And here I always thought I was the only one who thought Penn was never that great of an actor. But I always thought he was an idiot. Don Imus recently referred to Tom Hanks as "another panty-wearing liberal dickweed." Hmm…I'm sure he must have meant Sean Penn.
So, defend him. C'mon, Randy. Show us your maturity and explain how Penn's political statements are well thought out and positive.
Finally caught on when they started savaging Bush for defending our nation by going after Muslim Terrorists, started with boycotting a few loudmouth leftists movies. The more time passed , the more I boycotted along with other entertainers like singers and TV hosts. I haven't been to a movie in the last four years , and refuse to watch most of the refuse on TV. The price of admission or viewing is too high!
A bloated tyrant buys the love of a 50-year old adolescent with primo weed, choice blow and school girls. What's the mystery?
That shows the average maturity of the bloggers here – name calling. yawn.
Penn appears blinded by hatred of the US and is being deliberately malicious. His father was reportedly black-listed during the Red Scare days and my guess is that Sean has carried a major grudge against the US since then.
It appears that he will stick it to the US in the most visible and outrageous ways he can, heedless of the damage he does to millions enslaved by Hugo and his thugs by providing superficial legitimacy with his highly-publicized visits to that benighted land.
And, I don't think he was acting in "Fast Times." Likely he was being himself.
Sean Penn: "I'm too busy being compassionate for my fellow man by showing up in Haiti. My love for humanity knows no bounds! Now shut up and go get rectal cancer you scum who's culture I am not interested in buying into! Can't you see I'm being compassionate here? Morons!"
Why would anyone support hollywood anymore? There is a culture of stupidity. & just like the liberal media sources, their opinions, have no substance, other than malicious foul minded ignorance.
You know what would be nice, if some of the 'entertainers' in the world grew a pair, & stood up against the blind tyrannies embrace! Like Jay Leno, conservative humor rocks harder, & soothes the soul far better than any liberal gibberish. It's real, it's honest, & it's alive!
Liberalism in America is dead! I guess that placid loon is useful after all.
I've known a lot of lttle men like Sean, who are drawn to authoritarian figures like Hugo. They've been known for ages as 'Toadies'. They have no real power of their own, but asume it by association. Pathetic little creatures.
Since Sean has a sick fascination with anything anally related, I think he should sit on a parking cone, rotate, and then jump in the middle of oncoming traffic.
LOL!! I forgot all about that. Absolutely one of the best quotes ever!!!
Why am I feeling a "Boogie Nights"-like film here? Chavez, Penn, Damon hanging around the pool. Roller-boy handing out drinks and cocaine. A little orgy in one of Chavez's screening rooms…
Perhaps, a Che protegy in the Dirk Diggler part… Hey, where are all the women????
considering the trails of ex's he has left behind, I'm sure he beats alot.
revision: he's a walking red diaper stain.
If there were any women, they'd only be there as ornamentation, props, things, mere possesions. They only see them as toys to be played with until the next shiney thing attracts their interest.
Anyone who knows anything from Katrina knows that the locals laughed their tails off, even the liberals, at Penn's New Orleans stupidity. I guarantee there is some fellow who made a lot of money for a two man filled with his videographer, photographer, reporter and himself. They sank the boat and rescued people in knee deep water just feet from dry land.
He really is a moron.
That's why we need to keep the pressure on until he implodes on his own.
Thor Halvorssen is Norwegian on his father's side. On his mother's side the family can be traced back to Bolivar.
Penn never sees the truth in Venezuela because he can't seem to get his head out of his posterior! He doesn't realize he's eating in the same place he defecates. He really is 'I am Sam'! No, that is an insult to Sam!
Rolly
Susan Sarandon. Danny Glover. Rosie O'Donnell. Harry Belafonte. Jane Fonda. Annette Bening. Bill Maher. Michael Moore. Barbra Streisand.
Taps and Falcon and the Snowman are good flicks – but this guy is a dangerous idiot.
As the left likes to Alinsky their prey (sarah) penn would fold like a cheap suit if anyone had the guts to stand up to him….hope that day comes soon……
Sean Penn made the fatal mistake of going full retard… in his private life! Don't believe me? Take a look at his wife/ex-wife (Robin Wright) who he constantly cheated on.
