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    OMG!PONIES!Melissa Cronin
    1/10/16 11:25am

    “Unlike many of his counterparts who engage in gratuitous kidnapping and murder, El Chapo is a businessman first, and only resorts to violence when he deems it advantageous to himself or his business interests.”

    Oh. Well as long as El Chapo only murders out of unfettered greed and naked self-interest, that’s okay.

    I'm really fucking glad that Sean Penn approves of mass murder for pecuniary gain. I can hardly wait for his glowing praise for Martin Shkreli and Donald Trump.

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      MadisonSuicideOMG!PONIES!
      1/10/16 11:59am

      I think you are reading that out of context, he is not condoning it.

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      OMG!PONIES!MadisonSuicide
      1/10/16 12:21pm

      No. The context is precisely that, yes, with full knowledge, he IS excusing it.

      Another passage:

      “A local family caters a buffet of tacos, enchiladas, chicken, rice, beans, fresh salsa and . . . carne asada. “Carne Asada,” an oft-used cartel term describing the decimated bodies in cities like Juarez after mass narco executions. Hence, I go for the tacos.”

      Ha! So funny!

      And here’s Sean Penn “struggling” with the realization that he is, in fact, defending, excusing, and lionizing a mass murderer:

      “Beneath his smile, there is a doubtlessness to his facial expression. A question comes to mind as I observe his face. Both as he speaks as while he listens. What is it that removes all doubt from a man’s eyes? Is it power? Admirable clarity? Or soullessness? Soullessness...wasn’t it that that my moral conditioning was obliged to recognize in him? Wasn’t it soullessness that I must perceive in him for myself to be perceived here as other than a Pollyanna? An apologist? I tried hard, folks. I really did. And reminded myself over and over of the incredible life loss, the devastation existing in all corners of the narco world. “I don’t want to be portrayed as a nun,” El Chapo says. Though this portrayal had not occurred to me. This simple man from a simple place, surrounded by the simple affections of his sons to their father, and his toward them, does not initially strike me as the big bad wolf of lore.”

      Sure... I’m supposed to think he’s a bad guy who has killed thousands of human beings. But he seems nice enough. In fact, he’s a pretty righteous dude. Society is to blame for those thousands of dead people.

      Not the man who I’m having drinks with right now who actually ordered all of those murders.

      The context is that Penn excuses Guzman, saying that it’s all just business, and that the War on Drugs should shoulder the moral responsibility for murders ordered by Penn's newest friend.

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    Dude In ColoradoMelissa Cronin
    1/10/16 11:11am

    I admit to not reading the whole RS post all the way through because it’s such horrible writing. Choppy, gossipy prose. An obvious amateur, he attempts to use flowery adjectives and adverbs to do the work that simple nouns and verbs will accomplish much better. It does not flow, it’s chopped up garbage ... Hollywood amateur journalists should start with a basic primer on the 5 Ws - obviously Penn never has ...

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      ListerineyDude In Colorado
      1/10/16 11:22am

      The man only has a high school education, so at least he has an excuse.

      What’s your excuse for reading the “choppy, gossipy prose” of Gawker “writers” who went to NYU - and have nothing much to show for it except paid articles about 500 days of Kristin, and in Cronin’s case, paid ads for Slimfast?

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      gravit8Dude In Colorado
      1/10/16 12:29pm

      Reminded me of a first-week comp essay from a freshman in college more than a professional piece worthy of international print.

      ...then again, I’m probably just jealous. /end failed writer whine

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    a seahorseMelissa Cronin
    1/10/16 11:02am

    At 55 years old, I’ve never learned to use a laptop. Do they still make laptops? No fucking idea!

    genuine lol

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      HelenaHandbasketa seahorse
      1/10/16 11:17am

      Yet, he talks about selfies, and burners, and encrypting.

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      XrdsAluma seahorse
      1/10/16 11:33am

      He's sooo authentic, man.

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    SuffersfoolsgladlyMelissa Cronin
    1/10/16 11:46am

    “Penn delights in referring to himself” is really the only thing that one needs to take away from this.

