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The Good Ship Penn
Of all the celebrities involved in the Katrina disaster, the story of Sean Penn has to be the funniest, silliest, stupidest and most dishonest of them all.
This loser, known mostly as a former husband of Madonna and not for any great acting or wisdom of his own, takes a boat the size of a dinghy out, ostensibly to "rescue" people.
Not that Penn is a stranger to publicity stunts, below is a pic of him with an Iranian Ayatollah, bad-mouthing America and sucking up to these bunch of sons of camels as if he were some grand diplomat.
Sell out your country for a photo op. That's the ticket.
But it gets better.
From the HeraldSun:
Sean Penn's rescue bid sinks
Herald Sun (AU) ^ | 05sep05
EFFORTS by Hollywood actor Sean Penn to aid New Orleans victims stranded by Hurricane Katrina foundered badly overnight, when the boat he was piloting to launch a rescue attempt sprang a leak.
Penn had planned to rescue children waylaid by Katrina's flood waters, but apparently forgot to plug a hole in the bottom of the vessel, which began taking water within seconds of its launch.
The actor, known for his political activism, was seen wearing what appeared to be a white flak jacket and frantically bailing water out of the sinking vessel with a red plastic cup.
When the boat's motor failed to start, those aboard were forced to use paddles to propel themselves down the flooded New Orleans street.
Asked what he had hoped to achieve in the waterlogged city, the actor replied: "Whatever I can do to help."
With the boat loaded with members of Penn's entourage, including a personal photographer, one bystander taunted the actor: "How are you going to get any people in that thing?"
After Penn goes out with his great rescue boat that had to be bailed out with a Dixie cup, the man actually invents some big lies about the "negligence of the Bush administration" and on and on and on.
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