Sean Penn is an Idiot - Again!

Sean Penn reached a new low this week. First, he attempted to save children in New Orleans, but was forced to turn back when his boat sprung a leak. Actually, it was a drainage hole that he forgot to plug before they set off on their rescue mission.

Penn had planned to rescue children waylaid by Katrina's flood waters, but apparently forgot to plug a hole in the bottom of the vessel, which began taking water within seconds of its launch.

The actor, known for his political activism, was seen wearing what appeared to be a white flak jacket and frantically bailing water out of the sinking vessel with a red plastic cup.

And there's more:

With the boat loaded with members of Penn's entourage, including a personal photographer, one bystander taunted the actor: "How are you going to get any people in that thing?"

Never mind what the bystander said - we have a filthy rich actor in a boat (in which he forgot to plug the drainage hole) paddling along with his personal photographer wearing a flak jacket and bailing his boat with a plastic cup?

Oh, but he was pulling drowning people out of the water - and it's all Bush's fault:

We were pulling drowning people out of the water, it's the ultimate distress and human suffering ... dead bodies...

There are people that are dying right now and I mean babies and old people and everybody in between - they're dying. There are people dying and (the US government are) not putting the boats in the water, I think that's criminal negligence. I don't think anybody ever anticipated the criminal negligence of the Bush administration in this situation.

Do I really need to say he's an idiot?

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