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Related: About this forumEd Asner to Fox News producer after confronted about union cartoon: 'Can I piss on you?'
Suffice it to say, the interaction did not go well.
Before showing the confrontation, host Sean Hannity explained that Asner is a radical left-wing Hollywood actor who needed to be asked about his role in a disgusting hit piece on wealthy Americans.
The actual confrontation went like this:
The Fox producer asked Asner: Do you remember the video? Do you know what Im talking about?
I dont remember a thing I said on it or a word I said on it, Asner replied, but I agreed to do it for California teachers. I approve this message.
Theres a part of it where talking about things trickling down and they have like rich people peeing on poor people, the producer explained further.
How disgusting, Asner said. It should be reversed.
So you dont remember that? the producer asked.
Do you have any money? Asner asked with a smirk.
Yeah.
Can I piss on you? asked the actor.
And end scene.
Pretty classy, Mr. Asner, Hannity concluded back in studio. I guess its true theres really no business like show business.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ed-asner-asks-fox-news-producer-can-i-piss-on-you/
Scuba
(53,475 posts)cloudbase
(5,520 posts)if he was on fire.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)when we were having a big argument, "You wouldn't piss on me if I were on fire." That stopped one time when I hesitated like I was thinking deeply, looked at her very seriously, and said, "Yes, I would."
rainin
(3,011 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)n/t
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)AlexSatan
(535 posts)I wouldn't put forth the effort to walk across the room to tell him he sucks.
Rider3
(919 posts)Corporations and the top 1% HAVE been pissing on us the last decade. We finally called them out on it. Man, they just cannot deal with the truth when it reflects poorly on them. Go Ed!
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)JBoy
(8,021 posts)liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)vets said that we could pay off the national debt if we could put a pay-toilet over his grave.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)And shitbag hanity would know something about class,because...........???
progressoid
(49,991 posts)See?
ejbr
(5,856 posts)corkhead
(6,119 posts)Repubs really don't get sarcasm do they; Ed Asner was hilarious.
RoBear
(1,188 posts)any sort of nuance. That's what makes them so recalcitrant and hard to tolerate. I long for the days of republicans with at least a bit of intellectual honesty. That's apparently gone with the Tea Party. (BTW, j'ever notice the initials for TP are also how many of us list bathroom tissue on grocery lists? Just sayin'.....)
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Those POOR rich people getting "dumped on" again! LOL! Golden Showers for Hannity! Well, OF COURSE I'm insinuating he deserves gold-plated shower hardware! Where was YOUR mind at???
midnight
(26,624 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Why is Hannity so nonplussed?
Maven
(10,533 posts)Harriety
(298 posts)UtahLib
(3,179 posts)Fox noise has been defecating all over America for years. I think we should roll their out house all the way to hell.
byronius
(7,395 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)Theres a part of it where talking about things trickling down and they have like rich people peeing on poor people, the producer explained further.
How disgusting, Asner said. It should be reversed.
So you dont remember that? the producer asked.
Do you have any money? Asner asked with a smirk.
Yeah.
Can I piss on you? asked the actor.
Okay. It's not as jarring as I first thought. It's a metaphor for the trickle down of the success of the uber wealthy.
I'm I getting the right picture?
Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)not to mention the fact that asner's voiceover only said: trickle-down. The animation wasn't done by him and he probably never even saw it. He went in a booth and read the lines.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)And isn't necessary, the mediate one is good enough.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)It says this video is private. That pisses ME off.
tridim
(45,358 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)But let's have a few beers together and see. [font size="1"]Hey Sean! Here we come!!!
ScottLand
(2,485 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)Keep playing clips from Ed's cartoon. We need all of your low information viewers to check out the entire Toon on Youtube. It's the only way to explain to them that they have been voting against their own best interests when they vote for Pukes!
Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)It's not like it's torture or anything.
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)got his knickers in a knot
nolabear
(41,987 posts)People get caught short in strange situations. I'd give little creedence to his comments (though they tickle me) but of course it serves Hannity's purpose to treat them as if he's saying it on the floor of the senate and not at night on the street.
siligut
(12,272 posts)He also had a mischievous grin there at the end Fox deemed to cut off. I agree, Hannity says and does whatever best serves his purpose and thus, thinking people know he is a manipulative tool and never take him seriously.
Srkdqltr
(6,297 posts)I hate to sound old but...... When Trickle down economics was first talked about many knew that the rich would be trickling down on the rest of us. He is saying nothing that hasn't been said before for years and years. Pi**ing was the word used then and now.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Orrex
(63,216 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)Sham Inanity couldn't even begin to comprehend this, lest his racket be unstrung.
pipewrench
(194 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)you're gonna talk about class? YOU???
Squinch
(50,955 posts)They're like honeybadgers!
condoleeza
(814 posts)joanbarnes
(1,722 posts)Name Unpronounceable
(39 posts)It's unthinkable that anyone -- especially these lazy poor people -- would have the nerve to be so offensive to wealthy people who all worked so hard to inherit their money and screw over the working man every chance they got. I mean I could understand if they were making fun of a minority group with racist comments. That's acceptable. But won't anyone think of the wealthy and powerful. It's absolutely disgusting that they would even waste a minute producing this hateful and, dare I say, hurtful, cartoon.
(People at a left-leaning site are smart enough to understand sarcasm without adding a <sarcasm> tag, so I won't.)
(Wait a minute, I just did.)
Don C. Nuttin
(84 posts)Last edited Sat Dec 8, 2012, 11:38 AM - Edit history (2)
People are pretty plain-spoken here. Ed Asner is pretty popular where he grew up, where at least a few old timers are still around and still stay in touch some. Me -- I don't begrudge Mr. Asner his opinion-- but I wouldn't piss down Hannity's throat if his heart was on fire. Err ... if his spleen was on fire.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)They don't have enough wealthy viewers. Now that the wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the numbers will be stacked against them,
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)and not give it any publicity.
I think they did it only to make Murdock happy.