the AWFUL awful truth about publicity monger Sean Penn in NO [View All]

[Gabi Hayes]

from Matt Taibbi, familiar to many here

I was on the boat with Sean Penn this weekend. That's me in the background of the above photo.

The article you wrote is completely mistaken. He did not bring a personal photographer. He came with me and his friend, a New Orleans writer named Douglas Brinkley, and the reason he came was because a friend of his had asked him to help him find a family member still stuck in her house. He did not consent to any photographs taken. The boat did spring a leak, but only at the end of the trip, after one of the people we pulled out of the water kicked the plug out by accident. The articles you probably based your reports on came from an Australian writer who was angry that Sean had declined an interview.

I don't understand why people like you insist on believing that kind of reporting. Probably because you want to believe it.

Sincerely,
M. Taibbi
Reporter
Rollling Stone Magazine

the virtue of Taibbi's work has been extolled here many times--see his piece on Crawford--and there's a picture of him in the boat at this hideous site, filled with freeper hypocrite/liars, if you choose to sully yourselves. it's a good lesson, though, in how these indescribable monsters cling to their fantasies, even when smacked with a faceful of truth

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/09/05/114155.php