Hey Ed, eat any flies lately, you fat slug toad of a man?
Posted on 10/10/2003 3:01:14 AM PDT by ThreePuttinDude
Ed Asner: 'Hannity's next ... just like we went after Limbaugh'
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
In the news this week are several reports of an exchange between syndicated talk-show host Mike Gallagher and actor-turned-leftist-poster-child Edward Asner.
The account goes like this: Mike Gallagher approached Asner at a recent cocktail party promoting the new film "Elf" in which Asner stars as Santa Claus. As Gallagher introduced himself, Asner asked his profession. When Gallagher replied "radio talk-show host," Asner replied, "I love going toe-to-toe with you guys.''
''I know,'' Gallagher replied. ''I've heard you on Sean Hannity's show.''
''Hannity's next, you know,'' Asner responded.
''Huh?'' said Gallagher.
''Hannity's next,'' said Asner. ''We're going after him just like we went after Limbaugh. And you saw what happened to Rush this week, right?''
I can attest to these news reports because I was there. Standing not more than 10 feet from where the conversation was happening. Shortly afterward, as Mike and I were exiting the party, we were chatting on the elevator of the Empire State building.
"Kevin did you hear what he said?" Mike exclaimed, "That was a truly strange experience." And he then proceeded to relate the story to the rest of the folks riding with us in the elevator.
The following day, as a part of the same film junket, I found myself sitting in a room with Mike and several others waiting for Mr. Asner to field his questions from us regarding the release of "Elf" – a movie that I believe will be huge at the box office this holiday season.
As Mr. Asner walked in, he saw both Mike and me sitting at the end of the table closest to him and quickly quipped, "What is this? The Salem witch trials?" This, of course, being a play on words alluding to Mike being a syndicated talk-show host for Salem Radio Network (and heard on better than 200 stations), and that I had just taken over as the host on the legendary New York's WMCA 570 "Home of the Good Guys," also a Salem property.
Upon seating himself at the end of the table and making small talk about cookies and cupcakes – he did seem to be in a particularly jovial mood – he asked point blank: "Does anyone at this table hate me? Hate my work as an activist or in any other way?"
It was such an odd question that the room fell dead silent for a moment before breaking into the short amount of time he had for questions about the film.
As he answered questions about the film, he often broke into stories about his days gone by, and even his reasons for getting involved in left-wing politics. He even talked somewhat reflectively about one of his first acting gigs, playing Santa for the downtown Chicago Marshall Field's store.
"It was the worst job I ever had," said Asner. "All I could do was put these poor – extremely poor – kids on my lap and say to them, 'Well Johnny, well Susie, Santa's gonna see what he can do about getting that for you. Knowing full well that these kids' parents were so poor that more than half these kids had no chance of ever seeing the gifts they asked for. It was just awful.'"
By the end of his time with us, I had not asked him a specific question yet, and in my mind I could not get away from the scene from the party of the night previous.
"Mr. Asner, I do have a question – unrelated to the film," I said. "In your long and distinguished acting career, going back to your earliest days in Chicago all the way up to present days working with Will Farrell on 'Elf', you have had the chance to do almost anything you could ever wish to do. But if you had the chance to play the biographical story of a historical figure you respected most over your lifetime, who would it be?"
Remembering the sad story he had told about the poor kids in Chicago, I half expected him to come out with a political name of some sort.
"I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood," said Asner. "And to this day, I don't think I have ever seen an adequate job done of telling the story of Joe Stalin, so I guess my answer would have to be Joe Stalin."
Suddenly the time had run out, and for the third time in less than 18 hours, Ed Asner had puzzled the room he was in, into a stunned and disbelieving silence.
Mr. Hannity ... I don't think you have anything to worry about.
No, he's not. He's simply an actor full of himself (and hot air) who happens to be a communist (thinks it hasn't been done right but for some reason believes that the US, which "hasn't managed democracy" could handle communism). He's not particularly bright and is actually easily intimidated. I've heard Hannity make him stutter. Then he pouts and says something very petty and hangs up the phone.
Nope, he's too small a mouse to be a threat to our liberty.
Asner is a never was IMHO!!
How old is Assner anyway - shouldn't he be in a home?
I was thinking the same thing myself. It just sounds like so many liberal fabrications. If a real life example to back up your "feelings" about something is unavailable, just make one up.
And what did he mean by this?
Knowing full well that these kids' parents were so poor that more than half these kids had no chance of ever seeing the gifts they asked for.
Was Asner saying that not only were there extremely poor kids in the Santa line but that more than half were? Or is he pulling an extra-slimy liberal trick juxtaposing two non-related elements in the same sentence hoping to dupe readers? That is, what the kids were asking for, e.g., a pony, they wouldn't get and implying it was the parents poverty not the impracticality of the request that was the cause?
It is long past time for conservatives to hang the "Joseph Stalin" albatross around the neck of these Marxists like Asner and Hillary - force them to explain their support for the execution of 30 million Russians and Ukranians.
My Mother was a FReeper back in the 70's.
It's about "social programs" that reward undesirable, self-destructive behaviors.
That's the problem, Ed. He's your answer to everything.
I'll bet "Joe" had an answer for talk radio hosts with whom he disagreed.
Hey Ed, eat any flies lately, you fat slug toad of a man?
The above link contains many more outrageous quotes, for example:
On the May 7, 2003 Buchanan & Press on MSNBC, when Pat Buchanan noted that Castro “has denied” Cubans “free elections for 40 years,” Asner fired back:
“We didn’t have a free election in 2002.”
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