Sean Penn is an idiot
Now it’s time for HURRICANE KATRINA: SEND IN THE STARS!
So, Sean Penn decided to go into New Orleans wearing a white flack jacket and a little flat boat to help “save the children”- I wonder why it took him so long? Maybe he had to wait for his personal press photographer and aides to be ready? They were on the boat with him. Penn’s boat had a hole in it and he frantically tried to bail water out of it. Bystanders mocked him by saying “How were you going to get anyone into that boat??”
So the guy says he wanted to get there to help, in any way he could. I guess he was really hoping to get some good PR photos, bringing his photo people along and all. Instant Karma got him, it sure looks like.
Attention, famous rich people…. send money, not personal press photographers or white movie stars wearing flack jackets with boats that have holes in them. Thank you.
September 5th, 2005 at 12:51 pm
Oh that wacky Sean Penn. YOu’d think a rich movie store could at least afford a bigger boat. Or a chopper.
September 5th, 2005 at 12:53 pm
Look at Sean Penn, what a fucking prick!
His boat’s sinking just like his movie career. [cha-ching!]
Hollywood mothercranucker!
September 5th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
I dunno guys, I don’t think there’s all that much BS behind it. He has done a lot of stuff journalist wise in the Middle East minus the PR/Political bullshit. So, while I agree that they should send money, you never know, he may have donated a huge chunk and THEN gone down there and put his ass on the line to help out. But regardless of any PR or anything, the man is risking his life to try and save people, let’s give him some credit. It’s more than the vast majority of people are doing.
September 5th, 2005 at 4:02 pm
OMG! That’s SEAN PENN! I recognize him from the movies!
In one movie I believe that he tried to kill a man by bludgeoning him until he let go of the boat and slipped unconscious (or dead) into the water. And yes, a chopper might have been a better idea, but those need to refuel all the time. A bigger boat might have been a bad idea, since that might require deeper water. A boat without a hole in it though…
Was there really a hole in it? Even boats without holes in them gets filled with water when it rains.
September 5th, 2005 at 4:06 pm
He’s wearing a white flack jacket! hahahhaha
September 5th, 2005 at 4:10 pm
Yeah, that’s him bailing water out with a red cup… there is video of him doing this too… somewhere…
September 5th, 2005 at 4:18 pm
The fact he is just using small cup to bail the water out is hilarious too.
September 5th, 2005 at 5:54 pm
FUNNY, FUNNY SHEET MAHN!
He should have stayed in Iran where he was appreciated!
~ Jimmy Mac
September 5th, 2005 at 10:12 pm
Sean Penn SUUUUUUCKSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 5th, 2005 at 11:22 pm
I LOVED Sean Penn in that movie that he was NEVER in, because almost ALL of the movies he’s in SUCK, except for Mystic River, but he wasn’t the main star of that movie, thankfully. Yeah, it is VERY hilarious that he’s using a small red cup to bail water out of the boat that his dumbass is sitting in, that surprisingly has a hole in it……JEEZ, with all the money he has, WHY DIDN’T HE AT LEAST GET A BOAT WITHOUT A FUCKING HOLE IN IT? I think the highlight of his whole life was when he married Madonna, other than that, I can’t really think of a great “Sean Penn” moment.
September 6th, 2005 at 12:22 am
One thing though…
That water seems pretty clear, not contaminate by dirt, corpses and infection like the water that is filling New Orleans (and therefore, the boat).
September 6th, 2005 at 9:48 am
Sean Penn is a dick, but he did make the trip there, he is in a boat surrounded by misery, stars saving the world is pathetic, but a man who made the effort to go to go and help, deserves my respect, even if he doesnt save any lifes.
September 6th, 2005 at 3:17 pm
Why didn’t he just use some of his tampons to plug the hole?
September 6th, 2005 at 11:56 pm
I have to say this, because it NEEDS to be said: what in the hell is that freakin’ white paper-thin “flak jacket” gonna do? Jeez, what a dumbass. You would think that he would choose to wear an ACTUAL life vest, not some cheesy ass plastic looking piece of crap.
September 7th, 2005 at 12:35 am
Last year I went to Iraq. Before Team America showed up, it was a happy place. They had flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles.
September 7th, 2005 at 1:07 pm
I don’t know that it is a “flak jacket” or even a life vest. I think that it is being used by some of the rescue volunteers to display who they are. So for instance people can be told “If you have any questions or need help - seek out someone wearing a white vest.” This is however, my assumption of what it was.
My issue with Penn isn’t that he is down there helping - it’s just his attitude about the whole thing. “Look you people don’t understand and you SHOULD. I am doing what is right! Look at me! I’m taking charge.” oh please stfu. This attitude is displayed on some video on cnn.com
September 7th, 2005 at 1:15 pm
Yes.. the bullet proof vest he is wearing is similar to this one:
http://west.loadup.com/military/surplus/13117.html
The one he’s wearing is usually worn under shirts by undercover police and security agents….
He did end up taking it off when the actual news teams arrived…. but this is proof he was wearing it, even though he denied it in an interview on the radio.
September 8th, 2005 at 12:02 pm
this man saved peoples lives. how many people did bush save with his much bigger boat while he was on vacation. lets reserve our contempt for all the stars and politicians in line for safe and shallow photo-ops with new orleans residents AFTER they were rescued. maybe one of them could have given sean penn there big boat that didn’t have any leaks. how about posting the number of lives saved by ordinary people who used drift wood, air matresses, leaking boats or wading neck deep in foul water as nearby aligators ate human corpses. lets compair that to the number of rescues by ALL government branches in the same period.
