Sean Penn Bitter That El Chapo Interview Wasn't A Panty Dropper

Sean Penn recently sat down for an interview with Charlie Rose, where he talked about his interview with El Chapo. E! News reprints his remarks as follows:

"Let me be clear. My article has failed in that everything that's spoken about is everything but what I was trying to speak about...I have a regret that the entire discussion about this article ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the War on Drugs."

"Let's go to the big picture of what we all want. We all want this drug problem to stop. We all want them -- the killings in Chicago to stop. We are the consumer. Whether you agree with Sean Penn or not, there is a complicity there. And if you are in the moral right, or on the far left, just as many of your children are doing these drugs ... And how much time have they spent in the last week since this article come [sic] out, talking about that? One percent? I think that'd be generous."

"My article should not have made this much noise. El Chapo should not have been this popular a figure to read about....I can get angry—like many people can. I'm really sad about the state of journalism in our country. It has been an incredible hypocrisy and an incredible lesson in just how much they don't know and how disserved [sic] we are. At the same time, you know, when...'journalists' who want to say that I'm not a journalist -- well, I want to see the license that says that they're a journalist."