Actor Sean Penn was "on assignment" last week reporting for the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper (Sharon Stone's ex-husband is the editor) and landed an interview with candidate Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who leads in the polls in Iran's presidential elections.
Rafsanjani told Penn that Iran is allowing eight candidates to run for president and boasted that the number is greater than what American voters faced last November. "If the number of candidates is a proof of democracy, we are ... better than the Americans in this regard," newspapers quoted Rafsanjani as telling Penn.
Au contraire, your Red-robed Highness. There were SIXTEEN candidates on the official 2004 US presidential ballot -- twice the number offered in Iran. Actually, there were seventeen, if you want to count the "None of the Above" option -- which got 3,688 votes. I'll bet the Iranians don't get a "None of the Above" choice on their voting ballots!@!
, Why didn't Penn correct him of this little factual "error"? Or ask Rafsanjani why the election is rigged in advance by a committee of unelected clerics which solely decided who is allowed to run and thereby continue to oppress 70 million Iranians?
Although he hasn't actually written anything yet (or the paper hasn't assigned the ghostwriter to write it for him yet), Penn's presence might be having the opposite of his intended affect. He hangs close with Global Exchange, a radical left-wing anti-Bush organisation, and many Iranian activists are outraged at Penn and are interpreting his visit to Iran as support for the ruling mullahs who seek to crush the pro-democracy movement.
Since Sean Penn has a stick so far up his ass he thinks he's a Dove Bar, he may be shocked - SHOCKED! - to discover that Iranians are the least anti-American populace in the region ... or at least, less anti-American than he is...
Why didn't Penn correct him of this little factual "error"? Or ask Rafsanjani why the election is rigged in advance by a committee of unelected clerics which solely decided who is allowed to run and thereby continue to oppress 70 million Iranians?
Although he hasn't actually written anything yet (or the paper hasn't assigned the ghostwriter to write it for him yet), Penn's presence might be having the opposite of his intended affect. He hangs close with Global Exchange, a radical left-wing anti-Bush organisation, and many Iranian activists are outraged at Penn and are interpreting his visit to Iran as support for the ruling mullahs who seek to crush the pro-democracy movement.
Since Sean Penn has a stick so far up his ass he thinks he's a Dove Bar, he may be shocked - SHOCKED! - to discover that Iranians are the least anti-American populace in the region ... or at least, less anti-American than he is...
