Sean Penn Off To Interview Uncle Fidel
by Michael van der Galien
If you didn’t know any better, you would almost think that Sean Penn wants to make it extremely easy for conservatives to criticize Hollywood for being overly liberal. He’s flown to Cuba to interview his hero Fidel Castro:
Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn flew to Cuba hoping to interview its revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, entertainment news website TMZ reported Sunday.
“Sean (Penn) is going to the land of Fidel as a journalist, writing a story for Vanity Fair (magazine) about how the (Barack) Obama administration has affected Cuba,” TMZ reported…
“Barclays sources say Sean and Diana are going to meet (Fidel) Castro — presumably because that’s what Diana told them,” the website reported. Penn’s representative also told TMZ a meeting was possible.
Vanity Fair sent Penn shortly after Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that President Obama asked Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, to talk to Cuba. “Tell Raul that if he does not take steps, neither can I,” Obama told the PM. “We are making efforts, but if they do not make efforts, it will be very difficult for us to continue.”
Is Penn truly acting on VF’s behalf, or will he go to Cuba because the Obama administration wants him to convince Fidel and Raul Castro to reach out to the U.S.?
It never ceases to amaze me that Hollywood-stars sympathize so much with ruthless dictators like Castro. You would think they understand that associating with mass murderers is harmful to their reputations. But no, they have been inside Hollywood’s leftist bubble for so long, they do not even realize the impact these kinds of adventures have on their image, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Next time Penn feels the need to interview a head of state, perhaps he could travel to Poland to talk to President Vaclav Klaus. Unlike Castro, Klaus is pro-America, pro-free markets, pro-freedom and anti-global warming; such an interview would at least be surprising.
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Free markets – sure. Free trade with other countries is foolish, though. Especially when they are using slave labor. This is about driving down the standard of living in the US and it is working.
Know a good title for a new Sean Penn movie……..The Useful Idiot.
What a complete waste of a human being Penn is. Why doesn't he go interview some of the thousands that risked everything to come to America to escape his buddy Fidel?
Penn is a leftist coward and I hope he gets the trots while he's there. Although it will be hard to tell since the same thing comes out of his mouth anyway….
it won't affect him in the least. He get's his oscars and his movies still do ok. What is the down side for him?
He doesn't care what Americans think of him. especially those of us in Flyover country.
You would think they understand that associating with mass murderers is harmful to their reputations.
For some, maybe.
Vaclav Klaus is the President of the Czech Republic. But you're right, Penn should ask him about political prisoners and why so many Cubans have died trying to escape Castro's communist utopia.
Why doesn't he interview people that fled Cuba? Why didn't Michael Moore reveal Obama's role in the financial crisis? Or his fear mongering to pass the trillion dollar stimulus? (etc.)
Reality would destroy the Leftist's perpetual day dream.
I would love to see the faces of these Holly-Weird twits if their Dictator hero's turned on them and gave them a cruise to the dark side. The crap would be piled so high you'd need a derrick to rescue them. That's if you're so inclined. I'm Not. That goes 10 times for Claw-Hammer face Penn.
Whatever happened to Elian Gonzalez? Is he getting a biopic soon? With Julia Roberts as the mother?
Penn should offer a screening of "Milk" for his buddy, Fidel. That would go over well.
I think that picture of Sean could be the theatre poster for your appropriately titled movie.:
I think that picture of Sean could be the theatre poster for your idea of the next Sean Penn movie.
Who's surprised?
Sean's daddy was a commie who was blacklisted.
The whole blacklisting issue was completely justified once you acknowledge that communism killed about 80 to100 million people in the twentieth century.
If someone was associated with the Nazi's,we would do the same,so why not investigate those with affiliations to a group that was ten times as murderous?
1984? you couldn't find a Bush -Bin Laden Photo or something?
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Wow, now I see that it's wrong to kill people that are trying to kill you and enslave your nation. I've seen the light.
