Sean Penn: Rick Santorum Is 'Anti-American' - 'Did Not Read the Constitution'

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Sean Penn on Monday said former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is "anti-American" and "did not read the Constitution."

Rather hysterically, the Oscar-winning actor also told CNN's Piers Morgan, "I am very pro-American in the sense of a Constitutional America" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

SEAN PENN: What happens is that people become pawns, become sheep of movements of comfort, those things that will keep them out of either complicated thought that they don’t aspire to, or out of a kind of tolerance that they don’t understand. To become a polarizing figure, you’re polarizing for those who are self-polarized, and I think that what we want to see and what I can’t do, what young people can do with each other is where the movements will always be because it’s in that that those things will be given greater breadth, and the lessons and the education will infuse itself into that. It’ll be a human education.

At the same time, we do know that the country has been swinging, you know, in terms of the polarization on the Right to incredible kind of fundamentalist situation where you have people like – we talked about Rick Santorum – where, where actually they are virtually contradicting all the Constitutional principles in their rhetoric. And so you say, “Well look, okay, you can believe that, but you cannot equate that with this Constitution. That’s not an interpretation issue. It means that you did not read the Constitution, and indeed you are anti-American.”

I am very pro-American in the sense of a Constitutional America, and I’m very pro-American in terms of a diverse America and one where we do reach out and understand that to be too mono-cultural is to limit ourselves and create the insecurity that we’re currently facing.


Readers are advised Santorum has an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and a law degree from the Dickinson School of Law. He served two terms as a United States Senator and two in the House of Representatives.

By contrast, Penn never attended college and has held no elected office.

Maybe he needs to go back and get some more lessons from Mr. Hand.

Hey Sean*

I am a nobody so I dont get 7 mins of air time on national tv. But I can say things just as accurate an assessment as you can.

Obama studied the constitution and HATES it because it is not commie friendly. He is doing everything he can to destroy the constitution and become a dictator.

See, I can do it too!

Your comment about Obama

Your comment about Obama hating the Constitution despite studying it, is so true. That reminds me of all the students back in college who were majoring in Religion but hated Christianity with a passion (pardon the pun). I think they choose those fields so they can destroy from the inside out.

               A gun in your hand beats a cop on the phone.

He is 100 per cent wrong and you are 100 per cent...

correct. Too bad loons like Penn have such big voices in this Country.

Jim Webster

Ahhhh Shaaaaddddapppp Spicoli!

Mr. Brain Dead, should read the document himself!!! IDIOT!!

"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"

Cicero

Wonder what Constitution he's

Wonder what Constitution he's reading as he once called for those journalists who called Hugo Chavez a dictator should be jailed.

Penn is confusing...

...the American constitution with the Venezuelan constitution.... (if Venezuela even has a constitution)

DC, yes, Venezuela has a Constitution

and it's a doozy, with 350 articles (probably more now). It's Venezuela's 26th version, adopted in 1999. Here's the wikipedia article on it. It's the poster symbol on how not to write a Constitution.

Upon retrospect...

I should have stopped my post above at "Penn is confusing".

It's gibberish passing for Leftist wisdom

I'd like to ask Morgan if he understood what Penn uttered. I don't.

thanks for the best example

thanks for the best example of a man talking with a paper asshole i've ever heard....bravo sean, i guess we will see you soon at the chavez funeral

I listened three times.

I still do not understand a word of it.
It was gibberish.
The guy is a burn out.

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Neo

You are so right. He makes no sense, and clearly has no understanding of the Constitution.

Does anyone else notice how he has difficulty keeping eye contact with Morgan? There is certainly something wrong with this guy.

Proud member of the 53%!

I was thinking the same

I was thinking the same thing, it was like he was reading from the dictionary and choosing the best words that sounded good.

Yea, Sean-well said. Would

Yea, Sean-well said. Would you please repeat that in English. Many thanks...

This is your brain on drugs....

And Piers Morgan sits there listening worshipfully like the star student in the front row.
Hilarious!
Only Piers Morgan would take this washed-up, self-important poser seriously.

