NOTHING. That's what a journalist would do. No favors. No fawning. And NO AGREEMENT that the criminal gets to read and censor the story before it's printed.
But Sean Penn, the well-known asshole, and Rolling Stone, the compromised, gaffe-committing perpetually-shrinking magazine run by faggot Jann Wenner...they have no idea what PROFESSIONALISM and INTEGRITY mean.
Go ahead, you ugly self-important dimwit, shake hands with a man who ruthlessly ordered the murders of law enforcement personnel.
Sean, who thinks he's a writer, penned an account of how admirable and wonderful this greasy monster is. He and his mag apparently spent a fortune in chartering a plane to the secret hide-out in October. Aboard was the drug lord's son, and Penn's partner in crime, Kate del Castillo.
The result? In the article posted, of course, to the Internet website and not in the mag itself, Penn fawns over the murderer, who since his escape from prison, is now known around the world as almost a celebrity. Penn: "He seems to delight in the absurdity of this . . . We eat, drink and talk for hours." The murderer even laughs about Donald Trump who has vowed to build a wall across the border: "Ah! Mi amigo!"
Penn warmly describes the killer as "a simple man in a simple place,” and “a businessman first” not a murderous drug dealer who drags down Mexico into a lawless country while keeping the world's Hedge Fund weasels and rock morons high on cocaine.
The guilty-Liberal Sean Penn, whose Daddy was a Hollywood bigshot, cringes as he compares himself to the glorious murderer: “While I was surfing the waves of Malibu at age 9, he was already working in the marijuana and poppy fields of the remote mountains of Sinaloa..Today he runs the biggest international drug cartel the world has ever known, exceeding even that of Pablo Escobar...He shops and ships by some estimates more than half of all the cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana that come into the United States.”
What's not to admire?
Well, Sean admires himself, too, noting that this drug dealing murderer has never been interviewed for a magazine before, "leaving me no precedent by which to measure the hazards." Heroic Sean writes he's "seen plenty of video and graphic photography of those beheaded, exploded, dismembered or bullet-riddled innocents, activists, courageous journalists and cartel enemies alike...” but pats himself on the back for going on this dangerous if highly brokered visit. What are the odds that "El Chapo" is going to be so offended by a question from this long-nosed goofy-faced ex-Madonna-fucker that he'd dare have him killed?
Besides, Sean Penn doesn't blame "El Chapo," he blames everybody who buys the drugs:
“We are the consumers,” Penn writes, “and as such, we are complicit in every murder, and in every corruption of an institution’s ability to protect the quality of life for citizens of Mexico and the United States that comes as a result of our insatiable appetite for illicit narcotics...it’s a question of relative morality.”
And blah blah blah.
Sean Penn once wrote pretty bad album notes for a Phil Ochs record of lost songs, declaring his plan to one day play Phil in a film. I'm glad that never happened. Not when he proudly notes that on meeting the drug dealer "he pulls me into a ‘compadre’ hug, looks me in the eyes and speaks a lengthy greeting..."
The drug lord was hiding in an area of Mexico that he controlled via fear and intimidation, protected by ONE HUNDRED guards. Let's remember that this "El Chapo" managed to escape from prison pretty easily via a mile-long tunnel that he sure as hell didn't dig with a fucking spoon.
What's amusing about this story is that, what, three months after Sean Penn's interview, it seems quite likely that "El Chapo" was caught because the FBI and others were examining Penn's e-mails and movements in and out of Mexico. "El Chapo" was re-captured fairly easily, with only a handful of his guards fighting for him — and taking fatal bullets. Mexico is now considering sending "El Chapo" to the United States for a variety of trials on new and old offenses.
Jailed in America, the drug lord will not be able to escape and will have less influence on the current cartels that are murdering most any mayor or police official that takes office pledging to bring Mexico into the 21st Century.
Sean Penn? He can now add "Rolling Stone journalist" to his impressive list of credits.
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