What are you getting at? He was for killing commies? And that's bad…because?
Maybe his free trial of Photoshop ran out….
I hope Sean Penn stay in Cuba for good. It is paradise there. Please stay Sean. Nobody will miss you here.
I Prefer …The Useless Idiot.
Poor Sean, he has to go all the way to Cuba to try and find someone who has benefited from the Obama Administration. It's unfortunate he was unable to find anyone here. I'm sure Fidel will answer that he is still waiting to see the "Change" Obama promised and I'll be he is a little bent on the fact that Obama stole the Nobel Peace Prize from him. Always a brides maid, never a bride, eh Fidel?
I've been pondering this same question for years. There is no doubt about the body of evidence indicting socialists, communists, dictators, and things. They bring terror, oppression and destruction to everything they touch. Why would a sane person be anything less than repulsed by them?
The best answer I've been able to come up with is they are terrified of life. One kind of person looks out to the unknown future and starts rolling up their sleeves and digs into to create something out of it. Another type of person looks at the unknown future and is scared to death. They think they have to have some one to guide them, protect them, make all the scary things go away.
And what's more appealing to the second type of person than an all powerful, iron fisted dictator, in total control of society?
My theory is they are so scared of not having a state running society, they would gladly accept a fatally flawed state.
This stuff really ticks me off…I think why…why would an American slobber all over these oppressive dictators? WHY? Then it depresses me because it's just plain evil…and I can't find an answer!
So I pop in my Team America DVD and watch Sean Pean being devoured by ferocious felines, laugh my @$$ off and all is well again!
Whos Diana? I say the next time any of these lib-tards go off to a foreign land to praise one of these brutal America-hating dictators, we refuse their re-entry into the USA! Are you listening Penn, Stone, Clooney, etc?
It is becoming increasingly apparent that mental illness is an asset in an acting career. Everything else– not so much. Sean needs professional help.
I am waiting for a real American to horse whip Sean Penn till the blood runs in the street, I need a good laugh.
Hey now, be fair! This may be little Sean's only chance at a lifelong dream. If he waits any longer he'll have to talk to his hero with a Ouija board.
I think it would be fun for Fidel and Raul to ask him to stay…as their "guest" then we'd see just how much Mr. Penn adores the U.S. and it's military.
I have to ask. Who cares? I haven't seen a movie with him in it for years. If he went to Cuba and never returned the only way we would know is that the main stream news media would spend weeks tell the story. Who cares.
You have to wonder who cares…the media can't help but hype up every idiotic stunt this moron pulls. That's a huge frustration to have to turn on the news and see!
I think the last Sean Penn movie that I saw was Mystic River. He was very good in it–but now I can't watch it because HE's too distracting to enjoy the movie.
Hope this works out better for him than that photo op after Katrina where he's bailing his boat out with a plastic cup. What a dumbass.
If the Sean Penns of the world believe that castro's and chavez's countries are so great then why the heck don't they MOVE to one of them? I'm sure they'd fit right in..riiiiight…Elitist b*st*rds anyway.
Or …….."Little Hugo Boi"
I don't know if any of you remember that link I posted last week about an UBER radical communist site headed by Noam Chomsky or not BUT I recently went back to read some more there(know thy enemy)and it seems Castro BLOGS there. I thought he was on his death bed.
I wonder if Sean Penn will go in character as Harvey Milk. After he enjoys the ministrations of Castro's re-education camps, he can take the character on the road to Iran, where a very special necktie awaits him.
One of the great benefits of how Cuba treats dissenters, no shortage of replacement organs for the ruling elite.
But it could be hard to get all those good anti-rejection drugs from the US, and brother Raul is awfully keen on getting better relations with more trade…
I guess it's too much to hope for that they might keep him there.
It's easy to be fascinated by Uncle Fido and his island of horrors when you're an OVERPAID, OVERINDULGED, TOURIST from Malibu.