Penn

The best movie this moron ever made was "Fast Times...." he played himself, a doped out jerk. I despise assholes who have made a lot of money in the greatest country on this earth and then tear it down. Wonder what type of movie star he would be in Cuba?

Nothing is more anti-American than a f'ing commie puke

And Sean Penn is a f'ing commie puke. 

And if he has ever read a constitution, it was probably the North Korean, Vietnamese, or Chinese version.

And that is assuming this POS can even read.

I hate and despise stinking commie pukes like Sean Penn.

They make me want to blow chow.

-Dave

Vote for the American in November

And since you guys always find this relevant...

He's ugly as sin.

Seriously, it's not bad enough he insults the U.S., he insults all the people who Chavez has killed and/or stolen from with his support of Chavez. He's disgusting.

Proud member of the 53%!

Rad,

We soooooooooooooooooo need a "Like" button here at NB.

-Dave

Vote for the American in November

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"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson

Haha More fodder from Jeff Spicoli

Did You actually witness Rick Santorum NOT READING THE CONSTITUTION? I not, then shut up. Remember Sean Penn hangs around with a guy that is a staunch Anti-American Dictator Hugo Chavez who seized control of Venezuelan TV and reads Rules for Radicles.

What a tool.

"Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets". - Robert DeNiro, Taxi Driver (1976).

Sean..

...Ya gotta lay off the sauce before you go on camera!!

 

Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.

What the...? ??

Huh? Narley surf boy made absolutely ZERO sense. I could glean more meaning out of a pig-tailed macaque jabbering with a mouth full of grubs. If anyone can translate idiot or figure out what the h*ll he is talking about in any way,shape,or form please let me know;later,though,I'm not in the mood.

Why is it that idiots like

Why is it that idiots like Penn really believe that their dumbass ideas are important and indispensible?

Maybe what got lost in the translation was:

I...adklsfjoia ggiajdroujojiasrik. And...jfdsoihljkjjk;afdikvxcoisad.

Santorum is Satan...oiurtklcxbihphl. Chavez is God...wfsdlonpfsdhbbkl

For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.  As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.

Ian Anderson "Wind up"

Trix Rabbit,I'm sitting here

Trix Rabbit,

I'm sitting here in extreme pain with a broken knee cap and your post was so funny and brilliant that I laughed and laughed and forgot about the pain. THANK YOU!

wtng2fish,

Glad to be of service!

Blonde has told me that I have the gift of mirth. :-)

For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.  As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.

Ian Anderson "Wind up"

Silly Sean

Is this the same person who could not launch a boat in New Orleans? Come on Piers, if you think your interviewing someone who is anything but a stone cold idiot posing as an intellectual giant with a straight face then it's time to accept the fact that you have a diminished capacity.

Dude man, you're on TV!

Dude man, you're on TV!

This moron has strung

This moron has strung together a few incoherent sentences and is lauded as a hero. How many illegal aliens live at your house sean, how much of your own money have you given support diversity? An actor is the proto-moron he says and does nothing unless told to by others.

Non, je ne regrette rien. "You aren't angry because I might be a racist, you're angry because you know I'm right".

Who is a patriot Sean?

Must we all agree with you in order to be patriots? Not everybody thinks that way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxmpTMGhU0

If you ever really need a case for late term abortion

its shaawn.

hbnolikeee

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penn: "To become a polarizing figure, you’re polarizing for those who are self-polarized..."

Searching that statement from Top to Bottom, I've had to look Up and Down my dictionary. That statement lacks Charm but has a full measure of Strangeness.

While my statement above, is complicated by a non-apparent message, penn's statement is not complicated but it is incomprehensible.

The difference seems to be beyond penn's pseudo-intellectual grasp.

Are you saying that he's

Are you saying that he's talking subatomic physics - Quarks, Bosons, Mesons? Is he relaying nuclear secrets in code to the Iranians using something that almost resembles standard English?

               A gun in your hand beats a cop on the phone.

Well... one might expect that

Well... one might expect that penn is made up of only leptons... a real lightweight.

