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Audacity of Truth
Spinsational:
"We were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values."
-Obama, explaining recent Democrat losses, 1/20/10
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- Ever wonder why? January 12, 2010
- The decision to bench Peyton Manning: Right or wrong? December 28, 2009
- Is my dad turning into a metrosexual? November 24, 2009
- My “Things To Do For Christmas” list November 23, 2009
Fake Gilligan and the real Gilligan
The real Gilligan, Bob Denver, passed away today due to complications from cancer treatment he was receiving. He was 70. Rest in peace, sir, and thank you for bringing laughter into homes across the world for decades.
The fake Gilligan, aka Sean Penn, couldn’t even remember to plug a hole in the boat he was using in an attempt to save Katrina victims. AHN reports:
New Orleans, Louisiana (AHN) – Political Activist and Actor Sean Penn made his way down to the city of New Orleans with a personal photographer and an entourage in an attempt to help victims stranded by floods caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Penn had planned to rescue children and adults in the flood waters, but apparently forgot to plug a hole in the bottom of the vessel, which began taking water within seconds of its launch.
Penn who is 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 that eventually was not enough for the Academy Award winner.
When asked what he had hoped to achieve in the waterlogged city, the actor tells the Herald Sun: "Whatever I can do to help."
The paper reports that one bystander taunted the actor saying, "How are you going to get any people in that thing?"
Good question.
Related: Michelle Malkin blogs about "John Wayne vs. Jeff Spicoli".
More: Blackfive asks: "Personal photog on the "rescue mission"? Poseur."
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Penn naturally assumed the prop man had made sure all the holes were plugged! (Are you sure that was Penn in the boat and not a stunt double?)
Dear Sister T,
I much preferred Bob Denver as Maynard G. Krebs on the “Loves of Dobie Gillis”.
Maynard had to be Jeff Spicoli’s father.
I’ve tried real hard to keep myself in check with all that’s going on. But this…this…
More than anything else, this moron has shown us the answer to the question, “why can’t they just do this, or that” that all the armchair disaster coordinators are asking. It’s because if you want to do it RIGHT, it takes time. If you want to screw it up, you end up bailing out your personal entourage with a plastic cup. Man.
Sis…how can you defile Gilligan’s memory by likening him to Sean Penn? THAT loser took 4 people in a 4 person boat on a “rescue mission”. Think about it…
You are giving Penn too much credit. He was there for a photo-op. There was, realisticaly, no room in that boat for anybody else.
I agree with camojack, there is no comparison between Bob Denver and Sean Penn. Maynard and Gilligan were both one thing that spicoli was not:funny.
Here’s the real, unbiased, story:
NEW ORLEANS – Sean Penn took matters into his own hands yesterday, launching a boat in a personal effort to rescue New Orleans families stranded by Hurricane Katrina.
The Oscar-winning actor and political activist managed to reach several people who had been trapped in their homes since the hurricane hit Monday.
Penn, who was accompanied by his personal photographer and a crew of helpers, brought the victims to dry land – and gave them cash as well.
Johnnie Brown, 73, a retired custodian, called his sister on a cell phone after being plucked from his flooded house. “Guess who come and got me out of the house? Sean Penn the actor. Them boys were really nice,” he said.
Penn later accompanied a few of them to a hospital.
Asked what he was doing in the disaster zone, Penn said, “Whatever I can do to help.”
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Wow, Ralph, are you saying that Sean Penn DIDN’T take a personal photographer with him? Are you saying that he DIDN’T sail off without plugging the hole in the bottom of his boat? Those facts aren’t REAL? Wow. And so biased, too.
Biased is carefully telling only the parts of the story that make him look bad. Unbiased would be telling it like it is.