Sean Penn ... Seafarer & Boatswain

       "How are you going to get any people in that thing?"

   Those are the words spoken by a bystander observing Sean Penn and his personal photographer, personal publicist and members of his personal entourage paddling down a flooded street in New Orleans in a small boat that required constant bailing because some idiot forgot to put the scuttle plug in the bottom of the hull, resulting in a sinking feeling, literally and figuratively. They were paddling this floating fiasco small vessel because the motor would not start. The reason for this insane and inept self serving photo op mission of mecy was 'for the children'.

                      Sean Penn's rescue bid sinks

EFFORTS by Hollywood actor Sean Penn to aid New Orleans victims stranded by Hurricane Katrina foundered badly overnight, when the boat he was piloting to launch a rescue attempt sprang a leak.

Penn had planned to rescue children waylaid by Katrina's flood waters, but apparently forgot to plug a hole in the bottom of the vessel, which began taking water within seconds of its launch.

The actor, 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.

When the boat's motor failed to start, those aboard were forced to use paddles to propel themselves down the flooded New Orleans street.

Asked what he had hoped to achieve in the waterlogged city, the actor replied: "Whatever I can do to help."

With the boat loaded with members of Penn's entourage, including a personal photographer, one bystander taunted the actor: "How are you going to get any people in that thing?"

                                         

Comments

[Captain Queeg]

AH ! I'll have no more of this hubris aboard my vessel. Is it not enough, Semen Penn, a celebrated actor, that you must insist your vaunting hubris to get the best of you once again? NOT ON MY SHIP ! I am the only one allowed the honor of hubris, and by god, I shall have it ! Walk the plank you fool and see how much water you can handle then. Off with you, you tiny, little man!

[Reality Check]

Hey, Steel man.... looks as if Chris is not having her period and is not suffering PMS today. She called you a BABE, by god. Just a few days ago, she told you publicly on her blog that she hoped you suffocated with your head up your ass. Good god almighty women are fickle creatures!

But here is what is funny. This is what she has posted:

>For every helicopter that carried a reporter and a cameraman and every boat that gave a reporter and a ca merman a tour there were two people who had to wait because open seats were taken by the reporter and the ca merman.

How does this work?

And it still boggles the mind that we could watch all of this unfold on TV and that the reporters could get in and out--someone mentioned here that Sheppard Smith stayed in Baton Rouge the last two nights he was on the air--and we couldn't get people in. We couldn't even get water and food in.

It boggles the mind...<

What this idiot does not seem to realize is that without these cameramen and reporters showing the nation the total disaster of what happened down there, the aid might be less than half of what it has turned out to be. With communications out completely in that area, no one would have a clue as to the immensity of this catastrophe. Thank god for intrepid reporters and cameramen who have worn themselves out trying to get the story out through reportage and images so that the entire world could actually SEE the damage and begin to digest the enormity of this hurricane and to respond in kind.

'It boggles the mind..', she states. Her lack of intelligence in understanding this boggles the mind. A picture is worth a thousand words..........and in this case, hundreds of millions of dollars in aid.

And, hmmmm.... let me see.... Seems FOX sent its crew down way before the storm and no doubt, they were well prepared to withstand whatever the disaster had to throw at them. It is, after all, their job to get the story out so that lives can be saved and the public can be informed. That was certainly more than Gov. Blanco bothered to do. She seems also to have some trouble that Shepard Smith was clean-shaven and wondered how in the world he could be clean-shaven when so many people were in distress. I'm thinking the crew had a generator with them. Don't you think? I mean, they had to have lights to report. Maybe Shep hooked his electric shaver up at night. Maybe he had a battery-powered shaver. Damn. How dare Shepard Smith, and hey, all the FOX news reporters be clean- shaven? Those in the field are pretty grody looking, and for sure, they're all showing signs of serious stress. What I can't believe is that they don't have ties on, by god. I mean, why the reporters aren't sleeping on bridges and eating MREs to REALLY get down with the facts is beyond me. Why am I thinking about the instructions in every airplane for parents to put on THEIR oxygen mask FIRST and then put the oxygen mask on their children?

The reporters are to be lauded for helping get aid and support for this disaster. They got there before the storm hit and were well prepared. Since then, help has had its share of catastrophe to overcome to get there; but if Blanco had been as prepared as FOX News, hey.... maybe people with water and food could have been there waiting..... just as they should have been had the states bothered to listen to President Bush.

It just fucking boggles the mind............