September 8th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
It took Sean Penn 6 days to get in there and save people! It looks like everyone was late!
I don’t appreciate the guy lying on the radio and saying he wasn’t wearing a bulletproof vest… the fucker went there for political reasons, as is totally apparent by his own comments on the tv.
Now, Harry Connick Jr? There’s a guy who was in there by himself rescuing people without a camera crew, for DAYS, riding out there by himself saving lives ALL DAY. Sean Penn what, went in for 2 hours and floated around and carried a couple people who were going to get out anyway just for the photo op. It’s sad that it worked… Sean Penn is an idiot.
September 8th, 2005 at 2:02 pm
Yep, that truly is a sign of a true dumbass, if it took him 6 DAYS just to save two lives just for publicity reasons. Jeez, Sean, how about you never come back again? Can you do that for us? Pretty please?
September 8th, 2005 at 2:04 pm
Oh yeah, and WHAT THE FLYING FUCK is a bullet-proof vest gonna do anyway? Is that to keep people from shooting his dumbass? If he was that concerned about someone shooting him, then he should have had his WHOLE body covered, head and all.
September 13th, 2005 at 2:22 pm
Sean Penn is the dumbest motherf***er on the planet. How does a highschool dropout with a brain the size of a shelled peanut get press credentials to go to Iraq Iran or even Disneyland for that matter. Penn and his film crew were more in the way than anything else and I hope they at least provided some needed comic-relief to people whose lives were actually affected by Katrina. I hope he used all his “acting powers” cause his intelligence and motivation are dubious at best.
September 13th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
Hey Dick Heads!!!
There’s a lot of easier ways to get your face in print than slopping around in a neck-deep lake of human shit and despair. Sean Penn has a nice boat in the San Francisco Bay he could have been on- but he chose to come down and give you folks a hand. Sean Penn can say what a lot of us can’t. “I tried”.
(Yeah- the bullett proof vest was a little much…whatever.)
I think you folks should lay off Sean Penn and start beating the shit out of Steven Segal. Now THERE”S a poser.
Lovemonkey
September 13th, 2005 at 4:07 pm
At best Sean Penn is sincere and horribly stupid. At worst he’s a pretentious pompous phony, and horribly stupid! I wonder what his personal photographer thinks.
September 23rd, 2005 at 7:37 pm
Hello guys. I want, No, I guess I need to tell ya’all about someone I met today. Well, maybe it was yesterday. I really don’t know. In this surreal environment, the images, the fire calls, the rescues, the recoveries, the faces…they are all merging and blurring for me now.
First I need you to remember that New Orleans is not flooded with water. We are flooded with sewage. Rotting raw waste, oil, gas, rotted food, dead bodies, chemicals God only knows what methyl Ethyl bad stuff is here.
I was working with a couple of guys a few blocks from the Superdome in a residential neighborhood. We were going from house to house looking for living people, but finding many more dead than alive. We were wading through about three foot of whatever this stuff is that is several feet deep and all through town. A couple of guys in civilian clothes came by with a small fishing boat. We exchanged nods and they started doing the same thing we were. A while later and a few doors down, I noticed one of the guys was escorting a frail elderly man across a yard toward the boat. The mas started to fall and this guy swept him up with so much tenderness it touched my heart. I was pleased to see a volunteer civilian there, and doing that. A few minutes later, the same civilian was escorting a very frail looking women across the same yard. I started that direction to see if there might be more in need. The women slipped and disappeared. This civilian didn’t blink, he dove, yes he dove head first into the sewage/slop whatever and surfaced with a lady in his arms. He tenderly wiped the sludge from her face as he carried her toward the boat. He sat this lady in the boat like you would imagine a new groom setting down his bride. At that point I was along this civilian and reached out to shake his hand, when I recognized him as being Sean Penn. He confirmed his identity and asked me if he was doing alright and asked me to let him know if we needed his help. He said he was going to take this couple to the hospital and would be back soon.
I looked around to see where the TV cameras were, and there were none. I have read the bad boy negative press about Sean Penn for years, and I guess I had believed it. Almost an hour later Sean was back. In and out of the boat, in and out of yards, in and out of homes,back and forth to the hospital, and I never did see any reporters or cameras. Sean came here, probably without any ones permission from wherever it is that he usually is, and with a determined look upon his face and an even more determined attitude, risking the deadly water snakes infesting this wet stuff all over, wading sometimes neck deep, and doing as much or more than anyone else could do.
Guys, ya’all have TVs and probably know more about the whole picture here than I do. My guess is that bunches of celebrities have called press conferences and have donated bunches of money to this cause like they always do. Sean Penn, whom I have never had positive feelings for has earned my respect. From my short exchange with him, and from the way he carried himself, I will be floored to hear of him doing any of this for publicity. It was too hands on, tender and determined for that.
September 23rd, 2005 at 7:42 pm
That all sounds really nice…. but you’re telling me he’s STILL there, today? Yesterday? Last week? — I don’t think so. Must have been a look a like.
September 27th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
You are so full of shit!
August 6th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Sean Penn is hot. God help him for having a mind of his own. You people are the retards. And ALL of his movies are great.