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Sean Penn and Comrade Chavez
It comes as no surprise to me that Sean Penn has yet to meet a dictator he hasn't liked.
From BreitBart:
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.
I don't understand why so many Hollywood elites are so fascinated with dictators, and think that they are better than President Bush. I can't see myself meeting Comrade Chavez, but then I don't think he would be willing to meet with me either.
"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 and Penn have several things in common, first of which is their love of dictators like Castro, Ahmadinejad, and Saddam Hussein. They both agree that the U.S. should not have liberated the people of Iraq and deposed a mass-murdering tyrant. And of course, they both hate America and George W. Bush.
And let's not forget their hatred of a free press. As I recall, Penn spent time in the pen for beating up a news photographer (paparazzi?); Chavez has shutdown television stations for broadcasting opposition views.
Penn has a definite problem with telling the difference between good and evil. Chavez, on the other hand, is in denial that he is himself evil.
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