A bit of video is circulating the ‘net in which America Hating Leftist and Dictator Apologist Extraordinaire Sean Penn expresses his desire to see critics of Venezuelan Communist Dictator Hugo Chavez go “to prison” for expressing their views. Here’s the entire exchange from the March 5th, 2010 “Real Time with Bill Maher:”
Sean: “Everyday this elected leader is called a … a dictator here, and we just accept it and accept it. And this is Main Stream Media who should … truly there should be a bar by which they … one goes to prison for these kinds of lies.”
Bill: “I … I gotta move … to the panel cause I … we’ve … uh … we’re hoping …
Sean: “Sorry”
Bill: “No, No, No. Someday we’ll have you back, and we’ll ask you in more depth if he’s a dictator or not.”
‘If’ he’s a dictator, Mr. Maher? Did you miss the bit about shredding the Constitution’s First Amendment and throwing journalists in prison for dissenting from Sean Penn’s worldview? Maybe it’s a bit much to expect one Ignorant Leftist to confront another Ignorant Leftist on the niceties of Freedom of Speech.
Instead Maher shifts subjects, giving Penn the figurative rope to hang himself … uh … I mean explain his deep felt wish that Penn’s critics should “die screaming of rectal cancer” with Penn declaring his comment “was … that’s … it’s a little out of context.” Uh, huh. Out of context? You decide:
Concerning the media sent to prison for criticizing Chavez, Penn should be happy to know that his South American Commie dictator buddy Chavez is doing what he can to make sure that happens.
Sean Penn’s stupidity leads actress Maria Conchita Alonso to publish the following in an Open Letter to the Hollywood tyrant-lover:
We live in the U.S.A., the land of opportunity to do and say what we desire, respecting dissenting points of view, of course and without reprisals.
Then WHY do you defend a government whose stronghold upon its people is so oppressive that a big price is paid for exercising freedom of speech: Persecutions, closing of radio and television stations, jail…and even death? …
Sean, have you considered researching the existence of the growing list of political prisoners, including journalists, on your own? For your information Chile, Peru and Costa Rica has that data. Furthermore, many of these prisoners are tortured and their families persecuted and threatened, just like the Cuba you stand up for.
Is that what you support when you publicly declare that all those that say that Chavez is a dictator should go to jail?
Sean, you have the right to say what you want, but as far as I know, your statements are contradictory to “Freedom of Speech”, the same one you enjoy in this country …
It is nice to know that not everyone in Hollywood is a brain-dead moron like Sean Penn and Bill Maher. The more they speak out, the more they let slip the mask that covers their totalitarian natures and their longing to see those who oppose them dead or jailed.
The entire Penn-Maher exchange is well worth watching. Those who suffer from high blood pressure might want to have their meds close at hand.
By the way, Mr. Penn, do you really want to send me to prison for calling Hugo Chavez an America Hating, Communist Dictator?
Really?
To quote one of my favorite green-skinned characters: “You and what army?”
Maher’s silence is indeed shameful, but I don’t think he was condoning Penn’s stance; I rather have the impression that he didn’t want to go there and resorted to the “time is running out” trick to silence an embarrassing guest. Also, Maher is quite good at ridiculing and insulting *absent* people who can neither fire or fight back. Penn on the other hand was on the same panel as him and we know the Seanster may have a very physical way to answer his critics. In short, Maher is quite committed to truth except when his jaw is at risk (and when the liar is a member of his club, of course)
Bill Maher’s silence in the face of Penn’s comments is tacit acceptance of the content. Maher might jokingly quibble with Penn later about whether or not Chavez is a dictator, but where’s the outrage on Maher’s part about Penn calling for the imprisonment of journalists?
Bill Maher and the CBS interviewer responded to Penn’s insanity in the same way – laughter. Did either of them pull that fool up by the short curlies and say, “Wait one damn minute – you think your critics should die?!? You think journalists should go to prison because they don’t agree with you?!? What kind of totalitarian world do you want to create?”
And when a journalist did question Penn about his comments wanting his critics dead, that journalist was threatened with having her property confiscated and with arrest.
History shows us that the Left treats their opponents in one of two ways, by either killing them or imprisoning them. Sean Penn is echoing that history, and Bill Maher is slapping Penn on the back and the two are having a laugh over it.
If Maher does not agree with Penn and does believe that journalists should be free to say and write whatever they think, then let him step up and say so. So far, as far as I’ve been able to find, there has been nothing but silence from Maher on the topic.
Sean Penn is a direct promoter of, while Bill Maher and the CBS reporter are Useful Idiots to Leftist Totalitarianism, or as Jonah Goldberg put it so eloquently, to Liberal Fascism. And they all need to be called to the carpet for endorsing, either explicitly or tacitly, this reprehensible ideology.
And if Thomas wants to stand in defense of Bill Maher, and by extension the likes of Sean Penn, then fine. He just should damn well know with whom he’s making common cause.
Maher in no way said anything to imply that journalists should be thrown in prison or that Hugo Chavez wasn’t in fact a dictator. You are guilty in this article of misrepresenting the interview. What opinion Mr. Penn represented was not the opinion of Bill Maher but obviously your opinion of Bill Maher whether it evolved from a right wing stance of yours or your audience it just comes down to poor poor journalism.
Articles like this is the reason why people can’t be informed properly on the web.
No journalistic integrity, just right winged propaganda.
Sad.
For a guy who beats up his wives, he has a lot of gall to criticize the War on Terror. At least the soldiers fight people who are intent on hurting innocents.