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I heard a media analyst make an astonishing comparison this afternoon on National Public Radio.<\/p>\n

The discussion on NPR was about actor Sean Penn’s interview — published in Rolling Stone — with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the despicable drug lord who was on the lam from his escape from a Mexican prison.<\/p>\n

This analyst seemed to make a direct comparison between El Chapo and Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Moammar Gadhafi, all of whom were interviewed by the media before they met their deaths.<\/p>\n

Hmmm. There’s something of a difference here.<\/p>\n

Hussein and Gadhafi were heads of state; bin Laden hadn’t been convicted<\/em> of anything, even though the entire world knew of his involvement in the 9\/11 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

Guzman was an escapee from a maximum-security prison. Mexican authorities had been scouring the country looking for him since his escape six months ago.<\/p>\n

Penn’s access to this individual — whose drug activities have produced so much death and misery\u00a0— was a function of his own celebrity status as an Oscar-winning film actor.<\/p>\n

I keep coming back to what I believe is a central question: Doesn’t an American citizen such as Penn have an obligation to assist authorities in their search for a notorious drug dealer?<\/p>\n

Sen. Marco Rubio was asked over the weekend to comment on the interview.\u00a0The Republican presidential candidate\u00a0said Penn is entitled to his First Amendment rights, but then he used a term with which I agree.<\/p>\n

He called the interview “grotesque.”<\/p>\n

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I heard a media analyst make an astonishing comparison this afternoon on National Public Radio. The discussion on NPR was about actor Sean Penn’s interview — published in Rolling Stone — with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the despicable drug lord who was on the lam from his escape from a Mexican prison. This analyst seemed … Continue reading El Chapo interview continues to provoke debate<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,13],"tags":[5854,2892,5855,3458,4004,4069,5850],"class_list":["post-12339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-media-news","category-national-news","tag-el-chapo-guzman","tag-marco-rubio","tag-moammar-gadhafi","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-rolling-stone","tag-saddam-hussein","tag-sean-penn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12342,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339\/revisions\/12342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}