Supersleuth Spicoli Indicts Media for Iraq War Collaboration

Well established America-hater and left-wing nutcase Sean Penn is working on a new I hate America documentary that claims the media is in bed with the White House.

Notice how ABC shills for this idiot:

The searing documentary coincides with the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and asserts that the mainstream media have been cheerleaders for a war that has cost the nation -- according to Department of Defense figures this week -- 3,980 lives.

Searing? Like John Kerry's memory was seared by a fictional event. Can't these hacks find a new list of over-the-top terms to use?

Then the real hero worship of Penn begins.

"I invited Sean Penn out of the blue, when no one else had the guts to go," Solomon told ABCNEWS.com. "When I worked on the film, I contacted him and he didn't hesitate at all. He donated his time, his work and his reputation."

What nonsense. Nobody else had the guts to go? There are plenty of entertainers going over to honor the troops. But doing something for the troops was not the point of this trip.

Penn comes by his America-hating naturally, though:

Penn has been a growing political force in Hollywood. That is no surprise, considering Penn's roots: His father, actor and director Leo Penn, was blacklisted in the 1950s for his support of Joseph Stalin.

So his father thought Uncle Joe was just fine. You will notice how the left has no problem with Stalin or his murdering millions, just as they had no problem with Saddam or his murdering hundreds of thousands. Talk about your useful idiots.

Penn indeed has become Jeff Spicoli.

Penn answered a call to help in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, literally pulling people out of the water. A year ago, Penn led a town meeting in California that was critical of President Bush and his handling of the war, drawing both public praise and scorn.

Yes, pulling people out of the water, while bailing his leaky boat out with a red plastic cup.

Penn once paid $56,000 for an ad in The Washington Post criticizing the war, according to a report in USA Today. He also baited Bush for his handling of Katrina and his "inflammatory rhetoric" toward Iran.

"You and your smarmy pundits -- and the smarmy pundits you have in your pocket -- can take your war and shove it," Penn told the San Francisco Chronicle at the time. "Let's unite not only in stopping this war, but in holding this administration accountable."

Penn isn't the only useful idiot involved in the project.

The project also received support from actor Matt Damon, who was listed in the film's credits as a "friend" of the foundation.

One of the biggest moonbats in Congress is also in the film.

In one of the most compelling scenes of the film, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., speaks out against impending war in Afghanistan in never-seen footage three days after 9/11. She cast the lone vote in Congress against authorizing force in the emotional aftermath of the terrorist attacks.

Such fine company. What, was Cynthia McKinney not available?

Remarkably, ABC actually includes a media critic in their story.

However, Rich Noyes, director of research at the Media Research Center, sees the press coverage leading up to the war in Iraq differently. He has just released a five-year study of the three major television networks.

"The left has claimed that the media didn't do enough to stop the war in its tracks," he told ABCNEWS.com. "But if you go back to the questions asked and the articles that were written and the news that aired, there were great skeptics, adversarial coverage and even hostile news coverage."

The most aggressive, Noyes said, was Peter Jennings of ABC News. "We have pages and pages of quotes."

Despite the media's attacks, Noyes said the media historically has had a "liberal tilt."

Since the onset of the war, the media have been even more anti-government, according to Noyes.

By 2004, with coverage of scandals like Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, the negative stories "more than outstripped the coverage of Medals of Honor winners and Silver Stars," he said.

"The vast array of coverage showed soldiers as anonymous or victims of policy perpetrators or misdeeds," said Noyes. "This sort of bad news hurt the morale of the country."

Somehow I doubt Noyes was contacted by the esteemed film-maker.