The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

It's no good - I'm gonna have to link to this blog!

Thank you very much Samantha! There was no doubt in my mind the moment I looked at the picture.

I hope I do as well on the next one.

And all of you people better come and visit my blog!

Anyone who shows up to a flooded area wearing a flack jacket instead of a life preserver is a little off.

What a great award. I too shall link it. Every week needs a moron, just like it needs a bath.

dude.

that is Spicoli. It always be Spicoli. No matter what movie he is in, to me he is SPICOLI.

I thank SPICOLII for entertaining all of us with his ignorance and stupidity.

So, I must say, Thank you, Spicoli! You are a great American hero!!!!

"has enough millions that he could support people who are actually trained in rescue"

You don't link to any report indicating that he didn't use his millions to help people trained in rescue: his merely being there wouldn't prevent that.

C.f. comment 39 and "his personal photographer", presumably the Tulane prof.

And he's whining about Stone's comment, not the movie, which he pretty clearly states he doesn't mind. Are we assuming that he means the opposite of what he says or that it's whiney to say 'I don't mind'?

Thanks for inclusion on your random blogroll, I have added you to mine.
Now that the pleasantries are out of the way, you nailed Sean Penn right on the head. When I saw that pic of him bailing water with a plastic cup the only suitable caption I could come up with was, "I said,'Hey, Bud! Let's party!" not, '... Let's potty'"

Look, was anyone surprised when he was cast as a mildly retarded man? He already has the Downs' syndrome look, he needed no makeup.

Billy D - yes, the casting was fit for the moron, lol.

Buermann and others of the like:

I couldn't care less if he did hand out money, the point is he's a moron for risking lives just for some photo shots.

Buermann states, "You don't link to any report indicating that he didn't use his millions to help people trained in rescue"

How about you find me a link that says he didn't hand out millions since you're so concerned? (Not that I'd bother to read it anyhow). What do you take me for... a journalist? Lol.

As for the letter, I don't know where you see he approves of the movie??? Besides I don't interpret his "sincere fuck you" as being accepting of Trey and Matt's ideals.

Perhaps, you don't understand the concept of my site: it's for shits and giggles. I'm not a reporter, don't claim to have the facts correct all the time (my interpretation, if nothing, counts as humour not solely fact); and if you want to whine about petty details, this is the place for you because I make several mistakes and couldn't care less. My site; my rules; my flaws; my tough-luck-to-yous if you don't like it.

If you are one who doesn't like it, simply go elsewhere.

And for the rest who does like it, welcome to my delirium: I'm sure we'll make good friends.

The links were stripped from that comment:

Matt Taibbi, presumably sent by Rolling Stone to cover hurricane celebrity gossip or some shit:

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/09/05/114155.php

and that Tulane Professor, Sean Penn's personal photographer:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/344092p-293691c.html

Who claims they rescued 40 people. Who knows, maybe they all ended up dying on some overpass waiting for clean water.

"I don't interpret his 'sincere fuck you' as being accepting of Trey and Matt's ideals." ... "shits and giggles".

Feel free to connect the dots.

I enjoy the site, but Sean Penn has surely done more moronic things than try and help people in a flood zone.

I'm still trying to figure out how he got into the area when trucks full of water, the redcross, and most other forms of organized assistance were kept out. Or why people still there were shot at when they tried to leave. Shit like that. For the photo opportunities, I suppose.

Buermann - I'm glad you were able to supply those links to us about different perspectives. Thanks.

In response to the link by the professor, ya, it's easy for ass kissers to defend the ass they're kissing with any sort of lie they desire. Whichever really happened - moron didn't plug hole or moron overloaded boat with people - he's still a moron because he was there and he is not trained to be there.

Yes, he has done many a 'tarded thing, but I'm one of those who sees the possible hazards of a boob celeb going in to rescue and then becoming a victim of the distaster himself. Not only that, but there's the sheer possibility of him causing the death of many other rescuers in an attempt to save his foolish ass, which inevitably could result in a loss of many lives that if the rescuers were alive, could be rescuing. I'm not that stupid. I hope many people aren't that stupid to be doing a job they aren't capable/trained for doing.

If we accept that behaviour, what's next? Sean [the moron] Penn doing a triple bypass operation on some poor schmo? Just hope it's not me under the knife that day.

I commend you if you do, but I'm afraid I don't see his "sincere fuck you" as a joke when in reference to other comments about the seriousness of "disembowelment, mutilation, exploitation, and death". Not to mention his final phrase which appears intended as a stab at their type of humour; in other words, he seems to be stating that if they saw the horrors of reality, they wouldn't joke about it. (why would he write a joke letter like this and allow it to be publicised as fact if he didn't mean seriously?) If for pubicity, then he achieved his goal because he did become publicised for it in my moron of the week category, lol.

Anyhow, I'm done with it, so you have the last word if you so choose.

That display of contempt for people who act to help others rather than dutifully wait around for trained professionals to not show up, I think, speaks for itself.

I was wrong thought it was Seth Green like Lynne.

as for the last comment, I see trained professionals over there working, and long before "moron" showed up. I don't know where your eyes have been if you didn't know that.

sam, I like your site

It's one thing to help out as a first responder to let's say a car accident and helping out. Even then, knowing what you can and cannot do is important. For example, if you don't know basic emergency care, and move the victim irresponsibly you could end up causing more harm that good.

