David Price nails Sean Penn in this post over at espresso roast. Go have a read, you won’t be disappointed…..
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David Price nails Sean Penn in this post over at espresso roast. Go have a read, you won’t be disappointed…..
Okay, so Mr. Price disagrees with Mr. Penn’s assessment of President Bush and Mr. Penn’s belief that corruption in government has grown worse since the days of Nixon. If you took a poll of Americans I think you would find that a majority beleives that corruption in government has grown since the days of Nixon so Mr. Penn is not to far a field from mainstream America in that opinion. As for his assessment of President Bush, well 49% of America agrees with him on that point as well, which, while placing Mr. Penn in the minority, hardly places him on the fringe.
Mr. Price on the other hand ommitted part of Mr. Penn’s response to he second question. He also mischaracterizes Mr. Penn’s comments. Specifically, he writes Mr. Penn was making a comparison between Watergate and 9/11. Mr. Penn did not even mention 9/11. In response to a question, Mr. Penn stated that the feelings of “dismay …over revelations of government deceit” were relevant today amid allegations that Bush misled America by fanning fears of future terrorism to gain support for the Iraq war. Bush did mislead America at least that is what soem Americans think and some of them no doubt feel dismayed by this. Personally, I thought Bush was full of baloney all along so I did not feel betrayed. But I digress. This is the same feeling as that experienced by the character in the movie, thus providing the relevance. Mr. Price chooses to overlook the obvious though and chases off on a tangent of his own making invoking 9/11 of course. 9/11 has become the mantra for anyone wanting to justify an unjustifiable position. He actually attempts to mislead his readers by linking 9/11 to Iraq even though all ties between them have been thoroughly refuted!
Honestly I don’t understand why some people get so excited because a movie star expresses an opinion. Actually I don’t understand why in many instances reporters feel the need to ask for their opinion in the first place but I guess they figure it sells the story. Sean Penn is a great actor; however, I am unlikely to vote for him to run for govenor or president or any other elected office. But I guess Republicans have a problem distinguishing between movie stars and the personas projected by the characters they play, as evidenced by their propensity to elect movie stars!
So, I guess Carol disagrees with me then? 😆 Thanks for the plug, John. Best of luck in Seoul.
Yes, but don’t take it personal. Carol and I have not agreed on much of anything when it comes to politics since 9/11. She even enjoyed Michael Moore’s propoganda. So, this blog has served a useful purpose in that we can argue in writing without raising our voices. Not that I even bother arguing much anymore. She has other qualities so I guess I can forgive her for her misquided liberal viewpoints…..:smile:
No problem…she seems like a very nice lady (even if a little misguided :wink:)
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A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.
I had been approached by a couple of people as far as making movies because of my success in music, but it was always to play the white rapper in Sister Act 2, or something that would just kind of put the final nail into my coffin of my career.
I had had a troubled past, but like most rappers they go out and talk about it to kind of help their career.
I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.
I just realized that the whole point of doing interviews was to promote this movie, so see it three times.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
I love my H.R.H. character. But I never got it. Why do we pay these people millions of pounds to be better than us?
I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
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But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.
I too am living as a writer with this polarisation imprinted on me like a deep scar.
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After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed.
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.
Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.
For a long time I just did theater and after many years I was ready to make a change.
A lot of poets carry a wee notebook in their pockets to jot down ideas and lines and even a verse or two. I never do that.