Whats this Sean Penn thing I keep hearing from the right?

[niceypoo]

The loonies in my chatroom keep harping on Sean Penn for last week but nothing on the news. Anybody?

[wurzel]

1. I believe he tried to rescue some people and failed.

And the Right thinks it is funny.

[sasha031]

2. he was rescuing stranded people all week in NO

the freeper freaks never stop do they, the guy is a hero.

[niceypoo]

4. Does anybody have a link on that?

The only "links" I can find are from right wing blogs and they all have different stories with the same picture..........lol

[pitohui]

7. penn saved 40 people, here's a small link

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=155392012&p=y5539z7y8

it's breaking, grab it before they take it down, the takeaway is that he & friends saved 40 ppl & the kind of naysayers who sit on their butts & never put out a hand to help anybody seem to think it's a bad thing that some pictures were taken of penn's heroism

Movie star Sean Penn has hit back at reports he used the Hurricane Katrina tragedy as a publicity stunt.

The actor and activist has been charged with taking a personal photographer and crew to New Orleans, Louisiana - so they could document his efforts.

But angry Penn insists his motives were all good - he hired a boat and helped ferry 40 stranded locals to safety.

penn is one of the good guys & if he get some good buzz out of his efforts it's all good, maybe the wingnuts would rather these 40 ppl died of thirst while awaiting official rescue efforts

[sasha031]

5. he had a man in his arm,carried him to a boat.

he wasn't doing it for the publicity either, the guy has heart, something the freaks wouldn't know anything about.

[GoldenOldie]

8. Whats Clint Black been up to???

Haven't seen hide nor hair of all those CON's who had been attacking the "Hollywood Elite."

Wonder what the Christian Right have been doing to help our fellow man, expecially all those little babes who are unable to find their mothers and fathers???

Only thing I've heard is FEMA placed Pat Robertson's orgainization 2nd on the list of organizations to donate your money to. Red Cross being first and Salvation Army being third.

[elehhhhna]

3. They're pissed because he got there before Bush & Cheney

[MuseRider]

6. There was video

of him with a little boat. Others showed him slogging through that toxic, nasty water looking for people. Now what was is he did wrong this time?

[dogday]

9. this goes back to Iraq when Sean Penn

visited before the war and said we should not invade the country. The right hated that and they hate anything he does and who he is. The don't want celebrities who they feel has some influence over people to help in the effort.

[ourbluenation]

10. He was writing a story for Rolling Stone

since he was in the area shooting a movie. It was a Katrina story thru his eye kinda thing for rolling stone. That's why he had a photographer with him. But when he got there he saw the need for rescues and he got a boat and did just that.

He has challenged the conservative paper that trashed him to prove otherwise and he would donate $1 mil to the relief efforts, if they cannot prove what they wrote, then he challenged THEM to donate a $1 mil.

[Gabi Hayes]

11. who do you choose to believe: RW lie machine, or somebody who was there?

I was on the boat with Sean Penn this weekend. That's me in the background of the above photo.

The article you wrote is completely mistaken. He did not bring a personal photographer. He came with me and his friend, a New Orleans writer named Douglas Brinkley, and the reason he came was because a friend of his had asked him to help him find a family member still stuck in her house. He did not consent to any photographs taken. The boat did spring a leak, but only at the end of the trip, after one of the people we pulled out of the water kicked the plug out by accident. The articles you probably based your reports on came from an Australian writer who was angry that Sean had declined an interview.

I don't understand why people like you insist on believing that kind of reporting. Probably because you want to believe it.

Sincerely,
M. Taibbi
Reporter
Rollling Stone Magazine

the virtue of Taibbi's work has been extolled here many times--see his piece on Crawford--and there's a picture of him in the boat at this hideous site, filled with freeper hypocrite/liars, if you choose to sully yourselves. it's a good lesson, though, in how these indescribable monsters cling to their fantasies, even when smacked with a faceful of truth

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/09/05/114155.php

[ourbluenation]

12. Who believes the RW bs? Not me - what I posted came straight

from him on Larry King.

[Fleshdancer]

13. Article: Sean Penn saved 45 people in NO

and it's damn liberals like him that are ruining this country! :eyes:

Here's a link to the small article. When celebrities leave the comforts of their wealthy homes to go to NO and save people, Republicans ignore the heroism and bark about publicity stunts. But I think it was Jon Stewart who said it best: "I Am Sam was able to save more lives than FEMA" (or something to that effect)

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7000091833