Sean Penn to Attend Milk Premiere with War Protestor Cindy Sheehan
Gus van Sant's Milk is premiering at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco later this month, and vocal anti-war mom Cindy Sheehan says that she's been asked to the event by Sean Penn, who as we've noted many times on this site, plays Milk in the film.
Writes Sheehan in a blog post on The Daily Beast: "I am really excited to see the upcoming movie MILK, about San Francisco political legend Harvey Milk (out this month.) Harvey Milk is not only a hero for the LGBT community, but he was a real champion for the people. Running for Congress in San Francisco against the most powerful democrat in America, I have an awesome admiration for his courage to challenge the machine. Plus Sean Penn, who plays HM, has asked me to be his guest to the premiere - how can I not be excited about that?"
Cindy Sheehan is running as an independent candidate against Nancy Pelosi for the House Speaker's seat representing San Francisco in California's 8th congressional district.
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Posted Oct. 15,2008 at 9:18 AM EST by Andy Towle in Cindy Sheehan, Gus van Sant, Harvey Milk, News, Sean Penn | Permalink
"I have an awesome admiration for his courage to challenge the machine"
That's an ironic statement since Sheehan has long been a tool of the extreme left.
Posted by: yoshi | Oct 15, 2008 9:35:56 AM
totally irrelevant but Cindy Sheehan looks like what I'd imagine Peppermint Patty would like like as an adult. oh, and a non-cartoon.
Posted by: jeff s | Oct 15, 2008 9:53:57 AM
hopefully Cindy doesn't mind a whack of second-hand smoke!
Posted by: Pbar | Oct 15, 2008 10:29:02 AM
Cindy Sheehan is a living breathing caricature of the extreme left.
Posted by: LightningLord | Oct 15, 2008 10:54:51 AM
I love Sean Penn and Cindy Sheehan. But I wish he'd asked Judy Shepard to attend the premiere with him.
Posted by: peterparker | Oct 15, 2008 11:38:02 AM
Go Home, Cindy.
First she comes carpetbagging into our district to challenge our representative, now she is trying to co-opt the memory of Harvey Milk.
Newsflash Cindy, your 15 minutes was over a looooong time ago (as was your usefulness to any liberal or progressive causes).
Posted by: homogenius | Oct 15, 2008 12:02:02 PM
Your representative is a war-enabling whore of a pol.
Posted by: Bill W | Oct 15, 2008 5:12:17 PM
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Posted by: Craig B | Oct 15, 2008 8:13:24 PM