talking about his continuing relief efforts in Haiti two years after an earthquake devastated the already impoverished island nation.

Say what you will about Mr. Penn. But he was out in a boat helping people get off roof tops during Katrina while the government said things were going well. So, let’s leave that alone.

With all due respect to Sean Penn, I would like to know what makes Haiti’s plight different from any other natural disasters which occur around the world? Places like Haiti are sometimes their own worst enemy – corrupt government, dishonest law enforcement, etc.

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First of all, I was speaking generally about the media, so your point about Ann Curry is nice, but completely invalid.

Second, there’s documented photographic evidence that proves Penn doesn’t spend more than a few days a month in Haiti. The blog WWTDD proved conclusively that’s the case. I’m sure he does plenty of physical work when the cameras are around. I have friends in the Red Cross who work in Haiti and have seen Penn. He rides around in an ATV with his name plastered in huge letters and a boom box blaring, while a cadre of personal photographers take endearing pictures of him with little black children. He’s never in any of these camps for more than a few hours, and he NEVER sleeps there.

Thirdly, what evidence do you have towards Penn’s exact financial contributions to this charity? There’s zero evidence that he’s near personal bankruptcy due to his Haiti work. You obviously just pulled that out of your ass. If Penn was taking on extra projects due to his Haiti commitments, why did he drop out of both the “Three Stooges” and “Cartel” productions?

What is important in my eyes is there are truly selfless people who haven’t won Academy Awards, who don’t employ personal photographers to evidence every good deed they might do, who don’t have the opportunity to exaggerate their humanitarian bravery to major magazines. Don’t you find it a tad convenient that the same journalist who witnessed Penn’s tales of courage in 2″ of water on Day 7 of Katrina (you know, 3 days after the NG had secured the area), is the same one to have claimed witnessing Penn pulled children out of collapsed buildings in Haiti? It’s either an amazing coincidence or Sean Penn is full of shit. What Penn is clearly doing is the work of an immature, attention-starved jackass. The man is extraordinarily wealthy (probably worth north of $50 million) and works in a profession which provides an almost ludicrous amount of free time. Most people, given the financial resources and sheer amount of free time celebrities enjoy, would be involved in numerous charitable projects. Not everybody would obsessively give self-aggrandizing interviews to fawning major media types every few months and consistently misrepresent the degree of hands on work they’re doing, as well as flat out lie about saving people the way Penn has been doing since Katrina. Has Penn helped people? Of course. Is it obvious he’s far more interested in helping himself? Of course. The tragedy is people like you who rush to defend him due to his acting talent could give two shits about people who actually dedicate their lives to helping third world humanity, who do sleep in the camps and do get their hands dirty.

WWTDD has proved on numerous occasions with photographic evidence that Penn isn’t in Haiti nearly as much as he claims he is. Seriously it takes 5 minutes to find this out. It may be a gossip site, but the photographs that show Penn in LA, in DC, in NYC with his supermodel girlfriends while he’s supposed to be in the muck in Haiti are real. You can talk all you want about “legitimate news sources,” doesn’t change the fact that Penn and by extension you yourself are full of shit. By the way, I appreciate your concern for my brain. I’m concerned for yours, since apparently you’re unaware “Newsweek” is one word.

As for Penn’s status in Haiti, he hasn’t received any awards from the Haitian people. He has received awards from the Haitian government (that’s a totally different thing), one of the most corrupt, banana republic states in the entire world, which is something you’d probably know if you had a tenth of the knowledge of the planet that you think you do. The Nobel Prize committee is a joke that is made up almost entirely of entitled, America-hating left-wing bureaucrats. They’ve given their highest award to Yasser Arafat and to Al Gore for making a movie while ignoring journalists in Russia and China who speak out against totalitarian governments at the cost of their lives. Sean Penn is exactly the type of person they love; a fabulously wealthy celebrity who does nothing but shit on his own country and affect empathy for the dark-skinned people of the world. By the way, “Oscar winners don’t need to crave attention”" might be the most insanely idiotic thing I’ve read in some time. Are you a PA or work for E! or something? Your full-throated, manifest worship of people who pretend to be other people is really quite disturbing, and something most people grow out of by the time they’re 15.

As a matter of fact I did spend time time in Katrina in August-September ’05 when I was with the 82nd. It was pretty shitty down there. I think I helped some people. Granted I wasn’t there during the first four days when all hell was breaking loose, and the people I was really impressed with were the civilian volunteers who dropped what they were in their everyday lives to help the homeless and the stranded. Those people didn’t have a chance to bring both their personal photographer and publicist with them, neither did they have a chance to give an interview to Vanity Fair where they regaled some dipshit journalist with tales of bravery that nobody else, conveniently, ever saw.

You know what, Jennifer, you’re absolutely right. Award-winning, multimillionaire actors don’t get enough positive attention. I hope you continue your crusade against all those who would dare criticize these poor, maligned movie stars.

There exist unsung heroes, who go about their business quietly, but big names are good for raising money…

Just because someone does not believe in Sean Penn’s sincerity does not mean that person is not a good person, or has never done anything for anyone. Celebrities have time and money to spend on good or bad deeds. Most people struggle just to survive. Many gifted individuals have never had the opportunities that Sean Penn had to develop his talent.

Penn himself once said that he was fortunate to be able to make his living as an actor,
but I do feel he is never satisfied with himself, and is driven to greater and greater feats.

For some reason I appreciate celebrities who endeavor to alleviate the suffering in their own country, the country that enabled them to become something. There are plenty of truly unfortunate people right here in our own back yards, children who never have a chance, who suffer daily. But then, some celebrities simply prefer the catastrophic and the exotic…