Naming of elementary particles

It's been observed that the names elementary particles usually end with the letters "on". For example, there are protons, neutrons, electrons, and the above-mentioned leptons.

This naming convention has extended into sociology, where the basic particle of the Left is referred to as the "moron".

"Unfortunately, some people use belief-based facts rather than fact-based beliefs." -Par for the Course on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 5:38pm

There is a subset of the moron particle...

it refers to those that are unable to un-attach themselves from falsifications. They cling to known lies, and seem un-willing to gravitate towards fact...like the fact that socialism sucks, or AGW is a myth, or that Owebama has been a god-awful disaster. This left of left particle is the known as the "Klingon".

Penn's statement is a null

Penn's statement is a null statement. It has no meaning, no logic. I am sure it means something profound to the burnout, but for anyone who is not stoned out of their mind, it is gibberish. Which means, it will soon become a slogan being chanted by the occupy morons.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

if brevity is the soul of wit...

I read Penn's 'polarizing' statement several times trying interpret it, but I gave up. That statement is teed up for mocking on The Daily Show. Trouble is, it was on the Piers Morgan show, so perhaps not even TDS writers saw it.

What's he talking about?

Reading the Constitution? It's a "living, breathing document". You can't just read the Constitution, you have to read all the majority opinions to find out what's in it. You need a law degree--or the belief that whatever they say is right--in order to understand it.

You can't just read the Constitution!!

So is the Constitution on the verge of being "in" again?

Needs to be a debate.

I would love to see him in an honestly moderated debate with Rick Santorum about what the Constitution says and what it means.

Tolstoy, I'd like to see Ear

Tolstoy, I'd like to see Ear Leader and Rick Santorum in an honestly moderated debate on the Constitution. Teh Won couuld choose Spicoli and Santorum could choose Gingrich as their seconds. It would be an absolute hoot!

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

This is the same guy

That married Madonna and probably believed her when she was a virgin.

As piers found no connection to follow up with a Chavez question I have no other conclusion but to define msnbc as communists.

Sean Penn didn't have to attend college to elegantly articulate

his ideas and opinions. Penn learned to speak clearly and articulately from masters, as he was trained by two of the finest speech coaches in the world.

Here is a VIDEO of his current speech coach, and here is a VIDEO of his first speech coach, Prof. Stanley Unwin.

Penn

Penn sounds as if he's in need of some strong laxatives and good bathroom reading material, maybe something that would keep him in there for at least a month. I can't figure out why the media keeps putting a microphone in front of his mug and expects anything worthwhile, but this takes the cake.

Penn~

Penn is gross and stupid. And stupid again! Oh, and to the comment above -- yes, he's ugly, too. These are probably my meanest NB comments to date, but I was saving up -- and I've just had it with these clowns! This is our beloved America, and you aren't going to destroy our country and speak for most Americans, you fools.

Also, it may be a cynical view -- but I really think O studied the Constitution as a means to someday -- somehow --weaken (if not destroy) it. At the very least, to try to sway others against its intent. I guess we can pretty much see those attempts in action now.

"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan

GG, I don't think your view

GG, I don't think your view of why Boy Baraka 'studied' the Constitution is cynical at all, in fact, I think it is TROOF!!! The only times I even hear Boy BlahBlah talk about the Constitution is when he is complaining about what it doesn't, or can't, do TO the American people - although he says 'on behalf of' the people............and we've seen what his version of 'on behalf of' is!!!

Plus - I believe this 'Constitutional scholar/professor' crap just about as much as believe most of the other hogwash that this phony-ass piece of Kenyan Kow Krap is purported to have done. Is the any evidence of ANYBODY who ever attended his professorial classes to learn about our Constitution from this great American????

To quote the man of diversity himself

from Fast Times at Ridgemont High - "What, those guys are fags!"

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Anti-American? Rick Santorum

Anti-American? Rick Santorum never went to Venezuela just to trash America and kiss Hugo Chavez' ass. Penn will be a punk as long as he sucks air.

"Duuuuuuude!! I am so

"Duuuuuuude!! I am so BAKED!!"

