Zach LarkinsSPOKESMEN
S L Bradish just wrote an article on Anna Nicole Smith and the finding of ‘accidental overdose' as a cause for her death. Smith was not a spokesman for anything but herself, well maybe the wonders of injected plastic, and she played her role to the hilt. A self-confessed admirer of Marilyn Monroe, Smith saw herself as Monroe reincarnate and determined to live her life fast and die young. No word yet as to whether she was wearing clean underwear. Or any underwear for that matter.
But let's take this a step further. Why does celebrity automatically make a Hollywood star a voice we should listen to when it comes to world affairs? Granted, there are ‘stars' that use their notoriety for the good, or at least betterment, of mankind, but they seem to be few and far between.
Look at Bono. He travels the world telling countries how to spend their tax dollars. Help the poor, he wails. You can't give enough, he says. The Queen bought into his act and recently knighted him. What a crock. Has he given up his mansions? No. Has he kept his money in the UK where it is taxed to the nth degree? No. Does he give up his private jets to spread the alarm of glo-bull warming? No. All rather hypocritical, I would say.
Or what about idiots like Sean Penn? In an hysterical and frenzied speech last week, Penn made demanded to know if the daughters of President George W. Bush support the war in Iraq and shouted they should be in uniform and in the armed forces. Well, it seems that Bush and the girls are above debating international affairs with spoiled brats who make movies. Penn himself has a big mouth, considering that he should be in jail. He has beat up his former wife, the intellectual super star Madonna, he beat up a photographer and, on another occasion, illegal firearms were found in his car. What was that about three strikes and you're out? But Penn, not being poor, black or Hispanic could afford the best lawyers in town and escaped a very long jail term. Liberalism at its best.
Penn, and his cronies, are at their best when they do what they do best: Take drugs, be promiscuous, crash their cars, hold enormously silly parties and tell the world they were abused as children. However, Penn has upped the ante. He knows he is one of those left-wing nuts that has to change the world. Calling for the Bush girls to don uniforms and head for Iraq begs the question: Why doesn't he leave his fortune in the hands of his accountants and set off for places like Iran? Surely it is still safe there, is it not? He isn't standing in the middle of Tehran and proclaiming that, contrary to government propaganda, the Holocaust did indeed happen. He isn't handing out leaflets calling for full civil rights for homosexuals. Nor is he asking the political leaders whom he met to arrest the thugs who beat to death a Canadian woman photographer and raped her before she died so that she wouldn't go to paradise. He didn't, and won't, do any of these things because even one of them would get him arrested. Surprise! In Iran, unlike the United States, being a rich and famous actor won't keep you out of prison. Maybe we should be more like Iran.
But Sean Penn is above the rules of us common scum. They simply do not apply to him. Whereas the likes of Bruce Springsteen, while certainly critical of Bush, has been financing inner-city projects for some years. But he's always been courteous and constructive while criticizing. Or how about Mother Theresa who spent her life picking maggots out of the rotting flesh of impoverished children on the streets of Indian slums. That can't be fun.
But we have Sean Penn. Bless his big mouth and misguided egotism. The sorry part of all this is that the left wing will listen to him and believe he actually has something to say. He should stick to mouthing the words written for him by playwrights. Maybe he will gain some respectability.
By the way, where are the agitators protesting the mistreatment of British sailors at the hands of the Iranians?
Sources: Michael Coren On Sean Penn Toronto Sun
But let's take this a step further. Why does celebrity automatically make a Hollywood star a voice we should listen to when it comes to world affairs? Granted, there are ‘stars' that use their notoriety for the good, or at least betterment, of mankind, but they seem to be few and far between.
Look at Bono. He travels the world telling countries how to spend their tax dollars. Help the poor, he wails. You can't give enough, he says. The Queen bought into his act and recently knighted him. What a crock. Has he given up his mansions? No. Has he kept his money in the UK where it is taxed to the nth degree? No. Does he give up his private jets to spread the alarm of glo-bull warming? No. All rather hypocritical, I would say.
Or what about idiots like Sean Penn? In an hysterical and frenzied speech last week, Penn made demanded to know if the daughters of President George W. Bush support the war in Iraq and shouted they should be in uniform and in the armed forces. Well, it seems that Bush and the girls are above debating international affairs with spoiled brats who make movies. Penn himself has a big mouth, considering that he should be in jail. He has beat up his former wife, the intellectual super star Madonna, he beat up a photographer and, on another occasion, illegal firearms were found in his car. What was that about three strikes and you're out? But Penn, not being poor, black or Hispanic could afford the best lawyers in town and escaped a very long jail term. Liberalism at its best.
But Sean Penn is above the rules of us common scum. They simply do not apply to him. Whereas the likes of Bruce Springsteen, while certainly critical of Bush, has been financing inner-city projects for some years. But he's always been courteous and constructive while criticizing. Or how about Mother Theresa who spent her life picking maggots out of the rotting flesh of impoverished children on the streets of Indian slums. That can't be fun.
But we have Sean Penn. Bless his big mouth and misguided egotism. The sorry part of all this is that the left wing will listen to him and believe he actually has something to say. He should stick to mouthing the words written for him by playwrights. Maybe he will gain some respectability.
By the way, where are the agitators protesting the mistreatment of British sailors at the hands of the Iranians?
Sources: Michael Coren On Sean Penn Toronto Sun
