Sean Penn picks his guest spots very carefully.

The “Milk” star recently appeared on PBS and was interviewed by Tavis Smiley. It could be that he was just Oscar hunting, but Penn seized the interview opportunity to take a shot at the Fox News Channel and an implicit poke at hosts Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck.

During the appearance, the dude who can’t seem to shake his Spicoli alter ego said, “For example, the criticism people get tend to be from failed actors. Like the Fox anchors who are just clearly very envious; the failed actors, and that kind of people. And what they don't know is that you're raised on resilience as an actor to that.”

Is Penn so wasted as to believe Fox anchors secretly desire to be movie idols?

In case he hadn’t noticed, they’re already bigger stars than most of Penn’s pals.

Eat your heart out, Hollywood.