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Unsurprisingly, actor and part-time liberal activist Sean Penn does not think very highly of the tea party. In an appearance on Piers Morgan Tonight, Penn said that the far-right movement is largely fueled by hatred of Barack Obama. “You have what I call the ‘Get the N-word out of the White House party,’ the tea party. This kind of sensibility, which is much more of a distraction.†He went on to speculate that most tea partiers would be “confused†if asked to explain their position on topics such as Social Security, adding, “At the end of the day, there’s a big bubble coming out of their heads, saying, ‘Can we just lynch him?’†[THR]