DOW - SEAN PENN

This week I'm renaming my "Dummy of the Week" award - to "Doofus of the Week" award.

And the Doofus this week is ....

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SEAN PENN!

Yep, you can now read Doofus' recent foray into journalism and Iranian politics right 'cheer.

If Sean Penn applied to any public elementary school to teach a five minute class on Iranian history - he'd be laughed out of the principal's office. Not so with the San Francisco Chronicle though - which goes to show you what low standards the MSM has these days.

I tell you folks, the other day I was sitting around the house and I was thinking ... "You know, I'd like to get a lot more informed on Iran - wonder if SEAN PENN would help me out with that?"

And here we have him - Mr. Madonna to the rescue!

Folks, I just "skimmed" his article ... but here are a few things that grabbed me...

"The regal Shah of Iran -- a faithful buddy of British oil executives -- was losing his power struggle with Mussadiq, and in August the Shah abruptly left the country and fled to Rome. The CIA, working as senior partner with Britain's MI6, quickly moved to subvert Iranian democracy."

This was suposedly under the section he wrote to justify why Iranians hate the U.S. Where in the bejabbers did Penn learn his history? Mussadiq wasn't about to bring Democracy to Iran! But according to Penn, if the U.S. had just left well enough alone then Iran would've become the Democratic model of the world. If only ...

Give me a break!

"Western oil companies were back in charge of Iran's oil, and the Shah initiated what turned out to be a quarter-century of political repression, torture, and killing."

Yes Sean, and things have been just "ducky" in Persia ever since he was overthrown - more than a quarter century ago in 1979 - haven't they? Absolutely no political repression, torture, and killing under the Islamofascists right Sean? And all that stuff about political assasination overseas, sponsorship of terrorism - that's all lies too right Sean? And Salmon Rushdie's fears that he'll have his head taken off any day - well that's just him being a little overexcited right Sean?

When describing some Islamofascist Cleric's speech to an Iranian crowd, Penn writes ...

"He goaded the crowd to join the chanting calls for "Death to Israel!", "Death to America!" ... it had always been clear from the Iranian point of view, that the call is related to American foreign policy and does not intend to target the death of the American people."

Glad Sean cleared that up for us. For a minute there, I was thinking that since America is a DEMOCRACY - ruled by the people - then by extension any U.S. foriegn policy is also the will of the American "people". You know, it's kind of like that first line in the Constitution ... how does it go? Maybe "We the PEOPLE". That's kind of the way it goes in a Democratic nation - the government IS the people. Guess Sean was too busy majoring in Iranian history to worry about democratic theory.

But then again, what about all this terrorism that Iran sponsors? Is that directed at any evil Western government? Or is it directed against the innocent civilian populations of those governments?

Got an answer for that Sean?

But my favorite part of this poorly penned publishing of Penn is when he claims that he's half Jewish.

As if the Jews didn't already get blamed with enough!

SEAN PENN - DOOFUS OF THE WEEK. Here's your sign bro!