Discussion: Rubio: Sean Penn's Interview With 'El Chapo' Is 'Grotesque'

system1 · January 10, 2016, 3:34pm

Discussion for article #244471

captaincommonsense · January 10, 2016, 3:39pm

Who really cares what this toad thinks of the interview?

cpl593h · January 10, 2016, 3:39pm

Rubio added that Penn was not someone he thinks about often and “didn’t even know he was still around.”

I imagine we’ll soon be saying the same about you, Mr. Cute Boots.

dr_coyote · January 10, 2016, 3:44pm

That’s rich, considering that Marky-Marco’s got a drug kingpin for a brother-in-law.

randybastard · January 10, 2016, 3:47pm

Turns out the interview was part of the official investigation and Penn actually helped capture Guzman.

So now what does Junior have to say?

jinnj · January 10, 2016, 3:50pm

$20 says lightweight Rubio never personally read the interview - was just provided with irate talking points by his handlers.

pshah · January 10, 2016, 3:50pm

If El Chapo wants a real estate license, I know a guy who can help him out.

brooklyndweller · January 10, 2016, 3:51pm

So, let me get this straight - one of Hollywood’s more prominent liberal actors helps the Federal law enforcement to capture one of America’s Most Wanted and the Rube does nothing except prove that he’s a clothes horse.

The Rube has no idea (ZERO) how empty and shallow he comes off. And this is the GOP establishment’s last hope??

feathered_head · January 10, 2016, 3:59pm

I don’t think Penn intentionally helped law enforcement. However, do go read the piece in Rolling Stone and see what you make of it. Its hardly about El Chapo. Its about Penn concocting this adventure – most likely as the ground work for a film.

littlegirlblue · January 10, 2016, 4:02pm

Here’s what the better half just said about the news that Penn helped capture El Chapo. “Sean Penn may live another week, after that, who knows.”

feathered_head · January 10, 2016, 4:03pm

Where have you read that Penn was cooperating with law enforcement? This is not how he’s presented his activities. There have been news reports stating that law enforcement caught wind of Penn and Kate del Castillo activities and surveilling them led them to El Chapo.

sherlock1 · January 10, 2016, 4:03pm

Let’s see…nope! Can’t find a single “fu*k” to give about anything said by Agua’Buddha Rube-E-O.

feathered_head · January 10, 2016, 4:06pm

In the capacity in which he arranged the interview, he was working as a journalist for Rolling Stone – and I think Penn would know very well his obligation to protect his sources. It was a risky move to do this – but he must have thought the pay off really big in terms of securing movie rights to El Chap’s life story. I just do not buy that he would have cooperated with law enforcement – especially if it were to mean marking him and his family for retribution.

ralph_vonholst · January 10, 2016, 4:07pm

In the UK, these kinds of political handlers are often referred to as “minders” as in “mind the children”

feathered_head · January 10, 2016, 4:09pm

I despise Rubio but he is correct – the article, while fascinating, is grotesque – but Rubio didn’t read it – its not even about El Chapo per se. Its about Sean Penn’s big adventure.

dnl · January 10, 2016, 4:15pm

Wondering if that’s where Marco H-2-O got all his expensive toys that he, as a poor Cuban refugee, couldn’t afford?

littlegirlblue · January 10, 2016, 4:16pm

First of all, you have to know the old man is a smart ass, on the other hand Penn relishes the adventure of unconventional endeavors. He was prominent in bringing relief supplies to Haiti after the earthquake and to New Orleans after Katrina among other things

@CaptainCommonsense
ABC’s This Week alone thinks he’s worthy.

dnl · January 10, 2016, 4:17pm

It may be ‘grotesque’ to Marco because there are hidden ties to Marco’s BIL, who now has a RealEstate license that Marco pulled strings to get after BIL got out of prison…

ajaykalra · January 10, 2016, 4:22pm

Rubio: My brother in law and his Miami mafia would have been better choice (instead of Sean Penn).

feathered_head · January 10, 2016, 4:28pm

Of course I understand Penn is a player in this world and has does some good things. I don’t think he would go into this endeavor to act as a mole for law enforcement. I think he has a political point of view which I tend to agree with – that the war on drugs as envisioned and conducted is a fools errand and causes more heartache than it relieves. I am less in agreement with Penn’s premise that certain public enemies are not really the enemies of the people, but of the certain political players and the press. In some cases this is likely true, but I sure don’t think El Chapo is a benign folk hero. He might like to see himself as Robinhood, but he is also a murderer.