“I don’t know if I want to have a beer with
somebody who wouldn’t have pardoned Hunter Biden…”
There are only three fictional surf characters
ever created that matter. Johnny Utah, Matt Johnson and Jeff
Spicoli. The latter featured in the coming-of-age masterpiece Fast
Times at Ridgemont High and was brought lovingly to life by Sean
Penn. The nepo-baby was 22-years-old at time of filming and history
has it he so immersed himself in the role that he refused to be
recognized by his real name, forcing cast and crew to refer to him
as Jeff Spicoli 100% of the time.
Penn went on to become a leading man, starring in such classics
as Flag Day, Daddio and The Angry Birds Movie, though also
developed a taste for progressive politics. As such, the diminutive
64-year-old is allowed to breathe rarified legislative air, rubs
shoulders with the likes of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and
counts President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as a close and personal
friend.
The troubled first boy has been in the news, of late, thanks to
the sweeping pardon he received from his father, absolving him of
any and all crimes he may have and did commit during a ten year
period.
Whilst Republicans feigned outrage at ill-gotten gain,
forgetting dear Jared Kushner et. al. and Democrats clutched their
pearls, Penn boldly defended the
Hunter, declaring, “Any father that didn’t do that
would have been remiss. I don’t know if I want to have a beer with
somebody who wouldn’t have pardoned Hunter Biden, being their
son.”
He added, “In part because I am close with (Hunter), I have
studied the case. And while there are technicalities within one of
the cases that are associated with illegality, there is almost no
precedent at all for the aggression with which he was charged.”
Hunter Biden, it must be noted, made $11 million during five of
those forgiven years by sitting on the board of “a Ukrainian firm
accused of bribery and his work with a Chinese businessman now
accused of fraud,” according to
NBC.
Technicalities associated with illegality, I suppose.
Ultra-hard surf candy.
