Charlie Rose

chaga  09/21/2011 12:36 PM Report

he made me think about a lot of things. I am journalist myself and actually there tons of things to say about centralized news 'creation' which some call information... anyway... this or that this guy gave me an insight...

Leila  08/12/2010 12:11 PM Report

Thank you Sean Penn, for having courage to say what's really

going on with the NGO's and in Hait, and what can help. This is what's going on in other developing countries as well. Sean is an American Hero and a role model for journalist. Please bring him back in another six months for an update.

winter  08/05/2010 10:51 PM Report

I read where Penn was sentenced to 6 months "community service" for lashing out at a journalist. Laughable in light of his work in Haiti. If reciting that sentence to Penn didn't stick in the throat of that judge it should have. The guy is a saint and the great part about him is that he's man enough to cast away any suggestion of the sort.

Selvyn  07/21/2010 01:24 AM Report

"And as long as we are not integrated, as long as we are not on the

fringe, we might have our money, we will not have a full life. And we’ll

have more people going to shrinks, more dysfunctional families, we’ll have

more kids on drugs, we’ll have more of all -- more guns than anywhere else

in the world. We suffer from our lack of actual cultural integration.

We don’t even do it where we claim our diversity any this country. You

don’t go -- go to any restaurant in the city. Is there black and whites

together at tables? Yes, there’s a black with 12 whites once in a while.

Nobody’s actually taking advantage of this diversity in this country,

so why are we celebrating it? We should actually be activating it. And

when you go to a place like Haiti, you just can smell humanity more than

you can here where you’re smelling the next day’s profit." It could not have been said any better.

robdverity  07/20/2010 09:49 PM Report

Venality and corruption pollute everything nowadays - apparently even catastrophic charity. But with the recent current affairs - should be no surprise. Banks, pols, MI oligarchs, war-for-profit, wise-guys galore all for sale. Contributing to a yacht purchase for charitable orgns honchos is accepted de rigueur anymore. So pony up. A Haitian little girl might get an apple if you provide enough for the SKIM.

charlizecourriers  07/20/2010 08:33 PM Report

It's called a Potemkin village. Sean lives in it and is learning that the USA is another such village. Hillary Clinton said it takes a village. Her husband had eight years to build the Democrat Party village and did it well.

Soon Sean Penn will be soliciting contributions for that village. And all will be well. Meanwhile the people of the Free Republic of Haiti will continue to exercise democracy. Long live delusion, Long live corruption.

unitynow7  07/20/2010 05:29 PM Report

I so needed to see this last night! It was incredibly inspiring to watch (watching again!). I have been doing all I can to help the people of the Gulf get to safe havens and I have my share of days where I feel so discouraged. I think who am I, I'm no celebrity or rich or well connected but those are just excuses and I will not live on the fringe! I'm so grateful for all that he is doing out there. Such a big heart and fully loving spirit that he is. I like his direct ways of cutting through all the b.s. and how he just rolls up his sleeves and gets to work. More action and less talk, less just thinking about it....that is what will help all these people. You will feel so much better about yourself reaching out from you open heart and actually doing something. If anyone has loved ones in the Gulf, please send them to us as we do all we can to help them. You can find me on FB at Jhenya M Lovering. Thank you.

tomster  07/20/2010 11:58 AM Report

PENN HAS BEEN AN OUTSTANDING AND FRANK SPOKESPERSON FOR THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE SITUATION ALL ALONG. I AM SURE THERE ARE MANY OTHERS WHOM THE PRESS COULD BE CALLING UPON, AND WISH THEY WOULD SIMPLY TO BROADEN THE ARRAY OF VOICES, BUT HATS OFF TO MR. PENN FOR HIS DEDICATION AND INSIGHTS AND HUMILITY!

REMant  07/20/2010 11:13 AM Report

I'm impressed, but 'twas ever thus I'm afraid. For a couple of months in Vietnam I involuntarily inhabited a culvert on dusty firebase and landing strip near the Cambodian border. My next culvert neighbor (we had no doors) was a Red Cross guy, I was surprised to see there, but paid handsomely to drink beer all day. You could have found such in country from the earliest days tho. I am sure they are all over Iraq and Afghanistan. But, before there were the NGOs, there were the missionaries, who have played no small part in American foreign policy, and, in the US and GB in particular, the various reform movements. This seems laudable, and Tocqueville was impressed by it, however the growth of bureaucracy comes directly out of the sentiment to do good that really wants to create clienteles or, as they used to say, patronage, and dependence, and has been the business of monarchy since the Caesars. The growth of philanthropy in the past several decades has been paralleled by what the Wash Post the past few days has called attention to in the growth of the security establishment, as well as the education establishment. In part this is what the 1st amendment had in mind in prohibiting, because these were the establishment of religion. It doesn't just exist in govt, and it is supported no less by monetary policy than by taxation. It is, I hope, what the "Tea Party" understands it is fighting against. Indeed, Republicans might take the lead re Haiti to prove they are not prejudiced as alleged, nor the party of no. If it is worth doing, which seems undeniable, then it is worth doing right. When, however, ppl like Penn say we need to be less prejudiced and more involved in world affairs it is always interpreted to mean more of the same. They might do better to remember St Paul: "Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this in mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,..."