Amazing how these Screen Actor Leftists wouldn't ever tolerate waiting in line for the buffet at Nobu like the rest of the "little square people", but then these same hypocrites want you to believe that living under Jurassic-era Socialism and waiting hours in line for toilet paper is a noble thing? Is Cocaine covered under Socialized health care? Inquiring minds want to know, Sean.
I'm joining the growing calls to keep Penn in Cuba. If not, well, at least we know he'll never be able to show his mug in Miami again.
Of course, they may have replaced Fidel with animatronics. Has he been photgraphed lately in anything other than that all-covering track suit? I saw something about the administration allowing more tourism from the US. Is Disney planning on setting up a park there, starting with putting in a repair shop?
Spicoli may meet Castro- or maybe his double…
The smart money has Uncle Fidel dead and in the grave. Good riddance? It doesn't matter! He, like all despot dictators, has a multitued of doubles. Saddam had as many as five or six. You have really good ones- guys from your tribe who look just like you- for speeches and whatnot. Others need to just 'smile and wave' to the great unwashed masses.
So, Penn will most likely meet the sick and dying double. They will mouth the requisite platitudes and he will return home feeling vindicated. The Cubans love the Hollyweird exposure.
Ain't life grand?
Jeff Spicoli = “An illiterate king is a crowned ass”
Hey Cuba!
If you love Sean so much, you can keep him if you want.
Go ahead. No charge.
Ask him to do his Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times At Ridgemont High.
It's a classic!
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Question, since at this point Fidel probably spends most of the day in Attends in a geri-chair babbling incoherent manifestos just how is this interview going to advance the cause?
Has Sean Penn revoked his US citizenship for Cuba's yet? I'm sure he would love the "artistic freedom" there as much as he enjoys it here. Just ask all those who fled under Castro…
Klaus is who he is because he experienced Communism first hand. Not in theory like Penn.
No, but this will probably do.
Apparently equality of principles does not apply.
Interview with Castro; Bad.
Honoring dictator who tortures and commits executions (including murdering clergy): Good.
How about a movie about a screaming liberal going to a country like Chavez's, bonding with folks he thought were liberal, but who were really underground conservatives. He is forced to watch up close and personal the hell they are put through.
Instead of Dumb and Dumber, how about Dumbest?
When a commie loses his/her life, I really feel for them…Not! They are the ultimate oppressors of personal freedom. Doesn't break my heart in the least.
Exactly, he should be interviewing those in the prisons of socialism and communism, not the palaces, dictating the suffering and death of human beings.
You just have to watch the episode of "Inside The Actors Studio" featuring Sean Penn to see what an ultra-self-absorbed, narcissistic ninny the poor child is. Surrounded by the few people in the world who actually adore him, he actually sits there pontificating about his high art, as though he was God's gift to creation. It;s astonishing how far removed from reality these morons get when they are absorbed in the Hollywood bubble with straws and spoons up their noses and surrounded by puerile sycophants. Maybe the poor thing should go spend some time with the Dalai Lama or read the techings of Gandhi or something, and maybe one micron of modesty or humility would rub off on him. Fat chance! Anyway, it won't be long before he's a washed-up old man with so little to show in his soul other than repititious claptrap and divisive hatemongering against his country. To hell with him and all other perennially angry narrow-minded haters and hypocrites like him.
I'm not trying to pick a fight, but I agree than Elian should have gone back to Cuba. That's what his father wanted, his sole surviving parent.
And when it comes to parental rights, I'm a real hard ass. Because I'm a parent, and I don't want anyone telling me how to raise my daughter.
We sponsor a church in Cuba. The average American would be shocked at the persecuation and hardships that many Cubans must endure. Regardless of what Fidel, Sean Penn, and Michael Moore would have you beleieve, Cuba is not an island paradise – nor are the citizens happy and content. The Party elite live well, as they always do in Communist countries. Average citizens live like peasants, and those who dissent in any way are jailed and, quite literally, starved.
