re: #110 sattv4u2

Sean Penn {HEARTS} Hugo

Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it” said Penn, winner of two Best Actor Academy Awards. “And this is mainstream media, who should — truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies.”

Opine that THugo is a dictator and go to jail, go directly to jail. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200

spicoli!

He’s not saying that Hugo isn’t an asshole. He is making an accurate statement about Chavez being democratically elected. I’m guessing Penn’s point is that we have a habit in this country of labelling people we don’t like as ‘dictator’ or ‘evil-doer’ or ‘terrorist’ regardless of whether the people in their country actually vote for them in an open election. We did the same thing in another country a few years ago when the party we “supported” lost in their election (which, to that point, we had been touting as progress). I suppose if we just appointed friendly puppets to lead all these countries, we could stop calling them bad names.

(semi-snark)