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      gravit8Suffersfoolsgladly
      1/10/16 12:30pm

      9,996 words too many in this essay

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      gessiewtfSuffersfoolsgladly
      1/10/16 1:04pm

      From all of us who like to sail in the Bahamas, but are terrified of inadvertantly being in the same beautiful cove as El Chapo’s minions because we all have friends who died in a hail of bullets, FU*K You. I know that was a run on sentence, but it is still better than anything you wrote. Isn’t it curious that these actors, who were though of as dirt bags until this century, have become experts in foreign policy? He should be arrested by some country, it doesn’t matter which for aiding and abetting a fugitive.

      May he have a vision every night for the rest of his life of a little blindfolded girl being shot and kicked into a mass grave. Oh, and don’t forget it is our fault for wanting the drugs in the first place.

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    Denver is too damn highMelissa Cronin
    1/10/16 11:19am

    what the everloving fuck?

    I throw my satchel into the open back of one of the SUVs, and lumber over to the tree line to take a piss. Dick in hand, I do consider it among my body parts vulnerable to the knives of irrational narco types, and take a fond last look, before tucking it back into my pants.

    Trying not to imagine Penn staring lovingly at his urinating member but.. yeah that’s what’s happening here. I have no interest in Chapo at all.

    I’m also annoyed that he uses the word satchel. Am I overreacting?

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      runslowDenver is too damn high
      1/10/16 11:40am

      “No” —Dennis Rodman

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      cardiganDenver is too damn high
      1/10/16 11:43am

      Not overreacting. Really, Sean, “satchel”??

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    TraceMelissa Cronin
    1/10/16 11:09am

    I don’t usually compliment the picture accompanying an article but it made me laugh out loud for realsies when I saw it so A++, perfect reference is perfect.

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      cantfindmyrealacctTrace
      1/10/16 11:43am

      Seriously, that image needs to be credited. It is absolutely perfect and amazing.

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      Jivemaster FiveTrace
      1/10/16 11:48am

      The File to: WORK OF ART must be referring to the picture, because it truly is one. It was the first comment on this article yesterday, with OyyBrent giving credit to @chelseybcoombs on twitter. Chelsey gets all the stars.

      http://gawker.com/mexican-offici…

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    CorbettoMelissa Cronin
    1/10/16 11:13am

    Sean Penn is so meta. Or, at least, he thinks.

    All he does is remind me that I miss Chris Penn.

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      shelwoodCorbetto
      1/10/16 11:51am

      I like to amuse myself by imagining Aimee Mann at the Penn family Thanksgiving dinner.

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      JohnTChanceCorbetto
      1/10/16 12:43pm

      Somewhere, Charlize Theron is telling someone, “Now you know why I stopped returning his calls and texts.”

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    tornadoslackssMelissa Cronin
    1/10/16 10:58am

    I can see why he and Madonna broke up. I doubt that their giant inflated heads would fit in the same room.

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      Cafienetornadoslackss
      1/10/16 11:06am

      Yet, she has a picture of the two of them at a Haiti benefit, that looks very recent, on her Facebook page. And a fisheye lens wasn't used.

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    Max CherryMelissa Cronin
    1/10/16 2:31pm

    Penn’s an admirer of Hunter S. Thompson and is rather poorly following HST’s model of gonzo journalism. The piece is awful. But....he got Chapo, which is an interview any of the major media agencies would pounce on., considering he’s one of the most notable organized crime figures of our time. Meeeeanwhile (shade coming giiiiirl) Gawker’s got, what? 500 Days of Kristin? I’m sure you guys would do a better job with the El Chapo interview. I know you guys would. But as it stands, about as close as Gawker media would ever get to a figure like El Chapo is interviewing his 14 year old niece about Justin Bieber’s new album. Was that salty enough? Is that what the kids say now? Salty? [hiking up my trousers]

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      Max CherryMax Cherry
      1/10/16 8:29pm

      BTW, I’m reading bits and pieces of the entire article and interview, and it’s actually not that bad. I find much of it rather interesting. And even though Penn will never be Hunter, I see shades of Hunter’s adventure and humor. Sorry, but Gawker’s take is more knee jerk “Sean Penn’s horrible because he hates ‘Murica or something!!” stuff. Penn got the Chapo interview. Not Anderson Cooper. Not Vice. Not The View. And certainly not Gawker. Stop being such haters.

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    Taint NuttinMelissa Cronin
    1/10/16 11:34am

    You have to give Penn some credit, he’s walking a fine, dangerous line here- is he a douche, or a jackass? These things can get blurry in a heartbeat.

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