Six Degrees of Stephen Colbert: Sean Penn makes NewsBusters!

Apparently, winning the Meta-Free-For-All, has only emboldened Sean Penn. He appeared last Friday on Real Time with Bill Maher where he made one or two statements that upset our friends at NewsBusters. And this time it was not the metaphors that got him in trouble…

Sean Penn Says Bush, Cheney, Rice and Tenet ‘Should be in [Bleeping] Jail’

It was guaranteed to be an evening filled with anti-Bush, anti-conservative vitriol on HBO’s “Real Time” Friday with Sean Penn on the roster.

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However, with George Tenet having been on CBS’ “60 Minutes” the previous Sunday pointing fingers at the Bush administration while trying to absolve himself, it was a metaphysical certitude Penn was going to go after the White House with foam oozing from his mouth along with the vulgarity …

Recently, when President Ford died, there was a lot of revisionist discussion about his pardoning of Richard Nixon. And in most cases, both Democrats and Republicans got on talk shows and said that as it turned out, it turned to be, it was a great unifier for the country. At the time, the country was very divided, chaos.

And, I think it’s really quite the opposite. That when you have a precedent set like that, and you have somebody, George Tenet, acknowledging in his book, that he knew that the Administration was deceiving the American people into a situation that is murdering young men and women from this country and others, that George Tenet and Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice and George Bush et al should be in f@&%ing jail.

Thunderous applause, with hoots, hollers, and screams of “Yeah” emanated from the crowd for almost twenty seconds.

I kid you not.

A few moments later, Penn continued:

George Tenet, you know, we talk about whistleblower protections. These kinds of things. When, you know, the American people are under the misconception that the oath is sworn to the President of the United States. It’s to the Constitution of the United States. And they are in violation of the Constitution.

Sadly, like most of his ilk, Penn likely has never read the Constitution, let alone understood its contents. After all, his signature role of Jeff Spicoli — the one that launched his career in the movie “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” — almost flunked tenth grade history.

Is this art imitating life, or vice versa?

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