Sean Penn: ‘End Is Near’ for Fox Pundits

[marmar]

from Truthdig:



Penn: ‘End Is Near’ for Fox Pundits
Posted on Mar 20, 2008


Filming one of his last scenes as Harvey Milk, San Francisco’s first openly gay politician, who was assassinated by City Hall colleague Dan White in 1978, Sean Penn got all Method on the crowd of extras assembled to reenact the scene of an important speech Milk made on Gay Freedom Day 30 years ago.

Penn, who apparently requested to be called Harvey during the shoot, urged the couple thousand extras gathered in front of City Hall to come out to their families, and then capitalized on the momentum of the moment to impart a message that clearly came from the actor himself:

SFGate:

A production assistant followed Penn around the front of City Hall with a large navy blue umbrella. She held it over his head to shield him from the sun. Seeing he had a captive audience, Penn broke loose of the umbrella to deliver an impromptu speech that Milk would have loved.

“I almost wish Jerry Falwell were alive to see this. Almost,” Penn shouted to the crowd. After dropping some names of conservatives who are still with us—“Bill O’Reilly, who is too stupid to talk about,” and “Sean Hannity, the butt boy of Rupert Murdoch”—Penn said, “We know something more. We know their end is near.” ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/18/DDNDVJJHL.DTL

http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080320_penn_end_is_near_for_fox_pundits/

[Ned_Devine]

1. “I almost wish Jerry Falwell were alive to see this. Almost,” too funy

[liberal N proud]

2. Almost

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. I teared up reading the comments from those who were there at the first speech too.

What an amazing piece of our history. :)

[Lint Head]

4. I want to shake his hand. Penn is fantastic!

:dem:

[cascadiance]

6. He's come a long ways since his "stoner" days in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"

That guy just about nails every issue right on target!

[marmar]

10. True....but he'll always be Jeff Spicoli to me....

"Mr. Hand, since it's our time, I thought I'd just order a pizza on our time."

[TomInTib]

5. I sat at a counter next to Penn the other day, eating cheeseburgers.

Had no idea who he was.

We were talking about Iraq and Boosh.

Evidently, he lives here in Town.

Funny guy.

I thought maybe he worked in construction or something, but he's kind of small.

[TNOE]

23. YOU LUCKY DOG!!!

Wow - What I wouldn't have given for that opportunity!!!

[David Zephyr]

7. Moving article. Thank you, marmar for posting it here for us to read.

Moving.

[progressoid]

8. He kinda looks like Harvey too.

[Lex]

9. "butt boy"

Okay. :wtf:

[Janet Carter]

11. Start with Sean the SHAMnity and Go From There

Faux News is the biggest JOKE on television today. Sean the SHAM - puleeze -- why is that racist jerk-off even allowed to show his ugly mug any longer???? And O'NOT Really -- what a looooooser !!

Well, thank God when Obama is President, those ass-clowns can finally shut their pie-holes.

[mitchtv]

14. President Obama?

Oh yeah that's the ticket for Gay America. The cold shoulder, or back of the bus.

[Beregond2]

15. Oh yeah

Here's a dollar; buy a clue.

[Richard Steele]

21. Hiya, Janet.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[UTUSN]

12. Hear-hear!1 n/t

[whirlygigspin]

13. trailer

from the Times of Harvey Milk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rgam0H9_A4


and Diane Feinstein, do you remember?

heady days

and then the riot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1mMQU1irhk

and the candles

Harvey Milk's Last Words

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEcsms2L4uQ

[Mountainman]

16. "Sean Hannity, the butt boy of Rupert Murdoch," That's great!

[Mountainman]

17. Didn't Dan White get off easy? I remember Feinstien telling people what happened.

I saw it on the news.

[murielm99]

19. Yes he did.

Then he committed suicide shortly after his release.

He served five years of a seven year sentence.

If you have not seen The Times of Harvey Milk, please do so. I would recommend seeing it before you see the Penn movie. It is an award winning documentary. At the time this film was made, Dan White was still alive.

The guy I loved in the movie was the blue collar union guy who began to work with Milk. At first, he did not want to work with all those "queers and nuts." He came to respect and love Harvey Milk and was not afraid to admit it.

[unkachuck]

18. Mr. Penn....

....is one of the best we have and we could use his talents elsewhere....

....if that jagoff raygun could mumble his way to the presidency, why couldn't the vastly superior Mr. Penn become president?....he speaks the truth; I'd vote for him....

[cascadiance]

20. The problem is that like Clooney, he has such magnificent talents as an actor...

... and other creative parts of the filmmaking profession too, which we also desperately need as a part of our overall solution to take back America.

Kind of like many of us who would like someone like Thom Hartmann running for office too. But him doing so would take him out of the talk radio arena, which I think he is the absolute best person on the air now. In the case of Al Franken, he's been a good comedian, and a reasonable radio host, but he's not as essential in the radio sphere as Hartman is, and I think will be a very decent senator for us in Minnesota.

If at some point Penn's career stalls in show business, which I think Reagan's certainly did, then I'd really like to recruit him to work in politics too, and I bet he'd get a damn good following. Same for Clooney (though from the sounds of it after one of his relatives had lost a hard fought campaign, Clooney sounds like he doesn't want to touch running for office now). Maybe even Angelina Jolie too. She certainly has a good foundation of stances and perspectives in many things she's done recently, though I'm sure she's got a number of good successful years ahead of her in the film business. Janeane Garafallo might come out and do something sooner than that.

[aikoaiko]

22. end is near for Fox news? Hardly -- we are going to deliver their payday with a Dem Pres/Congress

Its a small price to pay, though

[Echo In Light]

24. Penn as Harvey Milk is def worth seeing!

Always a top notch actor as well as outspoken dissident. Anybody see him in The Assassination of Richard Nixon?

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. Sounds like a great movie

Can't wait to see it.