"I can always see the light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made." Sean Penn
January 13, 2016
By: Linda Case Gibbons
Who can forget the picture of Jane Fonda grinning from a tank in North Vietnam? Soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War certainly can't. And now here we go again.
Sean Penn and El Chapo; Obama and John Kerry. They go together, like ham and eggs. Like peanut butter and jelly. Like Hanoi Jane and a North Vietnam anti-aircraft gun.
It's called "aiding and abetting the enemy."
It isn't as overt as Hollywood Jane, but Sean Penn, Obama and Kerry are people who are just as discontented with our country as she was, and just as determined to do everything they can to change the U.S. into the country they think it should be. Apologizing for the U.S. all the while.
They think they can do it, whatever it is, because they see themselves as rebellious activists, smarter than the average bear, and entitled to do whatever they decide is best for you and me.
So if you're a Third World dictator who hates America, they'll find you and embrace you.
If you want to see America on its knees, they'll help you.
They are a breed that marches to the beat of the same drummer, something to do with Hollywood and Washington power.
Laws are secondary to their perceived superior judgment, and what the rest of us see as "bad guys," they see as persons to be courted.
Sean Penn has been rubbing shoulders with thugs like Hugo Chavez and the Castro brothers for years, so what better way to show who he is than a photo of him shaking hands with a drug cartel kingpin, who is on the lam, after breaking out of a Mexican prison?
There's nothing better, except the flattering article he wrote for "Rolling Stone" about El Chapo, without a thought of alerting the cops.
And who can forget the image of John Kerry, giddy over the nuclear deal between America and Iran, while irate Iranians and their Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, danced in the streets, shouting, "Death to America?"
Priceless.
But don't blame Penn and Kerry. Well, actually you could, but they are just following in their president's footsteps. They were probably recalling the time Obama attended the Summit of America Conference in 2009.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was there, and gave a scathing speech, castigating the U.S.
Obama said nothing.
At the conclusion, Chavez handed Obama a book, "The Open Veins of Latin America." It said the same stuff Chavez had said in his speech, namely that America has a decades-old record of abusing Latin America.
And Obama thanked him for it.
The argument "these types" advance is that Americans don't understand them, and how intelligent they are. And when Americans don't understand what they do and why they do it, they are disappointed with us.
Penn, Obama and Kerry rush to protect Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba, but never America. And when Americans "don't understand," these types don't understand why they don't.
After all, New York Mayor DeBlasio spent his honeymoon in Cuba, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel just returned from a vacation there. So what's wrong with loving Cuba?
Well, Americans have always had a jaundiced eye when it comes to dictators and drug cartels.
And after Americans watched Sean Penn "find" Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and not report him to the police, we thought he'd be apologetic and embarrassed.
He wasn't. He was annoyed -- that Americans didn't understand him.
"The entire discussion about this article ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the war on drugs," he said in a 60 Minutes interview about his El Chapo "Rolling Stone" article.
We're so sorry. It was about the war on drugs?
Now come to think of it, who else would you expect to interview El Chap if it wasn't Sean Penn?
And when you toss it around in your mind, who wouldn't deliver a State of the Union Address and neglect to say, "Oh, by the way. A bunch of our soldiers have just been captured by Iran?"
Anyone would.
And how can you honestly find fault with John Kerry for celebrating that U.S. "capture at sea," chock-a-block full of photos of U.S. sailors surrendering, hands on heads, on their knees, apologizing, with a female sailor forced to don a hijab?
It was a moment of diplomatic success. That's how Kerry and Biden and Obama saw it.
But, they're probably right. Why bring everyone down by accentuating the negative? We got the sailors back, didn't we?
And why bring down a perfectly happy State of the Union Address with negative news about Iran? It's all good.
And there's more good news. The shirt El Chapo was wearing in the Sean Penn/thug photo is flying off store shelves, and Sean Penn says his life has been threatened and that the authorities are investigating him.
It is all good.
Hold the line, America.