Fidel Castro will use these people to carry his propaganda back to the United States. But the fact is that neither Vanity Fair, Sean Penn, nor the grossly-obese Michael Moore would have been allowed to exist in Cuba under Castro. But… that may be proof that even a brutal dictator is not without some redeeming qualities.
He'd be treated like royalty. He's what Stalin referred to as a useful idiot.
Who is Sean Penn? Why should we care what he does? If he likes Castro so much, perhaps he should stay in Cuba and experience the full "progressive" life style????
Flying in the jet of one of Europe'smost accomplished gold-diggers, the Bosnian DIana Jenkins, he gets a hat trick. He can be one of her latest conquests and get another screwing by Fidel. What a guy !! Taking two for the team.
Without him, we would be left with only the falcon or was it the snowman or was it Uncle Martin or who the hell was it ????
You get a sitting ovation from me!
I actually want to read this.
I want to know what the questions will be.
Slip some anti-castro tracts into his luggage…
I wish they'd keep him over there in Cuba. I think since he likes Cuba so much he should migrate there. What a crackpot. I will not see any more movies with him in it. He is a traitor.
I did see Fast Times at Ridgemount High. I thought Pheobe Cates, in the red swimsuit, was GREAT. Real method acting.
One small dissent: Cuba IS, in many ways, an Island paradise, and if you have ever been in the wild without getting eaten, you can appreciate it.
Unfortunately, it has the worst of both worlds: the wilds are several shades too untamed and generally unsettled, and the population centers are several shades TOO tamed and stricken with brutality and tyranny.
Perhaps it is time for a new Bay of Pigs.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If Communism is so great, why did nobody get shot trying to escape over the Wall into EAST Berlin?
I hope that finger he has pointed at his empty head is loaded with hollw-points……………. .40 caliber hollow-points at that.
This is a line of questioning I'm trying to look into at my graduate school (imagine how much encouragement I'm getting in that regard). The best answer I can come up with is that they love power, not only for its own sake (although there is much of that) but also because it allows those who hold it to just smash all the squabbling, all the chaos in society and make everything fit together. If you have the power, you don't have to complain about high gas prices or the uninsured having to pay so much for health care. You can just make the oil companies or the doctors, if you so wish, change their prices so that people don't have to pay as much. I think this is why Penn and Co. are so attracted to men like Castro and Chavez, because they don't (in theory) take any crap from people committing perceived injustices, they just get things done, make private interests work together to right all wrongs and act on behalf of the people. It's the same reason why so many in Europe and America were so infatuated in the '20s and '30s with men like Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin and Stalin, because they didn't put up with any opposition, any legislative stonewalling.
Of course, the problem with this is that not only is there no possible way to make everything work without any hitches, but the effort to bring that about causes such a tremendous violation of people's lives and liberties. It's this part that Penn and others of his ilk don't seem to grasp, which is really sad, because their support of thugs like Castro is one of the main reasons those individuals are still around.
(There, now let onecent read that and keep calling me a troll!
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gotta luv the barbra streisand/sean penn wing of the hollywood set – out to keep obama in daily contact with the world's dictators and mass murderers
Yep. I agree. It's like they fell impotent to fix the inequalities of life, which the surely would, if they could, and they view these thugs as in a position to do just that.
They would make the world just, if only they had the power.
What they can't fathom is just how long a list history has of those who thought the very same thing.
And while the point about cozying up to bloodthirsty despots is hardly unjustified (and even I do not doubt the charming "credentials" of bastages like IK and "the Blowtorch",) the bottom line is that no world leader can shape the world entirely to their liking, much less to perfection.
In WWII, we aligned with Stalin to contain Hitler and Chiang Kai-Shek to try and stop Mao, in Korea we propped up the Rhee government and its successors far longer than we ought to have, in Vietnam we supported a string of kleptocrats in the hope that they would buy enough time to turn back Uncle Ho and transform South Vietnam into an actual Republic, in the 70's and 80's we cut deals with Pinochet to contain the Argentines and the USSR, and in the Muslim world we are dealing with charmers who would just as soon kill us were it not for self-interest.
