Sean Penn, whose DeNiro-inspired turn in 2004's The Assassination of Richard Nixon anticipated this year's Death of a President, let his own BDS-flag fly high with Larry King last night:

Later, Penn fulminated about how “party clowns like Don Rumsfeld could be described as, as far as I'm concerned, except for the enormous damage he's done this country and mankind -- and our President -- and saw that they're getting out there and they're beating this drum, to drown out, as they did in 2002, to drown out other -- in that case it was Enron. Now we have another situation, so it's this war on terror, boom, boom, boom. Drown out the reality of what's really happening.” Penn also argued: “No Democrat that doesn't have a plan to get our troops out of Iraq should be voted for.”

Mankind? How sexist for a good leftwing Hollywood stalwart like Penn! Like George Clooney not being able to escape his 1950s-era Good Night And Good Luck character while referring to "Miss Huffington", it's amazing how bourgeois and conservative the language (both onscreen and off) reactionary Hollywood "progressives" employ in public when they get a full head of steam going.

Update: More putting of the bourgeois into the bobo, here.

Elsewhere, it's certainly tough to argue with this source:

In his new book, dedicated to his mother and maternal grandmother -- the women "who raised me" -- Sen. Barack Obama accuses fellow Democrats of being "confused" as the Democratic Party "has become the party of reaction."

You don't say.

Another Update: Obviously, we're having a bit of fun with Penn. But the actor's recidivistic habits actually have caused him to run afoul of the real P.C. curmudgeons in the Big Blue Nanny State up north.