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Sean Penn, the wildly liberal actor whose best work (perhaps due to its heartfelt authenticity with Penn) was probably playing Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (though I thought he also gave a seminal performance in Team America: World Police) is now spouting off about the Republican Party's racist motives.
On CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight (and is life not stranger than fiction that this show exists?), Penn explained why Republicans and specifically Tea Party activists dislike Barack Obama. Hint: It's not because of 9.1 percent unemployment or apologizing around the world for our nation.
Quoth Penn: "You have what I call the Get The 'N-word' Out of the White House Party." If that weren't enough, he suggested that Tea Party members, when they think of Barack Obama, wonder "Can we just lynch him?"
To Mr. Penn, if I may offer you some reference material which is so recent that even you should still remember it, munchies and all:
Herman Cain is (at least for now) leading the Republican field in at least two national polls (WSJ/NBC and PPP).
In case you hadn't noticed, Herman Cain is black. Really black. Not just Obama-black. He "was po' before [he] was poor." For those who question aloud whether any particular candidate is "black enough" for their taste, Herman Cain is the real deal, unlike our current president who is black when it helps him campaign in Chicago and "post-partisan" when it helps him campaign in Des Moines. Not that I care about any of that. It's worth repeating (and repeating again) that the only party that focuses on a candidate's skin color is the Democrats.
So, we've established that a black man is leading Republican polls. Now, Jeff/Sean, here's the other piece of the puzzle:
Quoting from an NBC News analysis of the WSJ/NBC poll: "Fueled by Tea Party supporters, conservatives and high-interest GOP primary voters, former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain now leads the race for the Republican presidential nomination..."
Quoting from PPP's analysis of their own poll: "Strong Tea Party support has Cain in the driver's seat nationally, just as he has been on our last four individual state polls. With non-Tea Party Republicans Romney actually leads Cain 29-27. But with the Tea Party crowd Cain is getting 39% with Gingrich at 16%, Perry at 14%, and Romney in 4th place at 13%."
So, Jeff/Sean, not only is a black man leading the Republican polling (occasional skepticism of his staying power notwithstanding), he's leading on the strength of Tea Party support. It's primarily the moderate-to-liberal, "non-Tea Party" wing of the Republican Party that is supporting the white guy.
Sean "Spicoli" Penn lives in his own little leftist bubble. Perhaps it's his home, perhaps it's Hollywood more generally, but if there were ever a time when the evidence right in front of us disproves the idea that the Tea Party's animus toward Barack Obama is based on the president's skin color, it's now.
Penn must sincerely wish that Republicans were evil racists, but it just ain't so.
Though Penn's appeal to racism was his most controversial statement of the evening, the rest of his commentary suggested no further evidence of a functioning cerebrum.
While Penn offered, with no substantiation at all, that "capitalism's now working," he was honest enough to add that "socialism certainly doesn't work." If only he'd stopped there, he might have seemed less Spicoli-like than he continues to. Instead he added, "At least the socialists say this is the socialist experiment." The patient died, but the doctor's snake-oil treatment was an experiment. How's that malpractice suit going to work out? Probably no better than the economy is. (FDR's economic experimentation, flowing as it was from a man as economically ignorant -- but as undeterred by his ignorance -- as our current president, was equally disastrous.)
His most truthful statement of the evening, by far, was when he admitted "I don't claim a great understanding of the levels of economics." I'm not even sure he has much of an understanding of what he understands.
Jeff Spicoli lives, and you can hear his political views on CNN.
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cobudho| 10.15.11 @ 7:35PM
Also, when Penn talks about lynching, he needs to remember pretty recent history: Democrats were the lynchers (Bull Connor, KKK, etc.)...my fellow African-Americans need to remember that too...
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 10.15.11 @ 8:01PM
(Spicoli/Penn, talking on the phone, hits his head with a shoe)
Spicoli/Penn: " That was my skull dude, I'm so wasted!!"
Spicoli/Penn: "What Jefferson was saying was, Hey!! You know, we left this England place 'cause it was bogus; so if we don't get some cool rules ourselves - pronto - we'll just be bogus too!! Get it?"
Confucius say; he who talks about politics after hitting himself in the head with a shoe, is bogus, Dude!!
Richard Baker| 10.15.11 @ 8:11PM
Penn and his mental masturbation. Ain't it a hoot?
