Sean Penn - Is that so?

Sean Penn made a prediction to a crowd in San Francisco yesterday after wrapping up a movie shoot.

"I almost wish Jerry Falwell were alive to see this. Almost," Penn shouted to the crowd. After dropping some names of conservatives who are still with us - "Bill O'Reilly, who is too stupid to talk about," and "Sean Hannity, the butt boy of Rupert Murdoch," Penn said, "We know something more. We know their end is near."

Is that so, Sean? What makes you so sure about that? Have you seen the latest viewer numbers on Drudge? In case you haven't seen them, I'll post them here for you:

CABLE NEWS RACE MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2008 VIEWERS FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,040,000 FNC HANNITY/COLMES 2,337,000 FNC GRETA 1,862,000 FNC SHEP 1,583,000 FNC HUME 1,508,000 CNN DOBBS 1,227,000 CNN KING 983,000 CNN COOPER 976,000 MSNBC OLBERMANN 962,000 CNN BLITZER 839,000 CNNHN GRACE 663,000 MSNBC HARDBALL 604,000

Five Foxnews programs are all top five cable news programs, beating their closest competition by nearly 300,000 viewers. What do you mean the end is near? Who's end? Are you saying that if a liberal Democrat wins in November that somehow freedom of the press might be curtailed? Why is that? Or do you mean that only conservative-leaning (which is what liberals refer to any news program that doesn't spin their stories to the left) will be curtailed?

There's positive something to be said about brash, foul-mouthed simpletons like Sean Penn - their anger-management issues usually cause them to tip their hand. So, we now know that if the Democrats win the White House and maintain control of Congress that we can expect an all-out assault on all things conservative and all things un-liberal. So while Mr. Penn is so full of his own self-appointed importance, maybe someone should point out that most Americans don't give a rat's ass about his opinion on anything.

Mr. Penn has a well documented anger problem. He has repeatedly become belligerent with photographers and others for fairly inane reasons. He's been arrested and charged for his conduct. But it is this same man with the bellicose demeanor that was seen in video and photos in New Orleans after Katrina carrying a shotgun at a time when the police in New Orleans were illegally disarming the citizenry. What does that tell us about Sean Penn? It tells us that the Constitution means nothing to Sean Penn except when it protects his rights. You see, Mr. Penn is an elitist. He is a member of that special class of people that know what's best for the rest of us but doesn't apply those rules to himself. We're too stupid to know how to live our lives and Sean Penn, fortunately for us sheeple, is here to tell us how.

That's 20% of the Bill of Rights he's already trashed and it's still early. The thing with all elitists is that they all live in elitist enclaves, typically New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Mr. Penn lives in the SF Bay Area with an entire city of elitists so it is no wonder that his distorted view of the real world pervades his psyche.

Try as he might, along with his elitist friends, he won't be able to turn all of us into sheeple. We do still have the Bill of Rights in our favor and the elitists are still too few to really matter, no matter how much money and influence they have.

Sean can't debate anyone without getting belligerent. Nor could he win the argument if he were subdued to prevent him from resorting to violence which is why he chooses to speak out in the forums that he has. This man is no intellectual and doesn't deserve a forum to express his perverted world view. But I, unlike Mr. Penn, recognize that he has a right to spew his venom. But what Mr. Penn and alot of other elitists don't understand is that the right to free speech comes with the additional requirement that one must take responsibility for the outcome of that free speech. If your free speech harms someone else, you bear the responsibility for that harm. In other words, there are consequences to every action.

For Sean Penn, the consequence of his denigration of our rights should be that the people stay home and not go to his movies. As far as I'm concerned, the last good movie he ever made was "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" as Jeff Spicoli. Spicoli was a dunce but at least he was a likeable dunce. Unlike Sean Penn.