Sean Penn Put Out An Ad Against The Bush Administration
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Full-page ads are usually reserved for major corporations like McDonald’s or Apple – unless you’re Sean Penn. Penn, who majorly detested the 2003 Iraq invasion, decided to take out a full-page advertisement in The Washington Post as part of his advocacy against the war in Iraq.
As it turns out, full-page ads in major newspapers are not cheap. The Oscar-winner spent $56,000 on the ad, which he placed in 2002. In the ad Penn accused Bush of violating democratic principles with a “blood-lined sense of entitlement.” He also put on his journalist hat and covered the Iranian elections for the San Francisco Chronicle. According to Forbes, it was the paper’s most widely read story that year.