Sean Penn = Simple Jack
the Scientology thing explains the pilot's license; Travolta has his own 747- Hubbard preached overachieving once the nasty spirits were driven from the body.
Other than that, Cruise made a few good films but he wasn't ever all that convincing in them- just posing a lot…
Is it the lack of people with guts wishing to challenge him or his constant efforts to avoid any type of countermanding opinion? He seems to dodge debate and Q&A almost as well as Obama.
He's a beater who acts well enough to make everyone think he's a kind and well-meaning liberal like the rest of them.
Ewww…I hope you were speaking figuratively.
I wonder if Penn would like to see Amnesty International, the European Parliament, and Human Rights Watch arrested for spreading lies about Chavez as well.
I'm 99% sure that at an interview I heard him say his father was Dalton Trumbo — the writer and extremely active (and provably destructive to the US) Communist, who was one of the McCarthy era blackballed.
Penn probably loves Chavez because Chavez hates America — that's the best ticket to get many Hollywood idiot conformists behind you.
For most of them, facts and studying up on history on their own is out of the question, so they take the road of following whatever the currently considered most "clued-in" personality (like, Zinn, for instance) and political position dictates — without question. It feels right because they think it's "edgy" and "daring," (while they they are the ultimate conformists), and that it displays intellectual powers they don't possess — or could be bothered to develop.
With Penn, it's probably more personal because of what his father's beliefs were and what "happened" to him.
You had to write "toadies," didn't you? Well, there's only one answer to that: IT'S THESAURUS TIME!!! Time to look up as many words as we can find that describe Sean Penn and his relationship to Hugo Chavez (and any other dictator he's ever heard of). Let's get started!
We can call him an adulator, apple-polisher, ass-kisser, back-slapper, bitch, boot-licker, brown-noser, camp follower, claquer, clawback, crony, disciple, doormat, doter, earwig, fawner, flaneur, flatterer, flunky, groupie, groveler, hand-shaker, hanger-on, kiss-up, kowtower, lackey, lickspittle, minion, parasite, proneur, puffer, puppet, servant, slave, stooge, sycophant, toadie, toad-eater, tool, toolbelt, tool box, tool shed, tool factory, touter, truckler, underling, vassal, white-washer, worshiper, or a yes-man.
This looks like another movie that Sean Penn could star in… a remake of "The Last King of Scotland" – the new comedy flick "I Smell Brimstone" – Sean Penn portrays the "white monkey" of Hugo Chavez.
He is free to leave our great country that he hates so bad any time he wants. I wish he'd permanently become a citizen in the communist country he loves so much and sees what really happens. Why aren't these people arrested for treason? They don't deserve to live or to make a living somewhere they despise so deeply.
He's certainly useful to Chavez and Castro and the like, but not useful to America.
would walking skid mark be any better?
I think his best "peformance" is in the movie "The Falcon and the Snowman" – probably because he's playing himself – it's about a young punk drug dealer who becomes an (incompetent) Soviet spy (recognized as and played for a fool) – he whines alot in this movie and betrays everyone, he nails the true character of a weasel.
Don't forget
The Last Samurai! EXCELLENT FLICK!
He went full retard…and I'm not talking about I Am Sam.
Sean Penn is a Communist and Hugo Chavez is a Communist dictator.
End of story.
DHHUUUU!!!!
And I agree with this commentary. But remember we are talking about actors here. These are people who have professional writers come up with their dialogue. Everyone I know does this by them selves all the time. It is called "normal people". I mean get real, who comes up with your dialogue? You do. So of course Sean is a moron. Enough said. Which explains his being a useful idiot. Good article!
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And somehow keep the ciggies dry as he was swimming back.
This guy is rancid cheese as an actor. The Katrina thing was a grandstand to prove that if he could reach the superdome in a rowboat, then FEMA also could – therefore, Bush hates blacks. This is how this moron thinks. Now he hopes his critics all die screaming of rectal cancer while he tries to revive a tailspin career by camping in Haiti (when he's not licking Hugo Chavez's dirty feet). What a punk.
Only marginally. It's not that he doesn't deserve such appellations, don't get me wrong, I just don't wish to think about Penn on such an intimate level.
Isn't calling him a "useful" idiot simply giving him more credit than he deserves?
He's useful to Chavez
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