The trouble is not that Sean Penn went to go help people, but that it was a publicity stunt for *Sean Penn* going to help people (i.e. bringing a personal photographer on board for what reason? not having basic safety equipment like - uh - a life vest on). Sorry but if I were going, I'd drop by my local fire station and ask if any guys there wanted to help. Or better yet offer my boat to people experienced enough to do something. This was a pure publicity stunt with real people's lives on the line. His stunt luckily just made him look like an ass, but in reality it could have diverted much needed resourced saving his ass if he had run into trouble.

Somehow, the testimony of a professional sycophant like Douglas Brinkley doesn't do much to alter my opinion of Sean Penn. It was a dangerous publicity stunt. If, as Prof. Brinkley says the water was because the boat was over loaded that simply proves the point. He risked lives for so he could get some press. He didn't have a clue about what he was doing and could have gotten himself, and a number of others killed.

Yeah, he's a dork. His resume should say: 'Can't act. Can't use boat. Can show off for self-gratification.. a little.'

With all those people in the boat, funny nobody though how stupid it was. Isn't there a little ol' nursery rhyme that fits:

Rub a dub dub,
Three men in a tub,
And who do you think they be?
A butcher, a baker,
A candle-stick maker,
Turn them out, knaves all three!

At least, that's one version. Change the titles to Photographer, Stylist and Chavanist Film-Star, the last line is already accurate. :)

Don't forget his episode as Madonna/Esther/whatever-she's-calling-herself-today's "Bondage master"

And what was it any of you personally did to help the victims of Katrina? Oh, I see........absolutely NOTHING but flap your gums...gee. I guess you wish Sean Penn had done the same.

I assume you mean that taking a family into my home was nothing since I couldn't afford to tkae off on a whim from work and go strait there? Some of us don't make a show of what they do. Just I didn't have a sycophantic professor follow me around doesn't mean I did nothing. Here's a cigar for trying though.

Personally I think that this is a fitting reply:
http://www.samanthaburns.com/archives/2005/07/charity_giving.html

Most people don't put out a press release to announce how "good" a person they are... instead most just silently donate or help in ways without seeking self promotion.

Can the same be said for Sean Penn? I think not. He endangered himself and others just to say "look at how good a guy I am".

JRob - don't feel obliged to respond to "And what was it any of you personally did to help the victims of Katrina? Oh, I see........absolutely NOTHING" crap.

Hey, I tried to do my part.
I live in Australia, and as soon as I heard about Katrina I jumped in my dingy and started rowing. But.. uh, .. it developed a leak and between my therapist, my analyst and myself we still couldn't keep it afloat..

Seriously, 'S', nobody feels good about what happened (well, maybe Osama) but we can't all help either, for reasons of geographic, jurisdiction and personal/financial difficulties.

But we can, and should, chastise self-serving nitwits, no matter who they are or where they're from, to keep 'em honest.

And flapping the mouth off is also a common reaction to stressful situations. We need to make light of bad situations, or criticise stupid people, to keep ourselves sane in the face of horrible circumstance.

Now, let's talk Oprah - the media-whore.
She couldn't resist the opportunity to visit N.O.'s stadium of hell and give her personal impersonation of a caring and shocked citizen. But it all rings so false.

It seems Matthew MacConaughey is also getting in on the act, and Oprah is involved in that too:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/television/2002516985_katoprah24.html

Damn it. I liked Matthew MacConoughey in Sahara. Why is he doing a Sean-Penn?!?

Wow we are all posting about Sean Penn this week.

You really do him a disservice. Without personal photographers, how would awareness be raised?

Here is my take:

http://www.eyesontheballnews.com/archives/000269.html

The account from the personal diarist of the personal photographer:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7661196

The boaters explain that they are ordinary city residents who have spent the last six consecutive days going out, pulling people out of their houses and bringing them to dry land. At first they are civil and friendly, but when we ask where the police and National Guard boats are, they suddenly take on the character of an angry, pitchfork-wielding mob.

"Ain't nobody helping these people except us," says Ryan Asmussen, a young man with a shaved head and a workingman's deep tan. "All these people are dying and nobody's helping us with them. We're out here all day long."

"They fly overhead," adds Tim Thomas, a slightly older man with a mustache. "But they're not out there on the boats. What they do is fly overhead in the helicopters, and when they see someone trapped, they hover. And then we've got to go fish 'em out."

"What about FEMA?" I ask.

The men erupt in snorts and derisive laughs. "If FEMA was here, people like us wouldn't be in a goddamn boat," Asmussen snaps. "They left it to us."

I'm not exactley sure where to start here. First of all a big "FUCK YOU" to all of you. My name is Ryan and i am one of the ones that was out the boats with Sean Penn. I must first say that yes i truley don't understand his exact reason for being their but once he got into a boat with myself and with others, he was absolutley helpful. I watched him dive in the water, saving a lady, i personally helped him and vice versa and i owe that man a great deal of respect. He was not only friendly to those he helped rescue (which i beleive to be well over forty people) but he showed care to each and everyone of them. I saw the pain in his eyes after the day was done we shared a moment that none of you idiots that weren't their would never understand. So next time something of this magnitude happens, try helping yourself, you might understand. At lest Sean, myself and a few others had the "BALLS" to help.
So "FUCK YOU"