Robin Abcarian: As an employer, Sean Penn's emotional outburst was dumb, but the NLRB's response is dumber
Oh dear. I find it distressing when I agree with an editorial in The Wall Street Journal, an outfit whose pro-corporation, anti-tax opinion shop generally leaves me feeling queasy.
However, the other day, in its typically tongue-in-cheek way, the Journal editorial board offered sympathy to the actor and social activist Sean Penn, who has found himself in a silly pickle with the National Labor Relations Board.
The NLRB, wrote The Journal, "seems to be unfairly targeting the Hollywood admirer of Hugo Chavez for exercising his First Amendment speech rights."
I agree.
Penn, as you may know, is the chairman and co-founder of the Community Organized Relief Effort, or CORE, which hired hundreds of workers
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