Why do Hollywood types seem to have a perenial man-crush on Leftwing dictators? And how do they justify in their own minds their own morphing from libertarians promoters of freedom to supporters of repression for speech-crimes?
At the end of a discussion of Haiti on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, actor Sean Penn went on a rant in defense of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, suggesting prison time for American journalists: "every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it! And accept it. And this is mainstream media, who should – truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies."
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