Sean Penn’s Dumbass Oscar Remark Explodes the Interwebs

Sean Penn’s Dumbass Oscar Remark Explodes the Interwebs

Sean Penn’s Dumbass Oscar Remark Explodes the Interwebs

At the Academy Awards last night, Sean Penn presented the Best Picture award to Birdman, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, a Mexican native, and made the following comment:

“Who gave this son of a bitch a green card?”

Social media exploded. The Academy members in the audience, as well as the millions of people watching the Oscars at home, probably could have agreed with this meme:

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Twitter lit up like a rocket. Actor Mario Lopez tweeted, “And great job Sean Penn. Ruining a fantastic moment with a green card “joke.” #Tacky.” He continued with this tweet: “Who gave this guy a green card?” Sean Penn talking about a Mexican dude to a room full of British & Australian people…”

Also on Twitter, Filipino journalist and immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas said, “Mexican director = green card joke. Not funny, just plain xenophobic. Wtf, Sean Penn?!”

The Daily Beast, a left-leaning webpage, were quick to note Penn’s past of spousal abuse during his first marriage to singer Madonna, going into detail about the multiple times he physically abused her.

And conservatives on Twitter were quick to note the hypocrisy of wealthy white Hollywood liberals making racist jokes. Said @justkarl: “Sean Penn has managed to make run-of-the mill progs mad at him. I’m amused.”

Oh, but not to worry, writes Maria Valdez at Latin Times. It was all an inside-baseball joke between Penn and Alejandro Iñárritu! They’ve been friends for many years, starting in 2003 when Sean Penn starred in Iñárritu’s film “21 Grams.” Iñárritu himself said that the comment was “hilarious,” adding “Sean and I have that kind of brutal relationship.”

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Sean Penn & Alejandro Iñárritu in 2003

Maybe so, but how wise is it to stand up in front of an audience of your peers, on a television awards show watched by millions, and make a dumbass remark that can only be understood by a few people?  Even Valdez wrote, “Maybe Sean should’ve just kept the comment to himself and say it privately to Iñárritu backstage. . .”  Does the man possess a modicum of social skills? Or is his Hollywood ego so huge that he feels he’s impervious to criticism?

Sean Penn is a moron. It’s no wonder, even with his large body of work, people still associate him from his breakout character in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Who knows? Maybe when he arrived on the red carpet on Sunday night for the Academy Awards, Sean Penn was channeling his inner Jeff Spicoli. Maybe he really was “so wasted!”

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Kim is a pint-sized patriot who packs some big contradictions. She is a Baby Boomer who never became a hippie, an active Republican who first registered as a Democrat (okay, it was to help a sorority sister's father in his run for sheriff), and a devout Lutheran who practices yoga. Growing up in small-town Indiana, now living in the Kansas City metro, Kim is a conservative Midwestern gal whose heart is also in the Seattle area, where her eldest daughter, son-in-law, and grandson live. Kim is a working speech pathologist who left school system employment behind to subcontract to an agency, and has never looked back. She describes her conservatism as falling in the mold of Russell Kirk's Ten Conservative Principles. Don't know what they are? Google them!

1 Comment
  • Penny says:

    I’ve never been able to see the “greatness” of Sean Penn’s acting ability…he always has to be screaming about something!! His characters are just never easy to watch, and he always has that sneer. I’ve never figured out if he’s just matching his roles to his true personality, or, if his roles just fit him so well. Never really cared for his ugly mug, and mouth.

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