{"id":183738,"date":"2012-12-06T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/06\/i-love-ed-asner\/"},"modified":"2012-12-06T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T00:21:00","slug":"i-love-ed-asner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/06\/i-love-ed-asner\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Ed Asner*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Asner narrated a video for the California Federation of Teachers, which, among its images, had the 1% pissing on the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>Well, professional idiot Sean Hannity took offense, and he sent a producer to ambush interview Mr. Asner, who then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/12\/06\/ed-asner-offers-piss-on-fox-news-producer-to-demonstrate-trickle-down-economics\/\">offered to demonstrate the principal by pissing on the producer<\/a> ::<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Emmy Award-winning The Mary Tyler Show actor Ed Asner recently asked a Fox News producer if he could \u201cpiss on\u201d him after he was confronted about a California Federation of Teachers video that showed cartoon rich people urinating on poor people.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Fox News host Sean Hannity and other conservative pundits first began attacking Asner on Tuesday after the animated ad that he narrated appeared on the federation\u2019s website to explain how rich people used tax evasion, tax loopholes and tax cuts to become even richer.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Wednesday, Hannity announced that he had sent an ambush producer out to confront the \u201cleft-wing Hollywood actor\u201d outside his job at a New York City theater over the \u201cdisgusting hit piece.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI don\u2019t remember a thing I said on it or a word I said on it,\u201d Asner told the producer. \u201cBut I agreed to do it for California teachers. I approve this message.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThere\u2019s a part of it where talking about things trickling down and they have like rich people peeing on poor people,\u201d the producer explained.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cHow disgusting,\u201d the actor snarked. \u201cIt should be reversed.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cSo you don\u2019t remember that?\u201d the producer pressed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cDo you have any money?\u201d Asner later asked.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cAh, yeah,\u201d the producer replied.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201c<b>Can I piss on you<\/b>?\u201d the actor quipped. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t DC at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">In a 110% purely heterosexual kind of way, of course, as <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotboy.blogspot.com\/\">the General would say<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Asner narrated a video for the California Federation of Teachers, which, among its images, had the 1% pissing on the rest of us. Well, professional idiot Sean Hannity took offense, and he sent a producer to ambush interview Mr. Asner, who then offered to demonstrate the principal by pissing on the producer :: Emmy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1065,1100,1064,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-funny","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}