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Sean Penn Praised by Venezuela's Chavez

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I wish I had made this up:

https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/2 ... /708020660

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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised Sean Penn for his critical stance against the war in Iraq, saying the two chatted by phone and soon plan to meet in person.

Chavez said Penn traveled to Venezuela this week wanting to learn more about the situation in the country and walked around some of Caracas' poor barrios on his own.

"Welcome to Venezuela, Mr. Penn. What drives him is consciousness, the search for new paths," Chavez said Wednesday in a televised speech. "He's one of the greatest opponents of the Iraq invasion."

Chavez read aloud from a recent open letter by Penn to President Bush in which the actor condemned the Iraq war and called for Bush to be impeached, saying the president along with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are "villainously and criminally obscene people."

The socialist president, who shares those views, said he and Penn talked by phone—"with my bad English but we understood each other more or less."

Chavez said the two plan to meet Thursday. He called the actor "well- informed about what is happening in the United States and the world, in spite of being in Hollywood."

What's more, Chavez said, "he's made great films." The Venezuelan leader said he recently watched Penn's Oscar-winning performance in the film "Mystic River."

For his part, Penn on Wednesday toured Venezuela's new film studios on the outskirts of Caracas. Penn, whose visit was unannounced, did not speak publicly.


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"It's 200 times 9-11." - Sean Penn

Sounds like a line from a Trey Parker/Matt Stone production.

Sean Penn is for Kucinich, the Mime is for Kucinich, Gloria is for Kucinich. How can Kucinich lose?

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I would be for Kuchinich myself but have little confidence that he can be kept on-message. Look into his eyes: there is no stability there and I worry that he won't do as we tell him. After all, what good is a puppet who won't do what you want when you have your hand up his ass?

Is Sean-boy the modern day version of Monica (Lewskinsi) for Hugo?

I would have to vote in the affirmative on this one.

The ends justify the means, right, Sean-boy?

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The Epitome of Useful Idiocy

Sean Penn has discovered his inner comrade. He will be bringing a pantload of revolution back home from Venezuela!

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Reuters wrote:Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds up a picture of rebel hero Ernesto 'Che' Guevara while driving his vehicle, as U.S actor Sean Penn sits in the back, in the western state of Tachira August 3, 2007. REUTERS/Jorge Silva (VENEZUELA)

Comrade Shonpennchik is being extremely useful for the Revolution.

Che-Chaves good, Bush-Cheney belong in the f**g jail!

Venezuela Tries To Create Its Own Kind of Socialism

The Amateur Economist & Curmudgeon wrote:I see that Chávez has decided to move to a six year plan instead of Stalin's more traditional 5 year plan. Maybe that will make it work this time?

Of course, WaPo is all over the story.

Chávez Taps Oil Wealth in Effort to Build System That Favors 'Human Necessities'

What a useful bunch of ... er... progressive journalists!

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But of course it favors human necessities. Chaves' human necessities. For a nation to subjugate and just think of all the lovely parties he'll invite them to. Remember when Bradlee and his wife--some hackette, Sally Quinn?--went to Cuba and Fidel schmoozed them and she was just so charmed and pleased by him, and didn't understand how anything could be wrong. How I envy having a mind that shallow.

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Commissar Theocritus wrote:I would be for Kuchinich myself but have little confidence that he can be kept on-message. Look into his eyes: there is no stability there and I worry that he won't do as we tell him. After all, what good is a puppet who won't do what you want when you have your hand up his ass?
as always, another well made point, Comrade...salute!

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You know, I'm beginning to think that we ought to run Alec Baldwin. Why not? With Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan keeping people entertained, and with Nansky and Dingy Harry in the Moonbat Cave, and since this in camera, they're some of the chief depositors of guano in the Moonbat Cave, all we have to have is some bimbo or he-bimbo.

But we need to prepare the ground with a documentary by that fearless culture warrior, Mikel Moorski. Sicko was a great wash on the best health-care system on earth; I haven't heard more lies per second since the H8's coming-out speech. But how he did trash something.

Now we need Comrade Mikel to trash the very idea of the office of the President. We need things run by Executive Committee. You can see where I'm going with this, can't you? And since no committee is ever actually elected, we merely need a vain and stupid puppet like, oh, Alec Baldwin. He's still handsome despite his extra #50--Mikel Moorski looks like a decaying jack-o-lantern with fungus on the bottom, carrot for nose--and we'll put a mirror on half the White House walls and a camera on the other half, and he'll be busy. Problem solved.

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I'm beginning to think that we ought to run Alec Baldwin.

But the who will star in all the "B" grade movies on the Sci Fi Channel? We need him for the cheap movies!

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A sacrifice we must make, Betty, a sacrifice. Comrade Baldwin was once a prime piece of beef but now is entering the race with Michael Moore to take the place of Jabba the Hut to be the lascivious couch du jour.

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I didn't understand that last part, but it doesn't sound good.

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Baldwin was once comely and now shows the result of many dinners of rich food, like Michael Moore. When <i>Star Wars</i> came out in 1975--I was in college at the time--a reviewer called Jabba the Hut a lascivious couch.

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The first Star Wars had Jabba the Hutt in it, but the scene was cut out. It was added back in the "Digitally Re-Mastered" version with Jabba being CG, but originally he was just a big fat guy in a really long fur coat.

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I saw it in its original release in El Paso before there was such a thing as CG--remember that this was less than a decade after 2001. And there was some huge thing which had a rumbling bass voice and which ate a small squirming thing which SMO might call a Drop-Kick Dog.

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Some huge thing that ate a small squirming thing? Um... I might need more details and stuff.

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As I recall, and this was over 30 years ago, it was a large caterpillar-type thing lying on its side, rumbling in a voice with a caption to decipher it, and it opened its huge maw and dropped in some small squirmy thing.

But didn't they also clean it up to make it more tin-foil-hat friendly by taking out some guns and putt in lollypops? Not actual lollypops but something equally absurd.

My god but these moonbats. They are free to grow rich making successful but shallow sci-fi space operas instead of having to be Leni Riefenstahl and they exist because people paid for their right to do what they want in blood and then they mock the sacrifice. Either that or it's really not a drama of good versus evil.

I have ordered a new Blu-Ray of <i>Starship Troopers</i>; this is evidently a new one with Bruce Willis; I do not see on it the lead of Casper Van Dien, Rico in the first one. Never heard of him before or since--may have been chosen for being a (very) pretty boy; can't judge. That novel was one of my formative ones in the 60s, along with the works of Rand. If I'm going to watch an intergalactic shoot-'em-up I prefer it without all that Force crap, and a good schtick of admittedly simplified morality. But then I'm a sucker for our military because I, of all people, understand how vital they are. Because without them I'd be quite dead.

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I have ordered a new Blu-Ray of Starship Troopers; this is evidently a new one with Bruce Willis;

I thought it was kind of lame how they were fighting a war against bugs that were 3 times their size with only infantry. It seemed a little too much like throwing meat shields at an advancing combine harvester. You'd think that they would at least have some kind of advanced Mech to sick some alien @$$ as well.


 
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