The bottom line is that Karamov we don't really have much of a choice to deal with, given his valuable position in regards to Afghanistan and the necessity to keep Central Asia out of Chinese, Russian, and Islamist hands, and Mr. Axe was- in all due fairness- able to keep records of his crimes out of honest channels for quite a long time before anything solid started to pour out.
The latter is still dubious, but the former is far less so. Because no President can get away with avoiding meeting and greeting with a good percentage of the scum of the Earth. And when we get past the lobbyists, politicians, and the like, they get even worse.
But as a President, Bush could not responsibly avoid meeting Karamov if for NO other reason than to keep an Afghan supply line open in the wake of Pakistan's internal "issues."
What responsibilities FORCED Penn to do the same?
He is far more like the aforementioned group of politicians greeting one of Central America's least savory characters, with no real obligations for the greater good to do so.
The one extenuating factor is that we know FAR more about Castro than the politicos did about Blowtorch at the time. And Penn should have known it.
With all due honestly, don't play coy. Senor D'Aubuisson was HARDLY a good egg, and he made absolutely NO bones about it in his own turf (at least when the cameras were out of place). I know a good many staunch supporters for Democracy and bitter opponents of the Reds who were "dispatched" or "accidentally" injured simply because he viewed them as a threat to his regime.
I am no fan of FRELIMO, but let's admit that we have clinked glasses with some pretty nasty people over the decades for the sake of the greater good. And while it is sickening, it can hardly be avoided.
But that doesn't excuse us from condemning them in the aftermath.
I expect he'll deliver the same sophist claptrap that we've come to expect from him. I hope Castro croaks during the interview. That would make it interesting.
And obviously you fail to recognize that he killed numerous people who WEREN'T members of the Reds simply because he viewed them as threats to his power. Hell, he even targeted a few of the CONTRAs because he feared they would seek to replace him with a more pliable leader (this was in between his shipping weapons to them, so your guess is as good as mine), and led American advisors in circles about what he was actually doing with the material we were sending him.
Granted, I think FRELIMO was probably worse, but it is a dishonor to the innocent dead to whitewash petty thugs like him.
Nice point, but I am forced to point out that was because any idiot fed up with "Western decadence" could LEGALLY go across the wall into the USSR and emigrate there. We didn't set up mines and the like to cage them in.
Of course, this only shows that we had the confidence to let the people choose as they see fit, with the firm knowledge that the Communists could not match us.
Says a lot about a philosophy, doesn't it?
The problem is that for whatever his father's legitimate emotional pains, there is ample evidence to believe that Castro staged 99.999% of his testimony with the explicit intention of forcing him back.
We cannot allow our feelings for the innocent interfere with detecting the schemes of the evil.
I understand, and I can sympathize with your position. I feel the same. My experience, raising my daughter, who's the same age as Elian, this really caught my attention.
What if the federal government told me that I could not have my child back?
How would I feel, and what would I do?
I know. That was my entire point. A generation later, the "future," as so many put it, is now deep in the dustbin of history, while Penn is doing his darndest to revive it.
"If you didn’t know any better, you would almost think that Sean Penn wants to make it extremely easy for conservatives to criticize Hollywood for being overtly sympathetic with left-wing, tyrannical ideologies."
There, fixed it. We need to stop calling them "liberals", stop using the language they have chosen, and start calling them what they really are.
I hope Raul and Fidel smoke sean like a cheap cigar.
Maybe he could stop over in South Africa too, where he could be fitted for his very own "necklace"
Hello!!! Cuba and Fidel have been there for more than 50 years and they have done more good than harm. And this comes from a Latino who understand Latin America and this country pretty well. On the other hand, during the last 50 years or so the US have dropped a nuclear bomb twice, invaded and killed millions of people around the world. In Latin America along, the US have participated in coups in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay (Plan Condor-Kissinger) Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, Jamaica and Cuba. So shut the fuck up and look at what the US have done all around the world before you decide to lecture about freedom and democracy.
