StoogePoor Sean Penn. After it was noted the other day he laments being portrayed as a mouthpiece for communist dictators, he takes umbrage with being labeled a stooge.
JUST because Sean Penn likes to visit Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez and then writes nice things about them, doesn't mean he's "a stooge for left-wing dictatorships," as we called him on Sunday, his publicist, Mara Buxbaum, says. "Sean does not endorse dictators. Like him or not, Hugo Chavez is a democratically elected official." So was Hitler. "Sean is a champion of civil rights," Buxbaum says. Yet Penn defends the Castro regime, which has jailed and executed gays. Although Chavez has closed newspapers and TV stations, Penn said, "Chavez may not be a good man. But he may well be a great one." Buxbaum says, "You . . . may not always agree with Sean, who aggressively questions and challenges the status quo in ways that aren't always polite . . .Maybe he could challenge Fidel Castro by asking the corpse why he murdered so many people over the past five decades. Or perhaps ask the great Chavez why he teargasses opponents.
We'll wait breathlessly for those answers.
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