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Friday Night Acoustic Brilliance: Calum Graham, "The Nomad"

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Dr Lizardo7/15/2017 2:18:15 am PDT

re: #25 freetoken

In his old age he has only demonstrated a dullness of mind. Perhaps when he was younger he had a quick mind and a panache for entertainment, recognizing that branding and entertainment are mutually supporting concepts. But now all that is left are the debris of narcissism.

Like I’ve said before, when he was on the TV talk shows 30 years, he was actually quite an entertaining presence - brash, glib, and as you said, with a panache for entertaining the audience. He was a two-bit shyster, to be sure, but he was quite an entertaining one.

Just because someone’s a good entertainer doesn’t even remotely qualify them for the highest elected office in the land. Sean Penn is a very good actor, yet I certainly wouldn’t vote for him. That being said, he has the right to his opinion and to publicly express it. There is one thing he did that I sincerely appreciate him for - he was the executive producer on a 2008 documentary (and the narrator) about the Bakersfield child abuse scandal, a miscarriage of justice whose ramifications still haunt the region. It was called Witch Hunt.

Sean Penn Narrates ‘Witch Hunt’ A New Documentary

en.wikipedia.org

You can watch the whole thing here: documentarystorm.com