I simply said that I was for the defeat of communists. I feel terrible about Contra's getting killed and some innocents. I'll give you that.
I hope he has a Cuban emigre as baggage handler or flight attendant (Yellow Coke!).
Hello to caxi condor! Are you paid to spread this B. S., because I can't think of any rational thinking (and I stress rational thinking) Cuban who'll white wash Castro. And you don't have to tell me that I know nothing of Cuba, some of the members of my family still live there, so I get pretty reliable updates of what's going on in that country. Btw, they are Russians, so they are quite familiar with the Soviet style propaganda that you've been fed with your mother's milk, if of course you actually lived in Cuba, if you didn't then your admiration for Castro comes from the same source that these idiot celebrities drink from.
And I accept that, and I also agree that in this struggle, people like the Blowtorch could not have been realistically sidelined. However, recognizing their necessity and believing they were saints are vastly different things, and your original post seemed to imply the latter.
Other than that, fair enough.
Penn has the IQ and personality of a turtle, but he did have the wisdom go high end on his hair plugs. His hair looks better now with the plugs than when he had a full head of natural hair. I always try to say something positive, even about people I don't like.
Sean Penn is an attention junkie. When his films flop, he grows despondent. When he isn't offered roles he desires he sulks. I'm not saying he isn't a fine actor, he's just not much in demand unless he manages to buy a role. That's when he hits the one-man diplomat road of self-destruction. This guy isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. He's easy to con, and doesn't fully grasp socialism, communism or freedom for that matter. Last of all, he doesn't quite grasp that these antics actually hurt his own cause. Cubans and Venezuelans in the US rip him apart for his naivete and stupidity.
Why is this idiot is still relevant?
Let him go and then revoke his visa. Maybe he'll learn to appreciate what he took for granted.
THIS IS A RIGHT WING SITE!!
Hello!!! Cuba and Fidel have been there for more than 50 years and they have done more good than harm. And this comes from a Latino who understand Latin America and this country pretty well. On the other hand, during the last 50 years or so the US have dropped a nuclear bomb twice, invaded and killed millions of people around the world. In Latin America along, the US have participated in coups in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay (Plan Condor-Kissinger) Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, Jamaica and Cuba. So shut the fuck up and look at what the US have done all around the world before you decide to lecture about freedom and democracy.
How about Penn does a article of all the journalists who died in Cuba since the revolution that dared questioned dear leader.
Well said! Bravo! Now that Obama's leaning more towards the left, its suddenly chic and fashionable to praise the socialist agenda. Defending Castro is such a sad, worthless, cause, its absolute fuel for the conservative cause. I just love it when liberals and socialists fall on their own swords and cut their own throats. If the US is such a demon, caxi condor should pack up and move to Castro's island. Oh, I'm sorry, their rationing milk and sugar again this week!
Go to one, just one, of those places and express your dissident opinion. Good luck with that.
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Join Jeff as he explores the mystery and adventure of Castro's Cuba along the Malecón.
Witness the success of socialist healthcare as he struggles against hepatitis amidst giant cockroaches that were bred by Yankee capitalists…TO KILL! Marvel at the ingenuity of street engineers who are forced by Capitalist pig-dogs to fix engine blocks with dried bean powder. Revel in the transnational sights and sounds of Potemkin stage shows as he dodges secret police to score some blow. Watch as Comrade Penn selflessly attempts to save misguided Cuban families and survives three tragic boating accidents.
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Too funny.
Thanks for the "Bravo" Gene, assuming it's for me
Sadly in Cuba some women who have medical degrees and are practicing doctors, sometimes (because of the low paychecks) have to prostitute themselves in order to provide for their families.
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