Yesterday we saw New Yorker writer George Packer miffed that Sean Penn would dare to go to Venezuela, hang out with his good friend Hugo Chávez, and then come back and call what he wrote in The Nation "reporting."
Said Penn in his article, "It's true, Chávez may not be a good man. But he may well be a great one." The only problem? As Advocate James Kirchick points out, the Milk actor is praising a dictator with a known history of putting alleged homosexuals into concentration camps.
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Yeah, whoops. John McCain may not have meant to intentionally lump Spain's leader José Zapatero in with Latin America's Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales and their anti-US sentiments — by confusing Zapatero's nation for a Latin American country during an interview— but now that the gaffe is out there on YouTube, he's not going to back down from his position. Bad idea, since the quote could easily be explained away as a simple misunderstanding, but instead is going to be trotted out by every opportunity for Democrats to be all "McCain hates Spain ARGH World War 3":
HIGH FASHION, HIGH POWER Interviewing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for British GQ didn't satisfy her journalistic longings, so Naomi Campbell – currently appearing on French Vogue with Kate Moss – is going after Argentina's chief, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. And perhaps just like Chavez, she'll wind up with a date. After she puts her pen down.
• Not hot: Jenna Jameson's augmented breasts.
• Naomi Campbell dating Hugo Chavez? Well, they have terrorism in common.
• Britney Spears might marry bf Adnan Ghalib. Take if from Pam Anderson: third time's not the charm.
• Shocker: Lindsay Lohan has a new beau.
• OMG!!! HSM3 is happening 4sur!
• Free time + photoshop = pictures of celebrities on money.
