It's Good to Have Priorities...

Did anyone else watch the Oscars? I Tivoed it so I could skip past the commercials and the acceptance speeches. I did listen to one speech, though, because I had heard that it was an interesting one. Sure enough, it was telling.

Sean Penn won the Best Actor award for his portrayal of a gay rights activist in the movie Milk. I'm not surprised by this. He's a good actor, and Hollywood is a sucker for liberal political agenda stories. The surprise came when he gave his speech.

After thanking a bunch of people who worked on the movie with him, he make a little speech about how the people who supported Prop. 8 in California need to re-think things, lest they shame themselves and their grandchildren. This speech didn't come as any sort of shock, especially considering the role he had just won the Oscar for. I can see that he feels strongly about this issue, and he made it very clear that anyone who believes differently is a hate-mongering moron.

The ironic thing was this - he spent a good 30 seconds or so touting his political ideals, but didn't take even one second to thank his wife. Every other married person who won an Oscar thanked their significant other.

The camera kept cutting back to a joyful and teary-eyed Robin Wright Penn, watching her husband give his speech. Clearly, the camera people were waiting for him to mention her, too. But it never came. I suppose slamming on the people opposed to gay marriage is more important than acknowledging the woman who has been by his side for almost 13 years.

Good to know he's got his priorities straight.