Sean Penn doesn’t much like FOXNews’ Bill O’Reilly, according to this New York Daily News story. In an interview with Talk Magazine (due out later this week), Penn articulates his distaste for the tough-talkin’ Mr. Bill, the Daily News reports:

‘I’d like to trade O’Reilly for Bin Laden,’ says Penn, calling ‘The No Spin Zone’ author ‘an embraced pariah, that’s what he is.’

And Penn is just getting started on O’Reilly.

‘This is not a man sitting on the toilet with a smile on his face. He’s a grumpy, self-loathing joke,’ says Penn. ‘There’s a long history of people who capitalize on the lowest common demominator of people’s impulses, Adolf Hitler being one of them. Not everybody wants to hit the wall in a violent rage and break their knuckles, so [O’Reilly] does it for them. He’ll get very rich and get his rocks off that he’s powerful.’

Penn goes on to compare O’Reilly with Joseph McCarthy, too — just in case you’d missed his point.

Quick question: why is this news again? And does this mean it’s okay to start talking again about J-Lo’s “back” and who Ellen’s dating?

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