Dale Mader| 10.15.11 @ 8:17PM
I would just like to see Obama take his shoes off of the Oval office desk and leave quietly in 2013. However, I am open to lynching Penn.
martin j smith| 10.16.11 @ 7:41AM
I know this is old, but when will you recognize that the nation of civil discourse is dead. But, more dangerous is the fact that the increase in hostile rhetoric is part of an overall plan to encourage civil unrest and violence. It comes from the mouths of politicians in Washington and around the nation. And, the entertainment world is in lock step with this directive. So--this is not just some Hollywood jerk behaving in a most disgusting and un- civilized way. It is far worse.
It represents a new chapter in our political history which will require an answer to a fundamental question: First: What kind of Presidential nominee is best suited to deal with the group of Socialists who will encourage violence to bring down the government ? ( This group of Socialists led by Barak H Obama ) Second of all even if the Republican Party wins the election how will the President and the republican party respond to ongoing violence to protest the Republicans winning the election ? Those of you who do not take these questions seriously in my book are irresponsible Putting your head in the sand will not help. Facing reality will.
Solo| 10.16.11 @ 8:09AM
Mr. Smith is dead on!
What we're seeing here in the U.S. and world wide is the direct result of the entitlement mentality. When the entitlements dry up (or look as though they're about to) the violence will kick in.
These "protesters" are nothing more than marauding mobs of thieves. They are demanding of government that government, by force of law, TAKE from others to give to them.
They may as well be advocating that they all band together and go door-to-door, break into your homes, steal your stuff and divey it up between them. It's no different, really.
Beware! Politicians (of every stripe) tend to grease the squeaky wheel. We have to forcefully speak up and keep reminding the pols that this "re-distribution" is a failed approach.
"Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal distribution of poverty"
Winston Churchill
martin j smith| 10.16.11 @ 8:15AM
As a web browser I have noticed some places go into some effort to report stuff on the so called Occupy Movement. Gateway Pundit is pretty good and I refer that site to you. I think Am Spec needs to do more digging into the crowd by indentifying who is really behind it ( financially ) which political groups are involved specifically ? And, asking candidates what they think should be done shopuld violence escalate--what is their position on this matter ? Am Spect lets see what you do.
JimH| 10.16.11 @ 9:12AM
African-American as applied to Obama means something different than the way the term is usually understood. These hyphenations mean an American of particular lineage. In the Ones case he is White American on his mothers side and had a black African father. His upbringing was nothing like that of a typical (if such exists) black American. BTW, I thought Team America: World Police was a Neocon platform. F* yeah.
albert constantine jr.| 10.16.11 @ 9:45AM
The description of the part of the interview wherein Penn describes his epiphany that socialism doesn't work reminds me of the scene in the classroom where Hector Negron delivers the pizza to the classroom: "and if neither capitalism nor socialism works, what's wrong with a little Castro or Chavez-like totalitarian dictatorship on our time, Mr. Hand?".
martin j smith| 10.16.11 @ 10:26AM
In my view the issue is not what Penn thinks about capitalism but that he is a connecting dot to others in the LEFT world entertainment or otherwise. It is one piece of the puzzle that taken together means that the Socialists intend in my view to disrupt the election process. The are jigging up the rhetoric and encouraging violence that is what this is all about. get it ?
Occam's Tool| 10.16.11 @ 11:13AM
That was Trey doing Penn, Ross. Nope, his only great role was Spicoli.
Ross Kaminsky| 10.16.11 @ 3:31PM
Of course I know that was Trey!!! But it's much funnier to say it was Penn!
Occam's Tool| 10.16.11 @ 11:15AM
And my fellow Jews need to remember that with very few exceptions, Tea Partiers are pro-Israel too, as they tend to be strong defense...
martin j smith| 10.16.11 @ 11:54AM
I think that the word should be put out far and wide that the Occupy Wall Street and their supporters are Jew Haters and that includes Chuck Schumer and Michael Bloomberg.
Colleen Davidson | 10.23.11 @ 7:38PM
That is grossly inaccurate. Yes a few nazis held signs near us. But we are no antisemetic, many of us are jews, and we have an official statement about our intolerance for antisemitism. stop drinking the koolaid and turn off fox news
Mike 3/505| 10.16.11 @ 10:43PM
Forget about Penn....Phoebe Cates on the diving board...Yes!
chuck| 10.17.11 @ 7:33AM
Penn who???????
PHOEBE..........ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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Colleen Davidson | 10.23.11 @ 7:37PM
Herman Caine is an Uncle Tom. He said the border fence should be electrofied. that is racist.
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