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

OMG

This is coming from one of the biggest boneheads in Hollywood.
Can anyone remember the last (and probably the only) time this stonehead said anything intelligent? This is coming from a man that has not only not read the Constitution but could not comprehend the document if it was read to him.
I know he is a far left liberal and is permitted by the propaganda media to say any number of stupid things without challage but the air whsitling throught his ears would be a major distraction.

Penn thinks he loves America

Sean Penn is guilty of sedition and treason. His cohorting with Hugo Chavez and vial actions toward the Bush administration is proof alone that he hates America.

His blind faith in liberalism proves that Sean Penn does not understand the Constitution.
Like most liberals, they cannot grasp the intent of First Amendment in its entirety.
The concepts put forward in the Second and Tenth Amendments are foreign concepts to them.

Liberals dream of an ever expanding central government that keeps the poor and ignorant enslaved
to government entitlements -- Liberals are the ones that are trying to create an elitist society.

 

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.

Poison Penn

Communism wanders around in the vast wasteland in his head.

 

Jesus Loves You so much He died for you

Another Constitutional scholar

Penn should run for president. He's at least as good as the one we have in there now.
I am scratching my head trying to make sense of what this brain trust said.
If brains were gasoline, Penn wouldnt have enough for an ant to ride his scooter around a Cheerio.

If you're not getting flak, you're not over the target.

Man, Sean Penn wouldn't know what the constitution is if

it were replaced for toilet paper in his bathroom and he wiped his... oh wait, he already does!

misterbee~

Love the Cheerio comment. That's hysterical!

I can't summon up the compassion yet to feel sorry for Penn, but he really is to be pitied. He needs to do himself (and America) a real service and stop talking. He's got to have a massive drug problem -- or major brain fallout from drugs -- or something akin to that. He's so far past making any sense whatsoever.

"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan

Hey stupid, Rick Santorum did not win the nomination!

It is a little late to be smearing Rick Santorum with your leftist crap.

Rick Santorum is a great American and you are a not so great Socialist who should renounce his American citizenship and move to Cuba or Venezuela. You would be happier and the American people would be happier to see you go. It's called a win, win!

Jim Webster

Mr. Spicoli...

... are you STILL on dope?

"...the Revolution is successful..."

Penn looked for the Constitution

Penn looked for the Constitution but couldn't find it last time he was in
arizona. He knows it's docked right there in the harbor and is going to look for it again next time he's in Phoenix.

 

Jesus Loves You so much He died for you

Thank you Mr Morgan

For showing us exactly how useless these Hollywood types are! Good grief!

The meaning of COTUS is

The meaning of COTUS is partially up for debate. We are arguing all the time for what COTUS really means. However Penn is a doofus.

Nuke em til they glow; then shoot em in the dark

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

I think we can all agree that Mr. Penn is a genius....

Sean Penn and Santorum

To Sean Penn:

Is there anybody in Hollywood as less likable or idiotic than you? You seem to major in off the wall remarks. In case you didn’t know it “off the wall” is street talk for senseless irrational or bizarre.

You cannot even put two sentences together but you want us to listen to you. Is that liquor or hubris talking? Look in the mirror. Do you see what I see? You have no influence. No one with a brain would listen to you.

It would appear that Santorum is out of the picture for years to come so why bust on a man who is better educated and by all accounts a better father than you could ever be?

You are proving what we have always known. You are a fool, a hate monger, a creep, a druggie.

All you have is money which when you leave this life will be left behind. All we can take with us is character which means that you will be traveling light.

Steve Cakouros

Spicolli smoked waaaaay too

Spicolli smoked waaaaay too much weed in high school, as he obviously has no idea what the Constitution says, or the powers delegated to the three brances of government, to the states, or retained by the people.
Does this fool ever feel silly opening his pie hole?

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

Penn may have the platform

but no one listens to him. He is dismissed as a loon as his fifteen minutes have long since expired.

Reading Sean Penn reminds me of this:

"I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps, and I believe that our education like such as South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like, such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., or should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for our children."

"Unfortunately, some people use belief-based facts rather than fact-based beliefs." -Par for the Course on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 5:38pm

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