Sean Penn: Call Chavez a Dictator and You Should Go to Prison

Sean Penn has always been loony, but his cheese appears to have completely slipped off his cracker.

From NewsBusters:

At the end of a discussion of Haiti on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, actor Sean Penn went on a rant in defense of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, suggesting prison time for American journalists:

"every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it! And accept it. And this is mainstream media, who should – truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies."